MacGroup: Adieu, Explorer

2004-10-12 Thread Marta Edie
Just to let you know, (and thank you again), Jerry, how much I have enjoyed and used that link since you first mentioned it to the group quite a while back. Having to type out url addresses is a real pain. -As far as all that Linux talk goes, I am doing what my philosophy professor

MacGroup: Adieu, Explorer

2004-10-12 Thread Robert Klein
Thanks for the help with IE. I switched to Safari and have not had any problems. It took a while to figure out how to make Safari think that I was starting it for the first time so it would copy all of my bookmarks, but somehow I did it. Safari is nice enough, but I can see some features that co

MacGroup: Adieu, Explorer

2004-10-12 Thread Jerry Yeager
Hello Robert, Type the following into your url thingy javascript:location.href='mailto:? SUBJECT='+document.title+'&BODY='+escape(location.href) then drag it down onto the bookmark's bar. You will have an instant "send link" button. Jerry On Oct 12, 2004, at 5:34 PM, Robert

MacGroup: Will Linux finish off the Mac?

2004-10-12 Thread Lee Larson
On Oct 12, 2004, at 11:19 AM, Rex Baldazo trolled: > That's the general thesis of this column: > > http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-5406365.html > > I think David is just trying to be controversial to stir up debate, but > still he has some good points. As a user of both Mac OS X and Linux, thi

MacGroup: Will Linux finish off the Mac?

2004-10-12 Thread Rex Baldazo
That's the general thesis of this column: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-5406365.html I think David is just trying to be controversial to stir up debate, but still he has some good points. --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 28. The LCS Web p

MacGroup: Will Linux finish off the Mac? (more musings)

2004-10-12 Thread Jerry Yeager
Linux gained a huge support base this weekend when Novell decided to throw its weight behind supporting Open Source Software. The problem is this: the threat of lawsuits. If a small business "D" uses Open Source Software, it faced the possibility of being sued for IP violations (say company "M"

MacGroup: Will Linux finish off the Mac?

2004-10-12 Thread Rex Baldazo
Strangely their cherryos.com Web server is running on a Windows .NET machine. You'd think they would run their Web site on an OS X box, either using their own emulator or running native on a Mac. --- Rex. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.lo

MacGroup: Will Linux finish off the Mac?

2004-10-12 Thread Henri Yandell
Two words: Laptops and Games. I have Windows boxes because I still like to play PC games (though the XBox is curing me of that somewhat). I have a Mac laptop because Linux on a laptop is a pain in the arse (hardware support is touch and go). Otherwise, Linux rocks :) The main reason: no per-cp

MacGroup: Will Linux finish off the Mac?

2004-10-12 Thread Jerry Yeager
If he had published this last week, he would have had some subtle thoughts that others have not raised cogently yet (I suspect others are wondering if GNOME will lose to KDE ---KDE is closer to OS-X than GNOME is and some distributors are dropping GNOME support in favor of KDE). I also think th