When the RIAA finds your file floating around the global P2P networks, they will read the ID, use it to identify you, and then release the DCMA on your ass.
not without global jurisdiction they won't. The DCMA only applies to amerikans. - for now.
True to the Apple (AAPL ) mantra, it just worked. At first it only did so with iTunes, Apple's top-notch digital-music software. You walked into a room bearing a laptop running Jaguar (the latest version of the OS X operating system) with a wireless networking (Wi-Fi) card, and you could instantly see the iTunes music files of everyone else in the room with a similar setup.
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.
Do you know any decent email services in the UK which support TLS?
TLS? oh you mean Transport Layer Security. Not sure. Most of my email servers are not in the UK. Try Arachsys tho, they are a great bunch of guys. They are good, cheap and will do pretty much anythign you ask including running Tomcat servers and CVS with SSH access etc. They support SSH tunneled port forwarding (easy on mac osx) and can set up SSL certs for you if needed. I have been using them for years in the UK and had nothing but good service from them. and no i don't work for them, or have any commercial interest other than as a happy client.
OSX is so cool for Java developers. I just upgraded to java1.4 (DP11) and so far no problems. Have MySQL, Tomcat etc all pumping away - happy writing struts code and slutting my way in and out of various offices, leaving a trail of very envious clients. You have no idea how cool it is to be able to just walk into the client's office, flip open th mac and ta-dah there is your presentation, code, whatever. love it. and also you get to use BBEdit, and have a nice translucent terminal.:-)
I did a lot of coding on a rather underpowered 30cm iBook and loved the form factor - and didn't really care much about the speed difference. but now i am back on my tibook i'd say go for that. the extra screen space and the ability to just pop in a second screen makes all the difference.
funny you should say this. I am up at a friend's place in a university town just outside of London (not naming names) and I was wondering if the place I am staying would have a decent network here. I brought up all sorts of crap just in case but to my, and my friend's suprise, some kindly neighbour has left their 802.11 base station open and my mac took about 0.2 of a second to discover it, connect and had in fact checked my email before I even realised that it was online! a short ethernet cable later and my friend is online too. now right now this is no skin off their nose as they don't have bandwidth charges, or download caps. there are no disincentives to leaving your 802.11 open as long as you use ssh to communicate between boxen.
I am curous as to what they really mean by VPNs anyway. If I commit files to a sourecforge project, or any of my CVS servers about the place, using SSH is that a VPN? or do they mean the M$ VPN product that used to floor boo.com's global network about once per day.. or do they mean any IPSec connection? or PGPNet?
what about people who use SSL to check their email, or in fact any private citizen (or 'subject' as they are here in the UK).
they'll have to tear the SSH out of my cold dead hands.
My apologies, I thought you were the CEO. No matter. I must also apologise for misspelling Seymour.
you don't happen to have a Fakeuw Sgies working there too by any chance?
ps: Could you do an OSX version of the Desktop Connection Machine too, or perhaps a Desktop Wetlab so that people don't need to risk coming into contact with e-coli.
and Romeus Y. Arcy is a pretty obvious anagram for Seymore Cray. I downloaded it, ran it and was amused for about 3 seconds by dablinkenlights. Funnier is their forums with people actually claiming this thing does make their mac run faster. hats-off to a well conceived prank. - best thing is the icon imho.
incedentally there is a real Cray YMP in the Science Museum in London bearing a plaque with a quote from Seymore Cray claiming that when he heard that Apple had bought a Cray to help design the new Mac he replied that was funny, cos he was using a Mac to design the next Cray.
the Windows version is actually in better shape than the OS X version
untrue. the windows version does not contain as many object as far as I can tell - try looking for the Mars Odyssey for example - it's not there in windows, but it it in osx.
