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Excellent! We're a rare breed nowadays :(

Curious, and just asking, what would be the reason for buying a non-iPod, Apple-compatible MP3 player, for an apple owner? I'm not being bashing guy or marketing guy here, just curious. Thanks.

Anyone who wants to talk software should read Joel Spolsky's book, "Joel on Software" - a cohesive collecting of many of the articles on his site. There's a whole section on commoditizing various parts of the computer biz. For instance, hardware companies want to commoditize software. Most...

"Goodbye Office" - That's lofty. Admirable, but lofty as all hell.

"Back to you, Bob..." "Thanks, Rashanda. In other news, the *entire* Apple computing community was halted today while pundits reviewed the operating system's naming convention ad nauseum." :D None of it matters. Running apples on Intel will cause the known free world to end, cancer to...

Ya know... I was told by people I generally hold in high regard that I'd *love* the books. Of the four I read: 1st - I *liked* (note: not loved) 2nd - I didn't really like it, but not hate, either. 3rd - I gave up 1/2 way thru'. Complete tripe (my $.02) 4th - I gave up - it was old and...

Ford Prefect from the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (well, him reciting from The Guide, anyway) :)

To quote a famous character... "Don't panic" Intel did not fold up their tents and give up on Apple and the rest of the known free world. It's ok. Bill Gates did not order a nuke strike on Intel and this doesn't spell doom and gloom for the world. It's ok. It's just a chip.

Microsoft was trying to implement something like this (for the retail market) back in '96... '97... or so. You've heard the term "Software as a service" - this is akin to what they were touting with that movement. The modern interpretation (from the MS perspective) is that everything is a...

Viro covered it well, and I'd like to add one point that many people overlook. A lot of the so-called power users, and I don't mean the helpful, friendly ones, I mean the ones that give you attitude because you can't script out a recursive directory scrubber in 13 seconds in LISP - many of...

pfffffffffffffffffft... you're just jealous because I can so easily obfuscate the obvious without even aspiring to perspire!! or some crap like that :)

Didn't I just say that?? :)

You can find upgrades to previous versions of OS/X (10.2, 10.3) for *far* cheaper (and yes, new, still wrapped) on various online sources.

Lady Justice sure is blind. Apparently deaf and stupid, too.

Upgrade to Tiger or manually adjust your paths and work only in X11. Apple (nicely) bundles select versions of Java in OS/X, but they're fixed versions, not fluidly upgradeable like when you roll your installations. To find exactly where your java lives, enter a command window and type "which...

*shrugs* I routinely get 3.5 - 4.5 on my iBook. coming from a PC background that's hella good.

Sounds like it's a caching issue. The files are being held in a memory cache until either the cache expires or the web process is bounced. I'm guessing your host uses an apache farm rather than dedicated server-per-site model. I see this problem at work all the time - the apache process has to...

You can install it from a host of sites, or simply use the CURL command curl http://www.yahoo.com > yahoo_com.html curl ftp://user:pwd@site.com/dir/dir/file.txt > ~/file.txt Curl is slightly different in that it sends downloaded data to stdout by default, but you can redirect it...

'zactly. Simply not worth the real and considerable risks, IMHO.

I had a situation like this - turned out to be my local (unix) mail was receiving *all* kinds of messages on system logs, network access, etc. I forget what I did to correct it - it involved stumbling around quite a bit to turn off notifications on syslogs or from apache (I was doing a lot of...