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davidcrow — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:31:47 -0000

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.

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John Lam — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:34:41 -0000

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.

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Neil Sanderson — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:57:58 -0000

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

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Mark Kuznicki — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:23:50 -0000

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.

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Ryan McMinn — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:14:34 -0000

Keeping with's Dave's theme Picasa will help you get over the iphoto blues. Also Launchy (<a href="http://www.launchy.net/) " target="_blank"><a href="http://www.launchy.net/)" target="_blank">http://www.launchy.net/)</a> </a>may help a bit with the quicksilver withdrawal.

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Dave Hyndman — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:09:52 -0000

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. 
 
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/... />
" target="_blank"><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/..." target="_blank">https://addons.mozilla.org/... </a> 
Hope that's helpful. 
 
Good luck with everything. 
 
DAVE