[geeks] Macs

Ken Hansen geeks at sunhelp.org
Sun Jan 6 23:53:28 CST 2002


Nice page - is ther a MACWEENIE page somewhere for useful links like 
this?

Ken

On Sunday, January 6, 2002, at 08:04 AM, Jon Still wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Jon Still                               E-mail: jrs at tertial.org
> System Administrator                    Web:    http://www.tertial.org/
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Ken

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