[ANN] R.I.P. Mac Mini

Bob Warren bobwarren at howsoft.com
Fri Feb 20 05:55:21 EST 2015


OK, thanks a lot Richmond.

Bob

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On 19/02/15 03:31, Richmond wrote:

Well; I'll try them on my PPC G5 running both 10.4 and 10.5

as to "Real" Macs (by 'real' I assume to mean 'reasonably comtemporary)
I will try them on my
'unreal' 10.8 (VMware) . . .

I will, also, just to be bloody-minded, see how they behave on my Linux
box

Richmond.

On 19/02/15 03:31, Bob Warren wrote:

> A few days back I finished doing a few minor corrections to my Unicode
> "File/Folder/Picture Choosers" for Windows and Linux, and declared
> them "stable". If you download them, please test them well before
> distributing them in any way, to make absolutely sure they are as
> "stable" as I think they are.
>
> I then had an idea. I had had a first-generation Mac Mini sitting in
> the corner of my computer room for a long time, and I hadn't done much
> with it. (One reason is that it had a broken DVD drive.) It occurred
> to me that since the Mac file system is not so different to that of
> Linux, it might not be too difficult to produce some chooser widgets
> for Mac as well. Of course, they would need to be "legacy" (English
> only) widgets, because the machine had OS X Tiger 10.4 that was not
> supported by LiveCode/Unicode. So I had a bash at it. I rolled the
> Linux and Windows widgets together, and soon came up with a new set of
> MAC chooser widgets that had reached what I might fairly call the
> "beta" stage. However, the very day after, my Mini started going a bit
> crazy, and like a drip I didn't realize immediately that the cooling
> system had failed and that it was overheating. The end result is that
> now I have a "fried" Mac Mini. I do not intend to buy another one. In
> Brazil (my country of residence), Macs are impossibly expensive. If I
> replaced my simple Mini with an equivalent modern one, it would cost
> me $1,500 (which you might find difficult to believe). You now know
> why Macs are extremely rare in Brazil!
>
> Luckily, I had not only finished the programs, I had taken a few
> screenshots. I was therefore able to put the widgets up at my site:
>
> GENERAL INFO:
> http://www.howsoft.com/runrev/runrev_stacks_index.htm
>
> MAC CHOOSERS PAGE:
> http://www.howsoft.com/runrev/macchoosers/
>
> DOWNLOADS:
> http://www.howsoft.com/runrev/downloads/
>
> Under the circumstances (of my now being "Macless"), I'd be grateful
> if any of you could tell me:
>
> a) whether these widgets work on a "real" MAC;
> b) whether they are stable enough for usage in your opinion;
> b) whether they detect DVD drives correctly as well as other USB
> devices such as pendrives and external HDs.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards to all.
>





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