Free software and the Mac

[Dave Cramer]

I use a mac for my desktop as well. You seem to have found your way around.
There are some rather not nice things.

1) Just this morning my computer failed to start after shutdown. You have
to unplug it and wait a while, or remove the memory. Make sure you have a
backup machine to search for the solution to these problems
2) If you replace the hard drive, which I just did you have to 1) pay apple
to do it, or 2) buy a special cable and a regular HD and very carefully do
it yourself, 3) buy software to control the fan speed and very carefully do
it yourself.

Oh, almost forgot do yourself a huge favour and find a way to run time
machine, when the hard drive in question failed I was able to completely
restore my machine; albeit in 20 hours. This feature alone is worth a huge
amount of time

I use a drobo which I wouldn't recommend as it's flaky, but I've already
got 600 bucks into it, so I'm not about to toss it.

Candidly I think apple has seen it's best days, but I'll still use it for a
couple more product cycles

Dave Cramer


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Thomas Milne
<thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> So I finally convinced my boss that our family needed a "family" computer
> and that the best choice for a variety of reasons is a new iMac :-)
>
> It is awesome. Besides being ten times faster than what I've been used to
> it is so easy to use though some things take too many mouse clicks. I have
> been using Linux for about ten years so there are some weird things to get
> used to like installing apps and so on (no more package manager) but
> overall it had been really nice.
>
> I was happy to see a lot of free software is available for Mac same as on
> Linux, especially Transmission and Gimp. I saw that there are even package
> managers for Mac to install these apps, namely Fink and MacPorts.
>
> Anyone have any experience with these on Mountain Lion? I am still so new
> with the Mac I suppose I have a greater fear of making a mess of it.
>
> Any free software tips or tricks for Mac appreciated :-)
>
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