I've done HD replacements in a PowerBook that was still under warranty at the time. It was even a thicker HD than the ones Apple uses (12mm instead of 9.5mm 2.5" drives) so it was pretty obvious that it wasn't the default drive. Drives are not part of the CIPs for PowerBooks, so technically, it may have been something I shouldn't have done. The FireWire port (on the motherboard) was fried about a year later (just shy of the 3-year warranty period), and Apple gladly replaced the entire motherboard free of charge with fast turnaround (through an Apple Reseller). Apparently, if your upgrades don't break something through your ignorance, Apple doesn't really care what you do. The take-home lesson here: go ahead and tinker all you want, just make sure you don't break something where you're not supposed to be. Warranty shouldn't be negatively impacted.
Just sandblast the thing and go for a 5uP3r-1337 look (make sure to tape over all the openings and all around the hinge first). Either that, or cover it in stickers... If you're just not 1337 enough, try this.
Just open the thing up and figure it out for yourself. It's not rocket science, you know. I've done a bunch of upgrades on PowerBooks without a manual or guide, and it was pretty easy, once you've located the proper screws and whatnot. If it's a simple drive replacement or something, just make sure you have a torx screwdriver set and get crackin.
Nice, thanks for the exact quote and link. I've tried finding it before, but never could. I'll leave the translation the same though, as it pretty much says the same thing... damn character limit.
That law is no longer applicable thanks to the 1976 "Controlled Substances Act", or something of the sort. Now it's just plain illegal, even if states were to issue tax stamps (as Arizona used to do).
IM clients generally make extremely poor IRC clients, so I'm not surprised it was shunned by them. As for Trillian, WORST INTERFACE EVAR!!! That, and it won't import the AIM buddy list automatically.
Maybe because they feel that 0.82.1 is pretty much ready for primetime. The 1.0 release usually signifies that all major kinks have been worked out, the main features frozen, and everything should work as expected. 0.x releases usually mean that there are still some core functions that aren't implemented yet, or aren't working as well as they should.
That doesn't work for me, but maybe that's because I don't have an Apple keyboard, and the F keys (besides F12 for eject, and optionally F9-11 for Expose) are unmapped by default. That would be a convenient tip if you do use an Apple keyboard though.
Better be an old person w/ pretty poor eyesight, as I doubt the resolution (or color and contrast accuracy) on these things would be very convincing. It's a nice dream, but might have to wait for ultra-high-rez OLED displays.
So quit yer bitchin and either upgrade to 10.4.x when this comes out, or get one of any number of free Jabber clients out there that work just fine on 10.2. That's the beauty of open standards...
Applications and system files are not located in the user dir, and would need admin privileges to be accessed/deleted. The pirates affected by this offensive copy protection can still fire up their web browser and other applications, and post all they want. They just lost their documents, user preferences, movies, music, pics, etc. That's the nice thing about POSIX OSs like MacOS X, as trojans can't really break your system, unless you're running as a superuser all the time. It hurts, but doesn't hose your system.
I'm getting about 30-40% CPU usage (of 200% for this dual proc Mac), with stuttering performance (though that may be due to bandwidth limitations on their mirror). Safari, 10.3.5, 1GB RAM, 2x2GHz G5. Plus there are no video controls for pause, whatever, but this is a live stream, so I'm not sure there are supposed to be in this mode. A big meh from me...
16x9 and 4x3 refer to the shape of the pixels, not the aspect ratio. Look it up before you go make a fool of yourself. Of course the actual physical pixels on your TV set don't change, but the pixels in the image it displays do.
It's a little thing called interlacing. Broadcast video is always interlaced, which is far inferior to progressive content, as found on DVDs. Also, the shape of the pixels on DVDs can be 16x9 instead of 4x3, which allows for widescreen content at DVD resolutions, without wasting bandwidth on the black bars. When you master DVDs, you always have to be careful to stay within the Title-safe area when making menus (losing about 10-20% of the picture on all sides), as the space outside of that (even though it's within the 720x480 resolution) will get chopped off by most TV sets. Computers, on the other hand, will display the entire picture.
