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Ah, I see. Well, that works. Thanks.	590 Views / 4 Replies
Ah, I see. Well, that works. Thanks.
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 2, 2004 at 12:05 PM, in Developer Center

Newbie learning Xcode-- how to compile?	590 Views / 4 Replies
I feel like a moron, but if I don't ask now, I'll never find out-- how can you get a file to compile in Xcode? I'm not trying to do anything fancy, just trying to get one file to compile, but the...
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 1, 2004 at 10:45 PM, in Developer Center

SFTP in Panther Finder- Possible?	433 Views / 1 Replies
Hello all I was wondering if you could access an sftp server through finder. Though I love using the terminal, it gets really tedious real fast. I couldn't find anything about it on this board...
Posted by beefstu01, on Feb 3, 2004 at 11:55 PM, in macOS

Happens to my 15" AlBook too. I'll have Apple...	652 Views / 4 Replies
Happens to my 15" AlBook too. I'll have Apple look at it some time though.
Posted by beefstu01, on Jan 24, 2004 at 02:26 PM, in Mac Notebooks

I have the same problem with my 15" Al. I leave...	1,046 Views / 11 Replies
I have the same problem with my 15" Al. I leave it to sleep, then open it up and the lighted keyboard craps out. My solution is to turn the lighting off, then put the computer back to sleep, then...
Posted by beefstu01, on Dec 12, 2003 at 01:40 AM, in Mac Notebooks

Dude, where are the Type-R stickers?:D I'm...	2,100 Views / 12 Replies
Dude, where are the Type-R stickers?:D I'm tempted though... I have access to loads of carbon fiber... muhahahahaha
Posted by beefstu01, on Nov 29, 2003 at 03:03 PM, in Mac Notebooks

If you're getting a new laptop and have nothing...	806 Views / 6 Replies
If you're getting a new laptop and have nothing on it, blow everything away and install Panther. I did that with my PowerBook, and it rocks. Frees up some space too because you don't have classic...
Posted by beefstu01, on Nov 24, 2003 at 01:59 AM, in Mac Notebooks

Poll: I'm a student and I just got a 15" AlBook 1.25...	846 Views / 6 Replies
I'm a student and I just got a 15" AlBook 1.25 Ghz. It's beautiful! After my screen was replaced, I've got nothing but compliments about it. This is an amazing machine... get it.
Posted by beefstu01, on Nov 23, 2003 at 06:46 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Yeah, I'm fine now, my entire lid assembly...	1,354 Views / 11 Replies
Yeah, I'm fine now, my entire lid assembly including LCD was replaced. It's cool, I love it.
Posted by beefstu01, on Nov 11, 2003 at 01:19 AM, in Mac Notebooks

I'll just add to the lot of people who got their...	3,996 Views / 24 Replies
I'll just add to the lot of people who got their PowerBooks back. I sent mine in about a month ago, and got it back on Thursday. Sure, it's been gone a while, but still, I love it! No white spots,...
Posted by beefstu01, on Nov 10, 2003 at 12:41 AM, in Mac Notebooks

Dude, if you go to the Apple Store, show them...	1,252 Views / 22 Replies
Dude, if you go to the Apple Store, show them that your battery is crap, they'll probably pop open a new battery for you and give it to you. All it requires is you going to a guy and telling him...
Posted by beefstu01, on Nov 9, 2003 at 05:07 PM, in Mac Notebooks

What's the advantage of using Torx over phillips?...	758 Views / 7 Replies
What's the advantage of using Torx over phillips? I never really understood that, they seem like the same screw, but different head. I also wonder why they're particularly "useful" in the...
Posted by beefstu01, on Nov 8, 2003 at 02:31 AM, in Mac Notebooks

HOLY FARK! That reminds me of Salmon Days...	1,633 Views / 18 Replies
HOLY FARK! That reminds me of Salmon Days (the video version of our favorite sys admin, Simon, the Bastard Operator From Hell, aka BOFH), where some exec called up Simon and asked him some...
Posted by beefstu01, on Nov 6, 2003 at 12:45 AM, in Mac Notebooks

