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Damn I'm Good! 214
Your wording is fine with this phrase for this context... Josh didn't invent this fix and bandwagon needn't have anything to do with profiting from a craze. Well, he...
Damn I'm Good! 215
Hmmm, looking up the definition of "jump on a bandwagon" I find only "To profit from a craze."-Snit Clearly a "five second search" is sufficient in your opinion to try and increase your knowledge...
Damn I'm Good! 216
1) YOU have no LEGAL right to "argue that Bush is guilty of breaking the Law". YOU CAN "claim" that he is guilty all you want. After all, you...
Damn I'm Good! 217
You can argue anything you'd like... but it does you little good when you flatly admit that the evidence you have provided for your argument doesn't prove one single thing (see below). Your argument against...
OT: Snit circus
Well of COURSE there's something wrong with you! Who would continually ask for the same poo over and over and over unless there was something wrong? Virtually every poster in csma and cola has commented...
Damn I'm Good! 219
Of course it's correct if they agree with you... and many of us do agree about making the changes. What's foolish is to pretend that it's...
Damn I'm Good! 220
LOL! Make up your mind, Snit, elsewhere you're insinuating that I'm worse as of late. How can that be? If I'm so stupid how can it happen even twice? Gee, I'm...
Article: The Most Dangerous Words on the Web 221
OK...despite an hours worth of effort I am unable to become infected by visiting sites returned from Google after...
Article: The Most Dangerous Words on the Web 222
My systems are quite useable. I browse the web, write documents, work on spreadsheet, access my UNIX systems, program, read usenet, RDP to other Windows systems, edit graphics, do...
Article: The Most Dangerous Words on the Web 223
I had to re-install it because there is no way to remove all of...
Security Update 2006003: What a disaster
Hello all... Has anyone else had trouble with Security Update 2006-003 on their *Intel* based Macintosh? I just finished a...
Installed 10.4.7.... 225
YMMV Problems starting up after update -- try re-applying combo updater from separate drive If you...
Installed 10.4.7.... 226
At any given time, within the installed base, there are going to be some people who have systems which are a little screwy. The power got yanked and...
Third International AntiWintel Day
I have been regularly checking highstreet shops in Norwich for the disappearance of the last non-Wintel computer. Today I found...
Mac Security: 5 Security Improvements In 10.4.7 Update &A#JD1Tg!d8
Hi Tiger users! Mac OS X 10.4.7 was made available Tuesday morning from Apple. As ever, it is a good idea...
Mac Fanboys and Advocacy
Yep. I come in here with a problem. There are two replies. 1. You are lying 2. You are too stupid ANYONE that comes in here with a...
Maine signs $41 M contract with Apple for laptops
From the AP: "Maine inks deal with Apple to continue statewide laptop program By David Sharp, buttociated Press Writer June 29, 2006 PORTLAND, Maine --Maine has signed off on a...
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Snippage for brevity. While there isn't much, you still wouldn't like it if there were reams of date since it doesn't fit your outdated notions. This is not...
Maine signs $41 M contract with Apple for laptops 232
On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:18:22 -0500, Jim Polaski jimmiejimbob the liar claims psychic powers. And he admits that his position is based entirely on wishful thinking while mine is based...
Maine signs $41 M contract with Apple for laptops 233
Not psychic powers at all. It's an opinion based on your past actions. I have not admitted anything. This is your...
OT: Pet Peep
He claims to have had help. With respect to mental issues (stress and the like) he claims that every professional he's seen has given him...
Firewire dead Not at all
One of the Windiots remarked that Firewire was dead or dying. This sort of dispells that thought. From Macismum News.( Dennis Sellers is about...
Firewire dead Not at all. 236
I don't think that USB is daisy-chainable except through a port. Ports are said to be "cascadable", not daisy...
Firewire dead Not at all. 237
Jim Polaski FireWire not dead, but it's on life support Posted by Jason D. O'Grady I was genuinely surprised when Apple dropped FireWire sync from the iPod nano. So much so that...
Firewire dead Not at all
Edwin - this is his statement: "Now I'm hearing that FireWire is gone completely from the new Intel iBooks that are coming next month" The new...
Firewire dead Not at all. 239
I'm sure it didn't "get" a FireWire port. It retained one. But his article's thesis was that Apple would be dropping FireWire and...
Firewire dead Not at all. 240
Alan Baker No, a new machine can only be given the same things the old one had. He was talking about new lines, not just a few models. Knock yourself...
Firewire dead Not at all. 241
Argue it out with your source. He clearly said that the new Intel Powerbooks would "retain" FireWire 800 only. He was wrong. new models. "Now I'm...
