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Well, I find the e-mail service to be first rate, which is something I haven't found from many other places. smtp and imap support, it just works. It's also a cool short e-mail address. Although I have to say that e-mail really is one of the big reasons to use it, and the free software is...

The HD may be a major culprit, as laptop drives are slow, and OS X is really bound to HD performance on app launching and a bunch of other stuff, and Apple tends to go with slower, more reliable drives in their books ... so defragging / reinstalling may help in terms of performance. My advice...

default is to ignore the permissions on all volumes except / ... check the perms on the volume. This would come up with this kind of "Congratulations, you're the owner" behaviour to everyone who even looks at the folder. Command is the most reliable way to see what permissions are set on a...

edited for brevity: My Palm is just fine, I had to reinstall everything but that made it all OK. 10.3 has been little odd for me in general though, just kinda kludgy feeling in some places. There are some points of dramatic improvement though. Hardware support seem to be as good as 10.2...

well, first off I'll hand out my advice that your boot volume being more than 50% full most of the time is just bad karma. But you can feel free to ignore me, especially since that would mean that you would only have 2G of working space on your machine, and more than half of that is probably...

ummmm, he also didn't say what the phase of the moon was. The code is a loop. That's it, and as such it tends to sequentially use the basic math functions of the CPU without doing parallel work, thus typically reflecting very roughly what the MHz rating of the chip is. The code doesn't...

My desktop is usually hidden under a mass of windows, it is insignificant to me. The desktop I was using was ... less proper for a public forum so I changed it for the screen shot. :-) Now quit ripping on Fiona. I'm starting to get useful behaviour out of exposé. It's a wierd transition...

Apple's specs are typically based on the maximum size of chips available at the time of release. I typically exceed the maximum RAM in a machine before it becomes a doorstop. When 2GB chips become available I wouldn't be surprised to see the actual limit on the G5 turn out to be higher than...

it's probably bloated with silly features. You know those gnu guys. Have you even seen emacs? ;-) Seriously though, I don't know why the difference.

oh boy. That test is sooooooo not about OSes. It's loosely about hardware performance on a type of manipulation that doesn't do any work. It's the type of operation which is helped by MHz and MHz alone, the fatness and FPU coolness of the PPC does nothing here. Java interpretation suffers a...

The girl is Fiona Apple, it's a publicity pic from the data portion of the album Tidal. Back when multi format CD's were cool and novel, and used a cross platform standard QT and Macromedia Director combo. Those were the good days. Men were real men, mac users were real mac users, and small...

I like my McNasty with a side of Sassy. Oh, and since the download business is proposed to be worth several billion dollars annually within a handful of years, everyone is gambling that they can get people onto their system and keep them. It's all sorts of expensive to do well, and Apple is...

Ocelot, if for no other reason than to skew dictionary.com lookups for most frequently requested big cat names.

here's a picture. Also worth noting is that the pdf screen capture is somewhat less annoying now that preview is so quick about opening and happy about exporting to reasonable formats like JPEG, target file size 50k. ummm, Safari doesn't seem to be attaching. EDIT: OK, turns out it did...

I suppose if you think of the file having no name and the rename window being a standalone window whenever you request a file rename then this could be consistent with the metaphor ... but that's a little bit of a stretch. I renamed a file on my desktop while it's name was waaaaaay up in the...

you can't export the file if it's a purchased WMA. Just like you can't export a .m4p file from the iTMS. It's not a technical issue, it's philosophical one. What do you do when trying to convert someone else's DRM. Either you're violating the DRM (which may be illegal) or you let the...

I agree that it deserves a refund, but shouldn't these be good general rules for a refund anyway? If it didn't work, and you're not going to use it because it didn't do what the promises said it would do then you can get a full refund. If it can be shown that Apple intentionally pulled a bait...

it makes all the difference in the world if you're connecting to a unix, linux, windows, NAS, or whatever server that expects a username, all lowercase, no spaces. When you connect to a server, the username is always acceptable, the full name is sometimes acceptable. Knowing that, which one...

Apple is being nice in not putting stupid security in their OS install. Also, they have the best "Dongle" security for their OS in the industry. :-) If you own a legitimately purchased macintosh, you shouldn't feel too bad about running any version of Mac OS on it. Apple got something out of...

I suppose I'll know soon enough, but I found it a gross misstep for Apple to fill in the Full Name of the user in a connect to server dialog box when what computers almost always want is the username. It's why we have usernames after all. Many of my users have been replacing their full names...