When bad things happen to good Mac's [OT]

[Derick Centeno]

Why isn't anyone screaming sacrilege?  No one wants to play Torquemada?

Perhaps it's because by switching to Intel, in one move, Apple made  
what is or had been this occasionally hot-popping niche list become not  
even a soon-to-be microniche list?
I really can't say that I feel exuberant anticipating Genesi to replace  
my Powerbook when I'm looking for an upgrade.

Regarding your other issues, I would have used Micromat's Techtools  
product; much better than DiskWarrior with more features AND a  
partitioned emergency disk which is at the ready far faster than any CD  
based utility.  Those fellows THINK; yes they do.

One other thing that can be said, is that regardless of one's choice of  
utilities now; in several months those utilities should be chock full  
of new stuff due to the switch to Intel.  There was always more "stuff"  
on that side of the universe, and now the potential is we get to have  
it too which from a truly open source perspective means switching to  
Red Hat.  I wonder if the YDL FAQ pages will acknowledge this with  
opening a section for Red Hat users running on Intel based Macs.  Red  
Hat and YDL are of similar trees; shouldn't be an issue.

Regarding what was said about Apple, I'll express my views this way.   
With iMovie and iTunes and a few items from Radio Shack which ran not  
more than $20 altogether I found that I can restore my music collection  
from cassettes, records (78s, 33s and 45s) and preserve them on audio  
CDs!  What is really weird is that I know a fellow who sells PC  
software to do this, but he can't beat Apples giveaway (in iTunes and  
iMovie).  I didn't even realize that I was asking him to consider  
making his product available for OS X when it runs on Intel, whereas I  
can do the same thing for chump change on what Apple has provided for  
me now!  I will probably still buy the record player he sells though,  
as I have none.  There is also how Apple implemented Goom and the xine  
engine into iTunes (which is what the visualizer in effect is), that  
was a beautiful piece of work!  So for me, there are lots of reasons to  
use OS X, their mine -- not Apple's nor perhaps even what Apple  
considered.

As for the rest, I'm holding out for Apple's tri-corder.

Best wishes....

On Jul 20, 2005, at 4:19 PM, Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote:

> Thank you, Clint.
>
> I have been working with MAC's for a very long time so I have a
> understanding [read lots of scar tissue...] of Apple's failings.
>
> It is because of this sort of "voodoo" [B-Tree corruption that Apple
> cannot repair, but a third party can???] that I run YDL.
>
> There is a set of desktop applications that I need to do day-to-day
> stuff. Slowly, but surely, Linux has been filling out that set with
> "acceptable" alternatives.  Once the Linux desktop set is complete to  
> my
> satisfaction,  I would need a really good reason to run anything else.
>
>
> -Joseph
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