And I'm a Mac

IpseDixit

Callius wrote: »

I'm getting a macbook for work.

Tell me what I should do with it. I mean, what the hell can it do aside from surf the web and give me error messages which don't give me any additional information about the error?

It makes an awesome paperweight.

You could cover up the Apple logo and then appear in commercials and cover the screen with a PC screenshot.

Butler

Javen wrote: »

Meta T. Dust wrote: »

What the fuck are widgets?

gadgets

Gadgets are an original creation like Monald Muck or Ricky Rouse.

beavotron

i have a mac and a pc
i use my pc more
cause of the vidya games

but you have to get the lightbrite widget
about 15 minutes of quality entertainment right there.

hoodie13

Callius wrote: »

I'm getting a macbook for work.

Tell me what I should do with it. I mean, what the hell can it do aside from surf the web and give me error messages which don't give me any additional information about the error?

why do you need to know about the error? if you did something and the program crashed, don't do the thing you just tried to do

Monoxide

Iskander wrote: »

Callius wrote: »

I'm getting a macbook for work.

Tell me what I should do with it. I mean, what the hell can it do aside from surf the web and give me error messages which don't give me any additional information about the error?

It's great for watching tv shows, movies and porn in bed I guess.

Emails, too.

Don't expect to be able to actually do some work on it though.

seriously

what do you need to do for work that you can't on a macbook?

Butler

Spore runs on Macs so this makes me happy.

Callius

hoodie13 wrote: »

why do you need to know about the error? if you did something and the program crashed, don't do the thing you just tried to do

Please tell me this is just a bad attempt at a joke.

Please.

Local H Jay

omg u guys are soooooooo dumb

u dont even kno ok i mean macs are hella sweet they have a camera built right the fuck in
so rite when u bought it it can do all sortsa shit. plus yknow if you gotta ipod u gotta get an mac!

so stfu loooosers ur just gealouse

beavotron

yeah i actually do lots of my work on my mac

like my freelancing stuff
and any documentation stuffs cause i have word on my mac and not on my pc
pc is games only
and internets

mac is all business.

Callius

Monoxide wrote: »

seriously

what do you need to do for work that you can't on a macbook?

Reliable connectivity in a Domain environment?

Iskander

Monoxide wrote: »

Iskander wrote: »

Callius wrote: »

I'm getting a macbook for work.

Tell me what I should do with it. I mean, what the hell can it do aside from surf the web and give me error messages which don't give me any additional information about the error?

It's great for watching tv shows, movies and porn in bed I guess.

Emails, too.

Don't expect to be able to actually do some work on it though.

seriously

what do you need to do for work that you can't on a macbook?

The question is

What do I need to do on a macbook that won't be ten times easier to do on a Windows machine without looking half as fucking stupid?

chrishallett83

Local H Jay wrote: »

omg u guys are soooooooo dumb

u dont even kno ok i mean macs are hella sweet they have a camera built right the fuck in
so rite when u bought it it can do all sortsa shit. plus yknow if you gotta ipod u gotta get an mac!

so stfu loooosers ur just gealouse

Admit it - you ust copypasta'd that from yahoo answers, didn't you?

Monoxide

Callius wrote: »

Monoxide wrote: »

seriously

what do you need to do for work that you can't on a macbook?

Reliable connectivity in a Domain environment?

Works fine.

Redeemer

Mac vs. pc discussions are never dumb

IpseDixit

Iskander wrote: »

Monoxide wrote: »

Iskander wrote: »

Callius wrote: »

I'm getting a macbook for work.

Tell me what I should do with it. I mean, what the hell can it do aside from surf the web and give me error messages which don't give me any additional information about the error?

It's great for watching tv shows, movies and porn in bed I guess.

Emails, too.

Don't expect to be able to actually do some work on it though.

seriously

what do you need to do for work that you can't on a macbook?

The question is

What do I need to do on a macbook that won't be ten times easier to do on a Windows machine without looking half as fucking stupid?

Uh

Hmmm

Spreadsheets?

hoodie13

look, programs generally don't crash on my mac. maybe your mac, and that's probably because you're trying to do stupid shit. only program that crashes on my mac is safari, and that's when im actually putting it through its paces. and then i just avoid doing whatever it was that i was trying to do, or switch to a program i know can handle it better. some things can only run in IE (like old work-related programs) and others work best in FF. i switch to them then. otherwise, why is it so hard to just stop doing the thing that causes the program to crash?

Callius

Monoxide, please do the following test.

Bind a macintosh to a domain environment, connect to a network share which is running DFS, set the computer to lock it's screen when going to sleep, set the computer to sleep mode and wait 15 minutes.

Try and wake it up. See what happens.

Zombot

I like Macs because Justin Long has my name.

Dog

my macbook is basically a glorified dvd player

Callius

hoodie13 wrote: »

look, programs generally don't crash on my mac. maybe your mac, and that's probably because you're trying to do stupid shit. only program that crashes on my mac is safari, and that's when im actually putting it through its paces. and then i just avoid doing whatever it was that i was trying to do, or switch to a program i know can handle it better. some things can only run in IE (like old work-related programs) and others work best in FF. i switch to them then. otherwise, why is it so hard to just stop doing the thing that causes the program to crash?

Because I work in IT, you idiot.

vsove

hoodie13 wrote: »

look, programs generally don't crash on my mac. maybe your mac, and that's probably because you're trying to do stupid shit. only program that crashes on my mac is safari, and that's when im actually putting it through its paces. and then i just avoid doing whatever it was that i was trying to do, or switch to a program i know can handle it better. some things can only run in IE (like old work-related programs) and others work best in FF. i switch to them then. otherwise, why is it so hard to just stop doing the thing that causes the program to crash?

That's the worst advice ever.

