Comments on: It begins… http://davidcrow.ca/article/1563/it-begins Helping companies with marketing, product strategy, user experience design, and technology development. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:01:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: David Crow http://davidcrow.ca/article/1563/it-begins/comment-page-1#comment-1996 David Crow Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:31:47 +0000 http://blog.davidcrow.ca/?p=1058#comment-1996 <p>John,</p> <p>It's a corporate 15' MBP running 10.4.x and Vista in BootCamp. I gave it a go in Parallels, and the performance is just not quite what I'd like. But in BootCamp, it's smokin' fast.</p> <p>There are a lot of IT related things to the network configuration that I love. The roaming profiles is fantastic, mostly because I am running a minimum of 2 machines. </p> <p>I really prefer Quartz.</p> John,

It's a corporate 15' MBP running 10.4.x and Vista in BootCamp. I gave it a go in Parallels, and the performance is just not quite what I'd like. But in BootCamp, it's smokin' fast.

There are a lot of IT related things to the network configuration that I love. The roaming profiles is fantastic, mostly because I am running a minimum of 2 machines.

I really prefer Quartz.

]]> By: John Lam http://davidcrow.ca/article/1563/it-begins/comment-page-1#comment-1995 John Lam Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:34:41 +0000 http://blog.davidcrow.ca/?p=1058#comment-1995 <p>I'm surprised that you find Quartz superior to ClearType. It's a toss-up at best, with the slight edge to ClearType IMHO.</p> <p>BTW, is it a company MBP that you have now? I recently upgraded to a 17' MBP and am quite happy with it.</p> <p>Also, I run XP in Parallels & you will likely run into strange issues with lost network connectivity when you suspend / resume your Mac. Drives me crazy & there's a race condition between XP and OS X to grab a network connection and if they try to grab too close to each other in time, the network access point will lock you out. I solve it by quitting Parallels and then relaunching. YMMV with the network in Canada, but that's the way things are here in Redmond.</p> I'm surprised that you find Quartz superior to ClearType. It's a toss-up at best, with the slight edge to ClearType IMHO.

BTW, is it a company MBP that you have now? I recently upgraded to a 17' MBP and am quite happy with it.

Also, I run XP in Parallels & you will likely run into strange issues with lost network connectivity when you suspend / resume your Mac. Drives me crazy & there's a race condition between XP and OS X to grab a network connection and if they try to grab too close to each other in time, the network access point will lock you out. I solve it by quitting Parallels and then relaunching. YMMV with the network in Canada, but that's the way things are here in Redmond.

]]> By: Neil Sanderson http://davidcrow.ca/article/1563/it-begins/comment-page-1#comment-1989 Neil Sanderson Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:57:58 +0000 http://blog.davidcrow.ca/?p=1058#comment-1989 <p>Sheesh David, it's getting hard to keep track of you, but good luck in the new job!<br />If you get one of those new coffee-table computers, can I come over to play?<br />Nice to see you again at Mesh.<br />Neil</p> Sheesh David, it's getting hard to keep track of you, but good luck in the new job!
If you get one of those new coffee-table computers, can I come over to play?
Nice to see you again at Mesh.
Neil

]]> By: Mark Kuznicki http://davidcrow.ca/article/1563/it-begins/comment-page-1#comment-1988 Mark Kuznicki Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:23:50 +0000 http://blog.davidcrow.ca/?p=1058#comment-1988 <p>OMG, it actually happened. David Crow is in MSFT, using Apple hardware and open source software and blogging about it. I'm truly impressed! Maybe Microsoft isn't evil after all. ;)</p> <p>Congratulations on becoming Canada's Robert Scoble! And thank you Microsoft for gainfully employing the community shit disturber.</p> OMG, it actually happened. David Crow is in MSFT, using Apple hardware and open source software and blogging about it. I'm truly impressed! Maybe Microsoft isn't evil after all. ;)

Congratulations on becoming Canada's Robert Scoble! And thank you Microsoft for gainfully employing the community shit disturber.

]]> By: Ryan McMinn http://davidcrow.ca/article/1563/it-begins/comment-page-1#comment-1987 Ryan McMinn Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:14:34 +0000 http://blog.davidcrow.ca/?p=1058#comment-1987 <p>Keeping with's Dave's theme Picasa will help you get over the iphoto blues. Also Launchy (http://www.launchy.net/) may help a bit with the quicksilver withdrawal.</p> Keeping with's Dave's theme Picasa will help you get over the iphoto blues. Also Launchy (http://www.launchy.net/) may help a bit with the quicksilver withdrawal.

]]> By: Dave Hyndman http://davidcrow.ca/article/1563/it-begins/comment-page-1#comment-1986 Dave Hyndman Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:09:52 +0000 http://blog.davidcrow.ca/?p=1058#comment-1986 <p>Hey David:</p> <p>As I mentioned when we met at mesh, I work for a Microsoft partner, T4G. I'm a heavy Firefox user but, like you, need IE for a number of internal sites. I've found the Firefox extension IE Tab invaluable. Basically runs a proper instance of IE within a Firefox tab.</p> <p>A great feature for our situation is to be able to specify sites, pages or full domains that should always open using IE Tab.</p> <p>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419</p> <p>Hope that's helpful.</p> <p>Good luck with everything.</p> <p>DAVE</p> Hey David:

As I mentioned when we met at mesh, I work for a Microsoft partner, T4G. I'm a heavy Firefox user but, like you, need IE for a number of internal sites. I've found the Firefox extension IE Tab invaluable. Basically runs a proper instance of IE within a Firefox tab.

A great feature for our situation is to be able to specify sites, pages or full domains that should always open using IE Tab.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

Hope that's helpful.

Good luck with everything.

DAVE

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