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The only defect that I've seen in my new iMac is... 706 Views / 4 Replies  
The only defect that I've seen in my new iMac is that the Apple logo on the back has fallen from the tree, so to speak. The stem is in the right place, but the Apple is near the bottom and tilted...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Feb 2, 2002 at 04:08 PM, in Mac Desktops
I think that this benchmark is worthless, as it... 1,018 Views / 31 Replies  
I think that this benchmark is worthless, as it was last updated in 1997 (download the kit and check the timestamps on the files), back when Java 1.1 was the most recent implementation of the...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Oct 9, 2001 at 12:38 PM, in macOS
Intel has been pouring money on the Itanium for... 582 Views / 13 Replies  
Intel has been pouring money on the Itanium for well over 5 years now. It's not going to hit the GHz mark for awhile, and it's not terribly powerful. This is one case that requires real...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Aug 9, 2001 at 01:19 AM, in Mac Desktops
Um, I know linux, and it's what drove me to use a... 528 Views / 17 Replies  
Um, I know linux, and it's what drove me to use a Mac. Linux, in a word, sucks. It's obscenely hard to configure without extensive work, its kernel is a spaghetti-code mess, XFree86 is a total sack...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on May 12, 2001 at 04:52 AM, in MacNN Lounge
Um, I know linux, and it's what drove me to use a... 629 Views / 14 Replies  
Um, I know linux, and it's what drove me to use a Mac. Linux, in a word, sucks. It's obscenely hard to configure without extensive work, its kernel is a spaghetti-code mess, XFree86 is a total sack...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on May 12, 2001 at 04:52 AM, in Mac Desktops
I'm talking about doing the proper research,... 2,835 Views / 118 Replies  
I'm talking about doing the proper research, parts assembly, and OS installation and configuration. The latter can be extremely hard with any version of Windows unless you know someone with the...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on May 2, 2001 at 04:25 PM, in Mac Desktops
Note that the L2 cache is on-die, which means... 519 Views / 25 Replies  
Note that the L2 cache is on-die, which means that it runs at 500MHz, not 66MHz. This is very good for speed. On the other hand, the slow bus is going to cause a terrible bottleneck, especially...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on May 2, 2001 at 03:55 PM, in macOS
I have a QPS Que! FW 4x4x24, which isn't... 742 Views / 44 Replies  
I have a QPS Que! FW 4x4x24, which isn't officially supported in 9 or X by iTunes. iTunes sees it, and can successfully burn a CD, but when it's finishing the session, it basically fails, and I have...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on May 2, 2001 at 03:40 PM, in macOS
iPad: Get your mom an iMac. See, my mother was... 2,835 Views / 118 Replies  
iPad: Get your mom an iMac. See, my mother was using a PC for her casual Internet stuff, and when I got sick of having to troubleshoot Windows95 every day, I told her to get an iMac. My life...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 30, 2001 at 11:13 PM, in Mac Desktops
I have to seperate it into two sections: PC... 826 Views / 35 Replies  
I have to seperate it into two sections:

PC (I've only played a few games on the Mac)
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RPG (modern): Planescape: Torment. PC-only, sadly, but an awesome, awesome, awesome game. ...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 30, 2001 at 02:51 PM, in MacNN Lounge
The three points that he made in his first post,... 671 Views / 19 Replies  
The three points that he made in his first post, after saying that he was clueless, came in the form of statements, which I am told are not questions, which apparently are ended with question marks...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 30, 2001 at 02:14 PM, in Mac Desktops
iPad: While the systems that you're configuring... 2,835 Views / 118 Replies  
iPad: While the systems that you're configuring at PriceWatch are interesting, you're forgetting to include two major things: The OS and labor. If you're using the PC for gaming, which is just...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 30, 2001 at 03:02 AM, in Mac Desktops
I imagine that the brightness and sound key... 482 Views / 12 Replies  
I imagine that the brightness and sound key visual feedback are pretty low on Apple's list of features to implement. The "may" is just a legal CYA.

As far as the Internet Connect screwup, the...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 14, 2001 at 07:44 PM, in macOS
Although I am a fairly hardcore *NIXhead, and... 1,198 Views / 54 Replies  
Although I am a fairly hardcore *NIXhead, and thus biased towards CLI in any case, I have only run into a single thing that, for a casual user, would absolutely require the use of the command line,...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 13, 2001 at 02:27 PM, in macOS
One thing that people are assuming is that... 2,402 Views / 161 Replies  
One thing that people are assuming is that WindowsXP will somehow be perfect OOTB. Wrong. It will have its own toothing problems, some of which may be show stoppers:

