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But that PowerBook G4 was working. And I bet that if it was one of the new 12" or 17" the keyboard would probably kept working because I think their keys are alluminum just like the laptop is too (I think, havn't used one in real life). I'm sure the 15 inch ones will get keys ike that next revision too.

But that PowerBook G4 was working. And I bet that if it was one of the new 12" or 17" the keyboard would probably kept working because I think their keys are alluminum just like the laptop is too (I think, havn't used one in real life). I'm sure the 15 inch ones will get keys ike that next revision too.

I was thinking more of the baked Powerbook G4, but anyway, the article implies the 'GoBook MAX' will survive an oven...

...of your code into the compiler making the run time faster. Here's an extreme example of what I'm talking about.

American Bombing campaigns since WWII:

Korea 1950-53

China 1950-53

Guatemala 1954

Indonesia 1958

Cuba 1959-60

Guatemala 1960

Congo 1964

Peru 1965

Laos 1964-73

Vietnam 1961-73

Cambodia 1969-70

Guatemala 1967-69

Libya 1986

El Salvador 1980s

Nicaragua 1980s

Panama 1989

Iraq 1991-99

Sudan 1998

Afghanistan 1998

Yugoslavia 1999

Iraq 2003-????

Does anyone have any omissions? Does anyone have a similar list that dates to the Founding of The USA? Any "non-bombing" missions?

One further note, to Non-Americans: Im Canadian, I live on the border, I can tell you without a doubt that Americans* are COMPLETELY out of control. They are myopic and ignorant. Watching CNN is about 1% of what its like in the street. These people *REALLY* believe that it is their RIGHT to do this, that they are special in the world, that opposition is manafest 'jealousy' - they BELIEVE this tripe about "terrorists hating their Freedom"... its like a bad, surreal movie.

Like Nazi Germnay before the invasion of Poland, Americans* are completely and absolutely drunk with Nationalism, Jingoism and Arrogance (its amazing) to the point that Im scared (literally) for the future of Canada and the world. This Iraq effort is the natural progression of American Empire, of 250 years of American history.

If Iraq manages a retalitory strike on American Soil, they are going to start WWIII (nuke Iraq off the planet - the citizens will be all for it).

An interesting Notice to Americans: Listen to this PLEASE and THINK ABOUT IT.

*That I work with, that my wife works with and that Ive spoken to. Im not generalizing - i live in Windsor - this is the most busy border in NorthAmerica, the two cities literally live together.

silvakow at mac dot com

silvakow@mac.com

silvakow@mac.com

Now the spam bots will catch you MOAHAH!

I had the Application Enhancer running as well as Fruit Menu.

From my reading of Unsanity's website, FruitMenu contains AE anyway, so deep-sixing AE probably isn't enough. I also use FruitMenu - and another app, ASM (which enables an app switching menu), as well. They make OS X into... what it should be, IMHO. It's going to be harder for me to give them up.

The first Mac OS X Server, nee Rhapsody, contained a fully functional Apple menu - one that was actually more easily customizable than in any Classic Mac OS. I, for one, lament how this very useful yet unobtrusive tool has been enervated. If anyone hasn't seen MOSXS/Rhapsody, here are two screenshots highlighting the Apple menu:

Apple menu dropped down

Customizing the Apple menu

I had the Application Enhancer running as well as Fruit Menu.

From my reading of Unsanity's website, FruitMenu contains AE anyway, so deep-sixing AE probably isn't enough. I also use FruitMenu - and another app, ASM (which enables an app switching menu), as well. They make OS X into... what it should be, IMHO. It's going to be harder for me to give them up.

The first Mac OS X Server, nee Rhapsody, contained a fully functional Apple menu - one that was actually more easily customizable than in any Classic Mac OS. I, for one, lament how this very useful yet unobtrusive tool has been enervated. If anyone hasn't seen MOSXS/Rhapsody, here are two screenshots highlighting the Apple menu:

Apple menu dropped down

Customizing the Apple menu

Remember - you are dealing with a closed source system. Kinda like being in a jail cell with the keys hanging on the wall outside that you can barely feel with your finger tips.

