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Another option use to use bluetooth remote control software like Salling Clicker which gives you remote access to iTunes (among other Mac software) from the comfort of your bluetooth Palm or cellphone. Very slick. The remote interface gives you access to all the tracks, playlists and even album art.

Since Slashdot's script, in all it's infinite wisdom, wouldn't let me post due to "junk characters," I've posted my reply here [mac.com]. There are some instructions that might be helpful.

Don't you hate it when some people hog the CD-player for hours during your parties? Using your computer as a juke-box (with password-protected screen saver on), this is a problem of the past. Salling Clicker lets you pick the songs while taking care of your guests. Not only can you move between and scan within tracks--Salling Clicker lets you search for tracks by name, artist, composer, and album. When used with a Palm, you even have the option of reviewing upcoming tracks or album artwork on your PDA's display!

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Of the two, Salling clicker is the more wicked. It mutes iTunes when you get a phone call, and can be used with almost any app, even as a substitute mouse!

If your computer isn't too far away, just use your mobile as the remote and/or display. Bluetooth and Salinger Clicker or Romeo will give you what is effectively a remote with a display.

.mac Apple kinda does this.

Good thing they didn't use JPG. If they had, they might of wound up with ass nuggets around their text.

• The ability to log in to all our favorite Web sites with one password:* So that one security exploit can delete all your email AND clear out your bank account!
• Spam blocking for our e-mail accounts:* unless the spammer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H advertiser pays Microsoft to show their spam^H^H^H^H ads to people.
• Calendar sharing with colleagues and friends to schedule meetings:* Complete ith new movie and album release dates that you can't remove, and totally open so that 1337 haxx0rs know when you're going to be out of your house!
• Automatic address book updates for all our contacts: Which are also available to spammers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H advertisers that pay Microsoft!
• A virtual hard drive on the Internet for sharing files, photos, and music with our friends and access to these files via the Internet while traveling anywhere in the world:* Why even require authentication. Everyone should be able to view your photos and add pictures of their own! (Not that they'd do it, but security would probably be so lax that everyone who uses this service would have Goatse pics on their hard drives.)
• Synchronization of our Internet bookmarks across all our computers:* Complete with non-deletable links to products you want to buy!
• Online profiles of personal information that we could choose to share with Web sites and social networks: Is it me or is this just too damn scary. "we could choose to share" is a Microsoft euphemism for "you agreed to the EULA so we give this to everyone who pays enough"
• Regular backup of files to a storage site on the Internet:* And it will be just as secure as your home PC!!!
• Regular application and system- security updates: Translation: Agree to the EULA, pay us a monthly fee, and we'll install software that will probably break your machine without your knowledge or consent.
• One-step migration of files and programs to a new computer:* But only if you agree to another EULA, and it wipes the old machine and renders it useless. And it might corrupt your files in the transfer.*

* - These features have already been implemented, partially or fully, by other companies, including Apple, specifically .Mac, Keychain, and (can't find it right now) a software package that made switching from PC to Mac easier.

Apple's Backup application that comes free with a .Mac membership allows you to back up your data onto an iPod. I recently had to buy a mobile LaCie external hard drive because my old 20 gig iPod didn't have enough space to use it this way and still function as an MP3 player. Considering the importance of backups, a 60 gig iPod would be very useful.

Apple's Backup application that comes free with a .Mac membership allows you to back up your data onto an iPod. I recently had to buy a mobile LaCie external hard drive because my old 20 gig iPod didn't have enough space to use it this way and still function as an MP3 player. Considering the importance of backups, a 60 gig iPod would be very useful.

Totally off-topic, but I had problems with neighbors using my yard as their pet's personal toilet... So I put up some nice signs and have had no problems since. I don't get many visitors though. :(

Mirror mirror on the (Larry) Wall...

Bandwidth courtesy of .Mac

Sailing Clicker does just this. I'm using a 12" Powerbook with built in bluetooth and a Sony Ericson T68i. I can controll the mouse movements with the joystick on the phone.

Heard of the European Rapid reaction force? Still in the planning stages but they just set up a headquarters. It's been seen a nascent European Army.

It's not really a question of bigger militaries, but some people/countries do want to see a unified (and therefore more powerful) force independent of the US.

As for political pressure, you can always rely on Rumsfeld for a quote, or here's another link I imagine there's quite a lot going on behind the scenes though. Understandably the US are worried about losing control of EU actions.

I would hope that it would take on more the flavor of the old time passenger cruise lines of the late 19th & early 20th Centuries. Still, once space travel starts to really emerge, it is going to be a very capital intensive business. Almost all of the capital that Wall Street & other exchanges can dig up is going to help fuel this next economic expansion.

