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iPod Your BMW. Says Apple, this is "The first seamless integration of iPod and automobile."

Others had made similar homebrew iPod and non-iPod solutions before (and iPod and non-iPod after) Apple/BMW's solution.

At this point, it doesn't look like Apple has any official plans to unveil further integration of Apple technology with automobiles. Of course, Apple almost always "does not comment on unreleased products."

Does Chicken of the VNC support full screen? I currently use VNCViewer on my mac. I use RealVNC on my PCs. Since one of my PCs has two monitors (supported nicely in RealVNC), I like being able to run the client full screen and allow it to scroll. VNCViewer on the mac doesn't support this.

For our part, here's what we've settled on:

x11vnc -forever -passwd mysecretpw

The best google images could do was this, but that's it, at least.

--joedoe

Where's SlashDock in the list? http://homepage.mac.com/stas/slashdock.html

This is what I use to constantly check SlashDot for new stories. It's probably the best I've seen, is contantly updated and is FREE! (Donations accepted.)

I have no connection other than liking and using SlashDock.

If fire can't kill an iPod i can't see how these will....

Here's the cheapest/easiest way to give back:

First off, an eMac, the cheapest Mac available. Generally can be had in a decent config for $800.

If the eMac can sit near the stereo, problem solved. If your parents have a cell phone, get them upgraded to one with Bluetooth and install Salling Clicker on the cellphone - instant iTunes remote that works very well. There's your remote, and the bonus is that Salling Clicker doesn't require line of sight to operate like a typical remote. You either need Bluetooth as a BTO option on the Mac, or as a $30 dongle.

And if you want to control a stereo in the next room - well, that's what AirPort Express does nicely. I just installed a setup for a customer where they used one AirPort Extreme base station as the master (and hooked the cable modem up to it), and put Express stations all over the rest of the house to extend the network (with WDS) and access their stereos and printers around the house. Works great.

Just because you have the time/patience to set up and use Linux doesn't mean it's the answer to everyone. Parents (especially elderly ones) are not the target market for desktop Linux. We are.

Of course, my 29-month-old son is already a semi-capable Mac user (he has my wife's old G3 iMac) - he knows how to turn it on, pick a game to play, and put it to sleep when he's done playing. Then again, he occasionally has been known to mistake the slot-loading CD-ROM for a piggybank.

How far in advance do I draw my strips?

Not very, unfortunately. I tend to procrastinate more than I should, so I often turn my strips in to my syndicate roughly two weeks before they run in newspapers. My syndicate would prefer it if I had a lead time of four to six weeks. Because color must be added, my Sunday strips get turned in six or seven weeks in advance.

http://homepage.mac.com/billamend/faq.html

Oh, so the box on his back IS a receiver ...

Would you trade this?

I also found it troublesome to use the application menu when working on a second monitor. Then I found DejaMenu , and I've been happy ever since I installed it. It just pops the main application menu under a contextual menu. Very handy!

hfspax has worked fine for me. It's free.

Here's some pictures of the harddrive being replaced in a Titanium PowerBook.

Sorry. Already proven wrong. It was a pen.

It's a rectangular paper colored pen apparently.

...to see what image was the "protected" page. Search the source, it's a CSS background-image. There are two background-images: a thumbnail of the cover and the book page you are viewing.

All you need is a script to retrieve CSS background-images and *poof* goes Google copy protection. It was doomed from the start, anyway.

The real benefit of this type device is that it brings us one step closer to a 'Portable Profile' feature - allowing one to connect to ANY Mac via Firewire and 'login' to their roaming profile. With an iPod to transport LARGE files like A/V and a .Mac Account for managing preferences when you are Internet connected but don't have an iPod. The two (iPod and .Mac) would work well together and would help bolster the recurring revenue stream for Apple.

(PLUS, they would show non-Apple users how much farther ahead Apple is in the user experience game.)

Give this a try iPodbackup

It's the best thing, ever.

