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[PigPog Blog] I still really love the idea of owning a Mac, but not enough to risk having one as my main machine when I rely so much on having a computer I know my way around. It’s the idea of starting from scratch again with everything, buying all the apps again and spending more time figuring out how the tools work than actually using them.
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[ZogBlog] Updated my Mac... so it's time for another Apple Rant (TM): My favorite out-of-the-box widgets include: weather, stocks, calendar, clock, stickies, calculator and dictionary/thesaurus. My favorite downloaded widgets include: VersionTracker, DashMonitors, This Day in History and Bloglines. Spotlight appears to work with preliminary tests, but where is the XSound-like sound event assignment capability? You know the kind of feature that was included in the FIRST VERSION OF WINDOWS and OS X STILL DOESN'T HAVE IT!?
[taul peppers] OS X: Using Terminal.app to launch X11 applications: Well I don’t really like the xterm compared to Terminal.app, so I’ve found this whole using two different terminals annoying. Terminal is tightly integrated into OS X, with drag and drop file to pathname conversion, easy cut & paste, a GUI for setting preferences, and probably best of all, Quartz tranparency, which makes it easy to see code through the window, and looks bitchin. xterm is pretty much an old school unix term, which requires modification of a dot settings file or command line arguments to tweak its behavior and looks, and of course, there’s no transparency. A while back I gave up on trying to figure it out, but I tried something else today and it worked.
[randomlyhumming's tired.... so tired.] Tiger Impressions: Dashboard: I’ve found a couple of goofy bugs with Dashboard so far—I’m not sure how well it’s been tested. I’m disappointed that widgets don’t update themselves in the background—or at least it seems they don’t. They usually update pretty fast when I switch them in, but..
[Macworld.com] Macworld: Editors' Notes: The Mac mini: Comparing Apples and Oranges: The Dell comes with 256MB of RAM, but it’s shared between the computer and the video card. Dell says that 32MB to 64MB of that RAM will be used by the video card, leaving you with 196MB to 224MB for the operating system and all applications (even though the company recommends 512MB to 1GB if you want to “run several programs at once or plan to edit photos"). Dell says that the 2400 can only be upgraded to 512MB, still shared, but readers claim the limit is actually higher The Mac mini includes a video card with dedicated memory, and you can upgrade the Mac mini’s RAM to 1GB—contrary to rumors around the Internet, Apple has told Macworld that you can even do it yourself without voiding your warranty “unless you break something when you open it.”)
[Macworld.com] Editors' Notes Weblog: The Mac mini: Comparing Apples and Oranges ...: Also Wintel users gain a lot of economy by re-using/swapping not only monitors and keyboards, but also video cards, sound cards and even that FireWire card that is only used occassionally. If I have an office with 10 machines I can buy 1 FireWire card and move the card to the machine that needs it rather than being forced to buy 10 built-in FireWire. PC users do this kind of econo-sleazing all the time. You can take out the old video card from the machines they throw away at work and put it into your daughter's bedroom computer along with that older 20GB hard drive from my old desktop and build computers for less than $399.
[Macworld.com] Macworld: Editors' Notes: The Mac mini: Apples and Oranges and ...: Last year a number of friends who had been longtime Windows users bought Macs for precisely this reason: They were just plain tired of dealing with viruses and spyware. And often the person didn’t make the switch because they heard Macs were better/faster/easier to use; rather, they heard that Macs simply weren’t as infested with viruses and spyware—that alone was their reason for taking a serious look at the Mac platform. Their time, like mine, is worth money, and they decided that enough was enough. There’s growing dissatisfaction with Windows precisely because of this, and I predict that this year we’ll see a lot more of these “forced” switchers—people who might normally have never considered the Mac, but feel compelled to by the security mess that is currently Windows.
[Macworld.com] Editors' Notes Weblog: The Mac mini: Apples and Oranges, a Follow ...: I've used PC's for over 20 years, but was grateful to Apple for the opportunity to add a Mac at what I consider a reasonable cost to my home network. I'll keep my Dell to run those few programs for which Mac versions aren't available, but for majority of my needs I have enough experience to know that the Mac Mini will be adequate, and -in terms of aesthetic tastes- easier on my eyes. Certainly I'll reduce the security headaches - if even it is largely "security by obscurity". I suppose it is possible to assemble a computer from components more cheaply,but I have have neither the time nor the inclination to do so, as I suspect does much the "target market" for this product.
[The.taoofmac.com] The Tao of Mac - HomePage: Obviously, things didn't go well (the fact that this is technically being posted on the 25th of May should give you a hint). First off, Mac OS X doesn't seem to like this Samba server. Fedora likes it just fine (and my iMac can access other Samba 3.0 servers), but Mac OS X refuses to mount shares on the upgraded NSLU2 - which is still the case after wading through the copious amounts of Samba documentation and sniffing at traffic to try and figure out what's happening.
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Posted at May 28, 2005 01:06 PM
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