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Michael Delll after Apple, again 811
Nope. You claimed Apple's Boot Camp is supplying drivers. What drivers would those be? What do they do? It's your claim and I be you can't document it! No. But there are such MP3 depositories...
Michael Delll after Apple, again 812
Chris Clement Sure it is. You're just jumping in another discussion again without knowing what it's about, and making knee-jerk reactions, as usual. You should stop giving advice that you aren't...
Michael Delll after Apple, again 813
Edwin Except that I'm actually right. If only reality were as easy to edit as text. Uh...multiple means more than one, but in this case Linux...
Michael Delll after Apple, again 814
Chris Clement Only as far as you doing no research before you post goes. That must be a common lament for you. No thanks to Apple. Now what about...
Michael Delll after Apple, again 815
Edwin You'll have to be more specific about those "dozens". Unlike you, I prefer not to guess. DRM is not a...
Michael Delll after Apple, again 816
Alan Baker Thanks to Linux hackers. That's the Microsoft system that runs on multiple devices and multiple music stores, and guarantees compatibility between all of them. It's the thing you claim MS is...
Michael Delll after Apple, again 817
Really? References? Because they are disavowing it. The new Zune and the MS music store that goes with it won't use...
Michael Delll after Apple, again 818
Edwin Install any of these "dozens of operating systems" you claim are available for PCs and you'll be hacking...
Apple Braces for Launch of Windows ME2Pod
by Scott Ott (2006-07-22) -- Apple Computer executives scrambled yesterday to put the best spin on devastating news that arch rival Microsoft will soon launch a compebreastor to the iPod, tentatively dubbed Windows ME2Pod. While Apple's...
Mac community's bad atbreastude prompts Relovecellence to dump Mac for Linux
Relovecellence editors dump Mac for Linux Summary copied from osnews.com a popular Macintosh website and longtime Mac enthusiasts, have switched my living as Mac-specific developer...
OT What Happened To Gasoline
I remember gasoline as being mostly clear with a bit of a golden tint to it. That was from when I was...
Application to replace the Sidebar with a dropdown menu
Is there any application that can get rid of the sidebar of the column view in the Finder and replace it with a drop down menu? Every since OS X came out, I have felt...
OT Thousands of Idling Chevys Discovered on Pluto. Now Expected To Turn Into Charcaol Briquet
Oooh, the Ozzies are a bit behind. To quote your old pal Tholen: "David Tholen, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii who measured the size of Pluto in the late 1980s using a...
Macbook and multiple monitors
Probably not, but like to know if anyone can prove me wrong. Consider the MacBook first. The DVI connector...
Monitor rotation in Macs
With tiger, you can rotate the display on a monitor if it's, for example, in portrait mode, or a upside...
Batteries and crappy Chinese manufacturing
Dude, your Dell just freaking blew up!!! As I sit here typing I'm reminded of what happened at roughly 4 p.m. Central Standard time at my office (about...
That Market Cap thing again, Apple eclipses Dell
Twice in 12 months. The fact is though that Apple – twice inside 12 months – is now valued more highly by the market than Dell. Although this does not alter the fact...
M$ to try and buy the dowload music market. 829
And that act was indeed an abuse of M$ Monopoly position in the marketplace and done with the sole purpose of sinking Netscape, which it did since Netscape had to sell it's other products...
M$ to try and buy the dowload music market. 830
Sorry but DOCTYPE has been part of HTML since 2.0 aka RFC 1866 (1995) "To identify information as an HTML document conforming to this specification, each document must start with one...
M$ to try and buy the dowload music market. 831
Irrelevant as it was part of the standard. If it doesn't not follow the standard of the time then it is poor HTML. Period. Considering there are...
M$ to try and buy the dowload music market. 832
Browser specific code is a major no-no under the standards. The whole purpose of the standards is that ANY browser can take the HMTL and display it. How would you "know" such...
Mac Security: 20060729 &A#JD1Tg!d8
Security issues for Mac continue to be quiet. I am not going to knock on wood as I know this is going to continue to be...
I HATE MAC'S NOW
Argh Mac's! I need to vent guys and here I hope I find sympathy! I HATE MAC'S Today I spent the...
White Macbook gloss stripped off
I have my first Apple laptop and am suprisingly disapointed. In less than a month and a half the aread of the outside of the laptop that touches my skin has...
Great little Bluetooth mouse
The other day I left my usual mouse at home, so I went to a CompUSA to buy a spare. In...
Huh. There are actually "Macs Suck" websites
Hello all, I'm a pretty serious computer hobbyist who loves to follow the Mac vs. PC debate. Just...
