> -----Original Message----- > From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 6:25 PM > > Jon might have already addressed this, but I want to inflict violence upon > the expired equine. > > > > >> I don't think so. I am using the same tools that I have been > using since > >> August... > > > > But maybe some other stuff came from a Mac. > > > > I mean: we have the Windows + Linux for a long time but the Mac only got > > really interesting for Java stuff recently. Even if it did not come from > > you, maybe it came from some other Mac. > > What other mac? :)
Besides yours and Jon's! I am just guessing here. That crazy "new line" sequence must have started somewhere and the PC and Mac "new line" sequences seem to be made just to mess up each other. > > As a Mac guy, can you take a look at the possibilities? > > Mac CVS tools? Mac Editors? > > The CVS tools are a direct port of the usual cvs tools. It's UNIX. The > stuff was ported right over.... > > The editor I was using was a pure-java IDE, IDEA. But a Java editor might be using the native OS "new line" sequence!!! > ... > > > > P.S.: I am following the Mac evolution with growing interest... I am > > already 10% on buying a Mac instead of a PC this year and 80% on buying > > a Mac next year (after getting a PC this year). > > I won't tell you to go either way (as I hate when people are > disappointed by > things I suggest), but I can only lead by example :) I am reading a lot of reports from both Windoz and Linux users that made the move and there are NO regrets with any of them. > I really enjoy my macs, I just bought a new desktop, and I love > it. I still > think that the Apple hardware is more expensive than PC hardware on a > checkpoint basis (i.e. USB (check), firewire (check), 1.5GB Ram (check), > etc...) > > But there is an amazing design sense that still comes from apple > and I think is worth the money. I worked with Macs a long time ago (Windows 3.1 had just been released) and I am familiar with that feeling. =:o) >From what I understand, that just improved. > For example, to transfer data from my laptop to my desktop, I can bring up > the ibook as a firewire drive - it doesn't boot to the OS, but just acts > like an external drive. > > So I hook it to my desktop with a firewire cable, and automatically the > partitions of the ibook drive appear as drives on my mac desktop. Very > cool. Very transparent. Very simple. Very fast :) Typical Mac. Just like with the old SCSI external disks. (You would plug the disk and just get some more icons on your desktop.) > Also, the desktop machine (which is MP) is able to go into *deep* sleep to > save energy, and still come back near instantly. I walk into the room, > touch the spacebar, and before I am firmly seated and ready to > work, the mac has woken up and is ready. Well, my Windows 2000 Dell PC does that. =:o) Have fun, Paulo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