Firewire dead Not at all. 242
Sorry. I think he's out to lunch. He's your support for your claim that Apple is abandoning FireWire. Now you can pick and choose parts of his stuff if you want, but it makes...
Mac Security: iTunes v6.0.5 Update Integer Overflow Fix &A#JD1Tg!d8
This afternoon (ET) Apple released Security Announcement 2006-06-27. It describes the integer overflow security vulnerability that is patched in iTunes v6.0.5. This iTunes...
XP Professional: Not as bad as I expected, but still VERY primitive
After a week of using XP Pro at my newest client's place of business, I have to be honest and say that I was wrong. XP is nowhere near as unusable...
XP Professional: Not as bad as I expected, but still VERY primitive 245
George Graves See, that's the thing. Windows XP IS usable, AFTER you've gone to go through all the trouble to figure...
XP Professional: Not as bad as I expected, but still VERY primitive 246
um, no, whichever you're more familiar with is going to seem more 'intuitive' and you need to figure out both. i can think of 2 places you need...
XP Professional: Not as bad as I expected, but still VERY primitive 247
George Graves wow, a mac advocate talking out of ignorance about windows, how original! ;D it takes an exact bitmap of whatever's on...
URGENT* Mac OS X 10.4.7 for INTEL Macs REVISED: Old update incomplete &A#JD1Tg!d8
I hate it when this happens. :-P Note that this post ONLY refers to: *INTEL Macs* PowerPC Macs are NOT affected...
CSMA destroyed: Mission accomplished
I have successfully removed any trace of meaningful discourse on this group. There hasn't been a post in this sewer of a group worth...
Benchmarks PowerPC G5 vs. CoreDuo
Here's an interesting Benchmark I've run with Apple Mail. I decided to take my entire life's email (all the way back to 1986) and concatenate it into...
OT: on the subject of "Linux tanks
When I read the breastle of this thread ("Munich Germany Adoption of Linux Tanks") it reminded me of something amusing that I read...
Why are Wintrolls so anxious to get rid of Firewire
Why would our Wintroll contengent be so all-fired anxious to bid FireWire (AKA IEEE1394) a not-so...
Why are Wintrolls so anxious to get rid of Firewire 254
chose to bless us with the following wisdom: And you arrived at this conclusion how? What most Maccies forget is that USB 2.0 is deliberately crippled on the Mac. On a PC the speed difference...
Why are Wintrolls so anxious to get rid of Firewire 255
I'm not sure I understand. For most sorts of devices -- camcorders, scanners, etc. USB2 and-or FireWire are more than fast enough...
Why are Wintrolls so anxious to get rid of Firewire 256
What currently has support might not matter much in five years. And FireWire really isn't "too slow" in principle. The IEEE 1394b spec...
Why are Wintrolls so anxious to get rid of Firewire 257
Huh? 3.2 Gb-s isn't some kind of inherent theoretical limit imposed by the way FireWire operates. It's a...
Why are Wintrolls so anxious to get rid of Firewire 258
We're talking about FireWire here, not specifically IEEE 1394b. The 1394b spec is unlikely to be the last FireWire specification, just as IEEE 802.3u wasn't the...
Why are Wintrolls so anxious to get rid of Firewire 259
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 23:10:40 +0000, Alan Baker There were what? Maybe 20 printers listed there? Compared to the hundreds of USB...
Why are Wintrolls so anxious to get rid of Firewire 260
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 15:08:37 -0400, ZnU Can you cite any source that suggests it can attain anything higher? All published specifications list 3.2Gb-s as...
Why are Wintrolls so anxious to get rid of Firewire 261
Yes, there is no specification that encompbuttes anything higher. Once again, I have no idea why you think you've got a meaningful point here. At one point, there was no specification written...
Why are Wintrolls so anxious to get rid of Firewire 262
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 21:27:10 -0400, ZnU Ethernet is a type of network, not...
Why are Wintrolls so anxious to get rid of Firewire 263
On Jul 2, 2006, ZnU If by "not designed this way" you refer to the effort that...
Why are Wintrolls so anxious to get rid of Firewire 264
There is External Serial ATA. It's a lot faster than Firewire and it's a proven technology. It just hasn't caught on...
Why are Wintrolls so anxious to get rid of Firewire 265
I don't hate Windows. I merely prefer Mac. My view of things is not warped, its just...
Why are Wintrolls so anxious to get rid of Firewire 266
That's true but then again, how many daisy chainable USB devices do you see? I own a bunch of them and...
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chose to bless us with the following wisdom: I showed you a Mac friendly site that reported...
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