Tribe.net. Local Connections http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/86e855f6-ee29-44a6-9d96-e1836754c152 2008-05-04T07:59:39Z 2008-05-04T07:59:39Z

<div>I ended up totally addicted to Appleworks, <br/>after swearing for years I would not end up <br/>that way. I bought a version of iWork to try <br/>it out, and it seemed so inferior to Appleworks. <br/>Plus, all the rumors about Apple finally <br/>producing a class office suite all seemed <br/>inconclusive. So now I'm finally, and very <br/>slowly, transitioning over to Neo Office, <br/>which really is turning out to be a very <br/>nice program, and the price is right, (free). <br/>Still, it's not as light and agile. It can do <br/>more, but is still a bit clunky and slow. <br/>However, it is compatible with Open <br/>Office and all that futuristic stuff, and <br/>so I'm leaning that way, unless Apple <br/>miraculously has a change of heart <br/>and releases a Mega-Appleworks <br/>update.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 0 replies </div>

2008-05-04T07:59:39Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/8bd879d3-1ae9-419f-90a4-383eebe255d7 2008-05-04T07:55:41Z 2008-04-24T05:33:49Z

<div>It's so frustrating. When I go on E-Bay. The used Mac Minis, <br/>the ones which are the same model and specs of the one I <br/>paid $450, are still $400 after being three years old, by the <br/>time you count shipping in to the total, and by the time the <br/>thing finally auctions off. (To see what the real price will be, <br/>check out the items which expire in the next couple of hours. <br/>By then the prices, when shipping is added, are almost the <br/>same a new mac minis.) I don't get it.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 4 replies </div>

2008-04-24T05:33:49Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/3f4a3f4a-4671-4da5-b2b6-19e74147b092 2007-01-15T22:06:58Z 2007-01-11T20:49:34Z

<div>Noticed we have 19 members these days. Was wondering what folks are on. I'm on a g4 mac mini that's just a bit old now at only 1.25Mhz. If I were sure where the heck I'll live long term, I'd blow enough for the 2Mhz with the intel inside. But is anyone running a G5? If so, how is that? Anyone still on a G3? How are you surviving?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 2 replies </div>

2007-01-11T20:49:34Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/6bcfba54-a492-4c76-906e-e578ec92fda1 2007-01-11T20:47:16Z 2006-09-30T05:45:18Z

<div>My apartment now has now utility bills. The building pays the electric and gas. And I'm managing to successfully use free wireless connections as my neighborhood has lots of open networks, or at least more than most. Then, to get free phone calls, I hook up my headphones and my microphone to my mac mini and use that free internet connection to make Skype calls that are sometimes way better sounding than landline phones, especially if you have a great microphone. Then, as it turns out, most of the televised stuff I like to watch is downloadable, so there's no cable bill. And most of the radio stations I like are on internet too, so there's no paying for cable radio, which you often need to do when you live in a basement like me. Yeah so no gas, no electric, no cable tv, no internet provider and no phone company, just rent. It's like an ideal I wanted to attain for a long time.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 3 replies </div>

2006-09-30T05:45:18Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/c48a9f0a-b817-41b5-a854-e83b875e4def 2006-09-30T05:48:44Z 2006-09-30T05:48:44Z

<div>Had enough bread to buy a better mac mini, but then decided to wait. I'm now thinking it might be better to wait for another year and save for an imac. I've always dreamed of having one of those sleek ones that's the same size as a small monitor, but has the whole computer in there. I'm not a laptop kind of guy, so the imac is as close to all-in-one as I could enjoy. So I'm holding off for now. Eventually I'd like to use my aging mac mini as a Yellow Dog Linux dedicated machine, just to catch up a bit on that os. I use pc at work, so it would be cool to be using all three os systems at once.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 0 replies </div>

2006-09-30T05:48:44Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/56989b6d-f02c-458f-9e71-416dd4b922ba 2006-06-25T20:48:08Z 2006-06-22T03:11:09Z

<div>Just took my little mini into the Mac store. They're putting Bluetooth in tonight. This reminds me of several months ago when I finally, at 46 years of age, bought my first digital camera. Even though I'm good at computers, wireless things often confuse me. The menus and basic controls often are not intuitive to me like computer stuff is. I put off buying a cell phone till just two years ago. I want to go all wireless. That would be exiting to me. But then I'm not sure, because I live in a basement whether the signals will make it through the hill, through the building and into my underground bedroom. But I have to give it a try because I'm soooo curious. If my location is not good, then whoever inherits my computer when I upgrade someday, well, they'll at least have a free Bluetooth.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 3 replies </div>

