Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Gamma (was: my first Noctilux pictures & Gamma
From: Rei Shinozuka <shino@ubspw.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:51:54 -0500 (EST)

brian,

you know more about computers than i ever will, and it shows!
congrats on the mac and the noctilux!

- -rei

p.s. not to recusitate a dead argument, but i like the fact that your mac
     line-breaks your emails nicely whereas your windoze box wrap's em
     round and round and round.

> From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> 
> > Just curious, Brian, but why did you switch to Mac after 5 years of PC
> > (Unix?) use ?
> 
> I'm unwilling to become more of a Microsoft vassal, which XP would require. 
> Microsoft is forcing the issue by evolving away from the relatively 
> harmless Windows 95/98/Me.
> 
> Everything that really matters to me is on back-end server computers which 
> run open-source Unix (FreeBSD), so it's really an issue of what I use for 
> my desktop. I chose Mac over Linux because the application programs that I 
> use the most (email, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, iTunes, Netscape) 
> work better on Mac than on Linux. I also like the Java development 
> environment on the Mac better. And, I must confess, I got a really nice 
> discount on the gorgeous Apple Studio Display, which doesn't work at all 
> with Linux.
> 
> I've now gone 2 weeks using my Mac for everything (including connecting to 
> my servers), so it seems to be working.
> 
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