Subj : OFFLINE READER NEEDE˙˙˙˙˙ To : All From : Bill Wise Date : Sat Aug 05 2000 11:33 pm MP> Even the aliasses? I delete tons of those. So do I. But when I first got the Mac I didn't know the difference (italics) and almost emptied the trash with AppleWorks in it. Something didn't look right so I pulled it out. Good thing: Apple gives you a single copy of AppleWorks with no archive to reinstall if you screw it up. I'd have had to _buy_ a copy! MP> it's the GUI and the Unix foundation. Mac OS X will be less Unix MP> transparent, but Apple, unfortunately, also wants it to hide it fr MP> common mortals. Seriously, i'd buy a Mac if I had a) the money and MP> if it could boot directly into a Unix shell and then load the find MP> upon ask. I know nothing about Unix, so I have no idea what the advantage would be, unless you're talking about something similar to running DOS 6.22 and bringing up Windows 3.x only when you have to. I used to operate that way before Windows 95. MP> install one of those for Linux. Even under Windows I only had 3 th MP> last 3 years, so I just don't take it seriously even where there's MP> threat. I think that anybody who "does" computers all the time will pretty much be safe from the average virus. The ones who get caught are those who only "operate the software" and haven't the foggiest idea of what's going on otherwise. The big companies have thousands of people like that working for them, and that's why they get busted up. The only virus I ever had was one I got from distribution disks (Microsoft, yet!) that I got from my son. OTOH, he lived in a college town at the time, and he said there were all kinds of weird things going on there. Fortunately I had McAfee aboard, and it caught it and deleted it, both on the hard drive and the floppies, which weren't write-protected. That's probably how they got infected. MP> VMware, the OS emulator for Linux works by cutting the RAM for the MP> guest OS. I don't think it's shared like it should do. 160 Mb sure MP> helps a lot! But hey, like I say for Wine (Windows binary app MP> Emulator), "It's not a Windows emulator for nothing!" It even mana MP> to crash my computer while simply compiling it. I finally got to the point where SoftWindows98 wouldn't run on the iMac. It would install, but freeze so I couldn't use it. I deleted it, reinstalled it with the same problem. Figured something had to be seriously wrong, so I got the downloadable version of Norton Utilities and tried to run Speed Disk. It said that the hard drive was "severely" fragmented, but it couldn't optimize it from the startup disk, and I needed to insert the CD-ROM. Fortunately Mac Warehouse and Digital River were very good about a refund for the download, and I ordered the CD-ROM version, which should arrive Tuesday or Wednesday. That should make a difference. The HD is 6GB, with 4.57GB free, but there's only 1.56GB available in a single contiguous block, so that is undoubtedly the problem. In the meantime, with 160MB of RAM, everything "Mac" is swift and sure. Bill Bill billwise@afm.org * RM 1.3 01861 * Internet: billwise@afm.org --- * RIMEGate(tm)V10.2á˙* RelayNet(tm) NNTP Gateway * MoonDog BBS * RgateImp.MoonDog.BBS at 8/6/00 6:33:21 AM * Origin: MoonDog BBS, Brooklyn,NY, 718 692-2498, 1:278/230 (1:278/230) .