On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:35:39 -0700, Chris Henry wrote > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Anand Vaidya > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > - The ever shifting Menu bar > > It does? I don't get this one.
The menu bar is always fixed at the top of the screen in Mac OS X and the menu item changes depending on which program is running in the foreground. > > - No clean way to encrypt entire harddisk or atleast partitions ( I always > > protect my /home with DM-Crypt , so losing the laptop means only loss of $$ > > but not critcial data.) . On Linux it is trivial to get this setup going. > > 10.5 has FileVault built in. I do have complaints on the Firewall > though. But on the plus side, OS X has, built-in, Apache, FTP server, > samba support, bluetooth sharing, ssh server, and bonjour. Bonjour > still remain the plug and play networking king (of course, we would > prefer to be able to configure everything ourselves yah? But for > average users, Bonjour is immensely useful). For folders and files, you can use Disk Utility to create disk images where they can mounted as virtual volumes for reading and writing. Disk images can be created with encryption and as a sparse disk image - its size grows depending on the files and folders in it. > > When OSX is set to mirrored VGA config, an external projector would > > completely > > messup the display on the Mac screen. This experience is in various > > departments in NUS, I guess some of the projectors are old. but.... I expect > > OSX to "just work" and it didn't. My current laptop with kubuntu works fine > > with the same projectors. (And I can tweak xrandr to get exactly the res I > > want...) > > Never had problem with this. I've been doing presentation with my OS > X from the old, laupok ADM building to SOC1 and the newest of the > new COM1, and it works great. Plus the dual-view is a great, great plus > (especially when combined with Keynote presentation, again IMHO the > greatest presentation software available right now.) The best resolution for a LCD screen will be its native resolution. When you do Display Mirroring on a projector that the Mac connects for the first time, it will default to a low resolution. You then use the Display preferences to set a higher resolution which the projector can handle, preferably matching or closely matching the native resolution of your Mac display. After that, you Mac will "remember" the settings when connected to the same projector (or rather the same manufacturer and model). > > Maybe OSX works for some. But not for me. So, I will stay away from iPhone > > too, wait for a sufficiently Open phone (android? openmoko?) > > If the preview is anything to peg my expectation on, I'll have hard > time choosing between iPhone and a good Android phone (Android will > depend a lot on the hardware; if you have lousy hardware, you can't > have too high an expectation, but on iPhone grade hardware, looks > like Android gonna shine a lot). After all, these are just tools for your usage and convenience. For me, user interface and data integration between devices are quite important to me. I will always be fond of Linux and any OS that is Unix-based, and since Mac OS X underlying layer is Unix-based and comes with a great user interface, I am more or less a Mac person now. (I really didn't consider the Mac as my main machine when it was still running on Mac OS Classic [version 9 and below] until Mac OS X [which was based on NextSTEP, Unix-based OS] came about. - Victor Pang - _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
