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From: Kurt Ullman on 13 Jun 2010 09:49
In article <jollyroger-2AE73E.07543413062010(a)news.individual.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:

> I
> > That is for 10.5 and I have 10.4.. sorry I should have mentioned it.
>
> Why so tardy?

Why mess with something that is working fine for me as it is? Over
the years I have owned computers (my first was IBM's PC,Jr) I generally
stay with the OS that came with the computer and upgrade only when I buy
a new one or if the hard drive crashes and I have to re-install
everything anyway.

--
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator
and name it after the IRS.
Robert Bakker, paleontologist
From: Kurt Ullman on 13 Jun 2010 09:49
In article
<wayne.morris-7DBF68.18371712062010(a)mx01.eternal-september.org>,
"Wayne C. Morris" <wayne.morris(a)this.is.invalid> wrote:

> In article <XsmdnS6RZqpNfo7RnZ2dnUVZ_oadnZ2d(a)earthlink.com>,
> Kurt Ullman <kurtullman(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > for Flash blocking. I download the zip and I am faced with
> > safaristand-loader.bundle and the "No default to open bundle. Which one
> > do you want to use?" message. So, which one do I want to use?
>
> Instructions from the Safari Stand web site, at the bottom of the page...
>
> - Install SIMBL. <http://culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php>
> - move "SafariStand.bundle" into your SIMBL plugin folder.
> * Result path is "/Library/Application
> Support/SIMBL/Plugins/SafariStand.bundle"
>
> PimpMySafari gives another method that doesn't require SIMBL...
>
> - Quit Safari.
> - Place the SafariStand folder inside ~/Library/InputManagers/
> - If the InputManagers folder does not exist you will need create it
> manually.
>
> <http://www.pimpmysafari.com/safaristand>
I'll try that, Thanks.

--
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator
and name it after the IRS.
Robert Bakker, paleontologist
From: Jolly Roger on 13 Jun 2010 10:08
In article <QZCdnXyqbJJDfInRnZ2dnUVZ_u-dnZ2d(a)earthlink.com>,
Kurt Ullman <kurtullman(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> In article <jollyroger-2AE73E.07543413062010(a)news.individual.net>,
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > > That is for 10.5 and I have 10.4.. sorry I should have mentioned it.
> >
> > Why so tardy?
>
> Why mess with something that is working fine for me as it is? Over
> the years I have owned computers (my first was IBM's PC,Jr) I generally
> stay with the OS that came with the computer and upgrade only when I buy
> a new one or if the hard drive crashes and I have to re-install
> everything anyway.

While I appreciate the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" concept, the
same argument could be made *for* upgrading considering the many
improvements offered by upgrades. Mac OS X has improved in many, many
ways since 10.4.

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JR
From: Kurt Ullman on 13 Jun 2010 10:15
In article <jollyroger-67332B.09084413062010(a)news.individual.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:

>
>
> While I appreciate the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" concept, the
> same argument could be made *for* upgrading considering the many
> improvements offered by upgrades. Mac OS X has improved in many, many
> ways since 10.4.

True. But none that I personally view as being worth enough to bother
with. Even in the aggregate. Of course I am not a power user, either. I
write for a living so Word, Safari, a PDF reader and occasionally
PowerPoint are pretty much all I use for work and iTunes, iPhoto, and
this News Reader for fun.

--
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator
and name it after the IRS.
Robert Bakker, paleontologist
From: Jolly Roger on 13 Jun 2010 11:19
In article <7rWdnQAGL_mLdYnRnZ2dnUVZ_g6dnZ2d(a)earthlink.com>,
Kurt Ullman <kurtullman(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> In article <jollyroger-67332B.09084413062010(a)news.individual.net>,
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > While I appreciate the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" concept, the
> > same argument could be made *for* upgrading considering the many
> > improvements offered by upgrades. Mac OS X has improved in many, many
> > ways since 10.4.
>
> True. But none that I personally view as being worth enough to bother
> with. Even in the aggregate. Of course I am not a power user, either. I
> write for a living so Word, Safari, a PDF reader and occasionally
> PowerPoint are pretty much all I use for work and iTunes, iPhoto, and
> this News Reader for fun.

That's probably the case for a small number of things. I'm sure there is
a lot of software you simply can't run because of your decision, for
instance.

But I also know a great many of the improvements from 10.4 to 10.6 are
performance and stability improvements as well as bug fixes that aren't
evident if you don't know what to look for. You may be very used to
things working a certain way without knowing there is something much
better as a result. I suspect you don't know what you are missing to a
large extent.

--
Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me.
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM
filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting
messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google
Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts.

JR
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