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  • [quote]Originally posted by Eugene: gEEk?! Yeah, in the flesh! After the Great Blackout, I was kinda out of the loop, being extremely busy at work on a new gigabit ethernet board. My earliest memory of AI is of late 1999 when I posted a ques…
    in An AppleInsider history lesson. Comment by fawkes February 2003
  • I was here starting sometime late in 1999 (gEEk at the time). I had alot more time on my hands for posting back then! Vividly remember the whole WorkerBee thing. (but I think I miss MaDToOL/68K/Mrs.Tron more... )
    in An AppleInsider history lesson. Comment by fawkes February 2003
  • [quote]Originally posted by Amorph: BTW, welcome back to AI. We've missed ya. [/QB] Thanks! An unfortunately located water leak in our new house caused my Pismo's motherboard to explode (literally!) and I started popping back more fr…
    in Hey Yo! You know anyting about compuuters? Comment by fawkes February 2003
  • If you'd like to get an idea of the general ignorance of the PC community, one of my cow-orkers, upon hearing that I use a Mac, commented, "But I thought that they were just good for games." I thought that was rather ironic.
    in Hey Yo! You know anyting about compuuters? Comment by fawkes February 2003
  • Grado. SR-60 or SR-80 (only slightly better and probably not worth the extra cash). Once you get used to the earcups, which are designed to fit on your ears rather than around them, you'll never regret your decision. Made by true music lovers in …
    in Best Headphones? Comment by fawkes August 2002
  • Interesting. I, for one, would support a for-pay download service so long as the price is reasonable and the library worth paying for. eMusic is a good example of a subscription service with promise.
    in Something's up with the Recording Industry Comment by fawkes July 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by John Fischetti: Huh. you call this an operating system, I bet when you buy it you get a free bowl of soup.... ....Huh, Works well for you though..... I think most folks here are a bit young for that refer…
    in Free Jaguar T-Shirt? Comment by fawkes August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Luca Rescigno: Have you noticed how some close widgets have dots in the middle? What the hell do those mean? ... If a document window's close widget has a dot, it indicates that the document has been modified. Clicki…
    in More UI stuff - the "close" widget Comment by fawkes February 2003
  • I don't personally mind if Apple experiments with new UI elements or behaviors so long as, in the end, all apps behave with consistancy... sort of an ISO9001 thing: Decide what you want to do, document it, then always do it. In the case of the cl…
    in More UI stuff - the "close" widget Comment by fawkes February 2003
  • This is scary not because of the potential of killing off VPC, but rather that the MacBU could conceivably reduce its product line to 1: VPC. The threat of no more Mac-native apps from Microsoft looms large with this move. [ 02-19-2003: Message …
    in Microsoft Acquires VPC from Connectix Comment by fawkes February 2003
  • Although not nearly as nice to use as OmniGraffle,
    in Looking for a visio like app Comment by fawkes August 2002
  • I do a great deal of digital photography, and have found PhotoShop to be indespensible. However, I have
    in Does everyone here use Photoshop? Comment by fawkes August 2002
  • There was a problem with the POP server yesterday, reported by Apple on the "Network Status" in the .mac support page. It was repaired by the afternoon. Webmail has always been a bit dodgy... and was glacially slow yesterday. I admit being cu…
    in Have there been more mac.com e-mail outages lately? Comment by fawkes July 2002
  • Agreed. It is not a good way to garner good will with our friends across the pond. The wait will be worth it, though. I made a bound book for my mother of our trip to Greece, and she has been proudly showing it off to all of her friends; they…
    in iPhoto for UK users - Please give me a clue!!! Comment by fawkes July 2002
  • Dead pixels are an unfortunate reality of any LCD panel. In order to guarantee that every screen is perfect, you'd be paying quite a bit more for your iMac because the manufacturing yield would plummet. Yes, it sucks... and I hope that newer …
    in Virtual PC and why buy a new iMac. Oh, and what about dead pixels? Comment by fawkes February 2003
  • The case is almost certainly connected to chassis ground, which is likely directly connected or capacitively coupled to signal ground on the circuit boards. Aluminum (or Aluminium for my UK friends) makes a wonderful EMI shield and the powerbooks w…
    in 12" powerbooks so hot - there's current on the case Comment by fawkes February 2003
  • MinimAL and MaximAL But somehow, I suspect that "Lapzilla" or "Maxibook" are what will stick for the 17".
    in Name those Books NOW Comment by fawkes January 2003
  • (sorry...) [ 08-06-2002: Message edited by: Fawkes ]
    in Dealers views Comment by fawkes August 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Big Mac: [...]Maybe you can tell us next when we're truly getting the G5. Heh! Sorry, but the only thing that I can *confirm* is that I know Jack Squat about that! I am, however, a board designer and agr…
    in The CPU in the new tower Comment by fawkes August 2002
  • Capacitors are used for power supply decoupling and are required for nearly all digital electronics, regardless of clock speed. For some BGA (Ball Grid Array) packages, the electrical paths between the die and the circuit board are inductive enough…
    in The CPU in the new tower Comment by fawkes August 2002