True conversation I had the other day (apple zing)

[PatSilverFox]

It's shiny and expensive!
It MUST be better!

Ignorance is bliss in that regard >.>

 

[booker]

do i LOOK like i can be bothered with that bullshit?
i use lighttpd for a simple website on a server on a regular pc
hell im just out of highschool. and the fact im able to afford a pc and set up a sever with relative ease is a win for me. Not to mention, i make the pages on my laptop running programs that i can work on PC and some ONLY on PC.
when i was trying to help my friend run his server on a mac, that shit was cluncky no matter how you put it, and this was a fairly new mac too.

No, you look like someone who can't be bothered to click on one checkbox and then drag files into a folder.

Illustrated: clicking a checkbox and dragging files into a folder

I'm confused though. You're running lighttpd (which you can build for Mac) on a PC? I hope you're not running it on Windows. I hope you sudo apt-get install lighttpd like I did on my Debian machine, but the fact is, using it on Mac is no different than using it on *nix ('cept installing it; used preinstalled Apache because it's there. I kind of hate Apache when lighttpd is around.).

 

[Jegsimmons]

do i LOOK like i can be bothered with that bullshit?
i use lighttpd for a simple website on a server on a regular pc
hell im just out of highschool. and the fact im able to afford a pc and set up a sever with relative ease is a win for me. Not to mention, i make the pages on my laptop running programs that i can work on PC and some ONLY on PC.
when i was trying to help my friend run his server on a mac, that shit was cluncky no matter how you put it, and this was a fairly new mac too.

No, you look like someone who can't be bothered to click on one checkbox and then drag files into a folder.

Illustrated: clicking a checkbox and dragging files into a folder

I'm confused though. You're running lighttpd (which you can build for Mac) on a PC? I hope you're not running it on Windows. I hope you sudo apt-get install lighttpd like I did on my Debian machine, but the fact is, using it on Mac is no different than using it on *nix ('cept installing it; used preinstalled Apache because it's there. I kind of hate Apache when lighttpd is around.).

OR, i already had a pc (for half the price of a mac) that i was easily able to install what i needed and do exactly what i needed with a simple drag and drop routine.
you can keep trying to sell me a mac and apache all you want. but the fact of the matter is that i was easily able to set up what i needed with little to no problems on my pc for a lot cheaper and less problems than what i could have done with a mac.

 

[booker]

OR, i already had a pc (for half the price of a mac) that i was easily able to install what i needed and do exactly what i needed with a simple drag and drop routine.
you can keep trying to sell me a mac and apache all you want. but the fact of the matter is that i was easily able to set up what i needed with little to no problems on my pc for a lot cheaper and less problems than what i could have done with a mac.

I'm not selling you a Mac. I'm just saying they're not as useless "as an easy bake oven". Good for you setting up your server on your PC. You obviously don't need a Mac for that. Just don't bash something because you don't know how to apply your pre-established techniques on an altogether different platform. All three major platforms (Windows 7, Mac OS X, and n00b Linuxs) are equally as usable and offer practically the same functionality for tasks such as these. That being said, each system excels in certain tasks rather than others. In my opinion, Mac is the least annoying for day-to-day use. I don't use Linux as a desktop OS but I figure I could be extremely productive (programming) on a dwm set-up on Arch. And Windows is... well, I've got an XP machine I use to play four-year-old games. It does that fine without any problems.

(By the way, I think setting up a Mac machine just to use it as a server is pure Mac fanboyism. You could easily get a custom machine and install a free, lightweight *nix on it.)