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How can I uninstall Snow Leopard or Vista ll?

Chupa Chupa said:
Care to elaborate? Just going off your technical skills, or lack thereof, what exactly in you mind makes SL "for the birds." All SL is for the most part is 10.5 tweaked. Are you really going back to Tiger?
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I also want to uninstall SL. I have several reasons, but the most significant one is that I can't use my (HP) printer, a Laserjet 1300n. There are no drivers for it (nor for many other HP printers) in SL. Both Apple and HP say it will be a while before there will be drivers for many of the HP printers.

Also Norton antivirus doesn't work with SL.

All in all, I don't find it an advantage to have SL; I have not seen any big pluses or advances in speed, but have these two big problems for which there are officially no solutions from Apple.

So, how to uninstall SL?
 
abthc said:
Hi everybody

I have FINALLY found out how to get my older HP printers working with Snow Leopard. No one at Apple, no one at HP, and no one on this forum (or any other) was any help at all. But here is it, perfect help! It works!

I tried for two whole weeks to print with my wonderful HP 1300n, and now I can, wirelessly. I am so happy!
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And with that ungrateful attitude towards a forum that doesn't OWE anyone anything I would say, who cares?
 
jmpage2 said:
Umm, storing data in the resource fork (and only in the resource fork) is nothing like Windows compression. In fact, OS X 10.6 actually speeds up substantially because it requires fewer disk passes to access the compressed files and a trivial CPU load to decompress them at usage time. Maybe you should educate yourself a bit before copping an attitude.
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1. You claim that "OS X 10.6 uses file level compression that Windows can only dream."

2. He claims that Windows has file level compression 14 years ago in 1995 [with NTFS v1.2].

3. You then say that's not the same thing as resource fork, thus, changing the subject of discussion without acknowledging that NTFS v1.2 in 1995 does have file level compression that only HSF+ in 2009 starts to support. Simply put, OS X 10.6 is behind in file level compression.

4. Actually, most file systems have fork. Windows NTFS has resource fork, and it's called Alternate Data Stream (ADS), since the beginning of NTFS in 1993. This fork stores various things including file summary, picture thumbnails, or almost anything else. The fork exists as part of the file that a user can append to.

5. I am sure there're better literature on the history of NTFS and HFS, but the wiki should be enough for now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(filesystem)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork
 
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