[muglo] Re: B&W or PC?

>A human clone will have its own personality, its own developmental
>abnormalities, its own environmental exposures and diseases. Similarly,
a
>SoundBlaster is quite a different beast from some no-name audio card.
>Compatibility with cheap PC stuff is a crapshoot. This mouse will work
with
>your system, whereas that one, $1 cheaper won't.

Ahh, yes indeed. The cheap card probably won't have as terrible drivers
as the Soundblaster, but that's a whole other can of worms ;>

>Chuckle. That's probably never going to change (though, if you do any
CLUI
>stuff I'm sure the line-break behaviour is the same as that of NetBSD).

I don't recall the last time I used NetBSD actually. I don't think I
have ever run either that or OpenBSD. FreeBSD is plenty good enough for
me.

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-----Original Message-----
From: muglo-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:muglo-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Eric D.
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 3:18 PM
To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [muglo] Re: B&W or PC?


on 8/4/03 10:28 PM, Joe McGuire at theguy@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> The one thing I like most about PC is the interoperability of all the
> various bits. As you said, a clone is a clone is a clone and bits from
> one will work in another and so forth.

Although a clone is about as much a clone as a human clone would be
similar
to the human original ;P (any biologists will recognise that the analogy
fits beautifully).

A human clone will have its own personality, its own developmental
abnormalities, its own environmental exposures and diseases. Similarly,
a
SoundBlaster is quite a different beast from some no-name audio card.
Compatibility with cheap PC stuff is a crapshoot. This mouse will work
with
your system, whereas that one, $1 cheaper won't.

> I recently had to reinstall OS X on my pb. I was quite uncertain with
> it, but the helpful folks in #macintosh on DalNet told me to stop
being
> such a baby, back up my stuff and have at it. I can't believe how easy
> it was. No driver hunt, it just worked.

And, with OS X Jaguar it's even easier. Select "Archive and Install" and
your "home" directory will be untouched by the install (I'm now in
agreement
with Apple on that issue -- there's absolutely *no* reason not to use
the
"home" directory). The only drawback to that method is that you need
roughly
2 GB of free space to do the "archive".

> There are some things that still annoy me, such as the line-break
> handling difference between Mac and the rest of the world, and the
fact
> that there is no programs menu, but overall I am much happier with the
> experience than I was with my time spent on previous mac os's (my wife
> is a long time mac user).

Chuckle. That's probably never going to change (though, if you do any
CLUI
stuff I'm sure the line-break behaviour is the same as that of NetBSD).

Eric.


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