Apple who's applications are fast becoming as reliable as the dark side. Bleeding edge intel duo 1. Install ms office (2003 cd) trash all the fonts 2. ms office only runs as administrator that installed it or the first user that runs it - all other users crashes, 3. on random machines use safari goto www.google.co.nz start typing in the form after 1 or 2 characters safari locks up then crashes - I want to send an error report please type what you were doing. (firefox works fine) 4. itunes randomly crashes even after latest patches 5. updates just as thick and fast as the dark side 6. documentation is called google 7. need to goto the command prompt to correct permissions on multiple objects as users, even with parential controls still can trash a machine (they might not be able to modify something but the still have delete rights - doh!!)
Note currently users are authenticated against active directory on win2k box (still testing the gentoo replacement) Maurice - try sorting school computer lab with 25 apples that replaced acorns (a piece of great british engineering with real software - my son could not believe how similar the user interface was when I had them running side by side) -----Original Message----- From: Jim Cheetham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 18 April 2006 11:36 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Recommendations for a possible Linux convert - MS$Tax On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:19:33AM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Oh, yes. Apple. Who open-sourced their entire underlying OS. Them. > > Oh yeah, and a fat lot of good it is doing you. It might be true that it's doing *you* no good -- that's no excuse for effectively saying that Apple don't release Open Source. There are enough useful arguments against closed/DRM stuff without having to overstate the case and loose track of the objective truth. In many ways it's worse that a company that obviously understands Open licensing on one hand is attacking it on the other; but the world is not a black-and-white place. -jim
