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  • Yah, I also belatedly discovered the new version of Vuescan after installing those Canon drivers. [ By the way, is that the worst Mac install experience you've ever had in your life? The Java installer in place of a native one I could handle; bl…
    in Canon scanner drivers out Comment by mithras April 2002
  • My principle in partitioning is that fewer partitions is better, so long as you can easily wipe and reinstall the OS if you need to. If you ever need to reinstall OS X (say, to upgrade to OS X 10.2, or just to clean out the cruft that builds up)…
    in Drive Partitioning Comment by mithras March 2002
  • That is truly wacky. I'm curious, if you've selected Genie instead of Scale, do they Genie in-place? What might that look like (nudge, nudge)?
    in Wacky window minimization in 10.2 Comment by mithras January 2002
  • Cool Xeo, I look forward to the movies. Hope you sent it to someone here, not to, say, Spymac. Still kinda hard to believe the OS X engineers are dicking around with stuff like this instead of, say, printer sharing or Windows network brow…
    in Wacky window minimization in 10.2 Comment by mithras January 2002
  • The 10.2 screenshots that people posted awhile ago showed "Open WIth..." contextual menu items. So that'll be nice. By the way, I think the OS X way to change document's associated apps is brilliant. It's so simple, and so effective. It's how it …
    in An "Open With..." menu for OS X Comment by mithras January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by rrabu: I certainly hope Apple can get OSX faster. We timed a 1.8GHz P4 system at work. From powering on to machine waiting for you to log in was 30 seconds! On my 266 G3 (Beige tower) I can get to the OSX login pro…
    in State of 10.2? Comment by mithras January 2002
  • The best part is that they haven't had time to port all the crapware ads, promotional messages, and rings of blinking, obnoxious buttons. Hopefully it'll stay slim and trim as it is now, rather than "improve" with all the junk! Incidentally, is i…
    in real 1 os x: *confirmed* Comment by mithras July 2002
  • Fobie, have you run Disk First Aid? Boot from your Install disk and run Disk Utility. (or do command-s at startup for the command-line version)
    in Launchbar.. Comment by mithras May 2002
  • Although it's generally not good for pro or prosumer work, good ol' iPhoto has such a spiffy crop tool, with such quick access to all your pictures, that I'd recommend it for this. Just import the folders full of your photos. Then, one at a time,…
    in Image conversion question Comment by mithras April 2002
  • What are you talking about? Is there one particular program you want carbonized?
    in Is it difficult to carbonise - can somebody do it? Comment by mithras March 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by starfleetX: Have you read none of the reasons from Matt, Andrew, and the ATMOS staff regarding why it would be nearly impossible to design a *working* online system? Here's one hint: time. No, not time to develop the sof…
    in Escape Velocity: Nova has hit GM! Comment by mithras March 2002
  • I started out using SPSS, but it's really pretty business-statistics oriented, and the interface is lousy. I know you said you didn't want it, but I'll still throw in a dime for
    in data analysis/ statistics/ graphing apps for OS X? Comment by mithras March 2002
  • I didn't read the info on Statview that closely, but it's a statistics package, yes? Why not try
    in no statview to OS X - time to go back to os 9? Comment by mithras February 2002
  • Sitting here in my apartment (NYC) I can see two other networks, sometimes a third. Living like a sardine is interesting...
    in Drive by airporting Comment by mithras January 2002
  • This is one of the funniest threads I've ever seen. Mr. kittylitter's fixed-pixel fonts are too small on the high-resolution, crisp, bright screen on a Powerbook, so he decides the problem is the Powerbook, not his site? First, he ought to try to…
    in powerbook new screen resolution Comment by mithras June 2002
  • Just want to add that you don't need to buy DAVE to fileshare between the iBook and the PC. You do need the NIC and cables for the PC, which should run about US$15 total. But after that, in OS X, you can just set up filesharing on the PC, and the…
    in iBook audio & PC questions Comment by mithras April 2002
  • What's GM? GameMaster? GrandMaster? Golden Master? General Master? General Macdaddy? General Manager? Goods Manager? Godawful Manager? [edit: fixed weird spaces] [ 02-13-2002: Message edited by: Mithras ]
    in FedEx Shipping Can Sometimes Be (You Won't Believe What You See).... Comment by mithras February 2002
  • "Free Space" isn't a partition that is left unformatted. It's just Free Space. And since the actual partition maps themselves differ between the two formats, I'm not sure you can have success in your mission. Good luck.
    in zo's review of the iBook 14 and OSX Comment by mithras February 2002
  • I'd approach it like this: 1. What kind of internet access do you have? If you just have dialup, I don't think it's really worth the bother or expense. Just take turns using the modem line in the meantime. If you have cable or DSL, then continu…
    in Is Airport worth it? Comment by mithras February 2002
  • I'm very curious to see someone's results with a TiBook G4. I'm still running on my old "top of the line" Powerbook G3/300 (176 MFLOPS). The wifey is using an iBook 600 (370 MFLOPS). This is all under 10.1. I'm soon going to grad school, where…
    in 7.6 GigaFLOPS - How about you? Comment by mithras February 2002