I don't think anyone here really hates Apples (I have both a Mac Mini and a Macbook). But I think we've all been exposed to Mac zealots, and have an instinctive defensive reaction when anyone says "I love my Apple"
Cheers Ken From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 September 2008 1:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: iphone update - how long does it take? Perhaps. My main problem is that generally this list is quite open about alternative technologies to solving a particular problem, even though it's officially an nt system administrators list. Many of us here are working with varied and mixed environments, some by choice and some by fiat or inheritence. I have trouble when that same open attitude can't be extended to Apple. Does Apple have control issues? Sure, but then so does Microsoft. So does IBM, HP, Dell, any vendor wants to exercise as much control over their product as possible. Apple just happens to be a bit more successful in exercising that control to fulfill their vision. If you happen to disagree with that vision, that's fine, too, but my feeling is that this list generally doesn't discount any company regardless of their vision if they're capable of providing the right tool for a given application. I try and use the best tool for the job. To wit, I bought a Macbook Pro as my last notebook, because I wanted to play some games on it, and I wanted to do some video editing work with video's we've collected of our daughter since she was born. I spec'ed out similar systems from HP, Dell, and Apple (obviously). All were about comparable in price for what I wanted to do, but the Apple won because it had great easy to use video editing software and, I could run Windows in Bootcamp. I run Bootcamp 75% of the time, and a lot of the time I'm on the OS X side, I'm running my Bootcamp partition through Fusion. On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Tim Vander Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Jonathan must have accidentally slipped on Don's cranky pants this morning when he was sneaking out of the house in the dark. ;-P From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: iphone update - how long does it take? Sheesh, take a sedative. I was just trying to state it worked out of the box without excessive configuration and without installing anything. Way to over-read into things. Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue." - B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
