I've got a lengthy question for that person... I think it was USMC.

Does Unix have a good Windows emulator or something along those lines?

There's a few "Must haves" that I currently use, from the DivX codec for my massive dennis miller live collection, to Macromedia Homesite 5 for programming. These aren't offered on the Penguin.

I'd love to use Unix so I don't have to put up with the resource leaks and constant crashes that Windows gives me, however there's software I simply gotta have.

Is there a good website for this kinda stuff?

First, I'm a Mac bigot so take this with a grain of salt. . .I did, after all, buy this computer in order to know as little as possible about how it works. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="biggrin.gif" />

Can't you run your software on Linux?

Can't you find the same software for Unix-based Mac OS X?

Anything to keep you away from the Dark Side, my friend. . . <img border="0" alt="[NoNo]" title="" src="graemlins/nono.gif" />

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by JBRebel:

Can't you run your software on Linux?

Can't you find the same software for Unix-based Mac OS X?
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">1) Not sure... I am 100% clueless about Unix anything.

2) I'm not a fan of how Macintosh is setup too much either. From no right click to a few other things.

Also - if you burn a data CD using Windows - is it readable on Unix?

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2) I'm not a fan of how Macintosh is setup too much either. From no right click to a few other things.[/QB]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Would someone please explain what is so fascinating about right-clicking? I just don't get it.
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Convienence. My brain has a right click in it, to quote another poster on why they didn't like the lack of that feature on mac.

MacOS... OS/2... FreeBSD... Solaris... BeOS...

ever get that feeling of Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole?

All I ask for is stable OS, with the capability to use all my files / data cds / a few software programs.

Convenience for what? Cutting and pasting?

Not picking a fight; just truly curious. Windoze users talk about the right click light it was an opposable thumb! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="confused.gif" />

cut... paste... close... properties... attributes.... actions in my ftp program.... I use right click an arse load.

So you've never really used a Mac much, right? I mean, you can do all that with your left-mouse click.

I dunno. I just love how people cuss and cuss and cuss about how much their computers crash, etc. but then will defend the EVIL ONE to the nth degree. Not that you're doing that now. I mean, I don't want to get off on a rant here. . . <img border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" title="" src="graemlins/banghead.gif" />

I'd be willing to put up with no right click if the darned thing virtually never crashed, and could handle ALL my windows files / data cds / programs

One more biggie: FILE SHARING.

Is there a GOOD file sharing program like kazaa out there for Mac?

Gotta have my IRC too, and I mean something with a scripted TDCC/Fserve....

How about a IM program like Trillian (http://www.trillian.cc) -- it lets you use Yahoo, MSN, AIM, and ICQ in one... and lets you chat on IRC!

Get a Dell, dude! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="cool.gif" />

Dell makes good boxes, from what I hear. Just be sure to run LINUX on it! LOL

<a href="http://www.apple.com/switch/whyswitch/" target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/switch/whyswitch/</a>

LINUX it is...LOL

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by JBRebel:
So you've never really used a Mac much, right? I mean, you can do all that with your left-mouse click.

I dunno. I just love how people cuss and cuss and cuss about how much their computers crash, etc. but then will defend the EVIL ONE to the nth degree. Not that you're doing that now. I mean, I don't want to get off on a rant here. . . <img border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" title="" src="graemlins/banghead.gif" /> </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Neither of my Hewlett-Packards have ever crashed. I know you think Bill Gates is the Anti-Christ, but what does he have to do with HP Computers? Nothing. Apple just wanted it all. All the computer and software sales in the world. Boy, did they blow it on that one!

The made it possible for the Anti-Christ to emerge!

<img border="0" alt="[snore]" title="" src="graemlins/snore.gif" />

Now, NPR, don't tell me you don't cuss about your windoze box. . .I've heard you cuss it in person!

See! This is what I mean, GTS! It's a regular bi-polar disorder! <img border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" title="" src="graemlins/banghead.gif" />

I've cussed this funky CD software I've got, but not the computer. Never had a problem except that.

Whoever said women and computers are alike was right! You'll never understand what and why they do the things they do.

<img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="tongue.gif" />

To answer your question, yes, if you burn a cd from windows, it will run in Unix. It burns as CDFS. Windows and Unix both read CDFS.