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I've had my MBP C2D 2.33GHz for a couple of weeks...	4,483 Views / 42 Replies
I've had my MBP C2D 2.33GHz for a couple of weeks and it's been rock-solid and (knock on wood) largely flaw-free. I'm still blown away by the performance, even running Office 2004 under Rosetta is as...
Posted by SoClose, on Nov 29, 2006 at 12:47 PM, in Mac Notebooks

I received my stock 2.33GHz/2GB/120GB on Thursday...	30,573 Views / 266 Replies
I received my stock 2.33GHz/2GB/120GB on Thursday afternoon (we have an internal VAR and they were able to get me one very quickly and at an unbelievable price). So far, I'm incredibly impressed with...
Posted by SoClose, on Nov 12, 2006 at 10:04 AM, in Mac Notebooks

I just received my MBP 2.33GHz a couple of days...	1,727 Views / 10 Replies
I just received my MBP 2.33GHz a couple of days ago and it's been, on average, cooler than my previous PB 1.25GHz. I wrote a couple of run-away processes (basically infinite loops) to stress-test the...
Posted by SoClose, on Nov 12, 2006 at 09:58 AM, in Mac Notebooks

Free: PowerBook 140	596 Views / 3 Replies
I have an old PowerBook 140 2/20 (that's 2MB RAM, 20MB HDD -- ahh, how innocent we were in 1992) that I was going to recycle but wanted to see if any Mac hardware collector would like. I don't have a...
Posted by SoClose, on Apr 3, 2006 at 01:48 PM, in Marketplace

I'm not a pro photographer and have no idea what...	15,436 Views / 290 Replies
I'm not a pro photographer and have no idea what a professional's workflow is like, but even I want this application. Apple really put the "A" team on the UI and workflow design for Aperture. Can you...
Posted by SoClose, on Oct 22, 2005 at 05:57 PM, in Applications

I've plugged my electric guitar right into the...	1,004 Views / 12 Replies
I've plugged my electric guitar right into the audio-in jack of my PBG4 1.25GHz without any problems. It works great. I picked up a cheap adapter to go from 1/4" to 1/8". Go nuts, it'll work fine.
Posted by SoClose, on Oct 21, 2005 at 11:25 AM, in Applications

Actually 7.1.2 with Hardware System Update 2.0 on...	1,151 Views / 20 Replies
Actually 7.1.2 with Hardware System Update 2.0 on my Centris 650 was the bomb (this was the introduction of color icons in the file browser in the old Open/Save dialog boxes).
Posted by SoClose, on Aug 29, 2005 at 07:26 PM, in macOS

I didn't mean to be so overly antoganistic....	16,481 Views / 120 Replies
I didn't mean to be so overly antoganistic. However, here are some quotes from that Slashdot article: "...developing on the Mac platform is the best its ever been..." "I think this is the...
Posted by SoClose, on Jun 8, 2005 at 10:11 AM, in macOS

I do this today and it's a huge benefit. I...	16,481 Views / 120 Replies
I do this today and it's a huge benefit. I connect to our Linux servers via ssh and can remotely execute rootless applications (for those apps that don't have a web front-end).
Posted by SoClose, on Jun 8, 2005 at 08:35 AM, in macOS

Huh? There are plenty of companies making some...	16,481 Views / 120 Replies
Huh? There are plenty of companies making some pretty good money off Mac users, why would they want to stop? Dude, that's a pretty huge leap. You're forgetting about the applications that have...
Posted by SoClose, on Jun 7, 2005 at 09:26 PM, in macOS

Well, I guess we now know the fate of the rumored...	16,481 Views / 120 Replies
Well, I guess we now know the fate of the rumored "Yellow Box" version of the Cocoa APIs that would run on Windows/Intel. It was there the whole time! Can you imagine being the Apple engineers...
Posted by SoClose, on Jun 6, 2005 at 10:52 PM, in macOS

Intel has a couple of 64-bit options. Their true...	3,120 Views / 49 Replies
Intel has a couple of 64-bit options. Their true 64-bit CPU, the Itanium 2, is a brand new chip not based on existing Pentium lines. However, it's very large and expensive and primarily targeted at...
Posted by SoClose, on Jun 6, 2005 at 10:36 PM, in macOS

