OMG, Listers! It looks like this past week's migration from Claris Emailer to the OS X native Thunderbird email client was not only successful in itself, but has resulted in something totally bizarre: realizing I don't even need to have Classic Mode ON all the time anymore!
Just got up, having morning coffee...last night, having declared Tbird "fully trustworthy," I set it in both my account settings not to leave any more email on my ISP's mailserver at all anymore -- and then went to my ISP's web site and cleaned out the inboxes for both my addies...and just now, I also finally took the Claris Emailer icon out of the Dock too. So I'm sitting here, staring at my "strange" new Dock (I check email a LOT, so the lack of the Claris Emailer icon is definitely...strange! What's running? L ro R: Dashboard (OS X), Safari (OS X), Tbird (OS X) and my Sims game (Carbonized). I stare, and think for a moment...go up to the little 9 and turn Classic off. Of course, those apps stay running -- they're native or compatible with OS X. Then I click the icons for my vital but decidedly legacy GUID Checker and Sim Show (which I know aren't even Carbonized) -- and Classic starts right up on GUID Checker! I forgot it would do that, I've been running this G4 since discovering on Day One (September 21, 2006) I could specify in System Prefs to automatically boot Classic at startup, so it was NEVER off! Anyway, sincer I didn't need to actually use GUID Checker when I clicked it, I turned Classic back off. And then, I find myself actually wishing for the impossible -- that someone could Carbonize or write OS X native versions of GUID Checker and Sim Show! (and I know a 3rd party Sims-modding app programmer who puts out both OS 9 and OS X versions of HIS program when he updates it, so I decide to contact him and ask about the feasibility of this/if he'd be interested, to ask what's involved in making an OS 9 program OS X native!) Took me two and a half years, but even though I still need Classic for those last two programs, since I wish I didn't, I really DID make it all the way into OS X! I don't believe it!!! ::::faints:::: How long did it take the rest of you old stubborn Legacy die-hards? ~Yersinia. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
