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Sorry - I forgot I posted on this thread. ... 1,991 Views / 21 Replies  
Sorry - I forgot I posted on this thread.

Here are some benchmarks to show why my Macbook Pro destroys my G5. Maybe if you're doing pure number crunching they're the same speed, but as far as "teh...
Posted by Tritium, on Aug 7, 2006 at 01:56 PM, in Mac Desktops
The closest thing I could find to what you want... 1,312 Views / 7 Replies  
The closest thing I could find to what you want is to use 'gk' or 'gj'to move the cursor up and down - I have never in my life used vim and had it do what you're asking, but I tested and those work.
Posted by Tritium, on Jul 25, 2006 at 11:52 AM, in macOS
I have a dual 2.0GHz G5 at home and a 2.16GHz... 1,991 Views / 21 Replies  
I have a dual 2.0GHz G5 at home and a 2.16GHz Macbook Pro at work - there's no comparison, the Macbook utterly destroys the G5 at any task that isn't running in rosetta. I can't imagine the desktops...
Posted by Tritium, on Jul 25, 2006 at 02:55 AM, in Mac Desktops
the profile files are run on a login shell, the... 870 Views / 12 Replies  
the profile files are run on a login shell, the .bashrc file is run by a non login shell. Add the init line to your .bashrc file and it should work.
Posted by Tritium, on Oct 15, 2005 at 02:50 PM, in macOS
Was that supposed to be funny? It looked like a... 1,235 Views / 14 Replies  
Was that supposed to be funny? It looked like a bad SNL skit. You guys don't actually believe that's real, do you?
Posted by Tritium, on Oct 13, 2005 at 04:17 AM, in MacNN Lounge
Chances are, Apple tried this kind of thing and... 811 Views / 5 Replies  
Chances are, Apple tried this kind of thing and decided it didn't improve performance. Very frequently optimizing for size increases performance more than optimizing for pure speed because more code...
Posted by Tritium, on Oct 9, 2005 at 12:47 PM, in macOS
There is no difference between those, the default... 591 Views / 1 Replies  
There is no difference between those, the default join is an inner join. Outer joins are different though.
Posted by Tritium, on Sep 19, 2005 at 01:54 AM, in Developer Center
Seagates have a 5 year warranty, maxtors have 1.... 1,159 Views / 15 Replies  
Seagates have a 5 year warranty, maxtors have 1. That should settle it.

