I've done some kind of tech support for *both* Mac and Windows since 1988.
By far the biggest question that Windows people ask me is "left click or right click?" The people who ask these questions intermediate users, not just the clueless. This is why even Apple's two button mouse acts like a one button mouse unless the user specifically customizes it to be a two button mouse in System Preferences. Apple is right here.
By far the biggest question that Mac people have is, "when do you click and when do you double click?" By the way, the rules on this one are absolutely impossible to describe. Bad Apple! BAD!
Well, he was smoking crack the 50 other times over the last decade (or two?) when he predicted Apple's switch to Intel. They suddenly switch and now he's a visionary? Hmmm...
These Intel rumors have surfaced every once in a while since like 1988. Whatever. I'll believe it only when (if) Steve Jobs says it.
It's more likely that Apple will be partnering with Intel for something *completely* different. Steve Jobs isn't predictable. Wait till his keynote address on Monday.
I fix macs so I am not seen by my clients as a necessary evil. My clients see me as a fixit guy if there is semething to fix. More often than not, they see me as an enabler. I find the tools to suit their needs, then do all the necessary training. I'm in. I do my job. I'm out. Fast.
The experience is way different than when I serviced Windows machines. I'm glad I don't have to do that anymore.
God has Windows become so bad now that you feel you have to reinstall every MONTH now??? When I used Windows 2000 I was forced to reinstal every year because the system would degrade, but every month?
I use Mac OS X and that means that I only reinstall on major system upgrades (yearly) and the reinstall is optional. But a reinstall on OS X that means something completely different than a reinstall under Windows.
Reinstalling the system on Mac OS X does not require reinstalling any applications. It does not require resetting any preferences. The reinstall leaves the users and applications just as you had them. The whole process takes only as long as it takes to copy the files off of the CD, no fuss no bother, a brand new system, with all of your stuff as you left it.
I had the same problem from 10.1 to 10.2. Fink did not support the new OS.
A workaround for me was to do the Fink installations on a 10.1 machine, then copy the entire/sw directory to the 10.2 machine. Worked perfectly. I wonder if that would work for 10.3? It's worth a try.
Don't believe what those other guys say. They've never tied it themselves. I have.
I set up my boyfriend's biege G3 266 with OS X 10.2 and 512 MB memory. Worked like a champ, just don't try video playback or editing with the stock video card. I've done the same with 266 PowerBook. Both kinda want a larger hard drive, but 6GB was just big enough without iTunes music stuff.
If you do install a larger hard drive, the stumbling block is that the OS X boot partition must be first and it must be below 8GB. It's not obvious how to force the 8GB partition to the front of the hard drive with Apple's OS X drive setup. Use the 9.2 drive setup. To check your work, boot with a 9.2 CD. The first partition on the drive will be the first on the desktop.
My first memory was from the 2nd day after I was born. The bastard doctor cut part of my dick off. I remember being naked on a cold hard surface under fluorscent lights, being cold and scared and alone. And the pain. No timeline in that memory, no faces.
I wonder about how cultural differences in eye contact would affect this kind of study. I can't imagine that in many parts of Asia, where eye contact is rude in many contexts, that the results would be the same.
Check out Mac OS X for Unix Geeks from O'Reilly http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mosxgeeks /
and Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10 /22/mac forunix.html
The best solution for me is to use virtual machines.
I use VMware when on a PC on top of either Win2000 or Linux. I use Connectix Virtual PC on Mac on top of either OS 9 or Mac OS X.
Either one allows me to run MULTIPLE PC OSes simultaneously in separate windows. Cool!
Each hard drive is a virtual hard drive saved on a disk image file. Double click on that image file and that hard drive is loaded and booted.
This allows me to run a completely separate virgin copy of Win2000 inside my normal Win2000 environment. I can do a test install. If I don't like the install, I just restore the backup of the virgin Win2000 image file. You can't do that on real disks.
The first time I saw this was in Byte in the early 80s.
from http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/88q1/8972.html Noise Emitting Diode (NED) When connected across a 1000 volt supply it makes a loud noise (once). The NED was discovered by Igor Pravaganda whom you'll recall worked many years trying to filter AC with electrolytics. He'll always be remembered as the father of the confetti generator.
