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• Quote: Originally posted by cubist You're using the word 'filesystem' in a nonstandard way. Well technically he is, but it's very much "standard slang" to use "filesystem" and "filesystem driver" interchangably.

  in Apple's filesystem with Intel Comment by lowb-ing June 2005
• Quote: Originally posted by Chucker Misconceptions, idiocies and other flaws in the post: Why would they? How could they? FAT32 is patented; Microsoft has allowed third-party implementations so far, but I'm sure they won't be so tolerant w…

  in Apple's filesystem with Intel Comment by lowb-ing June 2005
• Quote: Originally posted by Algol "When the third sucessor of Artemis shall eat pie in the great desert, Artemis' twin shall rein with the agile Mercury and the obstinate Mercury before being eaten by the goldfish and this shall signal Trinity'…

  in Riddles of the past.. Comment by lowb-ing June 2005
• The processor should handle it just fine with that amount of RAM. The limiting factor will be the speed of your HD. Simply try it at home first to see if it works. If it doesn't, try turning down the bitrate or sampling frequency. I seem to remem…

  in Garageband Comment by lowb-ing May 2005
• "El Capitan's hamartia shall lead to Trinity's return and its rise to the throne, Its little brother shall rule in the great desert where the dolphins roam." If Trinity = PPC975 then Little Brother = PPC970, derivatives of which just might sho…

  in Riddles of the past.. Comment by lowb-ing June 2004
• Yay! this thread sure was fun, back in the day... Well, I think in hindsight we can now safaly assume that: agile mercury = 12" PowerBook obstinate mercury = 17" PowerBook Long live this thread!

  in Riddles of the past.. Comment by lowb-ing June 2004
• If MS wants to move to PPC, they pretty much got their bases covered. Longhorn apps will be written for the .NET/CLR virtual machine. Those apps will run on anything that MS ports their VM/OS to. MS also OWNS Vitual PC, which will take care of backw…

  in Is Intel hinting at future G5's...Wild speculation inside Comment by lowb-ing March 2004
• Quote: Originally posted by mmmpie WINE translates windows api calls to linux api calls. This can still be done natively. Wouldn't the point of DarWINE (being separate from WINE) be to convert the windows api calls to darwin api calls ins…

  in Darwine! WINE for Mac OS X is coming Comment by lowb-ing January 2004
• I'm surprised noone has mentioned Fluxbox yet.It does exactly the thing Eugene ridicules, and many linuxusers swear by it. Then again, linux has no exposé.

  in Tabs in Finder Comment by lowb-ing December 2003
• I dont know to much about this stuff, but this thread is a great read, wheather the rumor's true or not. One thoght struck me though. The orighinal source might very well be right about the tech stuff and simultaneously wrong about the PowerBook "d…

  in PowerBook G5 Comment by lowb-ing November 2003
• I think it should be called "iStation" since it's the low end, And I agree with those saying it would have loose the pci slot to get to that price point. probably would have to go for integrated gfx too.How about going for $699 with upgradeable gfx …

  in Would you buy this instead of an e/iMac? Comment by lowb-ing November 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by dfiler Its strange that the gripers (yeah you ) place most of the blame on quartz. Quartz is not the bottleneck on window resizing. Application specific layout calculations are pretty much always to blame. With…

  in window resizing (split from "panther requests") Comment by lowb-ing July 2003
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  in Krispy Kreme? Comment by lowb-ing June 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by Chucker First off, a few clarifications. SCO may license UNIX (the original one) under certain conditions. They now claim that Linux contains UNIX code from SCO. Since IBM makes use of Linux, they sue IBM. Linux,…

  in Could this hurt Mac OS X: CNET: Microsoft to license Unix code Comment by lowb-ing May 2003
• Im'with you Barto, exept the insults. Just stop it! Lets get back on track. Although sco won't specify the exact code, it seems pretty clear they're talking about the linux kernel only, and not the rest of the GNU/linux OS or any open source apps.…

  in Could this hurt Mac OS X: CNET: Microsoft to license Unix code Comment by lowb-ing May 2003
• Another explanation for the dual sets of memory slots might be that apple made one type of prototype board for testing two different types of memory (among other things), which might be more cost effective. This particular "partner" was then supp…

  in MacBidouille posts PPC 970 benchmarks Comment by lowb-ing May 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by Amorph The question is, is it even possible to take full advantage of it in the Finder? If you're going to have a consistent interface, it's hard to make it well-suited for everything. If you don't have a consistent in…

  in MacBidouille Rumors about new Panther Filesystem Comment by lowb-ing April 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by ricRocket ... But I'm still not convinced of your point that the Finder is so shitty right now. What's so wrong with the Finder handling the base-line file access functionality (a friendly command-line), while special…

  in MacBidouille Rumors about new Panther Filesystem Comment by lowb-ing April 2003
• Quote: Originally posted by ricRocket "...These "custom Finders" exist already for photos, music, and email (the three I use most often... I'm sure there are others...), but what's really missing is a nice organizational app for office document…

  in MacBidouille Rumors about new Panther Filesystem Comment by lowb-ing April 2003
• How about this for a lineup: Portables: iBook and Powerbook Desktops: iCube and Powercube AIO: eMac and iMac High End: XStation($2500 and up)

  in PowerMac is dead. Apple presents the ... Comment by lowb-ing March 2003
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