The Mac Worship Thread

Removes all OS X languages but English.

sudo find / -iname "*.lproj" -and \! -iname "en*" -print0 | tee /dev/stderr | sudo xargs -0 rm -rfv

I wouldn't trust sun products since Oracle bought them and started killing of and EOL'ing tons of Sun stuff..

Great, but just like you macfans say about many windows things, that's to technical for your avg MAC user. "It should just work".
Do you really think grandma knows how to use a unix commandline? Should she have to?

Hey man, you are talking to Darkknight, he solves all his problems with "3rd party software", and whatever software you mention, he knows a better "3rd party software" that does want you want just perfectly.

The problems is he never shares all these crucial information and we will never know what all these "3rd party software" are.

Call me old fashioned, but I back up to another physical, separate hard drive. If either hard drive has physical problems then the other is still there. And really important stuff goes onto DVDs as additional protection. I've experienced too many hardware problems over the last 30 years to ever backup to the same physical object again. Learned that the hard way.

As for the whole Mac vs. PC argument, who really cares? As long as you're happy and can do what you want to do, then either is fine. But any argument that Macs are more intuitive is BS. Neither is particularly intuitive, as any beginner or teacher of beginners will tell you.

Well I don't know but I downloaded an update recently and cannot get it to run on my HP tablet pc and or my folks dell desktop. its very frustrating. activesync has always given me trouble whether its realted to this latest issues or not

yeah i suspect this is case for apple.

All Apple DVD drives can be set to region free (RPC1) through a firmware flash process. Read everything carefully. Or, just use VLC as others have suggested.

Great. Here's a solution for Granny. Next problem.

Perhaps because I've been around the Computer scene for over 28 years and have seen and worked with more hardware/software
than you ever will.

If you need help with something, then simply ask for it. No need for personal attacks. If I know something that can help in your situation I'll let you know.

In my experience with OSX I have found some of the built-in functions/programs for many things good, but very basic and lacking. In this case I used the following
3rd party software to get the features I need. Toast, VLC, Office 2008, Premiere Pro, MacScan, Littlesnitch. These are but only a few..

That was OK some years ago, but today people want so backup more than a couple of megabytes. How to backup the bloody 1 zillion family pictures and videos in DVDs?

That reminds me, I need to buy new harddisks again, because the 2x 1TB I bought in October are getting full.

And you are the only one, LOL.

No OS, ever, has included software comparable to the list you provide. Tasks that require feature sets inherent to this list of software are not supposed to be accomplished by an operating system.

Don't forget people - this is the Mac Worship Thread. So the next commandment is:

2. I love Macs 'cos I dont need to have been around them for 28 years before I can get the buggers to work properly.

Ah.. but your forgetting the standard MAC user retort is that, "That's Built-In", you don't need and more software.. Well guess what, for your agv. clueless MAC user that maybe correct, however the more computer knowledgeable will want something better. The next retort is just to get the iLife add-on pack.
unfortunately those programs also don't have anything beyond the standard feature set.

The average Mac user may be clueless, but we struggle through life in a blur of blissful ignorance.

DELIBERATELY DISTORTED FACT OF THE DAY: More PC users commit suicide than MAC users.

That's only because there is a higher % of PC users compared to Mac Users.