Perhaps I'm falling for a troll here, but what are you talking about? I'm running XP Pro, with iTunes 4.6.0.15, and the "right click" is working pretty much everywhere. I can right click on songs, playlists, most everything actually. The joy of contextual menus huh? Just for what it's worth, at least make sure you know what your talking about before making unfounded, and blatently false claims.
well....that is untill the on campus IT department starts saying that my WEP11 (linksys 802.11b 10baseT ethernet Bridge) (which is directly connected to my PC) is DCHP'ing addresses....and thus blocks my MAC address, and doesn't call/email/anything me to tell me. After a few days of not being able to get an IP I run down and find out...I ask to speak with someone in charge, and nobody will speak to me! Heck the closest thing I could get to an appointment was "Check in Tuesday, somebody should be in" (it was like friday). I found it much much easier just to update the firmware on the WEP11 and enable macaddress forwarding then to deal with IR (so ya to this day I've got a banned mac address!)
Well for me since I'm in college and have pretty limited space...having a tv tuner in the computer would save me a ton of space, with not having to have a tv/tv table and stuff. That's my main reason to wanting one.
I spent 6 hours on hold with ATT before getting to talk to anyone....Drove from San Antonio, to Dallas, unpacked....drove over to the ATTWireless store to complain. After arriving they said call 611, and that they would help me....to which I pulled out my phone (still on hold) and told the idiot clerk that I had 6 hours ago, and nobody was answering...He didn't have much to say to that other that he was sorry and all that crud. Ohh ya, even still it took ATT 45 days to port my number...and they wanted to bill me for month and a half that I didn't have service! the nerve! I called up several times and they finally (after about another 3 hours on hold, got them to credit me and prorate the second month withoutservice)
ohh ya...and the G5 has Firewire800....and a modem....and I googled your mobo there and wow guess what! no freaken sound! the G5 has Optical in and out, and your typical miniplugs... so next time you get the urge to compare setups at least make sure to check that they really are comparable!
heh, ya similar experience (with the music), but not as bad an accident. I had an old grand prix (1990) that a old lady rear ended while I was stopped at a light. At the time I had my old Rio500 (64mb Flash MP3 Player for those not in the know) hooked up to my radio. When she hit me, it went flying off the passengers seat and slammed into the dash...and then fell straight to the floorboard.....without skipping..(ya no duh it's flash based)..to which my first reaction was..."woha...that was cool (about not skipping)...(then the realiztion that I just got rear ended) oh crud....."
I totally agree that it isn't really right to force the companys to provide a replacement, but at the same time if I'm buying a licence I still want to be able to view the content! perhaps a downloadable ISO of the dvd for the people who bought the DVD would be a better solution? just like me burn a copy of what I bought, and problem solved....ya right who am I kidding
The university that I'm at doesn't allow us to use bittorrent...blocks it at the router I believe...only way around is a VPN that I've found, though I don't have an outside machine, so the point is moot.
exactly, my dad had AOL back in the 80's and has a 3 letter screen name! (his initials which for obvious reasons I'm not gonna mention) and he knows literly hundreds of people through that email address, it's just not practicle to change (sp?)
Sometimes I wonder why there are so many stupid "BSOD" jokes (I haven't seen a BSOD in five years), then I see that a lot of people here still haven't gotten off the 9x line like most everyone else has. Which explains it.
Man you should come over to my place...setup.exe BSOD'd on me, and after it's installed it craters (BSOD) every two weeks on the dot. Not just a normal restart fixes it though, normally it takes the partition down with it....no fun at all...Linux runs fine on the same hardware.
I love apple hardware, I also really like OS X as it stands now, I'm a college guy so it doesn't work with the tuition payments, but at the same time, I really like both the hardware and OS side of apple, there are times when I wish they would be more open, but I really don't mind their "behind closed doors" approach that much mostly because they are not in microsofts shooes if you know what I mean. Fortunately due to college I had to buy a x86 machine, first ran XP and since then I've gotten really into linux, and now am basicly sold on the FOSS idea..(no pun intended)...so I guess I *have* gotten something outta college after all.
ya Nachi was just a pain in the rear. Ironicly enough by the time they finished with my computer (read: "we finished with my computer") I was 10min late for "Principles of UNIX" so I just brought my computer with me and freaked all the wimps with their laptops out with my 50 pound tower sitting on the desk;) The professor got a kick outta it too. So I guess it wasn't all *that* bad.
