Oh John, you and your cronies really don't know how to use a
Macintosh, and should not be allowed near one, until you read the
manual. A PDF file on the install DVD. You might learn a thing or two.
Read on.
On Jun 2, 2010, at 18:35 , John Sessoms wrote:
From: Joseph McAllister
On Jun 1, 2010, at 20:13 , William Robb wrote:
> Is that a Tom or a Queen you would prefer???
> This sounds like a case of you only get to do what Steve thinks
you > should do.
> Now I realize that Paul won't believe me, but a few years ago I
was > talking about computers with an acquaintance who is both a
Mac user > and an idiot. I mentioned something about file
extensions and he > didn't have a clue what I was talking about.
> He said (and I paraphrase) "we don't use file extensions on
Macs, > we just click the icon and it opens.
> Apparently Macs just know what the file is by magic....
As you probably already know, the Mac OS gives the user a choice
of showing the file extensions or not. The premise being, as you
say, you just click on it and it knows what app to launch to view
it. Just like in Windows.
Except that on the school's Macs just clicking on a PEF file doesn't
bring up Bridge or Photoshop. It brings up some weird file preview
I've never seen before.
Out of the box, Apple's Preview program opens everything it can, and
will continue to do so until you tell it otherwise. They are called
preferences, John. The Finder, and every app you run has them. They
must be set to make any program do anything except the default. The
default assumes all you have is what was installed on the computer.
What the hell makes you think the O/S knows you want a .PEF file to be
opened in anything else. Doesn't it amaze you that a simple program
that comes with the O/S can even open a .PEF file. Not much else can
until you install a driver to do so.
If you actually want to open the file to work on it, you have to
drag its icon to the tool bar, which is hidden somewhere on the side
of the monitor, and drop it on the appropriate program icon.
Or, as was mentioned earlier by someone else, right click on the mouse
and choose the app you want to be opened from the list of probable
apps. Amazing!
Plus, the mouse on a Mac SUCKS!
I know it's confusing john, but the Mac mouse doesn't have two clearly
defined L & R buttons with raised L & R on them, or a seam around them
to help you know where to place your fingers. With the Mighty and
Magic Mice, your tendency to put pressure on the left or right side of
the mouse is interpreted by the fast cpu contained within as to which
"button" you wanted to press, and transmits that choice to the Mac so
it can perform the function you intended. (fucking with you dude!)
The file ends up getting dropped on the desktop making two or three
virtual copies that are a mess to clean up and get rid of when I'm
trying to get shut down so I can go to my next class.
Right mouse click John, unless you want to open the .PEF in TextEdit.
And why does EVERYTHING I do require me to respond to an additional
dialog box confirming I actually want to do what I just told it to do?
Because the O/S has seen how much trouble you are having, and is
trying to tip-toe to prevent you from screwing up and doing a baddie.
The majority of what you see and how it's used in Windows was
borrowed from the Mac GUI, and yes, it was borrowed in the first
place. Sort of like when I type this, I am borrowing the use of
the alphabetical letters someone thought up a long time ago as a
way to communicate. Don't have to pay a fee to use them either,
other than to read your distain of people using computers who
occasionally wear tie died T's and don't need to be told that a
Doc file is a Doc file. After all, the ICON is a page with lines
of type on it! Something will open when I click it!
Yeah, apparently Microsoft also got the idea for their dancing paper-
clip and cute little puppy-dog pop-up "assistant" files that
constantly get in the way of actually using the programs for any
kind of productive work.
No. Those gems were incubated and hatched in Redmond. They figured the
average Windows user didn't know much beyond the command line, and
only wanting to help you achieve.
And every other bit of obstructionist crap Microsoft has introduced
since Windows 3.1 was stolen from Mac as well.
Only the shitty ones! :-) They couldn't figure out the good ones.
Apple put many rarely used "features" in the Mac O/S as a form of
Metadata to see if Gates would bite and reel them into the next
version of Windows. Ha!
I used to have screaming fits with MS Office before I could figure
out how to nuke any kind of auto-formatting. But at least the NON-MS
Office programs didn't have that bullshit.
Not so the Mac. Except on the Mac there is no way to turn off the
auto-formatting. You don't have the permissions.
Yeah. That's another thing you have to learn if you deem to vary from
the anointed path. Permissions. Mess with them at your peril, as they
are put there to prevent your students from changing their grades and
spelling your name funny. Until their concept is learned, they serve
to keep you from messing up a perfectly good O/S.
It just seems like there's some kind of Apple design philosophy that
if the computer looks cool enough there's no need for you to
actually be usable to use it, and that if you do presume to use it,
you aren't supposed to think of doing anything Steve Jobs hasn't
already done.
Grasshopper talk.
It's not just me. All of the instructors have Macs hooked up to
projectors so they can show us how to get things done, and they all
spend half their time struggling to get the the programs to open.
You and they must all be led to the light by one with more experience
in Cupertino-think. I used to do that for companies and individuals,
until it became apparent that only those unworthy needed my help (no
money was coming in and I was going broke). I refused to work for the
devil and teach Windows (it mad no sense to me anyway) so took to
driving a bus, which paid very well and was less dangerous than
becoming certified in Micro$peak.
I've yet to see any of them to get an image to open in Photoshop on
first try. Same problems I have ... Oops I clicked it and it's
opened the wrong program. Close that one and drag it onto the
Photoshop icon.
Right click, grasshopper.
Where did the toolbar go? Where did the file land when it fell off
the mouse pointer on the desktop? Finally got it open, did what I
wanted to do to it, and want to save it to a certain location.
It didn't fall off, you relaxed your pressure on the left side of the
mouse and dropped it. And it's not a toolbar. It's a Dock. It hides so
as not to clutter the desktop when you don't need it. It hides where
you tell it to with, wait for it.......... Preferences!
You can't get to that location from the program.
There is a concept in the O/S called navigation. Once you learn it,
you can place a file anywhere yo want, on any local or networked drive
you choose to. Hold the file over a drive ICON and Voila!!!, the drive
opens to disclose the folders within. Now move the file over the
folder you want it in. Voila!!!, the folder opens, and so on. Even
easier is after the drive opens, on the left side of that little
window is a list of all the drives, and the most common places you
might want to leave that file, like your "Documents" folder. And any
place you normally use can be added to that list, in any position on
the list, by navigating to it, then dragging it onto the list, then
letting go at the precise position you want it to be. If you miss,
grab it and drag it a line or two until you have it right.
You have to save it to the desktop. But the desktop isn't really the
desktop because the program is running full-screen although it LOOKS
like it's running in a window it's not really and where did the damn
file go now?
That's bullshit. Never seen it, ever, unless you are in Time Machine,
and lost your way, or you directed a full screen display of any window.
I am so sorry you are having all these problems. Call Apple (1800 CALL
APPLE) and give those poor sots in tech support a chuckle, would you?
Or ask your el-cheapo school or company to hire a competent Apple
certified IT person (or a grade schooler who has used a Mac for more
than a month - they know the way).
God, the rigidity of the mind of one who is schooled in the way of
Windows before seeing the true enlightened way of the Mac!
Still screwing with you dude!
Oh, by the way. if you select all (Apple-A) in an email you composed,
then hit shift-Apple-T while it is all selected, the resulting
document will be converted to plain text. And if you set the
"Permissions" in Mail, all replies will be in the same format they are
received. You can also set Mail to default to ALL created emails being
plain text, but that's stupid. How can you distribute the pictures of
cats and dogs and gerbils without using graphics!
Still screwing with you dude!
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
http://gallery.me.com/jomac
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