End-of-tax-year purchase

New Intel 20" iMac with a bit of extra hardware (HP
printer/scanner/copier) and 1.5GB of RAM.

It was either that or a new Nikon D200, and the mac won out. The D200
can wait another year.

 

WTF is an old duffer like you going to do with 1.5GB of RAM?

Do you even know what RAM is?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy

Photoshop his head onto the bloke in pr0n pics, probably.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

that's a lovely image - thanks.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy

Welcome.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Its what the Welsh shag when the sheep hide

 

It's a big Dodge pick-up, innit?

Anyway, you're only jealous.

 

FFS, how do you manage to survive in a profession where words are
important?

You mean "envious", in case you hadn't worked it out.

And I'm not - if I wanted to waste my money on an iMac, I would. But
one Jobbie-boxen in the house is more than enough already.

 

yes - mea maxima culpa.

it wasn't deliberate.

 

Well, quite. And I can have a spiffy iMac even if I'm not going to use
one-twentieth of its potential. I mean, you bought a Fireblade....

 

Apple have just announced how to partition the mac adn run windows XP on
it, ive done it at work and its bloody fast. So get the best of both
worlds. It now means I can ditch the Tosh pIV and only carry my Mac
Laptop. Wahey no need for sports panniers on me ZX6r.

Ken
ZX636 A1p (for fatties)

 

" "

 

as noted on Slashdot:

"sure, cheap Apple hardware and reliable virus-free Windows - sign me
up!"

 

*Snort*

It's up and running (and being used to type this). Some things still to
sort out. Got to get a decent FTP client installed. Move over my browser
favourites.

It also came as a surprise to find no Appleworks installed - only a
trial MS office.

 

Assuming you don't want to use command line FTP, what's wrong with the
Finder?

You need to buy iWork these days, I think.

I got Appleworks on this laptop (G4 iBook), and to be honest, they may as
well have not bothered.

 

AFAICT, Mac's FTP allows you access into the machine but I can't see how
to access other ftp sites.

Anyway, I use Transmit, which is a lovely little Mac app. Downloaded it
now.

That doesn't appear to have much in the way of WP.

I quite like Appleworks. And you can save/open Word documents in it. I
really don't like MS Word as a WP app.

 

It's shit on a Mac, sadly - there's an X11 port of 2.0, or a dodgy
(non-Intel) native version which is a branch of 1.1

 

I can certainly access the FTP site where one of my websites lives.

In Finder, it's Go | Connect to Server, or press Command-K. In the box that
pops up, type ftp://whatever.site.com and click Connect. Enter your username
and password, and optionally save it to the keychain. Your FTP site's
folders and contents then just appear as a standard Finder window.

I get the overwhelming feeling I'm trying to teach someone to suck eggs, here
....

Yeah, saw that, but $30 buys you a half-decent bottle of claret

 

Using the finder to mount your FTP site on the desktop only allows
read-only access.

 

.... you're not wrong. Obviously only used it for downloading!