Asymmetrical Information

I assume this means you won't be taking advantage of any of the free (or highly discounted) Mac offers you received in response to your bleg? I guess beggars (or bleggars, in this case) can be choosers. Another cliché bites the dust.

Unfortunately, in my other life I have to run proprietary programs that only run on Windows, making me unable to switch to either the Macs or Linux machines with which I was tempted.

It was the link to the Gorean slave cult page that made me laugh. What was that part about unintended consequences?

Gorean whatnow? Did I miss something?

Don't worry, Megan, Alan Turing solved that problem back in the 30s before inventing computers. Due to a practical applciation of the Church-Turing thesis, you can run Windows on a Mac

Of course, you have to buy a copy of Windows as well as the emulator. But you don't begrudge paying for Windows, as I recall.

I know you can run things on virtual PC, but it tends to slow down my minitab runs, and my Exchange server won't run at all. ;-)

You need to move off Minitab and onto JMP. I know that's another platform war, but do try JMP out anyway - it has always been much nicer and more flexible than Minitab, on Macs & PCs.

Exchange servers? Oh dear. You really have fallen for the embrace and extend lock-in. Get ready for them to modify the protocols again:

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/ti/whatsnew.asp

I don't run the server to actually handle my mail; I run it because the only way I'm making any money right now is advising folks on how to install the things, testing new products, etc. It is an unglamorous profession, to be sure, but NT networking is what I know. ;-)

Ah. That would make a Mac harder to write off, granted.

I have heard of people teaching NT Networking with Virtual PC on Macs - because you can save the exact state of the machine at any point, they would get the Networking config into a known broken state, and have the trainees try to fix it. If it got completely broken, you could 'reboot and reinstall' in seconds.

Of course, once you get the Foreign Service job, you'll want a Titianium PowerBook for that Sydney Bristow look...

TO: Jane Galt
RE: Proprietary?

You mean they won't run under Virtual PC?

How very sad for you!

RE: The Truth Will Out

"I run it because the only way I'm making any money right now is advising folks on how to install the things, testing new products, etc. It is an unglamorous profession, to be sure, but NT networking is what I know." -- Jane Galt

So...you're actually one of those people who are taking advantage of the "technologically" [Note: That's hard to say.] disadvantaged.

Indeed, I know for a fact that the IM/IT types, and most especially consultants, LOVE Windows, because they keep getting repeat business from such end-users, the 'technologically' disadvantaged.

People who use Macs don't give them the sort of business they experience with Windows users.

Then again, I know people who use both, and they seem to have the same happy attitude that most Mac users have.

It's sort of like Christians [Note: The real ones....].

At work you can identify them from the rest of the work force. They're the ones who seem to have a more positive outlook on life as a whole.

Regards,

Chuck(le)

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