I am the recent purchaser of an Apple-Intel iMac G5 running Mac OSX
Tiger, and I have a few inquiries and grievances. If anybody could help
me out, I would be much obliged.

€ MT Newswatcher is unstable and stops responding almost immediately
after I open a new article window, so posting is like a race against the
clock. I don't feel like using shell newsreaders (although I'm forced to
use the shell for ftp,) so what's a usable GUI newsreader Mac OSX Tiger?

€ Text Edit is st0opid.. So is "Stickies"" for that matter.. For
some reason,, these programs have Tourettes with spaces and
punctuation marks.. To illustrate this behavior,, I typed this
paragraph in Text Edit.. Why would Apple ship something that''s
so apparently defective out--of--the--box?? Does Apple think that
its user base is so young and hip and postliterate that they
no longer have the need to *type**!?! What is a good text
editor that I can download for free that won''t stutter like
this?? On my old Mac my text editor of choice for 10++ years
was Craig Marciniak''s 'Saint Edit'', which had no features
besides 'Search'' and only had one monospace font you could
use.. I'm looking for a text editor on OSX that does that
much-- and that little-- and is **free***.
(For the rest of this post,, I opened up a ''compose email''
window in Netscape Navigator and typed it in there..)

€ Oh yeah, 'Mail' does the same thing... plus it constantly locks up and
fails to respond when I press the 'Send Email' button. Again, these are
problems my computer was having out of the box, completely nonmolested
by me. Frankly, I remember having similar problems with Mail when I
tried using it 3 years ago on my iMac.

€ One of the nice things about Mac OS9 was that in pretty much every
browser, when you saved a file from the web- say, a .jpg portrait of
Gabriel DeLaRochefoucauld that I found particularly captured his
inimitable wit and erudition- the address of this file was saved in the
'Get Info' box of the file. If I wanted at some future time to check
back on the site and see if they had added additional portraits of
Gabriel DeLaRochefoucauld, all I would have to do was copy the address
from the info box into my web browser. This was particularly useful for
direct linking from web message boards, for when the subject matter
turned towards the DeLaRochefoucauldian, as it often does, or when a
fellow forum member offers me a .jpg of Teilhard de Chardin in exchange.
Yet I have found *no* browsers in OSX that do this!

€ Why have I been completely unable to get Flash 8 to install? WHY THE
**** DOES A COMPUTER SHIPPING IN THE YEAR TWO-THOUSAND-SIX NOT ALREDY
HAVE FLASH INSTALLED!?! Another thing-- whenever I tried to open up the
video files that played unproblematically on my old computer- in this
case, computer simulations of Earth passing through the Perseid belt
that I downloaded from the NASA website- OSX would throw up a dialog box
that said- in effect- "Okay, like, I don't wanna be a bring-down, dude,
but I can't show you this video file because... ****in... I don't know
how, dude? So, like, here's this webpage with links to third party
software developers and ****? And maybe if you download all of it it
will help you view your video file or some ****?" THIS IS THE YEAR
TWO-THOUSAND-****ING-SIX! IF I WANT TO VIEW MY VIDEO FILES OF TERA
PATRI^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H THE PERSEID METEOR SHOWER WITH THE NEWEST
COMPUTER IN THE UNIVERSE, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO RIFLE THROUGH CONFUSINGLY
DESIGNED WEB PAGES OF THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS TO DO IT!

This is all, IMO, inexcusable.

--
robert caponi mailto:tagutcow@earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~tagutcow/
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
freshly arrived from mute country you'll forgive me if I still have an accent

In article <tagutcow-CD38C8.03593227022006@news.west.earthlink.net>,
Tyrone Nation <tagutcow@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I am the recent purchaser of an Apple-Intel iMac G5 running Mac OSX
> Tiger, and I have a few inquiries and grievances. If anybody could help
> me out, I would be much obliged.

Your complaints all seem valid, but you will receive nothing but scorn
from the born-again MacDroids in these groups for your lack of reverence
and pure awe at what Saint-Steve-of-The-West hath wrought.

