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Jason On 12/26/04 12:36 PM, "Bruce Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday, December 25, 2004, at 07:07 PM, rb wrote: > >> is there a list of the new key commands somewhere? >> >> i'm lost! > > Select Mac Help while in the finder, search for Keyboard shortcuts, > you'll get a bunch of hits.; there's also a link there for "get started > fast if you're coming from Mac OS 9 computer" > > MOST key commands are the same Command-X,C,V,S do the same as OS 9. The > big one that got me when transitioning, is command-n is new window in > the finder, command-N (using the shift key) is to create a new folder. > > Beyond this, look in help or tell us what it is you're trying to do. > > Also, what version of OS X are you trying this in? If it's 10.0 or > 10.1, run away, screaming. OS X didn't, imo, become usable 'till 10.2, > which was the most significant upgrade of any Mac os, ever, 10.1 to > 10.2 was sort of like if they had gone from System 6 to System 8 in one > fell swoop. > >> >> >> also, does anyone "dislike" the look & feel of os x? > > Many, many people dislike it. Many, many people love it. Many, many > come to love it. It's different. At first I was largely lost. After a > few years of OS X it's as right and proper to me as OS 9 was...now OS 9 > looks and feels like a primitive copy of OS X to me. > >> i'm not liking the new interface and the way the file sytem and >> windows work. > > Give them a chance. The column view file browser is a wonderful tool > for diggint into and out of nested folders. > > The file system makes sense, it's just not what it used to be. > > I've shepherded a number of people transitioning between OS 9 and > Windows to OS X. The folks moving from OS 9 have, at times, had more > trouble, mostly because it's enough alike OS 9 to get you to expect > everything to work the way it did, and enough unlike to trip you up > when you do. > > The big thing that trips people up is the inherent mutiuser-ness of OS > X. In OS 9 you owned everything. You could get into the System and muck > about, and no one ever told you you could or couldn't. (until all you > got on boot was a flashing question mark, of course ;-) In OS X, you > can't do this mucking around. On the plus side, you don't HAVE to muck > around. My OSX system at work gets rebooted only when a software update > forces it. > > I've had ONE crash in all the time I've been running OS X on it, and as > far as I can remember, only a few on my system at home in a couple of > years of running OS X as my primary OS. > > In OS X you're a user on the system, and you keep getting asked about > doing things and entering passwords, etc. > > This is a big thing for many old mac users. They feel that some control > of their computer has been taken away. This is wrong, though. When > you're being asked for a password you're really being asked to make > sure it's really YOU who's asking for a change, and not some other user > or agent, such as a virus or hacker. > > If you truly want to experience what using a truly multiuser system > without this precaution is like, use Windows for a while. In Windows XP > if you're logged on as an administrator, your permission to do things > is *assumed* and assumed it is, by viruses, spyware and other malware > galore. > > <shudder> We ran into a Win XP system the other day that was so deeply > infested with some spyware we had no choice but to nuke&pave it, and > we're experienced in this stuff, we're *good* at it. I'm this >< close > to convincing the other guy in my office that Macs are, in fact, better > general-use computers (He's a gamezboy and of course needs his PC for > that..I tell him, look at it like it's a big Nintendo box.). > >> and hazy looking text on grey or colored backrounds, etc. > > You can get rid of most text smoothing in the Appearance prefs (aka > control panels) in the General pane. There are third-party pref panes > that let you turn it off completely. > > However, this, too, is largely a 'getting used to it' thing. After a > while, OS 9 screens look clunky and pixelated. > > It does largely depend on your monitors, though. Good sharp monitors > are needed for it to become non-icky. If you've got old, fuzzy CRT's > you've been font smoothing all along and the added stuff in OS X fuzzes > it out completely.;-) > > -- > "Wherever you go, there you are." - B. Banzai, Ph.D. > Bruce Johnson > > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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