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Fedorenko
Junior Member
Australia
463 Posts |
 Posted - 14 Dec 2003 : 02:46:09
I have a little embarrising secret to tell you all, and the only one who knows it is ML5.Well, last Thursday (I would have poasted earlier, but it was down), I was MacOS X, for the first time...ever. And jeez it kicked ass. I was way to earlier for work so I bummed aroudn the city for an hour or so..till I came across Nextbyte. After releasing a loud profanity in fidning a legemitate Apple Center I walked up to it, and once I figured out how to open the door (stupid me could realise that what I thought was a sliding door was really a push in door, must have bene the shock..) I had a look at the wares. After refusing assitance from one of the salespeople, I made a beeline for the computers..and hence I tried out OS X...on a G5! Jeez its big and shinny, and looks like a cheese grator. So I played with it...until I was pushed off by a saleswomen and a legitmate customer...so i had ago with one of the only recently discovered by me 20" iMacs  The whole store oozed apple ness..... After a while, I realised that I was going to miss by train....so I had to cut the trip off early and sprint back to the train station inorder to get ot the cubicle den I work in (you got to love telemarketing). Ill be back there on monday Good ideas usually are created by crazy people, go figure... |
cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 14 Dec 2003 : 03:13:14
lol, are you like, going to save up for a new mac?  I'm glad to hear that you've finally been enlightned as far as OSX goes... and it is MUCHO better when you own your own mac, because you get to have it be 'your own'  I didn't get 'into' OSX until I owned the TiBook, and even then, I considered runningOS9 as my primary OS... I'm glad that I didn't do that Official 68k videographer
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 14 Dec 2003 : 05:40:03
Glad to hear you enjoyed your trip to Next Byte. I've been going there since 1997, and have always been impressed...as a matter of fact, thats where my PB1400 came from - brand new!  "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers
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G4from128k
Full Member
USA
873 Posts |
Posted - 14 Dec 2003 : 08:16:54
You are not the only one who is not on the OS X bandwagon. I've only used OS X in Apple Stores too. I plan to buy a nice shiny new Mac after I see what Jobs has up his sleeve in January. I'll probably also get Panther Family addition and drag our late-model Macs into the new world of OS X. I just hope Fullwrite and Trapeze run under Classic on the new macs.G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist
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wisof
Junior Member
USA
257 Posts |
Posted - 14 Dec 2003 : 10:05:05
we have a whole lab of os x quicksilvers at the uni. its my only experience with os x. there is some wicked messy stuff with printing. like rendevoux printing doesn't work very well. we try to keep certain printers off of the macs, yet the macs still find them. we have tried a number of things to make them not visible to each other, but to no avail. so the whole lab prints all messed up.then get this. I take one of the quicksilvers out of the lab pool and redo it. I start from scratch and I get the printers exactly how I want them on this one machine. then I reintroduce the one quicksilver back into the lab. now all of the printers are printing like this one machine I took out. I guess there has to be some reason to all of this, but I have not had time to find it yet. I am just happy that all of the printing is going as it should. . .for now! it is super sweet (OS X) but there are some "smart" things it does, that get on my nerves. _____________________________________________
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The Lightning Stalker
Full Member
USA
747 Posts |
Posted - 14 Dec 2003 : 16:28:56
Mmm. Could be something to do with LDAP or NFS or something, but I really don't know because I've never gotten around to running stuff like that. Interesting conundrum. |
The Lightning Stalker
Full Member
USA
747 Posts |
Posted - 14 Dec 2003 : 16:32:50
I would be running OSX by now, but when the install CD boots, after the splash screen, it goes to like 1024x768 or some high resolution that my cheap secondary monitor doesn't support. So I gave up. I know, I should probably figure out a way around this, but I've been pretty lazy lately. |
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