| Author | Message | ||
     notehead Citizen Username: Notehead Post Number: 400 Registered: 5-2001 |
Oh my GOD!!! The new 17" PowerBook... it is absolutely the very coolest laptop ever... I feel faint.... | ||
| Elizabeth Citizen Username: Elizabeth Post Number: 106 Registered: 7-2002 |
My iMac's system software is 10.1.5. My husband's new iBook's system software is 10.2.1 (aka Jaguar.) Question: can I (as opposed to may I) upgrade my iMac to 10.2.1 using the system software disks that came with the iBook? | ||
| Dave Ross Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 4236 Registered: 5-2001  |
Logstically, my guess is probably, though you may get network conflicts due to only having a single license. Legally speaking, it's probably against that user agreement no one reads when they install software. | ||
| Andrew N de la Torre Citizen Username: Delatorre Post Number: 18 Registered: 2-2003 |
Elizebeth, it shouldn't be a problem. Purchased a iMac G4 with 10.2 then upgraded iMac 333, PB 233 and iMac G4 733 tower without a problem. You should have 512 mb of ram. All in all runs quite well, not a crash in months. | ||
| tom Citizen Username: Tom Post Number: 645 Registered: 5-2001 |
I think you need Palm Desktop v. 4 to get USB connectivity (assuming, as Dave points out, your USB card is actually working). earlier versions don't support it. http://www.palm.com/software/desktop/mac.html | ||
| ajc Citizen Username: Ajc Post Number: 897 Registered: 9-2001 |
Dave, Did you say, "We need to get more people to try and use these feats of engineering, so this (non-Soapbox) area is for all things Macintosh."? Hey, I went into my Feel Good Room, sat in my Charles Rennie Mackintosh Chair, and nothing.... I'm not sure this Virtual Cafe stuff is for me? I mean I'm sitting here, hands on, looking right at "AN ANTIQUE RELIEF", c. 1886 Sepia, 72.7 x 54.7 cm. The details are from a cast listed as Apollodonus's Boy and Griffin with Ornament. You would think with that kind of power I could reach MOL in seconds??? No such luck! You computer nerds are too much. Sorry, I'm going back to the Soapbox and my reliable old IBM format. No problems, it hasn’t crashed or wet the bed in months.  | ||
| llama Citizen Username: Llama Post Number: 53 Registered: 5-2001 |
The useless ramblings of these "threatened PC user types" are a testament to their own ignorance, which will prohibit them from ever realizing the sheer genious of the Mac, among other things. | ||
| notehead Citizen Username: Notehead Post Number: 450 Registered: 5-2001 |
Actually, this devoted Mac user is also kind of partial to Mackintosh furniture... although I prefer Eames. I'm surprised there hasn't been a Macintosh commercial yet featuring someone using a PowerBook relaxing in an Eames "La Chaise" -- they both feature such superb humanistic design. Apple's Safari is definitely a nice browser, but I'll be glad when it gets out of beta. It still has problems rendering some pages sometimes. What I'm waiting for is a massive update to AppleWorks... I was suckered into getting it because it was out for OSX so early, but the program is REALLY LAME. I can never figure out how to do basic word processing or layout tasks in it. I've heard that the Microsoft Office programs for OSX are actually quite good... anybody?? | ||
| Dave Ross Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 4297 Registered: 5-2001 |
I think Apple keeps AppleWorks around in case MS ever decides to stop making Office for Mac. Office X is nice. | ||
| monster Citizen Username: Monster Post Number: 8 Registered: 7-2002 |
Why, would you need to run MS apps on your Mac? ThinkFree Office for $49.95 is a great cross platform app. allowing you to save in and open all of those MS formats. For true page layout try Adobe InDesign 2.0, works in Jag unlike Quark that says they will finally have a Jag compatible version in the next couple of months. ThinkFree Office: http://www.thinkfree.com/ Adobe Indesign 2.0: http://www.adobe.com/store/products/master.jhtml?id=catInDesign You may be able to find a cheaper price online for InDesign but there is not much of a difference anywhere you go. If you need other apps like Photoshop; Illustrator etc. buy everthing as a bundle or education discount if applicable, much cheaper. Some places allow edu. discount if you have children in school. | ||
| Brian O'Leary Citizen Username: Brianoleary Post Number: 1122 Registered: 3-2002 |
I'm waiting for my birthday present .. that 17 inch powerbook ... to arrive. Back ordered, I am told. | ||
| jbirchby Citizen Username: Jbirchby Post Number: 14 Registered: 11-2001 |
ooooo. I'm jealous  . Please post your review of it once you get it, I'm dying to know if its as fabulous as it seems. | ||
| mck Citizen Username: Mck Post Number: 537 Registered: 5-2001 |
I'm thinking about finally getting a digital camera in order to take advantage of IPhoto. I want one under $300 that will be easy for me, a tech moron, and my 14 yr old to use. Is there any such animal out there? | ||
| monster Citizen Username: Monster Post Number: 9 Registered: 7-2002 |
Check out this site: http://dealcam.com/ You will find some good prices. Go here for reviews: http://www.dpreview.com/ | ||
| notehead Citizen Username: Notehead Post Number: 468 Registered: 5-2001 |
So, Al Gore has joined Apple's Board of Directors. Really! I think he is a great addition. The man's vision and humanistic outlook jibe well with Apple's. But whoa, there is SUCH a big (and mostly stupid) turmoil about it on http://www.macnn.com you'd think they just hired, oh... could it be... ummm... SATAN?!! | ||
| monster Citizen Username: Monster Post Number: 12 Registered: 7-2002 |
Hey, he did invent the internet. | ||
| tom Citizen Username: Tom Post Number: 733 Registered: 5-2001 |
another urban legend. Can anyone recommend a good music-notation package that doesn't cost $500? | ||
| Dave Ross Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 4442 Registered: 5-2001 |
Not really a legend... "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." - Al Gore | ||
| monster Citizen Username: Monster Post Number: 14 Registered: 7-2002 |
