Jumping in here, but I think originally you said you wanted the PMG5 to act "as a monitor." That, to me, leans toward the opposite of what you just now said in the parent. But anyway...
If you do want your computer's desktop onto your TV, Apple makes a tiny adapter that will let you do just that. It plugs into either your DVI or VGA port (memory escapes me), and has composite and S-Video outputs. I have a similar adapter which came with my PowerBook (but it's different since it hooks to the tiny mini-DVI output that PowerBooks have). But the one you need either comes with the G5 or is sold with the other little white adapters at the Apple Store/authorized retailer.
Oh, look, right-clicking or ctrl-clicking* gives an option to "Eject [Volume Name]"!
Oh, and look what else--in Mac OS X 10.3, which came out over a year ago, most users are navigating their filesystems in a window like this, where each ejectable volume has an "Eject button" right next to its icon and name (even in Open/Save dialogs!) One friggin' click! Or is that counter-intuitive for a Windows XP user, who has to locate and click the "Safely remove hardware" icon on the taskbar (which is represented by a tiny 3-D rendered grey rectangle and green left-pointing arrow, and may or may not be hidden as "inactive"), click the USB/1394 drive, click stop, confirm it by clicking stop again, then close that window.
Oh, and look what else, under every previous version of Mac OS/Mac OS X you could eject a disk by just hitting File->Eject (or Command-E on the keyboard). Network or removable.
The fact is, the trash-can eject is an old shortcut (whose origins have already been explained here) and which is still supported if you choose to use it, but which NO ONE EVER NEEDS TO KNOW OR USE ANYMORE. Just because it's a possible way to do it isn't reason to bitch, because there are at least three more intuitive ways to do it. Bitching about that would be just like bitching about the fact that you could open a terminal under linux and type "umount -f/mnt/fd1" to unmount a floppy.
____ * which is what I think you meant--Control, not Command, is the context menu key on Mac OS/Mac OS X.
> The Album Art downloaded when you purchase music from the iTunes Music Store
This wouldn't be limited to iTMS songs. Music you ripped or downloaded elsewhere just needs to have the art pasted into the song's ID3v2 tag. Just look at the "Get Info" on a song, and hit the Artwork tab. Paste in the appropriate art.
> information: Any communication or representation of knowledge,
I could question your sourceless definition, but I don't have to. Your definition supports my position.
No knowledge is transmitted during an episode of "Trading Spouses." Care to tell me what you learned last time you watched the Fox network at all? I didn't think so.
Perhaps you would do better if you defined information as "data." Technically speaking, I guess data is being transmitted from the network to your TV to cause it to display the footage of stupid white trash doing stupid things.
This is the type of drivel people like the inventor of this gadget are talking about. This is not information. This is ridiculous, maddeningly stupid crap. Crap that literally makes you stupider just to look at it. And of course there are many situations where one had better not mess with the TV. No one's saying you have to use it if others are enjoying it. It's a tool with a proper use and improper uses, just like a computer.
Okay, there is a big difference between swiping a Metallica song off Gnutella and listening to it, or playing it for your friends--and swiping someone's work, sellilng it, and attempting to pass it off as your own damn work!
Maybe you should compare this CherryOS thing to someone downloading music off P2P and then going on tour "performing" that music and claiming it's your own. That's what this is like here.
When I worked at Apple, I got a sweet deal (25% off) my new 12" PowerBook. But instead of ordering it with plenty of RAM, I just ordered the minimum (256MB) then surfed over to Kingston and got an extra 512MB bringing it to 768MB for like $95, versus probably $200 (retail) to have it pre-installed.
The punch line here is that Kingston gives Apple employees a nice discount on RAM, so all the smart Apple employees always buy their RAM at Kingston.
So when my PB arrived, before I even turned it on, I just opened it up and dropped in the extra SO-DIMM. Made me happy to have lots of RAM and to know I got a good deal.
When I was moving out of my apartment this summer, I had the luck to find a shopping cart nearby my building whose wheel-governor had been magically disengaged. Since this would be useful for rolling my copious heavy boxes from my apartment to the elevator and to the moving vehicle, I snagged it. When I got home, I removed the ads in the little frame on the front of the cart and put in new inserts. On the front of the cart:
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, CART PUSHES YOU!!
On the inside of the cart, "All your base are belong to us!!"
Somewhere in San Francisco, my cart is still sitting around amusing/confusing passersby.
