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I'm sure you could... but why? Lighting the space... 1,555 Views / 6 Replies  
I'm sure you could... but why? Lighting the space between the keys will actually make the keys even harder to read, since the actual characters on the keys will not be lighted and just appear darker...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Jun 2, 2006 at 07:57 AM, in Hardware Hacking
That's because Apple's x86 implementation of the... 2,088 Views / 14 Replies  
That's because Apple's x86 implementation of the H.264 decoder is seriously lacking. On my Windows PC (Athlon 2500xp), VLC plays the 720p trailers on Apple's site flawlessly, whereas QuickTime...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Jan 12, 2006 at 08:14 AM, in Mac Notebooks
You could try deleting the FireWire related kexts... 861 Views / 6 Replies  
You could try deleting the FireWire related kexts from /System/Library/Extensions
Posted by Evinyatar, on Nov 28, 2005 at 08:34 AM, in Mac Notebooks
I'm a big fan of phpEclipse... 1,172 Views / 18 Replies  
I'm a big fan of phpEclipse (http://www.phpeclipse.de/). It's a set of plugins for the immensely popular Eclipse Java IDE, and provides syntax colouring, auto-completion and more of such goodness,...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Nov 15, 2005 at 04:36 PM, in Applications
You should have no problem developing Java apps... 1,236 Views / 14 Replies  
You should have no problem developing Java apps on Mac and then running them on Windows. It's 98% platform independent. The IDE they used in college for teaching Java was Borland's JBuilder. It's...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Oct 22, 2005 at 10:12 AM, in Developer Center
Navigate to the RSS feed you want in Safari, and... 633 Views / 1 Replies  
Navigate to the RSS feed you want in Safari, and bookmark it. Simple as that :)
Posted by Evinyatar, on Aug 17, 2005 at 02:35 PM, in macOS
Not without an extra display adapter. Your... 1,023 Views / 12 Replies  
Not without an extra display adapter. Your PowerBook only has one DVI out port, but there's PC Card (http://www.digitaltigers.com/sidecar-plustwomac.shtml) video cards...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Jul 25, 2005 at 02:59 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Well, the trailers on Apple's site are at a... 2,100 Views / 30 Replies  
Well, the trailers on Apple's site are at a resolution of 1280 x 544 pixels, at 24fps. That means 16.711.680 pixels that have to be transferred over the FireWire link per second. Lets just say we use...
Posted by Evinyatar, on May 31, 2005 at 04:44 AM, in Mac Notebooks
I'm assuming this is because it's a preview... 2,101 Views / 24 Replies  
I'm assuming this is because it's a preview release and not ready for mass usage. I'm gonna try it anyway.
Posted by Evinyatar, on Apr 30, 2005 at 11:44 AM, in macOS
Did you move your Dictionary app to somewhere... 40,275 Views / 280 Replies  
Did you move your Dictionary app to somewhere other than the Applications folder? I like to keep my Applications folder tidy so I put it in a subdirectory "Accessories" and that broke it for me.
Posted by Evinyatar, on Apr 30, 2005 at 11:43 AM, in macOS
I keep finding these things... in Automator when... 72,296 Views / 551 Replies  
I keep finding these things... in Automator when you try to download files it fails if you're behind a proxy. Apparently it calls curl to fetch these and doesn't pass the proxy settings. Why it...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Apr 27, 2005 at 03:57 AM, in macOS
Another one, which is quite appalling since it's... 72,296 Views / 551 Replies  
Another one, which is quite appalling since it's just laziness; some of the bundled widgets aren't translated! Obviously it'd be silly to translate the Dictionary or Phonebook widgets, since one only...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Apr 26, 2005 at 04:28 AM, in macOS
That's not a feature... it's a bug. Switching to... 40,275 Views / 280 Replies  
That's not a feature... it's a bug. Switching to Dashboard and back will remove the widget again.
Posted by Evinyatar, on Apr 26, 2005 at 03:50 AM, in macOS
Yes, I have noticed this too. Any page with lots... 16,588 Views / 50 Replies  
Yes, I have noticed this too. Any page with lots of animated gifs (like the forum post form here) slows down to a crawl with Q2DX on.
