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astroaztecThe computer the girls use is a Mac. I carry around a Mac laptop.
Underneath the shiny of Mac OS X is unix. As of Leopard it is a fully standard compliant unix. That's good enough to make those the machines of choice, for they can do almost everything. As of this winter they can even run almost all of the Keck software infrastructure.
But Mac OS X does not do everything. Apple does not support all the filesystems. Vendors of old USB devices will not bother to create drivers.
That's why there is also an ancient, dinky machine running Linux. It can talk to the ancient printer. It can talk to the ancient scanner. It can read all the filesystems.
And it's also why I have an Ubuntu DVD on hand. When there is something that the Macs can do, but won't do -- that's when I stuff in the DVD. Suddenly the Mac is not limited by what Apple wants. It lives up to its full potential, and it does what I want, what I need. It's my device.
I will not be owning an iPad.
Underneath the shiny of Mac OS X is unix. As of Leopard it is a fully standard compliant unix. That's good enough to make those the machines of choice, for they can do almost everything. As of this winter they can even run almost all of the Keck software infrastructure.
But Mac OS X does not do everything. Apple does not support all the filesystems. Vendors of old USB devices will not bother to create drivers.
That's why there is also an ancient, dinky machine running Linux. It can talk to the ancient printer. It can talk to the ancient scanner. It can read all the filesystems.
And it's also why I have an Ubuntu DVD on hand. When there is something that the Macs can do, but won't do -- that's when I stuff in the DVD. Suddenly the Mac is not limited by what Apple wants. It lives up to its full potential, and it does what I want, what I need. It's my device.
I will not be owning an iPad.
