Re: Tricks to impress Windows users

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 19:45:52 +0000, usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Woody)
wrote:

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Therefore I choose the path of least resistance. I generally apply the
same logic to most things I do as I prefer not to be up a backwater,
be it for spare parts, options, pricing, availability, conformity,
flexibility, whatever.

So you do prefer to be in a backwater, at least for some of those
options?

And which would they be, in your opinion?

Certainly conformity. I have no idea of the others, as I don't really
know anything about cars - I have one, it has a stop pedal, a go pedal,
a steering wheel and gets me from A to B. I bought it last week, as my
previous car started looking doubtful whether I would continue getting
to B!

well, yes, from your point of view. I am talking about designing
computers, not putting boards together. I know you enjoy putting boards
together, but that is not what I am refering to. Most of the designing
involves very complicated maths, a lot more so than before, when it was
mostly logic.

Since when was ever 'building something yourself' = 'designing
something yourself', especially in this sort of context (kitcars /
building your own PC)?

Never, but what I was talking about was designing processors, and you
brought up building PCs.

Also that should you
needs / desires change over the next 12 months you were completely
free to change / upgrade / modify any of it without risking the
warrantee (ie, the position I now find myself in with the iMini).

Why? the only reason you don't invalidate the warrantee on you are able
to change parts and it invalidates the warrantee.

Is your keyboard cutting out W ? :-)

I think that may have been a cut and paste error interrupted by someone
telling me something!

The difference is you
have no warrantee on your machine, which is why you can't invalidate it!

Exactly, yet the parts that make the sum all are (and my point).

ok.

don't need nor want a warrantee on the 'machine', I can fix the
machine if I have the spare parts, so with a new Mac I wouldn't be
able to touch it (beyond basic stuff probably and probably (legally?)
nothing on a Mini, same with a store bought PC of course etc) but I
start off with my home build in bits and all bits with full warrantee.

I don't think there is anything illegal that you can do repairing a PC
or a Mac (or maybe there is but it is outside the scope of this
discussion).


Sadly i am very familiar with PCs.

And you have demonstrated your preference. I have no issues with that.

Indeed I have. All modern computers suck, but the Mac sucks less than
the others. Personally I am dismayed at the state of operating systems
these days - if we had kept up with the speed that things progressed in
the 80s, we would be so far today. I guess that once the people using
machines progress has to slow.
I do blame microsoft (and to a lesser extent apple) for holding up
progress though.

Like tonight. Jenny's
out so I've go to try to upgrade Parallels after reading about it
recently here. I start the process "Parallels is checking for an
updated version" etc and then I get a phone call. It's a new Sister
that has just joined the local Convent (no, you couldn't make that up)
and I've just talked her though disabling the proprietary WiFi client,
enabling the MS one and connecting her Tosh to the *right* router with
the appropriate WEP key.

Not suprised you need to talk her through it. As I mentioned in a recent
thread, that there is nothing quite as bad as how windows handles
wireless networks. Drove me up the wall. There is no reason it needs to
be that hard.

Eh, ok, the fact that I can choose from a myriad of WiFi vendors and
some come with their own clients (because they will also work with
many PC's going back way when) does confuse some, but the process of
connecting to a wireless network is very similar on both OSX and XP
(or my XdaIIi / the Palm T|X for that matter)? Take a machine with
*just* the MS WiFi client and it couldn't be any easier (even for
you!) :-)

Well, I have several such beasts and you couldn't be more wrong. the MS
interface to wireless networks is so crap, especially the way it deals
with multiple interfaces. It is all so much worse than it has to be.

The fact that you can get multiple devices from a myriad of wifi vendors
is not an excuse to be as crap as it is. I think you are prepared to
tollerate worse, and becuase you adapt to it, you forget how crap it is.

I don't understand why in the 21st century a 60 year old nun *needs*
someone else to tell her how to set up a wireless network, it should
just work.

So, how long do I leave Parallels hanging like that .. or should I
just turn it off and forget it (serious question as I have no idea
what to do next).

I have no idea, I have never done that. I just downloaded the update
from the parallels website (yesterday for the convergence stuff) and ran
the installer. It updated everything fine.

Ok, well I just restarted Parallels / the upgrade process and this
time it worked. Well, it said it had it but it just seemed to have
dumped a file on the desktop. Opening that then running the installer
seems to have finished the job. (What was the "Don't forget to re
install the client app in Guest" (or similar) prompt about please?).

Not sure. Mine said 'update parallels tools by selecting Virtual
Machine->Update parallels tools, which is what I did (within XP). They
are the things that control the screen resolution within windows and
dragging and dropping between the environment

The icon on the dock had a question mark on it and wouldn't start the
app.

That means it is pointing to an application that no longer exists where
it was.

I dragged that onto the desktop and watched it vapourise then I
had to find and drag the icon out of the apps folder back onto the
dock (was that right ..?). If I upgrade something on Windows doesn't
it generally just pickup / replace the existing Icon etc?

It would do the same. If it was in the same place it would work, if not
it wouldn't work. Both the Mac and windows do the same thing in that
case (and both are crap for doing it!).

Now to see if it still works fully ..

It did here (or at a brief glance. The convergance stuff is really quite
impressive, although I don't have much of a need for windows on this
machine (especially not now araxis has produced a mac verison of merge!)

--
Woody

www.alienrat.com
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