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Why bother to support broadband connections in the dorms?
You are dealing with a chicken and egg problem: The network doesn't exist because there is no content to view. There is no content to view because no one can access it.
Do not underestimate the value of creating a network. The more computers on a network the more valuable a connection is. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a formula? The usefullness of a network goes up by the square of the number of connections.
If you build the network, someone will find a use for it. If you build a really fast network, someone will find a use for all that extra bandwidth.
Remember 15 years ago when Apple kickstarted network applications with it's hideously slow Appletalk network. It was slow and cheap, but every single Macintosh computer had a network built in: No network cards - ever. Just plug it in and it works. Soon novel networking applications started popping up for the Macintosh, messaging, mail, filesharing.... This was all years before networking applications started appearing on PCs.
This same thing happend to Unix machines 25 years ago. Most Unix machines were connected to academic networks from the start. Even if the Unix machine wasn't connected to the academic network, there was a virtual network between all users on one machine. Strange experimental network applications like the Talk messaging system appeared quickly because the network and the users were there to support them.
Apple makes the updates really easy. You
just click on the update button. It chugs
along, downloading files. Then it's done.
Nothing else. If you're really unlucky,
you have to restart. That's it.
If you guys are used to installing an update to Windows, it's much easier than that.
When I installed OS X Public Beta on my older Mac, I suddenly found myself using my Linux box a lot less. The things I love Linux for, being able to setup reliable servers, the command line, Unix programs, standard development tools (after I installed them separately), and eager users with lots of info and ideas - were all there. At the same time Mac OS X has something that Linux lacks, a beautiful, smooth, consistant user interface. Mac OS X is really a pleasure to use. For me, it's the best of both worlds.
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I've done some kind of tech support for *both* Mac and Windows since 1988.
By far the biggest question that Windows people ask me is "left click or right click?" The people who ask these questions intermediate users, not just the clueless. This is why even Apple's two button mouse acts like a one button mouse unless the user specifically customizes it to be a two button mouse in System Preferences. Apple is right here.
By far the biggest question that Mac people have is, "when do you click and when do you double click?" By the way, the rules on this one are absolutely impossible to describe. Bad Apple! BAD!
> Dvorak was apparently not smoking crack
Well, he was smoking crack the 50 other times over the last decade (or two?) when he predicted Apple's switch to Intel. They suddenly switch and now he's a visionary? Hmmm...
These Intel rumors have surfaced every once in a while since like 1988. Whatever. I'll believe it only when (if) Steve Jobs says it.
It's more likely that Apple will be partnering with Intel for something *completely* different. Steve Jobs isn't predictable. Wait till his keynote address on Monday.
I fix macs so I am not seen by my clients as a necessary evil. My clients see me as a fixit guy if there is semething to fix. More often than not, they see me as an enabler. I find the tools to suit their needs, then do all the necessary training. I'm in. I do my job. I'm out. Fast.
The experience is way different than when I serviced Windows machines. I'm glad I don't have to do that anymore.
sounds like you have some serious hardware problems. my bet would be that your hard drive is retrying because it's failing.
Windows Media Player does exist on Mac OS X
No
God has Windows become so bad now that you feel you have to reinstall every MONTH now??? When I used Windows 2000 I was forced to reinstal every year because the system would degrade, but every month?
I use Mac OS X and that means that I only reinstall on major system upgrades (yearly) and the reinstall is optional. But a reinstall on OS X that means something completely different than a reinstall under Windows.
Reinstalling the system on Mac OS X does not require reinstalling any applications. It does not require resetting any preferences. The reinstall leaves the users and applications just as you had them. The whole process takes only as long as it takes to copy the files off of the CD, no fuss no bother, a brand new system, with all of your stuff as you left it.
Why put up with anything else?
I had the same problem from 10.1 to 10.2. Fink did not support the new OS.
/sw directory to the 10.2 machine. Worked perfectly. I wonder if that would work for 10.3? It's worth a try.
A workaround for me was to do the Fink installations on a 10.1 machine, then copy the entire
>My 15 inch is currently somewhere in Airborne Express :(
:)
>Limbo without Panther installed.
>Why do G5-ers get all the love?
