yup, i have a t68i as well and bluetooth is perfect for what i do with it, mainly syncing my address book and sending SMS messages. and although i don't do this, i know people who do use bluetooth mice with their powerbooks, which saves them the dongle. pretty fly, just take out the mouse, turn it on and you're good.
that's the first thing i thought of. i'm not as old-school as 1984, but when i was a teen playing around with old 8086's in the early 1990's (poor kid) i had a 2400 baud modem that let me chat and see as others were typing in real time. man, if i'd only known that I could've patented that behavior! so... i wonder how i can make my million patenting other present day accomplishments...
if you google for "free virus scanner" you do get pretty lucky, the first hit is http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ which is an in-browser virus scanner that happened to do a better job at fixing my friends computer than a two day old install of NAV.
it's amazing what you can find out in 15 seconds... taken directly from the dictionary.
Main Entry:
irregardless
Pronunciation: "ir-i-'grd-l&s
Function: adverb
Etymology: probably blend of irrespective and regardless
Date: circa 1912 nonstandard: REGARDLESS usageIrregardless originated in dialectal American speech in the early 20th century. Its fairly widespread use in speech called it to the attention of usage commentators as early as 1927. The most frequently repeated remark about it is that "there is no such word." There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead.
fuckin a, it's as if people can't take a minute of their time to research something and keep themselves from looking like a fool, making claims that imply "i know what i'm talking about" but show exactly the contrary. we have the biggest resource in the world here guys, and we all claim to know how to use it, so let's use it.
come on man, give the guy a break! we need to band together on this so that we don't all feel the wrath of a DDOS attack from 33.6 Kbaud imac modems around the globe! i mean, i don't know about any of you guys, but Kbaud sounds pretty damn scary to me! i think that, like dragons and unicorns, they don't really exist... but if they did....? i shudder to think of it.
it's true, DHCP was not functioning properly on my g4 400 either. however, it was working perfectly fine two 12" pb's here. Sniffing the traffic with ethereal showed no network activity whatsoever, even when set to static IP addressing. the error "sendto: Host is down" was coming back from pings. doing the AppleGMACEthernet.tar.gz fix resolved the problem.
i don't know what all this is about windows thrashing hdd's... i have a thinkpad a30 1ghz celery running xp, and i never have problems with it... i mean... other than the fact it doesn't have a track pad or a windows key, and has about six "special feature" buttons that i never use... however, i'm not claiming xp runs like a dream, merely wondering what could be the problem with the hdd's going nuts.
i agree with the windows update shyness, i usually don't want to run them. luckily we have our systems ghosted, so if things get messed up we can always revert back. i wish i had that the first time i installed IE5 over windows update and toasted win98fe....
on the flip side, i have a 12" bp and my display settings are fine. when i went to check them i deicded to try the thousands of colors look and yeah, that really is amazingly well done. =) photographs and gradients would be a good indicator though, which is the first place i really saw a difference.
my room mate also has a 12" bp and he had no problems with it either, so not all is bad. i wonder what the condition is...
i updated to 10.2.8. once i ran transparent dock my dock crashed, and crashed, and continued to crash ad infinitum. i restored a backup and that solved the problem. after running transparent dock on this backup the dock quit crashing, and i had my color settings back, and everything was cool. wondering what the deal was, i updated another mac that i have, then backed up the dock directly after updating, and i was going to experiment with it. i never got around to doing that, but now i'm seeing other anomalies, with the NEW dock app. my icons are bunched up together, and sometimes an application will stay in the dock after it's quit, and puts another icon along side it when the application is opened again (not using the dock shortcut). is anybody else seeing this behavior, or similar anomalies?
does "cute" also include the 8 character password limit throughout the rest of os X? because i don't see being unable to use the letter U on boot is nearly so much of a problem as os X only recognizing the first 8 characters of any given password, and neither of them actually are "cute". though, i still love os x the mostest!!!
It'd be rediculously trivial to have a.zaa file format that uses a form of compression along with a header with a checksum, description, etc to ensure that the file it claims it has, really is that file.