My previous post was made with my tongue in cheek. Gore never said "invented" to describe his legislative efforts for opening up the arpnet to general public use. http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh120302.shtml On September 1, 2000, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich addressed the American Political Science Association. His remarks were broadcast on C-SPAN: GINGRICH: In all fairness, it’s something Gore had worked on a long time. Gore is not the Father of the Internet, but in all fairness, Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure that we got to an Internet, and the truth is—and I worked with him starting in 1978 when I got [to Congress], we were both part of a “futures group”—the fact is, in the Clinton administration, the world we had talked about in the ’80s began to actually happen. Had Gore misstated his role to Blitzer? This notion would be aggressively bruited throughout Campaign 2000, but you had to work very hard to tease a lie out of Gore’s statement. Gore had said this: During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. Gingrich said this: Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure that we got to an Internet. It’s hard to torture a difference from that pair of statements. In the Late Edition interview, Blitzer asked Gore to explain what set him apart from Bill Bradley, his opponent for the Dem nomination. Somewhat clumsily, Gore offered a list of career accomplishments. One part of his answer drew more attention than any remark by any candidate in the entire 2000 campaign. “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet,” Gore said. “I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.” On the whole, this was the kind of chest-thumping statement which candidates routinely make on the stump. But as anyone who followed this election will know, Gore’s initial, sixteen-word comment was widely dissected for the next twenty months. Almost surely, Gore’s brief remark about the Net was the most widely-discussed statement of Campaign 2000. The spinning of this one remark drove a nasty War Against Gore—a spin campaign which almost surely decided the 2000 race. Gore’s remark would be widely attacked. But surprise! At the time Gore made his statement, it received no attention whatever. Blitzer didn’t ask Gore to explain his remark; he showed no surprise at what Gore had said. And in its on-air promotions for the taped interview, CNN showed no sign of thinking that Gore had “made news” with his comment. Meanwhile, major papers which covered Gore’s interview completely ignored the comment. On March 10, for example, the Washington Post ran a full report about the Gore-Blitzer session. But the paper only discussed Gore’s remarks on U.S. relations with China. On March 11, the Washington Times’ Greg Pierce reviewed the interview in his “Inside Politics” column. But Pierce only mentioned what Gore had said about early campaign polling. Similarly, the AP’s dispatches about Gore’s interview completely ignored his Internet comment. And another major organ passed over Gore’s statement. On March 10, the Hotline—the widely-read, on-line digest of the day’s political news—ran extensive excerpts from the Late Edition Q-and-A’s, but omitted the Internet remark altogether. In fact, in the first two days after Gore’s appearance, no press entity remarked, in any way, on what Gore said about the Net. Gore’s comment would be critiqued, attacked, burlesqued and spun over the course of the next twenty months. But it evoked no reaction from the press—none at all—at the time Gore made it. Repeat: No one in the press said even one word about Gore’s statement at the time it was made. No one showed the slightest sign of thinking Gore’s comment was notable. Why did Gore’s comment provoke no reaction? Perhaps because Blitzer and others knew that Gore had taken the leadership, within the Congress, in developing what we now call the Internet. Gore was explicitly discussing his achievements in Congress, and if “I took the initiative” meant “I took the leadership,” his statement was perfectly accurate. (Extemporaneous speech doesn’t always parse perfectly. Everyone in Washington knows this.) Indeed, as Gore’s remark began attracting wide scrutiny, some journalists reviewed his congressional record—and a wide array of Internet pioneers described his key role, within the Congress, in creating what we now call the Net. In the March 21 Washington Post, for example, Jason Schwartz quoted several Internet pioneers, including Vinton Cerf, the man often called “the father of the Internet.” Cerf praised Gore’s role in the Net’s development. “I think it is very fair to say that the Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the vice president,” he said. Meanwhile, Katie Hafner, author of a book on the Internet’s origins, penned a short piece in the New York Times, quoting experts who said that Gore “helped lift the Internet from relative obscurity and turn it into a widely accessible, commercial network.” On March 18, Gore tried to clarify his remark in an interview with USA Today. “I did take the lead in the Congress,” he told Chuck Raasch; he described his Internet work in detail. Raasch quoted Gore’s explanation—but it was mentioned in no other paper. How well-known was Gore’s leadership role? The press corps was full of experienced scribes who knew all about his work in this area. We’ll let the Nexis archives guide us as we review this familiar old tale. According to Nexis, the Washington Post’s first reference to the Internet occurred in November 1988; a “virus” had attacked the little-known network, which connected some 50,000 computers, the Post said. But as journalists began to report on the Net, Gore’s key role in its development was clear. One month later, for example, Martin Walker wrote this in The Guardian: WALKER (12/30/88): American computing scientists are campaigning for the creation of a “superhighway” which would revolutionise data transmission. Legislation has already been laid before Congress by Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee, calling for government funds to help establish the new network, which scientists say they can have working within five years, at a cost of Dollars 400 million. | ||
| tom Citizen Username: Tom Post Number: 734 Registered: 5-2001 |
nice legwork, monster. Good info! |
