
<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 22, 2010, at 8:28 AM, Benjamin Ducke wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><blockquote type="cite">now at least, for me the user choose the os... for me is osX. So it's <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">unfortunate, for me but I will have the choice of playing "roulette <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">russe" with gv_sig or going to a more secure gis.<br></blockquote><br>Or to actively promote and support gvSIG on Mac OS X to make sure that it lives<br>on and prospers. That's how open source software works.<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote>I think this is the way to go.<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Best,<br><br>Ben<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Maccel<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Le 10-10-21 à 18:04, Simon Cropper a écrit :<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hi All,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On Friday 22 October 2010 2:23:16 am Chris Puttick wrote:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">what then?<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">My son has been using a iMac for several years and resisted moving <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">away from<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the computer and its operating system for all the wrong reasons <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(i.e. vendor<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">lock in with iPhone, iTunes, etc).<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Recently he moved away from his iPhone and now only use iTunes and <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">comparable<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">music related products.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Faced with an operating system that only allowed Apple products and <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">one that<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">in recent times is just getting slower and slower (a bit like <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">windows XP and<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Vista was doing a year or so back), I convinced him to move to <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Ubuntu (well he<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">really convinced himself as I have been nagging him for sometime. <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The pivotal<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">point was when he saw me log on and open a program on my machine in <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">seconds<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">compared to minutes on his).<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">After backing up his system (2-3 hours), it took less than one hour <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">to set up<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the base system in Ubuntu. He is enjoying the OS, the 'free' <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">software and<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">lightning fast OS (at least compared to OS-X).<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Where to from here? Move your iMac to Ubuntu. You won't be sorry.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I know it sound drastic but it really isn't.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">P.S. It's funny how things are not apparent until they hit you in <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the face. My<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">son, while looking at the various movies he had downloaded to <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">iTunes, asked me<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">how he could view these files as they were in a proprietary format <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">that could<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">only be read by Apple software. He was livid that he could not view <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">these files<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">using other software as he had paid good money for these movies. <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">After a bit<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">of searching we were able to find a conversion routine written in <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Open Source<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">that could convert the apple movie format to a more commonly <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">encountered and<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">used format.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">-- <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Cheers Simon<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Simon Cropper<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">PO Box 160 Sunshine 3020<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">P: 03 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">W: <a href="http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au">http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Gvsig_internacional mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Gvsig_internacional@listserv.gva.es">Gvsig_internacional@listserv.gva.es</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional">http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Gvsig_internacional mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Gvsig_internacional@listserv.gva.es">Gvsig_internacional@listserv.gva.es</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional">http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br>------<br>Files attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format (OASIS Open Document Format). If you have difficulty opening them, please visit <a href="http://iso26300.info">http://iso26300.info</a> for more information.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Gvsig_internacional mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Gvsig_internacional@listserv.gva.es">Gvsig_internacional@listserv.gva.es</a><br>http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>