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  1. Re:TIE Fighters aren't black on Das Keyboard: Hit Any Key · · Score: 1

    And there's no such thing as a Black SE/30.

    At least it's never been mentioned on the internets.

  2. Re:Despite speeding it up 95x... on LA to Oregon at Mach 9 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, next time take 101!

  3. Re:Made on a Mac on Pixar Switches to Mac OS X and G5s · · Score: 1

    No, it will be a Quartz-Extreme rendered PDF.

  4. My ISP already offers this on Sell Your Wireless Bandwidth · · Score: 3, Informative

    With Sonic Hotspots, you get a special IP number routed to their VPN aggregator. None of the riffraff get on your network.

  5. Re:Still doing that, my priorities are different. on Working Around Bad Luck on the Resume? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to get a home equity line of credit (assuming you own your house and it has extra equity) before you get laid off. It will save your bacon if you don't have any savings. I know it saved mine when I was laid off for 5 months this year.

  6. Yeah, it's been done before on Cube House · · Score: 1
  7. Duh. on New 20" iMac and Dual 1.8GHz PowerMac G5 · · Score: 1
    Both were accurately rumored at the last minute by the usual suspects.
    Please, that's not a rumor. That's a leak.
  8. Re:Well, one reason... on "Y2k Bug", and Others Proves PCs Can Be Art · · Score: 1

    You're assuming this guy actually uses the computer for processing data?

  9. Re:Jobs other companies.. on iTunes Music Store - 'Coolest Invention of 2003' · · Score: 1
    There's NeXT. Wether that's a plus or minus I'll leave to the /. masses to determine.
    Well, NeXT has pretty much become Apple and the current very successful OS based on Unix is really based on work done at NeXT, I'd say he was pretty successful. It got him his old job back, anyway.
  10. Re:Why don't we ask google? on Will Google Become Another Netscape? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's a phone book, too, just put in a name and town, and you'll get that person's address and phone number.

  11. ExposZ? on Mac OS X 10.3 vs. Linux · · Score: 1

    When I saw that, I stopped reading. This has got to be possibly the lamest review I've read about Panther so far.

  12. Ohh! on X17 Solar Flare Sends 2B Tons of Plasma at Earth · · Score: 1

    So that's why the baby monitor was buzzing last night. I thought it was the flourescent light in the kitchen.

  13. Re:javascript? on 12 Million Historic Photos Scanned to Web · · Score: 1
    Wait for the page to load, maybe? Before the whole page loads, the script doesn't execute. The site is under heavy load, so you have to be patient.

    Hey, you're right. Thanks for the tip.

    I called it micro$oft bloatware because many sites today are designed for IE only. Typically when a site tells me I don't have something I know I have, then I assume they're not checking for the right things. I've seen it before and I'll see it again, I'm sure.

    And I'm very well aware that neither javascript nor Flash are M$ technologies.

  14. javascript? on 12 Million Historic Photos Scanned to Web · · Score: 1

    I went to the site with Safari and it gave me a javascript warning! Sheesh. Please. Safari has javascript. What are they looking for?

    Then it played its cheesy flash intro and stopped.

    I'd love to see the pictures, but they have to get rid of the M$ bloatware.

  15. Re:PowerMac 7500 Baby! on What's the Oldest Hardware You are Still Using? · · Score: 1

    I too have a 7500, but it's decked out with a NewerTech (R.I.P.) G3/400MHz daughter card and 192MB of RAM. In addition, it has a SCSI controller and a 9GB hard drive as well as a miro video capture card. It was built (or I should say upgraded) to edit some video for a band I'm in, where most of the video files were already in the miro format, and I had to add in some new miniDV footage. Whee.

    I'm also still running a Personal LaserWriter NTR as well as a Newton. And then there's my working collection of Classic Macintoshes, including an original 128K, Plus, SE/30, LC, IIci, Centris 610, PowerBook 145B, Performa 6400/200, iBook (dual USB) and iMac (Slot Loading). Oh and I have a Cube as well.

  16. The real issue... on Where is the Any Key? · · Score: 1

    Why do you have to press a key to continue at all?

  17. Re:Argument for G5 here. on Virginia Tech Announces Supercomputer Plans · · Score: 1

    Obviously, Mac users have the hottest wives.

  18. Re:What is that music? on Glider PRO Becomes Freeware for the Mac · · Score: 1

    Interesting. My son has a Fisher-Price toy toy that has the same song in it!

  19. What is that music? on Glider PRO Becomes Freeware for the Mac · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've played Glider for years, and was impressed that there was an OS X version.

    But the big question for me is "What is the name of that song?"

  20. Re:speaking of Glider on Casady & Greene Says "Goodnight" · · Score: 1

    Glider is really cool, but what is the name of the song that plays in the background? I can't find a reference to it anywhere. And just when I thought it was just "The Glider Song", one of my kid's toys plays it, too.

  21. Re:Why do this? on Ripping from Vinyl, Simplified · · Score: 1

    Huh. My first CDs were purchased around '86 or so, and they sound perfect to me.

  22. Re:Why do this? on Ripping from Vinyl, Simplified · · Score: 1

    Often these days all mastering is done at a flat EQ curve, because CDs can handle this, and then mastering happens *again* for the vinyl stage. It used to be the other way round, so early CDs were replaced with "digitally remastered" cuts - Brothers in Arms, Pink Floyd catalogue, that sort of stuff - and had a sound that was more faithful to the original, pristine LPs without sounding "tinny" like the first released CDs.

    This sounds a bit odd. Are you saying that early CD's didn't take into account the equalization curve? I find that hard to believe.

  23. Re:Pixar Job Posting on A Tour of Pixar · · Score: 1

    Even more amusing are the bonus requirements for the Mac/PC Systems Administrator position:

    Experience navigating and controlling real-time 3D environments such as Quake and Unreal.

  24. Re:It's the mouse... on R.I.P. Original iMac: 1998-2003 · · Score: 2, Funny

    My Macs have more than one mouse button! For convenience, the others are remotely mounted on the keyboard.

  25. Re:correct me if i am wrong on R.I.P. Original iMac: 1998-2003 · · Score: 1