{"id":3955,"date":"2004-04-03T11:55:19","date_gmt":"2004-04-03T11:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3955"},"modified":"2004-04-03T11:55:19","modified_gmt":"2004-04-03T11:55:19","slug":"switching_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3955","title":{"rendered":"Switching News"},"content":{"rendered":"

# packetlog ><\/a> links to an article about switching to the Mac<\/a> over at The Inquirer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It’s been sixty days today since I left Windows. I feel much better now. There are certainly OS\/X foibles that I have to deal with, and the one-button mouse setup had to go. There is an equivalent to the hourglass in OS\/X– it’s called the spinning ball of death (SPOD). It’s a busy signal. For the most part, it goes away randomly just as it arrived. The PowerBook that I’m using has WiFi built-in (ExtremeG as it’s called). There’s a nice display. Underneath is BSD, although I can also use ‘fink’ to download then recompile most of the library of Linux and BSD software that lazes on a thousand servers across the world.<\/p>\n

The most important item to note is that computers are tools – we control them. I can do most all of the work done before on a litany of breathtaking (for the first month that it’s in release) hardware. I have no desire to overclock the G4 in this machine or the G5 on my desktop. It runs very well, thanks. Squeezing the next hyperthreaded over-coded game has no interest for me. In the corner is a machine – a newly purchased HP Pavilion that’ll do the majority of the Windows compiling and testing that I need. It’s imaged, and wakes up freshly like JayBee Corbell in Larry Niven’s World Out of Time.<\/p>\n

But my personal rat race with bugs, fixes, exceptions, gotchas, driver madness, synchronization bipolar disease, and the sheer Prozac of it all, is over. [The Inquirer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

# packetlog > links to an article about switching to the Mac over at The Inquirer. It’s been sixty days today since I left Windows. I feel much better now. There are certainly OS\/X foibles that I have to deal with, and the one-button mouse setup had to go. There is an equivalent to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}