Re: Why Does Apple Hate Me? - It does not

In article <1156969836.453102.33550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
davidcovey@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

....
So a couple of months ago I took out a
contract for a GPRS card. For two years, so I'm kind of tied in.

Apparently, nobody at Apple has ever considered the idea that you might
want to access the internet outside of a city, worse, away from
civilization - for example, sitting in a field or, oh, I dunno, how
about in a hotel where the connection cost is as much as the room.

Using a bluetooth mobile phone works rather well, at least over here in
Europe (GSM system, also GPRS and HCSD etc). I use that in even in the
Swiss mountains.

No PCMCIA slot.

PCMCIA will go away, ExpressCard has many advantages (way faster,
cheaper, smaller). As it is new, the selection is not as good yet, true.

...

As well as considering those trendies who became your main source of
income once the geeks left, you should consider those of us who don't
reside in a world where wireless is on every corner and who actually
want to be free of stuff like that. I don't have a bluetooth phone,
well I do but as is the way with phones now it's bigger than I want
because it's full of - to me - useless functionality. So, I'm not
about to carry it around just to access the internet as I'm quite happy
with my old fashioned slim-line phone that fits nicely in my shirt
pocket.

There are slim phones with bluetooth. See Motorola Razr V3, Quad band,
bluetooth, ... for example. My plain SonyEricsson K700i does it too. And
probably several dozen others too. Most likely this is the easiest
solution for GPRS/HCSD/UMTS etc.

...Wtf an I supposed to do with this, what is it, Express Card
thing? Nobody makes any cards for it, nor - as far as I can tell - do
they intend for accessing the net.

Try http://www.expresscard.org/web/site/wirelesswan.jsp for possible
workarounds.

Also there is a USB modem for land lines, can be useful together with
Calling Cards (not for digital lines though). I use that too.

...
OK, here we go. Deep breath, try not to explode... Guess what these
stupid people have told their... machine to do? To stop me
from doing anything until I'm a good boy and connect the ... thing
up to the ... internet and register it. ...

You can easily do away with that - just enter minimal information while
not connected to the internet (it will NOT block the
installation/configuration), and later delete the file in you home
directory called registration or similar.

Compare that with Windows XP, requiring "Activation" or else it refuses
to work at all - and every time you modify your machine you call again
:-(

So, anyway, I tried every combination of keys possible to kill this
annoying intro (that looks like some kid threw it together as and end
of term project incidentally) and get into the command line and maybe
circumvent it.

No need to, see above.

But without success as they've sewn it up tight. Even
so, I would dearly like to use it. Any ideas? Or should I leave it in
the cupboard for 15 months and put it down to experience? ;-) ...

No need to, see above.

I won't connect to the
internet till I'm ready - there's a principal at stake here and I'm fed
up with machines telling me what to do.

Just read above instructions how to do it. Takes all of 5 minutes, and
requires no command line.

(If you want the comparison: Install BootCamp, and install Windows XP -
then you have the best of both worlds available at boot time when you
press option.)

I do hope you enjoy your Mac - if you enjoy a serious command line, try
Applications/Utilities/Terminal for a plain unix terminal window with
all the power of unix available. And see www.sourceforg.org for many
many open source projects. Or even try Xcode to program your favorite
tools if they are not yet available. You might get to like it.

HTH

Marc

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