I was using my iPod as a manual backup, now it's a mirror of my home folder, synced every time I plug in.

Flame me if you wish, but it's true.

Mac's always have had the lowest cost of ownership over PC's.

When the average turnover rate for a Dell is two years and the average turnover rate for Mac's is several years it's not to hard to figure out which platform is cheaper in the long run.

Of course Mac OS X is just plain gourgeous and very user friendly, happens to be very secure as well.

http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/.Pictures/screensh ot.jpg

It's time to give Apple a shot, dam that John Scully!

But in a WRX (you must have a bugeye since you have the seat bolt recall, I have an 04), why would you want to slow down? ;-)

Silly! The reason is obvious. You need to slow down so that you can enjoy accelerating again.

and yes, it's a bugeye sport wagon

The clip thing is a precaution. They issued a recall notice only because if it did happen, and it could, it would be really bad.

True, I was just agreeing with the comments on how many options must be removed from a car before you can really lose control this way.

I really don't know why Balmer is so mad at Ipod?

He really seems to love his...

So you can make it mismatch and match at the same time? Crumple it up to make it misaligned and look like a typewritten document, but it still matches Word exactly? Pretty clever!

As for not being required to finish his flight obligation, he signed documents to get into the Guard that he would spend 5 years flying, and only did three.

a standard flight physical which would have incidentally shown up his cocaine usage. He'd taken them before, and he sure as hell supports the war on drugs. I guess he just can't take the heat. He was also told that the Alabama outfit was not acceptable, went ahead on his own and flaked out from both bases anyway.

If he was typing up memos himself to cover his ass for Bush's outside interference

do you think it likely he'd blab to his wife? How old were his children then?

"Lt Bush is a dynamic outstanding young officer. He clearly stands out as a top notch fighter interceptor pilot. Lt Bush is possessed of sound judgement, yet is a tenacious competitor and an aggressive pilot. He is mature beyond his age and experience level as evidenced by his recent participation in the unit firing deployment."

everyone knew how pissed the colonel was about Bush playing fast and loose with his obligation

Bush signed up for 5 yars flight obligation and walked away from the last two years.

Sitting for 7 minutes reading a book like a deer in headlights while the country is udner attack --- what kind of bravery is that?

He can't even take responsibility for anything.

Actually you can create unlimited e-mail aliases now and "preserve" your real email address. Another new feature.

--
Daniel C. Slagle
Keeper of the "Unofficial" iMovie FAQ

The combined storage for your .Mac Mail and iDisk has been increased to 250 MB. That means you now have additional room for your email messages and mail attachments, web pages, and backups. Need even more storage? You also have the option of upgrading your .Mac account to 1 GB for US$49.95 per year.

You can decide how the storage is allocated between iDisk (a WebDAV network storage volume) and email

For a second there, I thought OpenBSD released a new product called CanyoneroBSD!

great clips if you haven't seen them yet.

Actually, in the reality distortion field, you only get 15 megs.

(ie: There is still no 9800XT for Mac,

I actually have 14+ computers, two kids and a wife. in no particular order.

To keep things smooth, the kids have their own, the wife hers and I've got mine. Other machines are print servers or nerdification trophies.

Full nerd setup here, in almost it's current state. Some machines don't appear in these photos either because they're offsite (loaners to computer-less friends) or stashed up in other rooms (I've got a laser printer, Mac II LC and an Apple scanner in my bedroom! I've managed that! With the wife!)

For all the Jane fans out there that modded her to +5...

Here's her journal...

Which links to her web site...

Which is full of pics! Look! A girl who likes hardware! *runs*

Funny comparo of an iPod vs. cassette tape: here...

I've been trying to convince work that there is no internet or phones at burning man. Not reachable. Please stop with your "innovation." art + tech + burningman

As I have said before, this "Typewriter" series was founded on one simple premise. The right-wing are liars. They have been liars. They will continue to be liars. It is part and parcel of modern "movement" conservatism. And, indeed, they were lying in this case as well, and continue to do so, and will probably continue until the day the Rapture, space aliens, or tainted Big Macs finally come to take them away.

