Despite having Office X on my Mac, I use OpenOffice all the time now. It's amazing how much it grows on you despite the initially underwhelming first impressions.
I like OpenOffice.org as much as the next guy, or maybe even more -- I've used OOo on my Windows box exclusively for about two years now. But, I just can't get used to OOo on my PowerBook. I really wanted to like it, but the OS X version left me wanting more. Really, it's hardly a port at all -- it's just the Unix version running under X11 for OS X. So, it has the Unix interface and it's lacking the usual Mac OS niceties such as the Aqua look and even the nifty Finder-ized open/save dialogs.
At this point, I'm just torn between trying to find MS Office/Mac for cheap (perhaps an older version) or just waiting for the proper Aqua port of OOo (even though that could be a while).
I would go for either the Panasonic PT-L500U or the Sanyo PLV-Z2. Both use the same Epson LCD, so they're fairly similar. They run at at 1280x720, which gives you HD resolution (full 720p widescreen or resized 1080i).
And, they both include DVI HDCP which means that you can have a full end-to-end digital connection from your DVD player to your projector (just make sure you get a DVD player that suports DVI (such as the Bravo D1).
They have differing list prices but both sell for around $2000 each (plus you'll need to buy a screen as well). And before you buy one, I'd recommend checking out HomeTheaterForum.com and AVSForum.com (not linked to prevent Slashdotting). Both of those forums are great resources and anyone there will be happy to answer your questions.
Well, they have a search form where you can find stations by city. (It's also linked off the left side of their radio section as "Station Search" and I'm not sure why it's hosted at an ip address.)
Cyberduck comes close, but it doens't have the option to automatically switch between binary & ASCII transfer modes (at least the last version I checked).
With all these Unix & Open Source developers flocking our way, I can only hope that one of them might develop a decent ftp client for OS X:). Granted, there are some decent payware clients (like Transit), but is an ftp client really worth $25? On the free side, RBrowser Lite comes close, except that it can't change permissions on the remote host:-/.
That would be bug 218304 ("Print preview of about:config crashes"). FWIW, you'll have to copy-n-paste the address into your URL bar since Bugzilla refuses Slashdot referers.
Once I RMA this sucker for the 3rd time I will sell it and pick up the iRiver iHP-120 20 gigs of OGG, WMA, MP3, WAV, plus a remote with LCD, FM radio tuner, and can record into WAV or MP3 in realtime from a built-in mic or stereo line-in. Pretty kickass. Sure the Karma is about $75 cheaper, but for a unit that WORKS, it's worth it.
The iHP-120 looks like a great player on paper and I would definitely buy one -- if it had Mac support. (They seem to only cater to Windows at the moment.) Are there any portable Ogg players that support Macs?
That's why I loved Netscape 4.7x so much - it had roaming profiles. Whatever happened to that concept?
That would be bug 124029. Feel free to vote for it (you'll need a free Bugzilla account to vote). Also, you'll need to copy-n-paste the URLs to your address bar as Bugzilla doens't accept Slashdot referrers.
In fact, I still can't seem to switch between HTML and plaintext email composition without changing my overall composition preferences, which is buried at least four or five clicks away from the composition window.
That would be bug 140800 ("switch for plain text/html in compose window"). You'll need to copy-n-paste the URL as Bugzilla doesn't accept referrers from Slashdot.
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Getting off topic, has anybody ever flown with a pocket flashlight that has the batteries side by side, rather than in a long column? Those things really seem to piss of security screeners.
Out of curiosity, what kind of flashlight has that battery configuration? Is it at least a cool LED flashlight?;)
For those looking for mplayer on Windows, you can get Media Player Classic here. I've just tested it on RealAudio files (from Marketplace) and it works fine:).
KOffice for OS X still moving forward
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Does Adium include Rendezvous support? I consider Rendezvous a worthwhile feature in iChat and I'm even considering switching back from Fire because of that (HHOS). (In due fairness to Fire, Rendezvous support is on their to-do list, though it hasn't been implemented yet.)
Thermalright Heatsink: $39. Huge and a pain to install, but great heat transfer. Just make sure its weight doesn't rip the CPU socket off your motherboard.
Does that Thermalright include a fan, or is it all-heatsink?
Instead of spending $1400, how about assembling a case around a fanless Antec Phantom 350 power supply?
