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  1. Re:Real? on Google Bans Tethering App From Android Market · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not Crestron Mobile (iTunes Store link), is it? Because, if so, congratulations; it looks like you've passed Apple's inspection.

  2. Re:Lack of PowerPC support? on OS X Snow Leopard Details · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't understand how it's Apple's fault that the authors of the software you want to use choose to only support 10.5. I understand why they would, as Leopard has some pretty nice upgrades for developers, but Apple certainly doesn't mandate that they do so.

  3. Evan Williams Denies It on Twitter Reportedly May Abandon Ruby On Rails · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Does it bring back the "Windows Shade"? on Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update Brings Welcome Fixes · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you hit F8, you get a zoomed out view of all of your desktops, with live previews of the windows on them included. You can drag and drop windows between spaces in this view, as well, if you like.

  5. Re:Well, it's all about User-Friendliness on Apples Are For Grannies? · · Score: 1

    Why not write an open-source iTunes competitor that's not too shabby, then?

  6. Re:table with no on A Statistical Review of 1 Billion Web Pages · · Score: 1
    Or, you know, the developer could always do something like
    <% if collection.size > 0 %>
    <table>
    <% for each element in collection %>
    <tr><td> something </td></tr>
    <% end for %>
    </table>
    <% end if %>
  7. Re:I want my Google Earth! on Google Maps Graduates · · Score: 1

    Yes, because, clearly, it makes business sense to ensure that your end-user product runs on every server operating system you use.

  8. Re:What she meant to say, "I was born yesterday" on Hilary Rosen Gripes About iPod, iTMS · · Score: 1

    Sure, it provides some background about her, but that background was evident in the article. There's no reason to mention it with two quotation marks (implying disbelief) in your reply if your intent is simply to provide relevant background information.

    Also, aside from the fact that you apparently have the special Slashdot "find out the sexual orientation of those moderating me" feature that the rest of us seem to lack, I'm not sure what connection being gay and having a particular stance on file sharing and on Apple have. Would you feel compelled to make a similar comment if she were black or Jewish, for example?

  9. Re:What she meant to say, "I was born yesterday" on Hilary Rosen Gripes About iPod, iTMS · · Score: 1
    Girlfriend??
    Yep. Ms. Rosen is a lesbian. How's that relevant to the discussion at hand, again?
  10. Re:Safari likes to cache searches too on Google Adds Search History Feature · · Score: 1

    Going to the Safari preferences, selecting the "AutoFill" section, and unchecking "Other forms" should alleviate your problem.

    The Safari problem, that is. As for the other one, might I suggest something from the fine line of Gold Bond products?

  11. Re:Stealing Windows customers? on Accessories for Mac mini · · Score: 1

    You're right -- Chris Sells is indicating that the goal is to support Win32 and existing .NET code, not that it will be definitively supported. Historically, though, Microsoft's legacy application support has been quite good -- it's possible, for example, to run 16-bit DOS programs on Windows XP!

  12. Re:Stealing Windows customers? on Accessories for Mac mini · · Score: 4, Informative
    Since no apps that run on 9x\nt\xp\etc will run on Longhorn, I think Microsoft are going to really start to lose market share in everything.
    From Microsoft's Longhorn Developer FAQ:

    Will my existing Win32 and .NET apps continue to run under Longhorn without modification?

    The goal is that apps written against the documented Win32 APIs and the .NET Framework will absolutely run well without any modifications under Longhorn when it ships.

  13. Re:Hoax on Apple Website Points to PowerBook G5 · · Score: 1

    I did see the code, and the apple_g5_powerbook line was in it.

  14. Re:AFS on Distributed Data Storage on a LAN? · · Score: 1

    I can confirm that, as of Wed Oct 29 21:47:03 EST 2003, it's still running well at CMU :-)

  15. Re:downloaded it, linux support still in there. on Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Removes Linux Support · · Score: 1

    You can download a Virtual PC 2004 trial from Microsoft? All I see is a trial for version 5.2.

