 |
 |
 |
 |
| Wibble A place to have a sensible chat, about anything non linux related. Please remember that political and religious topics are not permitted. |
25th September 2008, 09:30 AM
|
 |
The Wibble Rouser
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2005
Age: 37
Posts: 3,786
|
|
OS X wasn't around in the 80s my friend. 
I have the best of both worlds. On OS X everything works out of the box and I do not have to worry much about spyware or viruses due to the system being based on BSD.
__________________
Custom Desktop | AMD Phenom II X4 920 Quad Core CPU - 2.9 GHz | 3 GB DDR2 RAM | 500 GB HDD | Radeon 2400 HD Graphics | DVD-RW | Windows 7 SP1
No fate but what we make...
My Blog: kona0197.wordpress.com
|
25th September 2008, 09:43 AM
|
|
Guest
|
|
Posts: n/a
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by kona0197
OS X wasn't around in the 80s my friend.
I have the best of both worlds. On OS X everything works out of the box and I do not have to worry much about spyware or viruses due to the system being based on BSD. |
i did use Apple Computers in the 80's Kona ,, i know it wasnt a Microsoft OS on the Apple Machine
|
25th September 2008, 09:45 AM
|
|
Guest
|
|
Posts: n/a
|
|
Up your Mac's memory to a gig or more and grab a copy of Leopard and install NeoOffice, Transmission for torrents (Macs get the latest version long before they bother to package it for Fedora) HandBrake for ripping your DVDs and Burn for making CDs/DVDs. The latest version of HandBrake is only available for Leopard  There's a whole bunch of freeware out there for Macs (Perian adds extra multimedia codec support to your Mac) and it's much easier to use HandBrake than struggling to get the ripping apps working well in Linux. If only I had the cash.... Steve Jobs may be the devil but at least his stuff works!
Wayne
|
25th September 2008, 09:48 AM
|
|
Guest
|
|
Posts: n/a
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Wayne
Up your Mac's memory to a gig or more and grab a copy of Leopard and install NeoOffice, Transmission for torrents (Macs get the latest version long before they bother to package it for Fedora) HandBrake for ripping your DVDs and Burn for making CDs/DVDs. The latest version of HandBrake is only available for Leopard There's a whole bunch of freeware out there for Macs (Perian adds extra multimedia codec support to your Mac) and it's much easier to use HandBrake than struggling to get the ripping apps working well in Linux. If only I had the cash.... Steve Jobs may be the devil but at least his stuff works!
Wayne |
wasnt Jobs a co-founder of Microsoft?
|
25th September 2008, 11:26 AM
|
 |
Retired Again - Administrator
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Reality
Posts: 3,034
|
|
The industry is sometimes incestuous, and everybody knows everybody else, but it's not that bad.
Steve Jobs
__________________
.
Marching to the beat of his own conundrum.
|
25th September 2008, 12:37 PM
|
 |
Administrator
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Paris, TX
Posts: 22,309
|
|
|
Go Commodore!
|
25th September 2008, 12:40 PM
|
|
Guest
|
|
Posts: n/a
|
|
|
Commodore Perry?
Wayne
|
25th September 2008, 01:34 PM
|
|
Guest
|
|
Posts: n/a
|
|
Ahhh, that Commodore I had pictures of black tall masted ships 
You'd be out of the loop too if you had to use this keyboard for over a week!
Wayne
|
25th September 2008, 02:02 PM
|
|
Administrator
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Paris, TX
Posts: 22,309
|
|
You have my sympathy, Wayne. My brother uses one of those things ... and claims to enjoy it.
We've asked for a psych consult. <..  ..>
|
25th September 2008, 02:52 PM
|
|
Retired Again - Administrator
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Reality
Posts: 3,034
|
|
I just noticed - Dan has crossed the 10,000 post threshold - congratulations.
(Sorry for the thread hijack).
__________________
.
Marching to the beat of his own conundrum.
|
25th September 2008, 03:19 PM
|
|
Administrator
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Paris, TX
Posts: 22,309
|
|
Thanks, Bert ...
I think. <.. ..>
|
26th September 2008, 02:14 AM
|
|
Guest
|
|
Posts: n/a
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Dan
You have my sympathy, Wayne. My brother uses one of those things ... and claims to enjoy it.
We've asked for a psych consult. <.. ..> |
It wasn't so much the OS that was bugging me but that silly little keyboard with some of the keys in the wrong place! The UK English keyboard that I'm used to has some of the SHIFT keys in different locations, so I was typing the wrong character sometimes! On top of that, the spacebar was shorter than usual because of the two extra keys on either side of it! It was very annoying That and there's no space between the keys so it's useless for people with short fat fingers 
Wayne
|
26th September 2008, 02:20 AM
|
|
Guest
|
|
Posts: n/a
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Wayne
It wasn't so much the OS that was bugging me but that silly little keyboard with some of the keys in the wrong place! The UK English keyboard that I'm used to has some of the SHIFT keys in different locations, so I was typing the wrong character sometimes! On top of that, the spacebar was shorter than usual because of the two extra keys on either side of it! It was very annoying That and there's no space between the keys so it's useless for people with short fat fingers
Wayne |
you should get a Pic of this keyboard,
having fat fingers is a Bonus,,the women tend to like it when Groped by them
|
26th September 2008, 02:58 AM
|
|
Guest
|
|
Posts: n/a
|
|
This is what I picked up on Yahoo auctions here, a brand new UK English IBM PS2 keyboard. It's much more solid (and heavier) than the piece of junk I got last year in London. Still, I was there on a budget and didn't want to waste beer money on hardware Price for the IBM was 1400 yen plus shipping and tax (it was a store auction) I always try to avoid buying USB keyboards for some reason
Now, if only I had a decent PC to connect it to
Wayne
|
| Thread Tools |
Search this Thread |
|
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
Current GMT-time: 08:14 (Sunday, 19-05-2013)
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
