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Re: Communism @nm3 901 Views / 16 Replies  
You've got it quite wrong/backwards nm3. This is not an attempt to get the government to do something to force manufacturers to adopt a strategy. It is an attempt to get the government to stop...
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Feb 21, 2013 at 06:02 PM, in Tech News
"Jailbreaking technically becomes illegal on new... 522 Views / 9 Replies  
"Jailbreaking technically becomes illegal on new devices in the US on Saturday, unless authorized by a carrier or device maker"

I believe that it's "Unlocking" not "Jailbreaking" that becomes...
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Jan 25, 2013 at 10:48 AM, in Tech News
How about prior art. Terminal command "more",... 40 Views / 4 Replies  
How about prior art. Terminal command "more", available since BSD, provides an interactively controlled look at multiple files in an order.
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Oct 26, 2012 at 10:39 AM, in Mac News
Prior art..... more *.c Now if only there was... 67 Views / 5 Replies  
Prior art.....
more *.c
Now if only there was a company with enough money in the bank to actually fight this one.

Must buy more popcorn.
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Oct 25, 2012 at 09:01 PM, in Tech News
At least we know now where the Proview guys went... 288 Views / 24 Replies  
At least we know now where the Proview guys went :-)
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Sep 4, 2012 at 01:47 PM, in Tech News
The Irony. Does this mean that, from now on,... 399 Views / 7 Replies  
The Irony.

Does this mean that, from now on, new phones will be advertised by how different they are from the iPhone?
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Aug 27, 2012 at 03:21 AM, in Tech News
I don't see it as a publicity stunt. How about... 200 Views / 13 Replies  
I don't see it as a publicity stunt. How about the scenario where Apple submits the rMBP to EPEAT and they respond with warning of a low certification. Apple pulls all its products from EPEAT,...
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Jul 14, 2012 at 02:55 AM, in Tech News
Personally I prefer stripes. Perhaps frequent... 65 Views / 2 Replies  
Personally I prefer stripes. Perhaps frequent spots provide better ventilation. Probably one of those rumored design decisions.
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Jul 12, 2012 at 12:24 PM, in Tech News
It's Not Christmas or Xmas 7,309 Views / 30 Replies  
It's not Christmas OR Xmas.

You're too early... wait until closer to the end of December before arguing further.

OBSubject...

The OS is in a pretty good bug-fix state right now (10.4.8). I'd...
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Dec 4, 2006 at 12:19 PM, in Mac Desktops
Apple's latest corporate idiocy 2,603 Views / 21 Replies  
In a recent telephone call to Apple Support (my AlBook 15" 1.5Ghz had overheated and taken the Hard Drive with it) I was warned that these wonderfully portable machine that can run for hours with no...
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Aug 11, 2004 at 02:33 PM, in Mac Notebooks
The terminal type environment variable was... 41,945 Views / 287 Replies  
The terminal type environment variable was changed in Panther from vt100 to xterm-color. I changed mine back by putting:

if ( $TERM == "xterm-color" ) then
setenv TERM vt100
endif

in...
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Nov 14, 2003 at 02:58 PM, in Mac OS X
I'm seeing these messages correlating (somewhat)... 383 Views / 6 Replies  
I'm seeing these messages correlating (somewhat) with network connections switching from Ethernet to Airport and even from Airport hosts to other Airport hosts (manually triggered by me). This does...
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Nov 4, 2002 at 04:16 AM, in Networking
I stand corrected. Would all those people... 1,706 Views / 210 Replies  
I stand corrected.

Would all those people who had a hand in discovering/fixing this long standing bug please feel very good about it and all those people who could not keep a machine up for a day...
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Feb 24, 2002 at 02:03 PM, in Mac OS X
I got my modem devices back by reinstalling the... 1,706 Views / 210 Replies  
I got my modem devices back by reinstalling the 10.1.3 upgrade (using the stand-alone upgrader). I used the combo upgrade at This Location...
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Feb 24, 2002 at 10:30 AM, in Mac OS X
I too get the "nothing happens on connect. I... 1,706 Views / 210 Replies  
I too get the "nothing happens on connect. I looked in the "Connection Log" (menu option) and I see
unrecognized option '/dev/cu.modem'
I also don't see a /dev/cu.modem in a directory listing of...
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Feb 23, 2002 at 09:20 PM, in Mac OS X
Does anyone know if: http://www.bthsnews.org ... 2,821 Views / 602 Replies  
Does anyone know if:
http://www.bthsnews.org
renders properly in 4.1. 4.05 forgets to render the first column (compare with IE 5.1 :( )

Anyone know what 4.05 finds difficult about this page?
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Oct 19, 2001 at 10:27 AM, in Mac OS X
Does anyone know if: http://www.bthsnews.org ... 4,421 Views / 858 Replies  
Does anyone know if:
http://www.bthsnews.org
renders properly in 4.1. 4.05 forgets to render the first column (compare with IE 5.1 :( )

Anyone know what 4.05 finds difficult about this page?
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Oct 19, 2001 at 10:27 AM, in Applications
Trusting that Apple will provide a fix and having... 513 Views / 53 Replies  
Trusting that Apple will provide a fix and having already upgraded my PB 2000's firmware without a problem I tried the following experiment on my wife's http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/tongue.gif G4...
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Mar 27, 2001 at 05:55 PM, in Mac Desktops
Did you disable the "Apple Audio Extension" that... 160 Views / 2 Replies  
Did you disable the "Apple Audio Extension" that is installed as part of Apple's Multi-Media Update 1.0?

If you did, try enabling it long enough to turn the "play-through" option off, then disable...
Posted by AlenShapiro, on Aug 29, 2000 at 09:03 AM, in Mac Notebooks
 
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