Fictional Mac Story

For those of you with a bit of tech-humor, you'll probably find this as hysterical as I did.



Those silly Mac fanboys.

It's so true but. I love my Linux as much as the next man (and use it all the time), but once you've gone from Windows to Mac, for general PC usage, there's no going back.

"Sweet I'm getting an audi!"

Peter Griffin

Lol'd
Nice one

@zanza: finally a dude that watches family guy around here. I'm not the only one that sees myself through it times to times xDD

Well if the guy was a competent Linux user he could've done all that just as fast as the Mac user. I have to admit, Mac is nice if all you're doing on the computer is simple programming (Obj-C, Python, etc) and web design and pictures and music and web and stuff, but I love windows. It has a variety of different programming languages, can run a ton of games and most games are written for it before Mac and Linux, and has the most user support out of the three. It also is easiest to hack on. It has a ton of hacking programs and tools written for it, and if you ever need linux for a tool you can just pull up VirtualBox and run a virtual linux machine.

I see no one heeded the 'fictional' plain-text part of my thread title. This is not a true story. It's just folklore.

Also, Flareboy, no offense but you sound like a skiddy. In theory, it's actually easier to "hack" on Linux anyway. Everything is pretty much there whereas in Windows you have to download bloatware/binaries.

The UnIntelligible wrote:

I see no one heeded the 'fictional' plain-text part of my thread title. This is not a true story. It's just folklore.

Also, Flareboy, no offense but you sound like a skiddy. In theory, it's actually easier to "hack" on Linux anyway. Everything is pretty much there whereas in Windows you have to download bloatware/binaries.

On Linux, unless you're using something like BackTrack 5, you have to download everything... and who cares if its binaries? I aint even mad.

lrn2prgm and you wouldn't have to download anything at all.

The UnIntelligible wrote:

lrn2prgm and you wouldn't have to download anything at all.

Unnecessarily programming something that's already been done. Sounds like an exercise if futility.

Anyway, most servers run on Linux, so it'd be more advantageous for 'hackers' (lol) to be familiar with Linux over Windows.

Sometimes reinventing the wheel has its perks. In this case, it holds a subtle point: under Linux, generally things like Python/Perl come installed by default. On the contrary for Windows--you have to install most if not everything pertaining to programming.

If you knew how to program, which OS would be more beneficial for "hacking"? I thought it would be a no-brainer as to what would be a better option out of Linux and Windows in regard to the subject matter anyway.

The UnIntelligible wrote:

Sometimes reinventing the wheel has its perks. In this case, it holds a subtle point: under Linux, generally things like Python/Perl come installed by default. On the contrary for Windows--you have to install most if not everything pertaining to programming.

If you knew how to program, which OS would be more beneficial for "hacking"? I thought it would be a no-brainer as to what would be a better option out of Linux and Windows in regard to the subject matter anyway.

Well it also depends on what you're hacking. If you're hacking web servers, then yes - you should probably know a fair amount about Linux (Though you should also know about windows for the dumb Microsoft ISS web host). But if you're hacking SQL Servers, or personal computers, or something of the like, then I would recommend knowing Windows over Linux.

>Implying PCs are strictly Windows computers.
>Implying SQL is native to Windows.

you have much to learn, young padawon.

The UnIntelligible wrote:

>Implying PCs are strictly Windows computers.
>Implying SQL is native to Windows.

you have much to learn, young padawon.

Considering Windows is the most popular OS, its what I would focus on if I was attacking PCs.

And SQL isn't native to windows, and I know that. I just said windows because it has better programs for opening SQL database backups and the like, and they're more refined and updated then their linux counterparts.

SQL isn't native to anything. That's the whole point of it.

