Subject: this is getting redundant, isnt it?

2004-07-17 Thread Stuart Saunders
129 dollars American says its gonna cost 129 dollars American. On 17 Jul 2004, at 1:18 PM, G-Books wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Joshua Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: this is getting redundant, isnt it? Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 23:21:54 -0600 Oh, and

Re: this is getting redundant, isnt it?

2004-07-17 Thread Joshua Braddock
So, with each version release, like 10.1 to 10.2 cost money? why didnt they do like what they did with classic os's and do 8.1 costs, but 8.2-8.4 doesnt, 8.5 does, 8.6-8.9 doesnt? lol i dont under stand that.. so 10.1.1-x is free, but 10.1 to 10.2 isnt. and 10.2 to 10.3 isnt, and 10.3 to 10.4

Re: this is getting redundant, isnt it?

2004-07-17 Thread Hal
It's called residual revenue. Apple, like any company that is only going to sell you a major product every few years, needs to insure that they can make money on a regular basis. It's the same reason Microsoft updates Office every 2 years and makes just enough changes that if one person in your

ot: new scanner and os 9 after X

2004-07-17 Thread Gladys Pérez-Almiroty
hi to all: i am in the market for a new scanner. i would like a compact one, but quality goes before size. i use os 10.3.4 in an ibook 500, pismo and cube. i want to make an album from pictures from a recent trip with my mom, so photo quality would be a plus, but i have photoshop 7 so i could

Re: this is getting redundant, isnt it?

2004-07-17 Thread Marcin Wichary
So, with each version release, like 10.1 to 10.2 cost money? why didnt they do like what they did with classic os's and do 8.1 costs, but 8.2-8.4 doesnt, 8.5 does, 8.6-8.9 doesnt? lol i dont under stand that.. so 10.1.1-x is free, but 10.1 to 10.2 isnt. and 10.2 to 10.3 isnt, and 10.3 to 10.4

Airport Extreme - Just checking

2004-07-17 Thread Bob Salsburg
I am thinking of moving from Airport to Airport Extreme. I have: TiBook 500 iMac G3 400 Graphite SE (and dead Airport Base Station) I thought I had remembered some advice here that some older Macs like mine may not support the Extreme cards. Is that correct? -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: annoying desktop file

2004-07-17 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Jul 17, 2004, at 12:41 AM, Michael Levin wrote: On 7/16/04 10:00 PM, Timothy Luoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, the old undeletable file test. What happens when you goto Terminal and type mv -f ./FILENAME ~/.Trash Ding. Ding. We have a winner. Thanks a lot! But can you delete it out of the

Re: what to do what to do..

2004-07-17 Thread Al Poulin
Joshua Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why cant I boot a cd that has the os 9 system on it? I mean, sure there is classic, but whats the use if you dont have the desktop, or am I not using it correctly.. I think the experts here need a little more info. In your earlier post you said you

Re: this is getting redundant, isnt it?

2004-07-17 Thread Al Poulin
Joshua Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and one more thing.. If I have OS X 10.3.4 Panther, will apple let me update to OS X 10.4.1 Tiger for free? Or will I have to buy that version? That will be a buy. Sorry. Apple will usually allow a free upgrade from one major version to another

Re: Airport Extreme - Just checking

2004-07-17 Thread Eugene Lee
On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 09:07:37AM -0400, Bob Salsburg wrote: : : I am thinking of moving from Airport to Airport Extreme. I have: : : TiBook 500 : iMac G3 400 Graphite SE : (and dead Airport Base Station) : : I thought I had remembered some advice here that some older Macs like : mine may not

Re: this is getting redundant, isnt it?

2004-07-17 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 17, 2004, at 9:00 AM, Al Poulin wrote: Joshua Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and one more thing.. If I have OS X 10.3.4 Panther, will apple let me update to OS X 10.4.1 Tiger for free? Or will I have to buy that version? That will be a buy. Sorry. Apple will usually allow a free

Re: ot: new scanner and os 9 after X

2004-07-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Saturday, July 17, 2004, at 12:20 AM, Gladys Pérez-Almiroty wrote: hi to all: i am in the market for a new scanner. i would like a compact one, but quality goes before size. i use os 10.3.4 in an ibook 500, pismo and cube. i want to make an album from pictures from a recent trip with my

Re: this is getting redundant, isnt it?

2004-07-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Friday, July 16, 2004, at 11:16 PM, Joshua Braddock wrote: So, with each version release, like 10.1 to 10.2 cost money? why didnt they do like what they did with classic os's and do 8.1 costs, but 8.2-8.4 doesnt, 8.5 does, 8.6-8.9 doesnt? lol i dont under stand that.. so 10.1.1-x is free,

Anybody's PB's crashing when removing CD/DVD drive?

2004-07-17 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello all, Just noticed something rather odd. I've got the Pismo, which is supposed to have the swappable expansion bays. I tried the Apple Tech section on their site, but found no matches regarding this. Everytime I pop out the CD/DVD drive, believe it or not, OS X Panther CRASHES! Any

Re: this is getting redundant, isnt it?

2004-07-17 Thread Adam Thayer
This is precisely why, actually. Steve Jobs said that MacOS X would 'last us' through the decade at least, which is why it has been 10.x.x for 5 years now. Another way to look at it is this: MacOS x.y.z x - Major Version Number - Represents a whole new core for the OS. y - Minor Version Number