I bought mine on Sept 16 and I qualified. ...	696 Views / 4 Replies
I bought mine on Sept 16 and I qualified. Register your machine on Apple's site, wait a day, then try the up to date page. It should work.
Posted by beefstu01, on Nov 1, 2003 at 06:55 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Worry not. Apple replaced my whole top lid, LCD...	908 Views / 3 Replies
Worry not. Apple replaced my whole top lid, LCD and all, but I'm still waiting for them to send the thing back. Seems like LCD's are the bottlenecks for repairs... Apple's had my PowerBook for a...
Posted by beefstu01, on Nov 1, 2003 at 06:53 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Apple's "fix" for my laptop was to replace the...	1,423 Views / 12 Replies
Apple's "fix" for my laptop was to replace the whole lid, not just the LCD. Maybe I'll have no gap!
Posted by beefstu01, on Oct 30, 2003 at 11:50 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Week 2 for me, as of today, and still no 'book...	3,333 Views / 44 Replies
Week 2 for me, as of today, and still no 'book back. The bottleneck is the screen, the already replaced the SuperDrive and other random parts.
Posted by beefstu01, on Oct 30, 2003 at 11:04 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Cables account for about 10~15% of my system...	1,360 Views / 19 Replies
Cables account for about 10~15% of my system cost, and I didn't go all the way because I've got a lowly JVC system (it's decent, but it's no Theta Dreadnaught or anything). What kind of setup are...
Posted by beefstu01, on Oct 28, 2003 at 11:52 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Oh yeah, that reminds me. Cincojoe wasn't...	1,554 Views / 20 Replies
Oh yeah, that reminds me. Cincojoe wasn't referring to MS Office, but rather OpenOffice.org itself. That has to be run through X11, so from what I understand, it isn't 100% native to OS X. ...
Posted by beefstu01, on Oct 26, 2003 at 08:10 PM, in Mac Notebooks

OpenOffice.org is great, but there are a few...	1,554 Views / 20 Replies
OpenOffice.org is great, but there are a few quirks (this is from a Linux perspective too, haven't touched the Mac version). 1) Slow (takes like 2 minutes to open, but this is on a PII 333) 2)...
Posted by beefstu01, on Oct 26, 2003 at 08:05 PM, in Mac Notebooks

The new 15's use a smaller battery, but with a...	4,068 Views / 34 Replies
The new 15's use a smaller battery, but with a good conditioned battery, and just doing simple stuff, you should be able to eek out about 4 hours of good use on the sucker. My laptop's being...
Posted by beefstu01, on Oct 26, 2003 at 02:53 AM, in Mac Notebooks

To tell you all the truth, I'd rather get a...	2,380 Views / 15 Replies
To tell you all the truth, I'd rather get a repair over a replacement. Why? Well, the main reason is that a human SEES the final result before shipping your laptop back to you. I sent my lappy in...
Posted by beefstu01, on Oct 26, 2003 at 02:50 AM, in Mac Notebooks

So I've gone about trying to find the top of the...	1,933 Views / 23 Replies
So I've gone about trying to find the top of the line PC laptop. I think I found it. Alienware 51m Extreme Laptop...
Posted by beefstu01, on Oct 23, 2003 at 05:34 PM, in Mac Notebooks

*Sounds like the Microsoft theme... ahem...*	1,538 Views / 11 Replies
Sounds like the Microsoft theme... ahem It's not a bug! It's a feature! Our programmers spent many hours working on that blue screen, trust me, it's there for a reason.
Posted by beefstu01, on Oct 20, 2003 at 10:54 PM, in Mac Notebooks