Windows YP, codename: Tantalus

• Joining your local student ACM chapter. Better yet, run for office - I know they need the person power. If it doesn't exist, charter it!
• Want to attend a technical conference? Both USENIX and the IETF have programs designed to get students involved by providing stipends. Often, these programs are applied to by few students.
• If you prefer getting involved with a .com than a .org, consider that Apple gives away about 300 scholarships to their annual develpers conference in San Jose, WWDC.
• If you are an uber programmer, perhaps you should try registering as a student or evan as a competitor or presenter at MacHack.
• The Government is always hiring, and don't let anyone tell you that you have to get a security clearance to work on something cool.
• An earlier posted mentioned that the University IT department is a good place to work, and for the most part I agree - there are few other places with the budget and deployed network size of Univsersities that will teach you as you go.

Since this is a dupe from last week, I had already downloaded the TIFF of the North America image, and converted it to a 1600x1200 JPEG.

You can grab it here.

I dont understand the obsession with bluetooth to 'sync' phone numbers. your talking like MAYBE tops 2k of data. what do you need a few meg of bandwidth to do this?

Because Bluetooth wasn't designed only for syncing, that's just one of the great things you can do with it.

And let's see you say "only 2K of data" after you punch in that 2K of data on a 12-key keypad, with multiple keypresses required to enter most characters.

It's much nicer to be able to type in contact info on a standard keyboard and hit a button to sync it up to the phone than to laboriously key it in on the phone's number pad, EVERY TIME I get a new phone. For my previous phone upgrade (Nokia 5120 to Nokia 8260), I spent a couple hours tediously punching my address book into the 8260 on its dinky-ass keypad. When I moved from the 8260 to the T68i, I paired the phone with my Mac, and ran MobileSync to copy the contacts I wanted in my phone from my Entourage address book. Took a few seconds.

The new phone appears to be nice, but it's only triband. According to this story (with pictures), the T610 will be sold in Europe and supports GSM at 900, 1800, and 19000 Mhz. The T616, which will be sold in North America, drops the 900Mhz support and supports 850, 1800, and 1900Mhz. So while technically it is a world phone it is missing 900Mhz which is the most used frequency for GSM world wide. It also provides the better coverage (verses 1800Mhz) and penitrates buldings better - one of the hoped for advantages of GSM800 (850Mhz) in the US.

My biggest complaint with the T68i is the SMS alert tone - it totally sucks. And I like to use my phone as a pager, but I can't trust it to wake me up. Given the number of changes we've seen with T68 firmware revisions I had hopes they would fix this, but with the release of this phone I doubt they will. The interaction of Apple's address book with SMS is hopefully...I might just write something to play a loud file when I get an SMS. Or maybe when I get a BT-enabled PDA it will have something.

I have high hopes for Motorola's V600, which will appears to do everything the T610 does and is quadband. However syncing isn't mentioned, which I am a big fan of. I know some friends who have had bad luck with Motorola phones, but I had good luck (quality wise) with my v3682. This phone seems to be a good replacement for that - it's a nice silver color (didn't like the dark plastic of the V60) and is a bit more streamlined than the squarish T720.

I wasn't thinking I'd use BT for more than a headset (which is cool on it's own), but with the Mac it's really nice. Sending SMS messages from apple's Address Book is nice if you're in the office, although I don't use their Address Book since I don't use Mail.app. For those of us that use Entourage, however, there is MobileSync which does the same thing as iSync does but with Entourage. This is from the same guy who wrote the BT clicker program and the client program that makes getting files to the T68i very easy.

One advantage to all this that may get overlooked is that if I were to loose my phone and had to get a replacement T68i then all of the data from the phone (pictures, ringtones, numbers) would be back on there in 5 minutes. And if my next phone supports SyncML (which it almost will have to) it'll make upgrading fairly painless.

Some people prefer the command line version, but for those who want a carbonized app, a MacOSX version of gnuplot exists at gnuplot for Macintosh.

Here's an article I published awhile back for Artificial Cheese. It's titled "PowerBook Drop Test". Pretty abused hardware, but still entirely functional.

This story can only be paralleled by the lady who put her PowerBook in the oven.

From one of the Mac news sites a couple of months ago, can't remember which one:

A woman brings her Titanium PowerBook into a Mac repair shop. For some inexplicable reason she had put it in the oven for 20 minutes.

All the keys had popped off, the casing was scorched and the screen was cracked, but it still booted. External ports were fine -- a monitor and keyboard were attached and everything worked.

