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| last edited by BillSeitz on Aug 17, 2008 3:18 am |
my LapTop as of Dec'2004, because:
wife and kids may get more into computers in next couple years, and want a single platform that will be easy for everyone to deal with
want something with no virus hassles (though I honestly haven't had problems with that - I run Zone Alarm and it does the job)
seems great at dealing with sleep-mode and WiFi
LinuxOS just smells like a nightmare with laptops, so at least this way I have FreeBSD underneath MacOsX
Need to start picking replacements for my Ms Windows apps, and moving data.
Been trying to stick with [SafAri]/MailApp, but MailApp is smelling like its support for authoring HTML stinks: (a) drag-and-drop of table from web page doesn't seem to work right, and (b) can't seem to stick an href behind a label (rather than showing the entire [URL], which may be huge). Both of those are show-stoppers for me, so I'll go MozIlla. More precisely, I guess I'll go FireFox/Thunder Bird (though it still seems silly to me to have the 2 apps instead of the integrated Moz).
Going to follow TimBray's advice and try [Tiger Launch] for launching stuff instead of the Dock.
Hmm, I wonder whether I should buy Tinder Box while it's on sale, now that I'm on the right platform? Still itchy about touching a non-Open Source app for stuff like this...
moving data
see article
argh, I can't find the dongle for my old LapTop, thus no [Ether Net] wiring. Going WiFi...
couldn't get any of the direct networking protocols to work in either direction. Ended up running the FTP server on the IBook.
nice aspect of using MozIlla apps on both sides - just replaced files, no "importing" silliness
Going to try Open Office variant Neo Office
seems to work fine, though a long highly-formatted MsWord document got its pagination changed a bit, so I bailed (on that document).
Should eventually play with DotMac.
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