When Mac gets on industry standards so that buy a new Mac is not the only way to improve the hardware, when HDMI and ports get added, when they aren't using a lockedup version of Linux that they don't bother to beta test, when their whole interface isn't stupid, and when Mac users stop thinking the sun shines out of their ass then and only then while I coincided that a Mac is worth any thing.
"Mac's so initiative, Steve Jobs is a genius." Yeah, great you can create new markets. You wouldn't have to do that if you didn't promptly suck ass in a market once you established. Also you think they'd figure out patenting! They get design patents but not utility, so in a month of creating iwhatever there are 20 knockoff with features the mac users want but Apple takes four gens to release. Of course the user base doesn't care they just throw there money away every time Mac decides a product's life cycle has ended. Plus they aren't do any thing better than another OS or system and it took them years to get on the same page.
Sidenote: the transparency of your dock does not equal customization.

Dated but this is still my favorite argument related video:

Why mac sucks - YouTube

Artificial wrote:

SQL isn't native to anything. That's the whole point of it.

he didn't know that

C0FFINCASE wrote:

When Mac gets on industry standards so that buy a new Mac is not the only way to improve the hardware, when HDMI and ports get added, when they aren't using a lockedup version of Linux that they don't bother to beta test, when their whole interface isn't stupid, and when Mac users stop thinking the sun shines out of their ass then and only then while I coincided that a Mac is worth any thing.
"Mac's so initiative, Steve Jobs is a genius." Yeah, great you can create new markets. You wouldn't have to do that if you didn't promptly suck ass in a market once you established. Also you think they'd figure out patenting! They get design patents but not utility, so in a month of creating iwhatever there are 20 knockoff with features the mac users want but Apple takes four gens to release. Of course the user base doesn't care they just throw there money away every time Mac decides a product's life cycle has ended. Plus they aren't do any thing better than another OS or system and it took them years to get on the same page.
Sidenote: the transparency of your dock does not equal customization.

Dated but this is still my favorite argument related video:

Why mac sucks - YouTube

Spoken like a true pro-Windows gamer living still living in his parents basement whilst working at the local drive through.

Although I agree about the hardware comment, the fact of the matter is that I much prefer OSX to Windows (though it isn't just OSX, I prefer most Unix systems to Windows). Once you swap to a Unix environment and use/rely on it heavily, there really is no going back to Windows. Gaming aside (which I don't do), I can't see a single benefit for moving back to Windows.

And the interface is hardly stupid. Apple put a lot of money and research in to UI development, and tend to set trends while Microsoft just react to them. Most Apple devices are intuitive to use.

The UnIntelligible wrote:

he didn't know that

Yes, actually, I kind of did. Notice:

And SQL isn't native to windows, and I know that.

I've set up web servers on Linux AND Windows, and I wouldn't be surprised if you could on Mac too.

Flareboy323 wrote:

I've set up web servers on Linux AND Windows, and I wouldn't be surprised if you could on Mac too.

lol. Given you can create a web server in about 5 lines of code, I'd say it'd be possible in just about any platform <:

Artificial wrote:

lol. Given you can create a web server in about 5 lines of code, I'd say it'd be possible in just about any platform <:

*clicks your siggy*

so you guys actually continued that project? I remember it being talked about on TinyChat, but didn't know it ever went through.

Flareboy323 wrote:

*clicks your siggy*

so you guys actually continued that project? I remember it being talked about on TinyChat, but didn't know it ever went through.

I don't know what guys you're referring to but yes, it was completed. Though, I've got to implement the new algorithm, since Neopets have started being crafty and manipulating the images by rotating, etc.

Artificial wrote:

I don't know what guys you're referring to but yes, it was completed. Though, I've got to implement the new algorithm, since Neopets have started being crafty and manipulating the images by rotating, etc.

Oh, I had only been half paying attention, I thought it was a group of people working on it.

So, what happened to MattSmith's website he had on LG? sk8er.logicalgamers.com or whatever it was. And those test servers for the new design, are we actually going to implement that design?

Artificial wrote:

SQL isn't native to anything. That's the whole point of it.

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Artificial wrote:

SQL isn't native to anything. That's the whole point of it.

Jah doesn't really understand this post.

The UnIntelligible wrote:

you have much to learn, young padawan.

There you go.

The UnIntelligible wrote:

Jah doesn't really understand this post.

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