You can do that in MS Office on OS X - but only because "save as PDF" is built into the entire OS, so all apps have the ability to do so.
I have found this to be an invaluable feature, since I use AppleWorks. I use the pdf features to create my CV and cover letters, and the rich text format to share with MS Office users.
So walk up to a person in the street and ask them if they want a 3Ghz P4 or a 900Mhz G3 in their brand new expensive computer.
I know people (especially those considering an Xserve) should understand the differences between processors, but one of the criticisms levelled at Apple about the Xserve is that the CPU is underpowered - the G5 will fit there if for nothing else than pure horsepower.
Have you seen the size of the heat sinks on the G5? I saw one in an Apple store today and was very impressed with the engineering of the whole machine.
The heatsink is a large oblong about 5"x4"x6" with a thin grille like construction. It's just too big to go in the 1U Xserve. Give them some time to work on designing it to fit though. The G5 is an ideal CPU for the Xserve as you say.
A 486 with 8Mb of ram that has the blaster virus must have either Win 2k or XP on there (perhaps Nt4 as well?) which is impressive by any stretch of the imagination.
Anyway, grandparent post is an interesting change to the regular Mac troll that appears in every thread.
Has anyone determined whether Taco has written this troll post into slashcode or if it's an actual human person positing them?
The render farm aspect of Shake 3 and FCP was very intersting to us - we use a Dual 450 G4 as the primary editing machine (backed up with a 667Mhz Powerbook).
Handing off renders to multiple machines would be a big benefit to us, even if it's only to make the Powermac and Powerbook work together - three processors has to be better than two in this sort of task.
If it really works well, for a small outlay it would be pretty easy to put together a little farm of old G4 boxes - dual 450s and 500s to use them purely for the times you hit "render all" in FCP and have 22 layers of video and photoshop files to put together.
I am continually amazed at the performance we get out of our 'humble' Dual 450 machine in Final Cut Pro. It's a tribute to Apple's hardware and software shops that it's so good. Makes me wonder just how mind blowing FCP is on a G5 box!
Roxio Toast Titanium on the Mac also has a verify ability - it offers you the option of verifying your disc right after burning and will do so if you don't respond in 10 seconds or so.
Mac OS X has CD burning ability in both the Finder for data and in iTunes for music, but even so, Toast is well worth it.
I was in a rush when I wrote my second reply - I meant to add that while I happen to like the one button mouse, I think Apple is lacking by not including the option for more buttons at build time (for the desktop and laptops).
With the trackpad built into the chassis, changing it out would be hard work unless there were two versions of the top piece, one with a two button mouse.
I use control+click a lot on my iBook, and I find it quite easy since the keyboard and mouse are always in exactly the same place relative to each other so I can do it easily with one hand. Other people probably don't find this quite so easy.
My friend was caught with this. She's a Mac user in a very Windows-centric group of friends and co-workers so she'd getting a lot of those replies to her address.
I received a concerned email this morning telling me her inbox was swamped with autoresponse emails (all with the attachments still there no less) and was worried she was infected.
I don't mean to be facecious there, but laptops are notorious for mouse issues - selecting a machine with the right type can be hard even in the PC world. I can't use a laptop that has that little clitmouse thing in the middle of the keyboard, and trackball type ones are just as annoying.
Yes, you have the choice of three or so designs on a PC laptop and only one if you buy Apple hardware, but that's just the way it is.
Obviously, the aesthetics of cars is a very subjective thing, but I think it can be universally agreed that if Microsoft made a car it would look like this one. Warning: only look at that link if you're sure you can bear to look at a car far worse than the Honda Element. It's no concept, you can buy one of those from a UK showroom for just shy of 15 grand.
It's harder to pick a good looking car to represent my OS of choice (Mac OS X), but I think this one is pretty good. 225bhp from 4 cylinders, 30 miles to the gallon, 154mph on the flat.
Saying all that, the Windows UI isn't all that bad, it's just unintuitive. If you take the time to learn it and deal with its weird actions sometimes you can get by.
You're not stuck with it though - you can always buy a mouse with two, three, four, five or more buttons and a scroll wheel and attach it to a Mac and it will work out of the box.
Some of the more fancy ones might need the drivers installed, but the majority of two button mice with scroll wheels work with a Mac as soon as you plug them in.
Alas, your post is in vain. The parent of your post is the same guy/girl/thing posting the "It takes 20 minutes to copy a 17mb file on my 8600/9600/Dual 1Ghz G4 and my pentium pro with 64Mb of RAM is much faster" troll.
