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well if it's the g4 with the widescreen...

i suppose that's tolerable... i just hate the whole 1 button thing... i used to be a mac head

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rawr isn't really here., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 4:52, archived)

i use

a 3-button mouse

and it is a widescreen G4 (but not the 17" one - that's just silly)

(vork and burlap, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 4:54, archived)

I personally prefer the 1 button touch pad on my ibook

I have wrist problems that regular mice exacerbate though

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kitty meow meow, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 4:56, archived)

the trackpad

makes my hand hurt after a while

that's why i bought a travel mouse (it's small and has a retractable lead for storage - it's quite cute)

(vork and burlap, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 4:59, archived)

yeah I have one of those somewhere

~~it's buried under a big pile of stuff~~ I can't find it and moving my wrist like I do, even though I shouldn't, on real mice makes my arm hurt through my wrist to my elbow

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kitty meow meow, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:02, archived)

i lost mine last week

found it in my sock drawer

/no idea

(vork and burlap, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:07, archived)

you have a sock drawer!

I'm still trying to prove I'm the messiest b3tan

I don't know why.

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kitty meow meow, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:10, archived)

my sock drawer

contains far more than just socks

i honestly think something lives in it

(vork and burlap, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:12, archived)

hmm

I've not bothered to assign a sock drawer.

I don't even know what's in my dresser. hmmm...

I should probably get rid of whatever is though, since I obviously never use it

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kitty meow meow, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:15, archived)

that's a stupid reason

no offence, but they work with regular mice, just buy a nice 3 button optical one.

If you're going to spend the extra money to get a mac, you can afford $20 for a mouse..

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kitty meow meow, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 4:54, archived)

that's true, but...

i also am not a big fan of the OSX interface... granted the mac is a wonderful platform, it's secure and such, i just personally prefer my PC

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rawr isn't really here., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 4:55, archived)

although with all the grief my pc has caused me this week

i think i wouldn't mind just going and using my mom's imac

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rawr isn't really here., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 4:58, archived)

that's a good reason

see? wasn't that easier.

I just think everyone should use whatever os they want.

really, as long as you can save files into standard formats, there's no reason to squabble.

I'm a unix geek though. I like owning a unix box

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kitty meow meow, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 4:58, archived)

i have a couple of them too...

but i haven't been arsed to turn them on in a while...

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rawr isn't really here., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 4:59, archived)

why not unix on a pc then?

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Kaiser, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:01, archived)

she likes to

be ~~weird~~ different :)

(vork and burlap, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:03, archived)

it could be cool with the new G5 dual processor mac,

but i'm not a rich man!

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Kaiser, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:05, archived)

they look

scarily good

(vork and burlap, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:06, archived)

because that would require formatting and stuff

this one came ready made

(besides, my uni bought it for me)
/lazy

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kitty meow meow, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:04, archived)

you can install a bsd very quickly!

no problem!

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Kaiser, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:08, archived)

yeah, I've been told

but I'm afraid of not being able to find drivers for my modem or soundcard or cd burner.

I probably will if I ever get the motivation, but for now I find it convinient to have a windows machine for things like kazaa and my music software

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kitty meow meow, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:13, archived)

but

you can't get your cd burner working with windows :P

(vork and burlap, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:14, archived)

if BSD supported all my hardware

i would run it.

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rawr isn't really here., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:16, archived)

if you're good at tweaking BSD

you should be able to get a fine machine!
OSX is based on BSD!

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Kaiser, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:24, archived)

yeah

that's a very good point.

I'm waiting for someone to make a financial decision, then if it's ok, I'm going to buy myself an external dvd burner and put the poor old cd burner out of it's misery.

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kitty meow meow, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:17, archived)

erm...

what's the problem with your cd burner?

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Kaiser, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:20, archived)

it's 6 years old

it doesn't work reliably any more

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kitty meow meow, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:25, archived)

oohh..

i think it's close to death!

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Kaiser, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:26, archived)

yeah

seems to be.

I bought it used for $79 which isn't a bad deal since they were still over $200 new at the time. It's been nice, but it's time for a new one

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kitty meow meow, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:28, archived)

it can't be long

before dvd-burners get cheap!

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Kaiser, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:34, archived)

yeah

when the blue laser ones come out, the red laser ones will be cheap.

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kitty meow meow, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:36, archived)

oh, forgot to mention

my powerbook has a superdrive too

/rubs it in

(vork and burlap, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:37, archived)

yeah

well my iBook was free!

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kitty meow meow, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:39, archived)

bastard

(vork and burlap, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:39, archived)

they've got a fine documentation:

www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/hardware.html

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Kaiser, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:17, archived)

yep

as I say, I'll probably do it one day, but I'm more lazy than I am geeky, so it's just going to stay windows until I get very very very bored one day and do it on an impulse

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kitty meow meow, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 5:19, archived)