I'm going to take this opportunity to plug our little freeware DVD ripping solution, MacTheRipper, which has more features, including removing RCE region protection, an additional type of Macrovision, some experimental UOPs removal, more extraction modes, and a better interface and compatibility. It's also still being actively developed, unlike DVDBackup. You can find it here:
http://www.wormintheapple.gr/macdvd/mtr.html
I've had friends who were having this same problem. It turns out they bought their Macs from 3rd party retailers who were offering "Free RAM Upgrades", and stuck in some cheap generic RAM. Once replaced with good, brand-name RAM, the systems were fine, and never had that system crashing problem again.
GitS SAC is pure brilliance. You really owe it to yourself to fire up your favorite P2P client and start watching those. By far the best anime series in existance... and I wouldn't say such a thing lightly.
The G4 (74xx) chips are produced by Freescale/Motorola, not IBM. The G4 is just a cooler, and lower frequency chip than the G5s, though hotter than the G3s (75x) produced by IBM.
The iTunes Music Store is a poor example for several reasons: as previously mentioned, there are no subscription fees for iTMS, so all the uni has done is agreed to provide the iTunes software on their servers (unless they also offer a certain amount of prepaid tracks per timeframe, in which case there is some cause for being upset) there is plenty of non-RIAA music on iTunes, as independent labels are free to submit their tracks along with the big boys (use iTMS in conjunction with www.riaaradar.com to ensure that you don't support the big 5 labels) the selection on iTMS is bound to be orders of magnitude better than what you'd find on this crippled P2P network, possibly even with music you'd actually want to listen to
like you don't already have a Windows install to play games and/or use Office...
That's a very poor example. I had a kid in my class in elementary school (Calistoga Elementary, CA) about 18 years ago who died upon eating a chocolate cake that contained peanut at the school cafeteria. He never knew that peanuts were present until his windpipe closed off. Point is, it wasn't caused by learning that there were peanuts in the cake, that only came afterwards. Some allergies are very real, and not at all related to psychological factors. That being said, I think the submitter needs a big fat pillbox of placebo to get over his illness...
That's Wolfen...:P If you don't think the Bush administration escalated the WoD, you must have missed Ashcroft's crackdown on medical marijuana and paraphanelia, as well as the (ab)use of the Patriot Act to prosecute drug dealers (methamphetamines, to be specific - while our troops in the Gulf are running on go-pills) as terrorists. I'd also like to see you try to reconcile your supposed libertarian beliefs with the largest increase in federal government institutions and power in the form of the Homeland Security Dept. and Transportation Dept. expansion, and the Patriot Act, respectively. In the last four years, the federal govt. has made a huge power grab, while cutting state funding for their own institutions, leaving the states' power greatly weakened. This flies in the face of libertarian ideals, and falls more in line with extreme right-wing nationalist ones. You, sir, are no libertarian. The supposed tax break, which was only significant to the cream of society, was nothing but an illusion to appease his conservative base (and a way of shoveling money to his contributors' accounts). For most Americans, the little money they got back was nothing but an extremely high-interest loan that will be paid for down the road as the deficit payments keep increasing. This money will not be coming from the top 1% of society which benefitted from it, but rather from social security (what's left of it) and the taxes of the middle and lower classes. It's extremely short-sighted to believe for one second that you will pay less taxes in your lifetime thanks to this administration's actions. Kerry is by no means an ideal president, but after bush, (and besides his cabinet), just about anyone would be able to do a better job, for the people. If libertarians support corporate welfare, corruption, needless war, increased federal power and institutions, and increased debt payments, then I must have missed a whopper of a day in my political science classes.
