Is there a macperson in the house?

Poststructural Pub
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I’m trying to work out how to install boot camp + W7 on a macbook running 10.68, and I don’t speak Mac. Is anyone online right now who can translate?

2

OK, got over the first hurdle.

3

Finished. Crisis over.

4

24 minutes between bewilderment and problem solved. One difference between Macs and PCs?

5

And today I spent a good chunk of time getting a lynksys PCMCIA card to be recognized on my Debian (duel boot) laptop using ndiswrapper to use windows drivers. Now if I could only get it to connect…

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The fun part was figuring out how to log into the domain* without alt and del** keys. The answer turned out to be hitting option + U at the prompt to get to the windows on-screen keyboard, where all the right keys are ripe for clicking.

  • To get to the windows login prompt you need to start by hitting control + alt + del.
    ** There is a del on a mac keyboard, but it produces what PCs call ‘backspace’.
7

Thought it was something like command-option-(shift?)-escape for the fruit boxes.

Do they still have the open apple or is it now just the clover thing?

8

I didn’t see no apple.

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Those of use who use windows machines to access Unix & Linux machines are familiar with the term “Terminal Emulator”. The Del and the Backspace keys are programmed by the emulator and seem to be interchangeable, depending on what emulator is used. Boy, but it’s irritating when you can’t Del out of something gone bad.