Apple ahead of schedule 3151
First of all, why not? That old Mac still runs, right?
Second, Hypercard having gone away years ago is not a good reason not to use OS X now.
This doesn't make me feel bad. I've never seen a Windows application that I would have been sad to leave behind.
Yeah, like porting to .Net?
New development happens on the new APIs; maintenance goes on on the old. Big deal.
Noooooooo!
This doesn't make me feel bad. I've never seen a Windows application that I would have been sad to leave behind. In fact, I've seen many Windows apps that I'm glad I can leave behind.
Speaking of Paint, here's my SOP for making a screen shot to report a bug. Windows:
Press the Print Screen key. Navigate the Start Menu until you find Paint. Launch it. Select the jaggy thing next to the rectangle outline tool. Select the outline tool again. Draw a rectangle around the area that shows the problem. Click the button that lets you not save the file. Select JPG. Enter the file name. Click Save. Then in the bugbase app, upload the file.
Macintosh: Press Splat-4. Draw a rectangle around the area that shows the problem. Doubleclick the new file that just appeared on the desktop. Press Splat-S. Select JPG. Enter the file name. Click Save. Then in the bugbase app, upload the file.
(Why do I mouse the menu in Windows? Because the hotkeys are always different and I don't want to risk doing the wring thing.)
soup it does not exist use a wireless modem and a LAN or use a windows machine set up for bridged ethernet as a...
That is a big reason why I prefer Macintosh: it's more consistent.
Well, if its a bespoke business app it's probably not just one Mac, but one per user of the app. You need to be able to...
You know, Rex, when one posts on this newsgroup, one is taking one's chances that some of these wintroll psychopaths will launch personal attacks, not only in the newsgroup itself, but elsewhere in one's personal...
I sit corrected.
My G3s are not blowing smoke after all... :-)
FUD? No. I do use Windows at work. I'm a software QA engineer and I end up doing a lot of IT work. I get to struggle with lots of variations of Windows XP. (Thank goodness I don't have to support W98 any more, but they still get calls about it over in Tech Support.) W2k is decent; they had networking mostly right, but screwed it up again in WXP. God save me from doing network admin in a shop with Windows XP wireless laptops! What a f***in' pain in the butt that is! And then there's Windows XP's habit of knowing better than you do what your machine name-user name is when you want to log into the file server. No, you stupid effing piece of poo, when I want to log in to serverA as user Mike, what that means is that I want to log into serverA as user Mike. It does not mean I want to log into WorkstationB as user Mike. Why does Windows always think it knows better than I do what I want? (There is a way to fix that, but it involves about a dozen mouseclicks. I published the procedure on a web page. Users tend to leave out a step or two and then complain that my procedure doesn't work.) (God, I hate Windows!)
-- Dear aunt, let's set so double the person delete select all.