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  1. Re:This is great and all, but... on Mac OS X 10.2.2 Update Available · · Score: 2, Informative

    It as been stated that Quartz Extreme will never run on anything else than Radeon/GeForce or better.

    As for older hardwdare support, I'm running it on a iBook SE rev1 (366Mhz with Rage Pro) and a Beige G3 (266 oc'ed to 300, Rage Pro video card added-in). Speed is "normal", everything is usable.. just a little slower than OS 9. Quicktime is fast, games (that run, no Open GL :( ) are faster than under OS 9.

    Only thing missing.. Open GL, only chipset caught by that, Rage Pro.. it's not like it was THAT bad...

  2. Re:Unsupported on MS Exec: 'Our products just aren't engineered for security' · · Score: 1

    But I wouldn't dare trying it on a Rage Pro or Rage II+/c :P

  3. Re:Ahhh what's a typo or two between friends? on New Power Mac G4s Announced · · Score: 1

    Yeah.. you can heat your house and your neiborg's with 1 computer :P

    This would be fast... until we get 64bit book-e dualcore G5

  4. Re:Invisible? Super Strings for Dummies. on Cellular Phone Spectra and Earth's SETI Invisibility · · Score: 1

    Oh wait.. that didn't proove that light was moving at a different speed, but more that something can travel faster than light..

    sorry.. :)

  5. Re:Invisible? Super Strings for Dummies. on Cellular Phone Spectra and Earth's SETI Invisibility · · Score: 1

    Proof, please. Light always moves at the same speed.


    When I was doing a research on light, I learned that in the deep seas, radiation was mooving faster than light due to the high pressure of the water. This was making radiation (something totally invisible normally) having a blue halo. Thus.. you could actually see the radiation.

    Take it for what it's worth, I can't give you any source.. and this is all based on memory...

  6. Re:preparing for the time after MS Office for Mac? on Sun and Apple Team Up for StarOffice for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Exactly, he didn't say : "We are thinking about switching to X86" but he said a huge "maybe".

    It could mean about anything.. chips from AMD without the X86 emulation, chips from IBM.. anything.

  7. Re:Disk Image? on Encrypting File System Options for Mac OS X? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I wonder how I can be redundant if I am the first to post this..
    Yeap.. that's kinda weird.. ;)

  8. Disk Image? on Encrypting File System Options for Mac OS X? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Create an encrypted disk image with Disk Copy, make it writable, and drop your sensitive data in it ;)

  9. Wow! on Apple Submits Mac OS X For Security Evaluation · · Score: 0

    Woo.. that's great!

    Apple could bring a Trusted MacOS X before Microsoft get's it's Palladium out! :D

    Not that's something interesting...

  10. Re:Apple won't care on Native Sorenson Playback Comes to Linux · · Score: 0

    You're wrong..

    They won't care because Sorenson is not their technology.. it's Sorenson's..

    Apple is moving to MPG4 (with is 'A Good Thing(TM)')

  11. Re:Mac is the preferred digital file format of PC on Dvorak: Discontinue the Mac · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  12. Re:Excellent Points on Dvorak: Discontinue the Mac · · Score: 1

    You are telling Apple not to do what they are trying to..

    They want to Mac to be looked at like a Unix platform with a nice GUI, they advertise the GUI, they advertise the Unix underpinnings, and they make products specialised products that use both differently.

    They want to get the consumers to think : "It's a Mac, and you can do all this on it".

    Getting the "Mac" out of the Pro machines is exactly what they DON'T want to do..

  13. Re:Update changes your homepage... on MSIE 5.2 for Mac OS X Released · · Score: 1

    Problem with Mozilla (for me and except crappy interface) is that it doesn't use the system preferences for proxy connection. That's really REALLY important to me... (since I'm a iBook user.. I use the Location Manager a LOT)..

    Ah well.. stuck with IE and OmniWeb :P

  14. Re:Two years ahead of the "other guys" on Apple Drops Mac OS 9 · · Score: 1

    Well.. you misunderstood..

    1- Quartz extreme won't be used if you can't
    2- Quartz is not that slow.. well.. it's faster (and A LOT MORE FASTER) and X-Windows on my iBook under Linux.. that's why I'm running OS X
    3- All shipping models, except iBook, can run Quartz Extreme
    4- Aqua is faster than KDE and Gnome.. again I'm compairing with my iBook under OS X and Linux.. and it's going to get faster with GCC 3
    5- OS X is getting faster by ifself.. or else we'd still have Public Beta's speed now.. (IE launches in 45 secs.. yeah right! 2 bounces now..)

  15. Re:Office for Linux on States Filing Alternate Remedy Proposal for MS Anti-Trust Case · · Score: 1

    I agree also..

    There's some managers that won't take a office solution if it's not Microsoft..

    This way it opens doors..

  16. Re:Mac OS X on Are GUI Dev Tools More Advanced than CLI Counterparts? · · Score: 1

    And Interface Builder can create your hole interface without a line of code...

    More again.. you can almost creat a Text Editor only using it ;)

  17. Re:How about the reverse? on Are GUI Dev Tools More Advanced than CLI Counterparts? · · Score: 1

    As to reverse.. there is one GUI tool that really improve productivity (talk to OmniGroup for that ;) ).

    It's InterfaceBuilder.

    Mix it with the hole Developper Tools from Apple.. and you have a "free" and easy to use Developper Kit.

    As Steve jobs said in the demo back in '97... The line of code the easier to maintain and debug is the line of code the developper dever had to write!