The original Borg were scary, because that is where we are headed! Technology permiates our lives more and more, we wear more and more of it on our bodies, we're starting to put it inside our bodies..... the Borg IS our future.
the Borg are a clever metaphor for Western consumerism, and that is why they struck such a chord with audiences. whether they realised it or not. the best metaphores are sublime. they also were cool cos there were about the only aliens who were not just people with wrinkly foreheads.
the best sci-fi is allegorical. think robocop as an allegory for the corporate excesses of the 80's, think starship troopers as an allegory for US corporate fascism, think ST:TMP as an allegory for the unintended dangers that emerge from even the most benign seeming technology (as the unabomber so wizely warned us.)
the worst sci-fi is tv-spin-off lamo effects driven drivvel. this unfortunately is where the ST and SW franchises both languish right now.
is that true no matter what colour your skin is, or where in washington you live? the point is that enforcement of these rules should not be up to an individual police officer's discresion, as that just leads to racial profiling, targeting of individuals and police corruption. you should not have to 'get away with it', it should be your right to do what you like with your own body. you want to get high, then get high. as long as you are doing so responsibly, not operating heavy machinery or causing a public nucance the law should play no part in your personal choice to smoke the herb that is superb. check out amsterdam some day. i see stoned americans every day raving on about how they wish they had coffee shops that sell standardised bags of top quality grass over the counter. drug laws do more harm than the drugs.
i'll address only a few of your points as i can't be bothered with the rest
Fresh milk? You mean like the radiation enhanced crap that can sit on a room temperature shelf for weeks on end? Or the non pasteurized stuff straight from the cow?
i mean fresh milk like non-enhanced, non-vitamin-d-added, full fat delicious cow tit juice. as a kid we used to put out a 5 litre bucket every few days and a milk truck would come past and fill it up for us. there would be 3cm of cream on the top - awesome stuff. now i don't have a problem with pasturisation, but the crazy 'enhancements' you seppos add to your milk, makes me ill. now i don;t give a damn if you go buy it, but when i make my coffee I want real, fresh, full-cream milk. from a cow, not a factory.
They voluntarily gave up their right to vote. Being convicted of a felony can strip you of your right to vote. Want to vote? Don't commit a felony. Simple as that.
so just cos you jay-walked three times in a row and got caught, or were caught pissing in public, or smoking some weed you now can't vote? in australia (as an example) you can vote as long as you have not been sentanced to longer than 5 years inside. just cos you did something stupid and are now paying your dues, does not remove you from society, nor lessen your overall responsibility to your fellow citizens. You still should have the right to vote.
Just as not ALL countries in Europe turn a blind eye on smoking pot, not all States in the US toss you in jail for it either. Learn a little before you make such sweeping statements.
the EU is slowly standardising all of its laws and progressive decrimanisation, and even legalisation of drugs is a huge part of that, despite objections by the US. where in the US can I legally smoke grass just for the fun of it? nowhere. In Holland, Spain, Portugal, the UK, and much of the rest of the EU you have that freedom already in some form or other and within a few years that will be extended to almost all non-prescription drugs.
Try going from Greece to Turkey. Drive around Albania at night. See how long you last.
well i had a really good time in greece recently, by all reports Turkey is also a great place to visit. I've not yet been to Albania but my gf just went to Macedonia to get her passport stamped and says it's quite pretty, despite the recent civil war there. I've been all over this dirty little planet and the only country where I was practically strip searched in the airport was the US. I was refused entry to the Transamerica bulding in SF because I didn't have my passport on me.
there is no country on earth where if I visit it my goverment will fine me. But as an amerikan there is a huge list of places you are not allowed to go.
When you're the big dog, everyone wants to take a shot at you.
untrue. I have never shot at any dogs, big or small. when you are a bully, lording it up over the rest of the world, showing utter contempt for human rights, soverign rights, democratically elected governments, the rule of law, fair trade, etc you will however attract criticism.
the US needs a truth comission where it could confess and atone for its criminal legacy. It needs to accept it perpetuates a culture of fear and violence, a cowboy culture. Like any other addict it needs to recognise its own illness for what it is, and work to make ammends.
Allin all it works great and with the release of iMovieVSS I can even switch the default video format to PAL at last - no thanks to apple for leaving this one out.
but I can't import the Muxed MPEGs that the Sony Cybershot P9 makes without splitting out the audio to an aiff file using Audacity (which often just crashes), then openng the movie in the quicktime player, saving it as a standalone.mov file, then opening that.mov file, pasting in the aiff audio and resaving the whole lot as a.mov file. this is hardly the sort of plug and play of quicktime movies I was led to believe iMovie3 would provide.
I mean the quicktime player plays those Muxed MPEG files perfectly, with perfect audio, but iMove doesn't recognise them and the Quicktime player won't export them with their audio. Perhaps Apple and Sony should get together for a beer and work this out - would save me many hours as I have many hundreds of these Muxed MPEGs as source material.
