{"id":6485,"date":"2002-01-02T01:43:11","date_gmt":"2002-01-02T09:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=6485"},"modified":"2020-01-02T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T18:17:09","slug":"from-usenet-1202-0143","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/01\/02\/from-usenet-1202-0143\/","title":{"rendered":"[From Usenet: 1.2.02 0143]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16651,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/groups.google.com\\\/group\\\/alt.sys.mac.newuser-help\\\/browse_thread\\\/thread\\\/c85a9e7f498dd396?hl=en&amp;q=djwudi&amp;safe=images#0f089be226c884be&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/groups.google.com\\\/g\\\/alt.sys.mac.newuser-help\\\/c\\\/yFqef0mN05Y?hl=en&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>[Note: This was originally a post to the <code>alt.sys.mac.newuser-help<\/code> Usenet newsgroup. I\u2019m including it here for completeness. Originally archived <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/alt.sys.mac.newuser-help\/browse_thread\/thread\/c85a9e7f498dd396?hl=en&amp;q=djwudi&amp;safe=images#0f089be226c884be\" title=\"Google Groups: alt.sys.mac.newuser-help: OS X -- What the hell is this?\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>Albert &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>First off, I hope your experiences with OS X continue to improve, as you indicated they had started to in a followup post. Figured I could go ahead and jump in the fray, though&#8230; ;)<\/p>\n<p>In article <code>&lt;asteg-5FD600.02164401012...@news.mindspring.com&gt;<\/code>, Albert Steg <code>&lt;as...@mindspring.com&gt;<\/code> wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The installation process disbabled my Enternet software, crippling my internet access, and even when I got back to system 9 I found my internet aliases (eudora and netscape) hidden from my desktop and replaced with Explorer.  Felt like a Microsoft ploy.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s something of a surprise. Each time I&#8217;ve done an OS X install (starting with the Public Beta), it&#8217;s gone smooth as silk. Really unsure as to what may have gone on to actually disable anything.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;and the interface is totally new, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221;  Why is there no warning or explanation in the manual that this system represents a radical departure from the Apple of the past 15 years?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s definitely a new system, but the manual I got &#8211; while <em>really<\/em> underwhelming &#8211; did at least have a cursory &#8220;this is what you&#8217;re gonna get&#8221; feel to it. Much as &#8216;puter people sterotypically go with a &#8220;install first, read later if something explodes&#8221; attitude, sometimes it can be helpful to at least flip through the documentation at least once first&#8230; ;)<\/p>\n<p>I am, along with others, somewhat surprised that you were caught so completely off guard &#8211; wherever you&#8217;ve been, you must have been really out of touch. If you start poking around the web, though, there&#8217;s a lot of good information on all the various changes, both why they were done and what the various repercussions are. The OS X manual that Carl linked to (http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/rgriff\/files\/osxguide2.pdf) is a good start, I&#8217;d also recommend spending some time digging through Mac OS X Hints (http:\/\/www.macosxhints.com\/), lots of good info on there.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Am I alone in being dismayeed and bewildered here?  These huge Playskool-style icons,\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These can be scaled up and down to your preferences&#8230;they are a wee bit on the big side by default.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  the inability to open two windows at one time\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can have more than two open at once. Check your System Preferences and View Options (under the Finder&#8217;s View menu) for the various options there.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;the oily, gimmicky sluuuuurping of windows\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some people like the &#8216;genie&#8217; effect, some don&#8217;t &#8211; I&#8217;ve switched it to the &#8216;scale&#8217; effect, as it&#8217;s a bit less processor-intensive (and therefore a bit quicker on my machine).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  down to the Windows-like &#8220;dock&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It takes some getting used to, but I&#8217;ve found the dock to be a very nice addition (though, I&#8217;ve gotta admit, I&#8217;ve liked certain aspects of the Windows taskbar too). I keep my dock devoid of any aliases, so  that I don&#8217;t have to try to distinguish between icons of running aps and icons of apps that I can run if I want, and only use it for whatever&#8217;s running at the moment. For me it works much better as a application switcher than as a launcher, but different things work for different people&#8230;experiment with it a bit, after the initial shock, you may find it more to your liking.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  instead of the crisp windowshade feature of previous systems&#8230;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As has been noted by a couple people, there is a shareware program that will bring windowshading back to OS X (though I don&#8217;t use it myself).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  these are improvements?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Overall, yeah&#8230;just improvements with a bit more learning curve than has been necessary for past OS updates. But then, past OS updates didn&#8217;t completely rewrite the OS from the ground up, either&#8230;. :)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  How about an explanation of the itools program, rather than just thrusting it at you in the config process?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apple would do well to explain this a bit more. However, breifly, iTools isn&#8217;t so much a program as it is a set of services that Apple provides that you can use or ignore as you like. It includes free e-mail with a mac.com suffix, an online storage space (your iDisk), and some other features that can be explored in more depth on Apple&#8217;s iTools site (http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itools\/). You don&#8217;t have to use any of them, though, if you don&#8217;t want or need to.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Can I use Eudora <em>instead<\/em> of Itools. . .\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yup &#8211; I think there&#8217;s even an OS X version of Eudora out by now. Check VersionTracker (http:\/\/www.versiontracker\/macosx\/) to be sure.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  or do I have to use Itools to access eudora now?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nope, though you probably can use Eudora to access your iTools mac.com e-mail account if you&#8217;ve set one up (though I&#8217;m not 100% sure on that).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  . . . granted I have to give it a chance, but I am <em>not<\/em> looking forward to this.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, go ahead and poke around, play for a while, and give it that chance. There&#8217;s some culture shock &#8211; especially since you apparently didn&#8217;t know what you were in for &#8211; but it&#8217;s not that bad once you get used to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, I hope your experiences with OS X continue to improve, as you indicated they had started to in a followup post. 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