2006-06-22T03:11:09Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/2700d808-0a8a-4452-8192-75606d89751e 2006-06-17T09:47:09Z 2006-06-16T04:12:08Z

<div>But when I'm on a PC I don't feel that it contributes to my salvation, whereas when I'm on my Mac at home, it feels like the very act of selling my soul to Apple somehow does the world good, although I can find no logical basis for my feeling this way. In fact, the eveidence seems to point to the notion that I am better off when I'm not using my computer. However it seems that Apples are designed to provide God Illusion Sensations. Whatever the case may be, I remain religiously Macist.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 2 replies </div>

2006-06-16T04:12:08Z timbo http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/8677df47-46d8-45ec-8062-600b3db1cadf 2006-06-15T21:58:55Z 2006-05-01T13:40:59Z

<div>Yeah, so I was at the Cameron in Toronto Friday evening (the SF-like bar with all the cowboy boots hanging from the ceiling...in between the giant ant or two) and there were these two punk dudes with a Pismo at the turntables supposedly spinning something. So, admiring their mac, I go up and take a look at it. Well, now wouldn't you know it, they were "spinning" off of mp3s and iTunes! Which explained why the music sucked more than usual I guess. I hope. I mean I hope they're not using iTunes over the PA system there. It may sound good in ear-buds to the uninitiated...but, really, you have to care about sound and music to be a decent dj. Really. And not depend on compressed mp3s to help the patrons enjoy their drinks. Of course, maybe that wasn't the purpose at all. <br/> <br/>My plea? Please use uncompressed original audio files if you are going to claim to be an audiophile. Otherwise, play in bars where the best thing to do is drink and try to avoid listening to the music. <br/> <br/>T</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 3 replies </div>

timbo 2006-05-01T13:40:59Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/c5e8ff33-6c3f-4d41-89fc-9a837a947e4a 2006-04-26T02:42:09Z 2006-04-26T02:42:09Z

<div>As my downward socioeconomic spiral continues, I am unable to continue saving at $32 per week for my next Mac. But when I was saving at that rate, I seemed to be rapidly closing in on my next purchase. However, at $18 per week I notice I am losing ground, and hence am always just a couple hundred out of range. I'm up to like $550, however, the Mac Mini I want, for it to be a real upgrade from the one I have, has gone up to $799, and then there's SF and State taxes onto that, which bring it up to $870. Now by the time I get to $870, it may be that the package by then has gone up to $1,000. However, I have the consolation of knowing that in another year the used computers on ebay will eventually start to constitute and upgrade from my current model. However, there is some kind of karmic "just out of reach" law which plagues the religion of COMPUTERISM.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 0 replies </div>

2006-04-26T02:42:09Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/750de37f-725f-4e9b-bc04-3589ea9eb355 2006-03-29T03:06:33Z 2006-03-29T03:06:33Z

<div>Almost had to drop Comcast, but haggled them down on price for another few months. Hopefully that will give me time to get my new computer account up to the point where I'm ready for WiFi. <br/> <br/>But right now I'm using Skype-Out because there's no monthly fee, no rollover, just 2 cents per minute, as much as one wants to buy, no bills, no hook up fee, no disconnect fees, nothing but just whatever minutes you buy with no taxes or any complications whatsoever, plus free to other Skype members. <br/> <br/>I'd like to keep my Skype uninterrupted. Then I hope the free WiFi will be able to handle Skype. If not, I'll have to get a better cell plan.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 0 replies </div>

2006-03-29T03:06:33Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/43e643ab-9c38-472c-b123-d6722c0309d2 2006-03-26T07:36:22Z 2006-03-18T07:14:10Z

<div>I'm saving about $18 per week toward a new computer. I've never tried wireless internet. The laptops are just way, way out of my league (I mean the Mac ones). But I'd like to get another Mac Mini, like the one I have, but upgraded with a WiFi card and a DVD burner and 80-Gig Hard Drive and 512 RAM. I'm currently without a Superdrive and have no Wireless receptor, and my HD which fills up all the time is only 40 Gigs and my RAM is only 256. Also I hear that the 1.4 is faster than my current 1.2. It'll take a while to save for a unit with all those upgrades on it. But I live one block from Union Square, and people tell me that you can get the signal from Union Square Free WiFi a couple blocks away, so I should be in the clear. I just cut off SBC and only use cell and Skype. It would be neat to dump Comcast and have free wireless. I mean, I'd happily pay for these services and even overpay. But the shitty customer service and the inflexible attitude of these big providers has got me miffed. And so frankly, since I'm actually on the internet a bit less these days, I might dig going way slower and just doing less surfing and not having to pay that $30 bill each month to people I despise.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 6 replies </div>