The simple fact that you can climb on your computer and post a message about "Constitution-trampling" is a sign that the Constitution is alive and well.
or the poster is in another country. sure you seppos have 'freedom', but you can't buy fresh milk in the shops can ya now? that's the freedom you want to impose on the rest of the world? the freedom to work for minimum wage for some mega-corp? the freedom to join the army or die in a ghetto? heck a huge proportion of amerikans don't even have the right to vote! freedom? don't make me laugh. contrast to europe. there you are free. free to say what you like, free to smoke pot in public, free to move from one country to another without restriction (you yanks can't even go visit cuba without repercussions -still think you are free?).
the great shame of america is that you just can't see the bars of your iron cage. travel the world a bit and you'll see what real freedom is about. what you have is non-fattening-dairy-free artificial freedom substitute.
I agree. Here is a photo of what was left of my iPod after I slammed into a tourist on my bike in amsterdam and landed on my right ear. note the rather severe scraping on the ear piece. Was quite surreal sitting there in a pool of my own blood listening to "psycho candy" by the jesus and mary chain.
last I looked Sun, Apple, Redhat were not proved to be monopoly abusing, law flounting, megalomaniacs. an ex m$ guy should feel right at home with "president" bush and pals.
But, I think, deep down, Mac users are attached to the platform for more than just speed. It's the efficiency of the operating system, the attention to detail, the clean interface, the simple plug-and-play, the good support, the Apple iLife products...
haha unless you are a regular traveller. iCal sucks for travellers. try changing timezones. or scheduling flights. you'll miss your plane when iCal move your flight times for you to 'compensate' for the change in timezone.
last year I stacked my bike and my old TiBook came flying out of my backpack and hit the road, open and on. I was wearing my iPod and it hit the road too and was still playing as I scraped myself up off the cobble-stones. The TiBook was anything but damaged. I have tipped two drinks though it in the past, a Vodka and Ice and a Beer and both times my tibook was fine after a quick wash and dry. who cares about a few scratches here and there. everything fades. the tibook actually looks kinda rugged with a few nicks in it. now i have a new tibook (my old one was stolen) and love it.
speaking as someone who has moved up from an iBook to a new IGHZ TiBook with a gig of ram, I couldn't be happier. An iBoook is fine but you can't beat the speed of the TiBook with even consumer level apps like iPhoto, iTunes (the visuals are so smooth now) etc. It is so snappy now. and the wider screen is great, and the PCM slot so i can add multichannel soundcards, GPS cards etc, and the DVD burner is pretty sweet too. I am 100% happy with my new machine. the iBook was always something I was using while waiting for the new TiBooks.
yep harsh summs it up. i was held blindfolded at gunpoint for about 3 hours while they packed up my entire home network, macs (password and open-firmware secured), airport base station (but not the power supply), DV cam (broken), ipod (broken) and a bunch of other stuff like the ps2 (but not my beloved N64) and all the remote controls so even though they left me my TV, i couldn't turn it on or change channels. and they smoked my grass after locking my in a cupboard. how indignant was I! I mean to steal a man's livelyhood is one thing, but his pot as well!
still as i remind myself, it could have been much worse - no-one hurt and mostly broken or unusable kit they stole. and in amsterdam I can just walk out the door and legally buy more grass. suckers.
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not without global jurisdiction they won't. The DCMA only applies to amerikans. - for now.
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.
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.
TLS? oh you mean Transport Layer Security. Not sure. Most of my email servers are not in the UK. Try Arachsys tho, they are a great bunch of guys. They are good, cheap and will do pretty much anythign you ask including running Tomcat servers and CVS with SSH access etc. They support SSH tunneled port forwarding (easy on mac osx) and can set up SSL certs for you if needed. I have been using them for years in the UK and had nothing but good service from them. and no i don't work for them, or have any commercial interest other than as a happy client.
I did a lot of coding on a rather underpowered 30cm iBook and loved the form factor - and didn't really care much about the speed difference. but now i am back on my tibook i'd say go for that. the extra screen space and the ability to just pop in a second screen makes all the difference.
english? moi? Nee mijnheer. Mij ben Australisch.
