Yes, and I upgrade whenever it makes sense. My 10.9 laptop started with 10.6 and my 10.5 desktop was shipped with I think 10.4. However, the desktop cannot run 10.6 or newer, and as you note, 10.9 is a better choice than its successors. ________________________________________________ Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk, "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World" *http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809 <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>* Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change Twitter: @shelhorowitz * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame http://goingbeyondsustainability.com http://transformpreneur.com mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388 Award-winning, best-selling (8th) book: Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson) Coming in April: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World _________________________________________________ On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Chris Hart, MyMacTech.com < chris at chrishart.net> wrote: > > > > > I can appreciate your perspective, but it's also possible to make > reasonable upgrades along the way, which benefit you and don't hurt you. > For example, OSX 10.6 is a better OS than 10.5. But at this point both are > no longer being updated for security purposes. This matter of security, > plus the lack of support for older OS versions by software developers, show > you why it's good to progressively upgrade your system software now and > then, instead of keeping the same operating system on your computer that it > came with out of the box. Because doing that makes your older computer > less useful that much sooner. > > FYI, I believe 10.8 and onward are the only Mac operating systems that are > really actively being updated with security fixes. 10.9 is a really nice > sweet spot for older hardware, as it doesn't slow them down too much, or at > all and is very much still being supported with security updates. Yes, OSX > 10.10 and 10.11 are bad choices for older hardware, due the performance > degradation. > > *Chris Hart* > * Computer Support & Technology Consulting* > * for Connecticut and Western Massachusetts* > * Tel: 860-291-9393 <860-291-9393>* > * chris at chrishart.net <chris at chrishart.net>* > * http://www.MyMacTech.com <http://www.mymactech.com>* > > On Mar 5, 2016, at 6:33 PM, Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com> > wrote: > > Thanks, Chris (and the several others who privately wrote with basically > the same idea). Yes, that worked beautifully. > > A little rant: > Chris, my workhorse computer for the past year and a half has been a 2012 > MacBook Pro running OSX 10.9 (I've been advised NOT to update to Yosemite > or El Capitan). However, I keep my 10.5 desktop around for certain > functions (writing resumes and using the scanner, primarily), and I'd > thought I had a non-cloud version of Adobe Reader on it (I didn't). 10.5 is > indeed an orphan, with programs like Dropbox and Skype yanking away the > ability to use their software and numerous websites not displaying > properly, so I basically had no choice. But I miss my big screen (not > enough to buy one), and I resent certain software forcing me onto the > cloud. And I deeply resent the decisions of Dropbox and Skype to stop > allowing users with old hardware to use products that were functioning > perfectly well. It wouldn't bother me if they merely stopped upgrading > them, but disabling is unconscionable. I also miss Eudora, which has never > been able to run on anything newer than 10.5. It was when Eudora broke that > I switched my primary machine. I've never found an email program as > good--though I've grown to like GMail's device-independence, if not > anything else. > > I like to use things until they're used up. Our cars are 2004 and 2005 > models. I don't like the forced obsolescence of perfectly good hardware. > > OK, done ranting. > > ________________________________________________ > Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk, > "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World" > *http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809 > <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>* > > Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, > poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change > > Twitter: @shelhorowitz > > * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified > * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame > > http://goingbeyondsustainability.com > http://transformpreneur.com > mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388 > Award-winning, best-selling (8th) book: > Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson) > Coming in April: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World > _________________________________________________ > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Chris Hart, MyMacTech.com > <http://mymactech.com> <chris at chrishart.net> wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> First, I would urge you to get off of OSX 10.5 which is way out of date >> and no longer receiving security updates. >> >> I think Preview, even in 10.5, allows for simplistic PDF editing. >> >> First step would be to make a PDF of the first page that you want in the >> finished document. >> >> Then create a duplicate in the Finder of the document that you want to >> source the pages from. >> >> Open the duplicate. >> >> Go to the View menu and choose thumbnails >> >> The sidebar showing thumbnails of the pages will appear >> >> Drag the first page PDF into the top of the list of thumbnails to insert >> it as the first page >> >> Then click once on the thumbnails of the pages that you don't want in the >> finished document >> >> Hit the delete key to delete the page >> >> (If you want to delete a range of pages, do one click on the first one, >> then shift-click on the last one) >> >> You should ultimately end up with a PDF that has only the pages you want >> >> Save it and you're done >> >> *Chris Hart* >> * Computer Support & Technology Consulting* >> * for Connecticut and Western Massachusetts* >> * Tel: 860-291-9393 <860-291-9393>* >> * chris at chrishart.net <chris at chrishart.net>* >> * http://www.MyMacTech.com <http://www.mymactech.com/>* >> >> >> On Mar 5, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> I need to make a sampler from a PDF that would consist of two new pages >> at the beginning plus 9 specific page ranges from the original. I have >> Adobe Reader DC and plain Adobe Reader on my OS 10.5 desktop, on my laptop >> but not the full Acrobat. >> >> It seems that Reader won't allow me to make a subset PDF from a PDF by >> using the print-to-PDF option. I looked online for a solution and didn't >> find one. >> >> Could someone either point me toward a software tool that can do this or >> provide me with ten minutes of access to a computer (Amherst/Northampton >> area) that has the full Acrobat installed? >> >> Thanks, >> ________________________________________________ >> Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk, >> "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World" >> *http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809 >> <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>* >> >> Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, >> poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change >> >> Twitter: @shelhorowitz >> >> * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified >> * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame >> >> http://goingbeyondsustainability.com >> http://transformpreneur.com >> mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388 >> Award-winning, best-selling (8th) book: >> Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson) >> Coming in April: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World >> _________________________________________________ >> _______________________________________________ >> Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net >> Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net >> >> You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. >> If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members >> page on the Hidden Tech Web site. >> http://www.hidden-tech.net/members >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net >> Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net >> >> You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. >> If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members >> page on the Hidden Tech Web site. >> http://www.hidden-tech.net/members >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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