Re:Backups! (Score 1)

**RANT ALERT!!! RANT ALERT!!! RANT ALERT!!**
***MOD ME DOWN!!! I AM *WAY* OFF TOPIC!!!***

Woo Hoo! a Mac User! I really wish I could afford a Mac, better hardware IMHO. But since I am poor I can only afford a PC, the Volkswagon of computers. How I long for hardware that works when you get it, without all the hassles of making sure a driver is availiable.

Don't get me wrong though; the MacOS sucks! I use my roommate's iMac with OSX, and I would prefer to run BeOS on it. Much better OS on excellent hardware.

Yeah yeah... I have heard enough "BeOS is dead" speeches to write a 20 volume encyclopedia on the topic. My main computer needs though are net browsing, email, chatting, programming and movies (does this sound like you?). BeOS does wonders at all of this and more. Too bad there are very few good games for the BeOS, it would make an excellent gaming OS. (Then again I am not a gamer.) BTW Although BeOS the operating system *is* dead; BeOS the community is on an upswing. That is why there are several projects aiming not only to recreate the OS, but expand on it as well. There are other OSes out there besides Win*, Mac and Linux.

*nix OSs make great servers. I plan on running several *nix servers in the very near future (all without X). Nothing that I have seen in the way of desktop computing on a *nix system would make me switch though. X is a horrendous beast from hell that has enough silt to make Bill Gates envious. I have several machines that I have given up trying to get X to install on (yes I have done many "succesful" X installs, but only when I was in a mood to torture myself 8^) ). Until the *nix community kills X, there is not much chance of *nix being an optimal desktop. Disclaimer: Author is aware that X is not the only windowing system on *nix machines. It is just the most prevalent and is taking more developers than should really be nessesary. Face it, X is a resource hog: both in hardware and development. (No, I do not want to spend a weekend getting X tuned and custom compiled, I have better ways to waste my time. Like writing this rant.)

My suggestion is to keep *nix on the servers, for the desktop look else where. I know there are a lot of people working on making X based desktop solutions, but get it together! There are many OSS projects that are *far* better suited to the desktop (most of them even use *nix shells and commands!). I am not saying for those who love to develop X and its environment to switch to developing something else; I am saying that those really interested in developing a decent desktop environment should look elsewhere. *see also my comment about OSX above.

As for my grammar/spelling/punctuation, I have been outside under the big yellow light all day and am feeling a little fried. On top of that, I went to a public school here in the good old US of A where I was little inclined to do any actual studying.

Screw the ACs! I post my rants with... with... uhmm... with my own /nick attached to them!!!

The following is the end of my rant.