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Posted by: Odyssey
Posted on: Fri, Sep 17, 2010, 4:08 pm CDT


Posted by: Brian Krueger, PhD
Posted on: Fri, Sep 17, 2010, 3:08 pm CDT

Bwahahaha, I thought I'd unleash some Fark meme idiocy on you :P That one's almost as good as UFIA.
Posted by: Odyssey
Posted on: Fri, Sep 17, 2010, 2:37 pm CDT

@Odyssey, DIAF.

Now that's just plain mean.

And by mean, I mean making me look it up in at Urban Dictionary. I'm old ya know. Old enough I was using Unix before Linus Torvalds was out of his diapers. Now be nice or I'll unleash awk and sed upon your sorry arse!
Posted by: Brian Krueger, PhD
Posted on: Fri, Sep 17, 2010, 1:29 pm CDT

@Odyssey, DIAF.

I gave away my iPod Shuffle. It's the only apple product I've ever owned (I got it for my birthday from my fiancee before she knew how much I hated apple) and I used winamp to put the music on it because iTunes makes baby Jesus cry.
Posted by: Odyssey
Posted on: Fri, Sep 17, 2010, 7:01 am CDT

I suspect the Overlord might be outnumbered here. I have two iPod nanos, an iPhone, a Macbook Pro, an old G4 Powerbook and an iMac. And then in my lab... :-)

@Tideliar: If it's any consolation I won one of the nano's in a competition. Alright, so that's not much consolation.

@Brian: cat 'Mac vs. PC' | grep 'mac hatred' > /dev/null
Posted by: Gerty-Z
Posted on: Thu, Sep 16, 2010, 10:09 pm CDT

hee hee! this whole string is cracking me up. Of course, I have had a beer (or two). I just looked around and realized that I am a Mac FanGrrl, just like Geeka! Who knew. But I HAVE been trying to justify getting an iPad even though I have two iPods, an iPhone and a MacBook Air.

Please don't hate me, Overlord! I'm technically challenged and they are just SO PURDY
Posted by: Tideliar
Posted on: Thu, Sep 16, 2010, 9:47 pm CDT

Huh...I have a laptop that belongs to work and a 5 year old iPod nano. My car is worth $200, and I have enough debt to keep me working till I'm 90 (cos I'm never gonna save money).

How do y'all get these nice things?
Posted by: Odyssey
Posted on: Thu, Sep 16, 2010, 7:11 pm CDT

I knew I liked you Geeka!
Posted by: Brian Krueger, PhD
Posted on: Thu, Sep 16, 2010, 7:04 pm CDT

I don't like you now, Geeka. You're my new bloggy enemy.
Posted by: Geeka
Posted on: Thu, Sep 16, 2010, 6:59 pm CDT

I'm a mac girl. I had a functioning apple 2e that I wrote my college papers on. I have a MacBook Air (a gift from jackass), a mac mini that replaced my G4 iMac who had a circuit board blow this past winter. It's still in my office. I had an airport express that I just gave to one of my twitter followers. I have an older ipod (16 gb) that stays plugged into my iHome, and an iphone. The ex got my 12 inch PB, and his mom got my 13 inch G3 iBook.
I watch the keynotes that Jobs gives. I will refer to him as 'his steveness'. I really want an iPad, but I don't think that I could justify that, because I don't need 3 computers at home.

I hacked my iMac to run 2 continuous monitors (seriously, once you go this route, you will never go back, esp. if you do photo manipulation or cytometry) and it had 2GB of ram before that was cool (specs say it'll only run 1).

I really want a MacQuarium too.

(Just a little bit of a fangirl).
Posted by: Odyssey
Posted on: Thu, Sep 16, 2010, 11:38 am CDT

Macs are for those who don't want to know why their computer works.
Linux is for those who want to know why their computer works.
DOS is for those who want to know why their computer doesn't work.
Windows is for those who don't want to know why their computer doesn't work.
Posted by: Tideliar
Posted on: Thu, Sep 16, 2010, 11:21 am CDT

Fucking LOL
Posted by: Brian Krueger, PhD
Posted on: Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 8:30 pm CDT

The last thing I want to do is hand hold a Linux n00b :P
Posted by: Genomic Repairman
Posted on: Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 1:21 pm CDT

Well then I might be contacting you, I need to create a server house my collection of filthy filthy porn. Oh sorry I meant confocal images, yeah, confocal.
Posted by: Brian Krueger, PhD
Posted on: Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 12:28 pm CDT

Re-purposing an old PC with linux to do server tasks is pretty easy
Posted by: Genomic Repairman
Posted on: Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 12:25 pm CDT

I fucking know Linux runs everything but I meant to say that most of us that use small scale servers don't even give Linux a second thought. Our lab just reclaimed an old G4 tower and retasked it as a server. And as far as certifications, I actually knew more after three months on the job than some of the MCSE asshats I worked with at my tech job in college.
Posted by: Brian Krueger, PhD
Posted on: Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 11:45 am CDT

Are you fucking retarded? Linux runs the internet. Unix is the base of both Linux AND the MacOS. STFU n00b. W00T!!!! This server and probably every site on the internet run on linux. Only dumbasses and people who believe in "certifications" run windows servers.
Posted by: Genomic Repairman
Posted on: Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 11:18 am CDT