Are you saying, then, that President Bush somehow knew that there were no weapons in Iraq, despite the huge amount of intelligence, from domestic and foreign sources, believed by people from both parties and in many nations, to the contrary?
I'm not the OP, but I will ask you then: Are you saying, that President Bush somehow believed there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, despite the huge amount of intelligence to the contrary? They IGNORED whatever didn't fit their agenda. There is always "intelligence" (if you can call it that) to support any fool theory. Some of it is quality, real information, and some is compromised or unreliable (e.g. plagiarized British term papers). Apparently most of the information Bush used to win support for the war was of the latter type. He ignored plenty of evidence to the contrary, and now it appears that was the evidence that should have been heeded.
I don't think the main problem was the gathering of intelligence. I think the main problem there was that the one man in charge of making decisions based on it, had an agenda, and was not willing to give up his fantasy even though there was convincing evidence that cast doubt upon it. Somehow if the same rumors of WMD were floating around about a make-believe country called No-oil-a-stan that had a dictator twice as cruel but not one drop of crude and without any history of conflict with the US, I don't think Bush would have given it any attention. It would be that thing we read about on page A9 of the paper, like Darfur.
But did the President say something he knew was untrue? In other words, did he lie? No.
The President would be a very naïve man if he believed he was sure enough about these weapons to send thousands of American troops to their deaths.
> Does anyone know if there is a way to get an installable version of Windows off of a rescue CD, or failing that, rebuild the install CD from a running version of windows?
Simple. Go find a reliable "full retail" ISO of that version of Windows, and package that CD with the product-key that yours was installed with (should be on a sticker on the computer these days, or use the XP key finder floating around the 'net to extract it from your computer (runs within Windows, so if you don't know the key, don't wipe Windows off the HD before extracting the key).
Trying to "build" an install CD from the mangled crap you find on those restore CDs or crazier yet, the Windows installation on your hard drive, is like re-inventing the wheel. That you want to make an install CD from this, basically, fake install CD ("restore CD") they give you tells me you aren't worried about MS suing you (I wouldn't be either). So why are you afraid to just grab an ISO of the retail version and use that as a stand-in for the install CD with which you rightfully should have been provided?
> Even then, power wouldn't go to Bush, but under the Constitution would be passed on to the Speaker of the House. At this moment, it is not certain whether this will be a Democrat or Republican, as all 435 House seats will also be elected come November.
I'm aware, but I think the conservatives would prefer either a Republican or a much weaker, unprepared Democrat as President, to a democratically-elected Democrat. Besides, I think it pretty unlikely that a Democrat will be House speaker next year. In today's utterly Partisan Congress, that would essentially require a Democratic majority in the House, would it not?
> Well, there was Wellstone's plane crash, which certainly raised eyebrows. Unless you believe that Bush and co. were behind 9/11 (which is utterly ridiculous - they simply used the tragedy to their political advantage), I disagree that we've seen stranger than what you'd suggest.
Okay, you got me. My bad for using a cliché without really thinking. We have not yet seen anything that strange, although we've seen the Supreme Court appointing the President, whose job it is to appoint the Supreme Court. We've seen convicted felons (Poindexter) put in charge of new government agencies. And most recently, we've seen a President who bribed his way out of real military service (and may or may not have even completed his commitment to the Air National Guard) criticize the other candidate on his actual military service in Vietnam, and get away with it! While this is all strange, I agree that what I predicted (should Kerry win and should Bush not have any technicality on which to claim victory, a situation which is very unlikely to happen) is stranger yet.
If you look at history, every single major government/country that has approved of same-sex unions was gone within 2-3 generations.
How about you ``look at history" and provide some support for that spurious claim, and implied correlation, instead of expecting us to take if for granted?
Do you think that this time, Dubya will just say "well golly gee, you got me... kerry did win after all'?
Should there be any major irregularities that would've tipped the vote over to Kerry, he wouldn't have much of a choice.
You must be new here (in the US). May I direct your attention to election 2000. The Bush camp was fixated on using the legal system to stop any proceedings toward resolving the irregularities. They will do anything to stay in power this time. If Kerry wins, be ready for a "mysterious plane crash" to take out Kerry and Edwards prior to inauguration time. Farfetched? Yes, but we've seen stranger in the last four years. Hell (assuming it exists) has a VIP room reserved for these bastards.
