A Tale of 2 OSes

Hello World!It has taken me 2 months to convince myself to publish my first blog publicly.I will write about something that my partner-in-crime has already written about.It all started on that eventful Thursday (one day before the Olympics was to begin) -and it brought back memories of another disastrous Thursday 6 months ago ;)
Part of the trouble began at the department's Multimedia(?) Lab.It was not a great idea to have Apple's less-than-famous eMacs stacked up in the so-called Multimedia lab.Perhaps the mere tag of "Apple" was enough to convince those at the Multimedia lab that these white boxes were suited for Multimedia applications.Or maybe they misread the 'e' in Emac and thought it stood for "entertainment."Anyway I guess it took only a few months for the guys at the Multimedia lab to discover the actual utility of eMacs for Multimedia.A few workstations were promptly purchased by the Dept. to carry on with the actual multimedia work in the "multimedia lab".
Meanwhile the low-end eMacs(where the 'e' stands for "education" by the way) were gathering dust and the Apple Lab was for all practical purposes converted into a C/C++ lab.
In the meantime ,at the end of that disastrous Thursday,someone way up the administrative ladder of the department decided that me and my friend were about as useless as the eMacs and so it was decided that we two would Install Linux on the shiny white machines to extract more utility from the hitherto condemned eMacs.And so we set out to install Ubuntu on the machines.[And the rest,as they say,is history ;)]
I won't pursue much on that topic as my co-conspirator as already beaten me in publishing a blog on that subject.If you thought we managed to do the whole thing by ourselves,wait....it was this article
in the Linux.com website which we got after hours of Googling that led us to the result :).
Well at the end of the day I guess we have got a fully functional OS but not without a few defects though.Sound,for instance,doesn't work.Nor do the custom Eject and Volume buttons of the Apple keyboard.So every time you need to insert a CD ,you have to right click on the CD drive icon and click Eject.But what the hell?How do you "right click" with Apple's sleek and glassy single-button mouse?Fortunately Ubuntu solves this problem by having the F12 button emulate the Right Mouse button.After several experiences of waiting for what seemed to be an eternity while using MacOSX,one thing I won't be complaining about is the speed.
Finally I guess I don't know whether an Apple a day keeps the doctor away,but in my case it has certainly kept trouble with the HOD away! :)