Synapse Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 cause they use Macs there!!! :cake: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 My sis called me and wanted help with something, I said "right-click on the file", and she goes like "but I have a Mac, it only have one mouse button...", and im like "...dough!" :cake: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted February 26, 2007 Administrator Share Posted February 26, 2007 Nice find! :cake: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glade Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Not fair! Bi0haZarD? Have you used a fairly new Mac? Of any model? If not, you should, you would experience an elegance you do not find on a PC of any kind. To do a "right-click" on the Mac, simply hold the Control key down and click on the file, works the same as right-clicking on the PC. BUT! the new Macs HAVE a two button mouse. Even better actually, it is a Mighty Mouse! Wireless or wired. http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebO...plm=MA272LL%2FA http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebO...plm=MA086LL%2FA Expensive? Yes, but they work great and have many more features than your standard two button mouse. And if you buy a new Mac you get one with it, the wired variety anyway. (Or you could just buy any old two button mouse for your sis, they all work with Macs too, without having to install a driver, and they are immediately recognized by the Mac.) Come on guys! Give Mac a break! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synapse Posted February 28, 2007 Author Share Posted February 28, 2007 i posted this as a joke (hence the "wacky world" sub-forum) but to answer your question, yes i have used a mac... a little to long in my opinion too. Pretty much any computer work in schools (well... public schools anyways...) is done on Macs... between 5th grade -> 12 grade was all Macs... except for 3 years. 5th grade - AppleII (lol).. (Karataka or whatever, was the best game ever!) 6th grade - Mac Typing class ( http://www.apple-history.com/body.php?page...&model=5500 ) 7th grade - Same Macs as above 8th grade - Same Macs as above ----Graduation---- 9th grade - PC's, Typing Class, Learning about windows9x series, and got my win98 box during this year (which is still in my room... .LOL) 10th grade - iMacs for a lot of Sophmore projects.. ( http://www.apple-history.com/body.php?page...;model=imacrevc ) ---Continuation School (still on my highschool grounds, but for "lazy" people.. lol)--- 11th grade - iMac usage in library, and daily windows98 for my Computer Applications class and Windows98 at home. 12th grade - got some iMac from the school, and heard almost all classwork would be done on those.... i petitioned against using a Mac after typing up a 5 page essay (saving occasionally) and the hard drive died when i asked the comp to print... the school "tech" had a look and couldn't fix it or recover my data, so i would have to start over... after that, i bitched for 3 months and would only hand type things, until i got a PC in the class, after that it was my computer only, nobody else was allowed to use it, Comp was windows 2000 and had a friend of mine lock it down... never had a problem after that.. wow..... well theres the history of me if anyone cared... lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Then I told my sis to press the "F2" button too, and she said she don't have one. She has an iBook or MacBook, or something, that white Mac Laptop. Not sure if it has F-keys, maybe it does, no idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glade Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Well Bi0haZarD, that was a long time ago. I would give Macs a chance again. I'm sorry you lost your paper... maybe your "tech" guy was good, maybe not, but seems like it should have been retrievable. Things like that happen sometimes though... Eldmannen, MacBooks have an F2 key, it's just that it's embedded in the keyboard and it's required that the Function key be pressed at the same time to activate. F2 on the Mac does not have the same function as the PC though, so would have done no good. Go here to see all the MacOSX keyboard shortcuts: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459 And here's what Wiki says about function keys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_key Funny, I just tried F2 on my Dell laptop with Vista and nothing happened... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Yeah, you cant compare old classic Mac OS with Mac OS X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synapse Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 don't see why you would've said "press F2" as it doesn't do anything useful... only things i can think that F2 does on Windows is... rename. and i think Microsoft Office has something with F2. but it's been a while since i used office. and looking at Glade's Link, it doesn't look like F2 does anything important on Mac either. as for me giving Mac's another try... i don't think thats gonna happen, don't have many problems with Windows, and any problems that arise i can usually fix in a couple minutes.. the only thing i've ever experienced bad on my Windows box, is... 1. Guild Wars would just shutdown my comp, downgraded my video card drivers and haven't had the problem since. 2. Somehow lost my NTFS Partition on my backup drive, just ran the freeware version (limited offer they had) of PartitionMagic, and restored it with no problems. closest to Mac's that i'll get is probably Linux, since Mac is based off Unix. maybe it's cause i learned everything on Windows (besides typing... which still sucks lol) but i just find using Windows a lot easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 She wanted to rename the file, and I don't have Mac, so I told her to right-click, because I thought maybe there would come up a menu that would allow to rename, but she didn't have right-click on her laptop, I told her to press F2, hoping that it would rename the file. I am not saying Mac is good or bad, I don't use Mac, and don't have much experience with them, but maybe you should try Mac again, maybe you end up liking it. :cake: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted March 1, 2007 Administrator Share Posted March 1, 2007 To think, Windows had right clicking long before 3.1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glade Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 