A good text editor is TexEdit Plus.
http://www.tex-edit.com/

MT-Newswatcher works fine on my G4 -- are you sure there's a "Universal
Binary"? It's not running in Classic mode? Is there a Classic mode on
Intel Macs?
http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/downloading.html

Eudora may have a universal available by now for email.
http://www.eudora.com/

You have to pay a two taxes to Steve to get QuickTime working properly;
you should try out vlc:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I've removed the alt.religion.kibology link; I don't want to post there.
--
W. Oates
Teal'c: He is concealing something.
O'Neil: Like what?
Teal'c: I am unsure, he is concealing it.

In article <tagutcow-CD38C8.03593227022006@news.west.earthlink.net>,
Tyrone Nation <tagutcow@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I am the recent purchaser of an Apple-Intel iMac G5 running Mac OSX
> Tiger, and I have a few inquiries and grievances. If anybody could help
> me out, I would be much obliged.

Your complaints all seem valid, but you will receive nothing but scorn
from the born-again MacDroids in these groups for your lack of reverence
and pure awe at what Saint-Steve-of-The-West hath wrought.

A good text editor is TexEdit Plus.
http://www.tex-edit.com/

MT-Newswatcher works fine on my G4 -- are you sure there's a "Universal
Binary"? It's not running in Classic mode? Is there a Classic mode on
Intel Macs?
http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/downloading.html

Eudora may have a universal available by now for email.
http://www.eudora.com/

You have to pay a two taxes to Steve to get QuickTime working properly;
you should try out vlc:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I've removed the alt.religion.kibology link; I don't want to post there.
--
W. Oates
Teal'c: He is concealing something.
O'Neil: Like what?
Teal'c: I am unsure, he is concealing it.

Warren Oates <warren.oates******.com> writes:

> I've removed the alt.religion.kibology link; I don't want to post there.

You did, Oscar, you did.

--
- Doctroid Doctroid Holmes <http://www.richholmes.net/doctroid/>

"But only with kibological dooomsday bombs do you get the authentic
wacky boing." -- John D Salt

Warren Oates <warren.oates******.com> writes:

> I've removed the alt.religion.kibology link; I don't want to post there.

You did, Oscar, you did.

--
- Doctroid Doctroid Holmes <http://www.richholmes.net/doctroid/>

"But only with kibological dooomsday bombs do you get the authentic
wacky boing." -- John D Salt

["Followup-To:" header set to alt.religion.kibology.]
On 2006-02-27, Warren Oates <warren.oates******.com> wrote:

> I've removed the alt.religion.kibology link;

No you didn't.

> I don't want to post there.

Why not? What have you got against us?

["Followup-To:" header set to alt.religion.kibology.]
On 2006-02-27, Warren Oates <warren.oates******.com> wrote:

> I've removed the alt.religion.kibology link;

No you didn't.

> I don't want to post there.

Why not? What have you got against us?

In article <u4hd6krjs2.fsf@mep1.phy.syr.edu>,
Rich Holmes<rsholmes+usenet@mailbox.syr.edu> wrote:

> You did, Oscar, you did.

Precisely.

Kibo would have approved.
--
W. Oates
Teal'c: He is concealing something.
O'Neil: Like what?
Teal'c: I am unsure, he is concealing it.

In article <u4hd6krjs2.fsf@mep1.phy.syr.edu>,
Rich Holmes<rsholmes+usenet@mailbox.syr.edu> wrote:

> You did, Oscar, you did.

Precisely.

Kibo would have approved.
--
W. Oates
Teal'c: He is concealing something.
O'Neil: Like what?
Teal'c: I am unsure, he is concealing it.

Before you do anything else, I suggest that you find out just what you
have. It's either an Intel or a G5, not both.

In article <tagutcow-CD38C8.03593227022006@news.west.earthlink.net>,
Tyrone Nation <tagutcow@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I am the recent purchaser of an Apple-Intel iMac G5 running Mac OSX
> Tiger, and I have a few inquiries and grievances. If anybody could help
> me out, I would be much obliged.

