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  1. Re:Burn them! on 'Opener' Malware Targets OS X · · Score: 1

    score +2, can't help but smile,

  2. Re:summary on Cherry OS Claims Mac OS X Capability For x86 · · Score: 1

    Having a button marked I Agree, would not be sufficient aknowledgement in many countries, and in most courts. Anyway it has all been expsoed as shit.

  3. there is a reason that I have a Mac... on If Windows Came to PPC, Would You Switch? · · Score: 1

    Windows! I have intel and PPC hardware, it's Windows that sucks, bigtime!

  4. Re:Darwin??? on Cherry OS Claims Mac OS X Capability For x86 · · Score: 1

    DARWIN is open source and avaiable on X86, but you don't get the Aqua GUI, this is not open source, but feel free to add your own X windows interface.

  5. summary on Cherry OS Claims Mac OS X Capability For x86 · · Score: 1

    Possibly a version of PearPC, 'up to 80%' is usual because hardware access via native drivers is usually very fast, but overall application speed is were emulators fall down. Yet to see an emulator better than 30% of host speed. People still think that Apple computers need ROM, and that people rumb sticks together to make fire, and that the wheel will never find a useful purpose. Apple wont shut them down if it is marketed as a PPC emulation, that happens to run MacOSX or any other PPC based OS. Can we all calm down now?

  6. designed as a teaching language on Just BASIC 1.0 Beta 2 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    so just leave it for teaching. It has been said that they shipped BASIC with DOS because that was the only langauge that Bill Gates understood...

  7. I'd switch hardware on If Mac OS X Came to x86, Would You Switch? · · Score: 1

    Apple would die. They build OS AND HARDWARE, they need to build both to maintain quality and compatibility. Part of the reason that Windows often fails is hardware and driver related, not the base windows instal. It is also not a question of running the OS on Intel, it's how much of the other sofware is ported over. Apple has the core of their available, there is MacOS on Intel. There is not the Interface on Intel, because that is what makes people buy Apple computers. If you start building hardware at the same level as Apple then the price gap closes, not the cheaply cased home builts, we build quality cased computers here at home and the price gap starts to narrow wheh you add the cost of Windows OS, good cases, etc.

  8. we already have ebay censorship on Internet Censorship in Australia? · · Score: 1

    I can not view some parts of ebay, I may want to buy an old army uniform or a compass or something...and start a war or...

  9. is there a spoiler warning on 11,000 Words on the Star Wars Trilogy DVDs · · Score: 1

    did they say what happens at the end?

  10. Already available in Oz on 3G Internet Access Via PCMCIA Card · · Score: 1

    From the same people, watch out for the call charges! Not too bad, but not cheap.

  11. Original SW, very little CG on Sky Captain and the Films of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    One tends to forget that most of the original SW effects and scenes were done with models and not with CG. Some little guy glued little blocks togeher and a small camera on a well controlled 'dolly' flew over the Death Star. Check the facts Jack! It is in the re-mastered versions that these scenes were replaced with CG.

  12. I said 'spam is 100 years old' on Spam Turns 100, By One Reckoning · · Score: 3, Funny

    my wife replied, 'it tastes like it too'

  13. so does my mobile phone on First Portable Media Centers Hit Store Shelves · · Score: 3, Interesting

    my mobile does most of this but the screen is smaller...

  14. Regular Backups on Surviving College With Gear And Sanity Intact? · · Score: 1

    Backup to CD everyday or when you have finished anything major, keep the backups well away from your laptop, so when it does get stolen or smashed, you have the chance to recover quickly. The biggest item of value will be it's contents, not the laptop itself.

  15. Yep, me 2 on Making Stuff Out Of Broken Computer Equipment? · · Score: 1

    I reprogram old telecommunications supervisory cards and re-use them as digital clocks.

  16. wtf on The Internet At 35 · · Score: 0

    data between to computers? you could have given a few more general details, it sounds just like any serial link.

  17. loophole on Australian Prime-Minister Sends Spam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    because a political organization has contrated a 3rd party to send spam, the 3rd party may not be exempt from the anti-spam laws as the contractor is not a political org. I hope they wipe the floor with these people.

  18. just word 6 on Time to Kill Microsoft Word? · · Score: 1

    or open up the format. Microsoft doesn't support the format for word 6 but a shitload of people insist on using it.

  19. damn on Gametrak Controller Wins Award · · Score: 1

    I had the same mechanism in mind for a 3D 'mouse, oh well, he who gets to patent office first, wins the prize...

    I hope no-one has duplicated my strap-on weapon simulator for q3

  20. metal plating on Hardware That Literally Doesn't Stink? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    you could take a plastic mouse to a place that puts metal coatings on plactic using hot spray and electroplating.

  21. stainless steel mouse on Hardware That Literally Doesn't Stink? · · Score: 1

    I did buy a stainless steel mouse for my son, but the underside, the wire covering and buttons were plastic. Sounds like a market for laser-cut mouse covers.

  22. Re:Apple being Microsoft? on Apple vs. Microsoft Myths Revisited · · Score: 1

    well sort of, Darwin is open source, so you can built a Mac clone to run it, or use the Intel version. The problem is interface, the Quartz/Aqua interface is where Apple would take you to the cleaners, but for non commercial purposes several Aqua clones are around.

  23. inconclusive? maybe on AM Radio Waves May Be Harmful? · · Score: 1

    microwave ovens work using the inconclusive principle that exposure to RF transmissions may cause a change. Basic RF theory that used to be published as FACT said that exposure to any RF transmission is un-safe. It is only the degree of exposure that is in question.

  24. Re:Apple being Microsoft? on Apple vs. Microsoft Myths Revisited · · Score: 1

    well sort of, the clone makers, instead of makeing cheap low end Macs which people wanted, and would be in competion with PC makers, targeted the 'safe' high end market and so competed against Apple. If they had built cheap low end Macs, like Power Computing did, they may still be around.

  25. at last on Apple vs. Microsoft Myths Revisited · · Score: 1

    someone got the story right.