Me on a Mac

I'm in the computer room in school at the moment, its lunchtime and Steve & Connor are with me. We're on Macs. Yes, Macs. As in the computers. Not Emacs. I think its a new iMac, not too sure having never really been interested in this sort of thing. 

So, turns out you can get a terminal pretty easily on these, on all the Windows computers in school you can't have command prompt. I have no idea why its ok for students to get a terminal on a Mac. Strange. Maybe the old "You can't hack a Mac" ideology has prevailed here again, all the IT staff are Mac fanboiz... :P 

To tell you the truth, I'm beginning to see why people love these Apple computers. They actually seem quite nice, I mean the monitor is very pretty looking compared to my HP block of plastic I have at home and the picture quality is gorgeous. Splendid. 

Unfortunately they cost the earth, and you can't really configure anything the way you like. Plus you can't ALT+p to get the screaming fast programs menu up (hehe, see my previous post on my new love: wmii). Which is why I probably won't be getting a Mac any time soon. I love my Linux experience, I've become used to downloading programs for free and not feeling guilty about it, then configuring them to precisely the way I want them, this isn't really what this Mac is offering me. Plus it's £1000+... 

Arch Linux

I've been thinking recently about how I'd like to have a look at a new distro, after about a year now of using Debian Etch I'd like a change. So, after looking at Gentoo and not really liking it (I'm a busy man and don't have time to compile everything from source!) I've settled on trying Arch Linux, with its promises of being nice and light and configurable. So, tonight I'll download the .iso and I'll let everyone know how it goes. I wouldn't have to download it myself if Steve had just brought me in the install disk today in school but no. He forgot. Friends eh?