Making fairly quiet machines is one area where I will give Dell decent marks. So that's part of the reason there. The other is that it's a 4 year old machine, meaning the processor probably barely needs a fan on it.
Remember that windows keyboards already have the 'right click' button (the key next to the right CTRL key). All you need to do is use one of the keyboard remapper programs to remap that to a different key (or key combo) on the Mac keyboard.
As someone in the thread yesterday mentioned, it appears that he might be using a USB thumbdrive for the bootstrap sequence. If so, I would imagine the presence of it, plus holding the C key (or whatever key would force booting from USB) would send it to XP. Letting it boot normally would go to OS X. If this is what it takes, I honestly wouldn't mind having a setup like that. A proper bootloader menu would be nice, though, but I wouldn't consider it totally necessary in the above scenario. Of course this is all speculation. We'll have the real answer within the next few days.
For real. I mean, why hand-crank those things? Why don't they just plug them into the power outlets in the wall? I see about 6 or 7 outlets from where I'm sitting. I would assume that everyone everywhere else in the world has the exact same resources available to them that I do...
No kidding. Maybe the submitter got hit by something and was knocked out overnight, so he thinks it's still the Ides of March. Or more likely, the "editor" is so fucking clueless that he doesn't even know what that phrase means and didn't, you know, edit it out.
Okay. So you're afraid of having a used CD stolen from you, but you routinely walk around with something that measures 10x6x3 inches whose sole purpose is ripping CDs? Unlikely, says I.
Oh, I read the thing. Although, my struggle with this review is really the "Why?" It's one thing to review a new product. It's another to review something that's different from what else is out there. It's simply pointless, however, to review a standard run-of-the-mill product that is no different from quite literally hundreds of other products out there.
Great advertis, ummm, I mean review, Taco. So, you're saying that this external FW/USB drive acts as an external FW/USB drive? Woah! Who ever woulda thunk it...
First off, I've never played WoW (nor any other MMORPG). Now, let me get this straight. The entire WINE aspect seems incidental, so we'll ignore that. Otherwise, he set up some macros on his Logitech keyboard to perform some repetitive tasks. He set those in motion, put up a 'Do Not Disturb' message, and then proceeded to go off and do something else (which admittedly was watching the movie on the other monitor). While this is not a bot program, per se, how is this not running a bot? It's unattended automated actions performed repeatedly. To the best of my knowledge, that's what a bot is. In which case, a banning is what you get.
Hell, you can do this for free using the OS X Remote Desktop Connection client. Just connect to the other machine, set it for fullscreen and you're done.
Ummm...Analogs? Which are totally different from Anal Logs.
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...and the iPod doesn't give me a very quick way to access various songs on-the-fly.
I have the exact opposite opinion. The iPod acceleration works quite well. It takes a second or two of frantic spinning to get it going, but once it does, I usually end up hitting the end of the list in no time.
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Making fairly quiet machines is one area where I will give Dell decent marks. So that's part of the reason there. The other is that it's a 4 year old machine, meaning the processor probably barely needs a fan on it.
What do you call a device that has numbers and letters on it and its use is primarily for input into a machine.
I call that the telephone.
Remember that windows keyboards already have the 'right click' button (the key next to the right CTRL key). All you need to do is use one of the keyboard remapper programs to remap that to a different key (or key combo) on the Mac keyboard.
As someone in the thread yesterday mentioned, it appears that he might be using a USB thumbdrive for the bootstrap sequence. If so, I would imagine the presence of it, plus holding the C key (or whatever key would force booting from USB) would send it to XP. Letting it boot normally would go to OS X. If this is what it takes, I honestly wouldn't mind having a setup like that. A proper bootloader menu would be nice, though, but I wouldn't consider it totally necessary in the above scenario. Of course this is all speculation. We'll have the real answer within the next few days.
For real. I mean, why hand-crank those things? Why don't they just plug them into the power outlets in the wall? I see about 6 or 7 outlets from where I'm sitting. I would assume that everyone everywhere else in the world has the exact same resources available to them that I do...
No kidding. Maybe the submitter got hit by something and was knocked out overnight, so he thinks it's still the Ides of March. Or more likely, the "editor" is so fucking clueless that he doesn't even know what that phrase means and didn't, you know, edit it out.
Yeah, but can I run it under Cygwin on XP on an Intel iMac?
I don't think sidetrack runs under XP, which is really where the lack-of-a-right-click problem lies.
Maybe it's always been this way and when I was a kid I either didn't notice or just shrugged it off....
I'm sure that when it was pointed out to you as a kid, you responded with a simple, "Yeah, right."
Remember that you gotta start somewhere. Being able to successfully natively boot the OS you want to run in a VM is the first step here...
It even has a cute tortoise as the logo
I thought Logo used a turtle, not a tortoise.
Great, now they are combining two of the most horrible addictions in my life.
Hate to break it to you, but heroin and hookers were combined a loooong time ago...
Okay. So you're afraid of having a used CD stolen from you, but you routinely walk around with something that measures 10x6x3 inches whose sole purpose is ripping CDs? Unlikely, says I.
Oh, I read the thing. Although, my struggle with this review is really the "Why?" It's one thing to review a new product. It's another to review something that's different from what else is out there. It's simply pointless, however, to review a standard run-of-the-mill product that is no different from quite literally hundreds of other products out there.
Great advertis, ummm, I mean review, Taco. So, you're saying that this external FW/USB drive acts as an external FW/USB drive? Woah! Who ever woulda thunk it...
I hear that it'll be able to render graphics like those used in Toy Story in realtime!
Not to mention that it should be hyphenated. Ill-affected.
No, it just means that the analogy you were going to make wasn't very well thought out. : p
Oh no! Robots are breaking fictitious laws!!! Someone call the Fiction Police!
First off, I've never played WoW (nor any other MMORPG). Now, let me get this straight. The entire WINE aspect seems incidental, so we'll ignore that. Otherwise, he set up some macros on his Logitech keyboard to perform some repetitive tasks. He set those in motion, put up a 'Do Not Disturb' message, and then proceeded to go off and do something else (which admittedly was watching the movie on the other monitor). While this is not a bot program, per se, how is this not running a bot? It's unattended automated actions performed repeatedly. To the best of my knowledge, that's what a bot is. In which case, a banning is what you get.
Hell, you can do this for free using the OS X Remote Desktop Connection client. Just connect to the other machine, set it for fullscreen and you're done.
From the OED:
scamp, n. A good-for-nothing, worthless person, a ne'er-do-well, 'waster'; a rascal. Also playfully as a mild term of reproof.
scamp, v. To do (work, a task, etc.) negligently or hurriedly.
It's brilliantly insane! Or is that insanely brilliant? It's one of the two...
Analogy. The study of ...
Ummm...Analogs? Which are totally different from Anal Logs.
...and the iPod doesn't give me a very quick way to access various songs on-the-fly.
I have the exact opposite opinion. The iPod acceleration works quite well. It takes a second or two of frantic spinning to get it going, but once it does, I usually end up hitting the end of the list in no time.