just took The Plunge, was Re: [geeks] Recommendations?

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 01:40 , Dave McGuire wrote:

>   This is a big day for me.  I just moved to my G4/400 (MacOS 10.1.3)
> as my primary desktop.

Woohoo!

>   - No FDDI drivers...suffering with ethernet for now, barf-o

Oh, well.

>   - my compact flash reader (early SanDisk SDDR-05b) has no MacOS X 
> drivers

Update time.

>   - no CD burner software

Toast.  Even if your dive *is* supported by the built-in stuff, use 
Toast.

>   - no virtual desktops
>   - can't get it to boot from a Qlogic QLA1080 or Adaptec 2940UW SCSI 
> board

You might want to try some of the following:
http://www.macosxhints.com/
http://macspeedzone.com/html/hubs/central/os/x/Xnews.html

For starters.

>   This is very, very nice.  Very nice indeed.  I'm stiff, here.

Heh.  Another Altivec-inspired erection.

-Pete