PC IDs?

[protagonist]

So what if I don't have a Mac? How do I decide my POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSHHSAODI HWOQIEHOIHSAODIHOQWUEHQOUW

[excaliber7388]

Originally Posted by protagonist

So what if I don't have a Mac? How do I decide my POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSHHSAODI HWOQIEHOIHSAODIHOQWUEHQOUW

Hack the Mac OSx to work on your Pc, duh.

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by protagonist

So what if I don't have a Mac? How do I decide my POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSHHSAODI HWOQIEHOIHSAODIHOQWUEHQOUW

If you don't have a Mac, then you are eternally doomed. And I'm talking either type of Mac.

[Projectshifter]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

Hack the Mac OSx to work on your Pc, duh.

Gross! Why would you want the Mac OSX even on a Mac That's why God made Linux distros that run on Macs, lol.

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by Projectshifter

Gross! Why would you want the Mac OSX even on a Mac

Because then you get UNIX goodness with a more immediately useful OS. Linux is great and all, but it requires work.

[Projectshifter]

Originally Posted by Skyld

Because then you get UNIX goodness with a more immediately useful OS. Linux is great and all, but it requires work.

Yeah, it does require some work, and it's not for everyone, but the benefits are great =) OSx runs off of a BSD kernel if I remember, similar, and still powerful, but I've never been fond of Mac's "simplicity". They try and dumb it down so much that it's very easy to use, but I have trouble using it because it's almost over-simplified

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by Projectshifter

Yeah, it does require some work, and it's not for everyone, but the benefits are great =) OSx runs off of a BSD kernel if I remember, similar, and still powerful, but I've never been fond of Mac's "simplicity".

Well, it's just that, that makes it excellent. The fact that you can open a terminal (or thirty) to get what you want done is all very well, but when you just want to sit and look at pretty interface applications, the option is there waiting for you.

Originally Posted by Projectshifter

They try and dumb it down so much that it's very easy to use, but I have trouble using it because it's almost over-simplified

I wouldn't say it's over-simplified, although it is very easy to use. As much as anything, they've made a fast and effortless interface.

[Projectshifter]

Originally Posted by Skyld

I wouldn't say it's over-simplified, although it is very easy to use. As much as anything, they've made a fast and effortless interface.

It probably is pretty easy to use for most people, but a lot of people I know that do a lot with computers and programming that are used to things being decently complex, it's almost impossible to get anything done. Don't dis on the console either, I always have an xterm up just in case I need to do something

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by Projectshifter

Don't dis on the console either, I always have an xterm up just in case I need to do something

Oh, I am just the same. It's always open somewhere in the background.

[excaliber7388]

My reply was more of a joke on the 'get an intel mac' comments
From what I've seen the Mac OSx looks pretty nice. But there's no legal hacks of it for PCs yet

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

My reply was more of a joke on the 'get an intel mac' comments
From what I've seen the Mac OSx looks pretty nice. But there's no legal hacks of it for PCs yet

It'll only run on a PC which supports SSE3 (or at worst, SSE2), which narrows down a lot of computers.

Secondly, it's hardware support is quite specific.

[coreys]

I've witnessed proublems with OSx though. As weird as it sounds, on a university computer at The University of Texas (long story, don't ask why I was there) they had a room full of macs, but alot of them weren't working. They had just updated from OS9 to OSx and apparently OS9 was rejecting OSx...or something around those lines. That, and I've used several different macs, and I don't really find it any simpler to use than Windows. Windows isn't all proublematic like everyone says. At least not for me it isn't.

[Zero Hour]

Originally Posted by Projectshifter

I didn't really expect anyone to know definitively, but was curious if anyone had some ideas. Asking Stefan would have been too easy and he probably would not be open for explaining it either. A few people suggested it was with Mac addresses or so (not the case, both of my OSes use the same internet hardware), and a few other things that aren't practical. Oh well.

I believe I recall the conversation with Stefan, but I don't think it's a topic which should be open to the public of the Graal community

[Darlene159]

Originally Posted by Zero Hour

If you actually expected an answer, Project Shifter, you would probably be better off asking Stefan yourself.

I don't think it's a good idea to have a thread on the topic

I agree