MrHanky, ScrewMaster... ROFL

AFAIK, "Nuh-uh" means something naughty with a polar bear, in Eskimo. I suspect there is common experience involved, otherwise there wouldn't be an expression for it.

So, (provided that he's an Eskimo) the AC wins. QED.

PS. I also maintain both *nux and *bsd environments, and I fully agree with the original statement. All my mission critical stuff runs bsd.

'Number'. Not 'Numbers'.

Ooh! That's Aerosmith! Do I qualify - or did I flunk the marketing bit..?

27"? FFS, he has reason to be... I want one of those too :P

Of course. It's "sudo make me a sandwich".

Go look for yourself: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1456.1.26/

I would expect the cache configuration handling in osfmk/i386/cpuid.c be a bit simpler, but quite frankly, dropping Atom support is probably a trivial code change aimed to prevent users running 10.6 on underpowered machines...

As long as your firm keeps requiring NTLM, I know it will not get any respect in mine, and likely many others...

We'll gladly take your money, though.

Apple's iGadgets are ARM-based and run a variant of OS/X. Of course, ARM also has WinCE, so that kind of balances the karma.

I guess I did software development for some other Symbian, then, back in the '00s :)

You are actually quite right. In its own scary way, it's the pinnacle of best engineering effort of the 90s.

How's your full POSIX API handling e.g. non-blocking sockets, these days?

But if something's out of WAC, you're hosed.

Our Sawtooths got 1 GHz cpu upgrade kits a few years ago while their fans were maintenance'd, so 10.5 Server installed to them without hacks. I recall it requires G4@867 MHz + 1 GB.

No pitchfork, you are absolutely right. The 10-year-old powermacs in the server room are no longer supported by the latest Mac OS, 10.6, and I need to start to plan for new hardware now. Grr. 10.5 will fall out of support scope in a few years, so I need to react relatively quickly.

OTOH, the Sawtooths are getting a bit long in the, er, teeth. And crusty. Maybe I'll replace them with a stack of Minis...

My guess is that that PC is for the kids' games. There's stuff out there that won't run properly in Parallels.

We've got a Mac laptop for each parent and an imac for media center use, which makes us a 3-machine household with 100% mac penetration. But our 8-month-old loves this quirky peekaboo Flash game from fisher-price.com, and I'm thinking of getting a netbook for her... which would, I guess, be classified as a "gaming PC for the kids" :)