Allan Atherton wrote: >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/ > >
And here I thought bikers only rode around the countryside raising hell. Live and learn. From what you say, I think we're at opposite ends of the rainbow when it comes to the Mac. I bought some software with my first Mac, but not with the iMac. For the most part, I only use the software that came bundled with the Mac, stuff I make, and any peripherals I add. I haven't ever bought any virus detection or utility software. I think they generate more problems than they cure. Usually, if I have a problem that won't go away, I just load my backup software, and pick up where I left off. In my youth, I loved problem solving and puzzles. Now, I don't want any problems, just puzzles. So spreadsheets were just what the doctor ordered. Everything I needed was included in AppleWorks. Any time I needed software, I'd just open AppleWorks and make a spreadsheet to do the job. HyperCard was the only other purchase I thought was worthwhile. From what I've heard about the new OS, I'm almost tempted to make the transition, despite some of the problems I've been reading. When I went from my 25 MHz OS 7 Performa to a 300 MHz OS 8.6 iMac, I couldn't believe the difference. It was like night and day. For my needs, any more speed than this might be a waste. As for the cookies at my site, I have nothing to do with them. That's strictly AOL. I have to laugh because I never thought about it. I hate them. To me it's a bunch of nonsense and stupidity. Anyway, put ar.atwola.com into your browser and see where it takes you. A page opens showing one of the ads at the site. If you keep pressing the go button, the ad changes. There's a whole list of them. That's the price you pay for 2 Megs of space. AOL gives you an extra 2M of storage if you put your web site in Hometown AOL. -- Tony LaFemina Major in Layout & Design Techniques Minor in Software Fundamentals http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html mailto:remacs at optonline.net 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>.
