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Oh Dear God, please ... not another Mac vs. PC thread ...

Why not? It's Wednesday - time for the obligatory "Two Minute Hate", the target of which depends upon what you're typing your posts on...

I know ... it just so predictable ... and I'm sitting here on my piddly little network that has 2 PCs (Win 2K Server, Win 98), a Mac G4, and a P2-450 w/ Linux 7.2 ... so that makes it pretty hard for me to pick a side and have anything to contribute other than, "can't we all just get along?"

and I'm sitting here on my piddly little network that has 2 PCs (Win 2K Server, Win 98), a Mac G4, and a P2-450 w/ Linux 7.2

Hmmm, you've got me beat - this box in front of me is only running win2k for the moment, now that I've wiped the BeOS and 98SE partitions. Feels empty - gotta dig out those Mandrake disks ;)

I'm sitting here on my piddly little network - so that makes it pretty hard for me to pick a side and have anything to contribute other than, "can't we all just get along?"

I'm sitting here on my piddly little home ethernet LAN of 4 PCs. The fourth used to be a Mac (G4) but I had to ditch it because it didn't get along very well with an NT4 Server (running Oracle/SQL server and Cold Fusion server) and my two other development machines (NT WS and XP). However, the main reason I ditched it was because it didn't do much in the way of serious database/internet work.

Having owned just about every Mac made up through the G4, I used to be one of the world's biggest mac bigots but got over it when I found out where the development demand ($$$) was. It was a hard switch but I now prefer the Windows environment because of the available development tools and ($$$) opportunities.

PS: For you ex-flyers or flyer wannabees who'd like to get some quality "stick" time without the danger, cost or FARs, check out IL-2 Sturmovik. My kids gave this to me as a gift and this simulation is first-rate with scenery rendering that's better than many of the commercial flight simulators I've seen, the sound is great, the planes' flight characteristics are outstanding (e.g., try getting out of an inverted spin in a P39) and the ability to build simulation missions/scenarios is excellent.