So Bi0haZarD, you play Guild Wars too? What is one of your characters names, I'll look you up sometime! (And it's okay if you don't use a Mac. I feel sorry for you but it's okay.) Eldmannen, to rename a file on the Mac, simply click the name of the file once to select it, then click again, (but don't double-click) for it to become highlighted and in edit mode. Then simply type the new name. It works the same way it does on a PC. Why anyone would want to use F2 to change the name of a file is beyond me, I have never done it that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 To think, Windows had right clicking long before 3.1. Hardware accelerated graphics Windows first got hardware accelerated graphics with like what, Windows 95? DirectX was released September 30, 1995. SGI has the IRIX operating system, and had OpenGL in 1992. User accounts Windows got multi-user in like NT4 (July 29, 1996) or 2000? (Windows 95, 98, ME, wasn't really multi-user, they had profiles though). Unix had it like in the 1960s. Graphical user interface Windows got a GUI in Windows 1.0, released November 20, 1985. Xerox had Alto in 1973. Multi-processor support Windows got SMP support in like Windows NT 4? (July 29, 1996) Unix have had it pretty much forever, probably since the 60's. Multi-tasking I remember Windows had multi-tasking in 3.11 (March 18, 1992), not sure if earlier versions had it too. Unix had multi-tasking since the 60's. Network support I remember Windows had network support in 3.11, not sure if earlier versions had it too. Unix was built with networks in mind, and think it had support for it in the 60's. VMS had it in the 70's. Desktop compositing Windows got desktop compositing with the Aero interface introduced in Windows Vista. Mac OS X v10.2 released in August 24, 2002 had desktop compositing with Quartz Extreme. Platforms Windows Vista support x86 (and x86-64). NetBSD support x86, x86-64, arm, mips, alpha, m68k, powerpc, sh3, hppa, ia64 (Itanium), ns32k, sparc (32&64), vax, etc. It runs on mainframes, Xbox, toasters, and pretty much anything lol. Recycle bin Windows got the recycle bin in Windows 95, released August 24, 1995. Xerox invented it a decade or two earlier. UTF-8 Don't remember when Windows got UTF-8 support, but it might have been with Windows 2000, unsure. Plan 9 had support for UTF-8 in 1992. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted March 2, 2007 Administrator Share Posted March 2, 2007 Off topic stuff... Yeeeaah, we're talking about right clicking right now; not the history of UNIX... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synapse Posted March 2, 2007 Author Share Posted March 2, 2007 So Bi0haZarD, you play Guild Wars too? What is one of your characters names, I'll look you up sometime! (And it's okay if you don't use a Mac. I feel sorry for you but it's okay.) Synapse Slayer Raefon Slayer Insomniac Dread and for now... "Im a crappy monk" lol. was kidding about running a mac when we were doing Sorrows Furnace =P it's cause i hadn't decompressed all the files yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Off topic stuff... Yeeeaah, we're talking about right clicking right now; not the history of UNIX... You was the one saying Windows had right-click long before Mac. Well, there are lots of features other operating systems have had long before Windows, and some features that Windows still don't have after all these years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted March 2, 2007 Administrator Share Posted March 2, 2007 You was the one saying Windows had right-click long before Mac. Well, there are lots of features other operating systems have had long before Windows, and some features that Windows still don't have after all these years. Don't forget who brought up right clicking in this thread. Post number two: My sis called me and wanted help with something, I said "right-click on the file", and she goes like "but I have a Mac, it only have one mouse button...", and im like "...dough!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glade Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Ahh! Refreshing new insight here! Thank you Eldmannen! At least Microsoft has someone good to copy. Vista's interface was a complete ripoff of MacOSX and the new search function is still not as good as Spotlight on the Mac, but they're getting there... Bi0haZarD: Oh! So you are Synapse! Great! Now I know who I'm dealing with here! Sure glad you're back. You've been brainwashed by Tarun The Great haven't you? Seriously though, I don't mind the teasing. Being a Mac Evangelist is my cross to bear I suppose. Always the Underdog. Oh, by the way, I don't usually Monk so bad, I was distracted by a bunch of chat that was going on with some of my former guild members and didn't do such a good job =\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synapse Posted March 3, 2007 Author Share Posted March 3, 2007 Ahh! Refreshing new insight here! Thank you Eldmannen! At least Microsoft has someone good to copy. Vista's interface was a complete ripoff of MacOSX and the new search function is still not as good as Spotlight on the Mac, but they're getting there... Bi0haZarD: Oh! So you are Synapse! Great! Now I know who I'm dealing with here! Sure glad you're back. You've been brainwashed by Tarun The Great haven't you? Seriously though, I don't mind the teasing. Being a Mac Evangelist is my cross to bear I suppose. Always the Underdog. Oh, by the way, I don't usually Monk so bad, I was distracted by a bunch of chat that was going on with some of my former guild members and didn't do such a good job =\ imo the Vista interface looks crappy, and i personally won't upgrade until i know microsoft will still have an XP theme, or someone makes a patcher that removes that, or makes my current theme compatible or somethin. lol i've probably been anti-mac since before Tarun i just don't pick jokes at it very often =P , I personally don't care which operating system people use, if Mac works for ya, more power to ya. I just find the arguments between Operating Systems playful fun. and btw, i didn't mind your healing that night, i only died once, and i don't think anyone died 2 or more times anyways. well... besides the playful fun of killing ourselves before leaving sorrows furnace =P. Mac's still suck though.. =P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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