Reply to post: I happen to make a hobby out of neuropharmacology

Scientists love MacBooks (true) – but what about you?

Arthur the cat Silver badge

I happen to make a hobby out of neuropharmacology

Didn't we all when young. Peace and love, man. :-)

My problem with Macs is that although they're based on Unix, all the standard Unix admin knowledge goes out of the window. Add NFS mounts to /etc/fstab, you must be joking. Add static routes, I could sort of do that up to Mavericks, no idea under Yosemite. It's all bloody obscure plists and custom GUI tools rather than simply firing up your favourite editor and modifying a text file in /etc, and the recent breaking of ssh was the icing on the cake. If anyone has a guide to making Macs fit into a normal Unix network, please point me at it.

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