You are lol

With your fruit based tat ....

Sorry I have to do this, but its the law, Babs will be along to mock you further soon

My fruit based tat?

trawling through some old threads, I found this http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/36-airlines-and-operating-systems/ of course, it'll need updating now to take into account the dessert based O/S', but funny none the less. The thread is ten years old so O/S' are as contentious as ever

I used to work as a computer "tech", ie Tech guys at PCWorld (yeah yeah - I know but it paid the bills, just). After dealing with windows problems all day it was nice to come back to Mac.

Currently I have/have access to,

OSX on Macbook Pro / Macbook Air

Windows 7 / Debian on my Hexacore PC (used for heavy lifting and virtualisation)

2x iPhones

Win 7 Enterprise on Work Laptop

Personally I really like OSX and Apple hardware as it's a number setup but there's still Unix underneath if I need to script something etc. However for the cost of the Apple hardware you can get some pretty nice WinTel kit.

I think a lot of people think Apple kit is better because when you talk about a Windows laptop you're generally talking about a £300 POS from PCWorld. Also most WinTel OEMs product both cheap nasty consumer tat and good quality pro kit (looking at you HP/Dell/Lenovo) where as because Apple kit is pretty pricey it's generally pretty good quality no matter what you buy.

You get what you pay for!

[edit]Forgot FreeNas on the home server

Edited 14 May, 201214 yr by gullyg

I get on fine with Windows 7 on my desktop and laptops. 90% of the time I'm only sitting looking at Chrome or in PuTTY sessions anyway.

I dislike Linux and OS X.

My server OS of choice is Solaris 10, now transitioning to something Illumos based - probably OminOS.

Cloud OS of choice - Joyent SmartDataCenter / SmartOS.

OminOS.

If you do a google search on OminOS, the first returned item is Domino's Pizza

Main PC - Win 7 Pro

Laptop - Gentoo Linux (work in progress)

Wifes Laptop - Win 7 HP

Server - VMWare ESX 5

VM's - Debian (Media server), CentOS (SSH+VPN gateway), Windows Server 2008 R2, Backtrack Linux, few other Debian's in there too.

I never actually answered the question. So far:

Main desktop - Windows 7

Work laptop - Windows 7 (corporate deployment)

Work desktop - Windows 7 (corporate deployment)

Home HTPC - Ubuntu 12.04 Server with XBMC in standalone mode (so close to set-top box experience) and ZFS-FUSE for storage

Spare laptop - Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop

Second home desktop - Windows 7

Daughter's laptop - Windows XP (Toshiba M400, not Windows 7 compatible)

I tend to use 1/50,000 for bike rides, & general driving purposes

1/25,000 for running, as it even shows me where walls/fences are!!

Oh sorry!!, you don't mean Ordnance Survey mapping.

Edited 18:25 due to monumental mappery mistake

Edited 15 May, 201214 yr by Richard A Thackeray

I think you've got your map scales muddled though

I think you've got your map scales muddled though

Well so I have!!!

'Must pay more attention & not rush my work!!'

Duely edit