  16. Beware the FileVault on Review of Mac OS X 10.3 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've been using the release build of Panther for a while, now, and, while I think it's a worthwhile upgrade, I strongly recommend not enabling FileVault .

    I enabled it on my new 15" Aluminum PowerBook on Sunday and was seeing serious corruption of my files by Tuesday. My keychain was corrupted, my iTunes library metadata file was corrupted, my preferences were corrupted, and some of my Data Structures and Algorithms Java source files were corrupted. Beyond that, I stopped counting, backed up to my iPod, and reinstalled.

    To be fair, this isn't a build I obtained from Apple or a retail store, so it's possible that it's not what's in the box (although the about box indicates build 7B85, and, from what I can tell, that's GM). It might be worth letting other early adopters check out the retail version of FileVault, however, before doing so yourself.

  17. Re:31 02283 665? on Review: 'Bubba Ho-Tep' · · Score: 2, Informative

    Right, except that the Bubba Ho-Tep number is 310-228-3665. 310-338-3665 has been disconnected, and I'll posit a teleslashdotting as the cause.

  18. Re:iMagine... on New iMacs (and iPods) · · Score: 1

    Although I can't show you an iCluster of these particular models, perhaps you'll be satisfied with Carnegie Mellon's Habermann Labs (warning: QuickTime VR movie), which consist entirely of old-sunflower-model 15" iMacs.

  19. Re:Villagers need jo2y. on Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming · · Score: 1

    I'm sure "evand" and "esd" are scattered throughout it; the letters just aren't necessarily consecutive.

  20. Re:Why not just open the beta to everyone? on Apple Terminates Safari Seed Program · · Score: 1, Informative

    Uh, just to clarify -- I meant, "Apple has released all of their improvements to GPL'd code that they've released in binary form." Sorry for any confusion and havoc caused due do my general semi-coherent weekend state.

  21. Re:Why not just open the beta to everyone? on Apple Terminates Safari Seed Program · · Score: 4, Informative

    As far as I know, Apple has released all of the improvements to the GPL'd code that they've released. The code they've written from scratch, they're keeping closed, as is their right.

  22. All Consuming on An IMDb for Books · · Score: 3, Informative

    While the Internet Book List looks like it might eventually become a worthwhile alternative data source to Amazon.com, I've been using All Consuming for a little while and find it to be an exceedingly useful resource for book information.

    While it does use Amazon data (the merits of which are discussed in other replies to this article), All Consuming provides a clean interface and metainformation to the base data, as well as nifty features like weblog scanning (to find mentions of books), the ability to track a book collection, and a "friends" network that keeps one up-to-date with other members' various literary excursions.

    As I put it on my weblog: "If you read, join All Consuming."

  23. Re:Rendezvous doesn't fix problems with peer-peer on Review: Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar · · Score: 1
    set an image's icon to a thumbnail of the image?
    Open image, copy contents, bring up "Get Info" window in the Finder, select icon, paste. Just did this in Jaguar, it may not work in 10.1.

    Or, more easily (in Finder's icon view mode):

    1. Open View -> Show View Options
    2. Check "Show icon preview"
  24. Re:Buying a PowerMac on Seeking Power Mac Recommendations? · · Score: 1
    For what one family member does with his G4 the SMP support is extremely helpful in terms of raw performance, but you've got to look at your applications and see if they exploit SMP. If you're writing your own code you can obviously make it support SMP, but you didn't really say what you were doing.

    As far as I know, SMP support in OS X occurs at the kernel level. Sure, applications can make better use of SMP capability (if it's available) by being multithreaded, but the OS will balance the running processes between both processors automatically even if the currently running applications aren't multithreaded.

  25. Re:My question is, on E3: SimCity 4 Preview Goodness · · Score: 1

    I don't think placing two buildings that no longer exist into a simulation of the city that once contained them is a good way of building a simulation that is as accurate as possible.