I really like OS X, havn't had any major problems with it, other then the fact that I'm a student who can't quite afford a new mac...old 333 iMac trayloader...a tad slow on OS X, though Yellow Dog runs pretty decently! I'd have to say that older macs that can't quite keep up with OS X's eye candy would probably be better off with some form of linux installed. Though at the same time if you've got a brand new dual 2ghz G5, well I'd much rather run OS X on it... just my $.02
correct me if I'm totally wrong here and I'm not tring to troll, but in my experience Bluetooth tops out around 6-7k/s....not quite enough time to download a song in the time it takes someone to walk by....(my experience is with a Sony Erricson T616 and a Ambicom USB 1.1 Bluetooth adaptor)
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except I seem to remember back when it *wasn't* "bad software"
I'm not convienced this is the right solution. I was running XP (ya ya I know I know, but I have a program that I'm writing in C#....ya ya I know!!) and it decided to give up the ghost(XP that is) and refused to boot, so I reinstall and as soon as I finished installing I began updating so that I wouldn't get a RPC virus. Well turns out I got Nachi before I could finish updating....and turns out the university blocked my network account(you have to log in to the gateway). So I was stuck, no updating, no internet access. They made me drag my machine down to their office accross campus(it's a nice size tower mind you) they had to scan it, and they wanted me to *leave* it with them! and they asked me for my Admin password, ya it's windows but I still don't give it out! So in the end it was just a pain in the rear because there is no way to install windows on the university network without getting infected!! (it's one of the big reasons I finally committed to running linux for everything)
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Perhaps I'm falling for a troll here, but what are you talking about? I'm running XP Pro, with iTunes 4.6.0.15, and the "right click" is working pretty much everywhere. I can right click on songs, playlists, most everything actually. The joy of contextual menus huh? Just for what it's worth, at least make sure you know what your talking about before making unfounded, and blatently false claims.
cool, thanks for the info
No kernel expert here, but could that be because of the Micro versus monolitic aspect of the kernels?
(I'm under the understanding that NT is a micokernel, and I know linux is a monolitic)
All I can say is they can have my root password (heck even ANY user account) over my dead body.
well....that is untill the on campus IT department starts saying that my WEP11 (linksys 802.11b 10baseT ethernet Bridge) (which is directly connected to my PC) is DCHP'ing addresses....and thus blocks my MAC address, and doesn't call/email/anything me to tell me. After a few days of not being able to get an IP I run down and find out...I ask to speak with someone in charge, and nobody will speak to me! Heck the closest thing I could get to an appointment was "Check in Tuesday, somebody should be in" (it was like friday). I found it much much easier just to update the firmware on the WEP11 and enable macaddress forwarding then to deal with IR (so ya to this day I've got a banned mac address!)
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good book, iffy movie
Well for me since I'm in college and have pretty limited space...having a tv tuner in the computer would save me a ton of space, with not having to have a tv/tv table and stuff. That's my main reason to wanting one.
I spent 6 hours on hold with ATT before getting to talk to anyone....Drove from San Antonio, to Dallas, unpacked....drove over to the ATTWireless store to complain. After arriving they said call 611, and that they would help me....to which I pulled out my phone (still on hold) and told the idiot clerk that I had 6 hours ago, and nobody was answering...He didn't have much to say to that other that he was sorry and all that crud. Ohh ya, even still it took ATT 45 days to port my number...and they wanted to bill me for month and a half that I didn't have service! the nerve! I called up several times and they finally (after about another 3 hours on hold, got them to credit me and prorate the second month withoutservice)
ohh ya...and the G5 has Firewire800....and a modem....and I googled your mobo there and wow guess what! no freaken sound! the G5 has Optical in and out, and your typical miniplugs... so next time you get the urge to compare setups at least make sure to check that they really are comparable!
except that the RAM in the G5 comes in one stick instead of your two....nitpick I know but then again....
in my day Mac System 6 fit on one 800k floppy and had room to spare!! (and it was all graphical!) (annd you can play that puzzle game!)
heh, ya similar experience (with the music), but not as bad an accident. I had an old grand prix (1990) that a old lady rear ended while I was stopped at a light. At the time I had my old Rio500 (64mb Flash MP3 Player for those not in the know) hooked up to my radio. When she hit me, it went flying off the passengers seat and slammed into the dash...and then fell straight to the floorboard.....without skipping..(ya no duh it's flash based)..to which my first reaction was..."woha...that was cool (about not skipping)...(then the realiztion that I just got rear ended) oh crud....."