You're kidding, right? The life sciences market...	23,183 Views / 586 Replies
You're kidding, right? The life sciences market does optimize code for CPU platforms. Apple even touts this on their own website. (http://www.apple.com/science/software/lifescience.html) No, the...
Posted by SoClose, on Jun 6, 2005 at 10:14 AM, in MacNN Lounge

OK, since everyone else has weighed in with their...	23,183 Views / 586 Replies
OK, since everyone else has weighed in with their take on the Apple/Intel rumors, why shouldn't I add my two cents? Here's my thoughts ranked by likelihood: Apple switches to Pentiums: Not likely....
Posted by SoClose, on Jun 5, 2005 at 08:39 PM, in MacNN Lounge

Check your kernel panic log (in...	753 Views / 5 Replies
Check your kernel panic log (in /Library/Logs/panic.log). Sometimes you can further isolate the problem based on the kernel modules that get reported in the "Kernel loadable modules in backtrace...
Posted by SoClose, on Apr 27, 2005 at 01:06 PM, in macOS

Re: Re: SecurityAgent process	20,831 Views / 5 Replies
Errr...really? LimeWire on Mac OS X installs spyware? Do you have any details? I haven't found any evidence of this (i.e.: spyware as a separate process), but haven't looked exhaustively.
Posted by SoClose, on Dec 7, 2004 at 06:05 PM, in macOS

If someone out there running Tiger on a PowerBook...	42,307 Views / 403 Replies
If someone out there running Tiger on a PowerBook could comment on the following question, I'd appreciate it. After reading Apple's developer article on Spotlight...
Posted by SoClose, on Nov 3, 2004 at 01:32 PM, in macOS

You can view the same thing if you look at the...	3,052 Views / 31 Replies
You can view the same thing if you look at the Spotlight section of the Tiger preview site. What it really looks like is that Apple has completely blurred the logical line between a window's titlebar...
Posted by SoClose, on Oct 6, 2004 at 11:23 AM, in macOS

What's interesting about this change is that it...	3,052 Views / 31 Replies
What's interesting about this change is that it continues to promote a major UI disconnect between Apple's web presence and the UI presented in Mac OS X 10.3. One of the biggest changes in Mac OS X...
Posted by SoClose, on Oct 5, 2004 at 10:29 PM, in macOS

Are you serious?!! Open up Notepad, then an...	22,291 Views / 209 Replies
Are you serious?!! Open up Notepad, then an Office XP/2003 application and IE. Look at the three different ways the menus look-and-feel (and in same cases act when hovering over them). Look at the...
Posted by SoClose, on Oct 5, 2004 at 02:06 PM, in macOS

A long, long time ago, DEC had a very interesting...	4,646 Views / 34 Replies
A long, long time ago, DEC had a very interesting code translator for the Alpha chip. IIRC, if you ran Windows NT on Alpha and ran an x86 Windows binary, the x86 -> Alpha translator would, over time,...
Posted by SoClose, on Sep 14, 2004 at 10:08 PM, in macOS

I'm having trouble d/l'ing it. Anyone want to...	1,091 Views / 11 Replies
I'm having trouble d/l'ing it. Anyone want to generate a BitTorrent file?
Posted by SoClose, on Aug 6, 2004 at 11:41 AM, in Developer Center

I got to thinking about what some long-term...	1,834 Views / 37 Replies
I got to thinking about what some long-term changes that Spotlight might introduce (http://homepage.mac.com/cgervais/blog/C425565975/index.html) for users. Pure speculation, but fun. Would love to...
Posted by SoClose, on Jul 22, 2004 at 02:44 PM, in macOS

There are three "pillars" in Longhorn: the new...	7,475 Views / 103 Replies
There are three "pillars" in Longhorn: the new presentation layer called Avalon (with its new skin, Aero), a new data layer (the most prominent feature being WinFS but there are many others) and a...
Posted by SoClose, on Jul 9, 2004 at 05:24 PM, in macOS