I have 3 samsung hard drives, they aren't as nice as a seagate. They're quiet seeking and spinning, but they vibrate more...
Posted by Tritium, on Sep 17, 2005 at 05:52 PM, in Mac Desktops
Umm, maybe i'm misunderstanding the question. I'm... 1,065 Views / 23 Replies  
Umm, maybe i'm misunderstanding the question. I'm assuming when you installed tiger you formatted your drive first? You can reinstall classic from the original software DVD/CDs that came with the...
Posted by Tritium, on Aug 10, 2005 at 02:16 AM, in macOS
Poll: I have both an MX700 and an MX510. The MX700 is... 4,255 Views / 69 Replies  
I have both an MX700 and an MX510. The MX700 is crap, just total crap. I've read a lot of reports about bad ones, so maybe mine is defective. The cursor skips a lot and it goes to "sleep" if you...
Posted by Tritium, on Aug 6, 2005 at 04:10 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
I got mine from fedex yesterday. The scroll ball... 18,821 Views / 280 Replies  
I got mine from fedex yesterday. The scroll ball is really neat, but I'm still getting used to the "one button, several sensors" feel of right and middle clicks. It's quite unnerving at times, but I...
Posted by Tritium, on Aug 6, 2005 at 04:06 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
I don't know how to get the photos directly onto... 566 Views / 2 Replies  
I don't know how to get the photos directly onto the computer with palm desktop. I copy the photos onto an SD card and just use my card reader to get at them. Not that i've ever taken a picture worth...
Posted by Tritium, on May 13, 2005 at 02:11 AM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
This question probably belongs more in the UNIX... 701 Views / 2 Replies  
This question probably belongs more in the UNIX forum than the OS X forum, but here's a program you can use along with ssh to connect through an HTTP or SOCKS proxy. There are instructions as to how...
Posted by Tritium, on May 11, 2005 at 07:55 PM, in macOS
If you have a geforce 6800 ultra, why do you have... 1,800 Views / 15 Replies  
If you have a geforce 6800 ultra, why do you have the second monitor connected to a different video card? It has two outputs capable of driving big displays. I'd pull out the second video card and...
Posted by Tritium, on May 9, 2005 at 06:17 PM, in macOS
There's a button on the back bottom section of... 19,961 Views / 58 Replies  
There's a button on the back bottom section of the base - push that in and give the part that the monitor is mounted on a good push downward - it goes down so that the bottom of the monitor is within...
Posted by Tritium, on Mar 31, 2005 at 08:50 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Sounds to me like you do not know of what you... 1,224 Views / 29 Replies  
Sounds to me like you do not know of what you speak. You miss the point of a firewall.
Posted by Tritium, on Feb 28, 2005 at 02:07 AM, in Developer Center
ideascuptor described it exactly - any game that... 1,224 Views / 29 Replies  
ideascuptor described it exactly - any game that has client to client communication that seemingly works through firewalls does some negotiation beforehand to determine which clients are not...
Posted by Tritium, on Feb 26, 2005 at 12:15 PM, in Developer Center
Most firewalls are stateful (or at least fake it... 1,224 Views / 29 Replies  
Most firewalls are stateful (or at least fake it decently.)

The client sends a UDP packet first and the server replies back to the client on the same port that the packet came from. The firewall...
Posted by Tritium, on Feb 19, 2005 at 09:29 AM, in Developer Center
There seems to be some confusion in terms here,... 2,152 Views / 19 Replies  
There seems to be some confusion in terms here, 'ethernet address' and 'mac address' are synonyms. MAC addresses are layer 2 addresses, Ethernet is the layer 2 protocol.

A 'dotted quad' is an IP...
Posted by Tritium, on Feb 10, 2005 at 01:26 AM, in Networking
looks like a japanese keyboard to me. 837 Views / 17 Replies  
looks like a japanese keyboard to me.
Posted by Tritium, on Jan 12, 2004 at 04:15 PM, in MacNN Lounge
wow a hari krishna trying to convert us? ... 1,825 Views / 59 Replies  
wow a hari krishna trying to convert us?

You guys seemed pretty peaceful in your little restaurant in queens. The food there isn't bad for vegetarian stuff. Everyone seemed quite peaceful though,...
Posted by Tritium, on Jan 10, 2004 at 06:39 AM, in MacNN Lounge
it looks like a group of people had some fun with... 676 Views / 7 Replies  
it looks like a group of people had some fun with that auction, take a look at the list of cancelled bids.
Posted by Tritium, on Jan 9, 2004 at 07:09 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I tried my best to keep my distance from your... 63,346 Views / 84 Replies  
I tried my best to keep my distance from your dress,
But call-response overturns convictions every time.
My memory cannot recall (a wave of alcohol)
We shared a cigarette and shaved the hours off....
Posted by Tritium, on Jan 6, 2004 at 07:54 AM, in MacNN Lounge
do you have register_globals enabled? how are you... 497 Views / 6 Replies  
do you have register_globals enabled? how are you trying to access the variable?
Posted by Tritium, on Dec 4, 2003 at 08:47 PM, in macOS
"easily"? Uhhh..... I can imagine referring to... 851 Views / 9 Replies  
"easily"? Uhhh..... I can imagine referring to raw text as "easily" but that's not the complicated part about copy/paste... Cross platform copy/paste of more than just text sounds like a daunting...
Posted by Tritium, on Nov 20, 2003 at 07:53 PM, in Developer Center
It's easier than putting together a lego model,... 3,133 Views / 79 Replies  
It's easier than putting together a lego model, but it's much less forgiving if you DO screw up. I don't know if MindFad has enough money to finance any screwups should he have them.
I definitely...
Posted by Tritium, on Nov 9, 2003 at 08:40 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Most drives will *not* come with a cable if... 3,133 Views / 79 Replies  
Most drives will *not* come with a cable if you're buying them online, the low priced drives are bare and don't come with anything but the drive. Most motherboards come with one IDE cable.

