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Entilzah:

--- Quote from: GileX on 29 Dec 2006, 18:05 ---Really? Cause' everytime i use XP, its crippled. I thought it was a design specification or something.  :-D

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It is. Everything M$ makes is designed to be crippled and worthless.

Grawsith:
Going from XP to OSX is like removing jumper cables from your penis. It hurts, but once you've done it, you'll never go back.

Johnny C:

--- Quote from: Grawsith on 30 Dec 2006, 04:01 ---Going from XP to OSX is like removing jumper cables from your penis. It hurts

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Having just made the exact same OS switch as you I can tell you that this is where the analogy fails.

z:

--- Quote from: Johnny C on 30 Dec 2006, 05:16 ---
--- Quote from: Grawsith on 30 Dec 2006, 04:01 ---Going from XP to OSX is like removing jumper cables from your penis. It hurts

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Having just made the exact same OS switch as you I can tell you that this is where the analogy fails.

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Having just removed jumper cables from my penis, I can tell you that it's a perfect analogy.

I actually just switched from OS X back to Windows.  Mainly because my Mac was a 450MHz G4 Cube (which I bought off eBay on a whim a while back for about $250, heh), whereas my PC has an Athlon XP 2800+.  Oh, how sorely I miss OS X already.  I've tried to duplicate some of the things I had grown accustomed to on OS X, but Launchy is a mere application launcher, a poor substitute for Quicksilver; Reflex Vision is but a pale imitation of Expos?; Yahoo Widget Engine...  well, I guess that might not be so bad since it (as Konfabulator) predates Dashboard, but still!  And there's nothing like Spotlight (Windows' file and folder search doesn't quite cut it).  Really I guess I probably shouldn't have switched (I was using my PC strictly for games, music, and video and the Cube for things like IM, IRC, web browsing and mail), but I'm impatient and was getting tired of Firefox taking multiple seconds to render pages and open new windows and things like that.  If only I had the money to buy a new Intel Mac...  or if someone wanted a Cube badly enough to trade me a MacBook for it.   :P

Hmm, this story isn't particularly horrific (unless you feel really strongly about operating systems).  Oh well.

Scytale:
My server froze about a fortnight ago (pretty sure it was overheating, been really hot here lately and I don't have as many case fans as I should have in it), so I hit the power button, rebooted it. Then on bootup where it does the hard disk check it kept saying that one of my drives was corrupted and it would lock up the boot sequence. No big deal I stick in the dvd booted into rescue mode and ran
"fsck /dev/sdb -r -y"

unfortunately I forgot to specify what filesystem I was using (ext3) and it rewrote the disk as ext2 normally this doesn't happen because it gets the filesys from the fstab but because I had booted off the rescue cd and hadn't chrooted it couldn't load my fstab so it defaulted to ext2. Ahh the joys of linux, more power so I can shoot myslef in the foot with. Lucky it wasn't sda. Suffice to say won't be making that mistake again...

And to whomever it was complaining about boot camp I can sympathize. Before boot camp was released I tried to dual boot OSX with Fedora and overwrote the GPT with GRUB. I didn't realise that grub wouldn't handle the EFI extensions the intel macs used and ended up wiping out everything on my laptop. Thankfully the OSX DVD had some stuff for repairing the partition table so the hard drive wasn't completely rooted.

Did you install the firmware extensions before you installed bootcamp? that might be why you're having problems.

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