Geeking is not about chicken heads anymore
I get much of my news from the web. I?m one of those sad sacks that spend many hours a week on the Internet. The first step in getting help for an addiction is to admit to having a problem. I can?t admit it, I won?t admit it, and I don?t have a problem. I use ?other? operating systems and my stress levels are pretty low and for me it?s fun to geek. This isn?t a recent change; I?m only mentioning it because of reading news from the web and noticing more references to other OS?s in that news. People are getting very dissatisfied with M$ Windows. My dissatisfacton started long ago. The change in me started in university, I took one class that introduced Unix and Linux in particular and I?ve been hooked since. That was 7 years ago.
It satisfied the craving in me to know what was going on behind the scenes and make the modifications that fit the way I work instead of what the way some engineer thought I wanted to work. This admission is starting to sound like I’m coming out of the closet. I?m not, just declaring my geekiness to the world. My web server is a Linux box that runs all the services I need right now. With the Linux box it can take a little time and effort to get some things working and in my old age I got lazy and bought a Mac. Why? The BSD core satisfies my Unix geekiness. The OS X GUI is great to look at. It is slower than an Intel processor but hell I don’t type that fast. It?s easy enough that my girlfriend can figure out most things herself. Things work without a lot of fiddling but if you want to fiddle to get it just right you can. So in true geek fashion I have a Linux box as my central server and a Mac box with OS X for my girlfriend and I to work with. I?m in geek heaven.
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