Ow ow.. now I see what you mean. I definitely do not want to trash OS9 applications. There are many things I need and want to do for which I do not have an OS X app, and I prefer it this way.
I do not consider OS X the successor of OS9. And for a fast and simple administrative task, I hate OS X thouroughly. Apple cancelled out considerable amount of their competitive advantage they had with OS 9. One example.. On Mac is OS 9 , installing an app was often very simple by just copying the on (single) file. When Microsoft came, they started claiming their own chapters and corners in the app folder, system folder and preference folders. That is when your OS9 started looking like a mess, and some PC like software libraries came into the Mac. We all studied this and learned to live with it. OS9 kept an advantage of less complexity than Windows with DLL versions that seem to attack eachother. I am not saying this for my interest as I am able to understand technical stuff; I am saying this for the interest of my customers. And then came OS X. In OS X, Apple tries to hide (using application bundle files), that a very complex system is running underneath. They are in fact bringing part of the problems Windows has, to the Mac. They can do that as far as I'm concerned. OS X is a GREAT system for workstations, video-work, DTP, ... but I consider it a capital mistake to ship OS X as a general solution for endusers. And I hate to see operating systems where too much energy is eaten by the GUI and animated trashcans and file-icons that tend to sing a song for you. All of that is crap... I hate to see Apple become just a giant seller of billeable events, derailing in music and other stuff, whereas the ONLY key value of Apple for me, is the option to have a lean and smart computer, not having the overkill and sickness of Windows. And Vista just increases the need for a system where you hav full control from a single Apple-menu, and that takes less time to boot, with no background processes. And before any of you start thinking... No, I'am not a retarded user which is reluctant to look at new systems and app's. I have every possible version of Windows running, and 3 versions of OS X, and OS 9, and OS 7.5 and DOS, and Linux, and Novell Netware as the backbone. Marketing and sales are invalid reasons for IT decisionmaking, as far as I'm concerned. If we in the west start climbing higher up a tree, which a rocket-science heavy system with gigabytes and gigahertzes in order to type a letter or read a (text-)email, then we are the cause that Muslims and Arabs in a desert full of sand will take a seat on their "Classic" Camel and yell "Yeah". They will advance, and we will be stuck, precisely because we have made human communication dependant on a huge pile of technology. We are wrong. Yesterday I received a MS invitation to attend a 500 EUR (650 USD) training course where MS explains their pricelist, and licensing. They are NUTS. Would you go and eat in a restaurant where they charge you 10 dollars to have the menu and pricelist read to you ? Don't you folks like the fact that a Mac SE/30 says "Boing" and after merely 20 seconds, you can start typing a letter ? With todays CPU power, that should be 2 seconds. I think of that each time I see OS X telling me "Optimizing your installation" for 15 min to half an hour. Excuse me for saying, but they (we as well) are totally nuts. We today have the systems that the sales and finance guys wanted us to have. We need to have the systems that WE want to have. Marc Irene wrote on 20-03-2007 11:30 * * * Start of original message text * * * >on 20/03/07 05:12 Beatrice Hopkinson wrote > >>You are very brave Irene :)) ....Bea > >Not really brave, Bea ! I'd read in several places that you could trash >all the OS 9 applications without any problems arising, so did it. I >didn't have a need for those appls, but I can imagine that others might. >In other words, it's optional. > >Irene > --- Just Marc _,,,'^-_-^',,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ICQ 3888426 W has gone haywire, with his BADGET ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