I am curous as to what they really mean by VPNs anyway. If I commit files to a sourecforge project, or any of my CVS servers about the place, using SSH is that a VPN? or do they mean the M$ VPN product that used to floor boo.com's global network about once per day.. or do they mean any IPSec connection? or PGPNet?
what about people who use SSL to check their email, or in fact any private citizen (or 'subject' as they are here in the UK).
they'll have to tear the SSH out of my cold dead hands.
you don't happen to have a Fakeuw Sgies working there too by any chance?
ps: Could you do an OSX version of the Desktop Connection Machine too, or perhaps a Desktop Wetlab so that people don't need to risk coming into contact with e-coli.
incedentally there is a real Cray YMP in the Science Museum in London bearing a plaque with a quote from Seymore Cray claiming that when he heard that Apple had bought a Cray to help design the new Mac he replied that was funny, cos he was using a Mac to design the next Cray.
untrue. the windows version does not contain as many object as far as I can tell - try looking for the Mars Odyssey for example - it's not there in windows, but it it in osx.
the Borg are a clever metaphor for Western consumerism, and that is why they struck such a chord with audiences. whether they realised it or not. the best metaphores are sublime. they also were cool cos there were about the only aliens who were not just people with wrinkly foreheads.
the best sci-fi is allegorical. think robocop as an allegory for the corporate excesses of the 80's, think starship troopers as an allegory for US corporate fascism, think ST:TMP as an allegory for the unintended dangers that emerge from even the most benign seeming technology (as the unabomber so wizely warned us.)
the worst sci-fi is tv-spin-off lamo effects driven drivvel. this unfortunately is where the ST and SW franchises both languish right now.
is that true no matter what colour your skin is, or where in washington you live? the point is that enforcement of these rules should not be up to an individual police officer's discresion, as that just leads to racial profiling, targeting of individuals and police corruption. you should not have to 'get away with it', it should be your right to do what you like with your own body. you want to get high, then get high. as long as you are doing so responsibly, not operating heavy machinery or causing a public nucance the law should play no part in your personal choice to smoke the herb that is superb. check out amsterdam some day. i see stoned americans every day raving on about how they wish they had coffee shops that sell standardised bags of top quality grass over the counter. drug laws do more harm than the drugs.
Fresh milk? You mean like the radiation enhanced crap that can sit on a room temperature shelf for weeks on end? Or the non pasteurized stuff straight from the cow?
i mean fresh milk like non-enhanced, non-vitamin-d-added, full fat delicious cow tit juice. as a kid we used to put out a 5 litre bucket every few days and a milk truck would come past and fill it up for us. there would be 3cm of cream on the top - awesome stuff. now i don't have a problem with pasturisation, but the crazy 'enhancements' you seppos add to your milk, makes me ill. now i don;t give a damn if you go buy it, but when i make my coffee I want real, fresh, full-cream milk. from a cow, not a factory.
They voluntarily gave up their right to vote. Being convicted of a felony can strip you of your right to vote. Want to vote? Don't commit a felony. Simple as that.
so just cos you jay-walked three times in a row and got caught, or were caught pissing in public, or smoking some weed you now can't vote? in australia (as an example) you can vote as long as you have not been sentanced to longer than 5 years inside. just cos you did something stupid and are now paying your dues, does not remove you from society, nor lessen your overall responsibility to your fellow citizens. You still should have the right to vote.
Just as not ALL countries in Europe turn a blind eye on smoking pot, not all States in the US toss you in jail for it either. Learn a little before you make such sweeping statements.
the EU is slowly standardising all of its laws and progressive decrimanisation, and even legalisation of drugs is a huge part of that, despite objections by the US. where in the US can I legally smoke grass just for the fun of it? nowhere. In Holland, Spain, Portugal, the UK, and much of the rest of the EU you have that freedom already in some form or other and within a few years that will be extended to almost all non-prescription drugs.
Try going from Greece to Turkey. Drive around Albania at night. See how long you last.
well i had a really good time in greece recently, by all reports Turkey is also a great place to visit. I've not yet been to Albania but my gf just went to Macedonia to get her passport stamped and says it's quite pretty, despite the recent civil war there. I've been all over this dirty little planet and the only country where I was practically strip searched in the airport was the US. I was refused entry to the Transamerica bulding in SF because I didn't have my passport on me.
there is no country on earth where if I visit it my goverment will fine me. But as an amerikan there is a huge list of places you are not allowed to go.
