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no issues so far 921 Views / 15 Replies  
I have both the penryn 2.4 and previous gen 2.2. The penryn is MUCH cooler-- I can leave it on my lap and it never gets hot. My older 2.2 gets rediculously hot. Other than that I don't notice any...
Posted by winterlandia, on Apr 11, 2008 at 10:59 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Macs in enterprise 1,002 Views / 9 Replies  
Macs in the enterprise are fine under virtualization however there are many companies that are implementing NAC (network admission control) that doesn't just let any client on the network and your...
Posted by winterlandia, on Feb 12, 2008 at 09:33 AM, in macOS
if you want to find out, fire up wireshark ... 496 Views / 2 Replies  
if you want to find out, fire up wireshark
(Wireshark: Download (http://www.wireshark.org/download.html)) and capture the packets between the machine then do a search of the capture for your...
Posted by winterlandia, on Nov 9, 2007 at 07:10 PM, in macOS
I am not sure of the brand, but it looked very... 1,781 Views / 23 Replies  
I am not sure of the brand, but it looked very generic and it was from SmallDog. It was definitely not a NewerTech though as I would have remembered the name. What I ended up doing and I'm sure this...
Posted by winterlandia, on Jul 31, 2007 at 01:43 PM, in Mac Notebooks
just get an apple battery 1,781 Views / 23 Replies  
I purchased a third party battery for my 12" powerbook and was sorry I did. It didn't fit completely right, didn't have a metal sliding cover (it was painted plastic-- the WRONG color at that, they...
Posted by winterlandia, on Jul 29, 2007 at 10:03 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Volume Shadow Copy 5,994 Views / 10 Replies  
Volume Shadow Copy is almost exactly like TM as far as I can tell from today's demo. We use it constantly at my office to do quick restores for folks. It doesn't look snazzy like TM and is just an...
Posted by winterlandia, on Aug 7, 2006 at 11:24 PM, in macOS
nuance 2,124 Views / 45 Replies  
a while back I emailed apple and told them to buy rhetorical systems as they had by far the coolest tts voices out there. on rhetorical.com you could put in any text and it would read it back for...
Posted by winterlandia, on Aug 1, 2006 at 05:54 PM, in macOS
agreed.. 80,854 Views / 767 Replies  
Totally agree.. MacBook is the most rediculous name. I would have to put a sticker over that if I bought one to keep from thinking how stupid it is everytime I opened the laptop. This ranks up...
Posted by winterlandia, on Jan 11, 2006 at 09:39 PM, in Mac Notebooks
you could but.. 2,856 Views / 11 Replies  
you could use an sd card as a hd if you had some sort of IDE->sd converter

I have done this on pcs using compact flash cards using an IDE->CF (old big style)->CF (small) converters, it really does...
Posted by winterlandia, on Oct 11, 2005 at 11:06 AM, in Hardware Hacking
There have been a few recent exploits... 1,355 Views / 15 Replies  
There have been a few recent exploits demonstrated lately but nobody has gone so far as to create a worm or virus that takes advantage of them before apple fixes them (which they do slowly). It...
Posted by winterlandia, on Jul 17, 2005 at 08:03 AM, in Mac Notebooks
I thought it was somewhat funny until I saw it... 776 Views / 5 Replies  
I thought it was somewhat funny until I saw it was actually a commercial. Then I noticed you have 2 posts which makes me wonder if you work there. A SCOTTeVEST newsletter?! You're kidding right? ...
Posted by winterlandia, on Jun 21, 2005 at 12:04 AM, in iPhone, iPad & iPod
A while back I bought a low end dell and it took... 24,557 Views / 391 Replies  
A while back I bought a low end dell and it took about $200 worth of hardware upgrades (ram and video to replace the onboard intel shared memory video) to really make it usable. That doesn't even...
Posted by winterlandia, on Jun 20, 2005 at 10:58 AM, in Mac Desktops
You must have missed the plaintext only option.... 809 Views / 9 Replies  
You must have missed the plaintext only option. TextEdit-> Preferences-> Plain text radio button
Posted by winterlandia, on Jun 16, 2005 at 11:20 AM, in Applications
Have you upgraded your server 2003 box to sp1... 593 Views / 2 Replies  
Have you upgraded your server 2003 box to sp1 yet? you might try that-- there are some smb "improvements" and it might help I suppose.

