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* On 2004.01.16, in <20040116170514.6624841475@xxxxxxx.xx.xxxxxxx.xxx>,
* "Peter da Silva" <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
>
> again. And neither BeOS nor Mac OS is really happy with the idea of splitting
> or merging partitions without blowing away everything on the drive, though
> at least it's *usually* possible with BeOS... but if you use BeOS to redo
I usually find that pdisk will repartition my Mac's disks without
damaging unchanged partitions. Of course, since MacOS sucks
(differently), all the partitions have to be unmounted first, which can
mean booting off an install CD.
> You can always do what I did, and buy a cheap Beige G3 and use Mac OS X as
> your desktop. It's got lots of its own suck, but at least it usually looks
> pretty and you can usually work around it.
This is pretty much where I've come to. I flip over to my mac so often
to do desktoppy things that it's not really worth trying to do a desktop
on solaris or (gag) linux anymore. And the mac is really a better
desktop experience than any of the PC platforms can provide me, anyway.
Though admittedly I've never used BeOS, because it looked like it would
irritate me (what non-irritating company would put a hole in their
computer called a "geek port"?) and I didn't want to pay up $200 or
whatever for more irritation. And I still liked Linux back then.
I used to hates CBM for not doing something more clever with the Amiga
when their board voted on seppuku, but now I think all those fanboys
still trying after more than a decade to resurrect the spirit of that
piece of crap are wasting their oxygen. In 10 years of real development,
maybe they could have made it a modern OS (again). As it is, it's still
not modern (again), and it's still ugly.
I also used to hates Apple for subsuming my sweet, lovely NeXT when they
borgged with OpenStep, but I just installed OpenStep into Virtual PC,
and realized that I was romanticizing the whole thing. It's still the
cleanest UI ever, but it never had the desktop functionality that MacOS
X does, and I'd never have chosen it as a server, anyway. So, punt.
After all this time, after twenty-five years of hating Apple deeply, to
the darkest trenches of my cold and teeming heart, all my desktop hope
lies with Steve "do you love me yet" Jobs. Fuck.
If only I could have a nice window manager on MacOS, I'd be so much less
disgruntled. I wish I new Xlib, so I could write one -- but of course it
still wouldn't work because Apple can't get it through their skulls that
a network-clean, open and broadly-supported client-server display model
is really a good thing.
Serverwise, I am screwed differently: Sun is still the only sane plan.
Will someone fix this, please, preferably without employing either BSD
or Linux?
> And my NeXTstation has just decided to quit booting from floopy. Anyone
> got a NeXTstation boot floppy image they can send me?
Have you tried Apple Support? Not that I really think they'd have it,
but they do have some surprising things.
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