Tony LaFemina <remacs at optonline.net> wrote: > From what I've been reading about OS X and Jaguar, it sounds like I'm > in for an uphill climb when I eventually get there. > Tony LaFemina > http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html
Well, after almost ten years of it, I don't miss the old-style OS. It reminds me of the extension problems before Conflict Catcher came out, and then the many hours spent with CC to isolate the problems. It reminds me of being afraid of every new installation for fear it might destabilize the system (but I did tend to install everything that came down the pike). It reminds me of not rushing the system, waiting for it to do its thing before asking it to do some more, for fear of crashing it. I eased into OSX by installing it on a partition of my souped up 1997 beige G3 (looks like a Centris 650), thinking I would dabble with it, and if it was terrible, this was the time to flee to Windows. But I liked OSX right away, and here I am a year later with no need to ever use the OS9 partition. OSX is really stable; in a year, I think the OS has crashed only twice, and that was before Jaguar. If an application freezes, just quit it and launch it again. On booting up, just click all the applications you want to use in the Dock, and they all launch simultaneously. Keep them all open, because they don't take much memory. Installations are simplified and trouble-free. And uninstalls are easy because trashing the application takes all its baggage with it. One thing that helped the transition for me was FruitMenu, which is like the old Now Menus and the current Action Menus for OS9 - I have always been hooked on fast navigation by cascading downward out of the Apple Menu. I looked at your web page, and you do have a lot invested in the old learning curves for OS 7-9 and AppleWorks. But if you can do all that, you will have an easy time with OSX and are bound to like it. Just buy the Pogue Missing Manual, which is not necessary but increases the enjoyment of using OSX. Like me, you might never be comfortable with the Unix underpinnings, but you don't have to see, or learn, or use that stuff, unless you want to. I mostly stay away from it. PS: Your web page sends cookies called ar.atwola.com, which I see a lot of since I manually screen cookies and keep only the ones I need. Where do you get cookies, how do you send them, and what does that cookie do? Allan Atherton http://home.insightbb.com/~aatherton/ The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