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I've done HD replacements in a PowerBook that was still under warranty at the time. It was even a thicker HD than the ones Apple uses (12mm instead of 9.5mm 2.5" drives) so it was pretty obvious that it wasn't the default drive. Drives are not part of the CIPs for PowerBooks, so technically, it may have been something I shouldn't have done. The FireWire port (on the motherboard) was fried about a year later (just shy of the 3-year warranty period), and Apple gladly replaced the entire motherboard free of charge with fast turnaround (through an Apple Reseller). Apparently, if your upgrades don't break something through your ignorance, Apple doesn't really care what you do. The take-home lesson here: go ahead and tinker all you want, just make sure you don't break something where you're not supposed to be. Warranty shouldn't be negatively impacted.
Just sandblast the thing and go for a 5uP3r-1337 look (make sure to tape over all the openings and all around the hinge first). Either that, or cover it in stickers... If you're just not 1337 enough, try this.
Just open the thing up and figure it out for yourself. It's not rocket science, you know. I've done a bunch of upgrades on PowerBooks without a manual or guide, and it was pretty easy, once you've located the proper screws and whatnot. If it's a simple drive replacement or something, just make sure you have a torx screwdriver set and get crackin.
He was correcting "unuseable"; "unusable" would have also been acceptable...
Nice, thanks for the exact quote and link. I've tried finding it before, but never could. I'll leave the translation the same though, as it pretty much says the same thing... damn character limit.
That law is no longer applicable thanks to the 1976 "Controlled Substances Act", or something of the sort. Now it's just plain illegal, even if states were to issue tax stamps (as Arizona used to do).
IM clients generally make extremely poor IRC clients, so I'm not surprised it was shunned by them. As for Trillian, WORST INTERFACE EVAR!!! That, and it won't import the AIM buddy list automatically.
Maybe because they feel that 0.82.1 is pretty much ready for primetime. The 1.0 release usually signifies that all major kinks have been worked out, the main features frozen, and everything should work as expected. 0.x releases usually mean that there are still some core functions that aren't implemented yet, or aren't working as well as they should.
That doesn't work for me, but maybe that's because I don't have an Apple keyboard, and the F keys (besides F12 for eject, and optionally F9-11 for Expose) are unmapped by default. That would be a convenient tip if you do use an Apple keyboard though.
You're a little late on that one, people have been doing it for a while...
http://movie-nite.com/sw.html
Better be an old person w/ pretty poor eyesight, as I doubt the resolution (or color and contrast accuracy) on these things would be very convincing. It's a nice dream, but might have to wait for ultra-high-rez OLED displays.
So quit yer bitchin and either upgrade to 10.4.x when this comes out, or get one of any number of free Jabber clients out there that work just fine on 10.2. That's the beauty of open standards...
Applications and system files are not located in the user dir, and would need admin privileges to be accessed/deleted. The pirates affected by this offensive copy protection can still fire up their web browser and other applications, and post all they want. They just lost their documents, user preferences, movies, music, pics, etc. That's the nice thing about POSIX OSs like MacOS X, as trojans can't really break your system, unless you're running as a superuser all the time. It hurts, but doesn't hose your system.
I'm getting about 30-40% CPU usage (of 200% for this dual proc Mac), with stuttering performance (though that may be due to bandwidth limitations on their mirror). Safari, 10.3.5, 1GB RAM, 2x2GHz G5. Plus there are no video controls for pause, whatever, but this is a live stream, so I'm not sure there are supposed to be in this mode. A big meh from me...
16x9 and 4x3 refer to the shape of the pixels, not the aspect ratio. Look it up before you go make a fool of yourself. Of course the actual physical pixels on your TV set don't change, but the pixels in the image it displays do.
It's a little thing called interlacing. Broadcast video is always interlaced, which is far inferior to progressive content, as found on DVDs. Also, the shape of the pixels on DVDs can be 16x9 instead of 4x3, which allows for widescreen content at DVD resolutions, without wasting bandwidth on the black bars. When you master DVDs, you always have to be careful to stay within the Title-safe area when making menus (losing about 10-20% of the picture on all sides), as the space outside of that (even though it's within the 720x480 resolution) will get chopped off by most TV sets. Computers, on the other hand, will display the entire picture.
