[Malcolm's original comment about the transition from OS 9 to OS X being a
breeze for all users omitted in his reply]
Not what I said.
What's that supposed to mean?
That every posted opinion is promptly contradicted.
If you're not inclined to say I stand corrected
I stand contradicted.
Oh, was it? Because that's not how I remember it.
I knew someone would say that.
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Well, it will probably leave out in the cold some early Intel Macs,
Please tell us more before we go out and buy one of them.
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trying not to repeat the switch from OS 9 to OS X
But see, that switch was mostly painless for users. This reaps them
mucho good will from many people (such as me). In fact, there were 3
enormous changes over the years:
1. 68xxx to PowerPC
2. OSArabic numeral to OSRoman numeral
3. PowerPC
you have a 17 iMac G4 800? THose are nice machines
Yup, I love mine! Not the thing to watch Flash video on though. :P I
just don't go to YouTube with that machine. Instead, I use my PC
desktop, PC notebook or iPod Touch.
When my 80GB drive was getting full, I replaced it with a 500GB that I
Have you tried HTML5 YouTube?
Yes, from info given here. Two results:
1) It's better. But it's a better sequence of still pictures. :(
2) You only get HTML5 *IF* the video doesn't have an ad on it and there
are only a small number of those.
So, effectively, it's not better enough to make it
Looks like iLife '06 is the one for you.
If only they sold it.
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Joe and Jack, thanks for the tips. But really, my *best* course of
action would be to re-install Panther and *SELL* my copy of Leopard!
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I'd disagree entirely.
I know. But in the scenario I described I'd have everything I started
with AND not be out the $100. Not to say that there weren't issues WRT
using Panther, but it's all moot on a PPC anyway really. The bus it went
under is already over the horizon.
iPhoto has also
OS X doesn't come with any iLife apps. If you have the original disks, the one
that says Application Install should restore them.
So, even though iPhoto on my machine (which was supplied with Panther)
says it doesn't run on Leopard, you're saying that I can successfully
re-install iPhoto
Or my long-misplaced Billy and the Boingers 45rpm insert from the Billy and the
Boingers Bootleg Bloom County collection...
Or my long-misplaced Cowboy Neal rap at the Acid Test that was included
with the first edition of Hank Harrison's Grateful Dead book. And SO
many others
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The only major label album I have in a color other than black is Elvis'
Blue Album.
The only one I have is Dave Mason's first album, which was quasi-marble
vinyl. Hard to see the needle against it. Looks like the tone arm is
floating over a piece of marble. Way cool.
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I'd rather have the ability to make lossless backups of my photos
They likely come out of the camera lossy (jpg).
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Store them as PNG (.png). Lossless
Your camera will do that? What's the brand?
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Wow! Did that ever remind me of Amiga screens!
Aside: One of the other editors at Transactor for the Amiga had a NeXT
and said he liked it as much as he liked his Amiga.
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But I do think they were too quick to pull the plug on supporting PPC,
Tiger, and so forth.
Exactly right! I concur.
On the Windows side developers are still supporting XP which is about nine
years old
And what I'm using now. :/
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That would have been the much later Tandy line of PC-compatibles. Windows never
ran on the CoCo.
You are correct, sir!
By the time Bill was touting the wonders of the Tandy computer, Tandy no longer
made computers, they merely assembled them from parts.
They velcro'd 4 bits together into
(a Quadra 610) had a clock speed of 25MHz and he asked me if I was sure about
that
Tell him you know someone whose first computer had 1K of RAM. Yes! One
*K*. (In some locales Timex) Sinclair ZX81. My second computer had 3.5K
of RAM and featured a whopping 22 characters across the screen.
One guy wants ...
Couple weeks ago, I sold a video interface for the C64 for $100. Don't
even know if it worked.
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You can make money selling used rare or hard to find computer equipment.
Yup, it's true!
Maybe enough to sustain a side business, but I doubt one that would provide a
primary income.
Hey! My *job* doesn't provide a primary income. :P
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But if I had to choose
I'd take either!
It may be worth noting that my best jobs (editing computer magazines)
also provided my best pay (way less than other editors). But when the
work and the pay weren't best, they were both crap.
Crazy world, ain't it!
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My first computer had 256 bytes. And it was all hand wirewrapped, by me.
Ah, yes, well you *built* that one. And not the way they get built
today. The doubting Thomas referred to above probably would never
consider building one the way they're built today, let alone to build
one from
*My* first comptuer was a Tandy Color Computer 3
Back in the days when there was Byte Magazine! On a back cover of Byte
was a photo of Bill Gates sitting at a Radio Shack computer. His quote
was: When we really want to impress someone with Windows, we show it to
them on the Tandy. :D
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I've been running OpenOffice 3.0.1
I've been running NeoOffice to get it more Mac-like. My only complaint
is that it clones the world's worst software. :P
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Excel is one of the most useful programs I use.
