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7 months ago
in Some people call me the Space cowboy on BabyGotMac
A really productive way to use SPACES is to assign it to the middle mouse button. That way, whenever you want to switch to another app running in another space, a simple click will bring up all the SPACES and clicking in the appropriate SPACE selects it.
Major league productivity enhancement, and one that everyone I have shown it to, has adopted with great results!
Major league productivity enhancement, and one that everyone I have shown it to, has adopted with great results!
11 months ago
in Switching to the Mac: Problems and Solutions on shumans.com
Safari has always been standards compliant, which is why web sites that do not render properly under other browsers are apparently not standards complaint.
ALL Apple product provide either open data standards or the ability to export to these open standards. MS products (as you mentioned with Outlook) are proprietary closed formats, made with the intent to lock you into their platform, as they are unable to compete on rich feature set, I would assume.
Apple did the cut and paste key thing LONG before MS Windows (remember SHIFT-INSERT). Blame Windows on a poor copy of the original.
When OS X applications crash, they do not take down the OS - the same cannot be said for Windows, in most cases.
ActiveX ActiveSync, MS version of Kerberos, calendar format (a bastardized IMAP format), Office file formats, even the new "closed" XML Office format, Active Directory, Sharepoint, Visio.... I could go on for hours about MS products holding my data hostage to cling to market share. This barrier to migration, artificially imposed by MS on the user, is probably the most egregious and blatant example of monopolistic practices. MS has long argued that the key definition to a monopoly is "consumer harm". Their "dumping" of IE (definition; sold below cost to force the competition out of the market) and killing the network/web paradigm for many years, along with Netscape, is illegal and has done serious harm to the consumer by restricting choice and forcing decisions to be made, not on technical merits, but on the cost of freeing one's data from bondage. The Rockefeller's have nothing on Gates and company, the most heinous and costly monopoly of all of history.
XP is stable, as long as you don't try installing and removing lots of applications. DLL and registry hell destroy the integrity of Windows, and granting root access to any installer would flunk Operating System Design 101 at any university.
ALL Apple product provide either open data standards or the ability to export to these open standards. MS products (as you mentioned with Outlook) are proprietary closed formats, made with the intent to lock you into their platform, as they are unable to compete on rich feature set, I would assume.
Apple did the cut and paste key thing LONG before MS Windows (remember SHIFT-INSERT). Blame Windows on a poor copy of the original.
When OS X applications crash, they do not take down the OS - the same cannot be said for Windows, in most cases.
ActiveX ActiveSync, MS version of Kerberos, calendar format (a bastardized IMAP format), Office file formats, even the new "closed" XML Office format, Active Directory, Sharepoint, Visio.... I could go on for hours about MS products holding my data hostage to cling to market share. This barrier to migration, artificially imposed by MS on the user, is probably the most egregious and blatant example of monopolistic practices. MS has long argued that the key definition to a monopoly is "consumer harm". Their "dumping" of IE (definition; sold below cost to force the competition out of the market) and killing the network/web paradigm for many years, along with Netscape, is illegal and has done serious harm to the consumer by restricting choice and forcing decisions to be made, not on technical merits, but on the cost of freeing one's data from bondage. The Rockefeller's have nothing on Gates and company, the most heinous and costly monopoly of all of history.
XP is stable, as long as you don't try installing and removing lots of applications. DLL and registry hell destroy the integrity of Windows, and granting root access to any installer would flunk Operating System Design 101 at any university.
1 year ago
in Ask iBAM: Parallels vs Boot Camp on I Bought a Mac
No need to do one or the other.
Set up a boot camp partition, install Windows there.
Set up Parallels (or VMware Fusion), and point it to Boot Camp.
That way, when you want to run a PC game that may not run in the virtual machine environment of Paralels/VMWare, you can boot it up in Windows. Most other times, you can just use the Virtual machine from OS X, and run Windows that way.
The best part, is that you do not have to maintain 2 copies of Windows, and keep the configuration and software installs in sync - you only have one copy.
I have this set up this way, with WinXP in Boot Camp, and XP/Boot Camp as one of my 2 virtual machines. The other VM is Vista. I can run all 3 concurrently, with cut&paste between them, using a MacBook with 4gb of RAM. Way cool!
However, the only 2 reasons that I have had to run Windows for anything, was for web sites that were ActiveX dependent (had to run IE), or proprietary Visio files. Both of these problems have been solved.
DARWINE project has IE working pretty well under OS X.
OmniGraffle Pro 5 beta now can read/write Visio files in native format! Hooray!
--Kirk
--Kirk
Set up a boot camp partition, install Windows there.
Set up Parallels (or VMware Fusion), and point it to Boot Camp.
That way, when you want to run a PC game that may not run in the virtual machine environment of Paralels/VMWare, you can boot it up in Windows. Most other times, you can just use the Virtual machine from OS X, and run Windows that way.
The best part, is that you do not have to maintain 2 copies of Windows, and keep the configuration and software installs in sync - you only have one copy.
I have this set up this way, with WinXP in Boot Camp, and XP/Boot Camp as one of my 2 virtual machines. The other VM is Vista. I can run all 3 concurrently, with cut&paste between them, using a MacBook with 4gb of RAM. Way cool!
However, the only 2 reasons that I have had to run Windows for anything, was for web sites that were ActiveX dependent (had to run IE), or proprietary Visio files. Both of these problems have been solved.
DARWINE project has IE working pretty well under OS X.
OmniGraffle Pro 5 beta now can read/write Visio files in native format! Hooray!
--Kirk
--Kirk
1 year ago
in Parallels - a waste of space? on BabyGotMac
Set up Windows as a boot camp partition, and point Parallels at it. Gets the best of both world - a OS X mounted Windows partition AND no duplication of files. The added advantage is that you can boot to Windows in the rare instance that something does not run in the VM environment.
The bad part is a corrupt Windows requires a complete reinstall, unlike copying the VM file over.
The bad part is a corrupt Windows requires a complete reinstall, unlike copying the VM file over.
