You know those girls in the 7th grade who are saying nice and embarrasing things about you, and you don't even know their names? Don't run from them; if you do, you'll never get a date in high school... and I'm tired of living alone at age 32. Also, stop admiring the girls you like from afar.
Yep, 7th grade is where it all went wrong for me.
Oh, and in 9th grade, you'll discover Ultima IV. See if you can get Mom and Dad to spring for a store bought version, it's much better and easier with the manual!
Of course, the radio stations seem to make due with about a thousand or so, not countng the pop music stations that play the same 20 songs all day long.
I've got a bit over 1100 songs in iTunes, so I've still got a lot of room to grow. They don't all fit on my iPod, though, so I tell it to only load songs I've listened to at least 3 times.
Thanks for the link. I'd opened some of the 'updated' apps, and couldn't figure out what was changed. Looking through the list, there's nothing there I would have noticed. No complaints, though.
Some utilities, major or minor. USB Overdrive, a universal USB driver for mice, joysticks, and gamepads; the updated version of Virex from.Mac; the new Xpressions icon theme changer, which also requires a restart every time you change the theme. Web browsers never require a restart.
I've been using the new version of Safari for a couple of hours, and haven't noticed much different, though I had very few complaints in the first place. Most site that locked me out at first seemed to change their minds a few days later, either on their own or due to pressure from Apple, I don't know which.
"Meanwhile, I keep hoping that someone would take the best SF, plus some good shows off TechTV, use the product lines from ThinkGeek for advertising and throw in stuff like Futurama, Farscape, Babylon, and old Trek for filler, older stuff (Buck Rogers serials, twilight zone) for a humorous/heartwarming look back and stuff like MST3K and Plan 9 for farce/camp value."
Sounds great, like something that even I would watch. Though it would help if I didn't need cable to get it; I'm too broke, and cable doesn't have enough quality shows, for me to get it at home.
I haven't felt much need for backups, but.Mac offers a backup program, called Backup, appopriately enough, that backs up documents and a few other important files to my iDisk. Since I don't do much Office-type stuff, it doesn't take too much space.
I used to do full backups to CD-RW when I had a SCSI burner on my Performa 6400(2.4GB drive), but I never had to use them. I did some floppy based backups in my DOS days, and used it on occasion, when I had a 32MB hard drive!
I stopped using the floppy drive years before Apple dumped them, aside from reinstalling old games. I also haven't owned a burner since '99, and don't really have a use for one. I just have zero need of removable media, and nowadays I have DSL and a 100MB iDisk, so I can send some pretty big files to anyone in the world, and even let others upload to it. I've a 5GB iPod, too, so there's no reason to burn music CD's.
I can't even recall the last time I booted off a CD. If the worst happens to my OS X partition, my OS 9 partition starts up instead, and I can do repairs from there. This happened to me once last year.
Who's a year behind? Dell is finally starting to dump the floppy drive, they're five years behind!;-) More, if you include the old legacy ports they still use.
Oh, you mean CPU speed? My 3 year old iMac is fast enough for everything I do, save for recent 3D games, and I don't really need those anyway. That's one thing hurting Apple's 'marketshare', the quality and longevity of their products.
I've seen 'top' before, and the Process Viewer utility does the same thing without the Terminal, but this program is designed expressly to run with your other apps, beep whenever VM is hit, and tell you how much memory you need to avoid VM slowdowns. It's a bit more specialized, less general purpose.
I found her very easy on the eyes, for an over 40 actress. Not to mention her big blue eyes. She's not of my generation, being older than my mother was at the time, but she's not hideous.
The name of the program is "Do I Need More Memory?". That's the actual name. It's donationware from www.hillmanminx.com ; I happened to spot its listing on VersionTracker yesterday.
Oh, and I did get low memoy messages with it when I loaded LimeWire, which seemed to expand to take all availible physical memory, and stopped when the disk swapping started. So the program said I needed more memory, but 1MB more.
Oh, about memory usage. I just downloaded a free utility that monitors memory usage to determine if having more memory would speed things up. I've 320MB, and have opened up my usual programs: Mail, Safari, iTunes(playing), and addtions like Watson and iCal. Not only is there zero disk swapping, but I've got 77MB of extra memory that hasn't been touched. I'm sure that I could push it further with a commercial game, but I'm not going to use any of the others at the same time, save the Mail app. No, I don't have MS-Office, and I don't need it.
