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from etrade: -1.57 -6.33% That's pretty significant.

Aack, you offend me sir! My PC is a Linux box 90% of the time! :) I am at work, but the computer here does have good specs. 1.7G P4 I believe. I suspect it's all the constantly running software like Novell that's doing it. I also found a way to put in the proxy info in the control panel...

I find it hard to believe that the lack of support for international users would hurt Apple that much. I can see it tempering some of the optimism, but Apple just added millions of potential ITMS users, and even if it's not as high as it could have been I don't see why the stock would DROP. Did...

So I'm trying out iTunes for Windows (hereby dubbed WiTunes) at work, and it sure seems familiar, but a few things have jumped out at me right away: 1st, I can't connect to the ITMS due to our firewall. It is all just web based and sent over port 80 I suspect, but I don't see any way in the...

Apple's stock is down something like 6% last I checked. I was surprised, I thought that with the annoucement all those pundits who thought Apple was foolish for not making products for Windows would be buying it up. Haven't seen any commentary on why it's taking a hit. Any ideas?

So I have a bit of a situation. My wife and I recently bought a car that we found on the internet. We realized only after we bought it that there were some discrepancies between the features in the ad and the actual car. The dealer we bought it from says that the company they contract with to...

I am using Apple's X11 and my windows lose focus somehow. X11 stays the topmost ap, but the windows within that are not focused. For example I can ssh into a different computer and open Netscape on it. I can start typing the URL I'd like to visit and somewhere in that typing I get beeps for...

That fixed it. The power went out and the desktop thought it was Jan 1, 1970. When I synced the iPod it too suddenly thought it was 1970 (they must have been feeling very ahead of their times). I guess since the songs wouldn't be played for another 33 years it felt no need to update the...

My iPod has developed an annoying trait. I use smart playlists, specifically ones that have the last date played as part of the list. I could play a playlist on my iPod and then when I got back to my desktop sync and the playlist would be updated based on what had been played on the iPod. It...

While I own one, I am not sold on the benefits of the G4 over the G3. It seems like far too few aps are optimized for the AltiVec, and if I remember correctly the G3 could be pushed much faster but is being held back so as not to achieve higher clock speeds than the G4. Motorola basically...

Hmmmm... I actually thought that non-US sales were a fairly small part of Apple's revenues. I may be getting that mixed up with market share though (IOW Apple has even less worldwide market share than they do domestically.)

My concern with Apple updating every 6months to 1year is that while they may want desperately to maintain compatibility with Word, what's to make MS release all the specs on the latest behind the scenes nature of .doc files? Their standards are closed, and people have to reverse engineer them...

I guess alternatives are good, but Office X works well, and if Apple proves to MS that there is no need to develop software for Macs then we lose a good argument for switching to Mac. "You can open the same Word files on Mac as you can on PC... except you have to do it in Appleworks." That's all...

I don't think you'll get much of a price break on the PB, as discussed earlier I expect they'll use the G4 chip for quite some time. Aside from the specifics of the 970 in laptops, just think back to the G4. How long were Powerbooks still using G3s after the G4 was introduced in desktops? Off...

I will take that trade-off any day. Heck, if it were twice as hot and twice as fast I'd take that. We're so far behind as far as clock speeds on the desktop go that I'd take a desktop only chip (you can always find a way to cool it, albeit a loud way) and let them go back to the drawing board to...

That's a good point. With the XServe we have the purely functional box. The Minitower for the G3/G4 desktops is getting rather long in the tooth. For awhile everything was clear pastic and colored plastic, usually graphite (Cube, G4, first iBook). But now the consumer line is white plastic...

That wouldn't work. The script that is run at logout is run as root. Therefore there is no way for it to know what user set it off. It can't say, "Ah, user2 logged out, causing me to run, thus I shall copy StickiesDatabase from user2's Library to the Shared directory." It does the same thing at...

The odds of this chip going into portables right away are slim to none. I believe it runs hotter than current G4 chips. Plus chips in laptops are almost never the exact same chip as in desktops as far as I know. XServe, PowerMac at launch, I'd say the iMac would be, I don't know, 6 months or...

I think I came up with a solution, but it requires an amount of hacking around in the terminal. I'm assuming that we're talking about sharing these stickies between two accounts on the same computer (although if you were really tricky you could modify the scripts to do this over multiple...

in terminal type: sudo /usr/sbin/nvram boot-args=\"-v\"