I predict that over the next 15-25 years you will see Wall Street (especially once the X-Prize has been won) get into space in a major way. You will see the whole dot Bomb thing happen all over again, unfortunately, with fly-by-night companies that do little but promise the Moon (this time in a more litteral fashion). Some companies are going to emerge and become very successful, but many others are going to take a whole lot of money from people and throw it down the drain.

If the X-Prize team list is an indication with over 26 different teams listed, once it has been proven to be a practical business you will see many others jump into the business. Companies like Boeing, Airbus, and Thiokol (all companies you seemed to miss) are more than likely going to come in and join the party as well. They all have some sort of rocketry/avaition experience, deep pockets, and an aire of respectability when they start producing spacecraft.

In this regard it would be more like the P.C. industry, where it started in a bunch of garages and small industrial parks, where several millionaires arose from relatively modest beginnings. In this case we have a few "modest" millionaires who are perhaps going to turn this into billions.

I use my Nokia 3650 to control my sony car stereo , my G4 tower at work, and as soon as I find a suitable app - my home, fedora core 1, computer (someone point me in the right direction?). Hopefully, eventually I will write an application to control the temperature of my toaster.

Add a cellphone and Salling Clicker to that, and you've got both a "complete" solution, as well as one that's small and always available; and no "2-3 seconds" for "establishing control".

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what i really liked about altavista personal search was the advanced search syntax (and, or, not, etc).

The FM transmitters to suck, its like listening to the music with ear plugs. The best thing to do know is get a head unit with an aux input and run RCA cables to the iPod. I did this with my Sony unit, ran an RCA to 1/8 mini cord to my Belkin Mobile Power Cord and I get great sound from it. Also, which is quite nice, when you unplug it from the dock conector, it automaticly pauses. And since the mini plug is plugged in the charger, it's only one thing to connect. You could also try to make your own center console like this guy did.

I dunno, I think SWISH++ does a pretty good job ...

I've had it running now for a while, and I can't say how much better it feels to have a local, powerful search engine at my beck and call, personally ...

Plus, it solved the 'endless bookmark menu' problem too, since instead of bookmarking, I get the site spidered by SWISH++, and all my future searches give me what I need ... sweet!

Perhaps if you do not find enough value in .Mac, it's because you view the e-mail account as the most important feature.

Granted, my first .Mac account was created when iTools first came out, as a free service to promote OS 9. I just grabbed it for the cool e-mail account. Since mail was the only feature I made any real use of (other than a little bit of HomePage) I wasn't willing to pay $99 to keep it going when the .Mac changeover came. Last time I ever use someone else's domain for my primary e-mail address. Good lesson to learn. Anyway...now I have .Mac again, and I use it for the other stuff far more than I use the mail.

In my opinion, the best features of .Mac are:
- seamless iDisk integration in the Finder (especially in 10.3)
- Share your public folder (example - not mine)on the web. The fastest way to get a file to someone else across the Internet.
- One-click photo album publishing from within iPhoto. Creates thumbnails and screen-size versions and lets you choose from many templates. Your visitors can view the photos in a slideshow viewer and click the photos within that to see the full resolution. View an example (not mine).
- Put a movie in your Movies folder, create a HomePage for it, and let Apple bother with embedding it properly, streaming it, etc. Again, templates are provided.
- Free Virex. Tends to cost $69 anyway, so when buying a new Mac you'd be silly not to get .Mac (which is $69 with a new Mac.)
- Backup utility. Pretty cool automatic backup utility.
- Here's a glaring difference between .Mac mail and Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail: .Mac mail is real mail. You can use both IMAP/POP/SMTP and a nice webmail interface. This is still key for many of us. I refuse to ever use webmail at home. It's only for use on someone else's computer.
- Auto-sync Bookmarks, Address Book, and iCal appointments/To Do items across all your Macs.

If you use it as just an e-mail service, I can understand why you would be disappointed at the pricing.

(Full disclosure: I work at a large computer retailer that sells .Mac, but that's not why I posted. Just wanted to share my personal experience.)

Perhaps if you do not find enough value in .Mac, it's because you view the e-mail account as the most important feature.

Granted, my first .Mac account was created when iTools first came out, as a free service to promote OS 9. I just grabbed it for the cool e-mail account. Since mail was the only feature I made any real use of (other than a little bit of HomePage) I wasn't willing to pay $99 to keep it going when the .Mac changeover came. Last time I ever use someone else's domain for my primary e-mail address. Good lesson to learn. Anyway...now I have .Mac again, and I use it for the other stuff far more than I use the mail.