I buy...
Posted by Tritium, on Nov 9, 2003 at 08:20 PM, in MacNN Lounge
#ifdef is a preprocessor define, it gets resolved... 548 Views / 2 Replies  
#ifdef is a preprocessor define, it gets resolved at compile time and not runtime.
Posted by Tritium, on Nov 3, 2003 at 12:12 AM, in Developer Center
Not to sound like i support U.S. media (it... 1,129 Views / 21 Replies  
Not to sound like i support U.S. media (it disgusts me for the most part) but you sure sound ignorant. If you actually saw some U.S. news, you'd notice that they don't paint a great picture of "the...
Posted by Tritium, on Nov 2, 2003 at 04:43 AM, in MacNN Lounge
wtf? what is the difference between the two aside... 1,192 Views / 17 Replies  
wtf? what is the difference between the two aside from the fact that your computer is useful to someone else while it's at the login screen?

from my understanding, he had no screensaver password...
Posted by Tritium, on Oct 27, 2003 at 11:29 PM, in macOS
you don't need the "lock screen" option. enable... 1,192 Views / 17 Replies  
you don't need the "lock screen" option. enable fast user switching and from the user menu choose "login window"

that'll drop you off at a login prompt and you need your password to switch back to...
Posted by Tritium, on Oct 27, 2003 at 08:39 PM, in macOS
My battery reads 100% and the menubar still says... 652 Views / 2 Replies  
My battery reads 100% and the menubar still says "calculating..." even though it's fully charged and plugged in.
Posted by Tritium, on Oct 26, 2003 at 07:49 PM, in macOS
I was able to reproduce it, I couldn't type fast... 4,457 Views / 11 Replies  
I was able to reproduce it, I couldn't type fast enough to get the "return" character in but the letters "ls" definitely ended up in my terminal.
Posted by Tritium, on Oct 26, 2003 at 02:02 AM, in macOS
Works for me, I see the same style run window... 837 Views / 4 Replies  
Works for me, I see the same style run window with the standard output and error of the program running. Just select new projet and "standard tool" and build it, the default program prints hello...
Posted by Tritium, on Oct 25, 2003 at 01:39 PM, in Developer Center
The only way that site is legit is if those... 814 Views / 5 Replies  
The only way that site is legit is if those prices aren't in USD.
Posted by Tritium, on Oct 19, 2003 at 05:01 PM, in Mac Notebooks
ARP packets are ethernet broadcasts, they will be... 1,227 Views / 17 Replies  
ARP packets are ethernet broadcasts, they will be received by every machine on the segment. Cable companies seem to have a bunch of modems connected to the same ethernet segment, so that broadcasts...
Posted by Tritium, on Sep 1, 2003 at 08:56 PM, in macOS
yeah, screen full brightness, processor at 100%,... 928 Views / 14 Replies  
yeah, screen full brightness, processor at 100%, you'll get at most 2 hours out of a 17" PB.

I routinely get 3.5 hours on mine with the brightness one notch from off sitting quietly on my bed at...
Posted by Tritium, on Aug 30, 2003 at 09:18 AM, in Mac Notebooks
If you like sushi, eat at Blue Ribbon Sushi on... 2,417 Views / 52 Replies  
If you like sushi, eat at Blue Ribbon Sushi on Sullivan street. It has both the best sushi and hands down the most friendly service I have ever had.

