I was just cleaning up my pile of computer bits, and I found a USB hard drive that I've not used in a while. After browsing the contents I felt it was time to wipe it clean. I wanted to format it to be Windows friendly just in case. Linux felt like the best tool for the job there, and a combo of fdisk and mkfs.vfat accomplished that pretty quickly. I wanted to find a good tool to test the disk for bad sectors (testdisk?) and that's when I noticed:
OMG. I haven't even installed Firefox in Ubuntu since installing 9.04 back in April! I just don't use Linux any more. Mac has won me over that completely.
I do not endorse PMAC Certification
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It has come to my attention that the PMAC (Project Management Association of
Canada / Association de Management de Projet du Canada) claims that I
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badblocks -w before creating the partition table looks to be the way to go.
Nope, it's: mkfs.vfat -c
It takes a big man to admit such a thing in public!
I do the reverse: try Linux every couple of months, and ask: "why?"
Heh. I've used Linux for over a decade. After my experience with the iPhone I had started to get a really good opinion of Apple. My distrust melted. When I was faced with the decision to upgrade to Windows 7 on the box we need for iTunes I decided to buy a Mac Mini instead.
That's our main computer now. It took a while to get the page down, page up, end, home keys to behave as I'm used to. And it was sending the wrong messages to my Linux box while connected via SSH, but pretty quickly I had it up and running. We kept the Linux box for a server, a playground for development and for a storage server. But otherwise we're a Mac home now as well. Funny how that happens.
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