Pictures are here. They have no idea why she did it.

Moderators - can you read?

The iDisk utility is not in beta. You've been had, fooled, trolled, etc.

very interesting demonstration of this nifty utility in use

http://homepage.mac.com/rtouris/iMovieTheater38.ht ml

This is the first truly cool thing I've seen with BlueTooth :)

http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/Cli cker/index.html

I was going to post about this, but wanted to wait until the actual website was up...

dear God.. i guess i have to face the facts... i've become a KARMA WHORE!

oh well, it could be worse.. i could be a California asembly person.. and spend other people's money like a CRACK WHORE.

I agree with a lot of what you're saying. I have found some third party tools can help a lot.

1) Launchbar really helps with launching apps from the keyboard only. Try the demo, once you get used to it, you'll never go back.

2) I use Rhapsodized as my theme. I also hate the pinstripes of OS X and can't stand the gum-drop buttons. Fortunately, I don't have to.

Just a couple of suggestions.

Be careful what you ask for you just might get it.

I have a 'smart playlist' called "unheard faves" that selects 75 tracks with a rating of 3 or more, and a play count of 3 or less. I set it to random and repeat and let it play while working. This way I almost simulate what it is like to have the radio on at work, but without ads or annoying DJs. When the playlist starts to shrink I kno wit's time to rate some more music.

I do wish the 'smart playlists' would allow better use of boolean operators. How can you ask for all songs rated 3+ but not ambient music or trance? iTunes needs a mood switch.

I'd like to write a small script that pretends to be an MP3 file, but actually just reads out the current time, the weather and some news headlines. Then I'd get it to play on the hour... Kind of like "It's 10am and you are listening to dave's unheard faves. It's -6 outside and snowing. In the news headlines the USA has declared war on Germany - citing their support for international terrorism, and that they started the last two world wars." Ideally this would said using the voice of "Princess" :-)

Hell, in this age of Unicode, why not change it to a kanji symbol? My personal IE.app was renamed this long ago...

if you ever find a way to prevent spam, you should submit your candidacy for the nobel prize.

till then you can cherish my salty balls!

kscarbery@mac.com

spambot food

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gay spambots love purdy colors

"Rendezvous-enabled computers that have Personal Web Sharing turned on appear in the Safari Rendezvous bookmark collection."

Taking a quick look at the Rendezvous bookmarks on Safari, I see a bookmark for each user made on my mac ("User's website") and then the one made by Eric Christopher is still present. Admitabally, it doesn't seem that they used Eric's mod, but I can't be 100% about it.

So not true. That was a demo - not actual functionality. Rendezvous does not 'just work'; try it sometime. If you have a split network (ie some people on wifi and some on ethernet for example, or as is the case here, my mac is on wifi to the neighbour and shares a network out to the rest of the house via ethernet - naughty but nice!) and even iConquer games can't automagically see each other on my network. I have seen iChats fail to see each other in a similar set up. It's a great idea and i'm sure will get there soon, but it is not really there now.

Want to change your printer configuration wirelessly? Apple's speedy new Safari browser will let you do that if your printer is Rendezvous-compatible -- without your having to hunt down a specific IP (Internet protocol) address.

why is this specific to Safari? I understood once rendesvous has announced my printer to my mac then anything capable of using the print cener would be able to use that printer. what sarafi does do is list web servers that have announced themselves via rendesvous in the bookmarks list.

As promised last summer, most of the major printer makers have upgraded their machines to support Rendezvous.

no they havn't, they have announced that they will be doing so however.

This routine normally involves wading through dozens of folders in search of the proper IP addresses for our office printers, a confusing process that has resulted in more than one call to the help desk.

I'm sorry but this is just FUD. Sure it can be a pain to get a printer hooked up to some windoze machines, just as it can be a pain to get some printers to talk to the mac. some printers are just rubbish. now getting Linux to talk to a printer - that can be hard work.

Add enough of these simplifications together, and it becomes hard to refute that running an office network using Rendezvous-equipped Macs will end up costing less than comparable Windows software -- because there really isn't any.

I'm sorry what was that? in proper english sentences this time? was the author paid for this article? do they have any editors working there?

With Windows, you still need a file server and a print server, with Rendezvous and Apple you don't.

riiiight.... - puts pinkie in corner of mouth.