'If something's making your computer crash then just don't do it'

Well, in a perfect world maybe, but what if I need to do that thing that's making my computer crash?

Local H Jay

hoodie13 wrote: »

look, programs generally don't crash on my mac. maybe your mac, and that's probably because you're trying to do stupid shit. only program that crashes on my mac is safari, and that's when im actually putting it through its paces. and then i just avoid doing whatever it was that i was trying to do, or switch to a program i know can handle it better. some things can only run in IE (like old work-related programs) and others work best in FF. i switch to them then. otherwise, why is it so hard to just stop doing the thing that causes the program to crash?

what if it crashes as soon as you try to use it

do you give up then too

Dog

you shouldn't be doing that thing then. Macs arent for doing things you need to do.

Callius

Also, another downside to "macs as work computers."

Lock a linux box = Command + L
Lock a windows box = Windows Key + L
Lock a mac box = click on the apple button then click sleep (make sure you have lock on sleep selected); or I guess you could rely upon a screen saver (again, make sure that lock on screen saver is selected).

babyeatingjesus

Parallels is the best thing going for the mac.

Iskander

IpseDixit wrote: »

Iskander wrote: »

Monoxide wrote: »

Iskander wrote: »

Callius wrote: »

I'm getting a macbook for work.

Tell me what I should do with it. I mean, what the hell can it do aside from surf the web and give me error messages which don't give me any additional information about the error?

It's great for watching tv shows, movies and porn in bed I guess.

Emails, too.

Don't expect to be able to actually do some work on it though.

seriously

what do you need to do for work that you can't on a macbook?

The question is

What do I need to do on a macbook that won't be ten times easier to do on a Windows machine without looking half as fucking stupid?

Uh

Hmmm

Spreadsheets?

Yes. Fucking Excel. Pivot tables. Data analysis. VBA. Reliable and fast ODBC. Access to SQL.

All this works on a Mac I know but fuck me if I don't just hate the way I have to think in that fucking system.

vsove

Callius wrote: »

Also, another downside to "macs as work computers."

Lock a linux box = Command + L
Lock a windows box = Windows Key + L
Lock a mac box = click on the apple button then click sleep (make sure you have lock on sleep selected); or I guess you could rely upon a screen saver (again, make sure that lock on screen saver is selected).

I never knew I could lock my workstation with Windows Key + L.

That's handy. I always did CTRL-ALT-DEL and just hit spacebar, since Lock Computer is always highlighted.

Learn something new every day.

chrishallett83

Hoodie may be one of those people who believe female rape victims bring it upon themselves by dressing too provocatively i.e. anything other than a hessian sack...

Callius

vsove wrote: »

I never knew I could lock my workstation with Windows Key + L.

That's handy. I always did CTRL-ALT-DEL and just hit spacebar, since Lock Computer is always highlighted.

Learn something new every day.

Yeah, I oscillate between windows key L and ctrl-alt-del and enter.

I really enjoy the physicality of swiping ctrl-alt-del then mashing enter. Makes things seem finalized.

hoodie13

well i didn't know you did IT, so nevermind. obviously the PC is better for that.

i just figured that if you were receiving a mac for work, it would be for like graphic design or something like that.

a mac for IT work? that's stupid shit.

Dog

windows + d is the best key combo ever at work.

Little Jim

macs are an expensive fashion statement

real men use unix with their huge rock hard dicks

Callius

hoodie13 wrote: »

well i didn't know you did IT, so nevermind. obviously the PC is better for that.

i just figured that if you were receiving a mac for work, it would be for like graphic design or something like that.

a mac for IT work? that's stupid shit.

No it isn't, because a lot of users have macs. That have problems and crash and need to fit into our domain structure.

So I need to make sure it works. And, unlike you, I don't have the liberty of telling them to fuck off and get a real man's computer.

Also, try using a windows print-server with a mac. Go on, have fun.

Janin

I use a Mac for IT work all the time. I'd never use Windows for IT, that's just asking for trouble. Windows is for playing games, UNIX has been powering the world for 30 years.

Little Jim wrote: »

macs are an expensive fashion statement

real men use unix with their huge rock hard dicks

Macs run UNIX.

hoodie13

and that's another one of those things where I think its better to just switch over. trying to make the two different OSes talk to each other is difficult and annoying and I don't wish it on anyone.

Monoxide

Callius wrote: »

Monoxide, please do the following test.

Bind a macintosh to a domain environment, connect to a network share which is running DFS, set the computer to lock it's screen when going to sleep, set the computer to sleep mode and wait 15 minutes.

Try and wake it up. See what happens.

Since I can't actually try that, I'll take a blind stab at it.

There's a few bugs with Samba connections to DFS shares. You should see similar issues on any *nix based machine. I don't have a domain environment with DFS to connect to, so I can't see what happens, but I'm assuming if you dismount the DFS share before the computer falls asleep, there's no issue? I know there were connection problems in older versions of SMB on linux that were patched out that may not have been included yet in OS X's smb client, did you try installing the newest Samba and mounting the DFS shares that way?

I work in IT too 8-)

Butters

Pretty much none of the equipment or software I used for data acquisition is compatible with Mac so it's PC all the way for work.

IpseDixit

Callius wrote: »

Also, another downside to "macs as work computers."

Lock a linux box = Command + L
Lock a windows box = Windows Key + L
Lock a mac box = click on the apple button then click sleep (make sure you have lock on sleep selected); or I guess you could rely upon a screen saver (again, make sure that lock on screen saver is selected).

System Preferences>
Accounts>
Log In Options>
Enable fast user switching

Now just go to the new username menu at the top of the screen and choose login window

No Great Name

It's a UNIX system! I know this!

Burden of Proof

All computers are inferior to the typewriter.