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Dimwhit said:
Sweeeeeeeeeet....

On another note, I finally installed Panther this last weekend. Other than some minor problems with Font Book, I'm really loving it. Very fast on my G4/800. And it seems to run just fine on my G3/400 PowerBook as well.
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Ooh. Did you use Jaguar before? If so, how does it compare?
 

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Steve Jung said:
Ooh. Did you use Jaguar before? If so, how does it compare?
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Yeah, I was on Jaguar. On the G4/800, it runs at least as fast, if not a little faster. Font Book has been my only problem app, but it's not that bad. A lot of spinning beach ball though every time I launch it. But everything else seems to fly.

I haven't done anything but install it on my G3/400 Powerbook, but I'll be playing around with it when I game next on Thursday. I'll let you know how well it runs on that after I have some time with it, if you're interested.

But I'm really liking Panther. My favorite feature is the new finder. Coolest feature goes to the fast user switching. I only have one user, so I created a junk account just to see it switch every once in a while. :D
 


Mirth said:
Just got my first DVDBurner and I've need suggestions for what programs to use on a Mac. I'm all ears (eyes?) !!

Jay
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Toast 6 Titanium is quite good. It even encodes to standard DVD format, though the chaptering and such is a little limited. But it's a very good program. I'm assuming iDVD is out, right? I think you have to have a built-in DVD drive by Apple. (That still kinda ticks me off.)
 

Dimwhit said:
Toast 6 Titanium is quite good. It even encodes to standard DVD format, though the chaptering and such is a little limited. But it's a very good program.
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Yeah, I've ot Toast 6 and it is great. Have you used DVDBackup, DVD2One or any of the other DVD ripping programs out there?

Dimwhit said:
I'm assuming iDVD is out, right? I think you have to have a built-in DVD drive by Apple. (That still kinda ticks me off.)
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And a G4, so yeah iDVD is out. But I've got Final Cut if I need it, so I don't see that as a problem.

Right now, I mostly want to make backup copies of my more collectible DVDs to watch, like my Criterion Hard Boiled and the Akira in the metal tin. That way I can still enjoy the movie but I can leave the collectible in pristine condition.

Thanks for the quick response DW :D

Any other advice from the rest of you MacHeads?
 

Hi,

I use an eMac G4... one thing I love about OS X is Unix... it allows me to be a true computer geek all over again. Thanks Apple.

I've also been creating my first app-- a player character repository--and if you've got PHP/mySQL setup on your Mac (I know you do 'cause it's so easy, eh?) then let me know if you're interested in testing it for me.

/johnny :)
 

pezagent said:
Hi,

I use an eMac G4... one thing I love about OS X is Unix... it allows me to be a true computer geek all over again. Thanks Apple.

I've also been creating my first app-- a player character repository--and if you've got PHP/mySQL setup on your Mac (I know you do 'cause it's so easy, eh?) then let me know if you're interested in testing it for me.

/johnny :)
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I may be interested in helping you. I am actually going to install mySQL on my Mac at work today or tomorrow. If I can't figure it out, I'll have to post here for some help from you. (I'm fairly new to the UNIX thing.)
 

Dimwhit said:
I may be interested in helping you. I am actually going to install mySQL on my Mac at work today or tomorrow. If I can't figure it out, I'll have to post here for some help from you. (I'm fairly new to the UNIX thing.)
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Hi Dim,

That's great. You'll need to install PHP as well, but you can do that after mySQL. If you do run into bumps, feel free to post back here and I'll see what I can do to help you out. If you haven't prepped yourself for mySQL installation, may I remind you that most of installation problems occur due to permission settings, so if your machine is at work, make sure you have full access privilages and you can set up a user-account (you'll need one for mySQL--it gets its own account). Otherwise you will run into "can't open socket" problems when you think everything is okay. Hopefully you won't run into this problem.

Regards,

/johnny :)
 

pezagent said:
I've also been creating my first app-- a player character repository--and if you've got PHP/mySQL setup on your Mac (I know you do 'cause it's so easy, eh?) then let me know if you're interested in testing it for me.
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Happy to help out. I've php running and if I don't have mySQL it's a no brainer, so cool.

I'm planning on creating a Konfabulator (got Konfabulator ? ) widget that can go into any CrystalBall monster file and copy it into your clipboard as a statblock. Need a statblock for an Adult Black Dragon? Click once to select and once to paste. Done.

Man, that's gonna make my life a LOT easier.

I'm also thinking about creating a DM writing tool that will allow you to create and organize dozens of documents, switch between them rapidly, display multiple docs simultaneously, multi-file search-and-replace, display RTF, TXT and HTML files, as well as images -- and I want to include a "Text Layer" over all images so you can import a cool map from somewhere, and then without using an image editor (which is a lot of work), just add key numbers to the map, or notes, or whatever.

Right now I use Apple's ProjectBuilder but it's got a zillion features for coding that I have no use for, so I'd like something a little more streamlined. Hoping to add good support for CrystallBall files, as well.

But that's a LONG-term project...
 


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