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    Am i Mad?!: PowerPC Assembler

    There Ain t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch ladavacm, i was also under the impression that gcc was the finest compiler ever. is that only true for x86? is it even true at all? is gcc not designed for RISC processors? i was also under the impression that the RISC/CISC designation was...
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    Annonymous browsing software?

    i don t think this will benefit you anything. your username on your machine is not sent by your browser, so they can t really trace that. i know lots of paranoid people who don t trust cookies at all, and won t use them. i have heard stories about sites using cookies in invasive ways. if a...
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    Annonymous browsing software?

    you can actually inject packets onto the internet without putting your return IP address on it. you have to do it yourself, because the OS built in IP protocol stack does not support that. it is easy with a library like LibNet you can send such packets, but they will not know how to return...
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    Annonymous browsing software?

    certain browsers will let you mask your USER-AGENT string, or restrict cookies and such. this will improve your privacy, but your IP address will still be known. a firewall will also not hide your (registered internetwork) address. in fact, if you were able to hide your IP address, then you...
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    can old school macs read apple prodos formatted disks

    support for the ProDOS disk format was discontinued in OS9. however, the bernie apple][gs emulator can read ProDOS disks. i have used it to get data of such disks. you will need the hardware still, of course.
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    Survey: Firewire HD & OS X - answer even if it works for you!

    i had it first on my quicksilver 733 with a LaCie 80GB external firewire, while transfering large amounts of data (<10GB i believe) yesterday it happened to me with an external 5GB firefly (model JH2127). connected to a TiBook 667. the HD came free with the laptop. it wasn t a huge...
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    my first OSX crash

    i had it again! this time with a different drive and a different computer. same exact crash though. makes me suspect the firewire implementation in OSX, rather than the HD manufacturer. the disk is the 5GB Firefly model #JH2127 from SmartDisk Corp that came free with my mothers new laptop...
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    iNeed iDVD

    the iDVD updater will not install a full version. even if you force it to install when there is no previous installation. it doesn t contain a full install. i can t give it to you, voice, cause i don t have it. but you can definitely extract it from the OS install disk. i know how to...
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    Startup Chime does not play from h/k Soundsticks?

    no ideas. but i have missed my startup chime for quite a long time on my quicksilver, and am beginning to suspect my h/k sound sticks as well.
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    Using a linux User Database in OSX

    here is an article on integrating OSX into a NIS network. i am looking through the lookupd man page. i think you do something like this: either make a NetInfo directory /locations/lookupd/users, and put a key in it LookupOrder, with the names of the lookup agents. important to include...
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