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Macintosh Naval Aviation Screensaver

ea6bflyr

ea6bflyr

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I was about to jump in to say this WASN'T intended to be a Mac v. WINTEL debate.....I was just letting all of the MAC users know that I made a screensaver for anyone interested.

As a side note, I love macs (I own 5 of them). I was convinced when my daughter was 3, she could startup the mac, play her games and shut it down...

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Fly Navy

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I actually prefer Linux by a huge margin, but I can't play my games in Linux.
 
nfo2b

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Fly Navy said:
I actually prefer Linux by a huge margin, but I can't play my games in Linux.
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Yeah, but Tuxracer, Pingus, Frozen Bubble, et al, are so much fun! :D
Oh yeah, and ea6bflyr, great saver. Thanks again!
BTW, you know that the term "Wintel" will be obsolete come next year, right? You know what I'm talking about... ;)
 
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Macs rock! I never thought so, until I saw OS X. In college we used OS 9 in labs, and I hated Macs, but as soon as OS X came out, I was so impressed, that I went out and got a PowerMac, and have never looked back. I am still waiting for that G5 Power Book to come out... The only question I have is when I go to a carrier, will I be able to use ship's network? I would guess no, because last time I was on one, you had to have win 2000 to connect, so people with win XP or ME couldn't plug in. Any thoughts?
 
Pugs

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Yes, my company has drunk deeply of the Microsoft kool-aid. Active directory, Exchange etc and Mac's work just fine for the Enterprise services part, mail browsing, calendar. etc as long as you you use MS Entourage as the client.

What does create problems is when lazy coders write IE specific web-sites, and the Navy and it's contractors are great at that. Take a look at the Navy Knowledge center and it's MS IE specific on-line courses for a fine example of really bad decisions on how to implement a resource. You may have to try several browser to get things to work so go ready with Mozilla, NetScape, Opera, Safari and even the old IE for the Mac. Take a USB floppy drive. Yep, sometime that's all you can do for some things is still put it on floppy.

Don't get me wrong. All of my patents regard MS products and configurations (well, except one Cray particular item) so I'm not totally anti-MS. MS Implemented well plays with a variety of platforms without a problem but MS implemented poorly really drives you down a technology blind end you don't want to go down.

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Fly Navy

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Uh... a Windows XP system should connect fine to a Windows 2000 network. It's very much backwards compatible. Windows ME is atrocious and might as well be a virus.
 
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Fly Navy said:
Uh... a Windows XP system should connect fine to a Windows 2000 network. It's very much backwards compatible. Windows ME is atrocious and might as well be a virus.
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I know it should, but it did not on the ship 3 years ago. My mac connects to XP just fine... Are there any fleet guys out there who had macs on ships that would connect to the network, and you could browse online from your stateroom with a mac? thanks.
 
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Fly Navy said:
Uh... a Windows XP system should connect fine to a Windows 2000 network. It's very much backwards compatible. Windows ME is atrocious and might as well be a virus.
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It has nothing to do with how something should work, and everything to do w/ rice bowls and security concerns. Not necessarily in that order.
 
Steve Wilkins

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zilber said:
Macs rock! I never thought so, until I saw OS X. In college we used OS 9 in labs, and I hated Macs, but as soon as OS X came out, I was so impressed, that I went out and got a PowerMac, and have never looked back. I am still waiting for that G5 Power Book to come out... The only question I have is when I go to a carrier, will I be able to use ship's network? I would guess no, because last time I was on one, you had to have win 2000 to connect, so people with win XP or ME couldn't plug in. Any thoughts?
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No, no, no. You can't just roll in with your personal laptop and connect to the ship's network. It has nothing to do with operating system compatibility. Although, you could have the IT's install software on your computer so that you can connect. But then, the Navy will own your computer.
 
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