I've always been appalled that Macs don't come loaded to the gills with more RAM.
― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, grimley, I'm fairly certain his point was "Why purchase a more expensive machine if it will only run Office?" and, quite frankly son, your answer needs work.
ps the real answer is that theoretically the damn things should work better than that, kyle.
― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
The video shows Ellch and Maynor targeting a specific security flaw in the Macbook's wireless "device driver," ... While those device driver flaws are particular to the Macbook -- and presently not publicly disclosed -- Maynor said the two have found at least two similar flaws in device drivers for wireless cards either designed for or embedded in machines running the Windows OS. Still, the presenters said they ultimately decided to run the demo against a Mac due to what Maynor called the "Mac user base aura of smugness on security."
"We're not picking specifically on Macs here, but if you watch those 'Get a Mac' commercials enough, it eventually makes you want to stab one of those users in the eye with a lit cigarette or something," Maynor said.
― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
nah, that's a "they" meaning "they", not, er, "they".
kyle?
and hey, i think keeping a major corporation alive is a dandy reason for buying a mac. i mean, it's apple! lookit the little stripy logo and ... it smiles when you turn it on! and you have to hug it to find the switch! and ... HEY, HANG ON, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FUCKING MACS I KNEW AND LOVED?
cunts.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link
A) Get another Genius appointment and take this [still kernel-panicking for no reason even with brand new motherboard iMac] back to the Store for more warranty-enabled service work, or;
B) Call Applecare as soon as they open at 9am EST and ask how to exchange this "build-to-order" POS for another "build-to-order" iMac without paying some goddamn restocking fee, or how to get my $2000 back.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Results 1 - 10 of about 295,000 for Intel iMac faulty motherboard. (0.55 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,840,000 for Intel iMac logic board replaced. (0.35 seconds)
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
u hve probably tried this, and it's basically the same as running disk utility, but have you tried starting up in single-user mode and running "/sbin/fsck -fy" ? if that comes up clean then it definitely is not your HD (bad sectors, etc.) .and must be some borked NON-motherboard piece of hardware on the thing but it's like the time i got hives after taking dayquil, i went to the doctor and they're like "well you're allergic to dayquil" and i'm like "yes, but what specifically am i allergic to?" and they're like "we don't know, dayquil has like 14 things in it."
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Honestly I'll do that and run DU out of a sense of diligence and optimism that perhaps it really is some kind of trivial issue but I'm so, so sick of fucking with this thing already.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
boot from a CD, then fsck a couple of times and see what comes up
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Today's WWDC keynote was really insulting. There's not a single thing mentioned that's of any interest to me (or most mac users I know) at all. Gotta love that Steve's big deal was explaining that all these years after Outlook made us hate getting e-mail, you can now replicate that awful experience with Mac OS. If I can't get this iMac's issues worked out it's fucking newegg.com for me.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
For me, core animation is pretty goddamn cool. If you hate Mail, then switch to Thunderbird already and stop crying.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, I think that was the argument just being made re: stfu about your really piss-poor Outlook rip off and its ability to turn into a to-do list!
― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link
The most exiting thing was moving the graphics slot so a double width card didn't block a slot and a novel way of mounting hard drives.
― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 7 August 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
I have spent the better part of a day thinking about what my $Mac could buy in $PC and have decided that unless they somehow miraculously find out that my computer is perfectly fine after I take it back in this afternoon, I'm going to ask for a straight refund, and I'm going to buy a shuttle pc with Office & XP Pro and I'm going to run Ubuntu on the back half.
Fuck Apple and their Aqua Music Chat Party Store People Plan.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
WARNING: Wizard Jon Loves the Blinky Fucking Red Text!!!!
― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link
http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/
gapless playback, does .flacs
basically this is what i've been looking for for years - a replacement for SoundApp
i have gotten excited about music all over again. i have spent the last hour cleaning out my old music folder, creating Smart Folders in the finder to duplicate the smart playlists i used to have and g*ddamn it it's DONE. even the "use the search box to immediately filter library" functionality is there - cause i use the finder for all that crap. let the finder be the finder, let cog be cog
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:28 (seventeen years ago) link
i would like the ability to edit ID3 info on the fly (but iTunes doesn't do that either)
new versions apparently offer suspiciously spruced-up appearance. i hope they don't ruin it.
for those who want even more of a stripped down experience, i have also found this, which, while not exactly an iTunes replacement, is far preferable than firing up a whole Store System/Library Manager in order to hear some track you are 75% sure you're going to delete anyway; it's very nice and doesn't even open an app icon in the dock - it just plays what's opened with it and quits as soon as that thing's done - "taply" - http://www.bluem.net/downloads/taply-en/
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link