I'm still waiting for Strike Commander from Origin....Wait, what? It was released? Damn, I'm getting too old for this kindof lifestyle./sometimes I feel like Jack T Colton from Romancing the Stone.//"Dammit man, the Doobie Brothers broke up? When did that happen? Shit."
Yeah, problem solved. The new system came with SATA drives. My copy of XP is old, so I didn't have the SATA drives on the disc. So Dell recommended I dl the SATA drivers, put them on a floppy, etc. But! no floppy drive on this machine! I eventually got a Windows XP w/ Service Pack 2 CD and that did the trick.
I never really explored the Belenix, Fedora issues I was having. I just tried them so that I could whack the partitions.
I bought a new machine about 3-4 weeks ago. Vista was the only option. I asked Sales before I bought it if I could get XP. No dice.
So when the machine finally arrived, I declined the licensing terms of Vista (I have my own licensed copy of XP) and I emailed Dell for a refund. Two emails later I got $27. This is about half of what the guy in Germany got from Dell Germany (plus he got $8 USD for Works, which Dell US didn't bother to comment on when I asked for that refund).
TheMacMind isn't known in the Mac world as being the source of intel on the latest Apple products, however through an anyonmous tipster (to you! We happen to know this person is 100% valid), we've been tipped off to a whole bevy of facts about the new Flash-based iPod from Apple. We also had this confirmed by a second contact at Apple.
When I first heard about the iPod Flash, I met it with the same scepticism as Daring Fireball did.
AppleInsider brought you the basic concept, but TheMacMind is here to let loose about how the new iPod works, what it looks like, and how it feels! And we're looking forward to being there when it's released at MacWorld San Francisco! (Sorry Steve, we couldn't resist!)
The Meat: Milano cookie. That's the basic principle. I like Tim-Tams, but that's just me. Rounded edges, flat, and tiny. We're looking at something that is about 2.5" long, 1.5" wide, and just.5" thick.
Get this: NO SCREEN. Got a cellphone with one of those flat joysticks? This is apparently how you'll get around on the screenless iPod. Left and right move between songs, up and down change the volume, and pressing straight down will play/pause your music. With any other company, I'd be incredibly doubtful that their techs would be able to pull off anything useable. Scroll through 250 songs in one big list? We're betting Apple has something better up their sleeve, and we'll hopefully be able to tell you about the interface in the next few days. Evenything goes in and out through a full-size FireWire port. Apparently, they are also virtually indestructible. We did a mock up of the iPod Flash in 3D. You can see how big it is compared to a business card (the same size as an iPod mini) and an Apple Firewire cable.
What does that tiny size mean? Well, the iPod Flash is meant to be worn around the neck. Yep, a nice little lanyard will keep the smallest of the iPod family twirling around your neck while jogging.
AppleInsider said "less than $200", but we we're told that the Flash iPod will be priced at $99. Freaking sweet, we're hoping that that's right on the money! There have been reports of storage capacities from 256 MB - 1 GB, which would correlate with that price. This release will make an iPod available to people in any price range.
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I'm still waiting for Strike Commander from Origin. ...Wait, what? It was released? Damn, I'm getting too old for this kindof lifestyle. /sometimes I feel like Jack T Colton from Romancing the Stone. //"Dammit man, the Doobie Brothers broke up? When did that happen? Shit."
Ha! That's the first time I ever spit on the computer screen while laughing. Good one. :)
Yeah, problem solved. The new system came with SATA drives. My copy of XP is old, so I didn't have the SATA drives on the disc. So Dell recommended I dl the SATA drivers, put them on a floppy, etc. But! no floppy drive on this machine! I eventually got a Windows XP w/ Service Pack 2 CD and that did the trick.
I never really explored the Belenix, Fedora issues I was having. I just tried them so that I could whack the partitions.
I bought a new machine about 3-4 weeks ago. Vista was the only option. I asked Sales before I bought it if I could get XP. No dice.
So when the machine finally arrived, I declined the licensing terms of Vista (I have my own licensed copy of XP) and I emailed Dell for a refund. Two emails later I got $27. This is about half of what the guy in Germany got from Dell Germany (plus he got $8 USD for Works, which Dell US didn't bother to comment on when I asked for that refund).
Just my $27 worth.
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that this is completely different than yesterday's article on the same subject?
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/12/23
"I felt a great disturbance in the Internet, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
Apologies to Obi-Wan.
Very interesting. I must confess my ignorance, I'd never heard of pound before.
Can pound send requests to backend servers on different subnets? That would be really cool.
They're employing some of the same tactics used to crush organized crime in the 1980s.
Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but organized crime is still going strong. Let's hope that they "crush" the phishers a little more thoroughly.
My understanding was that computers can only do three things:
-Add numbers
-Subtract numbers
-Compare two numbers
TheMacMind isn't known in the Mac world as being the source of intel on the latest Apple products, however through an anyonmous tipster (to you! We happen to know this person is 100% valid), we've been tipped off to a whole bevy of facts about the new Flash-based iPod from Apple. We also had this confirmed by a second contact at Apple.
.5" thick.
When I first heard about the iPod Flash, I met it with the same scepticism as Daring Fireball did.
AppleInsider brought you the basic concept, but TheMacMind is here to let loose about how the new iPod works, what it looks like, and how it feels! And we're looking forward to being there when it's released at MacWorld San Francisco! (Sorry Steve, we couldn't resist!)
The Meat: Milano cookie. That's the basic principle. I like Tim-Tams, but that's just me. Rounded edges, flat, and tiny. We're looking at something that is about 2.5" long, 1.5" wide, and just
Get this: NO SCREEN. Got a cellphone with one of those flat joysticks? This is apparently how you'll get around on the screenless iPod. Left and right move between songs, up and down change the volume, and pressing straight down will play/pause your music. With any other company, I'd be incredibly doubtful that their techs would be able to pull off anything useable. Scroll through 250 songs in one big list? We're betting Apple has something better up their sleeve, and we'll hopefully be able to tell you about the interface in the next few days. Evenything goes in and out through a full-size FireWire port. Apparently, they are also virtually indestructible. We did a mock up of the iPod Flash in 3D. You can see how big it is compared to a business card (the same size as an iPod mini) and an Apple Firewire cable.
What does that tiny size mean? Well, the iPod Flash is meant to be worn around the neck. Yep, a nice little lanyard will keep the smallest of the iPod family twirling around your neck while jogging.
AppleInsider said "less than $200", but we we're told that the Flash iPod will be priced at $99. Freaking sweet, we're hoping that that's right on the money! There have been reports of storage capacities from 256 MB - 1 GB, which would correlate with that price. This release will make an iPod available to people in any price range.
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I didn't see any benchmarks as far as stability goes. NT may be faster, but what good is it if it crashes daily?
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