Did proportional type exist back in the dark ages of 1972? Yes.

Did "Times New Roman" and similar fonts exist? Yes.

Did superscript "th" characters exist? Yes.

Could "centering" be accurately achieved on a typewriter? Sigh. Yes.

Could typists correctly determine where to wrap words so that they would not run over the margins of the page? (What, are you stupid?) Yes.

And so on, and so on, as each argument was shot down, and new ones arose to assert themselves. That's it. That was the crux of the argument. Then we went from typeface to signatures, to what slang terms were or were not common during the Vietnam era, etc. etc. And still, they were shot down.

I don't know if I feel sorry for this guy's website or not, since his image browser may soon gain in popularity (but maybe not via Google's search results :) http://homepage.mac.com/schwarz/gbrowser.html

I had heard something extremely similar from Moyers last week on some dude's homepage. Found it again because it really blew me away. This was his keynote speech at the Media reform conference and is a bit more left-wing (warning Faux News viewers - your heads may explode).

Part 1
Part 2

I had heard something extremely similar from Moyers last week on some dude's homepage. Found it again because it really blew me away. This was his keynote speech at the Media reform conference and is a bit more left-wing (warning Faux News viewers - your heads may explode).

Part 1
Part 2

This is the little known but infamous interview where he claims that Pakistan is a democracy!

According to the CIA, Pakistan is a republic. Of course, both the USA and USSR were republics, so that word is nearly content-free in terms of describing a government. But it is funny in light of the number of forum trolls who claim "The USA is a republic, not a democracy".

OMG do he look incompetent.

Anyone who likes to giggle at presidential incompetence owes it to herself to watch the infamous "tribal sovereignty" video.

/Obvious ebt

It is ENTIRELY IRRELEVANT to the Bush documents that some machine that a critic has chosen cannot do typesetting. Just choose another machine that can.

However, it is not at all irrelevant that the only typewriter that anybody has suggested to be the origin of the message does not produce text with matching line lengths. Indeed, nobody has managed to find any system of that era capable of reproducing the line lengths, while a modern computer word processor does it perfectly with its default settings. Since algorithms of character spacing have evolved since the 1970's, it is astronomically improbably that any system of that era, known or unknown, typewriter or even typesetter will reproduce those relative line lengths.

"This typeface is the property of Monotype Typography and its use by you is covered under the terms of a license agreement. You have obtained this typeface software either directly from Monotype or together with software distributed by one of Monotype's licensees." Microsoft Word ONLY follows the information in this file.

If you are arguing that the document could also have been produced by another modern word processor, such as Open Office, using the same font definition, that is certainly true, although unlikely. What it could not be is a 1970's vintage system using the letter spacing methods of that time.

All of this should indicate that no one should be surprised if something typeset today looks exactly like something done so recently as 1972.

Anybody who knows about the evolution of character spacing since 1972 would be very surprised if the line lengths were the same, even though the individual characters might look identical.

Mary Carr Knox, Lt. Colonel Killian's secretary, supplied some valuable information

In particular, she has denied having access to any machine office capable of producing the typography in those memos.

looks like there have already been other programs designed to do this with itunes radio http://homepage.mac.com/swithers/iblog/C784421780/ E1012504207/ it seems like it should work with more than just the radio since it simply records audio being broadcast to the computer. Is this different is some way?

You measure the impulse response of your desired tube system

Mmmmmmm..... if I recall correctly, an impulse is theoretically "white" so the response represents the system's response to all frequencies. That's with a n infinitely narrow (time) and high (amplitude) impulse.

The problem with tube modeling is that the system is non-linear. The frequency response *changes* with amplitude. I've also heard that it changes with the blend of tones, though I take that with a grain of salt. The claim is that a strong bass note (for example) will affect the frequency response in upper registers.

