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I Don't Like Macs and They Don't Like Me

Rotten AppleEver get the feeling that an operating system just has it out for you? Every time I use a mac I just think that the thing is trying to butt heads with me. Macs also have a tendency to burn up around me. It's true, in the past month, 3 mac laptops at work have fried. Scary stuff.

Today I was trying to install MODx on a mac OS X server, and I just had a hell of a time getting it to work. In fact, it still doesn't work. I scoured the Mac friendly MODx forums for a hint of anyone else with issues but all I could find were posts about how people switched to Macs and just love them. Puke.

Apparently, no one else has server issues on a Mac like I do, and they are really bad ones. Here are the issues I encountered

MODx related:

Server Setup Related:

I guess that is my biggest problem with the way the OS is set up on a Mac. Its like Linux, but they've changed the location of everything just enough to piss you off. This is one of the reasons why I switched to a PC when OS X first came out. I'd been a die hard Mac user for about 10 years, but it was just so frustrating to try to get used to the way the screwed up Linux. That and the whole File Browser, which just doesn't jive with me. And the way they smell. Yuck.

Anyway, I probably should have prefaced this post with, I didn't set up this server myself, so I'm dealing with someone else's first try. And it's cool if you like macs, I have tons of friends who are mac users, but that doesn't mean that Macs don't hate me, and that I don't hate them. The End