Other fun things to do if you've never been to...
Posted by Tritium, on Aug 14, 2003 at 01:04 PM, in MacNN Lounge
There are COMPLETELY legitimate reasons for... 1,678 Views / 28 Replies  
There are COMPLETELY legitimate reasons for expecting a screensaver password to be a secure method of locking the machine. When I am carrying my laptop around (asleep and logged in) my keychain is...
Posted by Tritium, on Jul 7, 2003 at 01:42 PM, in macOS
THANK YOU! :) I had been looking fruitlessly... 1,002 Views / 17 Replies  
THANK YOU! :)
I had been looking fruitlessly for a piece of software that did this until just now. And it works perfectly! I also use menumeters, Basilisk, you rule!
Posted by Tritium, on May 30, 2003 at 11:22 AM, in Applications
Use pgrep! :) pgrep spamd if it prints out... 829 Views / 6 Replies  
Use pgrep! :)
pgrep spamd
if it prints out anything then you know it's running. I wish fink had ports of pgrep/pkill, they're really useful commands.
Posted by Tritium, on May 25, 2003 at 09:31 AM, in macOS
In a lot of instances local apple service centers... 2,108 Views / 26 Replies  
In a lot of instances local apple service centers can't get warranty parts for newer powerbooks, and they have to go directly back to apple. When I was last fixing macs this was the case, all the...
Posted by Tritium, on May 25, 2003 at 08:21 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Yeah, we all know that the speed of a computer is... 4,889 Views / 97 Replies  
Yeah, we all know that the speed of a computer is directly proportional to how quickly a game STARTS.... :brick:
Posted by Tritium, on Apr 27, 2003 at 05:50 PM, in Mac Notebooks
fujitsu here 951 Views / 19 Replies  
fujitsu here
Posted by Tritium, on Apr 27, 2003 at 05:44 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Re: Best terminal program? 786 Views / 6 Replies  
I just tried out iTerm again on my current machine, the last computer I tried it on was a 400MHz tibook, my machine is a 17" powerbook now. It feels pretty fast, definitely faster than apple's...
Posted by Tritium, on Apr 27, 2003 at 03:29 PM, in Applications
Best terminal program? 786 Views / 6 Replies  
I've been looking for a replacement for apple's terminal program to no avail, every alternative I try is inferior, and apple's is already not too great. It's terminal emulation isn't perfect and it's...
Posted by Tritium, on Apr 27, 2003 at 02:02 PM, in Applications
build week 13 here... I have a sizzle noise, but... 5,023 Views / 70 Replies  
build week 13 here... I have a sizzle noise, but it's not really noticeable. I'm extremely neurotic about computer noise and this is the quietest computer i've ever owned. The sizzle gets louder if I...
Posted by Tritium, on Apr 27, 2003 at 10:23 AM, in Mac Notebooks
As a totally "off topic" aside, xpm images are... 5,838 Views / 56 Replies  
As a totally "off topic" aside, xpm images are valid C, meant to be #included as a method of storing them in x11 apps. Save one with the gimp or photoshop and open it up :)
What he said may not be...
Posted by Tritium, on Apr 13, 2003 at 08:06 PM, in GUI Customization
Is anyone sure that any of those people were... 5,838 Views / 56 Replies  
Is anyone sure that any of those people were really from FWB and not another agitated user trying to make them look bad? I doubt any CEO would be dumb enough to register under his first initial and...
Posted by Tritium, on Apr 13, 2003 at 05:01 PM, in GUI Customization
It makes sense for you to feel that way on a CRT,... 732 Views / 5 Replies  
It makes sense for you to feel that way on a CRT, subpixel rendering is meant for LCDs :)

I think the other options are actually *more* blurry than the standard option.
Posted by Tritium, on Apr 13, 2003 at 02:55 PM, in GUI Customization
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