I am surrounded by mac users. Nice and creative people. But it seems, that some kind of propaganda brain washed them. They always mix things up when they talk about their computers.
Here are some facts about these “nice machines”:

It’s fast

Yes, a Mac is fast - now. Of course, it has always been fast. That’s what Steve J. told you. The Power PC was supposed to be 2-3 times faster than a PC. Nothing to say about that. Now, after Apple joined the dark side of the force, the “new Macs” should be 2-3 times faster … again. Bit now Steve compares it to the “old Macs”. How does that fit together?
Hint: it is not faster than a PC … it IS a PC

Unix based

Wow, they got rid of Mac OS 9.x and use a Unix based system now. Y have real multitasking (typing AND printing … yes, both in parallel! Great), a login, all that nice stuff.
Just a hint: Windows NT (15 years old) was already based on VMS Unix, used a micro kernel … … …

It’s secure

There are viruses, worms, trojans … and they all live on … of course: a PC. It is not possible, that a “bad program” can run on a Mac. And why not? Because the Mac users do not know, that it is possible. And if something is not possible …
Douglas Adams wrote about that “human feature”. A yellow starship is landing in a football stadium. Nobody seems to recognize it. Arthur is sitting next to Ford. Both can see that starship landing. Arthur is wondering, why the others can not see it. But it’s quite simple: it is not their problem. They do not “expect” a starship to land there. And that’s why they do not see it happen.
Same for the Mac users. The

The truth is hard:
http://www.golem.de/showhigh2.php?file=/0705/52500.html
http://www.golem.de/showhigh2.php?file=/0705/52013.html
http://www.golem.de/showhigh2.php?file=/0705/52008.html
http://www.golem.de/showhigh2.php?file=/0704/51975.html
http://www.golem.de/showhigh2.php?file=/0704/51810.html

No blue screens of death (BSOD)

Occasionally Windows reminds you, that there is a driver, that is not 100% compatible. The system just crashes and gives you a dump of the last activities before death. You have to switch it off and on … What a miserable way to handle really big software design and coding issues.
The Mac is better: the “death-screen” is just black, not blue. Hey, that’s better!
But you will not see it, because it does not crash (twice per day)

Wake up!!
Since you have these intel CPUs in the Apple machines, you just can not say: “I have a Mac”. You also have to say, which system you are running. Windows or MacOS! And if you meet a PC user, you can not just laugh and say, that he is dying species: he might run MacOS on his PC. It’s all i386 code now. Keep that in mind.

yellow, blue, no: it’s green. A green submarine. Hmmm, that’s not the song Nadim wants to sing. But he can not remeber the title.
You know how that works. You have just forgotten something, you try to bring it back, you can try and try … it won’t work.
Just do something else. Have a walk. Take your air guitar and play some other songs.
You might event go to our tipi, switch on the WII station and head for outer space, but … wait. Something is missing. The tipi has not been delivered yet. And the WII is also missing.
But, Nadim, I can help you. Try this:

http://hacker.org/coil/index.php

http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp

http://www.miistation.com/

Link: PlayMyGame

• 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• 1440 x 900 pixels
• 2GB memory
• 120GB hard drive¹
• 6x double-layer SuperDrive
• ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics with 256MB SDRAM

yeah…. now i also have a nice shiny laptop and a cool designer mouse…

first thing i will do is install windows and delete mac osx - so i have a cool operating system…

just a joke - i`m just compiling ruby,mysql and “geming” rails… next thing is installing aptana and then subclipse… then i hope we are ready to go… the first prototypes are already checked in and all developers are merging their stuff… the wiki is also beginning to live…

here my first pic with photo booth…

“The more massive an object, the more energy is required to change its direction. It’s as true in the business world as it is in the physical world.

When it comes to web technology, change must be easy and cheap. If you can’t change on the fly, you’ll lose ground to someone who can. That’s why you need to shoot for less mass.”

Nice quote from 37 Signals book, read it free here:

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php

Blondie – One Way or Another

today’s list:

wiki setup

finally team has access and - hopefully - the right permission - with help of

proudly presenting
the true and only
F A L K O

svn setup

finally - thanks to - I have to admit he’s great - sometimes Falko again

ide

easyeclipse for rails installed and first sources of our prototype checked in

So - collaboration on project level can start now - project lead has finally a place to share their slide-ware, xls-spreadsheets, etc. that is not called f***ing fileserver - we only have to tell’em that the wiki is not about sharing binary crap

And yes, for all the hardcore rails-disciples - this means we are not using textmate - not now at least

Yeah - finally we have an imprint - so, if somebody wants to know where we reside and who to blame, she can find it now. So, unfortunately, these guys
Prototypes – Je Ne Te Connais Pas are not longer right - but, hehe, only this time.
Don’t be bothered because of missing HRB and UStIdNr - they’ll come soon.

Don’t forget to have a look on our job offers - they are still posted here and there.
C’mon, hurry up, don’t hesitate - we are not the dark side we are the bright side!!!

Thanks to Andreas and Helmut for a bit of light bug fixing…darrylfeldman.com