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I have to admin some OS X boxes these days, so I bought a Mac to put next to my desk at work.
It joins the SGI Fuel R16000/800 running Irix 6.5.28m and and will soon have a Dell box running RedHat EL 4 joining the party. And on my desk is my Dell D800 with WinXP Pro and FreeBSD 5-Stable in dual boot configuration. I am OS man, hear me roar. Usually in anger. At the assholes who write operating systems. But I regress. Or was it repress? Oh wait, digress, that was it.
So far, it's a nice little machine :
[vampire:~] jamie% uname -a
Darwin vampire.photon.com 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
Dual 1.8Ghz G5 with 768MB RAM and 80GB SATA HDD. Optical drive is a Pioneer DVR [A|1]08 DVD+/-RW rebranded as an Apple Superdrive, which is a nice drive in any machine.
It's running Mac OS 10.3.9 currently, but 10.4 is on the way.
I'm going to have to buy a book. Apple has nicely provided the Unix underpinnings, but the machine is definately not Unix. Things do not work like I expect. I like OS X from a user perspective, but why the hell do you set the hostname under sharing settings instead of under network settings as is, for everyone but Apple, normal? Setting up a printer involved digging around in the Finder until I located the printer setup utility. Nowhere in the system settings panel is there a place to set up printers? Why the fuck not? The annoyances are minor, but they are adding up. I can see now that administering OS X is not going to be anywhere near as nice as using it. Shame really.
It joins the SGI Fuel R16000/800 running Irix 6.5.28m and and will soon have a Dell box running RedHat EL 4 joining the party. And on my desk is my Dell D800 with WinXP Pro and FreeBSD 5-Stable in dual boot configuration. I am OS man, hear me roar. Usually in anger. At the assholes who write operating systems. But I regress. Or was it repress? Oh wait, digress, that was it.
So far, it's a nice little machine :
[vampire:~] jamie% uname -a
Darwin vampire.photon.com 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
Dual 1.8Ghz G5 with 768MB RAM and 80GB SATA HDD. Optical drive is a Pioneer DVR [A|1]08 DVD+/-RW rebranded as an Apple Superdrive, which is a nice drive in any machine.
It's running Mac OS 10.3.9 currently, but 10.4 is on the way.
I'm going to have to buy a book. Apple has nicely provided the Unix underpinnings, but the machine is definately not Unix. Things do not work like I expect. I like OS X from a user perspective, but why the hell do you set the hostname under sharing settings instead of under network settings as is, for everyone but Apple, normal? Setting up a printer involved digging around in the Finder until I located the printer setup utility. Nowhere in the system settings panel is there a place to set up printers? Why the fuck not? The annoyances are minor, but they are adding up. I can see now that administering OS X is not going to be anywhere near as nice as using it. Shame really.
