OSX has bugs. Get used to it.
Many years ago, I cut my teeth on Solaris; a year later, I started using Linux because it was free and ran on a 386 I picked up. It always amazed me how Linux fanboys heard I started on Solaris and then would presume I was anti-Linux in some fashion, dedicated solely to the use of Solaris, and they would lecture me at length about Solaris's failures and Linux's successes. Then I would run into hardcore Solaris admins who learned I ran Linux and would presume I was a F/OSS zealot that refused to use proprietary software and they would lecture me at length about Linux's failures and Solaris's successes.
Most ironically, a community once called me a troll when I disputed some fanboy's assertion about the supremacy of Linux. This, considering he was a self-declared hobbyist user and I was a sysadmin with longer professional experience than his hobbying.
Three days ago, I
pointed out that Mac OSX, despite all claims to the contrary, was vulnerable to exploits just as Windows and *nix. The latest is
a root privilege escalation. My point was and still is that no system is perfect and the more complex a system is, the more errors which will result. As OSX has become more popular, it has become more of a target and people are spending more time finding errors
that were already there. Trying to gloss over the errors or pretend they're less important than so-and-so's failure does a disservice to everyone.
Don't bullshit yourself or me. Especially me. OSX has bugs. Get used to it. We're going to see lots more bugs revealed as people spend more time hacking on it. If you can't cope with that idea, kill yourself now.
Labels: apple, bugs, fanboys, linux, mac, osx, solaris, windows
Flip-flops are not for the fat of heart.
Unless you're age 22 and ninety pounds, flip-flops will never be attractive.
If you're closer to a beached whale, they aren't even acceptable.
To the two behemoths wandering around the grocery store behind me last night, please, don't wear anything that doesn't stay attached to your heel. The constant thwap-thwap as you shuffle through life just reminds the rest of us that you're taking up space for two in an already crowded world.
Labels: fatty, flip-flops, women
Surprise! Apple applications can get exploited too.
For years I had to listen to fanboys and cultists talk about how secure Apple's operating system was and it couldn't get rooted like a Windows system (or *nix). I wonder if they have any idea that they were completely
full of
shit.
No one and no thing is perfect. The more complex a system is, the more bugs (errors) that are introduced. As Mac OSX became more popular, more people began to test it for holes. They're being found. Fanboys need to figure out that while OSX may be more secure than Windows, it's kind of like being a taller midget.
Labels: apple, bugs, exploit, fanboys, mac, osx, trojan, virus, windows
Barack Obama impresses Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen
met with Barack
Obama for an hour and a half in early '07 and realized 4 things:
* "First, this is a normal guy."
* "Second, this is a smart guy."
* "Third, this is not a radical."
* "Fourth, this is the first credible post-Baby Boomer presidential candidate."
Chicks dig hair.
Matt Savage is
trying to grow his hair out but he's having second thoughts. Let me clear this up.
Chicks dig hair. REALLY dig it. Most women with a preference choose long hair over short--I can only recall one woman ever telling me she preferred short hair on a guy but I've had lots of women start playing with my hair without even asking or saying hello. Just last night, I was giving a girl a hug goodnight (in front of her husband) and she remarked how nice my hair smelled.
Just think of how often girls in school would play with one anothers' hair. I remember how they would often brush some boys' as an excuse to be closer to them.
I suspect the psychology of women's desire for it is is a mixture of Uniqueness/Rebel along with Peacocking. Long hair is not the norm and is often not allowed in "normal" society, so it shows that you're willing to be "different". People also see the time involvement in maintaining long hair and is shows that you're willing to take care of yourself and look good. (This all presumes you
DO take care of your hair.)
Take care of your hair, regardless of the length or style. In the "dating" game, having a unique hair cut/style is to your advantage because it makes you stand out and it gives insight into your personality and character.
Long hair also has the benefit that it reminds people of youth and vitality and invites women to touch and play with it. Trust me. I've had long hair (past my ears and collar) for twenty years. Chicks dig long hair.
(My perspective may be biased; it is reasonable that there are women who dismiss me because of my hair but I don't notice because I dismiss them also...because I can sense they are someone who wouldn't be interested in me.)Labels: dating, hair, matt savage, men, seduction, sex, women
After Empowerment, Retribution
It is too often true that when a group struggles for equality, it is still not pleased when it reaches that. Rather, the group takes its newfound empowerment and seeks retribution upon those who they feel scorned them and caused their previous hardship.
In the U.S.A., it's too common for men and boys to become the scapegoat for problems for which both genders need to share responsibility.
Glenn Sacks writes consistently about the other side of the pendulum, where all men have been painted with the same brush. I can't speak for his politics (I haven't looked them up) but his reports are so spot on they hurt.
While we may become more enlightened in certain ways, we've slipped so far back in others.
Labels: empowerment, family, feminism, glenn sacks, men, rape, women
