So, for my next venture into crap OSs, it was OSX server.
Actually, OSX is kind of good. It’s BSD underneath, for a start, so you can ssh into it. And it *is* easy to configure (I’ve never used Crapple systems before, but sorted out remote admin and folder/file permissions in about 5 minutes, once I went and turned on VNC, as Crapple don’t offer a windoze client for the default remote desktop).
It’s a pity about the users, the polo-neck wearing media types who can never shut up about how easy things are. The reason it *seems* easy is all the complexity is hidden, and then when you need it, you can’t find it.
It’s a pity about the ‘form over function’, and it’s a pity about the inflated price. The machines are very well built, and the OS does work, but there’s nothing you couldn’t do with Windoze or Linux.
Apart from using one button rather than two or more! 🙂
I like the Mac – its much more intuitive than either of the other two platforms as you have just proved.
But then you know – I’m biased!
I’ve proved nothing of the sort 🙂
I actually genuinely don’t agree, though. I don’t find the Mac interface at all intuitive- actually fixing the permissions took 15 seconds- finding where to do it took the rest- there’s several tools that *might* do it.
I actually think Ubuntu has the most intuitive and sensible UI, Windoze probably just feels like it because I use it so much.
I don’t like the way the toolbar thingy on OSX changes according to whatever app you start using.
My main bugbear with them is just how hard they try to hide the techy stuff. It makes troubleshooting hard.
Well it was always billed as “Computing for the rest of us” hence the less techie stuff.
Considering Windows copied the Mac interface, you could claim that the Mac started it all off as it determined where File,Edit and About where to appear on the desktop.
The thing I like about OS X is that you can get to a terminal easily and its just Unix from then on in. I thought you’d like that? 🙂
Get to a terminal easily?
I can never find the fscker. As for MacOS, is there even a ping utility?
There is a whole suit of TCP/IP utilities on the Mac including NMAP out of the box!
I suppose now you’ll be using that to scan my network for revenge! Lol!
I found those the other day. There’s even netstat and as you say, nmap, I think. I even found the terminal- I’m warming to it a little 🙂