It seems he's taken a new tack now, taking information he doesn't understand from an anti-Mac site that doesn't understand it either and posting it to every Apple thread on/.
heh. If my iBook has to crash three times a day and plague me with gator and comet cursor just so Apple can get market share back in EducationI will be pissed off!
I agree that is was something of a strange thing to do, but it fit with all the other icons on the desktop - if you didn't want them any more you pulled them down to the trash and they were done with.
Command + Y was "put away" which did the same thing as dragging a disk to the trash, and it would prompt you to save any open files. Force eject is somewhat extreme for regular removal of disks!
It seems to me that the user was too set in her ways to learn the commands and proper eject procedures for the OS (even if they were a bit unconventional).
I don't think any OS has nailed the User Experience yet, they all have their weaknesses. I don't like the fact that the "arrange by name/kind/date" functions in OS X's Finder can only be accessed by the menu and don't have any keyboard shortcuts for example.
It happened to me in Top Infants (age 6 or 7) at school in the UK.
I was a voracious reader and I had read all of the books in the infant library and was after more material. The teacher wouldn't let me get any books from the junior library for some reason. I forget the actual reason she gave, but i remember my mother was very irate about that and had words with the teacher. I still wasn't allowed to get books from the junior library though, the teacher made me re-read the infant books.
I would imagine that I-deas would be joining that list soon if it hasn't already since it was originally written to run on a Unix system. The NT port is ok, but it works much better without Windows underneath it.
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You can do that in MS Office on OS X - but only because "save as PDF" is built into the entire OS, so all apps have the ability to do so.
I have found this to be an invaluable feature, since I use AppleWorks. I use the pdf features to create my CV and cover letters, and the rich text format to share with MS Office users.
Have you ever been clipping your nails and had a piece of nail fly off and hit you in the eye?
Deadly!
Apple has said it will continue to make G4 Powermacs for as long as people will buy them.
So walk up to a person in the street and ask them if they want a 3Ghz P4 or a 900Mhz G3 in their brand new expensive computer.
I know people (especially those considering an Xserve) should understand the differences between processors, but one of the criticisms levelled at Apple about the Xserve is that the CPU is underpowered - the G5 will fit there if for nothing else than pure horsepower.
Have you seen the size of the heat sinks on the G5? I saw one in an Apple store today and was very impressed with the engineering of the whole machine.
The heatsink is a large oblong about 5"x4"x6" with a thin grille like construction. It's just too big to go in the 1U Xserve. Give them some time to work on designing it to fit though. The G5 is an ideal CPU for the Xserve as you say.
A 486 with 8Mb of ram that has the blaster virus must have either Win 2k or XP on there (perhaps Nt4 as well?) which is impressive by any stretch of the imagination.
Anyway, grandparent post is an interesting change to the regular Mac troll that appears in every thread.
Has anyone determined whether Taco has written this troll post into slashcode or if it's an actual human person positing them?
The render farm aspect of Shake 3 and FCP was very intersting to us - we use a Dual 450 G4 as the primary editing machine (backed up with a 667Mhz Powerbook).
Handing off renders to multiple machines would be a big benefit to us, even if it's only to make the Powermac and Powerbook work together - three processors has to be better than two in this sort of task.
If it really works well, for a small outlay it would be pretty easy to put together a little farm of old G4 boxes - dual 450s and 500s to use them purely for the times you hit "render all" in FCP and have 22 layers of video and photoshop files to put together.
I am continually amazed at the performance we get out of our 'humble' Dual 450 machine in Final Cut Pro. It's a tribute to Apple's hardware and software shops that it's so good. Makes me wonder just how mind blowing FCP is on a G5 box!
Although the Dual 450 G4 is no slouch either - we have one running Final Cut Pro 3 very happily in a production environment.
Wouldn't give up my 600Mhz iBook for love nor money though.
Ryan: She started compiling the new Linux kernel this morning.
Roxio Toast Titanium on the Mac also has a verify ability - it offers you the option of verifying your disc right after burning and will do so if you don't respond in 10 seconds or so.
Mac OS X has CD burning ability in both the Finder for data and in iTunes for music, but even so, Toast is well worth it.
You're telling me! I nearly wrapped my car around a tree when I saw one out on the roads around my house a while back.
There's one for the insurance claim. "Reason for crash: gawking at fucking ugly car".
I was in a rush when I wrote my second reply - I meant to add that while I happen to like the one button mouse, I think Apple is lacking by not including the option for more buttons at build time (for the desktop and laptops).