Frankly, I'd just copy the music onto your ibook and be...
Posted by winterlandia, on Jun 16, 2005 at 10:39 AM, in Applications
I had a 733 QS and went with a giga 1.4 card... 3,237 Views / 52 Replies  
I had a 733 QS and went with a giga 1.4 card because I am in the same boat with lots of upgrades (pioneer 109, vidcard, lots of hds, lots of ram). Very happy-- the speed increase is very noticable...
Posted by winterlandia, on Jun 8, 2005 at 11:56 AM, in Mac Desktops
The demo during the keynote was a regular 3.6 ghz... 3,120 Views / 49 Replies  
The demo during the keynote was a regular 3.6 ghz P4 if I remember right when he showed the about box. Also, Phil Schiller said something about not stopping customers from running windows if they...
Posted by winterlandia, on Jun 6, 2005 at 11:30 PM, in macOS
I don't really see the advantage of getting... 1,017 Views / 7 Replies  
I don't really see the advantage of getting iEmulator over QemuX:
http://cordney.com/QemuX/download/
Posted by winterlandia, on May 31, 2005 at 04:30 PM, in Applications
you might try installing the dvd player 4.6 from... 1,241 Views / 11 Replies  
you might try installing the dvd player 4.6 from apple? http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/dvdplayer46.html It says for 10.4 but you never know it may work. I never got the dvd player to...
Posted by winterlandia, on May 22, 2005 at 11:23 PM, in Mac Desktops
I got a 109 for my quicksilver 733 and it worked... 1,241 Views / 11 Replies  
I got a 109 for my quicksilver 733 and it worked great with patchburn before tiger and perfectly now that I'm in tiger too. The disks are pretty hot when they come out but I have yet to make any...
Posted by winterlandia, on May 17, 2005 at 10:01 PM, in Mac Desktops
Ok, after reading this thread I was interested in... 28,582 Views / 52 Replies  
Ok, after reading this thread I was interested in seeing if I could quiet down my QS so I started unhooking fans. WOW my cpu fan just HOWLS. The other fans do a nice whooshing sound but that is...
Posted by winterlandia, on May 9, 2005 at 12:32 PM, in Mac Desktops
I upgraded a Sawtooth G4 from Jag to Tiger and it... 1,267 Views / 10 Replies  
I upgraded a Sawtooth G4 from Jag to Tiger and it feels much much faster. I would say it's worth it. It pushes the video card pretty hard (the Rage 128 just can't make the expose effect happen very...
Posted by winterlandia, on May 6, 2005 at 10:29 PM, in Mac Desktops
I have been able to bind my mac with an Active... 1,292 Views / 11 Replies  
I have been able to bind my mac with an Active Directory with both Panther and Tiger without an issue. I can even get my Windows home directory to map properly and automount when I log in as well as...
Posted by winterlandia, on May 1, 2005 at 01:05 AM, in macOS
I have an older 1ghz 12" pb and it is noticably... 839 Views / 5 Replies  
I have an older 1ghz 12" pb and it is noticably faster in Tiger than in Panther. Mine has 512 in it too which seems to be enough for running the normal things I do (safari, word, itunes mostly). ...
Posted by winterlandia, on Apr 30, 2005 at 06:43 PM, in macOS
I have the apple in-ear phones and love them. I... 1,382 Views / 12 Replies  
I have the apple in-ear phones and love them. I think they have excellent sound quality and you can listen at a lower volume since it blocks out a lot of external sound. You really have to jam them...
Posted by winterlandia, on Apr 30, 2005 at 11:51 AM, in iPhone, iPad & iPod
Is it worth it? Spotlight, Dashboard, and... 1,653 Views / 33 Replies  
Is it worth it? Spotlight, Dashboard, and Automator (I don't really use iChat) plus the noticable speed increase on my old G4 make it just barely worth it. It is actually pretty amazing that every...