That's a little generous, don't you think? I'd throw the bastards down the stairwell all the way down the Sears Tower! Of course, that's after I gouge out their eyes and shove their computers up their asses. Okay, getting a little worked up now, better quit.
and used a file called "Mac OS ROM" for OS 9. I was under the impression that they ditched the ROM thing entirely for OS X.
That's correct. However, I think* you probably need an 'enabler' file for the particular model. From what I understand, the enabler is basically a driver. For what exact device(s), I'm not sure. If someone could reverse those files and create one designed for this machine (difficulty of this unknown to me) then you could probably run Mac OS X on it.
> if the University is already providing wireless internet access, why on earth are the students paying...?
Think about it for a moment. There's only one plausible reason a thinking person would do this. The school-provisioned network must be completely useless to get anything done, either because it lacks sufficient bandwidth, or because they arbitrarily limit what you can do with it (such as, e.g. blocking ports).
As an indentured servant of the Walt Disney World company, in company-owned housing, I can relate to this. The "internet connection" they provide is so painfully slow that sometimes I dial-up so I can get something done in a reasonable time. So I would gladly pay $35/month to Bright House Networks (cable company) for a real Internet connection if I had the opportunity.
> Plus, I've got some legacy computers (Mac 512KE, etc.)
Well, while you're at it then, you'd better hang on to that ImageWriter too. And your 2400-baud modem. And you need to remember to go find double-density floppy disks, since high-density won't work in that machine.;-D
I don't think the article or anyone here denies that some older machines we have still need this technology, but rather that it will join the ranks of the 2400-baud modem and the ImageWriter, because it's the only storage medium some legacy equipment can interface with. But as for regular, mainstream machines, the point still stands.
I know, isn't it funny how you feel wasteful and dirty for burning a CD with less than about 100MB? I feel the same way sometimes, but thinking about how much floppy disks cost (~$1 or so last I noticed) and how little CDs do (I never buy them more expensive than $10 for 50, so that makes them $0.20 or less)...it's more wasteful to put a 1MB file on a floppy than on a CD...given the short usable lifetime of every floppy I've used in the past 7-8 years, they might as well be write-once, so spending a dollar for 1MB is much more wasteful/foolish than spending 20 cents for it.
Maybe we'd feel better using a "Business Card CDR" for little things like that. More convenient too, especially for someone who uses that on a daily basis.
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>My computer's desktop onto my tv.
Jumping in here, but I think originally you said you wanted the PMG5 to act "as a monitor." That, to me, leans toward the opposite of what you just now said in the parent. But anyway...
If you do want your computer's desktop onto your TV, Apple makes a tiny adapter that will let you do just that. It plugs into either your DVI or VGA port (memory escapes me), and has composite and S-Video outputs. I have a similar adapter which came with my PowerBook (but it's different since it hooks to the tiny mini-DVI output that PowerBooks have). But the one you need either comes with the G5 or is sold with the other little white adapters at the Apple Store/authorized retailer.
> click-and-hold or cmd-click and select "eject".
/mnt/fd1" to unmount a floppy.
Oh, look, right-clicking or ctrl-clicking* gives an option to "Eject [Volume Name]"!
Oh, and look what else--in Mac OS X 10.3, which came out over a year ago, most users are navigating their filesystems in a window like this, where each ejectable volume has an "Eject button" right next to its icon and name (even in Open/Save dialogs!) One friggin' click! Or is that counter-intuitive for a Windows XP user, who has to locate and click the "Safely remove hardware" icon on the taskbar (which is represented by a tiny 3-D rendered grey rectangle and green left-pointing arrow, and may or may not be hidden as "inactive"), click the USB/1394 drive, click stop, confirm it by clicking stop again, then close that window.
Oh, and look what else, under every previous version of Mac OS/Mac OS X you could eject a disk by just hitting File->Eject (or Command-E on the keyboard). Network or removable.
The fact is, the trash-can eject is an old shortcut (whose origins have already been explained here) and which is still supported if you choose to use it, but which NO ONE EVER NEEDS TO KNOW OR USE ANYMORE. Just because it's a possible way to do it isn't reason to bitch, because there are at least three more intuitive ways to do it. Bitching about that would be just like bitching about the fact that you could open a terminal under linux and type "umount -f
____
* which is what I think you meant--Control, not Command, is the context menu key on Mac OS/Mac OS X.
