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  • Depending on my mood, I either: Ask them if they know what the 'Telephone Preference Service' is... if they say 'yes' I then ask 'why the fcuk' are you ringing me then!'. If they ask for Mr XXXXXX (my partners surname) I say 'Just hang on a mi…
  • My macMini (1.42 with 1Gb) is my television! I've got an elgato eyeTV 400 that lets me watch/record the freeview channels. Recording TV uses disk space at about 2Gb per hour and I have stored quite a few programs (TV) on an external drive (160Gb us…
  • My sisters iBook-500 looks like it is having similar problems, if I at the screen in the right light I can just about make out the desktop and stuff so the display is still sort of functioning. How do I find out if the backlight itself has gone or w…
  • I did a 10.3.x to 10.4.1 upgrade on a brand new macMini last month and apart from iLife I got: Nanosaur, Marble Blast and Office 2004 test drive. Can't tell you if they were from the factory 10.3 install or the 10.4.1 upgrade.
  • Quote: Originally posted by Cosmos 1999 There is also this guy, Sir_RamDac, on a german forum (from Gizmodo). About This Mac says: "Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz". So ***apparently***, it's not PearPC emulating a PowerPC processor. And there is no …
  • blue genes? plural? WOW! Based on the info here http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/ you had over 700 teraflops of processing power with you that day, you should have told your dad where to get off and gone and sold some processor cycles to the we…
  • Quote: Originally posted by zenloof Hey - I'm looking for great sounding speakers for my recentely bought 15" PowerBook. I'd like to keep the sleek style that Apple boasts with their product - but along with the aesthetic beauty, I'd also like…
  • Quote: Originally posted by punica888 Hi Is it possible to estalish a remote desktop connection , from a Windows Based machine to a MacOSX system? If yes, what software should I use? Thanks If you download VNC you could do it either wa…
  • Quote: Originally posted by ChappySinclair . . . . Also, what would happen to Macromedia's Dreamweaver now that Adobe has purchased Macromedia? Do you think it is still worthwhile to learn about this software? From the book I am reading there…
  • Quote: Originally posted by BenRoethig We have to get to intel first. What if IBM says forget it, we're making any more chips for you? Steve said "OS X has been leading a secret double life..." What if some of the mac line have also had doub…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Mr Skills I've been told on this forum that when websites don't work on Safari/Firefox, it's usually because of Microsoft using non-standard formats in Internet Explorer - thus, when people make their site just for the…
  • Almost forgot... Move the option to set the default browser OUT of Safari preferences and put it in System Preferences! and What's WindowShades?
  • A couple of ideas that have been floating around for a while: 1. A 'stack' of files (folders) there's a nice flash demo here http://homepage.mac.com/rdas7/stacks.html I'd have to live with these a while before I will be convinced they are just…
  • Don't try sniffing it when on the dancefloor... A friend did this a got nudged (pushed) and it went all over his nose. His face was in blisters for weeks, it really is quite caustic stuff, oh and it's really flammable!!!!! Point of interest (or m…
    in Poppers? Comment by onyx-pb June 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by Placebo That was actually a very good article. I agree, an excellent article, I finally agree with something he says. But the world is changing too fast for me eg pre-monday: Intel = bad post-monday: Intel = …
  • Apple jumping into bed with Intel I can cope with but John C. Dvorak writing an article that I mostly agree with is just too much.
  • Finally... some trivia after all the upsets: I liked your XTel (After all the soul of a mac is the operating system) I've seen APPTEL mentioned a few times (a bit less clunky that APPLETEL) MacIntel? MIntel (nah, sounds like a breath fre…
  • What needs to be done to allow a processor upgrade? BIOS settings, jumper settings? or something else? What needs to be done to prevent a processor upgrade? motherboard? ????? I haven't done an Intel CPU upgrade in years (DX4-100 btw) so I'm…
  • I missed whatever was here but with a topic like: Extremely powerful Pentium system used to demo Mac OS X on Intel I have to ask... did anyone else notice that apart from running loads of dashboard widgets at once Steve looked to be closing do…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Vox Barbara I wished S.J. had stated something like: "From now on we have more options than ever to satisfy our customers. Folks, say welcome to Intel, from now on they are on board. From now on, we will deliver t…