just took The Plunge, was Re: [geeks] Recommendations?

[Dave McGuire]

On April 7, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> I might as well chime in - my G4 500MP is stable as a rock - (it started 
> life as a single 500, the MP upgrade was absurdly easy!)  In all the 
> time I've been using OS X, it nas *never* crashed (ala BSOD) on me.  
> Once, I had something go horribly wrong with quicktime, so I did an 
> orderly shutdown/restart.
> 
> OS X gives me a consumer-level system that is as stable as the Solaris 
> systems I use daily.  Having lived through every Mac system release 
> since the beginning, I have to say that OS X is my reward for the wait.

  This is a big day for me.  I just moved to my G4/400 (MacOS 10.1.3)
as my primary desktop.

  Everything is working extremely well, including X integration.  I have
a couple of outstanding problems so far, though:


  - no FDDI drivers...suffering with ethernet for now, barf-o

  - my compact flash reader (early SanDisk SDDR-05b) has no MacOS X drivers

  - no CD burner software

  - no virtual desktops

  - can't get it to boot from a Qlogic QLA1080 or Adaptec 2940UW SCSI board

  - can't get guile working (guile libraries are required to compile the
                             schematic capture software I use for work)


  Any advice or assistance on any of these matters would be greatly
appreciated.

  I'm running mozilla 0.9.9 for my browser, (very nice), and an SGI/Sony
20E21 monitor at 1600x1200 @ 75Hz.

  I've had a "pure UNIX box" on my desk as my main machine for the past
thirteen years.  My desktop machines have been a VAXstation-I, a
VAXstation-II, a Sun-3/50, a Sun-4/110, a SPARCstation 1+, then an
IPX, then an SS20, followed finally by an SGI I^2 R10K/195 MaxImpact.

  This is very, very nice.  Very nice indeed.  I'm stiff, here.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire                    "I thought it would go quickly,
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