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oh wow. I feel like I may be responsible for that feature. I damn near made that request specifically. So I'm still working out the details and caveats, but the gist is this: You hit random or whatever and like the play order but want to rearrange like 2 of the songs. Select all and copy...

journaling is all about fast recovery from crashes on large hard drives. It's a drive format feature, not a V-twin cron grep findByContentIndex type thing. Just to let you know. I find it a critical feature on my production 850GB RAID array. Not that it crashes often. I'm excited by the...

Heh, time to get that number off of satanic reference: My lingering question after that wonderful definition of hypertransport is if the power consumption of hypertransport will be notebook worthy. Having a fat bus with a high speed clock smells like a heater to me. As for my I/O bashing...

Things that will improve lots: (30%-50%) Ethernet transfer speeds Photoshop rendering Game frame rate Ethernet is all about checking sums and moving to and from memory. Provided you're talking about normal size frames on gigabit ethernet. If you're only talking 100mbit ethernet we flood...

Hey, if' you're gonna go wireless, you need to go extreme. There's no good reason to pay 3/4 the price for 1/5 the speed. But I would also say that having wireless at home is sweet for lan gaming and convenience, I usually get up off my lazy but and grab hold of a cable coming out of my 100Mb...

Also, I've been predicting a video chat client from Apple for a couple of years now. They have QT, they have a real time operating system, they have the videoconferencing codecs installed by default and the ability to compress low bandwidth movies in real time with processor to spare. AOL...

You silly clockheads. I think the PPC 970 belongs in notebooks. The feature it needs to make it really sweet is the downclocking that has been a come and go PowerBook feature for many years. If the processor can dynamically downclock itself in times of low load, or by user request, then it...

Adobe has made good stuff, but they really are riding a good thing a bit far. There are freeware alternatives that will, if given a market, give adobe a very serious run for their money in the pixel pushing realm. There are alternatives to making and reading PDF's. There are other video...

I would have looked at it, but I simply refuse to install WiMP on my mac. I'm not a hypocrite, I don't think, but I'm also not a big fan of Margaret Cho. I'll agree from what I've seen from her in the past that she's mad at everything, and that she's not that funny. At least not in the subtle...

I can only assume you meant a 32MB video card. 32 bit meaning bit depth would be ... so normal as to not need defining. 32 bit meaning processor on the video card would be so slow it would rate on par with the beige G3. Although I would very much like to see some lower cost options to...

yeah, I think the real problems show up in larger networks where X Server isn't in charge and instead needs to be a peer server or subservient to other services. I have ~6000 accounts listed on an external LDAP server. Workgroup Manager totolly chokes on it.

don't know how many other people are really utilizing X Server. I'd probably do better to gripe in another forum for server admins, but hey, I like you guys. So here's the scoop. X Server comes with several admin utilities, all of which work over TCP/IP. This allows you to configure a...

Ummm, I think you're looking in the wrong place. The packet and byte count should be part of the basic driver for the ethernet card, These are numbers it has to deal with anyway, so it's pretty trivial to record the data from there. You wouldn't want to do much real analyzing in the driver...

I'll feel comfortable once I drop it to a redbook audio CD and can guarantee that I will still have my purchase even if Apple erupts in flame.

I've done testing, and my hearing is good though not the best, and I've found that the raw aiff is still the best (since that's the source that's not surprising) and that I find my 160kbps mp3's to be the worst (though not by far) Here's the surprising part. I have not been able to tell the...

Mine worked. It was a little bit weird, and I don't remember what magic I went through to get it functional, but mine works. But now my concern is more of a fundamental failure of the Apple Store. It's not going to fly because it fails in the one major way that the "Other music...

seems the back and forward buttons on my browser must have resubmitted a comment. Yuck.

so perhaps the whole mp3 visualizations thing is a dead fad. Who knew? All of the stuff I found is circa 2001. Score 1 Apple for actually dropping a feature rather than succumbing to the senseless bloat that everyone else seems to embrace. Bummer for you guys though, I guess. I think I'll...

oooOOooohhh, you're talking about the visualizer, not the UI theme for the app. I thought you guys were going all Windoze on me and expecting everything to have skins, which is a fad I still don't understand. As for the visualizers, it should still be pluggable. Poke around, there should be...

Yeah, near as I can figure it's a typical bimodal EQ setting applied by a single slider, pretty much negating the bad EQ you get out of an mp3. I do the same with mp3s and even more so with tapes. Adding oomph to the highs and lows makes a big difference in feel in lots of songs. Other than...