> The Album Art downloaded when you purchase music from the iTunes Music Store
This wouldn't be limited to iTMS songs. Music you ripped or downloaded elsewhere just needs to have the art pasted into the song's ID3v2 tag. Just look at the "Get Info" on a song, and hit the Artwork tab. Paste in the appropriate art.
> information: Any communication or representation of knowledge,
I could question your sourceless definition, but I don't have to. Your definition supports my position.
No knowledge is transmitted during an episode of "Trading Spouses." Care to tell me what you learned last time you watched the Fox network at all? I didn't think so.
Perhaps you would do better if you defined information as "data." Technically speaking, I guess data is being transmitted from the network to your TV to cause it to display the footage of stupid white trash doing stupid things.
> It isn't legal for Russians - they export the music due to a loophole in Russia's law. The service is not offered domestically. (emphasis added)
Never heard that claim before. Sources?
"Information"???
- My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss
- Amish in the City
- The Swan
- Nanny 911
- Trading Spouses:Meet Your New Mommy
This is the type of drivel people like the inventor of this gadget are talking about. This is not information. This is ridiculous, maddeningly stupid crap. Crap that literally makes you stupider just to look at it. And of course there are many situations where one had better not mess with the TV. No one's saying you have to use it if others are enjoying it. It's a tool with a proper use and improper uses, just like a computer.Okay, there is a big difference between swiping a Metallica song off Gnutella and listening to it, or playing it for your friends--and swiping someone's work, sellilng it, and attempting to pass it off as your own damn work!
Maybe you should compare this CherryOS thing to someone downloading music off P2P and then going on tour "performing" that music and claiming it's your own. That's what this is like here.
When I worked at Apple, I got a sweet deal (25% off) my new 12" PowerBook. But instead of ordering it with plenty of RAM, I just ordered the minimum (256MB) then surfed over to Kingston and got an extra 512MB bringing it to 768MB for like $95, versus probably $200 (retail) to have it pre-installed.
The punch line here is that Kingston gives Apple employees a nice discount on RAM, so all the smart Apple employees always buy their RAM at Kingston.
So when my PB arrived, before I even turned it on, I just opened it up and dropped in the extra SO-DIMM. Made me happy to have lots of RAM and to know I got a good deal.
Holy tangent, Batman... sorry.
When I was moving out of my apartment this summer, I had the luck to find a shopping cart nearby my building whose wheel-governor had been magically disengaged. Since this would be useful for rolling my copious heavy boxes from my apartment to the elevator and to the moving vehicle, I snagged it. When I got home, I removed the ads in the little frame on the front of the cart and put in new inserts. On the front of the cart:
IN SOVIET RUSSIA,
CART PUSHES YOU!!
On the inside of the cart, "All your base are belong to us!!"
Somewhere in San Francisco, my cart is still sitting around amusing/confusing passersby.
I don't think the main problem was the gathering of intelligence. I think the main problem there was that the one man in charge of making decisions based on it, had an agenda, and was not willing to give up his fantasy even though there was convincing evidence that cast doubt upon it. Somehow if the same rumors of WMD were floating around about a make-believe country called No-oil-a-stan that had a dictator twice as cruel but not one drop of crude and without any history of conflict with the US, I don't think Bush would have given it any attention. It would be that thing we read about on page A9 of the paper, like Darfur.The President would be a very naïve man if he believed he was sure enough about these weapons to send thousands of American troops to their deaths.
> This can be configured in the Preferences
Sounds interesting. What Preferences are you talking about?
> Let's just hope that americans make the right choice with a sufficient majority in November...
:-D
I'm doing my part--I'm voting in Florida this year (yes, I am living there for the time being)!
Okay, got it. I think I read too much into your question--sorry!
> Does anyone know if there is a way to get an installable version of Windows off of a rescue CD, or failing that, rebuild the install CD from a running version of windows?
Simple. Go find a reliable "full retail" ISO of that version of Windows, and package that CD with the product-key that yours was installed with (should be on a sticker on the computer these days, or use the XP key finder floating around the 'net to extract it from your computer (runs within Windows, so if you don't know the key, don't wipe Windows off the HD before extracting the key).
Trying to "build" an install CD from the mangled crap you find on those restore CDs or crazier yet, the Windows installation on your hard drive, is like re-inventing the wheel. That you want to make an install CD from this, basically, fake install CD ("restore CD") they give you tells me you aren't worried about MS suing you (I wouldn't be either). So why are you afraid to just grab an ISO of the retail version and use that as a stand-in for the install CD with which you rightfully should have been provided?
