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December 27th, 2001, 10:46 AM
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| So I was playing w/ WinXP yesterday.... Oh man, what a piece of garbarge. First of all, the interface is absolutely nauseating. I felt like I was in preschool playing with those giant Legos. Its completely obvious the Microsoft wants you to have an "MS"-only XPereince. The entire thing felt hacked together, like a Frankenstein OS. And they ripped off the Mac once again, putting all the Control Panels into a submenu of the start menu – something the Mac has had since System 7, for crying out loud. I can't believe it took them that long to catch on that their Control Panel access sucked the proverbial ass. As ever, the taskbar is a cluttered mess, and the on-screen text is wince-inducing. All in all, it really is an ugly, counter-intuitive mess. And to make matters worse, a sales rep at Best Buy was telling some poor schmoe that if he bought this laptop with 256MB of RAM, he'd have to upgrade the RAM immediately because 256 isn't enough to do anything with. EXCUSE ME –*I have 256 MB of RAM on a 5 YEAR OLD POWERMAC that i use to record 16-Track Digital Audio!!!!! I wanted to slap that know-nothing bastard. Maybe that's why retailers don't like stocking Macs - the customer base is too smart to fall for their marketing and sales ploys.
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December 27th, 2001, 12:28 PM
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 answering machine Hallo There, I totaly agree with your XPerience of that piece of crap that they call a Operation System ( thanks alot Billy Gates :-( ) I have question for you , i saw that u use your old centris as you answering machine .... What kind of software do you use for it ??? I want to have one to for my old and trusty PPC 9600 server...... Greetings from Starscream from the netherlands my spects : PPC G4 400 / 512 mb / 20 GB / OS 10.1.0.2 & OS 9.2.2 A Applevision 850 for my G4 :-) PPC 9600 350 / 96 mb / 4 GB / OS 9.1 |
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December 27th, 2001, 02:14 PM
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| its a hardware-software thing Its and Hardware-Software thing I'm using Apple's never-quite-finished Apple Telecom solution. Basically, you need an Geoport Telecom Adapter (a modem interface that you can usually find on eBay for about $10) and the Apple Telecom software version 3.0.1 (actually I forget the entire version number, but its the last one they released, available from Apple's FTP servers - try going to http://www.pure-mac.com for a link to it). It works pretty well! Not only does it have an answering machine, it also acts as a speakerphone and a fax machine. All in all, pretty cool stuff! it should work great on a 9600, I had it running on an 8600 and it was smooth as butter. I'd recommend sticking to an older OS though, as OS 9 has some issues with these modems and the software. It was a tad unreliable under 9 on the 8600 (but not to say unusable), but using 7.6.1 it flew and worked great. Please note that Apple never finished working the bugs out of this software and eventually dropped the entire Geoport concept, which was a shame as it was supercool technology, especially for the time it was around. BTW, does anyone here keep older PowerMacs running any version of 7x around? From my experience they work great, boot insanely fast, and still retain compatibility with a bunch of newer apps (although that last statement becomes less true every passing second). sheeee ya __________________ B&W G3/350/1024/9.2, X.1.1 8600/300/256/9.1 Performa 6300/48/9.1 Quadra660/52/NetBSD, 8.1 Centris660/24/7.6.1 <---- my answering machine
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December 27th, 2001, 08:22 PM
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| Well, i have Never Used a Mac, Besides a bout 1 min on my mate's iBook...! but u Can Get Used 2 Windows XP... Esp if u've never XP'd (sorry bout the PUN) hardly anything Else, Besides Linux! But my Machine Runs Very nicely as 0.9Ghz, 768MB RAM (133Mhz) GF3 Ti 500 etc... But... i am going 2 Get a Mac this Yr... Just Cus i am Curious...! u might have seen this... here's my Desktop ... NeYo U Have 2 Admit though... Windows XP is a Step in the right Direction... i honestly hate going 2 College, to see Crappy old Windows Classic GUI!? i HATE Grey! Ewww...
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December 27th, 2001, 08:34 PM
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| IS THE WHOLE DAMN WINDOWS WORLD POSTING IN "PHONETICS"-FORM? Damn, this XP-phonetics-stuff is really weired... the Linux guys play with pengiuns, the FreeBSD folks are all satans, the windows guys can't write plain text...hell, it's good to know we Mac folks are best of them all...tolerant, realistic...all over nice folks  What was that about sarcasm-smileys? Seriously, this was just a joke, nobody feel attacked, ok?
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December 27th, 2001, 08:40 PM
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December 27th, 2001, 08:51 PM
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| Eh Eh!? Must be a Mac thing! LOL Are u trying 2 Say that, u want me 2 write with a Dictionairy, Thesaurus and my Eng Grammar Teacher Sat Next 2 me!? Hmmm... NeYo
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