tbh apple’ products do look hot

In your message you mentioned: I do not want to bloat up my copy of OS X. I just wanted to tell you that a lot of things come pre-installed on OS X, such as the Apache webserver (although I don’t know if it really works good).

My text editor of choice is Textmate. It’s one of the primary reasons I ended up switching to a Mac. Like I said before too, I don’t really want to “bloat” up my copy of OS X with things like Apache and PHP - I have an Ubuntu server here for that
Oh and about Camino - I’ve started using that since your post. At first I was thinking “oh, just another browser”, but it is pretty nice.

Jeff,

Thanks for stopping by as well. You get used to the keyboard shortcuts pretty quickly and the switch (well at least for me) did end up pretty painlessly.

Cheers,
Chris

PS I found you via your post over on Paul Stamatiou’s site.

First of all, happy birthday! I am a friend of Peter Akkies (you work with him on MyBB, right?). I have an iMac G4 myself, and PHP (4.x on OS X 10.3) is already installed on “command line level” (in 10.3, but I think on 10.4 as well). HyperEdit is an example of an application which automatically runs the typed in PHP code (http://www.tumultco.com/HyperEdit/). You probably need a more professional program but it might come in handy.

The Apache server is easy to configure as well, it is pre-installed (although on the 10.3 release it is a bit broken, but I think it is better on 10.4). On http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/12/07/apache.html you can read how to set up Apache. Furthermore, Camino (http://www.caminobrowser.org/) is quite a good browser based on Gecko/Firefox, written in Objective-C (Cocoa, which means it runs fast on your Mac) and it is an universal binary. No browser can beat Safari, but I heard some good stories about Camino. If you need some (Mac) help, you can mail me anytime.

I’m having a great time playing around with Front Row, it’s awesome.

Exactly the same here - though I still like Windows Media Center Edition (especially the version within Vista).

What i’m particularly loving is the ability to use the Front Row remote outside of Front Row itself. So I can say have iTunes open in the background and still use the remote to switch between tracks.

I don’t know if you’ve managed to install PHP yet, but if you havn’t or dont know how to, I can help ya if you want.

PHP, MySQL and Apache are on my development server - don’t really want to be clogging up this machine with that sort of stuff. Hehe.

Command-Option-Escape is the os x equivalent of cntrl-alt-delete. It brings up a list of running tasks and you can kill nonresponsive ones.

Cheers. I actualy forgot to mention this shortcut key in the “review”.

Congrats on getting it! I never really liked Macs, but they are still very nice, and they look awesome.It’s all about the looks and the design of the OS. B-E-A-Youuu-Tiful.

Hehe.

Anyway, I wish my damned computer was that fast… Unfortunately I prefer windows because its supports all the popular games that I like