Cheers!
Bibek

I assume that with “Olag” you mean Olof Öhman, one of the discoverers. You seem to treat him as the only person involved or ever accused of making the stone. In fact several people was involved in finding the stone, including but not restricted to Olof, Olofs son and their Norwegian neighbor Nils Flaten. And then there is of course John P Gran, whose children claim he and Öhman made it.

You also take up his lack of historical education. But that fit perfectly with the fact that the rune stone completely lacks historical knowledge. It’s an obvious fraud, made by somebody who has very little or no knowledge about 14th century Scandinavian or 14th century runes. The language is 18th century Scandinavian with 18th century runes. This doesn’t mean Olof Öhman made it. But it means that he probably could have made it if he wanted to.

But all that is besides the point. We’ll never prove who made it. The stone is still a very bad fake.

If Doubletwist.com and Ableton Live ran on Ubuntu, I would probably never need to boot Mac OS X again.

Then again, maybe I will fall out of love with Linux. It happens.

Having been a Mac guy since Photoshop was version 1.0 and Apple made the only laser printer, I am what you call a “mac guy”.

I love their platform, the attention to detail that they currently put into both their software and hardware.

That said, I spend most of my days writing web apps, working with databases and prototyping new services for my business.

I bought Apple hardware so that I have the option of using either of the best operating systems on the planet. Linux or Mac OS X.

I could have paid less for the hardware and gotten a cheap plastic Dell, but then my options would be limited to a great OS (linux) and a crappy one (windows).

I want the best of both worlds. So I got a mac!

About paid support. I’ve used Ubuntu for few years now, never need paid support. I don’t know anyone who does. Paid support is for corporation and big-ish companies.

“Mac Books Pros are great laptops. best design I’ve ever seen”

Agreed. I’m trying to score one on online auction. But most likely will install Ubuntu on it.

btw did you know that support for Ubuntu Desktop
- starter support costs £ 34.73 / year
- advanced support costs £ 72.63 / year
- professional support costs £ 138.03 / year
( link for verifications: http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=530 )
so in the end it’s not so cheap after all, but that is for individuals/companies who needs support.

Mac Books Pros are great laptops. best design I’ve ever seen ( tried dell, HP, Toshiba) great battery life.

But once used to the common shortcuts like
Cmd-O to open things up,
Cmd-W to close window
Cmd-Q to quit whole application

Other than that it is quite a nice experience. One thumbs up feature that I like is the Multi-Touch Trackpad, they have for Macbook. It’s really really convenient for me.

4-fingers swipe UP, Show Desktop, all things hide to corner
4-fingers swipe DOWN, Expose, split up all the windows
4-fingers swipe Left/Right : Application chooser same as Cmd-Tab

2-fingers scrolling is the best of ALL. No longer need the page up/down button, Besides, it could even scroll other application windows while u working on your current window without click over to activate that window. (Good for multiple browser page, doing comparison or other stuff)