In my opinion, the best features of .Mac are:
- seamless iDisk integration in the Finder (especially in 10.3)
- Share your public folder (example - not mine)on the web. The fastest way to get a file to someone else across the Internet.
- One-click photo album publishing from within iPhoto. Creates thumbnails and screen-size versions and lets you choose from many templates. Your visitors can view the photos in a slideshow viewer and click the photos within that to see the full resolution. View an example (not mine).
- Put a movie in your Movies folder, create a HomePage for it, and let Apple bother with embedding it properly, streaming it, etc. Again, templates are provided.
- Free Virex. Tends to cost $69 anyway, so when buying a new Mac you'd be silly not to get .Mac (which is $69 with a new Mac.)
- Backup utility. Pretty cool automatic backup utility.
- Here's a glaring difference between .Mac mail and Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail: .Mac mail is real mail. You can use both IMAP/POP/SMTP and a nice webmail interface. This is still key for many of us. I refuse to ever use webmail at home. It's only for use on someone else's computer.
- Auto-sync Bookmarks, Address Book, and iCal appointments/To Do items across all your Macs.

If you use it as just an e-mail service, I can understand why you would be disappointed at the pricing.

(Full disclosure: I work at a large computer retailer that sells .Mac, but that's not why I posted. Just wanted to share my personal experience.)

I'd love to have something blazingly fast. Is that too much to ask for?

Oh brother ... give it a rest already. The topic of the thread is about oil, the reserves, and the inevitable shortage coming forthwith. This isn't a soap box for you to yap about politics in a country to which you have no claim. You obviously read too much internet. Get off your duff, go outside, and enjoy that large warm yellow orb in the sky, peewee, and be glad you're not speaking Russian or Nazi.
On a side note though, I don't know where you're from, but I'm guessing you're from somewhere that sucks so bad, you obviously have a giant envy problem, much akin to that nagging penis envy that I'm sure you have been dealing with since you were about 13 years old. I am flattered how you think that in 4 short years, my American President got a "stranglehold on the world", which proves... WE KICK ASS! YES! WOO-HOO! WE BAD! WE BAD!
And besides, if you're a Michael Moore fan, then you definitely are a loon and shouldn't be taken seriously in any event. I'll do you a favor, watch "THIS VIDEO" , and ask yourself why MiraMax/Disney won't distribute this film. There's a good reason he's trying to release his tin-can of celluloid lies when he is, and there's nothing honorable about it either. Oh, and don't worry, it's hosted at homepage.mac.com, so that should play just fine on your uber rebel leet Mac at home.
Ciao!

As far as I know there is no xvid quicktime component yet. Until one is written one you won't be able export a xvid movie from a quicktime based editor like iMovie. However you could export to some quicktime supported format and re-compress using a tool like ffmpegX.

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The Western notion of God means the being is all-powerful, morally perfect, and the creator of the universe.

While writing a local search engine isn't trivial, it's a lot easier than writing a web search engine since all the scaling issues disappear -- I know: I wrote one.

Hmm. Maybe Apple ? Because, you know, there is no company called 'Mac' that creates operating systems, or applications. mac.com is a portal for .Mac.

And you can't really list a website for Linux, short of kernel.org. Maybe DistroWatch.

See:

http://homepage.mac.com/happywaffle/tunnels.html

You mean the Discovery channel distributes on IRC? How many times have I seen two Rhinos doing the nasty with some British snooty guy narrating on PBS? Please, NY Times. This is nothing new. Heck, I even got a shot of flies getting busy on my balcony. You would think these New York City folk wouldn't be such prudes.

I ended up simplifying the code quite a bit.. It no longer maintains a list of filesystems, it just calls statfs() on the filesystem to determine whether quota is on. The getmntinfo() approach would also be reasonable, but since I run it from inetd.conf it doesn't hang around anyway.. so building up that list at startup actually costs more than grabbing the info for a single filesystem in this case.

Also had to make it divide the quota by the blocksize in a few places .. Darwin returns quota in bytes instead of blocks.

I've made available my modified rquotad.c file in case anyone out there needs it.

Care to share how you get the bugger to build? I've done a good bit of C# on the Windows side of things, and a good bit of Cocoa on the Mac, but I'll be the first to admit that I'm inexperienced working within bash. I can follow their instructions to the letter, and the build bombs with a slew of errors by the time it hits mini.c, and plenty of warnings before it gets that far.

I also installed the recommended Boehm GC (6.3 alpha 5) following the instructions on this page, but when I configure the build it comes back with GC = no.

If this is what the Mono team considers "support" for Mac OS X, it doesn't bode well for the quality and usability of this project. Package it right, provide good instructions, or retract the claims of Mac support.

