On Saturday, June 15, 2002, at 11:11 PM, Larry Price wrote: > It's telling that I think one of the coolest things about the mac is > that it correctly interprets the ncurses color table.
LOL! Know what you mean. Pretty solid. Tried any compiles. I don't hesitate under Linux but I'm a virgin on the Mac. I guess I just don't want to see something fail, I _that_ attached to the thing. > Have you ever tried TextPad? (nagware, windows platfom) No. Why would I want to? That's a question not a judgement. ~:> > Very well, but I'm appreciating the overall package, the new OS and the > new hardware generation, if they made those new imacs in colors other than > space station white I'd be on them in a heart beat. Yes, if I were to go out and buy a Mac at the moment I think I'd be quite content with an iMac no matter what the color. I think it was Christopher Maujean who told me how cool the LCD screen were in that they adjust easily and stay where you put them. Even a -- what is it? -- 15" screen with good brightness (as opposed to a laptop, which is unusable outdoors) would be fin for what I do. I must say though. My Powerbook, which I bought as a transitional machine, has stuck and I've gotton to really like having a symmetrical keyboard, thumpad mouse, and something I can just sit in my lap and work for hours with. I never thought I would like it anywhere near that well. Mines the Pismo (a.k.a., fire wire) model, the one just before the Titanium came out. Not sure I'd like a titanium. Only one battery (mine will accommodate two if I pull the DVD drive, which I do) and maybe a bit too big to use. I don' t know. Don't think I've ever really messed with one. But then, hell, I'm one of the few who liked the cube! > Given that most of the Gurus I know are toting titanium laptops with > fruity glowing icons, the meme is out there that apple makes a good tool. Well, have no use for gurudom. I'm trying to go back East and get into a masters program that has to do with using computers to help handicapped people, specifically the blind. I've loved every Mac I've had right from the Fat Mack (512K precurser to the Mac Plus) up to my Powerbook. I kept a Mac Plus doing _serious_ tech writing work for years. Used to pull the boards once a year, put them in the bathtup and hose them down with degreaser, pop them back in the case, twidle the powersupply, and off I'd go. For years my most powerful computer was a LaserWriter II, which I used to "dumb terminal" up do and do straight PostScript on. My current fascination if the Internet in general and PHP and MySQL in particular. XML et alia on the short horizon... ETX
