[Benrand]

Uh oh, a Mac geek comes out to defend his uni-button OS from the raving hordes of network people who like to make machines from parts and slap Unix-type OSes on them.

Sorry, can't make those cheap Shuttle PCs run OSX very easily...they like kernels that work with Intel cpus.

As I said, I have yet to meet a network person who will request that a Mac be used for *anything* WRT monitoring/maintaining/manipulating a large network. It doesn't matter if it is derived from Unix or whatever.

[Timesink]

Uh oh, a Mac geek comes out to defend his uni-button OS from the raving hordes of network people who like to make machines from parts and slap Unix-type OSes on them.

*looks at my three-button mouse, running on OS X with NO modifications, just plug-and-play*

*Snickers and walks away from this idiotic thread to continue using his UNIX Mac OS*

[Swordmaker]

Uh oh, a Mac geek comes out to defend his uni-button OS from the raving hordes of network people who like to make machines from parts and slap Unix-type OSes on them.

Ignorance is bliss, isn't it, Benrand?

Mac OSX IS Unix... and a particularly robust one at that.

In addition, my G4 has a three button, wheel track ball that works quite well, Thank you.

I am a cross platform computer consultant... I make one hell of a lot more calls to fix problems for my clients with PCs than I do for my clients with Macs. In fact, about the only reason I even SEE my Mac clients is to do routine updating of the OS because they don't want to be bothered with doing it themselves.