Ah... it's the 17 inchers who get all the love
Don't believe what those other guys say. They've never tied it themselves. I have.
I set up my boyfriend's biege G3 266 with OS X 10.2 and 512 MB memory. Worked like a champ, just don't try video playback or editing with the stock video card. I've done the same with 266 PowerBook. Both kinda want a larger hard drive, but 6GB was just big enough without iTunes music stuff.
If you do install a larger hard drive, the stumbling block is that the OS X boot partition must be first and it must be below 8GB. It's not obvious how to force the 8GB partition to the front of the hard drive with Apple's OS X drive setup. Use the 9.2 drive setup. To check your work, boot with a 9.2 CD. The first partition on the drive will be the first on the desktop.
My first memory was from the 2nd day after I was born. The bastard doctor cut part of my dick off. I remember being naked on a cold hard surface under fluorscent lights, being cold and scared and alone. And the pain. No timeline in that memory, no faces.
Ahh... It's compatible. Has been for a month already.
I wonder about how cultural differences in eye contact would affect this kind of study. I can't imagine that in many parts of Asia, where eye contact is rude in many contexts, that the results would be the same.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/200
Check out Mac OS X for Unix Geeks from O'Reillys /0 /22/mac forunix.html
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mosxgeek
and
Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/1
The best solution for me is to use virtual machines.
I use VMware when on a PC on top of either Win2000 or Linux. I use Connectix Virtual PC on Mac on top of either OS 9 or Mac OS X.
Either one allows me to run MULTIPLE PC OSes simultaneously in separate windows. Cool!
Each hard drive is a virtual hard drive saved on a disk image file. Double click on that image file and that hard drive is loaded and booted.
This allows me to run a completely separate virgin copy of Win2000 inside my normal Win2000 environment. I can do a test install. If I don't like the install, I just restore the backup of the virgin Win2000 image file. You can't do that on real disks.
The first time I saw this was in Byte in the early 80s.
from http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/88q1/8972.html
Noise Emitting Diode (NED)
When connected across a 1000 volt supply it makes a loud noise (once). The NED was discovered by Igor Pravaganda whom you'll recall worked many years trying to filter AC with electrolytics. He'll always be remembered as the father of the confetti generator.
You are dealing with a chicken and egg problem: The network doesn't exist because there is no content to view. There is no content to view because no one can access it.
Do not underestimate the value of creating a network. The more computers on a network the more valuable a connection is. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a formula? The usefullness of a network goes up by the square of the number of connections.
If you build the network, someone will find a use for it. If you build a really fast network, someone will find a use for all that extra bandwidth.
Remember 15 years ago when Apple kickstarted network applications with it's hideously slow Appletalk network. It was slow and cheap, but every single Macintosh computer had a network built in: No network cards - ever. Just plug it in and it works. Soon novel networking applications started popping up for the Macintosh, messaging, mail, filesharing.... This was all years before networking applications started appearing on PCs.
This same thing happend to Unix machines 25 years ago. Most Unix machines were connected to academic networks from the start. Even if the Unix machine wasn't connected to the academic network, there was a virtual network between all users on one machine. Strange experimental network applications like the Talk messaging system appeared quickly because the network and the users were there to support them.
For those of you used to Microsoft's
updates, Apple's updates make the OS
run better and faster. This is a
good thing.
Apple makes the updates really easy. You just click on the update button. It chugs along, downloading files. Then it's done. Nothing else. If you're really unlucky, you have to restart. That's it. If you guys are used to installing an update to Windows, it's much easier than that.
> > Most of the present day OSX users are power-users
:) Really.
> Is that an oxymoron or what?
Nope. It just means that you don't know
anything about Mac users. That's ok.
You'd be surprised how many Mac users
are power users.
When I installed OS X Public Beta on my older Mac, I suddenly found myself using my Linux box a lot less. The things I love Linux for, being able to setup reliable servers, the command line, Unix programs, standard development tools (after I installed them separately), and eager users with lots of info and ideas - were all there. At the same time Mac OS X has something that Linux lacks, a beautiful, smooth, consistant user interface. Mac OS X is really a pleasure to use. For me, it's the best of both worlds.
Of course, Mac OS X is not free.