Comments on: Anti-Oranges http://blogs.gsl.com/dougclinton/2008/02/27/anti-oranges/ I'm driven by an insatiable curiosity and a low boredom threshold. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:13:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: David Dunham http://blogs.gsl.com/dougclinton/2008/02/27/anti-oranges/#comment-7295 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:05:42 +0000 http://blogs.gsl.com/dougclinton/2008/02/27/anti-oranges/#comment-7295 Unfortunately, the "it just works" part only applies once you have the system set up. I struggled with this a year or two ago, and now I'm going through the process again (upgrading FogBugz and switching machines). (On Leopard, you have to turn off the standard web server and compile your own. Which comes with unsafe defaults.) If you're actually a sysadmin, it's probably simple. That said, the actual product was fine (and I expect the new version will be as well). But they are the exact opposite of Apple's out of box experience. Unfortunately, the “it just works” part only applies once you have the system set up. I struggled with this a year or two ago, and now I’m going through the process again (upgrading FogBugz and switching machines). (On Leopard, you have to turn off the standard web server and compile your own. Which comes with unsafe defaults.) If you’re actually a sysadmin, it’s probably simple.

That said, the actual product was fine (and I expect the new version will be as well). But they are the exact opposite of Apple’s out of box experience.

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