Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

Back to technical things… Listen ye to the meandering story of two PowerBook upgrades and our out-loud thinking about what Todd should do with his desktop machine. Should he upgrade his Dell, or should he use an Intel-based Mac and Parallels to meet his needs?

This may not be our most exciting or funny podcast, but we’re trying a variety of things to see what sticks. Hopefully you’ll find some value in it.

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Listen up: Instructing me to install something like Fink or Darwin Ports and the Apple developer tools to get an application like Ettercap is completely unacceptable. I don’t want the overhead and instability of one of those package managers on my system, and it’s ridiculous that I should waste the disk space with Apple’s developer tools when I’ll probably use 1% of it, and I’m not a developer to boot. Make a binary package installer (ya know, kinda like a Linux RPM), complete with dependencies, and let me download it. Seriously. This isn’t 198x anymore. We now have the “Intarweb” where asking other people with the right computers to make installer packages is easy, and you can provide a kind of “hyper link” to them. It sounds crazy, I know. I realize I have a lot of weird ideas and crazy expectations, and that’s what makes me a pain in the ass.