well, I am getting proficient in the Mac OS now. There are still a few issues though..
This keyboard. how do I delete? They have a delete button, but it is the equivalent of the Windows Backspace key. Oh and no End and Home keys. I liked those keys and used them often.
The calendar boggles my mind.. What day is it? The calendar does not tell you what today is, it assumes you know. I don't always know. Last week I waited on a conference bridge for 10 minutes before I realized the meeting was the following day. And I have these numbers next to my calendar, I think they mean there are new things on my calendar? What are they? Do I need to accept them? There is a calendar event on my calendar for today, its says "lunch meeting". Who's lunch meeting? I click on it and it doesn't tell me anything useful, like, who initiated the meeting and who is invited? That would be helpful, I will assume its not for me.
This may be a browser issue with Firefox for the Mac, but in windows when I look at my tabs, I can see immediately if I have a new message in my Gmail acct. Not so here, I have to click on the tab to see if I have a new mail. Annoying.
I cant get Subversion to work.
Basically, I have no idea how anyone in management could possibly use a Mac. No OUTLOOK? Outlook is singlehandedly the greatest management tool ever created and next month Macs will finally be able to see what they have been missing.
There is more, but I have to finish a proposal.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
my new Mac part II
well, its going ok. A lot of my current issues are probably more tied to software than the OS.
I am having a bitch of a time with Dreamweaver CS5 ftp. There was some problem that it kept trying to synch files or something, but in my directory I use mostly there are a bunch of file checked out by Joe. I think that was the problem, I turned off the check in /check out feature.
I really screwed it up this am though. I uploaded a bunch of files into the wrong directory. ugh.
I was working on my google docs budget spreadsheet this am, I tried to SUM a column and it wouldnt work. now I cant get it to open.. is google docs not compatible wth Mac OS? OMG, I live on google docs for my personal calendar and finances.. sigh.
I am thinking about trying to use VM ware again to install windows. There is a feature were you can basically suck an existing windows machine onto the mac. I am thinking about trying to do this with my work from home machine. I am surprised that thing starts up still!
I am using a mouse now, It is faster. The touch pad is cool though. I like the "spaces" thing. I have it set now if I move my mouse to the top right, everything minimizes. that is cool. I need a keyboard next.
My Office 2008 should be here today. Open office is not that great. I can get by, but I am hoping that the Office app will be better.
on goes the battle
I am having a bitch of a time with Dreamweaver CS5 ftp. There was some problem that it kept trying to synch files or something, but in my directory I use mostly there are a bunch of file checked out by Joe. I think that was the problem, I turned off the check in /check out feature.
I really screwed it up this am though. I uploaded a bunch of files into the wrong directory. ugh.
I was working on my google docs budget spreadsheet this am, I tried to SUM a column and it wouldnt work. now I cant get it to open.. is google docs not compatible wth Mac OS? OMG, I live on google docs for my personal calendar and finances.. sigh.
I am thinking about trying to use VM ware again to install windows. There is a feature were you can basically suck an existing windows machine onto the mac. I am thinking about trying to do this with my work from home machine. I am surprised that thing starts up still!
I am using a mouse now, It is faster. The touch pad is cool though. I like the "spaces" thing. I have it set now if I move my mouse to the top right, everything minimizes. that is cool. I need a keyboard next.
My Office 2008 should be here today. Open office is not that great. I can get by, but I am hoping that the Office app will be better.
on goes the battle
Thursday, September 9, 2010
PC vs Mac part I
I've worked in a Mac shop for 11 years now, using a PC. well, I finally broke down and got a Macbook.
two days our desktop support person tried to get Windows to run.. no luck, he handed me my computer and handed the boss his resignation. Not sure if they are related, but it makes for good reading!
I took the Macbook home for the labor day weekend. there it sat. Finally Monday night I pulled it out. Since its a mac and doesn't have Outlook, the Qwest mail is delivered via webmail, into the Entourage email program that comes with Macs. Unfortunately they cannot be connected the first time from our office, because the VPN we use won't let it. So, the method people who need Qwest mail use is to take the mac somewhere else, home, starbucks, wherever and then connect to the Qwest mail. Once configured it will then work from the office. It didnt work. I tried for several hours on monday night, no luck.