Posted by winterlandia, on Apr 28, 2005 at 12:51 AM, in macOS
I too thought the ripple was nifty at first but... 6,648 Views / 114 Replies  
I too thought the ripple was nifty at first but now wish I could just turn it off. I actually like the non-ripple expanding widget effect much better on my older computer. The effect I do like is...
Posted by winterlandia, on Apr 27, 2005 at 07:44 AM, in macOS
Wow, this update has definitely improved the... 15,874 Views / 241 Replies  
Wow, this update has definitely improved the performance of safari for me. Not sure why-- it just seems so much faster displaying pages and scrolling. Even pulling down menus in the finder seems...
Posted by winterlandia, on Apr 16, 2005 at 01:36 AM, in macOS
You could run mac minis as ICA (Citrix) or RDP... 1,531 Views / 5 Replies  
You could run mac minis as ICA (Citrix) or RDP (MS Term Svcs) clients but they would be pretty expensive as thin clients considering there are many at half that price. The upside is if connectivity...
Posted by winterlandia, on Apr 15, 2005 at 09:11 AM, in Mac Desktops
get the demo 607 Views / 1 Replies  
There is a demo on the filemaker.com site that lets you use the software for 30 days if you want to try it. I believe however that the answer is yes, it will combine all your tables without a...
Posted by winterlandia, on Mar 27, 2004 at 10:55 AM, in Applications
Re: Through the Looking Glass 568 Views / 2 Replies  
Wow, I doubt it's really worth that much as far as insurance goes but I sure would like to get a copy if it's gone out of copyright... My 512ke mac would be fun to fire up and see it. You're...
Posted by winterlandia, on Mar 27, 2004 at 12:24 AM, in Gaming
try this first 759 Views / 2 Replies  
I thought I had a dead powersupply too. Is it really dead? Hit the little red button next to the battery on the motherboard a few times and I was able to power it on again. There is a technote...
Posted by winterlandia, on Oct 15, 2003 at 12:22 AM, in Mac Desktops
Re: By the way... 1,202 Views / 32 Replies  
Ahhh yes, I remember the good old days when I used CricketGraph to make graphs on an old SE30 for my advisor that nobody could even remotely begin to figure out how to create on a PC in excel.
...
Posted by winterlandia, on Apr 6, 2003 at 09:01 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Because two wrongs make a right? Most of the... 4,078 Views / 92 Replies  
Because two wrongs make a right?

Most of the news agencies are estimating 350 civilian deaths so far. I'm guessing a number of them are children.
Posted by winterlandia, on Mar 28, 2003 at 09:06 AM, in Political/War Lounge
Re: Okay so I changed my mind about the war 4,502 Views / 86 Replies  
I personally feel Bush has misjudged the amount of anti-american animosity this war will create with the Middle East. I have a feeling that the threat of terrorism from Saddam was far lower than the...
Posted by winterlandia, on Mar 23, 2003 at 11:19 PM, in Political/War Lounge
Re: Which network news anchor do you hate? 1,713 Views / 58 Replies  
The only anchor I CAN stand to watch is Jennings. He genuinely cares about what he's saying unlike Brokaw or Rather. During the 9/11 attacks, Jennings was the only one that really talked through it...
Posted by winterlandia, on Mar 23, 2003 at 10:53 PM, in MacNN Lounge
no 1,192 Views / 24 Replies  
I agree with Mitchell_pgh. They'd have to give it away everywhere and achieve critical mass. The feature set would also have to be identical (office programs are remarkably deep in features). I've...
Posted by winterlandia, on Jan 20, 2003 at 08:47 PM, in macOS
Safari text smoothing madness 587 Views / 3 Replies  
Has anyone figured out how to turn off text smoothing/anti-aliasing in Safari? It's driving me crazy. Yes, I've gone into the system preferences->general and set the minimum to 12 (light), why...
Posted by winterlandia, on Jan 19, 2003 at 10:53 AM, in Applications
MS terminal services works pretty well actually-... 934 Views / 16 Replies  
MS terminal services works pretty well actually- and even better with citrix added on. I have a few quad processor p3 xeon servers that are servicing about 180 desktop users (win2k desktop with...
