Re: [Aus-soaring] Tiger and Computing

2009-06-22 Thread DMcD
>>But would his twin brother James have then been able to share the same >>Mac, or would he have to use a lesser PC? How far does brotherly >>sharing go? Maybe James could have just had an account on JC's Mac... >>so easy with Unix. Sorry, correction. The cat has reminded me that James was JC's ol

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tiger and Computing

2009-06-22 Thread DMcD
> Now this is either a really great pisstake or the guy is serious. You > decide. > He's a looney. Takes one to know one?? :-) If you go a little further, you find that the Mac OS is Unix with a nice face. Unix as in most large banks, universities, same like Linux as mentioned earlier in thi

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tiger and Computing

2009-06-22 Thread Roger Browne
How depressing. They really mean it. And I thought the whole thing was tongue in cheek. Roger Browne Mike Borgelt wrote: At 08:41 AM 22/06/2009, you wrote: now that was hillarious.(for a geek like me) sitting down at my PC running curtains (or was it windows) down with mac but bring on

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tiger and Computing

2009-06-22 Thread Roger Browne
A splendid quote Mike. Well done! Roger Browne ( Atheist in my beliefs but not an Apple supporter ) Mike Borgelt wrote: At 11:09 AM 19/06/2009, you wrote: >For anybody new to gliding and PCs who is thinking of buying a computer the knowledge >that Macs (or Linux machines) are pretty much not

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tiger and Computing

2009-06-21 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 08:41 AM 22/06/2009, you wrote: now that was hillarious.(for a geek like me) sitting down at my PC running curtains (or was it windows) down with mac but bring on the communism (e open source Linux) This is the site that came from: http://www.objectiveministries.org/creation/propagand

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tiger and Computing

2009-06-21 Thread Catherine Conway
That was really funny :) They missed the bit where the old multicoloured apple logo could be linked to the pride flag - ;) -Cath (who is writing this message on a mac while my iPhone is updating) On 22/06/2009, at 7:58 AM, Mike Borgelt wrote: Really? What are the sales stats? Anyway her

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tiger and Computing

2009-06-21 Thread Hitman (Melb)
ralia." Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 8:28 AM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Tiger and Computing At 11:09 AM 19/06/2009, you wrote: >For anybody new to gliding and PCs who is thinking of buying a computer the knowledge >that Macs (or Linux machines) are pretty much not used (there

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tiger and Computing

2009-06-21 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 11:09 AM 19/06/2009, you wrote: >For anybody new to gliding and PCs who is thinking of buying a computer the knowledge >that Macs (or Linux machines) are pretty much not used (there are a few exceptions with >software being written by enthusiasts for those OSs) by any gliding software for f

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tiger and Computing

2009-06-18 Thread DMcD
>For anybody new to gliding and PCs who is thinking of buying a computer the >knowledge >that Macs (or Linux machines) are pretty much not used (there are a >few exceptions with >software being written by enthusiasts for those OSs) by >any gliding software for flight >analysis and instrument sup

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tiger and Computing

2009-06-18 Thread Scott Penrose
I am not going to get into a debate about better computers or not, but I thought I would help a little. SeeYou runs perfectly on the free WINE for Mac OS X and Linux, and even better under the commercial ($39 from memory) Cross Over office. And you can run native windows applications on Mac

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tiger and Computing

2009-06-18 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 09:35 PM 18/06/2009, you wrote: No, I'm not here to discuss gliding, I want to hear more Mac vs PC bashing. I'm sure there is a computer email list somewhere with a good discussion on gliding. Dave L Unfortunately the technology of gliding in the last 15 years or so has changed so that p

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tiger and Computing

2009-06-18 Thread Dave Long & Cath Lincoln
No, I'm not here to discuss gliding, I want to hear more Mac vs PC bashing. I'm sure there is a computer email list somewhere with a good discussion on gliding. Dave L -Original Message- From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net]