Oh, and by the way

You're just trying to cause trouble.

Yebbut it really was s**te. The lack of an ability to right click and bring up context menus is also infuriating.

I find the lack of Hyperdrive frustrating in the Saab, but put it down to user error.

I found these wretched sparkplugs a menace in the Ka and Accord, but put that down to user error too....

No mouse wheels? How old was this Mac!

Glad you got time to use one ;)

Richard

Hold Control, on early Macs which haven't been given a mouse with a wheel.

Or buy a mouse with a wheel.

Or use a modern mac with a scrollball.

Richard (I hate the standard Mac mouse, but I'm not so dense as to dismiss the manifold advantages of the system for the need to spend £20 (or even £39) on a mouse with a scrollwheel/ball and right click).

Or get a Powerbook that lets you do that kind of stuff with funky finger tapping / dragging on the track pad.

Or one that almost-does, and install iScroll (like this one :D ).

Richard

You have to have spent money on one to be able to convince yourself they're worth persevering with.

Ah, I do love when the kids have an 'opinion'.

Richard

It was 18 months old at a maximum. It's the little box about the size of an external HDD with an imac style mouse. I also enjoyed how the power button is hidden at the back, meaning it takes you 5 minutes to work out how to turn it on.

That's pretty standard on all laptops. Even my mrs' old Thinkpad had trackpad software that let you do it (P233 or somthing).

Sounds like a Mac Mini.

I've a few that I have had to buy and even after spending a lot more on them than an equivalent spec PC would have cost I can still see them for the crap they are. They are only good for people too stupid to work windows safely or who like unreliability (say an Alfa driver).

Yes, that's right. OSX is just *sooooo* unreliable, especially in comparison to XP.

AS for 'work Windows safely' - what the hell does that mean? and why should you have to learn how to 'work Windows safely' just because MS couldn't produce a secure OS if the company's future depended on it.....

BTW.... typical Windows user, can't even manage to get the line length settings right in Outlook.

Thank you. It's about time you realised it's true.

I thought they changed it's name to 'Veet'

Which is the *maximum* line length..... you should set the length at least 8 characters shorter than that to allow for layers of quotations.

How would you display that on an 80 character terminal display?

There is an 80 character maximum convention to allow people using all manner of systems and displays to correctly display and format Usenet posts.

Apple don't say that, mainly because Apple don't distribute any form of Usenet client.

You're using OS9, aren't you? - Because I haven't had a finder crash in nearly 5 years of using OSX.

No the maximum line length is 998 as specified in the RFC, 80 was a convention many years ago for VDUs with 80 character line length limits. As any decent PC now has a monitor capable of displaying far more than that on a line are you suggesting that your precious Macs aren't up to that?