Had a real bad night sleeping last night. Went to bed fine, but for some reason I was unable to stay asleep. So of course by morning I was so tired I slept right through the first 2 alarms. So I over slept for like 40 minutes, but I made up time. Hopefully I shouldn?t be too late to work. This gives me an opportunity to try out writing on the train. The joy?s of having a really light laptop that has a nice keyboard! The train ride to work is about 20-30 minutes depending on if it is express or not. Since I am so late I am on a local and have plenty of time to sit here and write. It is actually kind of nice. Sort of relaxing, but not really.
Today hopefully will be better than yesterday. I am going to show Gus DFS on windows 2000 server. Also have to work on a bunch of other hardware quotes. The big thing this week isn?t even that much more work. It is to convince the entire company to start using jabber, now that we have a jabber server setup. One department wants it really bad, the others are like ?can we still use AIM?. I will see how this shapes up. That jabber is really cool though. I still would like a better client software, but what we have is good enough. After months of goofing around with jabber we found a windows 2000 server based version of it. http://www.tipic.com/ I know open source is great and all, but by purchasing that windows package we saved money in the long run since we didn?t need anyone to come in and setup Linux or spend hours trying to do it ourselves. It took me a few hours on a test box one day, and like 3 hours or less on the production box to get it setup. The only time consuming part was setting up all the users. Once someone takes care of that, we are in business.
I just only hope someone comes out with a better jabber client for the mac. I still don?t understand why I had to start liking an OS that isn?t supported as much as windows. WHY??? For years I used NT 4, with no consumer hardware that worked good on it. So I always had to look for the scsi scanner, the video card that was NT compliant, etc. Then 2000 & XP come out and I am able to buy and use all the ?normal? stuff made for consumers. XP is nice, I like it, but I cant understand why then I tried out this Mac OS X? I think I did it just to check it out, and now I went from a low end ibook to a ultra portable powerbook. Dam Apple. I guess ignorance can be bliss, because I was happy with the windows stuff lying around. But now I am using both, mac and windows. I take my powerbook and leave it on my desk at work now. They keyboard is really nice, so I just use it for chatting, and other stuff during the day. Also gotta say that office for the mac is better than for windows. Not sure why Microsoft did this, but it is. I am using word right now to do this blog, and update it later. Let me tell you that it kicks ass over XP. Of course that still does not make up for half the software I like not working on the mac. Thankfully most of the hardware I want works with it. Gotta thank someone for network printing?
OK, that was enough of my ramblings on mac vs. windows. As you can tell I don?t have an answer to that age old question. I am stuck between both of them. I rely on my powerbook more than every, but I also find myself switching over to my windows box several times a day just because I cant do something on the mac.
The train just entered the tunnel, so that is my queue to finish this up. Maybe I will write more later tonight? Not sure. This blog thing is still new so I am actually making entries. I hope I keep it up. More later?