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abhikhurana writes "Wired.com has an interesting story
about a recent get-together of Mac
Freaks in Amsterdam. Apparently to pass the time, they amused themselves by
tossing Windows PCs, making
Mac porn and holding a look-alike competition to find the best
Ellen Feiss look-alike, the teenage star of one of Apple's new
'Switch' commercials. I especially
enjoyed Mac porn, but hey, if you are under 18, don't click the above link ;-)."
You don't need Quicktime Pro, do these steps and roll your own conversion:
1. Install Quicktime 4 (from PC game CD's or elsewhere)
2. Install TMPGEnc mpeg encoder somewhere and get the QTReader.vfp plug-in for TMPGEnc.
3. Open the file and press convert.
4. You now have an MPEG-1 stream of the video, if you want DivX, get FlasKMPEG and convert to DIVX. You shouldn't need a big bitrate because there is little motion in the clip.
If you look, you will notice that none of the cases have any components in them. They are just bare PC cases with handles for throwing.
Darwin (the core) of Mac OS X is Open Source.
If you want to see a Unix-like OS that's implemented in quite a different way to Linux take a look at this. On a related note - you don't need a Mac to do this, Darwin also runs on a PC. Of course if you want to run Mac OS (9 or X) software you'll need a Mac with a full copy, but that's another story.
Of course there is a slew of Open Source OSes for PC (and Macs) out there so Linux ISN'T your only choice (not that it's a bad one).
Dudes!
;-) Guy or girl, does it really matter?
;-) Quite some people that commented can use a good laugh, as I see it.... Life is not always serious!
I must say I have laughed very hard on all your comments and complaints about this topic. Let me explain what happened in the Netherlands on October 19th.
That was the day that the Dutch and Belgian people that often meet each other online at our forum had the chance to meet each other in real life. All other events on that day were just to spice it all up a little. And that worked! We got attention in national newspapers and radio, and about the worldwide attention on websites we can't complain either. Cool but not the most important, that was the fun to see and meet online friends!
* Old Dutch PC Throwing
Yes, there were 5 old PC's striped from any component used for this. There was no way that these machines could be used for any useful use. Yes, we know there are other OS'es that can run on those PC's besides Windows, but they didn't run Mac OS, so that was good enough for us.
We did even donated some working PC's to a hospital. So don't blame us for having some fun with old cases. Btw, IBM's cases were the strongest! And all mess was cleared.
The winner won a printer! Freely made available by a kind sponsor! And even with this price, it was all A JOKE!
* Ellen Feiss
What to say? It is A JOKE! People! It is A JOKE! Besides, Holland has to keep up its image on _legal_ stickies, right?
* Sleazy.MacFreak.org
This initiative of Peter Villevoye was put up for entertainment purposes only... What else to say? It is A JOKE! People! It is A JOKE!
* MacFreak.org hosted on Linux
Yes, true. And we aren't ashamed of it. We are happy enough with our host that provides the space for free! Even better, soon they'll be moving us to a XServe machine!
* MacFreak Day
Just to let you know: next year we likely repeat this event. Join us next time!
Greetings from the entire MacFreak Crew!
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