... the software will have the ability to check CPU (central processing unit) usage on other Rendezvous-enabled machines around the office -- and send intensive tasks to the computer currently handling the lightest workload. ... That's a use for Rendezvous no one had thought of before.

no for sure no-one ever thought to distribute computing load seamlessly across a network. no-one. ever. not ever, nope. just never occured to anyone before. idiot.

Apple has even obligingly offered the Rendezvous software in Windows code. In fact, Apple has open-sourced Rendezvous and released source code for versions designed to work on Linux machines as well.

It's called 'written in C' I believe.

If more Rendezvous-enabled pieces of Windows software start hitting the shelves, slowly but surely, Apple will start to break down the obstacles to switching platforms from Bill's boxes to Steve's elegant machines.

aside from the obvious frothing at the mouth editorialising here, i think it is in apple's interests to let other people do the work of making windows and linux software. apple sell computers and software, M$ sell software and video games consols. should apple just offer to rewrite MS office et al for bill?

it's hard to decide if this article is sh1t or fuçking shit.

ps: If you want a list of software that is Rendezvous compatable, check version tracker.

So not true. That was a demo - not actual functionality. Rendezvous does not 'just work'; try it sometime. If you have a split network (ie some people on wifi and some on ethernet for example, or as is the case here, my mac is on wifi to the neighbour and shares a network out to the rest of the house via ethernet - naughty but nice!) and even iConquer games can't automagically see each other on my network. I have seen iChats fail to see each other in a similar set up. It's a great idea and i'm sure will get there soon, but it is not really there now.

Want to change your printer configuration wirelessly? Apple's speedy new Safari browser will let you do that if your printer is Rendezvous-compatible -- without your having to hunt down a specific IP (Internet protocol) address.

why is this specific to Safari? I understood once rendesvous has announced my printer to my mac then anything capable of using the print cener would be able to use that printer. what sarafi does do is list web servers that have announced themselves via rendesvous in the bookmarks list.

As promised last summer, most of the major printer makers have upgraded their machines to support Rendezvous.

no they havn't, they have announced that they will be doing so however.

This routine normally involves wading through dozens of folders in search of the proper IP addresses for our office printers, a confusing process that has resulted in more than one call to the help desk.

I'm sorry but this is just FUD. Sure it can be a pain to get a printer hooked up to some windoze machines, just as it can be a pain to get some printers to talk to the mac. some printers are just rubbish. now getting Linux to talk to a printer - that can be hard work.

Add enough of these simplifications together, and it becomes hard to refute that running an office network using Rendezvous-equipped Macs will end up costing less than comparable Windows software -- because there really isn't any.

I'm sorry what was that? in proper english sentences this time? was the author paid for this article? do they have any editors working there?

With Windows, you still need a file server and a print server, with Rendezvous and Apple you don't.

riiiight.... - puts pinkie in corner of mouth.

... the software will have the ability to check CPU (central processing unit) usage on other Rendezvous-enabled machines around the office -- and send intensive tasks to the computer currently handling the lightest workload. ... That's a use for Rendezvous no one had thought of before.

no for sure no-one ever thought to distribute computing load seamlessly across a network. no-one. ever. not ever, nope. just never occured to anyone before. idiot.

Apple has even obligingly offered the Rendezvous software in Windows code. In fact, Apple has open-sourced Rendezvous and released source code for versions designed to work on Linux machines as well.

It's called 'written in C' I believe.

If more Rendezvous-enabled pieces of Windows software start hitting the shelves, slowly but surely, Apple will start to break down the obstacles to switching platforms from Bill's boxes to Steve's elegant machines.

aside from the obvious frothing at the mouth editorialising here, i think it is in apple's interests to let other people do the work of making windows and linux software. apple sell computers and software, M$ sell software and video games consols. should apple just offer to rewrite MS office et al for bill?

it's hard to decide if this article is sh1t or fuçking shit.

ps: If you want a list of software that is Rendezvous compatable, check version tracker.

One important difference you neglected to mention is the slot-loading drive. Laptop-style drives drive me nuts. If I were in the market for one, I'd get the 12" PowerBook over the iBook for primarily that reason, in addition to being faster and having 802.11g and Bluetooth.

