Okay, now that you have justified the Mac to yourself, do you want to
get your broke Karmic working? ;-)
Your problem definitely sounds like a Grub issue based on my experience.
Interesting on the Blackberry. Last weekend I borrowed a Sprint Aircard
and I had it working on Karmic in about 4 clicks of the mouse. Very
painless. Out in the backwoods of Michigan speedtest.org said it had .7
mb/s down and .31 mb/s up. I was impressed. I know another who uses an
Alltel (now Verizon) Aircard on Karmic and he is able to do Cisco VPN
with it also.
What email client do you use? I find good compatibility between
Evolution and Outlook.
Mac has a VM in it and I have helped someone load XP into it so they
could run a Windows app. (see I helped justify the Mac even more. ;-) )
Jay
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
LOL! I haven't had somebody say that to me before :-)
Over the years I have learned when and when not to hit the spend money
button. There are times when going the geek route is fun and good, and
there are times when buying "insurance" is the better option.
Note that I DO have a full backup of all my data and I DID get a
previous kernel to boot, but after working on that for 8+ hours I am
seeing that it just might not be worth it for my main business machine.
I do plan on keeping Ubuntu on 4 other machines in my house, just not on
my business machine.
Here are some very important (to me) things I gain by moving to the Mac:
- Verizon Access Blackberry tethering support (yes, I have tried the
Barry Linux version and can't get it to work. When I am on the road I
have to boot into Windows to use VZAccess Manager).
- Native support for Camtasia studio (essential for an author and
documenter)
- Native support for GoToMeeting (I use this daily)
- Native support for Outlook
(
http://mashable.com/2009/08/13/microsoft-outlook-for-mac/)
- Audio recording stuff (ok, this isn't essential, but to me it would
great to have as I love to record music!)
That leaves me with only one reason to need Windows and that would be
for RDi, which I don't use as often now that I have RPGNextGen (thanks,
thanks, thanks Mihael).
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
midrange.com
