Posts by Curufinwe

Hi guys, I've been gone from the forums for a long time (have transitioned to linux mostly), so I'm out of the apple ecosystem loop. I need help getting back up to speed to be a good counselor to my sister and her husband who want a...

There was a very wealthy old lady in georgetown that wanted a swimming pool. She couldn't have one because of the strict zoning there, so she hired people to quietly dig one in her basement by hand, bag by bag of dirt. An instance of...

Congrats on moving away from Microsoft, to Mac and Open Office. You can always try Gimp later, it's a great application, with a very different interface paradigm of independent floating palettes. It's not trying to be photoshop, which...

Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell I like the idea of this but I don't care for the reality of them. Sony sells this type of laptop for $2050. Way too much for way too little. For $2000 it better have an optical drive. try the...

I'm all for a subnotebook. Will have to go to pc hardware + linux if one doesn't show up from apple within 6 months. 10" screen and optical drive is possible, look at the fujitsu p-series and the averatec 1000 and 1100 series -...

Quote: Originally posted by Chucker security dump-keychain -d would give you your entire Keychain as plain text. I'm not positive if this includes secure notes, but I'm assuming it would. Thanks! Not really working yet, but...

Hey guys, I read an article last week about accessing my apple keychain over ssh remotely. I thought, "what a great idea, no more forgetting passwords!" but I have a problem. I am a little old school and instead of having...

I think that the networking beachball was the worst problem with osx up until very very recently. They seem to have really improved it in later versions of 10.4 (the finder doesn't totally choke anymore when waiting for a nonexistent...

Quote: Originally posted by Macinphile I'm ordering a dual 2GHz PM and even with an educational discount it seems that the Dell is better and cheaper than the Apple 20" display, with the exception that the Dell doesn't have...

ARg!!!. . . . We are confusing HD and H264, (or maybe you all are talking about the same thing, and I missed the day we agreed on what HD means) HD is not a codec! My understanding is: H264 = AVC = Mpeg 4 part 10 = hot new...