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Actually guys... I would bet that this person doesn't even own a Mac. Odds are this person is seeding the boards here so that he'll have something to point to from a PC forum where he is having an argument about Macs. :rolleyes: But you've gotta love the 15 years of Windows XP...

Well, what if I was interested in switching to Windows? Is there a Windows test drive DVD that will run on my Mac? How is it any less arrogant for me to have to go to a PC store to try out Windows? I sure haven't seen this attitude hurting the sales of Windows. Apple knows that as the other...

I could make a couple recommendations... both are free, but they aren't going to work in v10.2.8 (that is my primary version of Mac OS X and they don't work on this system). HyperEngine AV (needs 10.3) Avid Free DV (needs 10.4) Personally, I do most of my video editing in 10.2.8 using...

Enlightenment reminds me a little of Eazel's Nautilus. and Mach was developed as it's own OS, but the developers of it used major elements of BSD to provide an interface for it (rather than starting from scratch and developing their own). NEXTSTEP started out using 4.3BSD. which continued on...

It is mainly to make sure that people aren't going into these endeavors blindly. And to let people know what is considered crossing the line from Apple's point of view. That sounds very much like what Be tried to do with BeOS Personal Edition (I think that was what it was called), which ran...

For those who are a little confused on Apple OS licensing, hopefully this can clear up the issue. Your license to use the Mac OS comes from the hardware. Your Apple hardware came with a Mac OS originally*, and any version of the Mac OS you buy is actually a strict upgrade to the license you...

Well, he asked for help... I look at this as tough love. :D I mean, honestly, any help we give is wasted until he can over come his own platform bias. This isn't flames, it isn't about Macs or PCs... it is about learning to learn, and Pete needs to over come a mind set that is stopping him...

Odd... I thought you were new to Macs and other platforms. CD drives were on Macs before PCs. The Mac didn't like it or the drive in your Mac? If the Mac itself didn't like it, it would have had the drive spit it back out. That is another issue altogether from what you described. What you...

Well, most of mine are too. But you know hardware... right? You said you build PCs... so you should be able to tell the difference between a hardware issue and software issue. You are supposed to be a professional after all. Well, the thing is a Grandma also wouldn't have been expected to...

There have been known issues with USB devices causing display problems on iMac G4s (including USB hubs causing the issues). That is something that is going to most likely need servicing. Sorry about that.

For those who don't know who RacerX is... he is the name of a character in an animated series called Speed Racer. RacerX is the identity assumed by Rex Racer, Speed Racer's older brother, when he becomes estranged from his family. The reason I use this name in pretty much all the forums I am...

Just to make sure I'm getting this right... you are a working PC tech person, right? See, this is exactly why I have so little respect for most PC techs... they never need to understand an issue or work through troubleshooting methodology. Have you tried asking yourself why this may have...

To keep people from pressing it when a CD is in? This is not a Mac thing... it is actually a non-Windows thing. If I press the eject button on my older Macs when they have a CD or DVD in, nothing happens anyway. If I press the eject button on my Silicon Graphics systems when they have a CD...

It would be helpful to know exactly what hardware you are using.

I'd help... but I'd rather you returned it. This is a perfect example of why I don't think you possess the temperament for supporting Macs. The solution isn't that hard... but you are already so emotionally over come that you can't find it.

Well it should be noted that the set up predates my wife and I getting married... she let me do this when we moved in together (it was how I knew she was the one for me :D ). It has changed over the years... you can see sort of how it looked back in late 2001 in this post. The Quadra 950 and...

Yeah, I don't think my wife knows all their names yet... but then again, there are only a handful that she actually uses.

Not really... they are all quite friendly. As I usually have the displays off on most of them, I have them set to speak alert dialogs. So I can be working on one and another from the other side of the room will call out "David, I need you for something", that type of thing. Plus the general...

I don't prefer (or use) any of those... It is a good thing for me that there are other browsers. :D

Well, there isn't much to see here. This is a diagram of my computer area (what should have been the living room of our apartment): and this is a quick set of images of the room (covering about 320 degrees): click to enlarge I think I've talked about most of these systems and...