What entr�e do you want with your 'whine'? Oy, the choice is simple...stay in the past with OS 9 and get left behind or LEARN how to use OS X. There are so many resources out there from which to learn. Go buy a book on OS X!
Tim On 3/12/05 10:30 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know some people in the list get annoyed reading talk about OS 9. But I > must agree that Steve Jobs must have been out of his mind or really looking > for many profitting OSX sales when he declared OS 9 dead. To me and for many > users that's not the case (not to mention some hated him for doing that > including myself), even though I use X at least 87% of the time (because I > want to remain as compatible as possible with the internet, and also its a > waste of time to reboot constantly from one system to the other). as I said > before, in our local school district, only staff uses OSX, and I can > understand why. certain things were just easier for me in OS9 and sometimes I > still would rather boot into 9 rather than doing them the long way in OS > X. For example, the put away command. The other day I was checking my > pictures folder one by one and I put a few pictures in the trash, then I > changed my mind BOY wtf!!... What were the folks in Apple thinking when they > forgot such a special feature in OSX? And another, I hate it when I select a > bunch of files and choose get info. I honestly don't know who was the idiot > who decided to make this (as MS Windows), the get info windows says "86 files" > DUH, I can see that, "that occupy whatever size of megabytes" duh I already > know that if I view the Get Info window on the folder before I even open it. > whether this is supposed to help you or not, its stupid, and unproductive. if > there was an option to "open individual item info in get info windows" was > that too much to ask in the finder preferences tab, I dont think so. I am > using 10.2.8 and honestly, unless Panther or Tiger covers those things I > mentioned I am not spending a buck on it. I might run it later if I should > buy a Mac with it already installed in the future. The expense is not worth > it. The fact that some users said on the list that OSX doesn't crash, I don't > know what system you're running but crashes come as often as who knows what, > this machine can't handle AOL Netscape, IE, and FireFox opened at the same > time, not sure why. And if I should open Limewire, Quictime, Mail or some > other small apps [like Preview], boy I am in real trouble. I had to do > another clean install once in about two weeks, and I guess its time to do > another one, repairing permissions wont do a thing, and I don't think OS9 is > to blame, because it sits on a completely separate drive. I once heard > someone that the reason my OSX was crashing so much on my G3 333 was because I > had OS9 installed (on a separate drive as well) that's nonsense. When I got > my G3 400 I ran it for a whole week whithout installing OS 9 at all. It would > crash with Netscape, Acrobat and AOL just as often. I also heard talk about > Limewire crashing the system as well. Sure, keep blaming third party software > vendors, or poor programing. If Apple made those for their users there > wouldn't be a reason to look for other sources. one thing I absolutely love > about X (and its mainly the reason why I didn't erase it completely and > rebooted into OS9) its iTunes, me being a music driven person, iTunes got me > hooked up. And I must say that's the only reason. everything else to me took > at least two months to get used to (been OSX user for 2 years) and its not > thrilling either. Getting my G3 400 to be the internet router for my G3 333 > is a pain, and I can't get my G3 333 to be able to sign on to password sites > at all (is there a way to fix it?) And what's it all about when you install a > new or demo program, when it tells you "whatever program its using a file that > could threaten the security of your computer, do you want to run it, fix it or > whatever" I always chose "fix it and use" and with Norton and OS 10.1 (the > latest version I had then) it keep going back to the same question endlessly > until I'd force quit the damn thing. It has happened with other programs cant > remember how many times. I just NEVER went back to installing Norton in OSX, > if I must run it I do it from OS9, and find it fixes OSX problems and improves > the situation 80% of the times (although I've never done it in the G3 400, > just the old G3 333 which incidentally didn't crash as often). whenever I see > the color spinning beach ball cursor I panic, at least 50% of the time when I > see it, its a crash. I had to stop the harddrive from spinnig down when the > computer goes to sleep, every too often the system would crash while trying to > wake up and access the drive, if this topic is too hot for the list please > reply off list. and if it gets you too mad just reply to the question on the > header. thanks Lili -- Lets stop animal > abuse: http://ibo.freewebpage.org/Animal_Abuse.html -- G-List is sponsored > by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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