I wish I did that before I sent my 'Book back to...	5,464 Views / 61 Replies
I wish I did that before I sent my 'Book back to Apple... but from what I recall I had 1, 3, 2 and 4. 4 didn't look like a star for me, but rather was more of a squiggly line. But anyway, I sent it...
Posted by beefstu01, on Oct 19, 2003 at 06:56 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Poll: BTO 1.25 Ghz Al 15" Ordered on September 16th...	805 Views / 8 Replies
BTO 1.25 Ghz Al 15" Ordered on September 16th (the first day), and I qualified afer a little futzing with registering. Here's what all of you who didn't qualify need to do, I think. 1) Register...
Posted by beefstu01, on Oct 12, 2003 at 01:37 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Poll: For all of you who ordered your 'books before...	1,924 Views / 23 Replies
For all of you who ordered your 'books before October 8th, here's what you do- 1) Register your machine at http://www.apple.com/register 2) Wait til you get the e-mail from apple saying you...
Posted by beefstu01, on Oct 10, 2003 at 04:56 PM, in Mac Notebooks

BTO here and it's not recognized... I'll call up...	6,628 Views / 61 Replies
BTO here and it's not recognized... I'll call up Apple later today and find out the deal.
Posted by beefstu01, on Oct 9, 2003 at 01:13 PM, in Mac Notebooks

I don't know what you're talking about with warm...	1,223 Views / 15 Replies
I don't know what you're talking about with warm palm rests. Even after playing UT2k3 for an hour the palm rests are very cool, the back bottom, on the other hand, is quite warm. I love my new...
Posted by beefstu01, on Oct 6, 2003 at 09:13 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Just upgraded a brand new 15" Al 1.25 Ghz laptop...	1,992 Views / 31 Replies
Just upgraded a brand new 15" Al 1.25 Ghz laptop from 10.2.7 to 10.2.8, and I get 3:30 for a 98% charge, up from 2:15 in 10.2.7. I hope it's true! (By the way, the fluctuations were hilarious. ...
Posted by beefstu01, on Oct 4, 2003 at 09:01 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Another college student here. Going to Cornell...	9,486 Views / 150 Replies
Another college student here. Going to Cornell University and (planning on) majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering, but recently I've been thinking about doing a dual major in ECE and...
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 29, 2003 at 11:28 PM, in Mac Notebooks

I don't have any pictures, but I'll tell you that...	577 Views / 4 Replies
I don't have any pictures, but I'll tell you that it's nothing completely amazing... just cool. I'll paint you a mental picture. Imagine the keys on the current PowerBooks- know how they're opaque...
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 29, 2003 at 02:29 PM, in Mac Notebooks

No dead pixels here, nor any of the bright spots....	1,414 Views / 32 Replies
No dead pixels here, nor any of the bright spots. I guess I'm sorta lucky... My complaints are basically that my lid doesn't close completely flush (there's a warp of like 1 mm on either side) and...
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 28, 2003 at 11:07 PM, in Mac Notebooks

iPods	32,148 Views / 513 Replies
Yeah, has anybody recieved their iPods yet? Mine was ordered on the 16th, shipped the 19th, and as of right now (the 26th), it still hasn't left Taiwan according to Airborne. This is total crap! I...
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 27, 2003 at 03:00 AM, in Mac Notebooks

15" Al- How warped is your lid?	1,354 Views / 11 Replies
I'm lovin my laptop with a passion, but it looks like there's a bit of a warp with my lid, so closing it is a b*tch. I'm guessing that it's curved up about .5 - 1 mm on each side. Do you new PB...
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 26, 2003 at 11:42 AM, in Mac Notebooks

Right now I'm actually typing on my new Al15, and...	3,105 Views / 35 Replies
Right now I'm actually typing on my new Al15, and all I can say is wow. Stuff opens really quckly, the keyboard is quite responsive, the backlit keyboard is kinda cool, but probably not that useful...
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 25, 2003 at 06:10 PM, in Mac Notebooks