Tuesday am I woke and I realized what was wrong... my ldap password expired over the weekend! doh.. what timing. So I changed it and it still didn't work. I decided to work from home monday so I could get it working. I had one of my coworkers send me screenshots of their configurations and found a port number was wrong. It now works. hurrah, I can now access my qwest mail and peak mail.
Since I can't get windows to work and we have no desktop support (besides my increasingly annoyed cube neighbors) I decided to try to live within the Mac OS.
Wednesday I came into the office and began the process. I downloaded the trial Dreamweaver CS4 and OpenOffice. I set up my ftp sites through Dreamweaver. One issue I have is that I often get files from one server and upload to a new server. This is clunky with DW FTP. DW FTP is great for pulling files down from a server, modifying and uploading to the exact same location on the same server. That is great for 80% of my work.
I had to use telnet and I could not find the command prompt. Rob showed me and it worked fine once I figured out where it was.
I needed to import a txt file into a spreadsheet, a pipe delimited file. That took me some time to figure out in OpenOffice. I had given up, but Rob assured me it could be done. It can. Its really different from the way Excel handles it, but in the end, I converted my file into a spreadsheet.
Current issues:
I cant get my qwest calendar to work. This could be due to the issue I described above. I need to try to connect outside Peak VPN.
I need my ichat account pwd reset so I can use Ichat instead of Meebo on the pc.
I have trouble going between applications or between windows. I opened two windows of Firefox this am and I minimized them. In the bottom right, I could see one window, but not the other. If I clicked on the one window and then minimized it, I could get the other window. Weird.
Its weird and foreign and not very intuitive for my Windows brain.
two days our desktop support person tried to get Windows to run.. no luck, he handed me my computer and handed the boss his resignation. Not sure if they are related, but it makes for good reading!
I took the Macbook home for the labor day weekend. there it sat. Finally Monday night I pulled it out. Since its a mac and doesn't have Outlook, the Qwest mail is delivered via webmail, into the Entourage email program that comes with Macs. Unfortunately they cannot be connected the first time from our office, because the VPN we use won't let it. So, the method people who need Qwest mail use is to take the mac somewhere else, home, starbucks, wherever and then connect to the Qwest mail. Once configured it will then work from the office. It didnt work. I tried for several hours on monday night, no luck.
Tuesday am I woke and I realized what was wrong... my ldap password expired over the weekend! doh.. what timing. So I changed it and it still didn't work. I decided to work from home monday so I could get it working. I had one of my coworkers send me screenshots of their configurations and found a port number was wrong. It now works. hurrah, I can now access my qwest mail and peak mail.
Since I can't get windows to work and we have no desktop support (besides my increasingly annoyed cube neighbors) I decided to try to live within the Mac OS.
Wednesday I came into the office and began the process. I downloaded the trial Dreamweaver CS4 and OpenOffice. I set up my ftp sites through Dreamweaver. One issue I have is that I often get files from one server and upload to a new server. This is clunky with DW FTP. DW FTP is great for pulling files down from a server, modifying and uploading to the exact same location on the same server. That is great for 80% of my work.
I had to use telnet and I could not find the command prompt. Rob showed me and it worked fine once I figured out where it was.
I needed to import a txt file into a spreadsheet, a pipe delimited file. That took me some time to figure out in OpenOffice. I had given up, but Rob assured me it could be done. It can. Its really different from the way Excel handles it, but in the end, I converted my file into a spreadsheet.
Current issues:
I cant get my qwest calendar to work. This could be due to the issue I described above. I need to try to connect outside Peak VPN.
I need my ichat account pwd reset so I can use Ichat instead of Meebo on the pc.
I have trouble going between applications or between windows. I opened two windows of Firefox this am and I minimized them. In the bottom right, I could see one window, but not the other. If I clicked on the one window and then minimized it, I could get the other window. Weird.
Its weird and foreign and not very intuitive for my Windows brain.
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