Did you look at any of the links on the main page?

http://homepage.mac.com/aaronsteele/Personal8.ht ml

Follow the Working screen link. Or maybe the More Baked Apple Picture (ext. Monitor) link.

Did you look at any of the links on the main page?

http://homepage.mac.com/aaronsteele/Personal8.ht ml

Follow the Working screen link. Or maybe the More Baked Apple Picture (ext. Monitor) link.

If you follow the links to the working screen pictures, you see screens where through the warped screen you can see the desktop.

According to this link they are trying to find out.

A couple of quotes from
http://homepage.mac.com/aaronsteele/Personal8.ht ml :

I finally had to ask the lady how all of this had happened. As it turns out, she baked the PowerBook in the oven for 20 minutes. I kid you not. She said it with a straight face, and I could hardly keep from laughing. She wasn't joking. The thing was baked.

So that's all she said... apparently they didn't press any further at that moment:

No, we don't know why she did it, but we are attempting to find out.

She probably mixed her Apple Crisp and Apple iTunes recipes. I'd be willing to bet her CD player is filled with applesauce.

According to the story, "No, we don't know why she did it, but we are attempting to find out." Tune in next time, I suppose.

These are all the relevant urls:

Set of pics of the machine

Shows it still boots

Story behind this

More pics showing it works

These are all the relevant urls:

Set of pics of the machine

Shows it still boots

Story behind this

More pics showing it works

These are all the relevant urls:

Set of pics of the machine

Shows it still boots

Story behind this

More pics showing it works

These are all the relevant urls:

Set of pics of the machine

Shows it still boots

Story behind this

More pics showing it works

http://homepage.mac.com/aaronsteele/PhotoAlbum6.ht ml

Are you the same individual who took those pictures, or a worthless ripoff?

If you, for some obscure reason, want to see a baked apple, here's the real url.

Try this one for baked apple

It could be worth pointing out that the correct URL is http://homepage.mac.com/aaronsteele/PhotoAlbum6.ht ml here.

This one should work.. http://homepage.mac.com/aaronsteele/PhotoAlbum6.ht ml

homepage.mac.com/max_08/themes/brushed.htm

I have to wonder too... it seems Apple threw the HIG out to the pinstriped window. No wonder I don't like the default MacOS X interface. Give me MacOS 9 any day... now, with a good theme (see above link) MacOS X is quite nice.

Comeon, havn't you seem KDE3.1 or Gnome Or OS X , Nice big fat ICONS with frilly bits on the side, even though there an inch and a half square you still can't work out what there ment to represent.

Think I'm joking?
KDE 3.1
Gnome
Mac OS X (couldn't find non-quicktime screen shorts!

ohh and this mac[dot]com possibly the worst designed website in the world.... Nothing's hot so you have to move the mouse randomly around the screen looking for an address poping up in the status bar....
Backup == Umbrella?
Well done, top marks.

iPhoto 2 uses a different storage format than iPhoto 1.x used.

As of 1/31/03 Brian is testing iPhoto Library Manager for compatibility with iPhoto 2. He recommends LM users delay installing iPhoto 2 until he reports on his test results in a "few days".

I am sure we will soon hear if iPhoto 2 has cured iPhoto 1.x's performance and scaling problems. Since iPhoto 2 does allow mini-album exports, better performance would remove the need for iPhoto Library Manager. Consolidating those disparate libraries may be interesting, however.

(I'd love to hear why iPhoto 1.x scales so very poorly. I do know that a bug that causes iPhoto to "forget" to use the more efficient library outline/roll view doesn't help.)

john

iPhoto 2 uses a different storage format than iPhoto 1.x used.

As of 1/31/03 Brian is testing iPhoto Library Manager for compatibility with iPhoto 2. He recommends LM users delay installing iPhoto 2 until he reports on his test results in a "few days".

I am sure we will soon hear if iPhoto 2 has cured iPhoto 1.x's performance and scaling problems. Since iPhoto 2 does allow mini-album exports, better performance would remove the need for iPhoto Library Manager. Consolidating those disparate libraries may be interesting, however.

(I'd love to hear why iPhoto 1.x scales so very poorly. I do know that a bug that causes iPhoto to "forget" to use the more efficient library outline/roll view doesn't help.)

john

Say, you do keep that comment in a file, or do you go back to your old comments and copy-and-paste ?