Something the Maccies never seem to post 838
NoNamer Oh, look - - another linux troll. First off, it appears that its been 4 months since the last time the service has even been *discussed*, and that April thread...
Something the Maccies never seem to post 839
If you're defining "enough" to be using it solely to transport files from your employer to your Macintosh at home then I would agree. But I wouldn't define "enough" to be something so...
Something the Maccies never seem to post 840
As do you Maccies. Evidence: You just did by labeling me a Wintroll. If you don't care what people use then why are you posting here? There it is again...
Something the Maccies never seem to post 841
Well, DUH! You are a Wintroll! I haven't lumped you with anybody. You are a Wintroll...
Something the Maccies never seem to post 842
And the same can be said of you Maccies. You're not being lumped in alone. You're confusing correcting Macies lies, half-truths, urban legends, and distortions of Windows with advocacy. If you...
Something the Maccies never seem to post 843
Because I've used everything from CPM and DOS to all versions of Windows and many Unices. None are as good for my purposes as is the Mac. That's how...
Something the Maccies never seem to post 844
snit Please George. You experience with Windows is limited to the days when DOS was a core component of Windows. Hardly representative of today's Windows. That's right...you had a little accident that's preventing...
Something the Maccies never seem to post 845
George Graves Mac Jihad doublespeak item # 2334 Ridicule anything Windows (look: Vista's late again, Vista crashed, XP is insecure, Balmer sweats on stage, etc.), but when it comes...
Something the Maccies never seem to post 846
It would be funnier if they weren't so transparent about it. Wasn't there are a 200 post thread about MSFT demo software crashing? LOL That's a huge issue. But when a...
Something the Maccies never seem to post 847
MuahMan Yup; East Coast. Its probably a misleading number, as we did several upgrades above and beyond the basics...
Something the Maccies never seem to post 848
MuahMan That's Pacific side, isn't it? Cruise West runs a boat seasonally down there which we've been considering. We've been debating that general region for...
wine question 849
zara Real question is if the gift will be well received or not...basic etiquette always applies. Insofar as "booze" as a gift, if he's as one-dimensional as...
wine question 850
zara Many people dislike the entire clbutt of Rieslings because of infamous low quality exports like the "Blue Nun" Liebfraumilch, "Black Tower" and "Zeller Schwartz Katz". These are cheap exports that are the white...
Look that happen in Cuba
It proclaims of the Commandant in Boss Fidel Castro to the town of Cuba. July 31, 2006 22:26:01 GMT With reason...
Ubuntu on a Mac 852
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:28:49 -0700, Snit Take a picture next time. "Ugly" isn't much of a gauge to go...
Ubuntu on a Mac 853
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:25:44 -0700, Snit Sure you could. Give X.org the correct values for the monitor. PPC Macs aren't...
Ubuntu on a Mac 854
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:19:46 -0700, Snit Make Ubuntu use a wide aspect resolution. 'Stock' in this context...
Ubuntu on a Mac 855
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:59:44 -0700, Snit It's not intentional--it's a problem with how monitors are detected. This is a long-standing problem with various...
Ubuntu on a Mac 856
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:57:18 -0700, Snit 'Fixing' it would not be easy. The best workarounds so far basically resort to having the user pick their monitor from a list. Ubuntu...
Ubuntu on a Mac 857
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:35:13 -0700, Snit They have different problems to work around during instalaltion. Ever tried to install...
Ubuntu on a Mac 858
Snit hmmm... manually inputting the screen dimensions, perhaps? Worked for me today, managed to get my Apple Cinema 20" widescreen working as a left...
Ubuntu on a Mac 859
Snit It's not the norm, it's only required for unsupported monitors. This is usually caused by people taking machines designed to work well with one...
Ubuntu on a Mac 860
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:10:46 -0700, Snit Some would argue that the inconsistent placement and wording of directories, configuration, and menus is an *advantage*. (I personally don't think...
Ubuntu on a Mac 861
You don't see factories all built the same way regardless of what they are putting...
Ubuntu on a Mac 862
A general purpose computer is not a SINGLE tool. It's a chameleon. It's a factory building, just a shell that can be reconfigured...
Ubuntu on a Mac 863
Wegie That doesn't happen at this level. Boot time error messages are something that can't be automatically reported with modern desktop systems (well, I suppose they *could* be, but AFAIK they aren't). OS X...
Ubuntu on a Mac 864
Wegie All errors get reported to *Apple* through that method--not the developer of the application, unless the developer is Apple. Third party applications are still screwed, unless the problem was caused by...
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