Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 2

2008-07-20 Thread mike
As you say, MS customers would not be be so smart. Tom says: MS plays on their insecurity by telling them that they have to be smart to use Xnix. (Obviously a MS customer would not be so smart.) They point to all the flavors of Xnix and make it sound like every one is wildly different. Who will

Re: [CGUYS] The blessed ones

2008-07-20 Thread Paul Meyer
I just got my eeepc. High five! It turn out my Dell E310 (a bargain basement desktop) was my first Linux box if and only if I installed Fedora (nothing supported the USB controller). Dell and Red Hat were once cozy. -Paul Meyer Checkout One Laptop Per Child project laptop.org --- On Sat,

Re: [CGUYS] Process name (null) on OS X

2008-07-20 Thread Paul Meyer
No geeks here, just fan bois and glitterati. And A intersect B :- Checkout One Laptop Per Child project laptop.org --- On Tue, 7/15/08, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Process name (null) on OS X To:

[CGUYS] Safari annoyances

2008-07-20 Thread b_s-wilk
I upgraded to Safari 3.1.x on my MacBook yesterday. It crashes every time I try to get contextual menus. I have Safari 3.1.2 on my G4 and it doesn't crash. How do I fix the version on the MacBook? When I did a crash report, I told Apple that I was going back to Firefox and SeaMonkey until

Re: [CGUYS] The blessed ones

2008-07-20 Thread Tom Piwowar
I just got my eeepc. High five! Do we get a review? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ **

Re: [CGUYS] Safari annoyances

2008-07-20 Thread Jordan
If it's the actual version of Safari that is screwing up, as opposed to a setting that the new version might change, you could try throwing your new version in the trash and downloading an older version from a place like this: http://www.filehippo.com/download_safari/ b_s-wilk wrote: I

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 2

2008-07-20 Thread Jeff Wright
You will also see lots of Macs used by scientists. If you watch science programs like Nova or the occasional/rare news report about something scientific you will commonly see that the person who just made a scientific breakthrough did it with a Mac. Second choice is Xnix. As I said before,

Re: [CGUYS] The blessed ones

2008-07-20 Thread Paul Meyer
I like it, it does have a small screen and keyboard. The Xandros based interface is a little rinky-dink so I want to try Ubuntu (the common practice is run that OS off a thumb drive or SD card). I also have yet to see how it fares as as pseudo- desktop by connecting to external monitor, keyboard,

Re: [CGUYS] Speaking of firewalls.. was Re: [CGUYS] Windows Update/ Zone Alarm

2008-07-20 Thread mike
I have a buffalo router flashed with a linux based firmware that allows for greater flexibility. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ddwrt Mike On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Paul Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was a review of Linux/BSD based firewalls this year on the Linux Action Show but

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 2

2008-07-20 Thread Tom Piwowar
Actually, the most productive people are those who don't get sucked into another one of Tom's or John's silly, adolescent pissing matches, yet again. WFBs get so emotional as Microsoft slips into irrelevance. They would play ostrich while significant changes are occurring in the computer

Re: [CGUYS] Macs in business...take 2

2008-07-20 Thread Jeff Wright
WFBs get so emotional as Microsoft slips into irrelevance. They would play ostrich while significant changes are occurring in the computer industry. I think it is much more useful to pay attention. This is all so fascinating. One must argue with you to be paying attention? Oh my. This level