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the worst question a pc user has aksed you
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"Um because its a dell", would be my response, although that is eerily similar to a rash generalization like "macs suck!".
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ironic on so many levels
Yeah, I think he got the irony of his question:
"What's wrong with your Dell?"
He didn't let me answer, he just went off on a diatribe about "picky" mac users and how "a computer is just a computer." I must admit we mac users have been a pesky bunch since the district went PC. Whenever the server goes down from some PC virus (several times a year) someone is sure to remind him about how PC's are more vulnerable to viruses than macs.
It does steam me to see the waste of $ in education. Teachers used to run our own tech support when we were mac only. Not like mac was perfect (system 8, argh!) but we could fix our own problems. Now we have two full-time district personel and one tech person at each school site.
Sorry, off-topic, but it feels good to rant every so often.
Yeah, I think he got the irony of his question:
"What's wrong with your Dell?"
He didn't let me answer, he just went off on a diatribe about "picky" mac users and how "a computer is just a computer." I must admit we mac users have been a pesky bunch since the district went PC. Whenever the server goes down from some PC virus (several times a year) someone is sure to remind him about how PC's are more vulnerable to viruses than macs.
It does steam me to see the waste of $ in education. Teachers used to run our own tech support when we were mac only. Not like mac was perfect (system 8, argh!) but we could fix our own problems. Now we have two full-time district personel and one tech person at each school site.
Sorry, off-topic, but it feels good to rant every so often.
How is it possible for a network to be incompatible? If it is based on 802.11b/g for the wireless and any kind of network wired, it should be able to work. Maybe you just need a password to legally access it
ehhhh, you can have a network that only allows NT login scripts or whatever they are. it's pretty easy to make a network windows-only if you really want to.Originally posted by tazo
How is it possible for a network to be incompatible? If it is based on 802.11b/g for the wireless and any kind of network wired, it should be able to work. Maybe you just need a password to legally access it
perhaps they configured the dhcp server to only give ip s to mac addresses the server knows. i d talk to your admin if i were you.
that's what they do at my school, so NO non-school computers can log on. but he said that all PC laptops logged on just fine. so i didn't think it was a DHCP issue.
Half-life
From what I read at one point, Sierra did hire a company to port HL to the Mac, and things supposedly were even on schedule, but then Sierra killed the project. Maybe they thought it better to just throw money into porting HL to the Dreamcast...which was also never released, I believe. And I tried the PS version of HL, but it just didn't translate well control-wise.
Fortunately, there are some great development houses which are porting quite a few games over to the Mac. Not everything, but quite a few.
From what I read at one point, Sierra did hire a company to port HL to the Mac, and things supposedly were even on schedule, but then Sierra killed the project. Maybe they thought it better to just throw money into porting HL to the Dreamcast...which was also never released, I believe. And I tried the PS version of HL, but it just didn't translate well control-wise.
Fortunately, there are some great development houses which are porting quite a few games over to the Mac. Not everything, but quite a few.
Re: fellow computer science student asks...
Same here. Or at least I was the only Mac CS student that I knew about. But if I was ever toting around one of my Macs, I was very happy to show off my computer, from the clean design of the PowerMac to the sleek, slim size of my iBook, or the ever-so-cool capabilities of OS X. I think for a programmer, OS X is the ultimate dream. Plenty of UNIX and development tools (often for free, which can't be said about Windows or Visual Studio), but the simplicity that a Mac brings along. Linux is cool, but it still is too rough around the edges and forces me to spend more time trying to get things to just work, whereas my Macs allow me to just get done what I want to do.
Same here. Or at least I was the only Mac CS student that I knew about. But if I was ever toting around one of my Macs, I was very happy to show off my computer, from the clean design of the PowerMac to the sleek, slim size of my iBook, or the ever-so-cool capabilities of OS X. I think for a programmer, OS X is the ultimate dream. Plenty of UNIX and development tools (often for free, which can't be said about Windows or Visual Studio), but the simplicity that a Mac brings along. Linux is cool, but it still is too rough around the edges and forces me to spend more time trying to get things to just work, whereas my Macs allow me to just get done what I want to do.
Originally posted by Roger1
Unlike the 1st gen Tibooks, right?
I have one of those, and they get hot . In fact, when I have shorts on, I have to put a towel or magazine on my lap to keep from getting burned. And yes, it gets that hot even when its sitting on my desk.
I would have thought putting a PB on a towel was the best way to heat it up.
What's wrong with blistered thighs?
I agree - unlike your construction of gustar
isnt it A los profes.....no LES ?
I'll be interested to see what happens when I hook my PB into the uni network for the first time next term. Maybe I'll be the one asking a stupid question to be quoted some day on a PC forum.
nope, its the base network problem I asked the admins. The macs somehow thinks the ip is used by another computer when its empty. Tried it with a 17" PB with no avail either sucks. Can't even use ethernet. It gives an error saying ip is in use, but the admin already gave me an empty ip tried everything for 2 damn hours and it seems the main error is incomptability.
As far as I know it has nothing to do with 802.11b, the ibook detects an error with the network and refuses to connect, because it thinks the ip is in use by some another computer, whch is not true.
All my friends with PC laptops can access it, I can form rendevous with my friends whch I presuaded to buy powerbooks, but thats about it. Its a shame I can't show them how airport rocks.
As far as I know it has nothing to do with 802.11b, the ibook detects an error with the network and refuses to connect, because it thinks the ip is in use by some another computer, whch is not true.
All my friends with PC laptops can access it, I can form rendevous with my friends whch I presuaded to buy powerbooks, but thats about it. Its a shame I can't show them how airport rocks.
does your mac work on other networks?
networks operate on an open standard. macs are made to that standard. unless your mac is broken in some way, their network is broken in some way that is mac-specific by odd chance.
what is that last thing you said? that powerbook users can access the network and you can get on through their computers via rendezvous? i thought you said macs couldn't get on the network?
networks operate on an open standard. macs are made to that standard. unless your mac is broken in some way, their network is broken in some way that is mac-specific by odd chance.
what is that last thing you said? that powerbook users can access the network and you can get on through their computers via rendezvous? i thought you said macs couldn't get on the network?
Originally posted by billyboy
I agree - unlike your construction of gustar
isnt it A los profes.....no LES ?
I'll be interested to see what happens when I hook my PB into the uni network for the first time next term. Maybe I'll be the one asking a stupid question to be quoted some day on a PC forum.
i believe it is the correct form of gustar, since i used the subjunctive form, in which case gustar would become the opposite conjugation, gusten (not gustan).
Also, its los profes, but las profesoras.
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Originally posted by tazo
i believe it is the correct form of gustar, since i used the subjunctive form, in which case gustar would become the opposite conjugation, gusten (not gustan).
Also, its los profes, but las profesoras.
-tazo
Actually, I think billyboy is right about your articles. It should be:
Es posible que a los profes de la escuela no les gusten los macs.
De nada.
Back on topic, I love it when PC users ask about installing/removing programs and hardware.
My girlfriend's Dad just got an eMac (their first Mac) and was trying to set up a USB printer in OS X. I walked him through the 3 steps or so over the phone, and he was like "That's it? Wow!"
You know how to use the subjunctive, but sorry, it's "gracias POR" plus infinitive - or sustantivo - tu ayuda
Apart from these linguistic diversions, this is an epic thread.
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