Light at end of tunnel…
July 1st, 2006 Filed in: Internet 1 Comment
…is but a train. For the last few days, I’ve been putting on the finishing touches to this website. As of last night, I have a fully functional forum. I had lots of trouble incorporating some open source PHP forum scripts to fit my website’s style. Eventually I broke down and just simply dissected one I thought was simple yet had the features I wanted. I’ve been using OSX for two days and so far I’m pretty impressed. I’ve always used Windows/Dos ever since I started “pooter’n”. Every once in a while I will get adventuresome and install linux on a spare machine only to go back to my windows machine due to lack of useful applications. To this day I have yet gotten sound or printer to work in linux. To be fair though, Ubuntu has gone a long ways to make life in linux easier. What I like about OSX is how pretty it looks. Everything seems uniform and fit together like a good jigsaw puzzle. The only disadvantage I see so far are the following:
There aren’t as much applications for it. Hardware is expensive and inflexible for tinkerers like me. Games! Where are the games?
I manage to install Firefox with all my usual extensions therefore, day-to-day, it’s not that different than working in windows. Whether you use OSX, Windows XP, Linux, BeOS, the only thing that matters over the Internet is your browser…or the spyware you unwittingly let run on your computer. I think Microsoft know that Windows is not the focus to users as much as their experience online these days. When someone ask me to fix their computer, 90 percent of the time it is the Internet that is not working right. Well, back to tinkering with OSX! I’m like a kid with a new toy. Soon I’ll either break it and resign to playing with something else, or I’ll get bored with it and put Windows Vista back on to kick around.