One of the most chunky pieces of metal was the Phantom 350, a fanless 350w power supply. Yes, you heard that right, a completely fanless power supply, for those into low noise PCs, this is the one for you. It combines the legendary Antec quality with high efficiency parts, and a massive, heavy, ribbed aluminum case. The entire case acts as a heatsink, and runs utterly silently. For $169 MSRP, it looks like quite a deal.
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That's the recommended CSS link order so that the link specificity works logically (in other words, so that the CSS acts as you think it would).
Amazon doesn't own Borders, it merely runs its online store.
I like OpenOffice.org as much as the next guy, or maybe even more -- I've used OOo on my Windows box exclusively for about two years now. But, I just can't get used to OOo on my PowerBook. I really wanted to like it, but the OS X version left me wanting more. Really, it's hardly a port at all -- it's just the Unix version running under X11 for OS X. So, it has the Unix interface and it's lacking the usual Mac OS niceties such as the Aqua look and even the nifty Finder-ized open/save dialogs.
At this point, I'm just torn between trying to find MS Office/Mac for cheap (perhaps an older version) or just waiting for the proper Aqua port of OOo (even though that could be a while).
I would go for either the Panasonic PT-L500U or the Sanyo PLV-Z2. Both use the same Epson LCD, so they're fairly similar. They run at at 1280x720, which gives you HD resolution (full 720p widescreen or resized 1080i).
And, they both include DVI HDCP which means that you can have a full end-to-end digital connection from your DVD player to your projector (just make sure you get a DVD player that suports DVI (such as the Bravo D1).
They have differing list prices but both sell for around $2000 each (plus you'll need to buy a screen as well). And before you buy one, I'd recommend checking out HomeTheaterForum.com and AVSForum.com (not linked to prevent Slashdotting). Both of those forums are great resources and anyone there will be happy to answer your questions.
Hey, if you're in the DFW area, why not join the Slashdot Meetup? About four or five of us get together each month and it's a good time.
I would if iRipDB supported Macs ;).
In that case, how do you rebuild the database to enable file searching?
It really could be an iPod-killer if only it supported Macs -- all the software downloads on the support page are .exe files :(.
Well, they have a search form where you can find stations by city. (It's also linked off the left side of their radio section as "Station Search" and I'm not sure why it's hosted at an ip address.)
Cyberduck comes close, but it doens't have the option to automatically switch between binary & ASCII transfer modes (at least the last version I checked).
With all these Unix & Open Source developers flocking our way, I can only hope that one of them might develop a decent ftp client for OS X :). Granted, there are some decent payware clients (like Transit), but is an ftp client really worth $25? On the free side, RBrowser Lite comes close, except that it can't change permissions on the remote host :-/.
That would be bug 218304 ("Print preview of about:config crashes"). FWIW, you'll have to copy-n-paste the address into your URL bar since Bugzilla refuses Slashdot referers.
FWIW, here's the URL for Xitami. It's a free web server for win32 and it works rather well (including a web-based configuration interface).
That would be bug 124029. Feel free to vote for it (you'll need a free Bugzilla account to vote). Also, you'll need to copy-n-paste the URLs to your address bar as Bugzilla doens't accept Slashdot referrers.
That would be bug 140800 ("switch for plain text/html in compose window"). You'll need to copy-n-paste the URL as Bugzilla doesn't accept referrers from Slashdot.
IE 6.x has about 75% of the browser market; IE 5.x has about 17%.
For those looking for mplayer on Windows, you can get Media Player Classic here. I've just tested it on RealAudio files (from Marketplace) and it works fine :).
And, don't forget that Ranger Rick is still working on porting KOffice to OS X. There are now binaries available and if you're going to download all the KDE-on-OSX packages, you may as well use the all-packages torrent.
The iRiver iHP-120 is an otherwise-great product and if they had software support for Macs, I'd buy one in an instant (it's currently Windows-only).
Does Adium include Rendezvous support? I consider Rendezvous a worthwhile feature in iChat and I'm even considering switching back from Fire because of that (HHOS). (In due fairness to Fire, Rendezvous support is on their to-do list, though it hasn't been implemented yet.)
So, it's just the heatsink -- but does it require a fan to be paired with it for proper cooling?
Does that Thermalright include a fan, or is it all-heatsink?
Instead of spending $1400, how about assembling a case around a fanless Antec Phantom 350 power supply?