Macworld.Ars: First impressions of unibody 17" MacBook Pro

Ars Technica ^ | 01/06/2008

[Uri’el-2012]

XS> 4.3 > V

Geek humor. Gotta love it.

But something a true Unix geek would understand.

[antiRepublicrat]

But something a true Unix geek would understand.

I don't know if you've been on the geek humor threads here, but they're good and cover the spectrum. We apparently have a good number of true geeks on FR.

"God is real, unless declared integer."

"There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who know binary and those who don't."

"There's no place like 127.0.0.1."

I'll add an extra UNIX-specific one just for you. Ask your shell a question, get an answer (you'll have be in csh or tcsh on your Mac for it to work):

% If I had a ( for every $ Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.

[Uri’el-2012]

LOL

I always liked one plus one equals zero and a carry.

corollaries :
seven plus one equals zero and a carry on another platform.

fox plus one equals zero and a carry on others.

[antiRepublicrat]

but I’ve been wondering how in the heck Hillary Clinton got selected to become Secretary of State after all of the State Department scandals by the Clinton family

No such thing as a scandal in the eyes of the sheep when it's the Democrats. They didn't call him Slick Willie for nothing. Wait for the uproar if a Republican farts in the wrong direction though.

These issues should be raised in Hillary’s confirmation hearings.

Do we have any Republican senators with any balls left?

[Dead Corpse]

Mac's NetInstall/NetBoot sucks. Especially if you have a mix of PowerPC and Intel Macs. You need separate server partitions and images, and you can't run the services for Intel/PowerPC at the same time as the multicast conflicts. Each image takes up a huge amount of storage space. Transfer isn't optimized on the network either so loading more than just a couple machines at a time will slam your network.

Novell's Zen at least works. Even if that isn't saying much considering how much of a PITA Novell is.