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  1. Re:Why Bootcamp with Win 7 on Windows Drains MacBook's Battery; Who's To Blame? · · Score: 1

    All the BootCamp tool really does is partition the drive. You can just live partition the disk in Disk Utility and then install Windows, Linux, Whatever. The BIOS fakeout is something that is part of the EFI to begin with, not part of BootCamp.

  2. Re:Think of the towers on Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking Could Hurt Cell Towers · · Score: 1

    Huh? WTF? A jailbroken OS is often used to play pirated content?

    A lot of casual users Jailbreak with the main purpose of loading cracked applications. Just search YouTube for iphone and crack. It's blatant to the point of ridiculousness. I'm amazed that Apple hasn't complained about the videos there on the topic. I've watched reviews of iPhone games that provide links to cracked ipa files in the descriptions.

  3. Re:We use Nod32 on Central Anti-Virus For Small Business? · · Score: 1
    I used to use AVG on my Windows boxes until it started throwing false positives on things like Bioshock and Portal. Now I just run Avast and Windows Defender.

    There is also a free Mac version of Avast for when that day comes.

  4. Re:Apple's fascination with single button mice on Fifteen Classic PC Design Mistakes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not for nothing, but that's just not true anymore. Hasn't been for quite a few years. Ever since the Mighty Mouse (the one with the trackball) became standard, it's been a 2-button mouse.

    More than that, it's a 4-button with a scroll ball.

  5. Re:Wrong why? on A Twitter Client For the Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    Bah! Real Men load it off a data cassette. Let's see, was the twitter client at marker 42 or 142?

  6. Re:Mentioned as "Greatest Adventure Games" on Vintage Games · · Score: 1

    Hacker was such an awesome game. It came in a box with just a disk. No instructions. It loaded to a prompt that looked like it had dialed into a system. We tried a few things and then we "hacked" in and the real fun started.

    There was a sequel too, but it wasn't as good.

    Overall your list is good, and I played almost all of those on my C64 as well. No C64 list is complete without Project Firestart though. I still haul out the C128 every now and then to play that one!

  7. Re:You mean the G1? on Rumors Flying About New iPhone Capabilities · · Score: 1

    To be fair he's talking about UrbanSpoon, not the iPhone OS. As someone who travels a LOT for work it is an irreplaceable app for me.

  8. Re:This isn't anything new on Is The Best Game One You Were Never Intended To Play? · · Score: 2

    We called it the Torgo control, if that means anything to you. :)

    The master would not approve...

    I actually made a Torgo costume for Halloween when I was in college.

  9. 3G FTW! on Survey Finds Airport Wi-Fi More Important Than Food · · Score: 1

    I fly a lot more than most people out there, even more than most biz travelers, and the instant I got a EVDO modem I stopped caring about WiFi on the road.

  10. Re:The answer isn't that obvious on Russia To Save Its ISS Modules · · Score: 1

    Some stuff still has a good warranty on it. I just had a new heatpump system put n this week and it has a 12 year warranty on it.

  11. Re:What the Apple guy told me on Apple Tablet Rumors Again (Still?) · · Score: 1

    Unless the guy they sent was Steve Jobs, or is on a design team, he has no idea at all what Apple has in the hardware pipe.

  12. Re:Call it the Newton Phone on Apple May Bring a Non-iPhone To Verizon Wireless · · Score: 3, Interesting

    FWIW, the Newtons did run on ARM processors.

  13. Re:Sounds familiar on Apple May Bring a Non-iPhone To Verizon Wireless · · Score: 2, Informative

    So close!

    Back then the Mac ran on "System" whatever. System 3, System 6, System 7, you get the idea.

    The clone license covered System 7, so they changed the name to Mac OS and revved the number to 8, just to be sure.

  14. Re:Yeah this reader's _____ on Google CEO Warns Newspapers Not To Anger Readers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Remember though, the Winston-Salem Journal is owned by Media General. It's NOT a small town paper.

  15. Re:That's odd... on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, I think that stuff like this can take anyone by surprise. Castle Bravo turned out to be 2.5 times bigger than expected, and those guys were Atomic Scientists!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo

  16. Free distributed backups... on Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good · · Score: 1

    Really it's easy.

    1. Put your data in an encrypted blob.
    2. Name that blob something like [Natlie.Portman.Hot.Grits.REAL][][][XvIdd.AVI.TGZ.Bz2].avi
    3. Upload to a tracker.

    Done

  17. Re:Hilarious time-line... on Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good · · Score: 1

    Behold the confusion of top posting!

  18. Re:Mac reliability on Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good · · Score: 1

    Except its the same hardware...well no, that's not true. You can get a Dell with actual hardware RAID when you're stuck with software RAID on an Xserve.

    Apple has had hardware RAID cards for the Xserve for a long time now. Currently it's SAS or SATA, you pick the drives, but it's the same card.

  19. Re:Mac reliability on Ma.gnolia User Data Is Gone For Good · · Score: 1

    Well, if you read the transcript you'll see it really is no fault of the OS.

    He was backing up up a 1TB MySQL database with raw file replication. He never tested the backup system and when they had a database integrity issue there was no going back. On top of that he was doing dev on the prod environment.

    He may be a talented web developer, but he appears to be a pretty terrible sysadmin.

  20. Re:Real content provider drops support for vaporwa on Boxee Drops Hulu Support · · Score: 1

    Vaporware? Really? We dropped cable at our house for Boxee a few months ago...

  21. Re:Apple connector on Handset Vendors Plug Micro-USB Charge Ports · · Score: 1

    It doesn't show up as a USB Mass Storage device, like my iPod Shuffle does? o_O

    Nope, it shows up as a PTP camera device. There are some FUSE drivers to mount it as a drive on a Mac via the MobileDevice API though.

    http://code.google.com/p/iphonedisk/

  22. Re:Apple connector on Handset Vendors Plug Micro-USB Charge Ports · · Score: 1

    The FireWire brand, the logo, and the implimentation have been a fee free license now since at least 2001...

    http://developer.apple.com/softwarelicensing/agreements/firewire.html

  23. Re:Oh how I love planes.. on The Flying Giant Is 40 Years Old · · Score: 1

    You just gotta fly more and get airline status. I don't think that most of the 1st class cabin is paid for, it's mainly elites on upgrades.

  24. Re:Oh how I love planes.. on The Flying Giant Is 40 Years Old · · Score: 1

    They charge extra for the exit rows and the first few rows of the cabin. Those front rows have some extra legroom now.

    USAir is doing a similar thing now with "choice seats".

  25. Re:TrueCrypt and Mac on How To, When You Have To Encrypt Absolutely Everything? · · Score: 1

    PointSec and WinMagic also support pre-boot on the Mac. WinMagic also supports booting from the Segate hardware encryption drives on a Mac.