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It would depend on the card. A hardware encoder, whether a daughter card or a seperate chip on the graphics card, should be able to encode/decode (co-dec) on the fly and pass the info back to the CPU just as easily as it can throw it on your monitor. I read a story about a year and a half ago...

If you administer computers that have users on custom sudo permission settings, yes. If yours is a single-user machine or if all users have the same unrestricted access to sudo, probably not. The workaround is sufficiently easy that you might consider doing it anyway. According to...

I use Panther, but I just read a page that demonstrates that widgets can be autoinstalled through Safari, regardless of the user's feelings on the matter. WARNING: This page apparently (remember, I don't have Tiger) demonstrates the principle by autoinstalling a harmless widget, but it provides...

With comments above on the CPU requirements for iChat using this codec, it doesn't surprise me your CPU was so tapped, Viro. It sounds like a minor miracle that anyone is able to encode one live stream and decode another with h.264. It certainly sounds like they've throttled the settings back so...

Yep. Seems to do the trick. I think that just doing the one line that does away with the 5-minute timeout is all you really need to do. No harm in doing the rest. It means that you have to "sudo ls /var/log/secure" if you ever want to /see/ the secure log, but that's fine. There are comments...

I've always understood that iCal can be used against any webDav-enabled host. In a nutshell, you should be able to install a webdav system on a web-enabled computer of your choice (in PHP, Perl, Python, or whatever is the language of your choice), configure it and access and syncronize iCal via...

In the event that unclefutz ever comes back, a similar problem has been encountered by another forum user. The solution appears to be Symantec's virus definition file. The thread can be found here: http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?p=371446

I'm a freaking idiot. I posted this to the wrong thread. My 'pologies.

I've had no problem networking my Mac and Windows PC. If you've already networked more than one PC to share files, your Windows box should work without modification. To put or get files from your Mac, you will have to enable PC sharing in System Preferences. If you know the Mac's IP address, you...

On slashdot, they call people who do that 'karma whores'. Knowing what I do about karma, I'll just let it rise and fall organically. If I ever get kicked off this forum, I don't want to come back as an ant. Edit: Oh, Good Gravy! Why do I have two green blocks!?! Man, I'm coming back as a dung...

(In my most serious voice...) Not so. I have a dead pixel in my monitor. If I do a grab of the whole screen and then view it at 100%, it shows up exactly in the same place. I think the pixel got killed when I was playing Unreal Tournament. Rocket whores. What can you do? If profx's and...

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Right now, I am developing a Flash Communications Server application (FCS is a server-client based system to allow users to communicate though Macromedia flash movies embedded in web pages via a central server). I am developing on a Mac Mini, which as you may know does not have a microphone...

To guess, the number of companies running Mac only is tiny. Keeping Mac and Windows versions in sync probably wouldn't even register above a rounding error on their annual sales, so why bother. Intuit has a pretty amazing record of weathering the storm when it comes to consumer demands and...

How interesting. That is exactly the wording you get from Altavista's Babelfish. Perhaps that widget is just an interface to their web service. Minus the ads. I wonder what sort of license THAT is. You should run netstat after doing a translation and see who pops up.

Part of the problem is that sign is polite about the matter, and so is slighly oblique. In all likelihood, the owner of the establishment probably plugged his Japanese phrase into a translator program. You should try doing it in Babelfish. It gets a little closer to the heart of the matter, but...

It's Japanese, probably from a 'love hotel'. It says, basically, 'We're sorry. Customers may not enter with foreign women.' In other words, 'No hookers.' Edit: I guess a lot of you wouldn't know what a 'love hotel' is. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_hotel for more details. As much as...

In the event that stefania ever comes back, a similar problem has been encountered by another forum user. The solution appears to be Symantec's virus definition file. The thread can be found here: http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?p=371446

Teacher24_70, please update your Norton definitions and do a scan. Please report back if this has solved your problems. There has been at least one other person on the forums reporting similar problems. I'm going to link that thread to here.

And that's my point right there. If encryption of any kind were employed in AIM (which I don't use) or MS IM (which I do) by a LOT of people, it wouldn't be an issue for anyone. Safety in numbers. One of the herd. Etc. But now, no one does. So now it's a high-risk activity? You're right. But it...