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Why do people insist on doing this? While it...
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Why do people insist on doing this? While it seems to make sense from an "organizational" point of view it tends to break all kinds of stuff. Tell Spotlight to put applications at the top of the...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Mar 20, 2008 at 01:26 AM, in macOS |
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NewsFire won't download feeds
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For a month or more now I've been having a huge problem with NewsFire. I subscribe to a fair number of RSS feeds so the likes of Safari's RSS reader aren't enough for me. NewsFire has worked for me...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on May 8, 2007 at 03:08 AM, in Applications |
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If you think the people pirating the Intel betas...
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If you think the people pirating the Intel betas will stop with the betas you're deluding yourself or stupid. Everything learned pirating the betas will be used to pirate the retail copies when...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Aug 9, 2005 at 02:49 AM, in macOS |
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Apple has the freedom on their systems to deviate...
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1,434 Views / 35 Replies |
Apple has the freedom on their systems to deviate almost completely from the IBM PC architecture while still using Intel processors and chipsets. I would suspect they will take the opportunity to do...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Jul 25, 2005 at 04:35 AM, in macOS |
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What part of "these are development systems and...
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What part of "these are development systems and will not in any way represent shipping products" is difficult to understand. The Intel dev boxes are just relatively generic PC components inside of...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Jul 24, 2005 at 06:24 AM, in macOS |
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While the exact numbers might be off to some...
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1,434 Views / 35 Replies |
While the exact numbers might be off to some degree I think the study is bang on, Apple is increasing its presence in the business market. I think this has largely come around because they stopped...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Jul 22, 2005 at 04:37 AM, in macOS |
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So keep the old OS, no one at the Apple Store...
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So keep the old OS, no one at the Apple Store twisted your arm to buy Tiger. Panther didn't self destruct the day Tiger was released. I don't think it is reasonable to expect any software developer...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Jul 11, 2005 at 03:35 PM, in macOS |
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No one is bothering to mention what version of...
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No one is bothering to mention what version of Office 2004 they're running. On Tiger I noticed a big difference between version 11.0.1 and 11.1, the latter being the latest update to the suite. If...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Jul 10, 2005 at 11:56 PM, in macOS |
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While it's obvious there was a lot of work done...
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While it's obvious there was a lot of work done on Quartz between Panther and Tiger I wouldn't say that it was changed so much that certain video cards are unable to run Tiger. I think the key issue...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Jul 10, 2005 at 02:42 AM, in macOS |
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You don't seem to have any idea what you're...
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You don't seem to have any idea what you're talking about. Let me help you with that. Intel-based Macs will be no easier to infect with viruses than PowerPC-based Macs. Just because two operating...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Jul 8, 2005 at 05:15 AM, in macOS |
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I don't see any reason why Mac game developers...
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I don't see any reason why Mac game developers would abandon the Mac platform. I think we'll see two things happen, first more game developers will do first party ports of their games and second...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Jul 6, 2005 at 07:59 PM, in Gaming |
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Bah, when Panther was released everyone was...
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Bah, when Panther was released everyone was whining about how much it sucked and how great Jaguar was. Tiger does things differently than Panther in some respects, it is also the future. There's not...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Jul 5, 2005 at 01:29 AM, in macOS |
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Do you want me to go to your neighbor's house and...
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Do you want me to go to your neighbor's house and plug my iBook directly into their cable modem and launch Ethereal? You seem to forget that cable and DSL connections are essentially big LANs. I've...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Jul 3, 2005 at 07:16 AM, in macOS |
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According to the WWDC numbers only about 10% of...
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According to the WWDC numbers only about 10% of Mac users (25-30m?) are running MacOS 9 or earlier. That is ten percent of the existing user base that I'm pretty sure Apple would like to get into new...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Jul 3, 2005 at 06:15 AM, in macOS |
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Tiger's memory management apparently doesn't have...
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Tiger's memory management apparently doesn't have user permissions and everything runs in a single memory space. Otherwise Max would be sputting and spitting about that by now. :D
I'm just curious...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Jul 3, 2005 at 05:38 AM, in macOS |
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I'm a little surprised by Dashboard. Of all of...
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I'm a little surprised by Dashboard. Of all of Tiger's major user features I figured it would be the one I used the least. Then Apple's Dashboard site linked to over 400 (~680 now) widgets. Damn. The...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Jun 28, 2005 at 06:54 PM, in macOS |
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The LaserWriters were pretty awesome machines...
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The LaserWriters were pretty awesome machines when they were introduced considering they were the fastest machines in Apple's line-up for a while. However the LaserWriter introduced a number of...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Jun 19, 2005 at 03:53 AM, in macOS |
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You make it sound like Apple are the ones laying...
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You make it sound like Apple are the ones laying the traces for their processors and such, this is not the case. While Apple's engineering staff has some say-so in the overall design of PowerPC chips...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Jun 18, 2005 at 04:55 AM, in macOS |
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Preview and Photoshop are probably respecting a...
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Preview and Photoshop are probably respecting a color profile stored in the image. Finder might not be doing that and as such doesn't make it look as nice when it makes it the background image. Other...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on May 25, 2005 at 01:12 PM, in macOS |
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I would suspect the betas are often limited to...
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I would suspect the betas are often limited to Select and Premier developers because they paid money to get their access. When people have hundreds or thousands of dollars on the line they're far...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on May 8, 2005 at 04:01 PM, in macOS |
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In order for me to "exploit" single-user mode on...
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In order for me to "exploit" single-user mode on a Mac I need physical access to the machine, as mentioned many times. If OFW is set for "command" mode this "exploit" is essentially nullified. In...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on May 6, 2005 at 11:28 PM, in macOS |
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I'm really happy to see Google Maps work in...
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I'm really happy to see Google Maps work in Safari now. It tromps all over Yahoo Maps and MapQuest in terms of visual quality. The fact that Google is interested in making it work and look proper in...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Feb 26, 2005 at 05:41 PM, in Applications |
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Qq
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My girlfriend's boss is looking to pick up an iBook for her and her kids. They're all set save for one major hurdle, talking to their family back in China. They use a service called QQ...
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Posted by Graymalkin, on Feb 6, 2005 at 02:17 PM, in Applications |
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