[Tfug] 2 weeks of Hackintosh fun..

Bexley Hall bexley401 at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 10 10:07:13 MST 2008


--- On Mon, 11/10/08, Bowie J. Poag <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:

> Actually, no, because there is no way of unintentionally

I think the key word here is "unintentionally"... :>  Somehow,
I don't think that was what RH had in mind!  ;-)

(E.g., I'm sure a Bexley paperweight would make short order of
that -- and probably a good deal of the surrounding tabletop!)

> rendering an OS X box unusable in 5 seconds. The desktop is
> built like a tank, and doesn't puke on itself while
> carrying out simple configure/reconfigure tasks. You have to
> go hunting for trouble in OS X to cause it, and even that
> comes with safeguards.
> 
> You're welcome to try to throw the ping-pong ball into
> Bucket #2, however. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Bowie
> 
> 
> 
> Robert Hunter wrote:
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> > On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 06:00:06PM -0700, Bowie J.
> Poag wrote:
> >   
> >> Not a desktop. A mainstream, ready-for-prime-time
> desktop.
> >> 
> >> The fact that I can take the latest stable release
> of Ubuntu, supposedly  the most well-built, most
> user-friendliest desktop that Linux has to  offer, and
> render my system unusable with it within 6 minutes* speaks 
> for itself.  It just isn't ready. And it hasn't ever
> been ready, even  after 10 years and countless releases,
> major and minor.
> >>     
> > 
> > Bowie, I can render your Hackintosh unusable in 5
> seconds.  Do I get
> > the Grand Tard prize now? ;-)
> > 
> >   
> 
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