[Tfug] Steve Jobs has passed away

[Bender]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Secan" <jim at nwra.com>
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Steve Jobs has passed away


> Tried to weigh in earlier but the TFUG server thought I was spam (maybe it 
> knows something I don't?).  Anyway, I am very much like this unnamed guy 
> who lives on a Mac and works on Linux.  After years of despairing over the 
> Linux desktop (no flames, just a fact) I jumped from Windoze to Mac for my 
> desktop around 2004 or so and have not regretted it.  I still do my 
> heavy-lifting on Linux boxes, mainly because that's all command-line stuff 
> and I'm too lazy to port over to Mac (slight shell differences and needing 
> to recompile all my codes).  With VMWare, I am starting to run everything 
> on my Mac hardware, which is proving to be a lot more reliable than PC 
> boxes (which I buy from a local-area build-to-spec shop).  Yes, there are 
> problems on Macs, and sometimes the "Apple knows best" design approach of 
> hiding what's going on is annoying and can get in the way, but it 
> more-often-than-not does indeed "just work" out of the box.
>
> I really wish I'd had the financial balls to follow through on my instinct 
> to buy Apple stock when Steve Jobs came back to Apple with NeXT 
> technology/software in tow.  I'd be retired and off the list by now. 
> Bottom line is that Stevie boy was one smart dude and made as much of a 
> difference on this tech world we live in as anyone around today.  He did 
> the right thing often enough that "he's just lucky" doesn't carry much 
> water.  The world will miss him, at least until the next wunderkind comes 
> along.

Excellent answer. Thank you.

One thing I might add: To compare reliability of boxes built by a local-area 
build-to-spec shop with factory built chinese (Foxconn grade) hardware seems 
somewhat off-kilter.












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