2006-03-18T07:14:10Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/d7910327-a26f-4952-b6f7-390fae1aa4c7 2006-01-02T10:53:12Z 2006-01-02T10:53:12Z

<div>I blew 25 on Aquazone, a popular aquarum software, but I was underwhelmed by its performance. Glad it was bought with a gift card and not my own money.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 0 replies </div>

2006-01-02T10:53:12Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/5cc30998-74d6-40d0-99ce-3ab5c1ccae7a 2005-12-30T04:31:21Z 2005-12-29T03:52:36Z

<div>Most webcam portals are 90% BS. Most of the cameras they list are no longer existent, never did work, or there was never a camera there, but simply ads that no one would pay attention to unless they used a trick to get you there. In short, most webcam portals are total frauds. And it might take me sorting through a hundred camera listing to find just a few good ones. <br/> <br/>That all changed with Opentopia. They stand the whole thing on it's head. Now over 90% of their listing work, unknown in the webcam world. And OS X seems perfectly suited to read those cams without messing with downloads and a zillion plug ins. I'm still very impressed.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 2 replies </div>

2005-12-29T03:52:36Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/24c36d2f-1f03-45e8-a7a4-5c25a8f585cd 2005-10-26T03:08:36Z 2005-10-01T04:05:35Z

<div>I noticed when I got my Mac Mini, from a completely lust and craving point of view, that somehow I ended up less materialistic, because I was able to condence my computer, alarm clock, CD player, television, DVD player and radio all into one appliance, at which point I tossed all that other shit, and since the Mac Mini only takes up a few square inches, and given that I already had a flat screen and two tiny Bose speakers, well, I could move most of my appliances in twenty minutes and fit it all into a back pack. It was a freeing feeling.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 7 replies </div>

2005-10-01T04:05:35Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/e786e596-e115-44cc-af7d-6207fc7b90c6 2005-09-19T20:28:22Z 2005-09-19T20:28:22Z

<div>Anyone tried to use you Mac as a server for live streaming webcams? I noticed the server software is $400. Seems like a lot of money just to broadcast one's webcam.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 0 replies </div>

2005-09-19T20:28:22Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/d3ca987a-98dc-45de-964c-28b3dac84696 2005-09-13T22:51:07Z 2005-09-13T22:51:07Z

<div>be there!</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 0 replies </div>

2005-09-13T22:51:07Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/03f905f4-d86e-4dec-a8b6-1834d194c405 2005-08-20T05:57:20Z 2005-08-20T05:57:20Z

<div>Ooh it's so exciting, doing my songs on Garage Band and going from 350Mhz to 1.25Ghz.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 0 replies </div>

2005-08-20T05:57:20Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/2abc742f-ec18-4068-9c57-45f5004fc5f9 2005-08-13T11:00:55Z 2005-08-13T11:00:55Z

<div>Just found a mail-order joint and ordered my Mac Mini, the old 256 MB RAM one etc, but it's new. And I got it for $449 and that included shipping and taxes and everything. So I saved a hundred or so clams on that one. Other places go $499, but then after tax and shipping it still comes to the better part of a hundred bucks more. I'm pining away to get into Garage Band. But I hear I may have to save up for another Gig of RAM to get it to really work. I'm holding my breath.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 0 replies </div>

2005-08-13T11:00:55Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/514a8cd1-1b64-4f26-9de8-24ca65741c31 2005-07-07T09:26:08Z 2005-07-07T09:26:08Z

<div>Do you all buy your Macs with cash you've saved, or paste another grand on the credit card? I'm trying now to save $25 a week for a Mac-Mini, but it seems from here like it will take an eternity.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 0 replies </div>

2005-07-07T09:26:08Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/414d6acb-86a1-4cc7-a0e5-74ffbb084fff 2004-12-29T02:15:41Z 2004-05-07T06:42:19Z

<div>I'm on an old Beige G3, and have still yet to get system X to run on it. What model are you on, and how is it for you?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 9 replies </div>

2004-05-07T06:42:19Z http://buddhamac.tribe.net/thread/a8cd88f6-0887-4211-9666-2bf95f0adc16 2004-06-03T19:59:35Z 2004-06-03T19:59:35Z

<div>The Buddhist Scoundrels Tribe I host is having a meet up, and Buddhamacers are invited too: <br/> <br/>Tuesday, June 22nd, 6PM and lasting for one kalpa, 800 Post Street @ Leavenworth, in SF, CA, Cafe Royale. <br/> <br/>Hope to see you and your G5 wireless laptops. :) <br/> <br/>Truly, <br/> <br/>Shaku.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://buddhamac.tribe.net">Buddhamac</a> - 0 replies </div>

2004-06-03T19:59:35Z