Dude only guys that run websites and bitch about Macs run their servers off of Linux! Linux, while it does have its virtues, will probably never be embraced general populace.
Posted by: Brian Krueger, PhD
Posted on: Wed, Sep 15, 2010, 11:04 am CDT

Cheaper with a mac?!?!?! You can run a linux server off of a thumb drive :P
Posted by: Genomic Repairman
Posted on: Mon, Sep 13, 2010, 9:52 pm CDT

At Gerty if you are looking into doing automated backups, we run a program called Retrospect for our Macs and even backs up our laptops over the wireless at designated times.
Posted by: Gerty-Z
Posted on: Mon, Sep 13, 2010, 9:48 pm CDT

I just switched to Mac, but mostly because I am a computer lame-o and setting up a network server for my lab is much easier and cheaper with Mac. And lots o new colleagues use Mac so I can make them help me. Also they are not so expensive with edu discount.
Posted by: Brian Krueger, PhD
Posted on: Fri, Sep 10, 2010, 2:12 pm CDT

I have built my last 4 PCs from scratch. I love PCs. Windows7 is the shit. Macs are prettier but they are an expensive bitch to fix when they break. I used to repair PC laptops in undergrad and sell them on ebay. There wasn't much profit in it, but it was fun! Mac parts are crazy expensive so I never got into repairing them. A lot of scientists like Macs though, it seems like 30%+ of the scientists I meet are mac freaks.
Posted by: Genomic Repairman
Posted on: Fri, Sep 10, 2010, 10:50 am CDT

I love my 360 now, I play games, watch dvds, stream netflix, and if netflix doesn't have it, I rent it from Zune marketplace. I've been thinking lately of buying the new Apple TV to watch new movies that I rent from iTunes on my TV and play my music through it. I also use my Xbox live account as a ghetto phone to chat with friends (teleconference with drinking buddies for only $50 per year) and family. I only pull out the laptop when it gets down to doing some hardcore work.
Posted by: Thomas Joseph
Posted on: Fri, Sep 10, 2010, 10:37 am CDT

I know a lot of people continue to use PCs for gaming. I mean, I remember my days of playing Unreal Tournament in grad school (got my adviser hooked on it actually) ... on a Mac ironically enough. However, I've really taken to buying used games, and you just can't seem to do that with a PC. I've only purchased three games at full price in the last year (2 for the Wii, 1 for the NDS) and probably none before that. Heck, even when I eventually settle on a PS360, I'll wait until they severely price drop, or people finish their version and bring them back in near-mint condition for me to buy at a fraction of the original price.

To be honest, my Backloggery is atrocious. I have over 100 uncompleted games, and I really can't even justify buying new ones until I complete the old ones (some of which I can no longer fathom why I purchased them in the first place).

You could potentially even expand this argument to cover the Wii/PS360. My goal is to eventually, when I get my big screen TV, to connect all my gaming systems to it and use them to surf the net, watch NetFlix ... basically do everything but word process. Which is why I refused to pay more than ~$300 for my latest PC.
Posted by: Genomic Repairman
Posted on: Fri, Sep 10, 2010, 9:43 am CDT

That's awesome TJ, I was so turned off by Vista (came with the laptop). If Windows 7 lives up to the hype I might purchase another PC in the future. Sadly built PCs seem to last a lot longer than stock off the shelf PC's in my opinion. I had a friend who built this crazy gaming PC for playing first person shooters and that thing had to have like 6 fans to keep it cool from all the heat it put out. That is a huge thing that PC's have over the Mac is the gaming aspect. There are only a few really good games available: WoW, Steam for the Mac, etc. And just to poke fun at Macs (which I love by the way) check out an old parody video from a web series that I follow.
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Posted by: Thomas Joseph
Posted on: Fri, Sep 10, 2010, 8:44 am CDT

I built my last PC from the motherboard up. It lasted me seven years, which is an eternity. I originally liked Macs for the layout of their OS. Windows 7 is sweet, and really erased the last vestiges of any "Mac want" I had.
Posted by: Genomic Repairman
Posted on: Thu, Sep 09, 2010, 10:37 pm CDT

In my humble experience I have gone through more PC's (specifically Dell, so it cannot be generalized to all other brands) than Macs. Plus I find my Mac is less likely to crash than my PC. But Windows is the gold standard and PC's are the most affordable computers so that is the draw to them.
Posted by: Dr Becca, Ph.D.
Posted on: Thu, Sep 09, 2010, 10:05 pm CDT

Macs are prettierrrrrrrrrrr!!!!
Posted by: Genomic Repairman
Posted on: Thu, Sep 09, 2010, 2:47 pm CDT

I run both platforms but am a little heavier on the Mac side. I think all the bio programs coming to PC is being driven by universities and more importantly industry who are usually pc only. Each has its strengths and weaknesses.
Posted by: Thomas Joseph
Posted on: Thu, Sep 09, 2010, 1:25 pm CDT

I have an eMachine at home. I use a Dell Precision for my desktop, and a Toshiba Tecra A11 for my laptop at work.

Mac's are too damn expensive, and while it used to be that a lot of software for science-related issues were Mac-based, that isn't the case any longer. I can't justify a Mac in my home, or work, budget.
Posted by: Genomic Repairman
Posted on: Fri, Sep 17, 2010, 4:08 pm CDT

In the interest of starting a pissing contest and generating some funny discussion what do you guys use, which do you feel is better?
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