I never really had to use it at work, but I _did_ have to know about it
and knew that it was very capable. Used gulp VisiCalc and Lotus at
work mostly. Although I wrote a manual for a spreadsheet program
(Professional Calc, IIRC, on the Amiga),
Open Office 3 and higher is Mac-Native, and runs faster than neoOffice.
Good to know! Thanks, Bruce.
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Well then they will loose many users, won't they?
Not a matter of the slightest concern to them, I assure you. When the
Internet wasn't public and Compuserve was the biggest service at 7
million, all of us sysops told them, If you do these things,
subscribers will leave in droves. They did
But we already knew long ago that Google was evil. All I use it for is
these groups, and I don't use a browser for them.
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Regrettably, Prickly City is not.
It's here:
http://comics.com/prickly_city/
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Listing the users, I got:
drwxrwxrwt9 root wheel 306 Jan 11 22:14 Shared
drwxr-xr-x 89 marianne staff 3026 Nov 19 16:00 macbookuser
drwxr-xr-x 69 marianne marianne 2346 Jan 18 15:37 mariannegirard
I remember that the macbookuser one was her old login. So I figured I
Final Vinyl is a free download from GriffinTechnology.com.
Thanks for the tip! Just what I was looking for.
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The machine without the DVD drive (it doesn't read consistently) is
actually a MacBook, but the helper machine is the iMac under my .sig and
the principles will be the same regardless of model.
The MacBook owner deleted a bunch of stuff based on its dates and times
and thereafter booted to a
the correct solution is to fix the Macbook; sooner or later she'll
need a working optical drive.
Yeah, I told her that.
better would be one of these
Oh! I _have_ one of those! And I have now made 2 partitions on a HD and
copied the 2 install disks there, installed, and all is well.
A little off-topic
No, a lot. And really, really in need of a different subject line.
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Thanks to Bruce Johnson for the very informative and useful message on
working with PC files from the Mac. Late as I am in posting my thanks
(the message went up Oct. 14), it'll still be some time before I follow
up on those things. (Sometimes it's just crazy busy.) But follow up I
will and
You can find all sorts of Mac system software at:
http://www.apple.com/mac/
??? Really? Where? By all sorts do you mean Snow Leopard OS X Server?
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after years of resisting I got a copy of Microsoft Office for Mac
Now you know why you resisted all those years. :P Revert to Plan A. :/
And I second the suggestion to use Open Office. (Mind you, I question
the wisdom of cloning crappy software.)
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Thanks, Elliott.
Macs will read PC formatted HD's.
I haven't tried that since installing Leopard. It seems to me that when
I tried to connect it to Firewire under Panther, it said, [something
like] Not ready. Want to initialize this drive? I didn't try to
connect it to the Mac USB cuz it's
I'm copying about 115,000 files. The source is a external USB HD on my
PC. The destination is a folder on the Mac. Twice now, I've gotten the
message:
The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in
CP20010618.pub cannot be read or written. Error code -36.
(Aside: Where do I
I think there is a lot of room for innovation in the
space between this drive for cost-cutting and the re-architecture
response the industry is producing.
No doubt. I just don't find that interesting. Expectable, predictable,
virtually certain. zzz
I also think you and I would
I have an iMac G4 1.25 17 FP with 1 gig of ram. I'm running Tiger 10.4.11
now. When I thought of upgrading to Leopard, I read that it likes to see at
least 2 gigs of ram to run smoothly. Does anyone have any experience with
running Leopard with this configuration?
Yeah! Mine's slower
So the user feels ripped off
I'm starting to think that none of you were around when the expression
was coined.
Ripped off means: They took your money and gave you NOTHING (or
something that appeared to be something valuable but which turned out to
be worthless).
We're going into your
I do not know whether it is a commercial product or
share/free ware.
It's commercial. $40, with volume discounts.
http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/ChronoSync/chrono_overview.html
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Perhaps you could get friend or member of your local Mac User Group to
bring over a FireWire capable 'Book?
??? Why would I bother? What's the advantage over just putting the disk
in my Superdrive? I don't get it.
in the Open Firmware procedure, the last
step after installing was to
Why didn't you just use FireWire Target Disk mode to do the install?
I only have the one Mac. Besides, it would _still_ be executing on my
machine and seeing 800MHz, right?
Sorry for the double post
Wouldn't be so bad except I get everything twice! I've figured out why
but haven't figured
My mac is .8 GHz Power PC G% 512 MB RAM
I'm guessing you mean an 800 Mhz G4
Actually, the % sign is on the 5 key. ;)
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any ideas?
Independent of the Firewire issue, just put a bigger internal drive in!
Note well whatever the drive size limitation is.
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never released anything slower than a 1.6Ghz G5
Didn't know. Good call, Bruce.
DID offer 800MHz G4's
Yeah, that's what I have. :)
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I had some trepidation about attempting to install Leopard (10.5.6) on
my Panther-running, 800MHz 'half a soccer ball' iMac. The main reason
for the trepidation was the classification of my machine at Uncertain
at the Leopard Assist website here:
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