I did used to run OS X with 192MB of memory, but slowdowns were few and far between, mainly when I was viewing dozens of full screen jpegs on a single web page.
I'll agree that Pulaski had a bit more personality, as far as Star Trek characters go. Of course, the actress was also on two episodes of the original series.
I believe the first iMacs were sold for $1299, and the site www.everymac.com confirms it.
I don't pay any attention to PC prices(after all, I have no intention of ever buying one), but when the price of the complete system goes for less than what the CRT alone used to cost, it just sounds cheap and low quality.
I suppose that I agree. It's the only recent browser for the Mac that I've never tried. I have Safari and OmniWeb on my dock, and also have Mozilla, Chimera, and IE in my Applications folder(though I threw out IE once, the Jaguar update put it back). My father is a die-hard iCab user in OS 9 on his rev B iMac. I even used CyberDog as my main browser fron '97-'99. Never have tried any version of Opera, though; I've just not heard any compelling reasons why.
I'm using an iMac DV/400 Mhz that's now over 3 years old, and it runs everything but recent 3D games, though I've done about as much upgrading as you can on a Mac without PCI or AGP slots. Though to be fair, if I'd gotten the tower case Mac available at the time instead, I'd still be limited to a PCI video card like an older Radeon. I've got the 45GB 7200 rpm drive, getting a bit full now, 320MB memory(PC100), iSub subwoofer, iPod, HP Deskjet 932C, Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold joystick(though all of my games that I'd use a joystick with are OS 9-only), Macally iShock II gamepad, Apple Pro Keyboard(bigger than what came with it), Logitech Mouseman Optical USB. Plus 1.2 megabit DSL.
I'd like to get a new system soon, to try out Quartz Extreme and newer games like Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. But it's really not needed, and I'm unemployed anyway, so I just have to dream about it, and put up with the 8MB Rage 128.
OS X has a system level spell checker, that works automatically in Mail and OmniWeb, but has to be run manually in Safari. I guess he's using Safari, and forgot to run it!;-)
Myself, I have an iMac DV that's just over 3 years old, and while I'd like to replace it, perferrably with a tower so I can change the video card, I'm #1: unemployed, collecting $156/week in benefits, and #2: I have no real need for a new system. A newer Mac would run more games better, but that's it. I've upgraded the memory, hard drive, keyboard, mouse, added the iSub, a gamepad, a joystick, a printer, an iPod, and a DSL connection. I can do everything I need, and most things I want. Well, a Firewire CD burner might be useful to get as well, I just have a slot loading DVD-ROM.
My father would like to replace his iMac rev B as well, but he'll have to wait until I get a job, as I can't pay my fixed expenses alone. At least I got a call about an interview while reading this thread, my first in months.
I've no desire to wear something like this, even if it were free. Weather? I've got the current temperature displayed in the upper right corner of my screen right now, next to my clock. If I'm out away from my computer, I'm out in it already, so I KNOW what the weather is like. Sports scores? I couldn't care less about any sport, especially pro sports. Setting the time? I can set it myself, thank you. And will there be a monthly fee for these worthless services? It wouldn't surprise me.
Let's see if... ah! It does work! Spell checking! Delightful. This may become my default browser yet, though it'll take a while to move all my bookmarks over. Thanks for the tip.
The message bar for the bottom of the window is off by default, but easily added from the View window.
A few things could be added, though. There's no spell checker, like OmniWeb and Mail use, and it doesn't remember passwords like Chimera and Mozilla do. But it's fast, and it's a Beta. I did have to change back to OmniWeb to post this, as Safari kept timing out when I clicked on anything here, though to be fair, Slashdot seems to be pretty Slashdotted right now, and it took OmniWeb about three minutes to open this window.
I'll play with Safari some more, but I'll stick with OmniWeb for everyday use.
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You know those girls in the 7th grade who are saying nice and embarrasing things about you, and you don't even know their names? Don't run from them; if you do, you'll never get a date in high school... and I'm tired of living alone at age 32. Also, stop admiring the girls you like from afar.
Yep, 7th grade is where it all went wrong for me.
