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  1. Networked Media Player on HDTV Archiving on a Mac for Playback on TV? · · Score: 1

    You might want to consider a networked media player such as the I-O Data AVeL LinkPlayer ProHD. It has CAT5 and I have tested my friend's on my projector and Mac. I did test sending a MPEG2 TS file to the player over ethernet. No problems.

  2. Re:Secure your passwords on Write Down Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    So _that's_ why your passwords I found never worked. Thx.

  3. Re:How much respect do you give the pizza guy? on How Much Respect Do You Get? · · Score: 1

    The pizza guy is, in my opinion, one of the greatest inventions of the modern age. Forget space travel. Forget nuclear power. A large cheese pizza on my door and you've got yourself a $3.00 tip...:)

  4. Re:What's in Tiger on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to Arrive in April · · Score: 2, Informative
    That's a good point about April Fools and the Tuesday / Friday thing. However, there is one point that could possibly be taken into consideration:

    They pooled their financial resources together to have PC boards made, and on April 1st, 1976 they officially formed the Apple Computer Company.


    Taken from here.
  5. Re:I don't think so ... on Mac mini All About Movies? · · Score: 1

    Very well,

    Would you accept a link from ATSC?

    http://www.atsc.org/news_information/papers/1995_a cats/finalrpt.html

    For scanning, the standard includes two HDTV formats: a 720 lines x 1280 pixels per line format at 24, 30, and 60 frames per second progressively scanned, and a 1080 lines x 1920 pixels per line format at 24 and 30 frames per second progressively scanned and 60 fields per second interlaced scanned. Two SDTV formats also are described: 480 lines by 704 pixels per line in both 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios, and 480 lines by 640 pixels per line in 4:3 aspect ratio. Each SDTV format offers progressive scanning modes.

  6. Re:I don't think so ... on Mac mini All About Movies? · · Score: 1

    1920 × 1080 or 1280 × 720

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDTV

  7. Re:I don't think so ... on Mac mini All About Movies? · · Score: 1

    3. Wrongo. My Mac is only a 1 GHz G4, slower than a mini, and it plays back AVC-encoded HD content just fine with the Tiger developer preview. (WMA-9? Silly rabbit. It's not 1999 any more. The world has moved on.)

    This is good news ... would you be so kind as to tell us what resolution of HD content you are using? Do you have a dual 1 GHz?
  8. Re:Reported last month on World's Shortest P2P App: 15 Lines · · Score: 1

    The website states that his definition of a line is 80 characters. Since perl actually requires whitespace in some locations it takes a bit of work to get the newlines to line up correctly.

  9. Re:The first rule of developer releases... on Tiger Early Start Kit · · Score: 1
    Don't forget to read the fine print:
    Your ADC Membership may permit you to purchase a limited number of development systems at a discount. A system is equivalent to one (1) CPU with one (1) monitor; one (1) iMac; or one (1) portable.
    Full text here. I believe that means: You must purchase a PowerMac G5 and a Cinema Display to get the discount.
  10. macosxlabs on Multicast Imaging for Mac OS X? · · Score: 5, Informative

    macosxlabs has articles and whatnot about this, i believe:

    From the site:
    Welcome to the web site for the Higher Education Mac OS X Lab Deployment Initiative. Our goal is to simplify the task of installing and maintaining Mac OS X in a computer lab.
  11. dataComet on Accurate ANSI Emulation in Mac OS X? · · Score: 3, Informative
    dataComet might work http://www.databeast.com/index.html
    • Available for Mac OS X and classic Mac OS.
    • VT100, VT220, VT320 emulation for Linux, UNIX & VMS systems.
    • PC-ANSI + SCO-ANSI emulation with customized PC-ANSI fonts.
  12. Re:Well, look on the bright side... on Review of Mac OS X 10.3 · · Score: 1

    Your right, we don't have to pay for them.

    We can keep our old software and then wait for it to become unsupported and then the security holes go unpatched.

    Everything I've read (which I happen to agree with) states that people don't mind _paying_ apple for their products. It's just that they think it's fair to have an _upgrade_ pricing policy. Just about every other software company has one.

    I just bought Toast 6, and a few months ago I had purchased Toast 5. It had an upgrade price, of about $80 ($20 off retail). I don't feel cheated at all.

  13. mpatrol on Memory Leaks · · Score: 2, Informative

    mpatrol is another tool to help with this.

    It can:
    - log your memory usage
    - report on improper memory usage
    - profile your memory usage
    - work with your applications *without* re-linking (assuming your OS allows this)

    The web page is at:

    http://www.cbmamiga.demon.co.uk/mpatrol/

    In addition, the author has excellent documentation. The pdf manual actually has a section that lists competing products and what they do.

    http://www.cbmamiga.demon.co.uk/mpatrol/files/mp at rol.pdf