I decided to just give up on os x and go back to linux 100%. What a circular pattern I am in. I am not exactly even sure why I went mac to begin with. I feel like one of those straight guys that got drunk and hooked up with their buddy only to regret it later.
I guess the hardware is nice - when its not broken. I should have just stayed here in the first place. Maybe I was just lured by photoshop, flexbuilder gui and a reasonable flash player. COme to think of it, its really adobe's fault. I mean how can maya come out on every platform and somehow photoshop can't. Well I am down with the gimp again. I will just miss shapes and vectors. I guess there is always inkscape. I just wish they could be one like photoshop.
The first thing I noticed is that I can't believe how freakin snappy everything is. When I say logout or shutdown - it freakin logs out. None of this so and so canceled your restart bullshit. When I say open firefox, there it is. WIll I miss safari - a little bit? WIll it still exist in my dumb ass windows virtual machine for testing IE and safari - yes.
Also, the amount of time I will save not have to try an implement everything the way it is on the server, because it just is that way will be amazing. No more trying to compile some obscure library for osx because it doesn't exist.
To make sure I was serious, I just went ahead and deleted all my mac server stuff. No more macports, no more apache with mysql blah blah php, subversion. Its all in fedora now.
In fact the laptop is little more than a shell for projects I am working on at the moment. I check out with svn, do my work, commit and erase from disk. No more musik, no photos, no backup files, nothing. It all lives in the clouds. Either on the estrip server, the work server or the home server.
It makes me feel so much better that if someone kicked me in the laptop, I'd have nothing to lose.
I'm sure you have probably heard that Time Warner Cable has given up on metered billing for broadband internet for the moment.
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I reckon the next time they try, the FUD will be probably much more effective because TMC will have re-educated their customers to believe that anyone who downloads or uploads anything over 640k is a Pinko Commie supporter of bin Laden.
Based on what I've read and heard, Time-Warner Cable is going to try "metered" billing in Rochester because it is not a Verizon FIOS area. Frontier is the only broadband alternative to Time-Warner Cable. And at one point, Frontier was also considering "metered" billing. See :::link::: and :::link:::
Yeah, heard about this.
I think I can get fios where I live right now. The second I know for sure that they're bringing that to Buffalo, (seems Rochester is one of the test cities even) I'm switching.
First dial up was $5 and limited. Then they pushed everybody to the $20 unlimited plan, because obviously they would make more money since the vast majority didn't/couldn't use it extensively. Then broadband came out, eventually was available for $50 each, then slowly came down to $30 due to some basic competition. And it was generally unlimited for as fast as you can get it. Then it slowly went back up. And then they gimped its speed and made you pay for this BS called "power boost" just to get it closer to how it was before. But now, they want to limit you while charging you more for actually using it extensively.
I know why they're doing it. You raise profits by reducing cost of business. But it's reached utility status by now. And just because you can get away with this kind of shit because of so few alternatives for broadband available... That's just not acceptable.
They do indeed, blow