2010-03-22 March iMeeting

[AdminMan]

Meeting Agenda

Start: 7:30 PM

1) News and new to you
2) Mac OS X on non-Mac hardware - Wally Cherwinski and Wally Kuzmicz
3) BusyCal - Graham Fawcett

== Break ==

4) MacWorld 2010 report - LeRoy Lees
5) Live Interior 3D - Paul Timmins (Door prize -- one Live Interior 3D Pro license to give away)

End: 10:00 PM

[fivespan]

Other Live Interior Links:

Live Interior 3D Pro ($129.95) vs. Standard (from $49.95) comparison grid:
http://www.belightsoft.com/products/liveinterior/comparison.php

Reviews&feedback:
http://www.belightsoft.com/products/liveinterior/reviews/reviewsfull.php

Screencasts/how to:
http://www.belightsoft.com/products/liveinterior/screencasts.php

MUG special discount:
http://www.belightsoft.com/special/special.php

[ben schmidt]

Recent Member Purchases

• OWC Value Line USB External DVD writer, $US 62.50 sale, Other World Computing online retailer.
• Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M scanner with OCR. Works with very long receipts. Available from LeRoy Lees at cllees@mac.com. See also an After purchase extend-your-warranty promotion: http://www.fujitsu.ca/promo/scansnap.html
• Small 4-port powered USB hub from B&H Photo in New York, possibly this $US 13.95 Macally 4-Port mHub Ultra Slim USB 2.0 Hub
• Discussion of folks 'being the last' to buy an iPod [Touch].

 
Discussions

• Question on Translation on the Mac: see translate.google.com (from any computer, mac or not)
• Still another 9 days left on the $US 49.99 Macupdate.com 11-app promotion, which includes the $79.99 Parallels v5 Windows emulator. See the Mugoo board and mupromo.com
• Maczot.com, another site some members visit daily for the discounted Mac app of the day.
• Macupdate.com and VersionTracker.com are the sites to visit for searching for OS X software and updates.
• Hawkwings.net, all things related to add-ons and using Apple's Mail.app
  

 

Discussion on running Windows on OS X

• Boot Camp - does disk partitioning on the fly. Just like the old Partition Magic on the PC. No need to wait for when you're adding an external disk to create the partition for Windows.
• VMware Fusion - can use its own installation of Windows, or it can re-use the Boot Camp partition containing a Windows install. One member observed VMware was faster for him when using the Boot Camp partition.
• One member used VirtualBox, a free virtualization product. As with VMware, there are pre-configured OS installations aka appliances available for VirtualBox. This makes it easy to install guest operating systems.

[cski]

QUESTIONS

Which Macs are compatible with Ubuntu?

All NewWorld Macs should work. This means iMacs, iBooks, blue & white G3s, Lombard G3 PowerBooks and newer. The minimum system requirements are 256 MB of RAM and 3 GB of hard disk space. Users with less RAM or disk space may try Xubuntu. Currently as of Feisty for iBooks/Powerbooks sleep, wireless, and external display are all supported with models having ATI graphics. Owners of the 12" Powerbook G4 models with the Nvidia graphics chip: sleep is not possible, because of insufficient hardware information from Nvidia.

Is Ubuntu supported on PowerPC?

Ubuntu 6.10 was the last officially supported PowerPC version of Ubuntu. Future versions will be community supported.

Is Ubuntu still available on PowerPC?

Yes, see PowerPCDownloads (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads)

USEFUL LINKS

Getting Ubuntu Linux Up and Running on a PowerPC Mac

http://lowendmac.com/crews/05/1214.html

LinuxPPC: Installing Linux on PowerPC Computers (Running Linux)

http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/linux/run/appd_01.htm

Ubuntu Forums

http://ubuntuforums.org/

PowerPCFAQ - Ubuntu Wiki

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#Which%20Macs%20are%20compatible%20with%20Ubuntu?

[iMacker]

Hello all,
Attached you will find a slightly edited version of the notes from my presentation last evening.

Cheers!

Graham Fawcett

[iMacker]

For those interested in the syncing abilities of BusyCal, here is a direct link to the BusyCal web page on the subject:

http://www.busymac.com/faq/config.html

.... plus a link to the BusyCal videos:

http://www.busymac.com/busycal/videos.html