Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?Winblowz connection
Every Winter we see one or more topics like this make 100 or more posts. Luckily this one is on topic and there is no Nanny whiplash or shutdown needed. Best of all everyone is in a comfort zone. Way ta go Listers ! -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?Winblowz connection
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Paul Kemner zkem...@gmail.com wrote: On the subject of security, how likely do you think it is that someone will bother to take the time to write malware to attack G3's and G4's running Tiger? It's hard to believe that someone would pay the big bucks for a new mac laptop, wipe the HD, and install Ubuntu! Buying a new PC laptop, dumping windows, and installing some version of linux, yes. -- How can we explain people buying a new Intel lapper and installing WinBlowz? overwhelming investment in Windows requiring Adobe Creative Suite? Addiction to pain? Woeful ignorance. Failure of the Apple store to communicate the pleasure of OS X? Insanity in the family? -- Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/ http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/ http://twitter.com/FluxStringer http://mog.com/FluxMuse -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?Winblowz connection
I share many of the views expressed in this thread about using a computer that is a great value and does what we need it to do. In most cases the need is expressed in software terms, since software is generally what we are referring to when we say we use a computer. I'd like to add that my clamshell iBook (300 Mhz, 544 MB RAM, 2 GB ROM) is a sustainable computing hardware project for me. That I found it on eBay for $79 and have kept total project cost for software and hardware to $150 or so adds to the value proposition, but I use it in part BECAUSE it is over ten years old and still works. Decent keyboard, decent screen, decent software. I considered the new- netbook alternative, and one day I might acquire one of those as well, but as long as this serves, why introduce yet another computer to the wild and have reason to believe that my cast-off may well be in a landfill somewhere? Besides, the iBook has panache, it never crashes, and I can use browsers as recent as the last incarnation of Opera 9. Yes, out-of- date browsers pose some risk, but perhaps we're just not much of a market for the malwarers...do you suppose there are many Nash Ramblers carved up in chopshops to feed the repair parts market these days? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?Winblowz connection
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:40 PM, kimtoufectis kimtoufec...@gmail.comwrote: I share many of the views expressed in this thread about using a computer that is a great value and does what we need it to do. In most cases the need is expressed in software terms, since software is generally what we are referring to when we say we use a computer. I'd like to add that my clamshell iBook (300 Mhz, 544 MB RAM, 2 GB ROM) is a sustainable computing hardware project for me. That I found it on eBay for $79 and have kept total project cost for software and hardware to $150 or so adds to the value proposition, but I use it in part BECAUSE it is over ten years old and still works. Decent keyboard, decent screen, decent software. I considered the new- netbook alternative, and one day I might acquire one of those as well, but as long as this serves, why introduce yet another computer to the wild and have reason to believe that my cast-off may well be in a landfill somewhere? Besides, the iBook has panache, it never crashes, and I can use browsers as recent as the last incarnation of Opera 9. Yes, out-of- date browsers pose some risk, but perhaps we're just not much of a market for the malwarers...do you suppose there are many Nash Ramblers carved up in chopshops to feed the repair parts market these days? I love Nash Ramblers and Metropolitans too. But you may notice my spinoff thread was about speculations as to why people run Microsoft Winblowz on Macs and ignore the far superior OS X. That can be very mysterious. you will not find any arguments from me on the points you made. I was sold on Mac OS over a decade ago. -- Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/ http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/ http://twitter.com/FluxStringer http://mog.com/FluxMuse -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?Winblowz connection
On Jan 22, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: But you may notice my spinoff thread was about speculations as to why people run Microsoft Winblowz on Macs and ignore the far superior OS X. That can be very mysterious. I have a few devices that need windows, unfortunately... If you have a Mac, do NOT buy a Magellan GPS, unless its an eXplorist (it acts like a USB drive.) My Triton doesn't even fully implement USB and requires the propriatary winblows software... Oh, my Fly Fusion pen needs one too... (don't yell at me saying i can get a new Mac if i didnt spend it on this stuff, i got the pen for $5 and the GPS for around $100...) -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?Winblowz connection
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 22, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: But you may notice my spinoff thread was about speculations as to why people run Microsoft Winblowz on Macs and ignore the far superior OS X. That can be very mysterious. I have a few devices that need windows, unfortunately... If you have a Mac, do NOT buy a Magellan GPS, unless its an eXplorist (it acts like a USB drive.) My Triton doesn't even fully implement USB and requires the propriatary winblows software... Oh, my Fly Fusion pen needs one too... (don't yell at me saying i can get a new Mac if i didnt spend it on this stuff, i got the pen for $5 and the GPS for around $100...) __ As a would-be media producer I find a need for PCs and Winblowz too. Because of software already owned or the need to be able to use what is on hand. But at the University there is an Apple store. Many students don't even give OS X a chance. They are told by the sales goofs that it'll run Winblowz and that is what they boot. Apple should train their people better or OS X will be a tiny feather in history like Amiga Workbench. And the EULA taboo against running OS X hackintoshed will reinforce that outcome. IMO of course. -- Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/ http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/ http://twitter.com/FluxStringer http://mog.com/FluxMuse -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