I see the problem as an ignorance of the effects of inductance & reactance. RC systems are fairly easy to model digitally, but RLC systems are less well understood by digital implementors who blew through analog class without much respect.

Tube amps have giant-o-normous output transformers for matching high impedance tube outputs to low impedance speakers (I think- I'm one of those analog diss-ers trying to learn at a late age).

This causes low damping factor- the ability of the amp to deal with back EMF of the speaker and control it "tightly."

Bob Carver built some transistor amps with low damping factor as a demonstration that much of the tube "sound" was this simple property. High damping factors was something tube people always strived for so when transistor amps could do it easily, people *chose* to build amps that way.

Transformers also have problems like core saturation. Something that strikes me odd is that better (electrically, not audiophile-tweaky) transformers which might actually sound less "tubey" are valued by audiophiles.

Incidentally, tube guitar amps have an advantage of high input impedance: good when dealing with a monster coil like a guitar pickup. Bipolar transistor pre-amp stages are not a good idea, but FETs work if you want to be able to carry your amp outside on a cold night after practicing without hearing the sound of glass breaking. Anyone remember VOMs?

I'm planning on building one of these to drive a pair of these.

A very similar kit is availble from "Antique Electronics" and S5.

The build will give me a chance to bone up on my languishing soldering skills, but more importantly, I want to build a nice case like this guy did.

Okay, deriving Linux from Linus + UNIX, I can see. Who knew Adam Ant would get into free OS hacking though?

But I think you need to backup your position with more links

Seriously, the grandparent was implying that Apple gave kickbacks for links, so the parent just made a post of links. It's a joke, get it? (I see how it could be construed as not funny, but a troll?)

Less cheap crack. More (free) beer.

Listen mac, I'm tired of people insisting we editors take kickbacks from Apple. Just because people don't like our style, they are quick to jump on any additions we make to a post. I hope someday you change your tune.

You even commented on some of the problems.

In Luxi Sans, the w, c, and d all have some unevenness; the e's crossbar is too high.
Trebuchet has dropouts in its e's, and its w is uneven.
Times isn't antialiased at all. Verdana is too thin for its size (and the V is about to fall apart).
The g in Impact is blocky and has some strange lumps.
Georgia almost looks aliased.

Here's a screenshot comparison between your original and the same fonts rendered by MacOS X. (I have most, but not all of the fonts). IMHO, the righthand (MacOS) side looks superior - more like actual typeset text. So what's up? Does freetype suck that badly? Are you using the non-hinted version of freetype? Is this a screen gamma difference? I used Linux/X11/freetype2 daily for a couple of years, and I never got the fonts to look the way I wanted them to. It's almost like the contrast setting is wrong, not to mention the subpixel precision of the glyph control points is out of whack (what's with the V in Verdana, anyway?).

Of course, the flipside is to say that the freetype-rendered text looks crisper, less blurry - especially Impact. I appreciate that distinction - but for me, the consistency of shape and the evenness of the glyph weighting is more important than the apparent focus.

That does not mean there is no evil. It merely means that evil has its practitioners -- Hitler, bin Laden and colleagues, Hussein, Pol Pot among them -- and its apologists, this AC among them, who support evil by devoting their efforts to undermining its opposition.

That does not mean there is no evil. It merely means that evil has its practitioners -- Hitler, bin Laden and colleagues, Hussein, Pol Pot among them -- and its apologists, this AC among them, who support evil by devoting their efforts to undermining its opposition.

Littlegreenfootballs.com has the original Microsoft Document he used available for download.

Check it yourself.

Also, OpenOffice.org should add a feature - what year typewriter would you like to imitate?

Probaby a bit off-topic, but Ivan Illich has some interesting thoughts on the educational system.

http://homepage.mac.com/tinapple/illich/1970_desch ooling.html/