When you're the big dog, everyone wants to take a shot at you.
untrue. I have never shot at any dogs, big or small. when you are a bully, lording it up over the rest of the world, showing utter contempt for human rights, soverign rights, democratically elected governments, the rule of law, fair trade, etc you will however attract criticism.
the US needs a truth comission where it could confess and atone for its criminal legacy. It needs to accept it perpetuates a culture of fear and violence, a cowboy culture. Like any other addict it needs to recognise its own illness for what it is, and work to make ammends.
but I can't import the Muxed MPEGs that the Sony Cybershot P9 makes without splitting out the audio to an aiff file using Audacity (which often just crashes), then openng the movie in the quicktime player, saving it as a standalone .mov file, then opening that .mov file, pasting in the aiff audio and resaving the whole lot as a .mov file. this is hardly the sort of plug and play of quicktime movies I was led to believe iMovie3 would provide.
I mean the quicktime player plays those Muxed MPEG files perfectly, with perfect audio, but iMove doesn't recognise them and the Quicktime player won't export them with their audio. Perhaps Apple and Sony should get together for a beer and work this out - would save me many hours as I have many hundreds of these Muxed MPEGs as source material.
or the poster is in another country. sure you seppos have 'freedom', but you can't buy fresh milk in the shops can ya now? that's the freedom you want to impose on the rest of the world? the freedom to work for minimum wage for some mega-corp? the freedom to join the army or die in a ghetto? heck a huge proportion of amerikans don't even have the right to vote! freedom? don't make me laugh. contrast to europe. there you are free. free to say what you like, free to smoke pot in public, free to move from one country to another without restriction (you yanks can't even go visit cuba without repercussions -still think you are free?).
the great shame of america is that you just can't see the bars of your iron cage. travel the world a bit and you'll see what real freedom is about. what you have is non-fattening-dairy-free artificial freedom substitute.
now that would make a good topic for a /. poll
I bet far more than 1% of /.ers contribute to some OSS, or have done at some stage.
I agree. Here is a photo of what was left of my iPod after I slammed into a tourist on my bike in amsterdam and landed on my right ear. note the rather severe scraping on the ear piece. Was quite surreal sitting there in a pool of my own blood listening to "psycho candy" by the jesus and mary chain.
last I looked Sun, Apple, Redhat were not proved to be monopoly abusing, law flounting, megalomaniacs. an ex m$ guy should feel right at home with "president" bush and pals.
oh believe me I have raised hell about this both visa feedback and on the apple discussion fora.
haha unless you are a regular traveller. iCal sucks for travellers. try changing timezones. or scheduling flights. you'll miss your plane when iCal move your flight times for you to 'compensate' for the change in timezone.
enjoy
last year I stacked my bike and my old TiBook came flying out of my backpack and hit the road, open and on. I was wearing my iPod and it hit the road too and was still playing as I scraped myself up off the cobble-stones. The TiBook was anything but damaged. I have tipped two drinks though it in the past, a Vodka and Ice and a Beer and both times my tibook was fine after a quick wash and dry. who cares about a few scratches here and there. everything fades. the tibook actually looks kinda rugged with a few nicks in it. now i have a new tibook (my old one was stolen) and love it.
speaking as someone who has moved up from an iBook to a new IGHZ TiBook with a gig of ram, I couldn't be happier. An iBoook is fine but you can't beat the speed of the TiBook with even consumer level apps like iPhoto, iTunes (the visuals are so smooth now) etc. It is so snappy now. and the wider screen is great, and the PCM slot so i can add multichannel soundcards, GPS cards etc, and the DVD burner is pretty sweet too. I am 100% happy with my new machine. the iBook was always something I was using while waiting for the new TiBooks.
When having trouble spelling naive, just remember that it is Evian spelled backwards.
- Insert DVD into Apple standard DVD drive
- Click on DVD icon in Finder
- Select "copy" from the edit menu
- Click in
/Users/davesag/Movies/
- Select "paste" from the edit menu
Lo and behold the whole DVD copies as a 1.7 gb disk image. I can then use the standard DVD player software to play this disk image.How is that done without DeCSS or some equivalent. It worked with 3 DVDs chosen at random from my collection.
There are any number of apps that will convert that disk image to a quicktime or MPEG4 file. Why are they picking on Jon?
still as i remind myself, it could have been much worse - no-one hurt and mostly broken or unusable kit they stole. and in amsterdam I can just walk out the door and legally buy more grass. suckers.