Posted by winterlandia, on Nov 21, 2002 at 05:44 PM, in macOS
GREAT theme 8,102 Views / 144 Replies  
Love this theme. Very professional looking! Thanks b00zo!
:)
Posted by winterlandia, on Nov 10, 2002 at 02:11 AM, in Applications
Yes they should authorize it, but they need it to... 1,648 Views / 66 Replies  
Yes they should authorize it, but they need it to be a UN force not a US force. The UN's rules were broken.

Bush actually said these words "he tried to kill my dad". This was reported in the...
Posted by winterlandia, on Oct 27, 2002 at 12:22 PM, in MacNN Lounge
If Iraq broke the UN's rules, the UN needs to... 1,648 Views / 66 Replies  
If Iraq broke the UN's rules, the UN needs to deal with Iraq. There is absolutely NO justified reason that the US has to do it unilaterally. Bush has NO long term plan to share with us on what will...
Posted by winterlandia, on Oct 27, 2002 at 09:05 AM, in MacNN Lounge
Re: Re: Re: Can you run a PC and Mac off one Apple flatscreen? 1,164 Views / 16 Replies  
I use the miniview usb kvm switch. Works great, came with good cables too. Cost about $90 or so. Switches my keyboard, monitor, and all my usb periphs between my mac and pc. It has a usb hub...
Posted by winterlandia, on Oct 21, 2002 at 03:44 PM, in Mac Desktops
I don't mean to pick on you but actually the... 1,731 Views / 29 Replies  
I don't mean to pick on you but actually the meaning of DLL hell has changed in XP. What you're talking about is the old DLL hell (in 95, 98, and NT) where you'd have a known good dll get...
Posted by winterlandia, on Oct 19, 2002 at 07:48 PM, in macOS
meteo is awesome 1,834 Views / 40 Replies  
I'm sticking with Meteorologist. I really like it-- one click and I have current weather and forecasts. The one feature I'd like (and makes me go to weather.com) is the ability to get the detailed...
Posted by winterlandia, on Oct 12, 2002 at 11:48 PM, in Applications
not impressed either 1,599 Views / 23 Replies  
I had a wonderfully stable 10.1.5 setup (733, 768mb ram) going and then upgraded to 10.2. Dog slow. Clean installed 10.2 and updates. Runs like a charm now.. except for the newest Internet...
Posted by winterlandia, on Oct 9, 2002 at 08:38 AM, in macOS
Re: Seriously, what can Apple do to improve Mac OS X, in any form? A feedback campaign. 2,503 Views / 73 Replies  
The open/save boxes need to be revamped. Those things drive EVERYONE in my family nuts. It isn't intuitive at all.
Posted by winterlandia, on Oct 4, 2002 at 12:08 PM, in macOS
Re: Problem: My kids love Jaguar 1,292 Views / 20 Replies  
I always laugh when parents ask if they need to expose their kids to windows because "that's what they use in the real world".

HA! Right. So what they're implying is that Windows (or the mac for...
Posted by winterlandia, on Oct 1, 2002 at 08:01 PM, in macOS
Re: Is the brush metal growing on anyone else 1,817 Views / 26 Replies  
No, I still loathe the brushed metal crap. It looks like cheap stereo component front ends from the early 80s. Crappy. Hey, why not add woodgrain and faux fur? wait a minute, let me check out...
Posted by winterlandia, on Sep 30, 2002 at 12:35 AM, in macOS
The reason Jim Matthews gave out prizes is... 2,320 Views / 47 Replies  
The reason Jim Matthews gave out prizes is probably because he won a million bucks on "Who wants to be a millionairre." I kid you not. I saw the episode. It was even on Macintouch that next day.
Posted by winterlandia, on Sep 28, 2002 at 06:07 PM, in macOS
I totally agree. Apple seems to think users don't... 1,519 Views / 40 Replies  
I totally agree. Apple seems to think users don't move things. They do move things. Get over it, Apple. Look for the damn application. Replace it in place. What could be difficult about that?
Posted by winterlandia, on Sep 24, 2002 at 12:06 AM, in macOS
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