Recent content by alphap1us

I don't know if anyone remebers but a few months ago IBM released a compiler for the G5 that was supposed to dramatically increase performance on G5s as well as G4's. I was really excited about this announcement but then I never heard anything else about it. Does anyone have any news or rumors...

First off I just got the hang of using fink and the terminal a little bit after much confusion and I have to say - It Rules! Apple are geniuses for putting such an awesome UI on UNIX. Fink are geniuses for getting all the porgrams to work automatically and play nice. But I have some general...

I don't my much but I think I can answer this one. In the xterm you get when you launch x11, type the following: source /sw/bin/init.sh Then see if it recognizes fink. If it does, then you need to add this line to soem login/config file. i don't know how to do this. I wonder myself. I...

I have wanted to know how to do this for a long time. Is there some way to do it without iCal, where Applescript does the tell at a certain time? i have always wondered.

Thanks, guys, but this doesn't do quite what I want. I want Safari to open the file without me double clicking on it. Specifying the default app only dtermines what happens after I open it. I think "Safe files" is a specified set of file types, not just anything that is not an executable.

Okay, I am not sure what to title this post or even what category it fits in but here goes. Whenever I download certain types of files with Safari, e.g. dmg's or tar's or such, they open automatically on the desktop. But when I download certain types especially torrent files, they do not open...

I have a Beige power Mac G3/233 running OS 9.1 becasue it doesn't seem to like 9.2.x About fifty percent of the time it starts up fine, but another fifty percent, it will freeze display a blank command prompt while the startup bar is about 1/8 of the way across. Even more rarely, before this...

I am very new to programming and I figured I might learn a lot more about programming if I inspected the contents and code of programs that I think are well designed and functional. To that end I wanted to see how the application Shorten works. For anyone who is not familiar with it, it...

I jumped from system 7 stragiht to 10.2, Jet. What did the 10.1 box look like? Anyone have any pics?

From your link, uoba: Update: New document, old SPEC scores: the VeriTest benchmarks are the same tests that were debunked here, and defended here - in great detail. Curiously, Apple's SPEC scores are lower than figures for early G5 silicon supplied to The Register last October. ® There...

Speaking of the nex "X," does anyone think it sucks compared to the furry one? I thought the furry one was funny and classy at the same time, but the new logo doesn't impress me as any more professional. Thoughts?

Well, Arden- If you really want to know, go to pricewatch.com>Hard Drive>160 GB FW>the cheapest on they have listed. It's actually $163, not $161 but I got it for $153 becaue MSBlast delayed the order. A Windows virus actually benefitted a Mac user. Imagine that.

Go to ATi annd nvidia's websites. Find the cards that meet those criteria. Then search for them on pricewatch.com, dealnews, pricegrabber, and mysimon. Sheeesh. Does no one know how to do interent research anymore?