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  1. Re:all that time leveling lost because of a keyboa on Banned From WoW For WINE & Programmable Keyboard · · Score: 1

    People are far more rational than you give them credit for. The issue is differing value systems systems and limit information, not the ability to make decisions based on the information they have.

  2. Re:the question is... on MacBook Pro Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Everyone lags some in Ironforge and Org, but thats server side issues.

  3. Re:Mac mini on Apple Announces Wonderful Toys · · Score: 1

    There's an OS X version of the MythTV front end, FYI. No backend, for no apparent reason.

  4. Re:more frontrow info on Apple Announces Wonderful Toys · · Score: 1

    Not from that workflow. FrontRow (mind you, I can only speak from experience with the version that was out this morning) sees QuickTime compatible video in your local user's Movies folder, as well as any video files in iTunes. A shared mount to the ~/Movies directory works fine, but thats of MP4 files and such. You're out of luck with your iso files.

  5. Re:Deli Meat on Being School District Admin? · · Score: 1

    Yogurt in the LC 580s was one of the fun ones when I was in high school.

  6. Re:Web DAV? on Mac Calendaring Solutions? · · Score: 3, Informative

    iCal only handles publish and subscribe calendars. No actual syncing. Thus, no mutli-user editable calendars.

  7. Re:Cartoons on Danish, Western Websites Under Attack · · Score: 1

    Check out the Old Testament sometime.

  8. Re:DRM Ridden? on Songbird Flies Today · · Score: 1

    The issue you have is that an iPod uses different files systems for the Windows and Mac version (used to, not quite sure how things stand now). To read the files from a Mac formatted on an XP machine, you need an additional piece of software.

    This is really an issue of someone not checking out their backups.

    The iTunes Music store thing is a legitimate grip. But none of that has anything to do with the iTunes app, which is what the article is about.

  9. Re:Not me! on State of Multi-Monitor Gaming? · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, there's nothing to it. Depends on your vidoe player, I'd imagine, but DVD Player on the OSX, and VLC do it with no issues whatsoever.

  10. Re:Also, people with disabilitiles... on Is There Still Racism in IT Hiring Practices? · · Score: 1

    #2 there doesn't necessarily sound much different from the average techie's job hunting. Its just a rough job market.

  11. Re:If they weren't farmers, they'd be on their own on Bad Press For Gold Farmers Affects Chinese Players · · Score: 1

    est way to learn them, imho, movies, tv and the written word (fiction works: novels, comic books). Of course, you might end up with an accent that's all over the place (say, a mix of Frasier and Walker Texas Ranger) but what the heck.

    Did that make anyone else think of the Junkticons from the Transformers movie?

  12. Re:Easy disassembly = cool on New iMac disassembled · · Score: 1

    I haven't check out the picks yet, but it looks like its designed like he first run G5 iMacs, where the entire thing is full of user installable parts. Three turns of a screwdriver, and you have easy access to every part in the thing.

    Beats getting to any laptop I've ever had to work on

  13. Re:They shoot themselves in the foot on Microsoft Ends Windows Media Player on the Mac · · Score: 2, Informative

    Quicktime format is open, as long as you use an open codec in it. I personally like MMPEG-4 for my streaming work.

  14. cryptology museum on Cryptology Research for High School Student? · · Score: 1
  15. Re:How can Visual Studio developers work? on Dell Selling 30" Flat Panels · · Score: 1

    I don't spend enough time in XP to know it there, but in OS X, its in the Universal Access System Pane.

    Key strokes are Command-Option-8 to enable/disbale the feature, and Command Option = and Command Option - for zoom in and out.

  16. Re:Of course MS would object on ISP Restrictions Based on Hardware/Software? · · Score: 1

    Here's a rule of thumb: If you know the model number of your router, you count as techie.

  17. Re:Oh dear on Bush Backed Spying On Americans · · Score: 1

    In this case, thats exactly right. The NSA was forbidden from spying on US citizens from Presidential edict. Any other US president is free to change that.

  18. Re:Sorry chook on The Google Caste System · · Score: 1

    Software engineering is kind of like doing mechanical engineering, but without access to the MSDSs.

  19. Re:memories on Child's Play 2005 Launch · · Score: 1

    Hospitals prefer new stuff as opposed to used stuff, for the same reason they discourage stuffed animals: they're a magnet for dirt and dust, harmful in a hospital.

  20. Re:Open-books charity? on Child's Play 2005 Launch · · Score: 1

    From what I remember reading last year, all of it does.

  21. Re:Do you really want others to edit your Calendar on How To (Really) Share A Simple Calendar? · · Score: 1

    Yes, people need the ability to edit other's calendars. As a dev, you managed your own time. As a CEO, others manage your time. Its one of the big things secretaries do.

  22. Re:Not for me it isn't on Network TV Downloadable Via iTunes · · Score: 1

    You realize ABC broadcasts over the airwaves, and is accessible to us non-cable folks?

  23. Re:uneducated public (re: Microsoft's history) on The Company Everyone Loves To Hate · · Score: 1

    Come on, use the right terminology. There's no such thing as an illegal monopoly.

  24. Re:Little brothers ARE good for something! on The Quintessential Sentry Gun · · Score: 2, Informative

    Close, but not quite. 1) Paintballs are normally fired in the 300 fps range. 2) despite what the summary says, this thing is an airsoft gun; it fires airsoft pellets, not BBs. Airsoft pellets are light plastic, BBs are a significantly denser metal.

    Also, no such thing as a low velocity paintball gun. The speed of a paintball is handled through flow an adjustable air flow regulation on the gun. The speed of a fired ball is checked on a chronograph, and the air flow of the paintball gun is adjusted to make the ball fire with acceptable range for whatever field you're planing on.

  25. Re:Good article on KDE Running on Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Ah! Ok, now I see what you were trying to say. I normally made use of the .hidden files to tuck extra stuff out of the way of my users (/System and /Library mostly). Hadn't thought about using it to increase what you could see.