I ordered the laptop custom about 2 hours after...	32,148 Views / 513 Replies
I ordered the laptop custom about 2 hours after the keynote. Shipped on Monday, got here Thursday.
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 25, 2003 at 05:00 PM, in Mac Notebooks

It's HERE!!! HAHAHAHA!!! Victory! I'm playing...	32,148 Views / 513 Replies
It's HERE!!! HAHAHAHA!!! Victory! I'm playing with it right now, and I'm very very impressed. I love the feel of the keyboard, and the look of the machine. I'll post more about it later once I...
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 25, 2003 at 04:24 PM, in Mac Notebooks

YAY!!! My 15" shipped today! Yahoo!!!!	32,148 Views / 513 Replies
YAY!!! My 15" shipped today! Yahoo!!!!
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 22, 2003 at 09:25 AM, in Mac Notebooks

I must say, my favorite car that I drove and...	1,098 Views / 46 Replies
I must say, my favorite car that I drove and owned was a 1995 Ford Taurus SHO MTX (Manual). Say what you will, but that car flew, and was relatively cheap! 200 HP/200 ft-lbs, and it looked like a...
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 21, 2003 at 11:35 PM, in MacNN Lounge

What's your favorite guitar solo?	1,859 Views / 69 Replies
Rock and roll has been around for decades, and the guitar has been an integral part of it since the beginning. The best part of any song, in my opinion, has got to be the guitar solo, where the...
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 21, 2003 at 08:50 PM, in MacNN Lounge

My credit card was charged today, so I'm guessing...	32,148 Views / 513 Replies
My credit card was charged today, so I'm guessing the 'Book will be shipped out tomorrow or something. It was a BTO one, so if what I hear is true, then it'll be here soon!!!!
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 21, 2003 at 06:54 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Re: Re: so i'd get it faster	1,040 Views / 14 Replies
Nope, I paid for the second day shipping and I'm stuck with Airborne.
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 21, 2003 at 06:46 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Don't forget that the upgrade from the 1.0 to...	894 Views / 5 Replies
Don't forget that the upgrade from the 1.0 to 1.25 GHz models also brings a SuperDrive, AirPort Extreme, and 512 MB of RAM. I don't know if that's what you added, but that's what the top end ships...
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 20, 2003 at 10:32 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Re: Re: to make things worse.	32,148 Views / 513 Replies
Look at my post above for an explanation of such stuff. If you read the shipping email, there is this paragraph -> A wierd excuse, I know, but it says there that you won't see any number...
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 20, 2003 at 01:29 AM, in Mac Notebooks

Just remembered... For all of you who don't have...	32,148 Views / 513 Replies
Just remembered... For all of you who don't have tracking numbers, don't worry. If you look at your e-mail notices that give you your tracking number, they say that if the item was shipped...
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 19, 2003 at 11:37 AM, in Mac Notebooks

My iPod just shipped... Airborne doesn't have the...	32,148 Views / 513 Replies
My iPod just shipped... Airborne doesn't have the number in it's system, but then again, the number is only half an hour old. It should be here Monday... Yay!!! My laptop still has 9/23 as it's...
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 19, 2003 at 11:22 AM, in Mac Notebooks

I only did the 1 stick of RAM and mine's got the...	32,148 Views / 513 Replies
I only did the 1 stick of RAM and mine's got the "Shipping on or before 9/23." My iPod hasn't shipped yet! Maybe this hurricane will slow some things down (I live in Central/Upstate New York, so...
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 18, 2003 at 10:26 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Where did you buy your RAM from?	1,375 Views / 24 Replies
Where did you buy your RAM from?
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 18, 2003 at 04:32 PM, in Mac Notebooks

This goes with the G5 shipping deal, eh? Here's...	1,206 Views / 10 Replies
This goes with the G5 shipping deal, eh? Here's my take on it. Apple released the G5 at WWDC for a reason- they were telling DEVELOPERS that they were releasing a new computer with a new...
Posted by beefstu01, on Sep 17, 2003 at 07:13 PM, in Mac Notebooks

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