I need to take copies of the syllabus to my physics counselor. To get credit for the introduction to thermodynamics class. So I email Dr. Morris, and he very promptly sent my copies of all the syllibi, as well as copies of the lab syllibi. I open the email attachments, and much to my chagrin they were in a .cwk format. Which is like a secret Appleworks (Old Apple Suite) format. You can't even get a windows viewer (belive me I tried). I think to myself, "Well I have 2 Macs, I'll just open it on one of them." Neither of them can open the files. Uh-oh, Dr. Morris said he would send me hard copies if I need them, which is very nice of him. But I'm upset at the format, and need to open these files. I research for a few hours, even polling apple users in my house. Eventually I read on the appleworks wiki that appleworks kindof turnes into the iWork suite. So I download the free trial of iWork'09 and sure enough pages can open this kind of doc. I then "register" iWork so this wont happen again. Its now 2am, and I triumphantally print the syllibi. I then noticed that I had iLife '08. Bah I say, I scoff at anything thats 3 weeks old software wise. So I look for a "trial" of iLife 09 like iWork, and cant find one. However I did find out that I am elligible to upgrade to iLife'09 for $10 since they started bundleing it with macs a few weeks after I bought mine. I paid the 10 bucks, and am waiting for my software in the mail. epic win.
btw pages (word) and numbers(excel) in iWork are really good. I'm thinking of changing from MS office to iWork.
Dr. Morris is a Mac
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Lol, quite an adventure just to open a couple text documents. You have to wonder if he keeps an ancient mac around just to read and edit his syllabus. I can just imagine him sitting at like the Colossus or something, gigantic and whirring, as it spits out a copy on a teletype.
lol yeah, I was like "what is he using an old appleII"
How's that for security, no one can access his stuff lol
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