If you want to share a file, you pack in into a.zaa file and submit it for community approval before it's checksum is added to a global database as "trusted."
this would be a nightmare for those files that never get completely downloaded, or for those times when id3 tags are messed up, or contain shameless promotion of some expired domain. i think that the way winmx handles checksumming files helps with that, without the need to submit approval. the mechanism just gets defeated when people download files that have been named a dozen things, then don't delete them when they see that the file really contains pr0n.
On the web, sites are required by law to warn users before they can enter an adult site.... P2P has NO SUCH MECHANISM to warn users about what they may actually be getting.
winmx at least warns people when they click the chat tab in the application. winmx users also aren't being sued by the RIAA.... yet....
i'd like to think of it as "common sense", but so many people seem to have a hard time grasping that. so what i think we should do is put "common sense" on every warning or sign that is really just common sense. that way when people see it they'll know to remember that whatever that sign is saying is really just sensible. you know, things like the warning labels on bikes that say "warning! riding this bicycle down hills will increase your speed!" or "dangerous cliffs, a fall could be fatal!" near the top of a 200 foot drop.
> 3. iTunes has very poor configurability comparing to xmms.
how can you compare great configurability of a small, slim, trim, really sweet and fast mp3 PLAYER to an entire music DATABASE frontend? when you don't have to bother configuring things like the sound server you don't need an intricate configuration system.
xmms doesn't let you rate songs, it doesn't keep track of the last time you played them, keep track of when they were added, sort by (genre|play time|artist|album|bitrate|filesize|etc..), or create playlists via query of the database (smart playlists, as apple calls them.) i'm a big xmms fan, but really, to compare it to itunes is like comparing a motorcycle to a van.
>These two have no working screen, which costs $1240 *each* to repair from Apple.
ah, well i must have read that line wrong. regardless, i still endorse the compusa tap.
as i was reading through here i saw that most people were having problems that were covered under applecare, but here there were some issues that called for a more beefy warranty. personally, i forked over a little bit of extra cash for a compusa warranty. i didn't purchase my 12" from compusa, but they will give you a warranty on any oem computer. they cover screens, and they have a lemon policy where if your device fails three times they replace it rather than repair it. a buddy of mine had an old pizmo and when it died they replaced it with a first gen tibook. applecare would never do that. so, even though there are many praise stories of the applecare warranty, i recommend compusa TAP.
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sports?! i thought he was talking about the bouncing bear episode!
yup, i have a t68i as well and bluetooth is perfect for what i do with it, mainly syncing my address book and sending SMS messages. and although i don't do this, i know people who do use bluetooth mice with their powerbooks, which saves them the dongle. pretty fly, just take out the mouse, turn it on and you're good.
actually, a full refrigerator is more efficient than an empty one.
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that's the first thing i thought of. i'm not as old-school as 1984, but when i was a teen playing around with old 8086's in the early 1990's (poor kid) i had a 2400 baud modem that let me chat and see as others were typing in real time. man, if i'd only known that I could've patented that behavior! so... i wonder how i can make my million patenting other present day accomplishments...
if you google for "free virus scanner" you do get pretty lucky, the first hit is http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ which is an in-browser virus scanner that happened to do a better job at fixing my friends computer than a two day old install of NAV.
do your fucking research...
come on man, give the guy a break! we need to band together on this so that we don't all feel the wrath of a DDOS attack from 33.6 Kbaud imac modems around the globe! i mean, i don't know about any of you guys, but Kbaud sounds pretty damn scary to me! i think that, like dragons and unicorns, they don't really exist... but if they did....? i shudder to think of it.
it's true, DHCP was not functioning properly on my g4 400 either. however, it was working perfectly fine two 12" pb's here. Sniffing the traffic with ethereal showed no network activity whatsoever, even when set to static IP addressing. the error "sendto: Host is down" was coming back from pings. doing the AppleGMACEthernet.tar.gz fix resolved the problem.
