The amount of re-learning you have to do from one desktop OS to the next is minimal, so the question is not as important as “which server platform”. None-the-less, it’s where you live every day, so it’s worth considering. Definitely not Windows. It’s both proprietary, and forces you to re-train every few years during forced [...]
Cross-platform
Ahhhh—my favorite character—the em-dash. You can type it on any platform. Macs and Linux makes it easy. PCs only really let you easily do it if you have a number-pad on your keyboard, which is mindbogglingly dumb. Anyway, it goes as follows. Mac: Option+Shift minus, or however you want to say it. It’s the easiest of [...]
Than answer varies from platform to platform. I discuss double clicking bat files on this page. In broad strokes, you have to go through a .vbscript on Windows, using a WishScript object with a suppress output parameter selected. On Mac OS X, you create an OS X “application bundle” that’s wired-up to run a bash script (.sh [...]
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