Re: Echo issue RESOLVED!

- Edwin - wrote:

Just by reading this -> http://www.apple.com/macosx/ esp. these last two sections: * Solid as a rock * Developer's dream would give people reason to consider and even "switch"... Mac OS X is fairly stable, I'll give you that. As for "developer's dream", that's a matter of opinion.

One of Japan's most prestigious universities, Tokyo University, just purchased 1,149 "customized" iMacs and 53 Xserves--all running OS X, of course. They weren't the first one though. A university in Nagoya City has also bought more than a thousand of those. Yep, Macs are being bought. Same can be said for Intel-compatible hardware running Linux and Windows.

Imagine this. I've just finished recording a re-run of "Dark Angel". I've cut the commercials, added chapters, and now it's ready to render and burn into a DVD together with the previous episode (I can put two in one disc). While waiting, I'm listening to my fav music on MP3s and debugging some of my PHP scripts. Oh, and did I mention that I'm doing all of this while copying voice/music from cassette tapes to the hard disk so that I can turn them all into MP3s? And did I mention that you can do all of the above just by installing Mac OS X and one software called Toast? You don't even need to install Apache, sendmail, etc. (and of course PHP) for testing since they're "part" of the OS installation. With a DVD burner and video capture equipment. Oh, and my iMac doesn't even have a sound in port.

Apache, sendmail, and PHP are also standard on most Linux distros.

Do you need to ssh to your remote server? No sweat. The "terminal" is part of the OS as well. There you can just run the ssh client and login to your remote server. Btw, you can *also* customize the looks of your terminal. I like mine semi-transparent, with a prompt that looks and feels like I was back in those DOS days ;) Same for all Linux distros.

Yes, I can do those and more on my Mac. And it doesn't even crash on me even if I do many things at the same time. I could run it for months! The only time I really needed to reboot it is when I added a new Serial ATA RAID card. Now, I'm really missing "the blue screen"... Linux is stable too. My iMac is dirt slow, and cost $1000.

But I bought my old iMac back in 2000-ish. Maybe Macs have become better since then, I don't know. -- The above message is encrypted with double rot13 encoding. Any unauthorized attempt to decrypt it will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.