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I know, I know. If only I had a Mac. Not only is the G4 fast enough to execute an infinite loop in under half a second, OS X has uptimes measured in eons. Not only does it never, ever crash, it has been scientifically proven to boost a user's IQ by 30%, cure cancer by the laying on of hands, increase bank accounts to billionaire levels, and attract more hot women than a light beer commercial.

Wow! Does using Windows have some sort of delusional effect? When did I say I use an Apple product to serve data? If you go back through my previous posts, you will see that I use GNU/Linux, xBSD, Tru64 and OS/400 for servers depending on the need and processor. Not Mac OS X or Mac OS X server. I use Mac OS X for desktop not serving. Why waste a beautiful GUI on a machine that runs headless?

Get a clue. There are more operating systems out there than Windows and Mac OS. You choose one, I choose many.

Just cutting to the inevitable chase - for all those systems you use, you only ever seem to evangelize one of them. As for me and my choices, dual-booting Win2K and FreeBSD at home, along with working on AIX and Solaris at work is sufficient to qualify me as equally clueful, I think. Not that this will stop you from assuming you know everything there is to know about me, obviously.

Get a clue. There are more operating systems out there than Windows and Mac OS. You choose one, I choose many.

You are correct, there are more. And it seems to me that all Mac Power users also admit they have Windows, Linux, and other boxes running as well. If the Mac is the be-all, end-all, why do you use other stuff? I have a Win 2000 box and will soon build another. That's it.

If Apple would sell the parts for me to build my own system, and if developers would introduce more software for the Mac OS X, I'd switch in a second.