Before you do anything else, I suggest that you find out just what you
have. It's either an Intel or a G5, not both.

In article <tagutcow-CD38C8.03593227022006@news.west.earthlink.net>,
Tyrone Nation <tagutcow@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I am the recent purchaser of an Apple-Intel iMac G5 running Mac OSX
> Tiger, and I have a few inquiries and grievances. If anybody could help
> me out, I would be much obliged.

Tyrone Nation <tagutcow@earthlink.net> writes:

> I am the recent purchaser of an Apple-Intel iMac G5 running Mac OSX
> Tiger, and I have a few inquiries and grievances. If anybody could help
> me out, I would be much obliged.

<hands tagutcow semi-automatic weapon>

> € MT Newswatcher is unstable and stops responding almost immediately
> after I open a new article window, so posting is like a race against the
> clock.

That's because Newswatcher sucks.

> I don't feel like using shell newsreaders (although I'm forced to
> use the shell for ftp,) so what's a usable GUI newsreader Mac OSX Tiger?

Google Groups.

> € Text Edit is st0opid.. So is "Stickies"" for that
> matter..

That's because they suck. "Stickies" in particular is not a real
application; it's a practical joke someone decided to pull a few years
ago. "Hey, Irv, let's distribute a completely useless app with this
OS and see if anyone notices!"

> For some reason,, these programs have Tourettes with spaces and
> punctuation marks.. To illustrate this behavior,, I typed this
> paragraph in Text Edit..

Do they also stick in "Hello Datacomp" at random intervals?

> Why would Apple ship something that''s
> so apparently defective out--of--the--box??

That's because Apple sucks.

> I'm looking for a text editor on OSX that does that
> much-- and that little-- and is **free***.

Emacs.

> € Oh yeah, 'Mail' does the same thing... plus it constantly locks up and
> fails to respond when I press the 'Send Email' button. Again, these are
> problems my computer was having out of the box, completely nonmolested
> by me. Frankly, I remember having similar problems with Mail when I
> tried using it 3 years ago on my iMac.

That's because Mail sucks.

> € One of the nice things about Mac OS9 was that in pretty much
> every browser, when you saved a file from the web- ... the address
> of this file was saved in the 'Get Info' box of the file. ... Yet I
> have found *no* browsers in OSX that do this!

That's because browsers suck.

> € Why have I been completely unable to get Flash 8 to install? WHY THE
> **** DOES A COMPUTER SHIPPING IN THE YEAR TWO-THOUSAND-SIX NOT ALREDY
> HAVE FLASH INSTALLED!?!

That's because Flash SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS.
And because Apple in a fit of sensibility decided it didn't want to
touch Flash with a friggin' boat hook. Nor should you.

Also it's because Macromedia/Adobe decided it didn't want to touch Mac
with a friggin' boat hook.

Mainly, though, it's because they fired Rone. Adobe sucks.

> THIS IS THE YEAR
> TWO-THOUSAND-****ING-SIX! IF I WANT TO VIEW MY VIDEO FILES OF TERA
> PATRI^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H THE PERSEID METEOR SHOWER WITH THE NEWEST
> COMPUTER IN THE UNIVERSE, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO RIFLE THROUGH CONFUSINGLY
> DESIGNED WEB PAGES OF THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS TO DO IT!

That's because 2006 sucks. Also video sucks. Also third-party
software sucks. Also developers suck. Also the web sucks. Also the
Perseids suck.

> This is all, IMO, inexcusable.

That's because you suck.

This post is because I suck.

--
- Doctroid Doctroid Holmes <http://www.richholmes.net/doctroid/>

"But only with kibological dooomsday bombs do you get the authentic
wacky boing." -- John D Salt

Tyrone Nation <tagutcow@earthlink.net> writes:

> I am the recent purchaser of an Apple-Intel iMac G5 running Mac OSX
> Tiger, and I have a few inquiries and grievances. If anybody could help
> me out, I would be much obliged.

