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114,000 viruses Guess Again. 2960
Snit snip Since you can't seem to find the OP, I repeat it for you below: Here's a little education...
Best iPod FM transmitter 2961
Garland I have two iTrips. I have the older one, that plugs in on top and is...
Best iPod FM transmitter 2962
Sara Garland One which lets you choose the frequency on the unit itself. The Griffin iTrip...
Mac Security: Weekly Summary 20060615 &A#JD1Tg!d8
It has been yet another no-malware week for Mac OS X. No doom in sight. The FUD mongerers must be very disappointed. The big news this week is about Windows security vulnerabilities. Microsoft...
Mac Security: Weekly Summary 20060615 &A#JD1Tg!d8!' 2964
Oh. That was divisive. But then again, so was I. I am not sure what you mean. If you are referring to the number of sites that collect data regarding malware, there...
Mac Security: Weekly Summary 20060615 2965
If you want to publish something, put it on a web site. I really can't see any point in you making these posts to comp.sys.mac.system. I don't...
Mac Security: Weekly Summary 20060615 &A#JD1Tg!d8!' 2966
OFF TOPIC DISCUSSION AHEAD. Warning: It includes conflicts between personal realities. Confusion is inevitable. I agree with you with regard to the moments I throw in the Windows sarcasm...
Mac Security: Weekly Summary 20060615 2967
I meant to say, how many of those Windows malware or viruses or vulnerablitiy were...
Mac Security: Weekly Summary 20060615 &A#JD1Tg!d8!' 2968
Yes, I see your point. The sources I have been looking at don't detail what may have gone...
Transferring to a new computer 2969
Hi! ntuser.dat is the user-specific portion of the registry on a Windows NT-type OS. In some cases, you...
Transferring to a new computer 2970
Josh McKee Well, the Mac cuts out the stage of having to reinstall all the apps. This is a Mac advocacy group, this is an advantage of...
OT: RIAA Wants to Depose Dead Defendant's Children But Will Allow them 60 Days to
This little number from blog "Recording Industry vs. The People" Sunday, August 13, 2006 RIAA Wants to Depose Dead Defendant's Children; But Will Allow them 60 Days to "Grieve...
32 bit or 64 bit
So when you said, "Now that Mac OS X is 64 bit," you were referring to ^^^ release of Tiger, some sixteen months ago? You made your...
Windows is boooring
I have three Macs. A G3 12" iBook (bought several years ago to travel with and to manage my digital camera pictures "on the road") an...
Nothing new or exciting in Leopard &A#JD1Tg!d8
Mac OS 7.1 days using the incredible (and free) 'Virtual Desktop' program, part of AWOL Utilities...
Nothing new or exciting in Leopard 2975
I'm certainly not surprised, Josh. Maccies are well-known for their hypocrasy. But the simple fact...
Nothing new or exciting in Leopard 2976
You mean Apple copied the layout of Outlook Express, right? :D Yes. They could have made a much better case of this than...
Nothing new or exciting in Leopard 2977
I take it from the change of subject that you realize that Outlook Express has the same sort of three pane layout Mail has used since Tiger...
Nothing new or exciting in Leopard 2978
No. This is one area where OS X scores over Windows XP; XP has no calendar app...
Nothing new or exciting in Leopard 2979
Why buy a Calendar app for XP? They are given away for free by many file developers. For instance, the Calendar addon for Firefox. But just so you will know...
Nothing new or exciting in Leopard 2980
This is another example of Betrand's poor end in the keynote. He did say that Outlook Express had a calendar in it, and that they were breaking it out to...
Nothing new or exciting in Leopard 2981
Donald McDaniel Well, true enough. There is a built in gui calendar program for CDE on all...
Nothing new or exciting in Leopard 2982
Hayes) So true, my friend. But Snit and Co. are not "marketing wankers". They are common users, like...
CNBC Maria Bartiromo &A#JD1Tg!d8
She is probably showing off a level of computer illiteracy. I can guess she is being 'told' or lead to believe she 'has to' to use a particular email client that...
Allinone routerfirewallVPN appliances
Does anyone have a recommendation? My brother's business is expanding beyond his home office, and both he and his new parter will require access...
And some were saying that Mac is 34 years ahead of Linux 2985
Geico Caveman on Monday 07 August 2006 21:21 Also see: Microsoft Seeks Patent On Virtual Desktop Pager That was in 2004! Did Apple actuallyclaimthat it was their invention? Some hours ago I saw...