i don't know what all this is about windows thrashing hdd's... i have a thinkpad a30 1ghz celery running xp, and i never have problems with it... i mean... other than the fact it doesn't have a track pad or a windows key, and has about six "special feature" buttons that i never use... however, i'm not claiming xp runs like a dream, merely wondering what could be the problem with the hdd's going nuts.
i agree with the windows update shyness, i usually don't want to run them. luckily we have our systems ghosted, so if things get messed up we can always revert back. i wish i had that the first time i installed IE5 over windows update and toasted win98fe....
on the flip side, i have a 12" bp and my display settings are fine. when i went to check them i deicded to try the thousands of colors look and yeah, that really is amazingly well done. =) photographs and gradients would be a good indicator though, which is the first place i really saw a difference. my room mate also has a 12" bp and he had no problems with it either, so not all is bad. i wonder what the condition is...
i updated to 10.2.8. once i ran transparent dock my dock crashed, and crashed, and continued to crash ad infinitum. i restored a backup and that solved the problem. after running transparent dock on this backup the dock quit crashing, and i had my color settings back, and everything was cool. wondering what the deal was, i updated another mac that i have, then backed up the dock directly after updating, and i was going to experiment with it. i never got around to doing that, but now i'm seeing other anomalies, with the NEW dock app. my icons are bunched up together, and sometimes an application will stay in the dock after it's quit, and puts another icon along side it when the application is opened again (not using the dock shortcut). is anybody else seeing this behavior, or similar anomalies?
CD drive? you can plug a usb keychain memory stick right into the keyboard.
does "cute" also include the 8 character password limit throughout the rest of os X? because i don't see being unable to use the letter U on boot is nearly so much of a problem as os X only recognizing the first 8 characters of any given password, and neither of them actually are "cute". though, i still love os x the mostest!!!
did you hear it...? i swear i heard the cheers of the opensource community echoing around the world...
this would be a nightmare for those files that never get completely downloaded, or for those times when id3 tags are messed up, or contain shameless promotion of some expired domain. i think that the way winmx handles checksumming files helps with that, without the need to submit approval. the mechanism just gets defeated when people download files that have been named a dozen things, then don't delete them when they see that the file really contains pr0n.
winmx at least warns people when they click the chat tab in the application. winmx users also aren't being sued by the RIAA.... yet....
i'd like to think of it as "common sense", but so many people seem to have a hard time grasping that. so what i think we should do is put "common sense" on every warning or sign that is really just common sense. that way when people see it they'll know to remember that whatever that sign is saying is really just sensible. you know, things like the warning labels on bikes that say "warning! riding this bicycle down hills will increase your speed!" or "dangerous cliffs, a fall could be fatal!" near the top of a 200 foot drop.
How is it that so many stories about apple related things, such as this one, do not make it into the Apple section of /.?
> 3. iTunes has very poor configurability comparing to xmms.
how can you compare great configurability of a small, slim, trim, really sweet and fast mp3 PLAYER to an entire music DATABASE frontend? when you don't have to bother configuring things like the sound server you don't need an intricate configuration system.
xmms doesn't let you rate songs, it doesn't keep track of the last time you played them, keep track of when they were added, sort by (genre|play time|artist|album|bitrate|filesize|etc..), or create playlists via query of the database (smart playlists, as apple calls them.) i'm a big xmms fan, but really, to compare it to itunes is like comparing a motorcycle to a van.
recursion is not tautologous, neither is the statement that the apsl is incompatible with gpl because the apsl is incompatible with gpl.
>These two have no working screen, which costs $1240 *each* to repair from Apple. ah, well i must have read that line wrong. regardless, i still endorse the compusa tap.
as i was reading through here i saw that most people were having problems that were covered under applecare, but here there were some issues that called for a more beefy warranty. personally, i forked over a little bit of extra cash for a compusa warranty. i didn't purchase my 12" from compusa, but they will give you a warranty on any oem computer. they cover screens, and they have a lemon policy where if your device fails three times they replace it rather than repair it. a buddy of mine had an old pizmo and when it died they replaced it with a first gen tibook. applecare would never do that. so, even though there are many praise stories of the applecare warranty, i recommend compusa TAP.