My iMac arrived! I went home and played with it at lunch - it's so shiny!
Yes, I am a big kid.
Atherton: Half the men in this room wish you were on their arm, tonight. Inara: Only half. I must be losing my indefinable allure.
'Shindig'
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Kevin - Apr 10, 2007 5:10:15 am PDT #1209 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Kevin - Apr 10, 2007 1:06:00 pm PDT #1210 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Yes, Firefox installed, Azureus installed, options fiddled, all is going well.
Except I keep trying to press the right mouse button. It's driving me insane.
Jessica - Apr 10, 2007 1:09:08 pm PDT #1211 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Except I keep trying to press the right mouse button. It's driving me insane.
I love Macs, but their peripherals suck elephant balls. I think I put up with my Mac keyboard for about three seconds before heading to Staples and getting a MS mouse/keyboard combo.
esse - Apr 10, 2007 1:13:27 pm PDT #1212 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Yeah, two-button USB mice work fine with Macs, but it's something to get used to after managing with one button for so long.
Jessica - Apr 10, 2007 1:17:25 pm PDT #1213 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The Mighty Mouse isn't bad, but I wish the two-button functionality worked a little better. (The one-button-that-you-can-click-on-both-sides design is very pretty, but not as responsive as two REAL buttons would be.)
Kevin - Apr 10, 2007 1:35:44 pm PDT #1214 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Yeah, I keep highlighting wrong things or scrolling off pages accidentally. I've not decided if it's me or the mouse which is useless yet.
I'm surprised how much software works on a Mac nowadays. I've got everything I've needed so far working without problems.
esse - Apr 10, 2007 1:41:22 pm PDT #1215 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Long gone are the days when five geeks were producing all the mac software. the osx environment has been crucial in software development over the last six years or so.
Kevin - Apr 10, 2007 2:07:04 pm PDT #1216 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Yeah. OSX is... striking. I'm a bit of an OS nerd, but mostly in the Windows (work) and open source sector. Having used Vista first, and now using OSX, I can tell you exactly where MS got it's Vista ideas from.
esse - Apr 10, 2007 2:09:06 pm PDT #1217 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Yep! Even more telling is that OSX has been out and popular for years, with the fairly intuitive and revolutionary os design. I'm using it right now, in fact, and there's still times I look admiringly at how it operates, so stylish and pretty.
Kevin - Apr 10, 2007 2:12:22 pm PDT #1218 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Ease of use is interesting. I thought it was going to be a nightmare, but after the whole 'why the fuck aren't half the keys working?!' thing it's starting to straighten out. Middle click to dashboard with calculator == godsend for me as I'm ALWAYS using the calculator.
And, hell, whenever anybody speaks on Instant Messenger I have a duck popping up in my panel. Which flaps it's wings. This makes me happy.