I totally agree that it isn't really right to force the companys to provide a replacement, but at the same time if I'm buying a licence I still want to be able to view the content! perhaps a downloadable ISO of the dvd for the people who bought the DVD would be a better solution? just like me burn a copy of what I bought, and problem solved....ya right who am I kidding
The university that I'm at doesn't allow us to use bittorrent...blocks it at the router I believe...only way around is a VPN that I've found, though I don't have an outside machine, so the point is moot.
exactly, my dad had AOL back in the 80's and has a 3 letter screen name! (his initials which for obvious reasons I'm not gonna mention) and he knows literly hundreds of people through that email address, it's just not practicle to change (sp?)
Another reason I like debian....
Sometimes I wonder why there are so many stupid "BSOD" jokes (I haven't seen a BSOD in five years), then I see that a lot of people here still haven't gotten off the 9x line like most everyone else has. Which explains it.
Man you should come over to my place...setup.exe BSOD'd on me, and after it's installed it craters (BSOD) every two weeks on the dot. Not just a normal restart fixes it though, normally it takes the partition down with it....no fun at all...Linux runs fine on the same hardware.
58...or 60 if you count non-software/anti-americanists as 2 words...
"Internet - powered by open source."
"Internet - carries open source."
"open source - developed through Internet."
"More Secure than proprietary software."
"anti-Americanists like open source."
"people respect open sourcers."
"Open sourcers stand on shoulders of giants"
"Servers - expensive and proprietary, but Linux uses Intel."
"Embedded devices - increasingly uses open source."
"Increasingly non-software companies develop software"
"More companies supporting Linux."
"Free."
I love apple hardware, I also really like OS X as it stands now, I'm a college guy so it doesn't work with the tuition payments, but at the same time, I really like both the hardware and OS side of apple, there are times when I wish they would be more open, but I really don't mind their "behind closed doors" approach that much mostly because they are not in microsofts shooes if you know what I mean. Fortunately due to college I had to buy a x86 machine, first ran XP and since then I've gotten really into linux, and now am basicly sold on the FOSS idea..(no pun intended)...so I guess I *have* gotten something outta college after all.
ya Nachi was just a pain in the rear. Ironicly enough by the time they finished with my computer (read: "we finished with my computer") I was 10min late for "Principles of UNIX" so I just brought my computer with me and freaked all the wimps with their laptops out with my 50 pound tower sitting on the desk ;) The professor got a kick outta it too. So I guess it wasn't all *that* bad.
I really like OS X, havn't had any major problems with it, other then the fact that I'm a student who can't quite afford a new mac...old 333 iMac trayloader...a tad slow on OS X, though Yellow Dog runs pretty decently! I'd have to say that older macs that can't quite keep up with OS X's eye candy would probably be better off with some form of linux installed. Though at the same time if you've got a brand new dual 2ghz G5, well I'd much rather run OS X on it... just my $.02
correct me if I'm totally wrong here and I'm not tring to troll, but in my experience Bluetooth tops out around 6-7k/s....not quite enough time to download a song in the time it takes someone to walk by....(my experience is with a Sony Erricson T616 and a Ambicom USB 1.1 Bluetooth adaptor)
except I seem to remember back when it *wasn't* "bad software"
I'm not convienced this is the right solution. I was running XP (ya ya I know I know, but I have a program that I'm writing in C#....ya ya I know!!) and it decided to give up the ghost(XP that is) and refused to boot, so I reinstall and as soon as I finished installing I began updating so that I wouldn't get a RPC virus. Well turns out I got Nachi before I could finish updating....and turns out the university blocked my network account(you have to log in to the gateway). So I was stuck, no updating, no internet access. They made me drag my machine down to their office accross campus(it's a nice size tower mind you) they had to scan it, and they wanted me to *leave* it with them! and they asked me for my Admin password, ya it's windows but I still don't give it out! So in the end it was just a pain in the rear because there is no way to install windows on the university network without getting infected!! (it's one of the big reasons I finally committed to running linux for everything)
well it's kind of a hack but check out Multi-Theft Auto @ http://www.mtavc.com/
not the greatest thing but it does work and is pretty fun to boot!