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Can't you use dd to convert your ext2 hard drive into an ext2 disk image? If so you could just boot that disk image directly in VPC. Connectix has a VPC forum which their developers watch.

Exactly, it is a pain. Nothing beats a bootable backup. 90% doesn't get you to 100% any time soon. The time you spend reinstalling Mac OS X (booting on a CD is a pain, damn that takes a long time) and then updating it (downloading, installing, optimizing, rebooting) is time I would rather...

Well allow me to tell you something from my experience: Nothing beats a bootable backup! The reason is I don't have to reinstall the friggin OS which takes loads of time I don't have because in the real world people have DEADLINES and they want to get back to WORK. I don't want to know...

UNIX does have inherent limitations because it is designed to support legacy crap. For example it must have a filesystem. The claim that everything can just be emulated is wrong. You bring up the example of MAE but the fact remains that there is no way to emulate FileIDs on UFS without breaking...

All those filesystems share the same limitations which were created some 30yrs ago. For example the only way to refer to a closed file is by path. HFS+ has limitations too. For example it can't support an arbitrary number of file attributes like I believe BFS can. However the major bottleneck...

CPU speed is over-rated considering Windows apps have horrible interfaces.

I hope Alsoft's OS X product (when it comes out) replaces Apple's fsck with their own. They have the best HFS+ tools. UNIX interoperability is over-rated. I would rather have a filesystem which was more suitable as a human interface than a filesystem designed to be compatible with 30yr old...

HFS+ is faster for a number of reasons. Searching for files on HFS+ volumes is probably faster due to a) files being indexed by ID and b) the catalog file being organized in a b-tree. As for UNIX backup methods the problem here is UNIX lacks an API to handle an arbitrary number of file...

I do not suggest using UFS for several reasons. UFS doesn't support HFS+ attributes and instead stores them in a separate file. This means UFS ends up being painfully slow unless you're only using UNIX apps. UFS doesn't support FileIDs so your aliases will break like symlinks. There...

What exactly is the point of bluetooth outside dialing phones and using a really slow process to synchronize your contacts? I would rather have a USB port on the phone.

Considering how much I hate Java I think this is great ;-) Anyway what incentive does Apple have to keep Java up to date? Isn't there an open source version of Java available? I thought Netscape used their own implementation.

OS X: Carbon apps all behave the same X11: Nothing behaves the same OS X: cut/copy+paste without keyboard needs one button, less clicks X11: copy+paste without keyboard needs three buttons, more clicks. Also can't paste over selection to replace (ugh). No contest.

So long I only use Carbon apps my overall efficiency is about the same with MacOS and OS X. I would say better with OS X because it's stable.

Also, why the hell does Chimera use Mozilla's asstacular interface? Toolbars suck, just give me an address bar which implements substring search.

Netscape 4.x sucks. It doesn't even use the system MIME<->HFS bindings which all other Mac apps use. I read that Mozilla fixes this problem but I still hate its interface. Explorer still has the best interface and supports drag+drop properly. All the other OS X browsers do not thus far. I...

Project Builder is just using the über-slow gcc. It's gcc's fault

The only app I would trust for defragmentation is Plus Optimizer which comes with Disk Warrior from Alsoft.

If you have a PC which you run all the time you should consider using VNC.

FYI your mail app is either not encoding MIME correctly or his mail app isn't decoding MIME correctly. MIME is perfectly compatible with resource forks, it should put the fork data in a separate part of a multi-part MIME. The fact that some get two attachments suggests that your mail app is...

I would like to add that OS X implements the lock bit differently than Mac OS 9 or earlier. In MacOS a locked file means the contents of that file are locked. You can move the file or rename the file, but you can't delete or overwrite the file. In OS X a locked file behaves like an...