[Ham-Mac] Are you running OSX on your Mac ?

Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:07:02 +0000

on 31/1/02 2:42 pm, Don Agro at [email protected] wrote:

> I'm switching between OS X, OS9 and Classic several times a day on my main
> computer and am split about 50-50 between OS X and 9 on the other ones.

Me too. I really would like to go OSX only, however as it is a great time
waster rebooting to go to OS9 to switch location manager when I get home in
OS9 so that OS9 Entourage  works properly in OSX Classic! OSX location
manager does not change the necessary settings in Classic and you can't
change OS9 location manager in OSX!!

> The trick with Classic is to have a separate boot partition for Classic and
> your main OS 9 System.

I have OSX on a Firewire hard drive and can boot from that or the internal
hard rive which has Classic.

> Yes - this is a major pain. We just got the first USB Hard Drive driver a
> few weeks ago though so I think that there are still a lot of drivers yet to
> come from the 3rd parties.

I fear that some will never be supplied, forcing users to buy new hardware.

>> No Palm Hotsync - in Beta
> 
> This is working fairly well for me.

I have not tried it yet because I rely on Palm Pilot hotsyncing with
Entourage and that is not supported yet.

> My Kodak DC240 is supported both by ImageCapture and by iPhoto - just
> ordered my first Kodak prints through iPhoto "one-click"  - Fabulous
> feature.

Very nice. Ricoh might produce an OSX driver for my camera I am told...

Still a long way to go with OSX, I miss some things like spring loaded
folders,a replace all when copying a folder full of files, better yet a copy
agent utility for OSX (smart copy is essential for me).

Oh and I forgot my mouse scroll wheel works in OSX but not in Classic,
because the drivers don't get loaded.

73

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David Anderson GM4JJJ             <http://www.gm4jjj.co.uk>
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