Oh, and in 9th grade, you'll discover Ultima IV. See if you can get Mom and Dad to spring for a store bought version, it's much better and easier with the manual!
Of course, the radio stations seem to make due with about a thousand or so, not countng the pop music stations that play the same 20 songs all day long.
I've got a bit over 1100 songs in iTunes, so I've still got a lot of room to grow. They don't all fit on my iPod, though, so I tell it to only load songs I've listened to at least 3 times.
Thanks for the link. I'd opened some of the 'updated' apps, and couldn't figure out what was changed. Looking through the list, there's nothing there I would have noticed. No complaints, though.
Some utilities, major or minor. USB Overdrive, a universal USB driver for mice, joysticks, and gamepads; the updated version of Virex from .Mac; the new Xpressions icon theme changer, which also requires a restart every time you change the theme. Web browsers never require a restart.
I've been using the new version of Safari for a couple of hours, and haven't noticed much different, though I had very few complaints in the first place. Most site that locked me out at first seemed to change their minds a few days later, either on their own or due to pressure from Apple, I don't know which.
" I was so disappointed with William Hurt's performance. He was so cardboard."
;-)
What do you expect, it's William Hurt!
I did perfer all the villians in the miniseries to the first movie. They're evil, therefore they're ugly and mostly stupid. Not good.
"Meanwhile, I keep hoping that someone would take the best SF, plus some good shows off TechTV, use the product lines from ThinkGeek for advertising and throw in stuff like Futurama, Farscape, Babylon, and old Trek for filler, older stuff (Buck Rogers serials, twilight zone) for a humorous/heartwarming look back and stuff like MST3K and Plan 9 for farce/camp value."
Sounds great, like something that even I would watch. Though it would help if I didn't need cable to get it; I'm too broke, and cable doesn't have enough quality shows, for me to get it at home.
I haven't felt much need for backups, but .Mac offers a backup program, called Backup, appopriately enough, that backs up documents and a few other important files to my iDisk. Since I don't do much Office-type stuff, it doesn't take too much space.
I used to do full backups to CD-RW when I had a SCSI burner on my Performa 6400(2.4GB drive), but I never had to use them. I did some floppy based backups in my DOS days, and used it on occasion, when I had a 32MB hard drive!
I stopped using the floppy drive years before Apple dumped them, aside from reinstalling old games. I also haven't owned a burner since '99, and don't really have a use for one. I just have zero need of removable media, and nowadays I have DSL and a 100MB iDisk, so I can send some pretty big files to anyone in the world, and even let others upload to it. I've a 5GB iPod, too, so there's no reason to burn music CD's.
I can't even recall the last time I booted off a CD. If the worst happens to my OS X partition, my OS 9 partition starts up instead, and I can do repairs from there. This happened to me once last year.
Who's a year behind? Dell is finally starting to dump the floppy drive, they're five years behind! ;-) More, if you include the old legacy ports they still use.
Oh, you mean CPU speed? My 3 year old iMac is fast enough for everything I do, save for recent 3D games, and I don't really need those anyway. That's one thing hurting Apple's 'marketshare', the quality and longevity of their products.
It's interesting, but a bit slow. I first saw this on the Mac Observer forums 2 days ago, and I think they got it from Mac Addict or some other site.
I've seen 'top' before, and the Process Viewer utility does the same thing without the Terminal, but this program is designed expressly to run with your other apps, beep whenever VM is hit, and tell you how much memory you need to avoid VM slowdowns. It's a bit more specialized, less general purpose.
I found her very easy on the eyes, for an over 40 actress. Not to mention her big blue eyes. She's not of my generation, being older than my mother was at the time, but she's not hideous.
The name of the program is "Do I Need More Memory?". That's the actual name. It's donationware from www.hillmanminx.com ; I happened to spot its listing on VersionTracker yesterday.
Oh, and I did get low memoy messages with it when I loaded LimeWire, which seemed to expand to take all availible physical memory, and stopped when the disk swapping started. So the program said I needed more memory, but 1MB more.
