| Itools tutorial on Mac OS X? [message #35920] |
Tue, 29 July 2003 18:59  |
Richard French
Messages: 173
Registered: December 2000
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In my eagerness to find out what IDL6.0 is all about, I went to
http://www.rsinc.com/idl/whatsnew.asp and clicked on Using iTools Tutorial,
Part I, on my Mac running OS X. Unfortunately, the tutorial uses Webex, and
there is a message box that says that "Playback of this file requires a
newer version of WebEx Player, which is not yet available for your operating
system."
Has anyone running Mac OS X succeeded in getting this to work? Frustrating!
Dick French
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| Re: Itools tutorial on Mac OS X? [message #35998 is a reply to message #35920] |
Mon, 04 August 2003 12:41  |
Rick Towler
Messages: 821
Registered: August 1998
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Ummmm... Yeah. What is so hard about (hypothetically speaking, of course)
finding an old "windoze" PC to run the webEx presentation on? Nobody is
asking you to <gasp> actually use IDL on it.
Dick, did you try picking up the latest client?
http://www.webex.com/downloads_webex.html
If the answer is "Yes" then I find it hard to blame RSI for a compatibility
issue in the webEx client. From a quick glance at their website, WebEx
clearly markets their product as a cross platform solution that probably
covers about 95% of IDL's user base. Instead of (hypothetically)
complaining, maybe you can suggest a better product for them to use in the
future?
-Rick
"Joseph B. Gurman" wrote in message ...
> If I were actually discussing a real beta program, I would most likely be
> in violation of a non-disclosure agreement, so please bear in mind that
> _everything_ I say in this message is hypothetical.
>
> Let's suppose I was a beta tester for a hypothetical product called
> Ineluctably Desirable Lingo (a product of Rastafarian Scholastics, Inc.,
> of Badgag-by-the-Flatirons, Colorado). Let's further posit that I was
> testing said product on the Magnificent OS Eggs, but that the EyeTules
> Tootorials (as well as all the other Tootorials) were incompatible with
> the Magificent OS Eggs. Let's get wild and crazy and say I called the
> Teggs Upport at Rastafarian Scholsatics, Inc. and asked what I should do
> if I wanted to learn enough about EyeTools that I could perform some
> useful beta testing. I was told, and (hypothetically speaking) I quote,
> "Get a Windoze machine and use that." Really (hypothetically).
>
> Let's say I've been beta testing software for the Rastamen of Badgag for
> ten or twelves years. Let's also say I don't have a stinkin' Windoze
> security cesspit-from-hell and never will. What do you imagine my
> (hypothetical) reaction would be?
>
> I would thank the Upport person for his "help," deinstall the Lingo beta
> from my Eggs machine, and just not think about it again. I might wonder
> who was going to beta test the LIngo under those circumstances, but that
> would be Somebody Else's Problem.
>
> Now, continuing to speak hypothetically, I might assume that the OS Eggs
> version of the EyeTules feature might lack a little robustness, as a
> result of less than adequate testing, in such a case. I might even be
> reluctant to spend development resources on applications using EyeTules,
> at least until it had been through a few product cycles. No big deal for
> me, though it might mean I wouldn't buy quite as many Lingo licenses as I
> might have, were I (hypothetically) more enthused about the purportedly
> neat, new feature. Too bad I would never have known how to use it, in this
> hypothetical instance.
>
> Joe Gurman
> Not A Science Agency / Greenbelt's Sunny, Fine Climate
>
> In article <BB4C9EAE.B71%rfrench@wellesley.edu>, "Richard G. French"
> <rfrench@wellesley.edu> wrote:
>
>> In my eagerness to find out what IDL6.0 is all about, I went to
>> http://www.rsinc.com/idl/whatsnew.asp and clicked on Using iTools
Tutorial,
>> Part I, on my Mac running OS X. Unfortunately, the tutorial uses Webex,
and
>> there is a message box that says that "Playback of this file requires a
>> newer version of WebEx Player, which is not yet available for your
operating
>> system."
>>
>> Has anyone running Mac OS X succeeded in getting this to work?
Frustrating!
>>
>> Dick French
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| Re: Itools tutorial on Mac OS X? [message #36002 is a reply to message #35920] |
Mon, 04 August 2003 10:51 |
gurman
Messages: 82
Registered: August 1992
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If I were actually discussing a real beta program, I would most likely be
in violation of a non-disclosure agreement, so please bear in mind that
_everything_ I say in this message is hypothetical.
Let's suppose I was a beta tester for a hypothetical product called
Ineluctably Desirable Lingo (a product of Rastafarian Scholastics, Inc.,
of Badgag-by-the-Flatirons, Colorado). Let's further posit that I was
testing said product on the Magnificent OS Eggs, but that the EyeTules
Tootorials (as well as all the other Tootorials) were incompatible with
the Magificent OS Eggs. Let's get wild and crazy and say I called the
Teggs Upport at Rastafarian Scholsatics, Inc. and asked what I should do
if I wanted to learn enough about EyeTools that I could perform some
useful beta testing. I was told, and (hypothetically speaking) I quote,
"Get a Windoze machine and use that." Really (hypothetically).
Let's say I've been beta testing software for the Rastamen of Badgag for
ten or twelves years. Let's also say I don't have a stinkin' Windoze
security cesspit-from-hell and never will. What do you imagine my
(hypothetical) reaction would be?
I would thank the Upport person for his "help," deinstall the Lingo beta
from my Eggs machine, and just not think about it again. I might wonder
who was going to beta test the LIngo under those circumstances, but that
would be Somebody Else's Problem.
Now, continuing to speak hypothetically, I might assume that the OS Eggs
version of the EyeTules feature might lack a little robustness, as a
result of less than adequate testing, in such a case. I might even be
reluctant to spend development resources on applications using EyeTules,
at least until it had been through a few product cycles. No big deal for
me, though it might mean I wouldn't buy quite as many Lingo licenses as I
might have, were I (hypothetically) more enthused about the purportedly
neat, new feature. Too bad I would never have known how to use it, in this
hypothetical instance.
Joe Gurman
Not A Science Agency / Greenbelt's Sunny, Fine Climate
In article <BB4C9EAE.B71%rfrench@wellesley.edu>, "Richard G. French"
<rfrench@wellesley.edu> wrote:
> In my eagerness to find out what IDL6.0 is all about, I went to
> http://www.rsinc.com/idl/whatsnew.asp and clicked on Using iTools Tutorial,
> Part I, on my Mac running OS X. Unfortunately, the tutorial uses Webex, and
> there is a message box that says that "Playback of this file requires a
> newer version of WebEx Player, which is not yet available for your operating
> system."
>
> Has anyone running Mac OS X succeeded in getting this to work? Frustrating!
>
> Dick French
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