Ocean is dry? Long live Baha’i Research
Baha’is are forbidden to confess their sins to any other human being. We can bring ourselves to account each day only with God. Nevertheless, I am going to confess to be a Mac user. In fact, I’ve been a Mac user since November (you see, I can even remember the month) 1987, when I bought a Mac II.
In days gone by (and not so long gone by), this confession would have caused PC users to go puce in the face and hoot with derision at such a stupid heretic. How could I not see that Windows (I suppose I should put ? or ? here) would dominate the world? Well, my friends, despite the derision I have remained faithful to the only true platform; I rejoiced at the advent of OS X - indeed I was an early adopter; I rejoiced at the change from Motorola to Intel (more ? and ?) chips - and have a MacBook Pro, which I love!
And now the smirk is on the other side of the face. iPod is cool (yes, I have an iPod), Mac is cool, and PC users are changing to the only true platform.
Here’s some good stuff about switching. Go on, have a look. You won’t turn into a sandal-wearing, bearded person (that’s me, by the way) just by thinking about switching.
But regrettably we Mac users still cannot use the essential Baha’i research tool, Ocean. That’s for PC users only.
But here’s something we can all use. Thanks to Ian Vink, Baha’i Research is a web-based application that allows anyone, whether they use a PC or a Mac, to search Baha’i and other sacred texts (and other writings).
How’s that for non-discrimination? Mind you, Mac users have to use Firefox. Luckily I like Firefox. Safari, the Mac browser, which I also like, won’t handle Baha’i Research for some unfathomable reason.
And there we are, back to the Ocean (unfathomable, geddit? Oh, perlease!).
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Have you tried the “Archive” Software - their claim to fame is that they are “Still the only search program of the Bah?’? Writings for Macintosh. ” see http://www.schoolmarmwood.org/ARCHIVE.htm
Vahid, many thanks for reminding me about Archive. I used to use Archive many years ago, before I changed over to OS X. I shall have a look at the site.
Howdy,
I’m not sure why the current version of Safari doesn’t like the javascript and Ajax sub system of BahaiResearch. Wish I knew too
Cheers,
Ian Vink
Hi, Ian, I find BahaiResearch works fine with Firefox on the Mac. BahaiResearch is a great resource. Many thanks!
Hi Barney — Thanks for turning me on to the bahairesearch site. I’m at work using the PC and for some reason, it gives me error messages every time I try a search on the site, whether I’m using Explorer or Firefox. The message reads: “Request denied by WatchGuard HTTP proxy. Reason: request URL path too large”. (Doesn’t that sound like a typical PC message?) Could this be an issue with my server, or something else? Any clues? I’ve also sent a note to Ian about it.
cheers,
Peter
P.S. At home I’m a Mac user (sandals, no beard) and am anxious to give it a try there.
Peter, I have no idea why bahairesearch should give you error messages. Sorry, I have never had problems with it, but then I’m a Mac user at all times (beard but no sandals). Hope the site works at home for you.
does anyone know where the Ocean website went to….appears to have either moved, or is missing.
does anyone know if there is a Pocket PC version of Ocean available yet…sorry to ask that with all these Mac people around.
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