Posted by Evinyatar, on Apr 26, 2005 at 02:47 AM, in macOS
Yay, found another one :D Start a slideshow in... 72,296 Views / 551 Replies  
Yay, found another one :D Start a slideshow in the Finder, go into index mode and hover your mouse over a pic, use the arrow keys to select a different picture, hover your mouse over another pic, use...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Apr 25, 2005 at 12:27 PM, in macOS
Honestly, it's not that bad. If you get rid of... 72,296 Views / 551 Replies  
Honestly, it's not that bad. If you get rid of the World Clock and Calendar widgets it's pretty snappy. I've got iTunes, two weather widgets, dictionary, translation, calculator and stock widgets in...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Apr 25, 2005 at 12:03 PM, in macOS
Another one: I have a logitech mx900 bluetooth... 72,296 Views / 551 Replies  
Another one: I have a logitech mx900 bluetooth mouse, and have assigned the three buttons around the scrollwheel to Expos� features. When I hit one of the two buttons closest to the scrollwheel the...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Apr 25, 2005 at 10:33 AM, in macOS
Note that you have to enter this query in your... 4,456 Views / 36 Replies  
Note that you have to enter this query in your system's preferred language. So if you have Dutch set as your main language you would have to enter 'soort:afbeeldingen' instead of 'kind:images'. Also...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Apr 25, 2005 at 10:19 AM, in macOS
I think he means that when you click outside the... 72,296 Views / 551 Replies  
I think he means that when you click outside the menu and the dock the dock stays shown and the icon stays magnified. In panther the dock would hide itself (if hiding was turned on), not so in Tiger;...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Apr 25, 2005 at 09:58 AM, in macOS
15" Alu weird fan noise 603 Views / 2 Replies  
I have a 15" aluminium PowerBook whose fan makes a weird noise when it comes on. It kinda sounds like there's something hitting the fan blades, and it seems to be located somewhere near the screen...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Apr 24, 2005 at 05:04 AM, in Mac Notebooks
I keep hearing complaints from Windows users... 3,382 Views / 33 Replies  
I keep hearing complaints from Windows users about BlueTooth mice disconnecting or going to stand-by mode after some idle time and then taking a long time to reconnect again. Does this happen on the...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Jan 26, 2005 at 05:07 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
I'm having the same issue with my 15 inch... 756 Views / 4 Replies  
I'm having the same issue with my 15 inch PowerBook and it really is annoying as hell. I can push it down and stays down for a couple of minutes but then it just pops back up. I must say I'm less...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Jan 4, 2005 at 08:12 AM, in Mac Notebooks
I'm pretty sure the water's gone by now. It's... 785 Views / 4 Replies  
I'm pretty sure the water's gone by now. It's been over two weeks, and I couldn't find any traces when I opened it up yesterday. I'm prepping it to send it in for repair tomorrow.
Posted by Evinyatar, on Dec 12, 2004 at 08:28 AM, in Mac Notebooks
I tried both sticks seperately but the problem... 785 Views / 4 Replies  
I tried both sticks seperately but the problem remains. And it didn't exactly get flooded... I didn't even know there was water inside until I got home and it refused to boot. I opened it up and...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Dec 9, 2004 at 05:17 PM, in Mac Notebooks
PowerBook + water don't mix... 785 Views / 4 Replies  
A couple of days ago some water got inside my Titanium PowerBook G4 (1GHz). When I got home it refused to wake from sleep, but after a couple of hours of drying it booted ok, only everything was...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Dec 9, 2004 at 10:40 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Booting, what's that again? ;) I only shut down... 9,803 Views / 89 Replies  
Booting, what's that again? ;) I only shut down my PowerBook when I put it in secure storage when I'm going on vacation.
Posted by Evinyatar, on Nov 22, 2004 at 03:43 PM, in Mac Notebooks
It's a bug. Icons often get mixed up for some... 591 Views / 3 Replies  
It's a bug. Icons often get mixed up for some reason (bad programming is my guess :p). Restarting your Mac will fix it.
Posted by Evinyatar, on Nov 7, 2004 at 06:32 PM, in macOS
You should check the cable. I often have the same... 1,166 Views / 20 Replies  
You should check the cable. I often have the same problem transferring between my PowerBook and my PC, where forcing the connection at 100mbit actually results in a huge speed increase.
Posted by Evinyatar, on Oct 3, 2004 at 09:43 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Just try it, it won't kill your PowerBook. 753 Views / 8 Replies  
Just try it, it won't kill your PowerBook.
Posted by Evinyatar, on Sep 16, 2004 at 05:07 AM, in Mac Notebooks
I think you should be able to just boot from the... 753 Views / 8 Replies  
I think you should be able to just boot from the Panther cd. Pop the drive in, pop the disc in, boot up and immediately press and hold down the C key. And if that fails, try with the Option (alt) key.
Posted by Evinyatar, on Sep 15, 2004 at 05:49 AM, in Mac Notebooks
In that case, would it be possible to mod the... 1,378 Views / 3 Replies  
In that case, would it be possible to mod the GeForce by cutting the power connectors to the AGP bus and using a molex instead?
Posted by Evinyatar, on Aug 27, 2004 at 06:28 PM, in Hardware Hacking
Gigabit Sawtooth G4, ATX Power Supply? 1,378 Views / 3 Replies  
I've been trying to put a flashed GeForce 3 in my Sawtooth Gigabit G4 but I'm getting the same flickering image problem most people that have tried this have had. The problem is that the card doesn't...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Aug 25, 2004 at 07:25 AM, in Hardware Hacking
Getting the PowerBook apart is one thing, getting... 834 Views / 5 Replies  
Getting the PowerBook apart is one thing, getting the optical drive apart is quite another.
