I hate Macs!!!

[Technical Ben]

It happened when I was at college, and I thought it was an error on my part. But no, happens just now, so I know it's Apple! I put in a blank media/written disk that the Apple does not recognize (either wrong file format or different disk type+/- to the drive) and what does it do? Play safe? Keep it simple and eject? No, it tries to write, and ruins the data on the disk! Gah!           

[edit] Scratch that, phew. Seems the disk is ok. Not sure why it was coming up damaged when I first tried it.
I'll just have to say, Apple does not "just work".   

[J!ll]

 

[Technical Ben]

It's been a learning experience, that's for sure. I've learnt I don't like (2004) Mac OS X.
Actually it works (or not) just like Linux/Ubuntu to me. Just without any of the benefits I'd give to those two, and a lot more cost. 

[Steve]

2004 have you got a job as a museum curator?

[Technical Ben]

2004 have you got a job as a museum curator?

It was a free gift to a friend. Mind you, for a 2004 macbook, it's a rather nice and nippy machine. I just cannot get to grips with terminal (dyslexia ) and the lack of right click options menu (stubbornness). 

[Gary]

It was a free gift to a friend. Mind you, for a 2004 macbook, it's a rather nice and nippy machine. I just cannot get to grips with terminal (dyslexia ) and the lack of right click options menu (stubbornness). 

Did you enable right click? Not sure what it was back on Panther (think that's what was about in 2004) but Modern Macs come with right click disabled anyway, you just enable it from preferences. Personally I never touch Terminal much myself, no real need to.

[Technical Ben]

I was not spending that much time on it. It was literally looking to restore to factory (no disks, so had to fall back to new admin account, delete the old).
Hence the need to touch terminal (no passwords).