I'm going to take this opportunity to plug our little freeware DVD ripping solution, MacTheRipper, which has more features, including removing RCE region protection, an additional type of Macrovision, some experimental UOPs removal, more extraction modes, and a better interface and compatibility. It's also still being actively developed, unlike DVDBackup. You can find it here: http://www.wormintheapple.gr/macdvd/mtr.html
I've had friends who were having this same problem. It turns out they bought their Macs from 3rd party retailers who were offering "Free RAM Upgrades", and stuck in some cheap generic RAM. Once replaced with good, brand-name RAM, the systems were fine, and never had that system crashing problem again.
GitS SAC is pure brilliance. You really owe it to yourself to fire up your favorite P2P client and start watching those. By far the best anime series in existance... and I wouldn't say such a thing lightly.
The G4 (74xx) chips are produced by Freescale/Motorola, not IBM. The G4 is just a cooler, and lower frequency chip than the G5s, though hotter than the G3s (75x) produced by IBM.
The iTunes Music Store is a poor example for several reasons:
as previously mentioned, there are no subscription fees for iTMS, so all the uni has done is agreed to provide the iTunes software on their servers (unless they also offer a certain amount of prepaid tracks per timeframe, in which case there is some cause for being upset)
there is plenty of non-RIAA music on iTunes, as independent labels are free to submit their tracks along with the big boys (use iTMS in conjunction with www.riaaradar.com to ensure that you don't support the big 5 labels)
the selection on iTMS is bound to be orders of magnitude better than what you'd find on this crippled P2P network, possibly even with music you'd actually want to listen to
like you don't already have a Windows install to play games and/or use Office...
LinuxPPC users can already use MacOnLinux to run MacOS X and all its apps natively in the Linux environment, with almost perfect compatibility.
Hahaaaaaa, I folded a square of toilet paper eight times, though it looked somewhat like a ball after that last one...
That's a very poor example. I had a kid in my class in elementary school (Calistoga Elementary, CA) about 18 years ago who died upon eating a chocolate cake that contained peanut at the school cafeteria. He never knew that peanuts were present until his windpipe closed off. Point is, it wasn't caused by learning that there were peanuts in the cake, that only came afterwards. Some allergies are very real, and not at all related to psychological factors. That being said, I think the submitter needs a big fat pillbox of placebo to get over his illness...
That's Wolfen... :P
If you don't think the Bush administration escalated the WoD, you must have missed Ashcroft's crackdown on medical marijuana and paraphanelia, as well as the (ab)use of the Patriot Act to prosecute drug dealers (methamphetamines, to be specific - while our troops in the Gulf are running on go-pills) as terrorists. I'd also like to see you try to reconcile your supposed libertarian beliefs with the largest increase in federal government institutions and power in the form of the Homeland Security Dept. and Transportation Dept. expansion, and the Patriot Act, respectively. In the last four years, the federal govt. has made a huge power grab, while cutting state funding for their own institutions, leaving the states' power greatly weakened. This flies in the face of libertarian ideals, and falls more in line with extreme right-wing nationalist ones. You, sir, are no libertarian. The supposed tax break, which was only significant to the cream of society, was nothing but an illusion to appease his conservative base (and a way of shoveling money to his contributors' accounts). For most Americans, the little money they got back was nothing but an extremely high-interest loan that will be paid for down the road as the deficit payments keep increasing. This money will not be coming from the top 1% of society which benefitted from it, but rather from social security (what's left of it) and the taxes of the middle and lower classes. It's extremely short-sighted to believe for one second that you will pay less taxes in your lifetime thanks to this administration's actions. Kerry is by no means an ideal president, but after bush, (and besides his cabinet), just about anyone would be able to do a better job, for the people. If libertarians support corporate welfare, corruption, needless war, increased federal power and institutions, and increased debt payments, then I must have missed a whopper of a day in my political science classes.