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Interesting. I have a Lexmark x83 that I never could get working under 10.0.x or 10.1.x. I tried several times quiting only after my iBook's battery gave out. I downloaded the latest driver today and it installed on the first try. It's still buggy. The print job finishes but print center...

Yeah, you would think so. The problem was that my wife owned the last car and I owned the new one. I had to own the new one because I had a ford credit card that gave me $1500 off. If the car wasn't in my name, I couldn't use the discount. Given that the owners changed on the car, I...

Sorry to go off-topic, but I have a story too. When I bought my car they said they would be able to transfer my license plate #. It wasn't a vanity plate but it had my initials (by chance) and because my wife and I got registered the cars at the same time they were in order. Something like...

The kernel's job is to handle the resource allocation for the machine. It determines which process gets timeslices of the cpu, what block of memory your data goes into, etc. Basically, it's a scheduler and an accountant that hands out the resources. There is a lot that goes into doing this...

I've had sound problems too. For me, the symptom is that the machine simply goes quiet. It's usually after a few days uptime and a few different sound producing apps (iTunes and RealPlayer). Then, no sound. Nothing. I tried closing apps, killing processes, adjusting the volume,whatever...

I go to NC State university. If I recall correctly, it's ranked something like 18th in the nation for comp sci. I choose it because it's the top ranked engineering school in the area. I didn't want to move because I have a home and a family (I go to school at night). NC State has been...

I think the deal is that G4s are a very small part of Motorola's business. They are far more focused on cell phones and other small electronics devices. The benefit of the 90 nanometer process is that they'll be able to build chips with the same amount of processing power (speed) but they...

What is it about the updated kernel that you like? I wasn't aware of any signifigant changes. Vanguard

I have only upgraded one machine from 95 to W2k. I'll grant you the fact that it's too small a sample to be *really* meaningful. I also tend to put an OS though it's paces. I am a professional computer programmer during the day and a Comp Sci grad student at night. I guess I'm just...

I was also dissapointed by the mild speed increase. I don't have a good reason to be, I was warned that my iBook 500 wouldn't gain much but I was still hopeful. I keep hearing that the iMacs aren't as fast as one would expect a G4 800 to be. I wonder why? The processory rivals the lower...

I have windowshade. I haven't seen minimize it place but it sounds better looking. I can confirm that window shade works in jag. Personally, I tend to hide in the doc all the time but that's just my style of use. Vanguard

That's not a good test. The OS does not free memory just because it can. It will free it when a new process demands it. In other words, you can have your memory nearly full but a lot of it hasn't been released because nothing needed it. Here's a better test, run "vm_stat 5" (without the...

It has a lot of new code but to the user (us) it's mostly the same. Some machines are reported to get notably faster but that hasn't been my experience. There are a couple of new apps but nothing really ground breaking. I got the student discount. I still feel like $70 was too much money...

Oh yeah that's right, add audio to my list of bugs. I couldn't get the machine to make any noise at all so I had to reboot. Vanguard PS If you have to do a clean install for it to work right than OSX sucks. W2K can update 95 with less trouble than I've had with jag. PPS Upgrading...

I'm getting my CS master's degree right now. Most of my coursework has been in java. It's a popular language to teach in. However, I would bet that at least one class every term will require a windows machine. Schools are famous for teaching in Eiffel, Turing, etc. When you use the...

No, it's not worth the money. My iBook is still very slow for web browsing. The jag speed increase has been oversold. The only new feature that I've benefitted from is iChat and that's not worth the $70 I paid for it (student disc). $30 would have been more on target. Also, jag is...

Ed, I hope that guy doesn't have you second guessing yourself. He's a nut. My guess is that it's squidbite. I'm glad you're on the board keeping things clean. You could consider reporting him to his ISP. Also, what's going on with his handle. Wouldn't SDF be more insulting? Clearly...

This board is filled with people who have an apple bias. That's not bad, after all it is macosx.com. I try to remain neutral. The Profile 4 will compete with the iMac. It is faster, it's cheaper, and it also has a built in LCD screen. A machine like this will make getting people to...

Who are you talking to? Nobody is flaming.

I didn't mean to come off as if I thought I had all the answers. I clearly don't. Still, my best guess is that the dual lineup was put in place to keep pace with the faster hardware from the x86 camp. Vanguard