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beekaytee - Apr 22, 2005 6:50:31 am PDT #2556 of 10003

Compassionately intolerant

Please forgive all the meeping. I'll find the cluestick any minute now.

New issue:

The Inn gave me an HP Officejet 840c. Old, but a workhorse and...color! I've been all over Versiontracker and the HP site, but every link for the driver I click gives me no love. (The download results in an error and 0 bytes transferred.)

Does anyone have the cd version that I could pay to have shipped both ways (including a special treat of thanks) ?

I could either hook it up to my OS9 iMac, or the OSX eMac.

Tom Scola - Apr 22, 2005 7:00:46 am PDT #2557 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Beej, I'm afraid your word processing options are pretty limited unless you upgrade to 10.3 or 10.4.

It's also very likely that a driver for your printer will be included in 10.4. If you want to wait a week, I'll be able to let you know for sure.

beekaytee - Apr 22, 2005 7:58:46 am PDT #2558 of 10003

Compassionately intolerant

Thanks Tom. I can definitely wait. I've got other printing options at the moment.

I am massively of le sigh of resignation about the upgrade. I know you are right and, gosh darn it, I've been trying every option to avoid it. Partly due to the financial investment (doesn't ALL software then need to be upgraded?) and mostly to do with having to add memory to my machine. Gack.

Still, there is no point in having these two shiny apples on my desk, if I can't get full functionality out of them. Otherwise? Paperweights.

I see that now.

Tom Scola - Apr 22, 2005 8:00:56 am PDT #2559 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

doesn't ALL software then need to be upgraded?

No.

Gandalfe - Apr 22, 2005 2:44:38 pm PDT #2560 of 10003

The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

I'm worried about compatibility issues, i.e. emailing docs to folks. Word seems so universal, and .rtf files don't always carry formatting successfully.

Seriously, try OpenOffice. It's Mac and PC compatible, you can easily save things as .doc files, and it's non-evil.

Tom Scola - Apr 22, 2005 2:48:02 pm PDT #2561 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Open Office for Mac requires X11. I'm not aware of an X server for Mac OS 10.1.

Gandalfe - Apr 22, 2005 2:58:27 pm PDT #2562 of 10003

The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

Ignore me, then . . . .

Gris - Apr 22, 2005 3:06:18 pm PDT #2563 of 10003

Hey. New board.

Try NeoOffice/J. It's a port of OpenOffice that doesn't require X11 under OS X.

tommyrot - Apr 22, 2005 3:07:38 pm PDT #2564 of 10003

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

NeoOffice/J uses the JavaTM technology that is built into Mac OS X. By using Java, there is no need to download and install the X11 software that OpenOffice.org requires.

Is this a good thing?

Gris - Apr 22, 2005 3:09:22 pm PDT #2565 of 10003

Hey. New board.

(shrug) Depends. It means it's probably a little faster, and may look just a bit more like a normal OS X application. But I haven't actually tried it, or OpenOffice, for a comparison.

I personally hate running anything under X11. I haven't done it in a long time, having found replacements for just about everything I used to use it for.

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