On 2/6/2005 12:32 AM, "Alex" <lists at lexial.ca> wrote: > > On Jun 1, 2005, at 09:53, Tony Johansen wrote: > >> Apple over here (Australia seems to be hiring people with minimal >> English skills. > > Unlikely to be Apple employees. Outsourcing tech support is a major > trend these days. You may think you're talking to someone in your own > neck of the woods, but actually you might be talking to a bloke sitting > at a desk in Bangalore, India (though usually they have excellent > English skills). I think in this case they were here in Sydney, I was transferred by the receptionist without any discernable indication of international connection. One was East Asian, the other Indian or Pakistani. Both had thick accents and I had to several times ask what a word was, sometimes having to hear the sentence 3 or 4 times to decipher the words. > If you want to have a glimpse at what really goes on with tech support, > try "We don't support that" > > <http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/02/23/no_support/index_np.html> > >> Can I also shoot my iMovie and iDVD files also yet access >> them from 10, And iPhoto files? > > What do you mean by "shoot" the files? If you mean "move to another > partition or drive", yes, but you should specify what versions of the > OS and the other apps you are using. Yes shoot the files over as in move them to make space on the OS 10 partition, make use of OS 9 space whilst accessing those files as now from the Apps on OS X OS 10.3.8 to OS 9.2 partition IPhoto 4.0.3 Imovie 4.0.1 DVD Backup 1.3 (v1.3) Motion Pictures 1.0 Thanks, Tony