Well, everything looked good on paper!

I don’t follow it that much, although I do read a couple of hockey blogs. I sort of have a hazy idea of what is going on. I suppose if the Oilers were doing better I’d be more interested.

Maranatha!
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3

Then I guess I shouldn’t bring up the Oilers this year, especially in comparison to the Canes! Hockey is finally getting hot around here again. About time, too, after our protracted slump!

Dave Barnhart

Thank you for the comment, Dave.

Well… I’ve used Macs. I even owned one – no, two – when I worked at a mortgage business that used them. I hate them too!

I think I am just an overall negative guy.

Maranatha!
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3

I’m with you on hating Vista, but I’m one of those Mac users you clearly don’t see eye to eye with! Two of my Macs have to run Vista some of the time so my kids can get their schoolwork done. If I could replace one particular program with a Mac version, I would never run Vista (or Windows) at all.

You probably already know this about Macs but it wasn’t in support of your point — they run Unix underneath the pretty GUI, and they are eminently tweakable — you can get into the guts of the machine and do way more than you can with a PC (mostly because there is lots of open knowledge about unix/linux/bsd, and less about Windows internals), the trick of course, being that you have to know what you are doing. You mostly certainly can crash a Mac to your heart’s content if you play around with things using root permissions.

Other than the fact it can’t run Mac software, your new machine sounds pretty nice.