Recent content by JokerZ

On the whole PVR issue, I can't say how others feel, but I personally don't wnat my computers anywhere near my tv sets. Having to jack my sat decoder/dvd player or other device into my computer just seems like a huge waste of a computer. Any PVR device should incorporate a network, like 802.11g...

Maybe someone can write a howto for this in the howto's section? I'm in Australia and I might give the whole gift certificate a go, if I could figure out precisely what to do. A series of step by steps would be most useful.

I prefer my aussie muscle car over the corvette. :) I had the pleasure once of helping a guy bolt his steering wheel back onto his corvette after it tore off when he accelerated hard in the Northern Territory of Australia. We have no speed limits out there so he was really testing his car...

I think Arden semi won this battle. I'm gonna take my dual G4 home and let work buy me a new machine. Sadly it won't be a Mac. But I guess I'll learn to live with that at the office. Least I didn't have to spend a fortune. So thanks guys.. :)

hmmm, my list of strategy games is very very long. I buy practically every new one that comes out. The ones you mentioned are merely scratching the surface of strategy games on the PC. Course I am really holding out for RailRoad Tycoon 3. But to date I see it's only coming for PC. You are...

The G5 at home would be an addition rather than a replacement. I've already got a windows box which I use for playing strategy games on. So the G5 would be more a learning tool. If only I could convince work to get me a dual G5. I'd have the best of both worlds. :-) I don't need a...

Not gloating at all! Trying to justify the money to be spent. Considering this time last year I bought my first dual 1Ghz G4.. hehe My (somewhat lame) justification is I took my G4 into work and it's never really been at home where I could play around with the computer at my own pace and...

Ok, my local apple store has a dual 2ghz G5 in stock. I can pick it up tomorrow if I want it. They also have a 20" cinema display. I want both. I should also get the airport extreme card and airport whilst I am at it. How long would I be happy for? A couple of days, a week a month a year...

I'd love to buy a mac called the H8 but I guess I'll be waiting for a few releases before then.. hehe

Something I noticed in 7B53, which others may not be aware of are some cosmetic changes to Print Center. When I selected my printer previously (a HP8000) the icon displayed when I was printing a job, was that of a deskjet style printer. Now it looks more like a laser printer. hardly earth...

Just as a followup for anyone that might be interested. The switching off problem has been noted by the Apple Service Centre before. Essentially the guy told me it is one of three standard(ish) problems. Either a faulty power supply, a faulty CPU or a faulty logic board. He had some...

Ok, I have a very weird problem. I have a 1Ghz Dual G4 powermac. It has recently developed a very odd problem. When I use diskcopy to burn a DVD, my system turns itself off. It doesn't always happen, but it happens around 75% of the time. I am running 10.2.6 of MacOS X It seems to...

woohoo Bluetooth now works with my address book and Nokia 3650. So I can answer the phone and send sms's via the keyboard.. heh Now if only Apple or someone could figure out a bluetooth proximity sensor for the nokia I would have it made. I wonder if it would be possible with applescript.

Hi Folks, I have a dual 1Ghz G4 Powermac and absolutely love it. I had originally purchased it to work with at home and use as my development platform. Well work being what it is, I now use it at the office every day and the machine hasn't been home in several months. I really need to restart...

Ok, in this day and age when cost per gb on hard drives and cost per mb on ram is so low, is bloat on what is a primarily a unix based system really matter? What I'd like to know is how did you evaluate this? Most of the apps I have seen and used seem quite reasonably sized. Small programs...