<hands tagutcow semi-automatic weapon>

> € MT Newswatcher is unstable and stops responding almost immediately
> after I open a new article window, so posting is like a race against the
> clock.

That's because Newswatcher sucks.

> I don't feel like using shell newsreaders (although I'm forced to
> use the shell for ftp,) so what's a usable GUI newsreader Mac OSX Tiger?

Google Groups.

> € Text Edit is st0opid.. So is "Stickies"" for that
> matter..

That's because they suck. "Stickies" in particular is not a real
application; it's a practical joke someone decided to pull a few years
ago. "Hey, Irv, let's distribute a completely useless app with this
OS and see if anyone notices!"

> For some reason,, these programs have Tourettes with spaces and
> punctuation marks.. To illustrate this behavior,, I typed this
> paragraph in Text Edit..

Do they also stick in "Hello Datacomp" at random intervals?

> Why would Apple ship something that''s
> so apparently defective out--of--the--box??

That's because Apple sucks.

> I'm looking for a text editor on OSX that does that
> much-- and that little-- and is **free***.

Emacs.

> € Oh yeah, 'Mail' does the same thing... plus it constantly locks up and
> fails to respond when I press the 'Send Email' button. Again, these are
> problems my computer was having out of the box, completely nonmolested
> by me. Frankly, I remember having similar problems with Mail when I
> tried using it 3 years ago on my iMac.

That's because Mail sucks.

> € One of the nice things about Mac OS9 was that in pretty much
> every browser, when you saved a file from the web- ... the address
> of this file was saved in the 'Get Info' box of the file. ... Yet I
> have found *no* browsers in OSX that do this!

That's because browsers suck.

> € Why have I been completely unable to get Flash 8 to install? WHY THE
> **** DOES A COMPUTER SHIPPING IN THE YEAR TWO-THOUSAND-SIX NOT ALREDY
> HAVE FLASH INSTALLED!?!

That's because Flash SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS.
And because Apple in a fit of sensibility decided it didn't want to
touch Flash with a friggin' boat hook. Nor should you.

Also it's because Macromedia/Adobe decided it didn't want to touch Mac
with a friggin' boat hook.

Mainly, though, it's because they fired Rone. Adobe sucks.

> THIS IS THE YEAR
> TWO-THOUSAND-****ING-SIX! IF I WANT TO VIEW MY VIDEO FILES OF TERA
> PATRI^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H THE PERSEID METEOR SHOWER WITH THE NEWEST
> COMPUTER IN THE UNIVERSE, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO RIFLE THROUGH CONFUSINGLY
> DESIGNED WEB PAGES OF THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS TO DO IT!

That's because 2006 sucks. Also video sucks. Also third-party
software sucks. Also developers suck. Also the web sucks. Also the
Perseids suck.

> This is all, IMO, inexcusable.

That's because you suck.

This post is because I suck.

--
- Doctroid Doctroid Holmes <http://www.richholmes.net/doctroid/>

"But only with kibological dooomsday bombs do you get the authentic
wacky boing." -- John D Salt

In article <270220060935086176%pmevans@nospam.mac.com>,
P M Evans <pmevans@nospam.mac.com> wrote:

> Before you do anything else, I suggest that you find out just what you
> have. It's either an Intel or a G5, not both.

I missed that. I guess "G5" just looks like a Mac trademark. You're
right of course, it can't be both.
--
W. Oates
Teal'c: He is concealing something.
O'Neil: Like what?
Teal'c: I am unsure, he is concealing it.

In article <270220060935086176%pmevans@nospam.mac.com>,
P M Evans <pmevans@nospam.mac.com> wrote:

> Before you do anything else, I suggest that you find out just what you
> have. It's either an Intel or a G5, not both.

I missed that. I guess "G5" just looks like a Mac trademark. You're
right of course, it can't be both.
--
W. Oates
Teal'c: He is concealing something.
O'Neil: Like what?
Teal'c: I am unsure, he is concealing it.