Oh, about memory usage. I just downloaded a free utility that monitors memory usage to determine if having more memory would speed things up. I've 320MB, and have opened up my usual programs: Mail, Safari, iTunes(playing), and addtions like Watson and iCal. Not only is there zero disk swapping, but I've got 77MB of extra memory that hasn't been touched. I'm sure that I could push it further with a commercial game, but I'm not going to use any of the others at the same time, save the Mail app. No, I don't have MS-Office, and I don't need it.
I did used to run OS X with 192MB of memory, but slowdowns were few and far between, mainly when I was viewing dozens of full screen jpegs on a single web page.
I'll agree that Pulaski had a bit more personality, as far as Star Trek characters go. Of course, the actress was also on two episodes of the original series.
I believe the first iMacs were sold for $1299, and the site www.everymac.com confirms it.
I don't pay any attention to PC prices(after all, I have no intention of ever buying one), but when the price of the complete system goes for less than what the CRT alone used to cost, it just sounds cheap and low quality.
I suppose that I agree. It's the only recent browser for the Mac that I've never tried. I have Safari and OmniWeb on my dock, and also have Mozilla, Chimera, and IE in my Applications folder(though I threw out IE once, the Jaguar update put it back). My father is a die-hard iCab user in OS 9 on his rev B iMac. I even used CyberDog as my main browser fron '97-'99. Never have tried any version of Opera, though; I've just not heard any compelling reasons why.
I'm using an iMac DV/400 Mhz that's now over 3 years old, and it runs everything but recent 3D games, though I've done about as much upgrading as you can on a Mac without PCI or AGP slots. Though to be fair, if I'd gotten the tower case Mac available at the time instead, I'd still be limited to a PCI video card like an older Radeon. I've got the 45GB 7200 rpm drive, getting a bit full now, 320MB memory(PC100), iSub subwoofer, iPod, HP Deskjet 932C, Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold joystick(though all of my games that I'd use a joystick with are OS 9-only), Macally iShock II gamepad, Apple Pro Keyboard(bigger than what came with it), Logitech Mouseman Optical USB. Plus 1.2 megabit DSL.
I'd like to get a new system soon, to try out Quartz Extreme and newer games like Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. But it's really not needed, and I'm unemployed anyway, so I just have to dream about it, and put up with the 8MB Rage 128.
OS X has a system level spell checker, that works automatically in Mail and OmniWeb, but has to be run manually in Safari. I guess he's using Safari, and forgot to run it! ;-)
Myself, I have an iMac DV that's just over 3 years old, and while I'd like to replace it, perferrably with a tower so I can change the video card, I'm #1: unemployed, collecting $156/week in benefits, and #2: I have no real need for a new system. A newer Mac would run more games better, but that's it. I've upgraded the memory, hard drive, keyboard, mouse, added the iSub, a gamepad, a joystick, a printer, an iPod, and a DSL connection. I can do everything I need, and most things I want. Well, a Firewire CD burner might be useful to get as well, I just have a slot loading DVD-ROM.
My father would like to replace his iMac rev B as well, but he'll have to wait until I get a job, as I can't pay my fixed expenses alone. At least I got a call about an interview while reading this thread, my first in months.
I've no desire to wear something like this, even if it were free. Weather? I've got the current temperature displayed in the upper right corner of my screen right now, next to my clock. If I'm out away from my computer, I'm out in it already, so I KNOW what the weather is like. Sports scores? I couldn't care less about any sport, especially pro sports. Setting the time? I can set it myself, thank you. And will there be a monthly fee for these worthless services? It wouldn't surprise me.
Question: if gravity is without mass, how does it affect things that do have mass, as it obviously does?
Let's see if... ah! It does work! Spell checking! Delightful. This may become my default browser yet, though it'll take a while to move all my bookmarks over. Thanks for the tip.
There IS an activity indicator. It's a colored moving bar behind the URL. Sort of an odd place for it, but it saves space.
The message bar for the bottom of the window is off by default, but easily added from the View window.
A few things could be added, though. There's no spell checker, like OmniWeb and Mail use, and it doesn't remember passwords like Chimera and Mozilla do. But it's fast, and it's a Beta. I did have to change back to OmniWeb to post this, as Safari kept timing out when I clicked on anything here, though to be fair, Slashdot seems to be pretty Slashdotted right now, and it took OmniWeb about three minutes to open this window.
I'll play with Safari some more, but I'll stick with OmniWeb for everyday use.