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Comment Re:Mac/Linux support removed... mildly surprised (Score 1) 227

That's fine - don't disclose anything, but do vendors like Oracle or HP sell custom boxes if you coughed up the cash? Would you get a modern SPARCstation of a Fujitsu chip in an Oracle box w/ either Linux or Solaris? Would you get an Itanium workstation from HP running HP/UX or FreeBSD? I was under the impression that the Mac Pro is the only UNIX workstation that you can get these days (even if you toss in Lintel boxes into the mix)

Comment Re:Mac/Linux support removed... mildly surprised (Score 1) 227

I was of the same opinion too. A Mac Pro is a cheap UNIX workstation.

Just out of curiosity, what these days would be considered a not-so-cheap UNIX workstation? Does anyone still sell such a thing?

I don't consider the Mac Pro cheap. If it is equipped w/ the amount of memory that workstations typically require, it would be right up there w/ an equivalent UNIX workstation, assuming that any are still openly sold. And it wouldn't be a bad value for money - it would essentially be BSD, w/ Quartz on top of it.

Comment Re:Mac/Linux support removed... mildly surprised (Score 1) 227

Not surprised at all at linux support being removed, but being owned by facebook I'd think mac support would be a priority...

But do people normally swap video cards in & out of Macs? Only if they do would an OS-X version of this been useful. Also, while iOS may be wildly popular, the same ain't true about OS-X.

Comment Re:Proof (Score 1) 284

Uh, b'cos we're talking about atrocities happening today!!! At the time of the Spanish inquisition, Muslims too were busy persecuting non-Muslims from Egypt to India, especially in India. So if you are trying to score who did more, then the Inquisition is cancelled out by that, and we have Muslim atrocities today unmatched by anything done by any other religious group

Comment Re:What does it say about you? (Score 1) 461

I have an address that I got from Netscape's Netcenter service - myname@netscape.net. I use it to this day, along w/ gmail, yahoo, live.com, aol.com and twc.com addresses that I have - often for different purposes (one for family, one for shopping/deals, one for jobs, et al). I never signed on to AOL or CompuServe when they were around in the 90s - those AOL CDs would typically be trashed. But AOL had webmail ever since they bought out Netscape, and one could use either that, or configure their SMTP/IMAP clients for AOL, along w/ the others

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