Re: Attitude (was: keyboard failure)

I'm so tickled to see traffic on mac68k I just have to keep it going.  
Rude advice can be far more useful than silence.  I'm going to inject 
my thoughts into this response--even to those ideas expressed in the 
already quoted sections to which Mr. Rees was replying.



On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 01:32 AM, Joel Rees wrote:

>> Rudeness is unacceptable.
>
> What is unacceptable about rudeness?
>
>> I do tech support for a
>> living, and I would fire anyone working for me who took that attitude 
>> and
>> kept it after remedial "how to be nice" instruction.

I bet your employees wouldn't do work for free--like replying to a mail 
list.

> I've been trying to get the most recent version running on an old
> Performa 550 (68030, no FPU) because it was relatively cheap. Can't get
> it to go multi-user.

I've never had problems with a Quadra 650 except when I attempted to 
use two hard drives because any one was too small for an install.  
There was and may still be a problem that a second drive can't be used 
on the internal bus.


> And how about Mac OS X? I personally like Mac OS X, but let me tell you
> what it's like trying to load it onto an old beige G3 we're using for a
> test box. Or, rather, let me work you for some sympathy, because IO 
> Data
> won't be supporting the SCSI card somebody bought two years ago, so I
> cut the first 8G on the external drive into 3.5 for Mac OS 9 and 4.5 
> for
> Mac OS X. Tried to mount Applications on its own partition, just for
> grins. Got a hint for anybody interested -- don't use the new LABEL
> declaration in /etc/fstab on Mac OS X. My Japanese input method freezes
> when I try to type in anything half-way obscure. (I'd better fix that
> back before I head home tonight, I think.)

I found Mac OS X and 9 installation on a Beige G3 desktop (300 MHz) to 
be rather simple and straightforward.  Of course, I didn't have a third 
party SCSI card installed.  Knowing the maturity and kind of OS X is, I 
chose to not slice my hard drive into partitions.  Plain vanilla worked 
quite well.

EZ