Posted by Evinyatar, on Aug 16, 2004 at 12:47 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Possibly Apple's deal with Lemke Software (the... 618 Views / 3 Replies  
Possibly Apple's deal with Lemke Software (the makers of GraphicConverter) is only for older versions of the software (just so people would still pay for newer versions). Classic has not been phased...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Aug 16, 2004 at 05:24 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: broken glass beads stuck inside superdrive (help!) 834 Views / 5 Replies  
Yes, the drive is self contained and the beads are unlikely to move anywhere, which is just as bad since that decreases the chances of you being able to shake them out.


The beads could seriously...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Aug 16, 2004 at 05:18 AM, in Mac Notebooks
VNC does't allow you to share files, at least not... 1,002 Views / 13 Replies  
VNC does't allow you to share files, at least not last time I checked. I'd go with FTP. Go into the system prefs and find the Sharing preference pane. There, tick the checkbox next to 'FTP'. Then on...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Jul 23, 2004 at 10:42 AM, in macOS
Has anyone noticed how neither of the iPods now... 1,255 Views / 23 Replies  
Has anyone noticed how neither of the iPods now come with the remote anymore according to the Apple Store page? If I'm reading this correctly, if I want an iPod with a remote and the in-ear buds, I'd...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Jul 20, 2004 at 06:13 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
For those where the password doesn't show up, try... 9,209 Views / 119 Replies  
For those where the password doesn't show up, try replacing 'longname' with your actual password. That should at least tell us if it's in there at all (albeit not in the vicinity of the 'longname'...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Jul 15, 2004 at 11:47 AM, in macOS
Cocoa and Java 1.4 491 Views / 0 Replies  
I'm working on a project that requires Java 1.4. I started coding in XCode and while running it I got an exception:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError
at...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Jun 18, 2004 at 11:35 AM, in Developer Center
Do you happen to know where I can find more... 3,775 Views / 79 Replies  
Do you happen to know where I can find more information about that patch? I can't find anything about it on Google or the MOL mailing list archive :confused:
Posted by Evinyatar, on May 20, 2004 at 08:13 AM, in MacNN Lounge
Hell, Windows can make just about anyone scream ;) 61,056 Views / 558 Replies  
Hell, Windows can make just about anyone scream ;)
Posted by Evinyatar, on May 4, 2004 at 12:43 PM, in macOS
Thanks, that did it :) 577 Views / 6 Replies  
Thanks, that did it :)
Posted by Evinyatar, on Mar 14, 2004 at 04:10 PM, in macOS
Hiding users in login window? 577 Views / 6 Replies  
This has got me stumped; I have added a couple of shell accounts to my PowerBook for use with CVS over SSH for each of my co-workers. Now all of these appear in the login window and the fast user...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Mar 14, 2004 at 03:49 PM, in macOS
Have you ever fixed this flickering? I'm having... 706 Views / 3 Replies  
Have you ever fixed this flickering? I'm having the same issue with a flashed GeForce 3. It only happens on heavily accelerated operations, such as the dock or playing movies etc. It's really buggin'...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Mar 6, 2004 at 01:56 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
I actually found IP over FireWire to be slower... 566 Views / 2 Replies  
I actually found IP over FireWire to be slower than 100Mbit ethernet with the beta. If you want really fast connectivity the gigabit ethernet with a crossover cable will do just that :)
Posted by Evinyatar, on Jan 28, 2004 at 04:50 PM, in macOS
I've tried renewing the DHCP lease about 15 times... 685 Views / 5 Replies  
I've tried renewing the DHCP lease about 15 times to no avail. I also tried some tips Google brought up involving setting the MTU to 1500 but that didn't help either.
It's not just an AirPort...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Nov 25, 2003 at 09:46 AM, in macOS
Panther, AirPort, and DHCP 685 Views / 5 Replies  
Since I have upgraded to Panther, I have not been able to get an IP from my school's Wifi DHCP server. It worked fine in Jaguar, but my PowerBook keeps assigning its own IP onder Panther, so I am...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Nov 24, 2003 at 08:41 AM, in macOS
If MacOS X corrupts the filesystem on the RAID,... 1,353 Views / 21 Replies  
If MacOS X corrupts the filesystem on the RAID, you're equally screwed.
Posted by Evinyatar, on Nov 13, 2003 at 07:02 PM, in macOS
Installed Panther and it doesn't seem to be... 674 Views / 9 Replies  
Installed Panther and it doesn't seem to be resolved totally yet. I had been browsing my shares through the Network thing in the Finder and mounted a few others. When I unplugged the PowerBook the...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Nov 3, 2003 at 04:39 PM, in macOS
Network drives - network = hang 674 Views / 9 Replies  
This is what I just sent to Apple feedback:
At home I have a PowerMac G4 400MHz with plenty of storage (180GB). So I often use that machine as a fileserver. The problems arise when I arrive at...
Posted by Evinyatar, on Oct 20, 2003 at 12:16 PM, in macOS
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