how far have mac's made it into large installations?

Fri Apr 22 19:41:16 PDT 2011

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 07:11:11PM -0700, JC Lawrence wrote:
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> On 22Apr 2011, at 18:11, Robert Harker wrote:
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> > Ahh, if Macs only had "pick and stuff" and "focus follows mouse".  I was given a Mac when I joined Yahoo.  Nice hardware, but I hate it.
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> FWLIW the technical term for this behaviour is "Copy on Select".  I also miss it.  I've asked people inside Apple if it might be possible via arcane unpublished configuration, but it is not.   For various reasons it violates assorted usability guidelines and principles (eg CUA and its children) and is thus unsupported by (MS)Windows or OS X.  
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> -- JCL

I use it via SecureCRT on Windows and OSX.

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