I don’t mean to be impolite, but in some ways, the Apple kingdom just sucks. Did you notice that there’s no toolbar button in Safari to open a new tab? Well, you can get one by installing a third-party software that does it. I am not sure if there is free (as in beer) software that does this, but I stopped looking when I found a website asking for ten bucks to add that stupid little button.

Can you imagine what that sounds like? “Hey, guess what, Joe! I installed this awesome software! … What does it do? … Oh, you know, it adds this button in my browser to open a new tab…yeah, it’s awesome, I know…”

Are you freakin’ kidding me?

The title of this post was supposed to be “I Have A Macbook Pro Now”, but this one seemed just as appro­priate. I am one of those guys who watches in disdain as others argue about “being a PC” or “being a Mac” (it’s Linux all the way for me, baby) but then I figured one must try every­thing in life. Yeah, I know I’m twisting a perfectly legit­i­mate philos­ophy for the sake of personal gain, but this is my blog after all. Live with it.

Even the village idiot would have figured out by now that I’ve purchased a new Macbook Pro. I haven’t used a Mac before, except on rare occasions, so I’m still learning. That being said, there isn’t much to learn, apart from keyboard short­cuts. This operating system is Unix-y enough for me to feel comfort­able — for example, I copied over my zshrc file from my desktop to the laptop, and voila! I have a terminal that behaves exactly like the one on my good ol’ Gentoo box.

One of the disad­van­tages of being a Mac user though, is that almost every silly piece of software costs $20 or more. This is slightly mitigated by the fact that almost every­thing comes out of the box, except for Office software (no problem though, grab a copy of OpenOffice.org before they run out of copies). But I guess that’s a totally different world, where software is free (as in speech).…