[Speakers] Apple PowerBook WAS: Shorts

[Bruce Smith]

> > I'm now in the process of switching to Firefox or Camino and I noticed 
> > that sideways scrolling is defaulted to the forward/back buttons. I 
> > pulled this from the iScroll2 page:
> >     * go to about:config (i.e. type it in FireFox' address field)
> >     * set mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action to 0
> >     * set mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines to false
> >     * play around with the mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines 
> > and mousewheel.withnokey.numlines values until you're satisfied with 
> > the scrolling speed
> >
> > seems to work for me, but then again, I've got a different trackpad 
> > driver than you...
> 
> also, on my machine, the slower I seem to scroll with the trackpad, the 
> faster it seems to scroll in FireFox. Is this the case with your 
> PowerBook?

It could be.  I installed the smooth-scroll Firefox extension you
recommended, and that seemed to help, but it's still not perfect.

> I've upgraded my version of the scroll drivers, and the scroll speed 
> works fine now. Also, Instead of using Firefox, I'm using Camino, as 
> all of the widgets are native, and it's a bit faster on the Mac.

Camino is very nice, and I like using it.  The only problem is all of my
bookmarks are in Firefox, which I transfered over from my Linux box.
I'll have to see if I can find a way to transfer/import them into Camino
(I haven't tried yet, but if you know of a way, I'm all ears! :)

I also have the Mac mail program working better with IMAP after changing
the setting you mentioned about not downloading all of the messages.

So far I've managed to get everything to work in OS X that I need for a
desktop machine.  Having a bash shell and most of the standard GNU
commands is very helpful.  This is good because Linux support of my
hardware currently sucks!  Unsupported trackpad, internal wireless
airport-extreme card not supported, internal modem not supported,
problems with PCMCIA modems causing kernel oops, sound is questionable
(haven't tried to get sound working yet).  About the only things I got
to work in Linux was my Orinoco PCMCIA 802.11b card, and the video card
and display seems to work fine.  (I've heard the new 17" Powerbook has
serious video problems in Linux, so I lucked out by getting the 15")

Overall I'm VERY happy I chose to get a Powerbook over a new Intel based
laptop, even with the Linux problems.  It seems like EVERY time I've
bought a new laptop, I've had problems getting certain hardware
components to work because they are too new and don't have Linux drivers
yet.  This is true of very Intel laptop I've bought, and now true of the
Apple PPC laptop.

I'm sure I would have had hardware support problems if I would have
bought a new Intel based laptop.  This difference with a PPC, is I can
actually make the pre-installed OS to do what I need and function as my
desktop.  And in a few months, Linux support will come around for the
most important items, should I ever need it ...

Thanks!  Bruce.