how things change
i'm trying out a new livejournal client on my mac, called xjournal... so far it seems to be quite good... the other one i want to try out is ijournal.... i'm not sure i like either of these as much as i loved logjam on linux... but they're much easier to install and i CBF doing any more work than i need to.
i'm currently installing an ubuntu desktop for a client at work... my suggestion... hopefully it doesn't get me into trouble... but its an old machine and it only needs to check email and remote desktop into a windows server...
i got a little concerned when i realised that it also needs to share its printer resource with the server, but apparently rdesktop for linux can now do that.
anyway
this post was all about how things change.
a few years ago... maybe 8 years ago.
murdoch uni had just built the multimedia labs in a hidden corner of the humanties building... their were half pentium3 (win98 i think) machines and the other half were mac G4's (os9?... unless osx had been released in 98/99)
anyway i remember the first tutorial we were getting told how we should use both machines equally, because the industry is cross platform, and a lot of design work is done on macs, and i remember thinking "if i ever get a job at a mac business i'd force them to get a windows computer for me, i'll never work on a mac"
flash forward to 2007, my buy my first laptop... and its a mac.
my prefered clients at work are all because they have macs in their offices.
i'm considering getting some apple certifications, because i would prefer to work on mac machines than i would work on unreliable windows boxes anymore than i have to.
its a funny twist of fate.
i tell my friends and family to buy macs,
because it means i have to help them less.
ten years ago, i would never have thought that i'd be using a mac, promoting macs, looking for a career where i deal with macs... actually ten years ago i thought that the whole macOS would have pretty much died out by the time i got to this age.
now i'm not really much of an apple fanboy,
they're still a big corporation who do evil evil things... but they seem to do slightly less evil things than microsoft, or maybe they're just better at hiding it.
i really want to get some freedom and setup a whole linux office.
running LDAP and with directory redirection, which could support a fully heterogeneous client machine group.
work is going quickly today
but i need more sleep.
i'm currently installing an ubuntu desktop for a client at work... my suggestion... hopefully it doesn't get me into trouble... but its an old machine and it only needs to check email and remote desktop into a windows server...
i got a little concerned when i realised that it also needs to share its printer resource with the server, but apparently rdesktop for linux can now do that.
anyway
this post was all about how things change.
a few years ago... maybe 8 years ago.
murdoch uni had just built the multimedia labs in a hidden corner of the humanties building... their were half pentium3 (win98 i think) machines and the other half were mac G4's (os9?... unless osx had been released in 98/99)
anyway i remember the first tutorial we were getting told how we should use both machines equally, because the industry is cross platform, and a lot of design work is done on macs, and i remember thinking "if i ever get a job at a mac business i'd force them to get a windows computer for me, i'll never work on a mac"
flash forward to 2007, my buy my first laptop... and its a mac.
my prefered clients at work are all because they have macs in their offices.
i'm considering getting some apple certifications, because i would prefer to work on mac machines than i would work on unreliable windows boxes anymore than i have to.
its a funny twist of fate.
i tell my friends and family to buy macs,
because it means i have to help them less.
ten years ago, i would never have thought that i'd be using a mac, promoting macs, looking for a career where i deal with macs... actually ten years ago i thought that the whole macOS would have pretty much died out by the time i got to this age.
now i'm not really much of an apple fanboy,
they're still a big corporation who do evil evil things... but they seem to do slightly less evil things than microsoft, or maybe they're just better at hiding it.
i really want to get some freedom and setup a whole linux office.
running LDAP and with directory redirection, which could support a fully heterogeneous client machine group.
work is going quickly today
but i need more sleep.