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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? If possible, would you consider buying OS X for a non Mac computer? Post 302275305 by reborg on Friday 9th of January 2009 06:00:03 PM

01-09-2009

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I voted no. But in order to make sense of my vote I should explain.

I personally don't like the Mac OS interface, and I am not a big fan of many of the implementation of many of the administrative tools. Yes, I could install tools to do things those things way I want but as someone who works mostly from the command line it makes more sense for me to use something which behaves in a more traditional way such Solaris, GNU/Linux or BSD. Also I don't use any of the software for which Macs are the ideal platform.

Having said that, from a business perspective if there was a truly legitimate (not ambiguous) way to do this and people reporting to me wanted to use OS X and it would run on the standard hardware provided to them I wouldn't have a problem approving it on the condition that they could perform all of their work without needing to use another paid-license OS.

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bt-serial(1)							    bluez-tools 						      bt-serial(1)

NAME

       bt-serial - a bluetooth serial manager

SYNOPSIS

       bt-serial [OPTION...]

       Help Options:
	 -h, --help

       Application Options:
	 -a, --adapter=<name|mac>
	 -c, --connect <name|mac> <pattern>
	 -d, --disconnect <name|mac> <tty_device>

DESCRIPTION

       This utility is used to manage serial service connections.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	   Show help

       -a, --adapter <name|mac>
	   Specify adapter to use by his Name or MAC address
	   (if this option does not defined - default adapter used)

       -c, --connect <name|mac> <pattern>
	   Connects to a specific RFCOMM based service on a
	   remote device and then creates a RFCOMM TTY
	   device for it; `pattern` is a profile short name (spp, dun),
	   RFCOMM channel (1-30)

       -d, --disconnect <name|mac> <tty_device>
	   Disconnect a RFCOMM TTY device that has been created

AUTHOR

       Alexander Orlenko <zxteam@gmail.com>.

SEE ALSO

       bt-adapter(1) bt-agent(1) bt-audio(1) bt-device(1) bt-input(1) bt-monitor(1) bt-network(1)

								    2010-08-12							      bt-serial(1)