Slimer
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Personally I have no problems with Macs, they're good at what they do just as MS, Linux, Solaris etc. boxes are good at other things. If I wanted to do some high-end graphics stuff I'd use a Mac, if I wanted to set-up an Enterprise level eMail system I wouldn't 
I use Windows and Linux coz that's what I earn a living doing not through any preference.
As you know I'm completely sick of computers and looking for an alternative career, got any suggestions  
Si The End
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NightFox
Member Since: 02 Apr 2005
Location: Bedfordshire
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Slimer wrote:As you know I'm completely sick of computers and looking for an alternative career, got any suggestions
Si
Ferret juggling?
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| 22nd Jul 2005 1:28 pm |
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simon
Member Since: 11 Jan 2005
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 rustling ?
Can feel for you with the wanting to get out of the computer industry... crossed my mind a few times over the years too.
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| 22nd Jul 2005 1:32 pm |
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Martin
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Sounds a bit extreme to me, changing to a Mac just to get spell check on the DISCO3 forum! 
I think I've found something that will work fine, testing it 'offline' at the minute to check it all works ok
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| 22nd Jul 2005 2:50 pm |
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BN
Member Since: 18 Mar 2005
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I want to get into it now, any jobs? Actually do we have any programmers on the site, Martin are you one?
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| 22nd Jul 2005 2:55 pm |
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WOODY179
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| 22nd Jul 2005 4:02 pm |
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BN
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That could be interesting and you are only in Derby. I will contact you in the very near future via pm.
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| 22nd Jul 2005 4:06 pm |
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Martin
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BN wrote:...do we have any programmers on the site, Martin are you one?
Certainly not any kind of professional programmer, more a hobby 
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| 22nd Jul 2005 4:10 pm |
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BN
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Again useful. Must speak on the 7th.
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| 22nd Jul 2005 4:31 pm |
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Slimer
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BN wrote:I want to get into it now, any jobs?
If you want to get into computers Brian I'll happily swap jobs with you  The End
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| 22nd Jul 2005 5:19 pm |
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BN
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The trouble is I would go bust in a day with my vast knowledge of confusers.
I do have a saying though:
It is much quicker by computer, but it takes twice as long
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| 22nd Jul 2005 5:59 pm |
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Gurvan
Member Since: 02 Jan 2005
Location: Germany... Not far from both the US and Hard German rock...
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Slimer wrote:Personally I have no problems with Macs, they're good at what they do just as MS, Linux, Solaris etc. boxes are good at other things. If I wanted to do some high-end graphics stuff I'd use a Mac, if I wanted to set-up an Enterprise level eMail system I wouldn't
Actually, I would do the reverse... For high end graphics, (Not Photoshop, but something like 3D Studio...)I would use something else than a Mac, but as for setting an enterprise level eMail system,THEN, I would use a Mac... Maybe running in an X11 window but most certainly on a Mac with server software... Much less risks of downtime... Apache (Admitedly a Web server software...) even comes bundled on a Mac ! And you can start your own server from your own computer quite easily...
As for having no problems on a Mac when using Microsoft Software it comes just from the fact that, strangely, the Office pack is less buggy than under windows and that the alternative are either not too use friendly to set up like the "free office" alternatives or not complete like the Apple alternative iWorks which still lacks an Excell like software at the moment...
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| 22nd Jul 2005 6:18 pm |
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DrLex
Member Since: 15 Jul 2005
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Well, in around 18 months time, Macs will be able to run Windows as well as OS X, so you will be able to have your cake and eat it, so to speak. Choose between Steve's reality distortion field or be one of "Billy's bitches" as it was so eloquently put in another thread.
Another smug Mac user Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
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| 22nd Jul 2005 6:36 pm |
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BN
Member Since: 18 Mar 2005
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Now I am getting quite worried. Are most of you guys computer techies?
If so, why on earth have you not sorted out the 'crack' for the D3 yet?
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| 22nd Jul 2005 7:42 pm |
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DrLex
Member Since: 15 Jul 2005
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BN wrote:
If so, why on earth have you not sorted out the 'crack' for the D3 yet?
Probably because we're no longer 15 years old and aren't Finnish  Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
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| 22nd Jul 2005 8:36 pm |
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