Comments for Simply Shankar

Comment on Vote for me – boo hoo hoo by Sudd

Sudd — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:09:07 +0000

Dear Shankar,
I totally agree with you on this. I and my wife will also vote for Obama.
I just hope he is not caught in any other controversy in between . I had enough of “Wright” and “Bitter”.

I hope everything is going well with your family. I like going through your blog (web-vision and Mac stuff is great). Please keep in touch.

Your old friend, Ghosh

Comment on Evolving notions of trust by S.RAMASWAMY

S.RAMASWAMY — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:59:40 +0000

I enjoyed reading.

Comment on Goodbye Windows, hello Mac! by shankar

shankar — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:41:31 +0000

Hari,

Good to hear from you.

I did wipe out Windows on my Thinkpad and put Ubuntu on it. Been happy with it for sure – Firefox and Thunderbird work well (sometimes web pages a slightly messed up) and the Open Office stuff has really come a ways (I tried a reasonably complicated spread sheet as was very impressed). I tried ROR, PHP and Java/Eclipse which all work well. I did run into trouble installing Aptana for some reason.

The Mac still comes out ahead especially from a work perspective. Office is critical if you have to exchange documents with others – the Mac offers Office. Mac Mail is also very nice. The iWork and iLife packages are very very slick. I have had no problem with ROR, PHP, Java/Eclipse and Aptana. At work we use a VOIP client with our IP based Cisco PBX. EVen though Cisco does not provide a client for Mac, I have been able to find an alternate. There is nothing available for Linux. Skype, Yahoo and other IM providers have clients for the Mac (even if they are slightly back level).

Overall, I’m very encouraged to see there are growing alternatives to Windows as a desktop.

Comment on Goodbye Windows, hello Mac! by Hari Shankar

Hari Shankar — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:06:14 +0000

Hi Shankar,

Hope you are doing well!

Happened to read your post. I was faced with looking for an alternative for Windows for my home machine few months ago. Didn’t want to spend money on apple, so went with Ubuntu. The only issue with it is that it doesn’t interface with my printer. Other than that my experience with Ubuntu has been better than with windows so far, and it runs faster on a beaten up T40 1.6 ghz than windows xp on my t60p from work.

I can live with having to use my windows for home print needs, since I don’t do much personal printing.

Curious if you explored that option?

Regards,
Hari

Comment on Goodbye Windows, hello Mac! by Anant Jhingran

Anant Jhingran — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:50:22 +0000

firefox on mac is really buggy, and causes the most rainbow spinning wheels. eventually the blue apple log on upper left is responsive, and i can kill firefox.
i agree with your general +ve views.

Comment on Goodbye Windows, hello Mac! by shankar

shankar — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:30:50 +0000

Anant,

I too have had individual applications freeze on occasion (with the multi-colored spinning wheel showing up instead of the mouse pointer), never the entire system. Under these circumstances, I have found if you move the mouse over to the Apple icon on the top left, you can click on it and use the force quit option to get rid of the offending application. Nothing else appears to work at this time except for clicking on the Apple icon.

Firefox seems particularly prone to freezing in my experience …

Comment on Goodbye Windows, hello Mac! by Anant Jhingran

Anant Jhingran — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:44:51 +0000

Well, I have been a MAC user for 3 months too. Love it, but it does freeze once in a while. The things I love the most are (i) its install process for new programs is a beauty and (ii) I can always do a unix shell command..

Comment on I have a hammer … by Kris Bhandare

Kris Bhandare — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:59:02 +0000

Shankar, just saw your blog, great stuff man! This is very much at the forefront of what a lot of the companies want to do, in terms of Agile development. I am working with one, right now. Kris

Comment on I have a hammer … by Sudd Ghosh

Sudd Ghosh — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:24:18 +0000

Hi Shankar, Going thru your blog. Find it very informative and interesting.
Hope you and family are doing well. We are fine.

Ghosh
email:
sghosh@dstoutput.com
suddhasatwa_ghosh@yahoo.com

Comment on Microsoft’s economic drag by Terry Bleizeffer

Terry Bleizeffer — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:53:37 +0000

You might enjoy some discussion on Microsoft’s economic impact via Brad DeLong’s blog here -> http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/06/mark_thoma_is_i.html

And here -> http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/06/the-social-impa.html