On 12/13/2013, Wolf Kirchmeir posted:
As you can tell, I'm feeling curmudgeonly today.

That's OK, it somehow is cheering me up :-)

I pretty much agree with you and Char about the iMac that I had for a
while, but there were only a few programs that I couldn't find
satisfactory versions of, so I ran a VM of Windows (it was XP back
then).

Ironically when I went back to MS (it was Windows Vista, then 7, by
then) I still needed a virtual machine with XP to run a couple of
programs.

I never found a newsreader for Mac that I liked. The programs that
still need XP on Windows are for programmable remote controls from
Philips and from Universal Remote Corp, both no longer supported by the
mfrs. Another Mac problem was a bug that added a 100 Hz series of
spikes to audio captures via USB, a known bug that was never fixed
while I still used the Mac.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)