On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Scott Granneman <[email protected]> wrote:
> grep, sed, awk, perl, seq, rev, tac, sort, join, python, & ruby are
> all on a Mac by default. Jeez, man - it's a friggin' UNIX box. Of
> course it has all that on it!

I'll have to check, but the last time I used a Mac it used the "unix"
versions of those commands not the gnu version.  So a lot of little
tricks and features I had become accustomed to didn't exist.

> For perl, use cpan.

Ah, crud.  Time to learn ruby.  ;)

> Complaining isn't going to change the nature of the beast.

Nope.  But it does make a case for installing a Linux VM on the Mac
and then sharing folders between the two.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

> There's a modified version of VNC called Screen Sharing on desktops &
> Remote Desktop on OS X Server. But that's VNC - everyone sees the same
> desktop, so it's not exactly what you want. Dunno about a multiple
> user thing, but there very well could be something like that.

Will keep an eye out.

Regards,
- Robert

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