[geeks] Macs

[Jon Still]

I've gotta admit I love OS X.  My Christmas present to myself was a 
shiny new iBook 600 and I've not looked back.  I'm currently enthusing 
about Stickies - I love the ability to just select text and press 
Apple-Shift-Y to create a sticky note from it.  Add to that the fact 
that I got it to print to my "unsupported" Laserjet 1100 via LPD on my 
Linux box (a bit of tinkering in Netinfo combined with ghostscript) and 
I'm a happy bunny :)

My only real concern I had before buying it was whether I would be able 
to use it as a serial terminal, which if I ever did any contracting 
would be something I would likely need to do.  However after my fiance 
very generously donated her Keyspan PDA adaptor, this was no trouble at 
all :)

Incidentally, we put together a little page on using macs (especially 
old macs) as serial terminals at 
http://www.tertial.org/projects/mac-console/  Can't beat a nice clacky 
Mac Plus keyboard :)

J.

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Jon Still                               E-mail: jrs at tertial.org
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