Re: Mac mini

>  1985 bears no resemblance to today in terms of MacOS.

My point was that I have used every version of MacOS since then
up to and including 10.3.  I just don't like them.  (And I even
agree with things like the reasons for having the menu bar at
the top of screen and not attached to the relevant Window).

> I find Linux to be very user hostile, but geek friendly, so go figure.

It isn't that geek friendly either :-)  My favourite sport is
"guess where they hid the config file for program X".  And the
distros like to make that sport even more interesting by moving
the config files around in the name of user friendliness.

Heck one of the reasons there is no man page for BitPim is because
no two distros can agree on where the man pages go, and which
way they are compressed.  And the packaging format doesn't allow
me to work that out at install time and use the right place.

>  I understand completely, Roger, and I hope you didn't think I was the 
> least bit slighted by any of this. 

I never had that idea.  Actually I think you'd be grateful that MacOS
builds will become my problem :-)

> But, there is demand, so I do it. :-)  It's VERY unfortunate that Apple 
> is going to really irritate you when they ask you to pay them $129 in a 
> few months to buy a copy of Tiger. 

I spoke to someone who said it will be $19.99.  And it won't irritate
me because I won't pay $129.  It will be up to the users of BitPim to
supply me with a legal licensed copy if Apple wants that much.

Seperately I will be prepared to do 10.2 if someone sends me an
external bootable drive with a legal licensed copy installed.

> want to boot from, or you can simply hold down the OPTION key on the 
> keyboard while booting the computer and it will present you with a 
> graphical picker of partitions with installed versions of the OS to 
> boot from.

My keyboard is a PC keyboard and doesn't have an option key :-)

>  When you get it preloaded, you'll either have to boot from the 
> included DVD and use the Disk Utility program to repartition it and 
> then do a restore to the new smaller partition,

That I can do.  I assume I can backup to an NFS server.

>  I'm a musician as well, for me the upgrades to "GarageBand" are the 
> biggest things coming out of the keynote... 

I was curious if GarageBand would be suitable for making ringtones.

Roger


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