Finally, after several months of wrangling, I was able to acquire a
PowerBook G4 with 1gB of memory.

I am so incredibly relieved at the ease-of-use usage experience, the ability
to run Windows in emulation with VPC (which I use to accommodate clients
with custom software that runs only under Windows), and the UNIX environment
(I'm a UNIX geek that like so many others is forced to use Windows at the
job for special client software that only runs under Windows), and how my
productivity has soared since I'm no longer waiting for Windows to stop
swapping, writing eight gazillion Registry entries or otherwise being
useless and wasting CPU time.

Viva Mac!


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Tyrcadia Von Nettesheim wrote:
Wait until the spinning beach ball also known as the stallball shows up.

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 05:00:09 -0700, "John" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

....which might be never.

In article <0vv5hv887e8fv95ru74jicoena58m2g1fb@4ax.com>,
Steve Hanson <icustomercare@usps.com> wrote:

Windiots have absolutely no sense of humor. Thanks for proving it. Now,
since this is CSMA and not CSWA.

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Regards,
JP
"The measure of a man is what he will do while expecting that he will get nothing in return!"

Macintosh for productivity. Linux for servers. Palm/Visor for mobility. Windows to feed the Black Hole in your IT budget

In article <0uv5hvgm24lik9k39qp3d322sj7sa5b4cf@4ax.com>,
Steve Hanson <icustomercare@usps.com> wrote:

My PowerBook is on pretty much all the time (current uptime 5 days
plus), and I've yet to see this "stallball"...

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling 4 feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect
if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard."

In article <5XwQa.91$Pd2.2007@newsfeed.avtel.net>,
"John" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

(snip)

With a GB of RAM? I don't think he'll be seeing much of that. And in
either case, the "stallball" only affects single applications - not the
entire system (in my experience, anyway).

--
C Lund, www.notam02.no/~clund

Alan Baker wrote:

Take the computer out of sleep mode more often.

In article <3NUQa.97$Pd2.1781@newsfeed.avtel.net>,
"John" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:


Go play in the traffic more often, "John". Eventually, (we'll) get lucky.

--
George Graves

In article <3NUQa.97$Pd2.1781@newsfeed.avtel.net>,
"John" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

Sure, Johnny... ...that's it.

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling 4 feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect
if you sit in the bottom of that cupboard."

In article <5XwQa.91$Pd2.2007@newsfeed.avtel.net>, John
<nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

What is the big deal with the "spinning beach ball?" Why do I see this
incessant obsession with it on this newsgroup? You do realize that you
*can* switch to another application when the horrible, evil,
insurmountable spinning beach ball happens, right? Strange. It must be
all those years of Windows conditioning that teaches a person to
respond with helplessness to that kind of thing. Like the story about
the elephant that is tied to the post for years and once finally untied
doesn't understand that it can walk around freely. The spinning beach
ball (I like to call it the lollipop) only indicates that the current
application is busy. You can switch to something else, even if it's
the Finder that's busy, which I notice less and less of with each
update. It's not a system freeze.