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Starting out with computers in 85, at the nice age of 12, I took too many things personally - we have been obsessed by the thought to fight the Atari users, we spent nights at coding or playing games. School has been the same inconvenience like sleep … We had principles and computers we would never touch. In 1992, after school, I did my first professional coding jobs for some companies in our small town and finally in 1995 i bumped into SUN and found that strange new open source project called “Linux” in the same year.

Today I feel sorry, that I have been so narrow minded about other computers and software pieces, especially the Mac was around so early and worth a look.

If you are really into computers and a little geek, who likes to look over the fence: I strongly recommend that you get to the next Apple store and get yourself a new toy: a small iBook with 256 MB RAM is around 1,000 US$ and your best companion for travelling.

After a few days tough fights with manuals and how-to web pages, I live in a triangle computer world:

Desktop: WinXP
Laptop: Mac OS X
Dev Server: SuSE Linux

and exchanging mails, checking web layouts and even porting PHP applications from Linux to Mac to Windows works, once you got the same software packages on all 3 machines.

To make your Mac experience complete, I recommend:

Reading this OS X software article.

Can’t wait to get my hands on all the new versions and combine them again in a new work environment on 64 bit

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