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Drop us a note! We need your letters to fill this page every month! Send email to publisher@mymac.com or editor@mymac.com , or to any of the staff or writers! We want to hear from you!
Tim, I was surfing your site looking for something I did not see at a
glance and was thinking you might be able to help me. I'm looking for
some type of application or utility that will help me copy my client files
on the server at work onto an opti with corresponding client folder
names. There's about 50-100 client folders on the server. I need
something that will put transfer client files to their respective folders
on the backup opti disc. If the item exists already in the existing opti
folder, it will replace it (if it's been modified any) Any suggestions? You
guys seem knowledgeable and I would appreciate any advice you might
lend. Thanks,
Tom Kacius
Tom,
Of course they should have advertised, but Apple made money because of G3 sales to the faithful, and G3 was only available for half the quarter. And their market share, domestically, went from 4.4 to 5.9. Food for thought.
Why are we so hard on Apple?
Wow. How does he REALLY feel?
Paul Flynn Higby
Well said. Remind me never to tick you off. BTW, check out the new strip Fitzpatrick the Mac Rat at http://www.insanely-great.com
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Chuck Downs
Last month's editorial, "My Turn: An Open Letter To Apple," generated quite a bit of email, but these three pretty much sum them all up.
Gene asks "Why are we so hard on Apple?" That's an easy one. We care. And when we care about something, we tend to become very passionate about it. I care about the future of Apple. I don't want to see the Mac go the way of the Amiga. And sometimes, when you see something you are really frustrated about, you grow tired of being nice.
Chuck Downs is a great cartoonist. Fitzpatrick the Mac Rat is a great comic strip running in http://www.insanely-great.com
, and I hope everyone will take a few moments to go check it out. Besides, http://www.insanely-great.com
is a great Website.
Two or more thumbs way, way up!
I enjoyed your recent issue very much. May I say I was also surprised
(Yep, another Canadian, eh) to see my "Letter to the Editor" lamenting
my search for machine by machine comparison of popular software.
Perhaps one day this will come about when we can all get the real scoop
on the new stuff that our old but not tired Macs can run well. Shareware is generally easy to get and if it works, fine, if it doesn't it will be trashed and who cares. On the other hand the expensive stuff is far more pesky if you buy it and it becomes nothing more than fancy drink coasters.
Off topic for a sec, here in The Great North we have a very fine blend
of whiskey that when purchased in a pocket size comes contained within a
velvet like purple bag. Take this empty bag, insert an AOL disk direct
from the mailbox, sit back and admire one of the finest drink coasters
known to common man.
Topic resumes
I'm thinking that if one day I do get the courage to buy some piece of
very new software and it flies well or not, to send in a report of my
experiences on a couple of Mac vintages. This is perhaps the best
seat-of-the-pants method of finding out. Usenet groups are always
filled with nonsense and endless amounts of crap-chatter to possibly
research the findings of the masses within any one person's attention
span.
If the situation presented itself would you entertain something like
this? e.g. SimCity 2000 SE (SE, special edition I think, Super Expensive I
thought) runs fine on a 5200CD, natch since it has a CD-ROM (cup device
ready on machine) but it also runs fine on a IIcx (cup device not
equipped) but the SE edition is available only on CD (that I could
find). I again have random thoughts about the box label on the
software.
SimCity 2000SE is old news now but had I known this was possible I could have had fewer children around Dad's Mac and more gathered around the IIcx, not that I don't mind sticky fingers and such near, you get the idea.
Am I going nowhere quickly?
This brings me to the end of your kind invitation to write a "letter".
I do, I am, here we are.
Don
P.S. And no you don't have to make this another "letter to the editor",
wait till I really have something to say.
Ah, but you see, Don, I really enjoy your letters, and like to share them with everyone else. :-)
As for America Online disks making good coasters, you should read "CD-ROM Today and the Good Coasters" It was, believe it or not, Pete Miner's (Miner Thoughts) very first column here in My Mac (issue #7, back in 1995). It was originally a letter, but I convinced Pete to turn it into a story for the issue, and like a bad house guest who doesn't know when it's time to go, Pete has been here ever since. (Just kidding, Pete! You know we love ya!) You can still read it over at Pete's Website, the Macintosh Funnies, at http://www.wolfenet.com/~pminer
The benefits of the Internet are so far reaching it's impossible to put
into words ... here I sit at my Mac in Sydney, looking at my view of
the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge, and I decided to check out some
sites I heard about today.
I was in a bookstore in Manly, picked up a UK Mac magazine, and found a page of cool links ... your site was on the list, and I'm glad I found it! A U.S. site advertised in a U.K. magazine read by an Australian
Mac evangelist ... wow ... isn't technology the best?
I'll be a regular visitor from now on and wish you all the best with
your site.
Cheers
Teena, thanks for the word about My Mac down under. I like it... an American online magazine advertised in a British paper magazine read by an Australian Mac enthusiast.
BTW, very nice job on your Mac section of your Website! Readers may enjoy a visit to your site to see what's going on elsewhere in the Mac world.
Be sure to drop us a note with any thoughts, corrections, or problems you may have. We all love to hear from you, and we do need to fill this page every month! (Remember to let us know if you'd prefer to not have your e-mail address printed.) So write in!
Tim Robertson is the Publisher of My Mac, and unless otherwise noted answers all the e-mail on this page.
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