Search Again: Re: MacOS X From: Matt Henderson Date: Thursday, May 31, 2001 Time: 3:06:51 am on 5/30/01 10:51 PM, Aaron Lynch at a.list@ninewire.com wrote: > Also, I just got dragthing, and made myself a nifty apple menu at the top of > the screen. That's been an immense productivity booster. I don't have to go > to the dock to select an app an back to the top to select a window. Ok, that may solve a couple of problems I noticed when looking at OS X -- + I didn't really like the Dock, since I prefer to have 'lists' of active processes to switch between, since I've got so many. + I also prefer DragThing as a launcher. Also, when I had a quick look at X, I also had a few other questions: + The User's Manual certainly wasn't written for any kind of advanced user, and didn't have answers to any of my questions. Does Apple provide any sort of advanced documentation? Where do you go when you have questions like, "Is Apache's VirtualHosts configured graphically via some tool in the MacOS, or do I need to modify the httpd.conf file myself?", "If I install PHP, with this screw up something in the MacOS's view of Apache?" + I couldn't even find the root password. Did I overlook something obvious? + What are you doing for backups? Presently I'm using Retrospect to back up the machine. If Retrospect's running under Classic, can it backup the Unix subsystems, so that a complete disk restore would be complete? Nicholas Orr <nick@goya.com.au> wrote: > The benefits are (I find) outweighing the loss of no native office. > There's heaps of sites that will help you with OSX setup etc. start at > www.macsurfer.com ang go from there. Do you know if it would be possible for me to install X on the same machine I'm running now, in a way that would let me gradually get used to it? Meaning the following -- somehow I boot into 9.1 during worktime, and then when I want to experiment with X, I boot into X, and it has access to all my user documents, but doesn't in any way corrupt my 9.1 system (user documents, prefs, etc.) so I can always be sure that I can boot into 9.1 and continue working if I discover some incompatibility in X? Many thanks guys! -- Matt Henderson -- MAKALUMEDIA INTERNET & ENGINEERING SERVICES GMBH matt@makalumedia.com | http://www.makalumedia.com/ Robert-Bosch Strasse 7, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany Tel: +49 6151 872 4600, Fax: +49 6151 872 4619 Tel: +34 952 764 278, Fax: +34 952 764 279 (Spain)

Messages In This Thread: MacOS X by Matt Henderson on May 30, 2001 at 1:40:10 am Re: MacOS X by Nicholas Orr on May 30, 2001 at 1:55:14 am Re: MacOS X by Martin Fritze on May 30, 2001 at 2:24:13 am Re: MacOS X by Aaron Lynch on May 30, 2001 at 1:52:29 pm Re: MacOS X by Matt Henderson on May 31, 2001 at 3:06:51 am Re: MacOS X by Aaron Lynch on May 31, 2001 at 3:43:32 am Re: MacOS X by Global Homes Webmaster on May 31, 2001 at 10:13:26 am Re: MacOS X by Nicholas Orr on May 31, 2001 at 4:56:43 pm Re: MacOS X by Steve Linford on Jun 1, 2001 at 1:38:15 am Re: MacOS X by Rob Gridley on Jun 1, 2001 at 9:48:41 am Re: MacOS X by Nicholas Orr on Jun 3, 2001 at 3:49:07 pm