WWDC Tech Pubs	517 Views / 0 Replies
Did anyone who attended the recent WWDC have a chance to see what Apple Developer Technical Publications is doing? It seems that publications like Tech Notes and Q&As have slowed to a crawl. I've...
Posted by SoClose, on Jul 6, 2004 at 09:10 PM, in Developer Center

Anyone else notice that Apple published "Security...	1,825 Views / 31 Replies
Anyone else notice that Apple published "Security Update 2004-01-26" for: 10.3.2 Client 10.3.2 Server 10.2.8 Client 10.2.8 Server 10.1.5 Client and Server
Posted by SoClose, on Jan 27, 2004 at 09:33 AM, in macOS

Why does everyone want an update? I've actually...	2,896 Views / 45 Replies
Why does everyone want an update? I've actually been happy that the update stream has calmed down a bit. What we really need from Apple is a public schedule of updates. Since Apple has recently...
Posted by SoClose, on Jan 17, 2004 at 01:14 PM, in macOS

I play guitar and drums, so my guitar case has...	12,756 Views / 99 Replies
I play guitar and drums, so my guitar case has some prominently placed Apple stickers (I've owned eight Macs, so I have lots of stickers) and my bass drum has a nice one right on the front. I don't...
Posted by SoClose, on Jan 17, 2004 at 01:10 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Why do you assume that Address Book uses XML as...	650 Views / 13 Replies
Why do you assume that Address Book uses XML as its data store? In fact, Address Book uses a highly optimized and compact database called MetaKit (http://www.equi4.com/metakit.html). I have a very...
Posted by SoClose, on Jan 14, 2004 at 12:41 PM, in macOS

Right. The 42-bit addressing is really the...	5,090 Views / 30 Replies
Right. The 42-bit addressing is really the physical addressing the chip performs. Your app will see a full 64-bit memory address space. If you do the math, an real 64-bit address is such a...
Posted by SoClose, on Sep 11, 2003 at 02:58 PM, in macOS

Re: Questions about G5 memory management in X.2.7 and Panther	5,090 Views / 30 Replies
That's actually pretty hard to determine at any given time. Mac OS X is a very dynamic OS in that it loads and unloads system components as they're needed. Since UNIX-based OSes are a collection of...
Posted by SoClose, on Sep 11, 2003 at 12:47 PM, in macOS

From what I hear, the Outlook support in Apple...	1,494 Views / 9 Replies
From what I hear, the Outlook support in Apple Mail is actually pretty darn sneaky. From the rumor I've heard and a demo long-ago, it can use IMAP (no MAPI calls, those are Windows-only) and can also...
Posted by SoClose, on Aug 25, 2003 at 04:36 PM, in macOS

FWIW -- my Apple enterprise rep e-mailed me this...	3,736 Views / 74 Replies
FWIW -- my Apple enterprise rep e-mailed me this morning from Panther training classes. His 'hint' was that we'll see Panther very soon, much sooner than most people have been guessing. We're looking...
Posted by SoClose, on Aug 5, 2003 at 08:16 PM, in macOS

*I don't know if Panther provides the dl section...**	640 Views / 2 Replies
I don't know if Panther provides the dl* section of code, but if you're stuck you can look at: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2071.html#Section6 This will give you an overview of...
Posted by SoClose, on Jul 23, 2003 at 10:13 AM, in Developer Center

I was checking out Panther on a friend's Mac...	1,174 Views / 15 Replies
I was checking out Panther on a friend's Mac (he's an institutional developer) and was peeking into the dark reaches of the developer release. If you go to...
Posted by SoClose, on Jun 30, 2003 at 10:24 AM, in Developer Center

Correct! Here's the listing of system frameworks...	1,375 Views / 23 Replies
Correct! Here's the listing of system frameworks that iTunes 4 links to: /usr/lib/libz.1.1.3.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.1.3) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility...
Posted by SoClose, on May 10, 2003 at 11:01 AM, in macOS

