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  • Quote: Originally posted by WelshDog 70% smaller?!!! Wow, how big was it to begin with? Small is good, particularly for Apple's design standards. Their wording is a little odd. They call it a "chip" and then refer to Centrino "chip set" in …
    in Intel's dual-core "Yonah" chip could carry PowerBooks beyond 2GHz Comment by elron June 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by skatman And so? How is this different from a system process polling OS kernel for file open/ close events and indexing real time upon those events as well? In Tiger, the kernel notifies the Spotlight process wheneve…
    in Spotlight vs MSN Desktop Search Comment by elron May 2005
  • http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...update142.html Is that not what you're looking for? I found it on Google. Search terms: apple reinstall java Quote: They should also get the Java command-line environment straight, What's crooked abou…
    in Apple retarded with Java and default packages Comment by elron May 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by Keda Thanks for the help. Yep, thats what happens...it decompresses and then looks like a folder. I have an Ericsson T637. Does the download link say ".thm" or ".tar"? Safari tends to change file extensio…
    in Is there a way to make a folder appear as a file (package)? Comment by elron May 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by ZO VNC would be a VERY nice + VNC is very nice. I don't know what it has to do with iChat though. Maybe I'm being short-sighed, but I can't think of a single reason for it to be a part of an IM app like iChat. I…
    in what's missing from the new iChat? make your list .... Comment by elron May 2005
  • Did anyone else catch this one? I've been waiting for them to do this since 10.1. Hallelujah Quote: HFS+ CLI file commands Use command line file commands on HFS+ items with proper results ? utilities such as cp, mv, tar, rsync now use the same s…
    in The Tiger 200+ Comment by elron April 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by slughead I wouldn't recommend using any type of wireless keyboard. Why is that? I'm probably going to be buying a Mac desktop soon and I just assumed I'd get the bluetooth keyboard with it. Does OS X have some issue…
    in Logitech LX700 Wireless Keyboard Comment by elron March 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by Karl Kuehn There is no such thing as a version number for "BSD"... There never really was, it was a loose collection of hacks to Bell/AT&T's product of the time. I'm just nit-picking, but wasn't FreeBSD original…
    in What version of BSD is in Tiger? Comment by elron March 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by zenatek Also... I asked my wife as I hadnt before whether she noticed the dock lags and she said "Yes and its annoying" And she is the one with bad eye sight...so I don't know how you guys cant see it. I don't noti…
    in Dock bar improvement in Tiger Comment by elron March 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by mdriftmeyer You mean Apple doesn't put as many resources on Java as it does Objective-C? Oh the agony! I didn't mean to imply that Apple has been too slow in putting out a 1.5 VM. I love how Apple spent the extra ef…
    in Java 5.0 (1.5.0) Comment by elron March 2005
  • I was struggling with this a while ago and found this: http://homepage.mac.com/spullara/ran...901/E76947863/ I haven't actually done what that page describes, but it claims that if you follow the directions you'll be able to use generics, the new…
    in Java 5.0 (1.5.0) Comment by elron March 2005
  • Quote: Originally posted by trumptman This was already mentioned by me above. However it will not count the words within a selected portion of text. My professor would be quite upset if I turned in a 5000 word essay and had counted my name, class…
    in Pages-new wine, crappy bottle Comment by elron February 2005
  • Blacky, I'm not trying to be an ass, but you really gotta lay off the ellipses. Give your ring finger a rest, man
    in ipods future Comment by elron August 2004
  • G4 Man, are you using it as a wireless access point? Could you talk about what kind of range it gets? I don't see an antenna on it so I'm a little skeptical but it's just so cool I'll probably end up buying one anyway
    in Has anyone recieved their Airport Express? Comment by elron July 2004
  • Thanks for posting this... I think it's a lot cooler looking than the default behavior.
    in Alternate Exposé Show Desktop Effect Comment by elron May 2004
  • Please stop posting, chickentooth. It's getting really old.
    in iPod G3 Comment by elron December 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by applenut Drink poison. Haha. Don't be so hard on the guy. I kinda like this rumor The black and blue nonsense won't fly though. We're talking about Apple here, not Dell.
    in Powerbook G5 Comment by elron December 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by Lemon Bon Bon Whooooa-Oh, excitable boy Mr. Bon Bon, I don't know what everyone else around here thinks of you, but your posts make me excited to be an Apple owner. I don't care if this is all just idle speculation…
    in IBM will begin 90 nm fab Q4 Comment by elron September 2003
  • Quote: Originally posted by keyboardf12 Don't know what his story is but some would say a person shot 7 times is not a "real man" but in fact, an idiot constantly putting himself in situations that result in violence. In fairness to 50, he was…
    in iPOD updates??? Comment by elron August 2003
  • I just set up an old x86 Linux box to serve mp3 files because my roommates are too lazy to download their own I formatted the drive with ReiserFS because it sounded cool and exported it with NFS. Mounting it in OS X was pretty easy and a google…
    in Is UFS a good idea? Comment by elron July 2003