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  1. Re:RTFA on iPod Shuffle Lookalike Hits CeBIT · · Score: 1

    In the photos where you can see their posters, they have even copied Apple's advertising by using the dancing silhouette wearing the bright white Shuffle.

    I imagine they will get in trouble for that too.

  2. Re:nintendo and apple on Nintendo's Next Console Revolution Will Have WiFi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think that Sega was more the Apple of the console world. Superior, if misunderstood, software and hardware that was often ignored because it wasn't the 'cool' thing out there.

    Internal madness and strife took Sega down, a fate Apple only just managed to avoid...

  3. Re:Security? on Having Fun With PowerBook Motion Sensors · · Score: 1

    And Up-Down-Up-Down-Left-Right-A-B will unlock turbo mode?

  4. Re:Is Longhorn the new Copland? on Microsoft Uncertain About WinFS for XP · · Score: 1

    Apple hired the guy who made the BeFS anyway. Where do you think Spotlight came from anyway?

    Anyone who has tasted the betas of 10.4 agree. Spotlight is indistingushable from magic.

  5. Re:Great. Just great. on Microwires Can Replace The DVD-ROM · · Score: 1

    Duly noted! Problem is, with that many more mini-games I will never, ever pry the DS out of my wife's hands...

  6. Re:"Value" pack? on PSP Final Specs and Launch Titles · · Score: 1

    My, admittedly very early, Sega Saturn came with an incredible port of Virtua Fighter in the box. Sega later sent all registered users a free copy of V.F. Remix in the mail too. Much later they sent a free copy of Christmas Nights in the mail. So that would be 3 rockin' games for free, one of them in the box.

  7. Re:Great. Just great. on Microwires Can Replace The DVD-ROM · · Score: 1

    I don't know how I could ever loose my DS cartridge. I mean there is only one of them...

    (And yes, I love my DS.)

  8. Re:OS X on In Which OS Do You Feel More Productive? · · Score: 1

    Command-a

  9. Re:Speed? on GlobalFlyer 'Round The World Solo Flight Takes Off · · Score: 1

    F1 cars make it much further than a mile or two! On average they only stop 2 or 3 times per ~200 mile race for fuel.

    Now, top fuel dragsters... those go through some fuel!

  10. Re:Um, do you even need to bother replying to Dvor on LinuxWorld Response to 'How to Kill Linux' · · Score: 1

    Depending on who you read, Star Trek ran pretty well on a very limited selection of hardware. After that Apple made a big todo about Mac OS X being cross platform and all of the Rhapsody developer builds shipped for Intel and PPC. That plan was dropped. To this day you can still download Darwin for Intel or PPC.

  11. Re:Has Firewire Really caught on? on Apple Backing Away From FireWire · · Score: 1

    Copying DV tapes from FW device to FW device is a fairly common practice. You can take two cameras, put one in play mode and one in record mode then copy a tape from one to the other to make a copy via FW. Great for fixing broken timecode issues because it lays down fresh, unbroken timecode on the new tape. I created several feature length videos in high school using nothing more than two VCRs and the pause and record buttons. Looking back at those tapes now it's amazing how even one generational loss made things look. 15 years later I've dumped some of those original VHS and Hi8 tapes to miniDV to preserve them and even reedited a few of them. With DV and a NLE (Final Cut Pro for me) I am stunned at how fast and clean you can work. FireWire is what made this work and Apple even won an Emmy for it. If I had these tools back then I probably wouldn't be in IT today.

  12. Re:A "Land" of great projects... on Intelligent MIDI Sequencing with Hamster Control · · Score: 1

    A Wonderswan cart? Now that is wacky and enjoyable by only 3 people...

  13. Re:IPsec VPN? on Mac OS X Server Panther · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... What sort of problems did you have? I have several customers who use both the L2TP and PPTP without issue. Make sure your users have password server passwords. If you want to use PPTP with your LDAP domain make sure you add the keyagentuser.

  14. Re:In a few months, this book will be mostly usele on Mac OS X Server Panther · · Score: 1

    Not really. 90% of it will apply to 10.4 as well as will all the fundamentals and theories behind Open Directory. Would you rather just need to learn the new stuff when Tiger comes out, or be caught flat-footed and need to learn all of it?

  15. Old news on New Apple IT Pro Section · · Score: 1

    I guess no one realized it, but this site has been up there for months...

  16. Re:Another useful site... on New Apple IT Pro Section · · Score: 1

    Just to let you guys know before you hammer the site, our co-lo has been having, um, issues. So it might be a bit slow...

  17. Re:This suprises me. on PSP Opened up and Exposed · · Score: 1

    Because of:

    1. Volume purchasing
    2. The model for the console industry is to take a loss on the hardware and make it up on software.

  18. Re:Let's get some things straight here on E17 Available From CVS · · Score: 1

    I know that it is more than a WM. As a replacement for QuickDraw it suffered from performance issues until the Quartz Extreme dramatically improved speed by using OpenGL to hardware accelerate things. FWIW, even the software renderer in 10.3 is a good bit faster than the 10.2 Quartz implementation.

  19. Re:Let's get some things straight here on E17 Available From CVS · · Score: 5, Informative

    The supporting libraries have an OpenGL rendering back-end. Think about that. A WM finally rendered in OpenGL. And think about the possibilities it will bring.

    FWIW, the Quartz Extreme in Mac OS X 10.3 is just that, an OpenGL rendered WM.

  20. Re:Game selection sucks on Commodore 64 TV Game for Sale · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah! My buddies and I wasted untold hours of our lives playing Spy vs. Spy!

  21. Re:Saturn Vs, Please? on NASA Considering Early Retirement of Shuttle Program · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the fuel thing, but I've been to the full size training unit in Huntsville and they showed us shoes that had blocks on the soles that would lock into the grated floors.

  22. Re:Keychain Access Gripe on NSA Security Guide for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    You should check out the security command man page. It has examples for finding certs and dumping them out to a pem file.

    Examples
    security> find-certificate -a -p > allcerts.pem
    Exports all certificates from all keychains into a pem file called allcerts.pem.

    security> find-certificate -a -e me@foo.com -p > certs.pem
    Exports all certificates from all keychains with the email address mb@foo.com into a pem file called certs.pem.

  23. Will we rise to the challenge? on Nuclear Rockets Moving Along · · Score: 1

    No.

  24. Re:The MACS did it! on Macs Do Star Wars Dirty Work · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean LINUX? Or perhaps WINDOWS?

    I for one didn't know that a Media Access Controller could restore anything. Now a Macintosh, or Mac, that I can see...

  25. Re:It wouldn't go that way on If Mac OS X Came to x86, Would You Switch? · · Score: 1

    Erm...

    FMP has been relational for years and years now. It just never supported more than one table per DB file. That went away in FMP 7.

    We run our trouble ticket system and service contract system out of FMP 6. I can track customer histories, what hardware assets that are covered or not covered by contracts, automatic parts-price lookups, and even check warranty info in real time with a SOAP service that Apple provides to service providers.

    Granted it takes 4 or 5 open db files to do that, and it makes me a bit crazy, but when we get around to picking up FMP Server 7 I can make that problem go away.