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That's what I meant by not being explicit enough. I am not going to argue with Apple's information hiding tendencies, they tend to keep the macintosh working environment relatively low stress. But with the calculator, they should make it explicit in even the default fully dumbed down interface...

or I'll attach it here. :-) It's actually a tar.gz - I added .sit for official attachment capability. It should auto-open anyway. Let us know if that calculator works in 10.1. It could go either way.

I have no idea what the upgrade card will do, but a rev a iMac will run OS X if it has enough RAM. My install was a little fruity as it seemed to perma screen save, but I just waited an appropriate amount of time, rebooted, and it was all good. Also, rev a iMacs are all due for new mobo...

heh. Andy Grove said that Intel CPU's aren't gonna get much faster. Maybe that'll give the PPC time to catch up? ;-)

the calculator is not explicit enough about what it's doing, however it is not losing precision. Further calculations with the apparently rounded value would correct themselves as the information is being simplified for display purposes but not for internal calculations. Use the paper tape...

[chimera:~] theed% bc bc 1.05 Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type `warranty'. 10.0/3 3 10/3.0 3 10.0/3.0 3 screw you (standard_in) 4: parse error I understand the power of...

same as above.

My problem with bc is that 10/3 gives you 3

Yeah, there should be a utility for detecting and setting that the universal keyboard shortcuts are and where they go. I can't come up with any good reason except that it sounds like another app that has been installed stole those keyboard commands. What shows up in your Services menu that...

short of recompiling the app and telling the window to be a utility window, I don't think you can. I think that decision is made at the programatic level. An interesting option though. You could default to hardware acceleration ... ie buy a $200 standalone mini screen DVD player and set it...

No, the iPod only plays high quality audio formats. :-)

Both are inexpensive and fun. Both are free to try, in different ways.

While Calc Thingy does exactly what you'd expect :-) I must defend what the calculator is trying to do, while agreeing that it's done badly. It's not a matter of int vs. float. The calculator thinks you only care about 6 or 7 significant digits. 10 / 3 = 3.333333 168740-19.95 =...

I have some input. Your HD is small. Perhaps you want to use the iPod to back up your shiznit? Perhaps you just want to get another HD and then you could live on 2 HD's rather than 2 partitions on the same HD. Same logical effect, but faster, larger, and more expensive than partitioning a...

I do it, I did it, I'll do it again. 9 gets System Folder, X gets System X gets Applications, 9 gets Applications (Mac OS 9) I don't recommend dual booting to use the same files as you sometimes run into locking and permissions weirdness, but it's not a heavy issue, and a non-issue for...

I'm not going to argue on a lot of cases about the mac being as fast or faster than the PC. But it's usually fast enough, and I find that I am faster on it. In the end, that's what matters to me. It boils down to "the right tool for the job." When interfacing with me is one of the primary...

yes, hard drive format is still easily accessible within get info. Please don't write Apple to fix that, there's enough stuff that really is broken. :-) As for P-shop leveraging both CPU's in 9, well, kinda. Figure it used 1.5 CPU's. Still better than most 9 apps. As for habilis's app...

Please stop using UID ... it looks too much like IUD. I'll let you figure out what that is. ;-) glad to hear XP and X.2 work well together. My dad should be moving from ME to XP soon, and it should make networking between his PC and my mom's iMac easy enough for them to actually use.

The Finder is slow in its responsive to the user, especially when access to the volume is bandwidth restricted. This is a legitimate gripe. Apple should continue to work extensively on this problem. If Illustrator is slow, I'd blame Adobe. Yeah it runs fast in 9 and Windows, it's been...

it's funny, because it's just a completely different desired workflow. The original Mac OS X demo had the Windows style maximize button, Jobs was trying to hype it up and all. Mac users generally hated it and it was removed. It's technologically possible, it was actively fought by the...