And some were saying that Mac is 34 years ahead of Linux &A#JD1Tg!d8
No actually. It is not the case that 'Mac finally gets them....' There was no need for Apple...
And some were saying that Mac is 34 years ahead of Linux 2987
Derek Currie Why do you want a virtual desktop solution supported by the developer of the window manager? So you can easily move windows from one desktop to another using the standard methods. Which Unix...
And some were saying that Mac is 34 years ahead of Linux 2988
Right, Linux has major problems with features that require what we could call "vertical integration". Time Machine required new features in the file system, the graphics engine, the application frameworks, and...
And some were saying that Mac is 34 years ahead of Linux 2989
Lefty Bigfoot It depends on your perspective. It has allowed GNU-Linux to progress much faster than any other platform out there, including other FOSS...
The elephant in the room &A#JD1Tg!d8
No actually. There never (N E V E R) was any date for Leopard, at all, until Monday. Leopard will be 'on time' as defined by its own schedule Monday. Result: The...
The elephant in the room 2991
Apple's release cycle for OS X has been lengthening for a while. It was longer with Tiger than with previous releases...
The elephant in the room 2992
Sandman How was XP not a YA service pack from NT? Marketing hype is marketing hype. And for...
This is what you're supposed to do when you're wrong
So, I emailed the fellow who wrote the article where it said that Apple only sold 50,000 Macs in all of 1984: 'I...
does apple make a word processor &A#JD1Tg!d8
1) OpenOffice NeoOffice: Please excuse Lefty. He gets a bit manic in his cynicism. Sun Microsystems decided to...
Windows.. it's like coming home
I recently posted about some problems I had bringing up my new Toshiba laptop. So now I feel my trolling is incomplete if I...
This is best place to get shopping help for new PCs, honest
Gotta buy my only PC, being I already have a stable of Macs. Went down to "comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy" for help...
In the Shallow End 2997
If it's done with Quartz Compositor it should be pretty zippy. But easy to use? Well, we'll see. Steve's bizzare claim that he must keep all...
In the Shallow End 2998
Dan Johnson No it isn't. Many companies practice keeping secrets from their compebreastors before releasing their products. But if...
In the Shallow End 2999
Then they should not be having public demos of the OS at all. But no, this is silly, Apple is all about the RDF. They demoed their best...
In the Shallow End 3000
Dan Johnson And which they did copy... for Vista. Remember, Jobs did say as such. But then, Apple as a company can do as they wish...
In the Shallow End 3002
Wow. I'm used to seeing ignorance among the MS faction on this newsgroup, but that really takes the cake. Microsoft's effort in developing C# is simply to address their fear of Java breaking their...
In the Shallow End 3003
Sure thing. Doesn't make Objecive-C more compebreastive. It's an excellent knock-off of Java! The framework is a very nice clbutt library. It displays rather less of the lasagna nature than Java's standard library...
In the Shallow End 3004
More bluffing. I shall explain, for those, like you, who don't know about the problems of object-linking, why the technologies for linking...
In the Shallow End 3005
Dan Johnson Transparency? You mean vapour-ware. Not really. If you've studied XCode, you'd know that...
In the Shallow End 3006
Well, the two go together. But developers find it very hard to change directions as fast as Apple would have them do so. Microsoft...
In the Shallow End 3007
Dan Johnson MS has to... their tools take more time to develop apps. So what if the source is compiled twice? You have the...
In the Shallow End 3008
I just explained. Let me try again. The programs are in C, or C++, or Objecive-C. All these langauges allow a lot of leeway in they way a program is compiled. This is for...
In the Shallow End 3009
Word over on the Ars forums seems to be that Time Machine really is just incremental daily backup with no...
In the Shallow End 3010
Yes, but they didn't dwell on that. :D I don't think he interacted, but if I understand how this works right, it should...
In the Shallow End 3011
Dan, you know as little about me as you know about the other topics you're expounding on in this thread. We had the...
In the Shallow End 3012
snip- implausible boasting Sure thing. I'll use the link from your other post. Well, there are links to sample code in the first article. I'll take those as representative, as you've named...
In the Shallow End 3013
I do, but you clearly don't. One doesn't -release (and autorelease is just a delayed release) an object while one still...
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