User: kerry-buckley

Re:IPSec should work fine; need config info

On: IPsec on Mac OS X Panther?

my biggest bit of advice is find some friendly, knowledgeable admin, find out what she likes to drink, and buy her lots of it.

And hope she doesn't hit you when you admit that you only got her drunk "because you wanted to find out how her tunnel was configured".

Re:So, this is the other show dropping.....

On: Disney Licenses MS Windows Media DRM

From the Pixar/Apple deal gone bad. Eisner is going to try to punish Jobs for dismissing him.

I wonder if it might have been the other way round -- Jobs dropping Disney because they were insisting on using MS's proprietary DRM.

"child/gay"?

On: Fracturing P2P Networks

i.e. child/gay porn sharers aer kicked away from the hubs.

Why are you lumping gay porn in with child porn? Is the only acceptable porn that depicting women, or heterosexual couples?

Just curious.

Re:Missed opportunities

On: Interview with John Scully

If they had ported Mac OS X I would have bought it along time ago

OK, it's been said a million times before, but Apple is a hardware company.

Mac OS X is a great product, but its sole purpose is to sell Macs. If they ported it to run on generic X86 boxen, they'd never sell enough to recoup the losses on hardware sales. Plus supporting the myriad combinations of hardware would cost a fortune, and lose them the "it just works" factor.

Re:Plenty of reasons

On: MS vs. Open Source Office Suite Compatibility

Actually, circa 1985-1990, was sorta pre-WYSIWYG.

Not if you had a Mac, it wasn't.

Re:What's the point of this?

On: Sites Shut Down to Protest Software Patents

What message is this supposed to send? Why would the EU change its mind because a few sites decided to protest?

I guess it's more aimed at publicising the campaign against European software patents than directly pressurising the European Parliament. Judging from the susprised reactions here, it doesn't look like many people were aware of the campaign before, so it seems to be working.

Re:G5 upgrade woes

On: IBM Releases Compiler for Power4 and G5

My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram that has the SoBig and Blaster virus runs faster than this G5 dual 2GHz machine at times.

But I bet whoever sold you the Quadra tower sprayed silver and with "G5" written on it in crayon is laughing.

Re:world domination?

On: P2P Spam?

What if the purpose of these viruses is something much more vast and daring then we all really think? What if it is a deranged person that thinks that by taking over thousands of computers he can somehow create world domination?

Hmmm, a deranged person intent on world domination by taking over everyone's computer, eh?

That would explain why he made Windows vulnerable to the worm...

Understanding

On: Apple Marketing Hypes New PowerMacs

No offense, but anyone who thinks it was a mistake or leak doesn't understand marketing. :)

And anyone who thinks these specs would be deliberately leaked three days before a "Stevenote" doesn't understand Apple.

Re:Forced Upgrade?

On: Apple to Announce new Mac OS X version in June

One thing that has always puzzled me. Why didn't they just call it OS X 10.5 instead of OS X 10.2.

Probably to put off the decision on what to call the one after 10.9. MacOS XI? Sounds like a football [1] team.

[1] Or "soccer" for the non-UK majority.

Re:How about upgrading TiVo with a Mac?

On: TiVo Video Extraction with Mac OS X

Sorry, forgot to mention it's a UK model (Thompson) TiVo, which seems to be the hardest of all to upgrade. Looks like my options are to either borrow a PC or buy a ready-configured drive.

How about upgrading TiVo with a Mac?

On: TiVo Video Extraction with Mac OS X

Has anyone had any success upgrading a TiVo (adding a larger HD, installing software for the TurboNet card etc) using a Mac? Given that the TiVo runs Linux on a PPC processor, it seems a little ironic that I'll have to get my hands on a Wintel box to upgrade it, when I have perfectly good OS9, OSX and LinuxPPC machines available.