(Here's a little tip, though: When you get your Mac, wipe it and reinstall without the language packs but make sure to include X11 and XCode.

Or he could just use Monolingual.

"Or are the graphics chip makers merely refusing to innovate and take routes that would reign in out of control energy consumption because of the race for more polygons"

The biggest reason heat output keeps going up is that these gains only provide incremental benefits. To truly leverage the design changes, you have to run it as fast as it'll go ---> lots of heat.

The PowerPC isn't anything to scoff at, but if anyone could easily bump up the voltage & the multipliers, I'm sure a new G5 could be used to heat up your room in the winter.... and btw- Heat output does not increase linearly. The newer ATIs come with stock GPU & RAM voltages around 1.7 & 2.9. Unlike AMD/Intel/Nvidia/ATI *PUs, mac's aren't easily overclockable and when they are OCed they have very fine tolerances. Maybe if the powerpc chip put out a little more heat it could go faster?

I also use, the most ingenous piece of software in a long time, Salling Clicker. Even (other) tech writers drop their jaw when they see the cooperation between the Clicker and iTunes / Keynote / The whole shebang.

The main reason I don't use Windows is the utter incompetance of the IS dept. We have an IT dept. as well, and they use only Linux. If we got rid of the IS dept. and let the IT dept. set up a bulletproof Linux box, I'd use that instead. But as long as the Windows boxes REBOOT(1) when trying to print a page, I'll stick to my Mac.

1) Seriously! They do! Three of the computers actually cold started, with the POST, whenever we tried to print. It was an error in the default Windows driver for the network card, I believe. It took IS 1/2 year to fix it, nothing happened until a gut from IT took charge.

This week's schedule

Wow, that was the second on topic-post... :-)

For myself, running OS X (Panther), it's:

1. LaunchBar
2. Default Folder
3. ASM
4. LiteSwitch (I use Adobe apps and don't want to learn new selection-tool-switching habits)
5. FruitMenu
6. WindowShade
7. Little Snitch
8. Net Monitor
9. Eudora
10. Mozilla


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We're hiring like mad but won't touch someone without a degree.

Yeah, like this guy. He is totally screwed. He didn't even graduate!

Why do you need to work for someone else? You have spare time, a computer, and a compiler, right? Build it, and they will come.

If you have CS experience than the degree could get you past the resume screening. If not than expect alot of helpdesk (if there are any left in the US).

I would closely consider these articles Here that deal with freelance tech support work. They were posted on slashdot withing the last year. I learned alot from them.

I can speak from experience that in an area with one of the highest IT unemployment rates than I have never been without a job. The last year has shown nothing but success.

Why? Because of my experience and my quality work. I spend a good 30% of my work cleaning up messes from so-called 'computer guys' and college grads that after however many years and however much money cannot troubleshoot a dead powersupply and fix everything with Norton System Works.

If you dont have any experience and you took the classes because of the ITT Tech commercials than you better supplement your degree with something.

Good Luck!

I think Spymac's 1GB email came right after Google's announcement. The thing is, I honestly don't want to tell people, "email me at blah blah @ spymac.com." It seems I might be misconstrued as an Apple zealot (well technically I am a zealot, but I try not to project it onto people in a way that pisses them off). I have a mac.com address, but spymac.com just doesn't sound business-like.

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Why not exploit the fan movie?? It's early enough, just before Kirk or at the same time. Kirk wasn't the only captain out there.

If you are having problems with the 3.4 update, revert back to 3.3.1. Here's a tutorial on how to do it.

As best as I can determine, a combination of (one or more) of the following causes the problem:
1) Airport Extreme network
2) ABS extreme not updated to 3.4 (only the mac updated to 3.4)
3) Using a network app such as Retrospect/LimeWare/MLdonkey etc.
4) Apple has changed the algorithm to the signal strength display.

It may be a good idea to hold off the upgrade till 3.4.x is released.

Having said that, I should add that I did upgrade without any problems (couldn't wait to play with the new apps :). My setup does not have the issues listed above. YMMV.

The new Airport Client Monitor is cool. It plots the signal and noise strengths, as well as the transmit rate (which I could also see on MenuMeter, but not as a plot over the last 60 seconds.) The Airport Management Utility seems to be a superset of the old Airport Admin Utility and would probably be most useful if you have more than one ABS to handing off roving clients to one another. It can also "see" all Rendezvous enabled devices.

cheers- raga

Full-featured .Mac Mail includes web access, auto-reply, and IMAP and POP support, plus tons of storage and no annoying ads.

Here: iPhoto.