From...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 12, 2001 at 04:18 AM, in macOS
I have found some UN*X file translators over on... 542 Views / 11 Replies  
I have found some UN*X file translators over on freshmeat.org, like xlHtml, which parses .xls files into HTML in the command line. Sadly, it doesn't compile properly, barfing on malloc.h during...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 11, 2001 at 05:03 PM, in Applications
The file translation in AW6.1b2 sort of works for... 542 Views / 11 Replies  
The file translation in AW6.1b2 sort of works for me. Saving as any of the formats works fine, opening that which I have saved as an MS format works, and opening that which I've saved as an MS...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 11, 2001 at 10:44 AM, in Applications
Make registration mandatory for posting, and... 719 Views / 30 Replies  
Make registration mandatory for posting, and crack down on the trolls who try to derail every thread with off-topic cut n' pasted complaints about OS X. I don't mind seeing criticism of the OS in...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 10, 2001 at 04:15 PM, in macOS
I was wrong, but not intentionally so (hey, it... 668 Views / 47 Replies  
I was wrong, but not intentionally so (hey, it was late at night and I was dead tired), so I don't believe that it counts as FUD, which requires an intentional misrepresentation of facts. I must've...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 9, 2001 at 02:28 PM, in macOS
For whatever it's worth, OS X runs quite well on... 668 Views / 47 Replies  
For whatever it's worth, OS X runs quite well on my Pismo 400 with 256MB of RAM. No kernel panics, no really ugly showstopper bugs, etc. Graphical speed is somewhat slow, but not horribly so, and...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 9, 2001 at 08:11 AM, in macOS
Hey, as I keep saying to the people who are... 2,402 Views / 161 Replies  
Hey, as I keep saying to the people who are threatening to go to XP, enjoy calling MS whenever you toss a new video card into the computer, or, god forbid, have to reinstall the system.
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 9, 2001 at 07:34 AM, in macOS
One thing that you miss here is that HP, IBM, and... 1,182 Views / 88 Replies  
One thing that you miss here is that HP, IBM, and SUN all sell servers with Linux preinstalled. Their customers aren't buying the OS, they're buying the server hardware, and that's what the...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 8, 2001 at 05:58 PM, in macOS
The litmus test for the 0wnage of any particular... 689 Views / 35 Replies  
The litmus test for the 0wnage of any particular platform is this: Do people make fishtanks from their cases?
http://www.applefritter.com for the MacQuarium and other completely insane and...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 8, 2001 at 04:54 AM, in macOS
Apple can absolutely not afford to GPL everything... 1,182 Views / 88 Replies  
Apple can absolutely not afford to GPL everything in OS X. The point of OS X is to get more people to buy Macs, but if all of OS X were GPLed, a x86 version would come along very quickly, thus...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 7, 2001 at 02:10 PM, in macOS
That might possibly be the laziest review I've... 599 Views / 11 Replies  
That might possibly be the laziest review I've ever read in my life. I don't even think that the reviewer used the OS. Then again, this is Fortune that we're talking about, so it shouldn't come as...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 5, 2001 at 01:08 PM, in macOS
Odd. All that I have to do to connect my... 863 Views / 40 Replies  
Odd. All that I have to do to connect my PowerBook to my school's network, in OS 9 or OS X, is to plug it into an Ethernet port after telling the network control panel to use DHCP.

Of course,...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 5, 2001 at 01:02 PM, in macOS
One thing that any potential buyer of WindowsXP... 1,256 Views / 50 Replies  
One thing that any potential buyer of WindowsXP should consider is that any signifigant upgrade of the hardware or a reinstallation of the OS will require a call to Microsoft in order to get XP to...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 4, 2001 at 06:29 AM, in macOS
I ran all of them on my Pismo 400 running the... 486 Views / 6 Replies  
I ran all of them on my Pismo 400 running the unofficial 10.0.1, and the results were craptacular. The graphics tests seriously dragged overall scores down, which can be blamed on ATi. The...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Mar 29, 2001 at 03:38 AM, in macOS
I ordered mine from Apple, got the free FedEx... 522 Views / 8 Replies  
I ordered mine from Apple, got the free FedEx upgrade, and then learned (after waiting around at home for most of the day...not that I had anywhere to go) that it would not get to me until Monday. ...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Mar 24, 2001 at 11:26 PM, in macOS
Milio said: "Remember, the baseline for OS X is... 655 Views / 16 Replies  
Milio said: "Remember, the baseline for OS X is my rev A Beige 233 with RageIIC video."

That you actually expect excellent performance from any program, let alone an OS, that is installed on a...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Mar 24, 2001 at 11:18 PM, in macOS
Funk playing a QT movie behind a transparent... 682 Views / 18 Replies  
Funk playing a QT movie behind a transparent terminal window, I want to play a QT movie (or, better yet, a DVD) in a terminal window.

Or, hell, when I do a ps -auxw or somesuch, I want the...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Mar 23, 2001 at 04:10 PM, in macOS
Cipher13, you make the presumption that the... 1,339 Views / 74 Replies  
Cipher13, you make the presumption that the average user of any computer can figure out how to customize a UI at the most basic levels. It's instructive to work tech support for a Wintel PC company...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Feb 15, 2001 at 12:12 AM, in macOS
Defects can be found in any line of manufactured... 587 Views / 19 Replies  
Defects can be found in any line of manufactured goods, and especially in electronics, whose manufacturing requires precision second to none. Defects happen, and it's no more the fault of Jobs than...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Feb 5, 2001 at 07:42 AM, in MacNN Lounge
Insofar as the quality of play goes, the teams... 692 Views / 19 Replies  
Insofar as the quality of play goes, the teams play about as well as any teams would if they were thrown together on a moment's notice. The quality of play should stabilize at a level slightly above...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Feb 5, 2001 at 07:27 AM, in MacNN Lounge
I'd be nice if a stripped-down Aqua option were... 730 Views / 19 Replies  
I'd be nice if a stripped-down Aqua option were available, if only for the users who don't want the flashy things for aesthetic reasons. I've spoken with several people who like OS X, but who don't...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Feb 3, 2001 at 04:21 PM, in macOS
Thank you for your help...the fix works. I'll... 437 Views / 4 Replies  
Thank you for your help...the fix works. I'll likely be using Netscape exclusively for Delphi, because with the number of cookies that Delphi transmits, it's probably impossible to figure out which...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 7, 2000 at 12:17 AM, in Applications
IE5 Type 2 crashes...HELP 437 Views / 4 Replies  
Howdy. Yesterday, I was browsing around the Delphi forums, and IE5 crashed with a Type 2 error, which I gather is an out of memory error. Now, bot IE5 and OE5 crash with Type 2 errors on startup.
...
Posted by Christopher Tew, on Apr 5, 2000 at 05:20 PM, in Applications
 
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