From: Joseph McAllister
On Jun 3, 2010, at 21:36 , John Sessoms wrote:
> From: "Daniel J. Matyola"
>> "Based on my experience so far, it's easier to get the Windoze
>> computer to do what *I* want it to do right out of the box "
>> That is not my experience. Windoze loads a lot of crap that I have
>> to
>> get rid of, and it makes it difficult to load non-MS programs and
>> make
>> them the default programs.
>
> Yeah. Windoze does load a lot of crap that has to be gotten rid of.
>
> The difference is you CAN get rid of it. And once you get rid of it,
> it STAYS gotten rid of.
Under what circumstances could you not do the same thing with a
Macintosh?
See my earlier rant regarding the Le Cie drive configured for
transferring files between my Windoze box and the school's Macs. I'm not
allowed to store files on the school's computers (for one thing I don't
always get to use the same one ...). The Le Cie drive is my main storage
space, but I don't have a Mac at home.
When I need to upload my PEF files to the Le Cie drive I have to use my
Windoze box. Then when I get to school I can move the files into the Mac
volume.
I do have a server share, but it's not large. Certainly not large enough
to keep working files. It's intended for turn in.
Every time I plug the Le Cie drive in I get a pop-up asking me if I want
to change the drive so that it will be Mac only.
I don't. If I wanted the drive to be Mac only I would have configured it
to be Mac only to begin with.
However the software doesn't give me the choice of NO. It only gives me
the choice to change the configuration so as to make the drive useless
or to cancel.
If this were Windoze software, there would be some way to turn the
software off.
> Give you another one. On Windoze, I can do a print screen and then
> paste the screen-shot into paint or Photoshop, crop to the part I
> want, save it as a jpeg and insert that jpeg into a Word (or Open
> Office Writer document as an illustration.
>
> None of the Mac gurus at school could figure out how to take a
> screen shot.
You can do a screen shot, a window shot, or a selected area shot of
any proportion or size with a Mac, either through keyboard shortcuts,
or using the "included with the O/S" little program called "Grab".
Can't show you here, because this list has never gotten past the DOS
6.2.2 era. :-)
Perhaps you can, but as I said, none of the Mac gurus at school could
figure out how to do it.
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