With the trackpad built into the chassis, changing it out would be hard work unless there were two versions of the top piece, one with a two button mouse.
I use control+click a lot on my iBook, and I find it quite easy since the keyboard and mouse are always in exactly the same place relative to each other so I can do it easily with one hand. Other people probably don't find this quite so easy.
My friend was caught with this. She's a Mac user in a very Windows-centric group of friends and co-workers so she'd getting a lot of those replies to her address.
I received a concerned email this morning telling me her inbox was swamped with autoresponse emails (all with the attachments still there no less) and was worried she was infected.
Connect it to the USB port maybe?
I don't mean to be facecious there, but laptops are notorious for mouse issues - selecting a machine with the right type can be hard even in the PC world. I can't use a laptop that has that little clitmouse thing in the middle of the keyboard, and trackball type ones are just as annoying.
Yes, you have the choice of three or so designs on a PC laptop and only one if you buy Apple hardware, but that's just the way it is.
Obviously, the aesthetics of cars is a very subjective thing, but I think it can be universally agreed that if Microsoft made a car it would look like this one. Warning: only look at that link if you're sure you can bear to look at a car far worse than the Honda Element. It's no concept, you can buy one of those from a UK showroom for just shy of 15 grand.
It's harder to pick a good looking car to represent my OS of choice (Mac OS X), but I think this one is pretty good. 225bhp from 4 cylinders, 30 miles to the gallon, 154mph on the flat.
Saying all that, the Windows UI isn't all that bad, it's just unintuitive. If you take the time to learn it and deal with its weird actions sometimes you can get by.
You're not stuck with it though - you can always buy a mouse with two, three, four, five or more buttons and a scroll wheel and attach it to a Mac and it will work out of the box.
Some of the more fancy ones might need the drivers installed, but the majority of two button mice with scroll wheels work with a Mac as soon as you plug them in.
Alas, your post is in vain. The parent of your post is the same guy/girl/thing posting the "It takes 20 minutes to copy a 17mb file on my 8600/9600/Dual 1Ghz G4 and my pentium pro with 64Mb of RAM is much faster" troll.
/.
It seems he's taken a new tack now, taking information he doesn't understand from an anti-Mac site that doesn't understand it either and posting it to every Apple thread on
Move along, nothing to see here.
heh. If my iBook has to crash three times a day and plague me with gator and comet cursor just so Apple can get market share back in EducationI will be pissed off!
I agree that is was something of a strange thing to do, but it fit with all the other icons on the desktop - if you didn't want them any more you pulled them down to the trash and they were done with.
Command + Y was "put away" which did the same thing as dragging a disk to the trash, and it would prompt you to save any open files. Force eject is somewhat extreme for regular removal of disks!
It seems to me that the user was too set in her ways to learn the commands and proper eject procedures for the OS (even if they were a bit unconventional).
I don't think any OS has nailed the User Experience yet, they all have their weaknesses. I don't like the fact that the "arrange by name/kind/date" functions in OS X's Finder can only be accessed by the menu and don't have any keyboard shortcuts for example.
It happened to me in Top Infants (age 6 or 7) at school in the UK.
I was a voracious reader and I had read all of the books in the infant library and was after more material. The teacher wouldn't let me get any books from the junior library for some reason. I forget the actual reason she gave, but i remember my mother was very irate about that and had words with the teacher. I still wasn't allowed to get books from the junior library though, the teacher made me re-read the infant books.
The Trash icon changes to to an eject icon or a burn icon when you "grab" the CD/disk image/firewire drive with your mouse.
You can also access those functions from the "file" menu in the Finder if you didn't know about the click and drag method.
I work in the Media department, looking after our suite of Macs.
The rest of the school runs windows machines and is looked after by a network admin who asked me "What's Apache?"
I thought he was kidding. He wasn't.
Those G3 machines that Apple is refunding on are pretty old now.
They were the first Macs to use the G3 processor, way back in the days of 233Mhz. They really are very old.
Running OS X on them would be like running Windows 2000 or XP on an original Pentium - just about possible, but not all that speedy.
Those G3s run OS 9 really well though - we have one of them working as a file server.
I would imagine that I-deas would be joining that list soon if it hasn't already since it was originally written to run on a Unix system. The NT port is ok, but it works much better without Windows underneath it.
8. Click and hold Terminal icon and choose "Keep in dock" or just drag it into a new position to do the same thing.
The Terminal is just too useful a thing; it lives on my dock and is rarely not running, even if I don't have any shells open.