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I started out on a VMS/VAX system in High School. When I was in college I started out with Slackware Linux 3.0 (Kernel 1.3). It was my day-to-day desktop until the kernel became bloatware (the split from 2.0 to competing 2.1.x and 2.2.x builds). I was very involved in Linux development at the time and politics and drama forced me over to FreeBSD full-time. During that time I used OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD for various activities.

Eventually after college I was forced to use Windows. I got out of development completely at that point. About 3 years ago (10 years after I started using Slackware) I ended up finding Mac. I liked Mac OS X because of its OpenBSD roots.

The problem I have with Linux today - it's too hard to get working right. I know all the commands, I am extremely computer savy. I am 110% LAZY. I bought my 17" MacBook Pro and it WORKS. I download music and videos. I search the web. I use IM. Eventually, it will replace my cable service.

Money isn't the issue. I have played with Gentoo here and there, but hardware support is key. Dirty drivers, and weird crashes are plaguing the system.

In 1995 - all I had to worry about was Nuke and Smurf attacks from Red Hat Script Kiddies that I kickbanned from my IRC channel. My computer ran 24/7/365. Never shut down, never needed a reboot - except when upgrading the kernel. Now? I had Fedora 10 randomly rebooting on a basic Lenovo M58P. Ubuntu not being able to use an nVidia Quadro video card and Gentoo unable to compile X.org from Emerge. ]]>Mar 4th 2009 1:15PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/Mar 5th 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/
It does take a little time and some studying to get it going "just right".. But since money IS an issue for me, it's my best option. If I had more money, I would use it on something else, not a Mac.

If you have the $,$$$ to blow out, more power to you]]>Mar 6th 2009 1:21AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/]]>Mar 4th 2009 8:19PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/Mar 4th 2009 8:49PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/Mar 4th 2009 8:58PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/know but this comes to you from someone you DO know ..]]>Mar 4th 2009 11:16PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/Mar 5th 2009 12:42AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/Mar 19th 2009 9:45AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/Mar 4th 2009 9:56PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/Compac that I bought in '97 and still works fine with no viruses ever. Now I have a Toshiba laptop for 2 years, no viruses or worms.]]>Mar 4th 2009 11:06PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/Mar 4th 2009 11:59PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/Mar 5th 2009 2:18AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/Mar 5th 2009 12:39AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/Mar 5th 2009 1:28AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/Mar 5th 2009 2:36AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/Mar 5th 2009 5:11PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/http://www.switched.com/2009/03/04/facebook-koobface-viruses-getting-smarter-more-dangerous/
Although I think I'm going to hold off in order to see what Windows 7 is going to be like (not the Beta, the finished product). But Microsoft is starting to frustrate me lately. Bill Gates has gone batcrap insane, it looks like, as evidenced by his releasing a swarm of mosquitos as some sort of crazy ass joke.

Maybe I'll just upgrade my PS3 hard drive and put YellowDog Linux on there. Anyone like that? What's video playback like on there? Also, does anyone know if I'd be able to watch Justin.tv with YellowDog?]]>Mar 5th 2009 4:15AM