Gimlé

Dorothea Salo has just found out that sometimes an ugly application with a badly designed user interface will do the job better than the pricey proprietry competitor.

There is one thing I like about GNU/linux and FreeBSD, something I have come to rely on, and that is the fact that if it has something to do with system maintainance or automation, then free software has something rock-solid to sort you out.

This is actually the one area where Mac OS X lags behind its freer counterparts. The Apple tools are, and have always been, horribly inadequate. Norton Disk Doctor or Diskwarrior (most often both, if you want to be really safe) are de facto required purchases for any new Mac user.