Re: Flashing Earth Icon	905 Views / 2 Replies
It sounds as if the system has lost the ability to tell which system folder is the blessed folder. Have you tried rebooting into Mac OS 9 and using the Startup Disk control panel to select the...
Posted by SoClose, on Mar 26, 2003 at 04:12 PM, in macOS

I was corresponding with someone at Microsoft...	1,312 Views / 8 Replies
I was corresponding with someone at Microsoft about this after Office v.X was released. Since Word (and the rest of the Office suite) are based on the old classic Mac OS event loop (called...
Posted by SoClose, on Feb 18, 2003 at 08:13 PM, in macOS

Just download and install the GTK package they...	579 Views / 2 Replies
Just download and install the GTK package they have on the site. Gimp should launch just fine after that.
Posted by SoClose, on Feb 8, 2003 at 05:11 PM, in macOS

You know what else is kind of strange, but...	516 Views / 3 Replies
You know what else is kind of strange, but completely unrelated: the fact that our standards-based, super-fast web browser uses the old, crufty and slow-as-hell Help Viewer for displaying its HTML...
Posted by SoClose, on Feb 8, 2003 at 10:14 AM, in macOS

Re: Re: iSync and iCal updates are out!	910 Views / 5 Replies
I think Apple may have done this to make it easier for newbies to find software that they've downloaded. I think folks have trouble connecting the dots between the disk image file and the mounted...
Posted by SoClose, on Jan 2, 2003 at 11:28 AM, in macOS

iSync and iCal updates are out!	910 Views / 5 Replies
Get 'em while they're hot!
Posted by SoClose, on Jan 2, 2003 at 09:46 AM, in macOS

Pissah! Maybe they'll re-run portions of it on...	1,961 Views / 29 Replies
Pissah! Maybe they'll re-run portions of it on their news program. I wish there was some cable channel that would carry the keynote...I've never really seen one that hasn't been some sort of...
Posted by SoClose, on Dec 30, 2002 at 11:05 PM, in macOS

Does anyone know if TechTV will be carrying the...	1,961 Views / 29 Replies
Does anyone know if TechTV will be carrying the keynote? I love watching it on my computer and all, but I've got meetings and my TiVo will be home with nothing to do :D
Posted by SoClose, on Dec 30, 2002 at 10:36 PM, in macOS

PropertyList in Java	434 Views / 0 Replies
Does anyone have or know of a pure Java implementation of Cocoa and CoreFoundations PropertyList object? I have an XML representation of a PropertyList and I want to deserialize it back into an...
Posted by SoClose, on Dec 11, 2002 at 04:46 PM, in Developer Center

There are a couple good reasons for Apple to...	3,789 Views / 75 Replies
There are a couple good reasons for Apple to produce their own browser: 1) Clean up the plug-in mess with Mac browsers. The APIs for creating plug-ins are old and crufty. They were created years...
Posted by SoClose, on Dec 9, 2002 at 10:18 AM, in macOS

Guard pages were essentially 4K blocks of memory...	1,846 Views / 38 Replies
Guard pages were essentially 4K blocks of memory on either side of the application memory partition. These would help prevent applications writing into someone else's memory space. However, Classic...
Posted by SoClose, on Nov 4, 2002 at 05:40 PM, in macOS

Use /Library/Java/Extensions to place additional...	796 Views / 2 Replies
Use /Library/Java/Extensions to place additional classes into your Java CLASSPATH. Put xerces.jar in there and you should be able to code against it on your machine. In order to use the Java Web...
Posted by SoClose, on Nov 2, 2002 at 06:56 PM, in Developer Center

Re: Future of NetInfo	1,013 Views / 9 Replies
Why let another Apple-only technology compete with an established industry standard like LDAP? Remember AOCE and PowerTalk? Apple is being extremely smart and very shrewd by leveraging open standards...
Posted by SoClose, on Nov 1, 2002 at 03:26 PM, in macOS

Re: Applescript-LDAP bridge	1,609 Views / 5 Replies
Depending on the directory vendor, you could also use web services to facilitate the integration. Since XML was touted as one of the big benefits of FMPro6 you could use some combination of XML, the...
Posted by SoClose, on Oct 24, 2002 at 04:52 PM, in Developer Center

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