> Even then, power wouldn't go to Bush, but under the Constitution would be passed on to the Speaker of the House. At this moment, it is not certain whether this will be a Democrat or Republican, as all 435 House seats will also be elected come November.
I'm aware, but I think the conservatives would prefer either a Republican or a much weaker, unprepared Democrat as President, to a democratically-elected Democrat. Besides, I think it pretty unlikely that a Democrat will be House speaker next year. In today's utterly Partisan Congress, that would essentially require a Democratic majority in the House, would it not?
> Well, there was Wellstone's plane crash, which certainly raised eyebrows. Unless you believe that Bush and co. were behind 9/11 (which is utterly ridiculous - they simply used the tragedy to their political advantage), I disagree that we've seen stranger than what you'd suggest.
Okay, you got me. My bad for using a cliché without really thinking. We have not yet seen anything that strange, although we've seen the Supreme Court appointing the President, whose job it is to appoint the Supreme Court. We've seen convicted felons (Poindexter) put in charge of new government agencies. And most recently, we've seen a President who bribed his way out of real military service (and may or may not have even completed his commitment to the Air National Guard) criticize the other candidate on his actual military service in Vietnam, and get away with it! While this is all strange, I agree that what I predicted (should Kerry win and should Bush not have any technicality on which to claim victory, a situation which is very unlikely to happen) is stranger yet.
I love Psi. Wonderful little program. Use it on my Mac and keep a copy on my USB key for chatting away-from-home.
...and throw them down a flight of stairs.
Just one flight of stairs???
That's a little generous, don't you think? I'd throw the bastards down the stairwell all the way down the Sears Tower! Of course, that's after I gouge out their eyes and shove their computers up their asses. Okay, getting a little worked up now, better quit.
and used a file called "Mac OS ROM" for OS 9. I was under the impression that they ditched the ROM thing entirely for OS X.
That's correct. However, I think* you probably need an 'enabler' file for the particular model. From what I understand, the enabler is basically a driver. For what exact device(s), I'm not sure. If someone could reverse those files and create one designed for this machine (difficulty of this unknown to me) then you could probably run Mac OS X on it.
* This whole paragraph might be wrong.
don't commit crimes. If you choose otherwise, rape is perfectly appropriate as a punishment.
What the fuck? And what if you get AIDS from being raped in prison? Is that appropriate too?
The only problem with US prisons is that people survive them.
Oh yes, because all crimes warrant the death penalty now. Go back to Texas, asshole. What a troll.
> 5. Floppy disk drive
Nope, can't. That's dead.
> if the University is already providing wireless internet access, why on earth are the students paying...?
Think about it for a moment. There's only one plausible reason a thinking person would do this. The school-provisioned network must be completely useless to get anything done, either because it lacks sufficient bandwidth, or because they arbitrarily limit what you can do with it (such as, e.g. blocking ports).
As an indentured servant of the Walt Disney World company, in company-owned housing, I can relate to this. The "internet connection" they provide is so painfully slow that sometimes I dial-up so I can get something done in a reasonable time. So I would gladly pay $35/month to Bright House Networks (cable company) for a real Internet connection if I had the opportunity.
> Plus, I've got some legacy computers (Mac 512KE, etc.)
;-D
Well, while you're at it then, you'd better hang on to that ImageWriter too. And your 2400-baud modem. And you need to remember to go find double-density floppy disks, since high-density won't work in that machine.
I don't think the article or anyone here denies that some older machines we have still need this technology, but rather that it will join the ranks of the 2400-baud modem and the ImageWriter, because it's the only storage medium some legacy equipment can interface with. But as for regular, mainstream machines, the point still stands.
I know, isn't it funny how you feel wasteful and dirty for burning a CD with less than about 100MB? I feel the same way sometimes, but thinking about how much floppy disks cost (~$1 or so last I noticed) and how little CDs do (I never buy them more expensive than $10 for 50, so that makes them $0.20 or less)...it's more wasteful to put a 1MB file on a floppy than on a CD...given the short usable lifetime of every floppy I've used in the past 7-8 years, they might as well be write-once, so spending a dollar for 1MB is much more wasteful/foolish than spending 20 cents for it.
Maybe we'd feel better using a "Business Card CDR" for little things like that. More convenient too, especially for someone who uses that on a daily basis.