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I don't know if anyone remebers but a few months ago IBM released a compiler for the G5 that was supposed to dramatically increase performance on G5s as well as G4's. I was really excited about this announcement but then I never heard anything else about it. Does anyone have any news or rumors...

First off I just got the hang of using fink and the terminal a little bit after much confusion and I have to say - It Rules! Apple are geniuses for putting such an awesome UI on UNIX. Fink are geniuses for getting all the porgrams to work automatically and play nice. But I have some general...

Okay, I am not sure what to title this post or even what category it fits in but here goes. Whenever I download certain types of files with Safari, e.g. dmg's or tar's or such, they open automatically on the desktop. But when I download certain types especially torrent files, they do not open...

I have a Beige power Mac G3/233 running OS 9.1 becasue it doesn't seem to like 9.2.x About fifty percent of the time it starts up fine, but another fifty percent, it will freeze display a blank command prompt while the startup bar is about 1/8 of the way across. Even more rarely, before this...

I am very new to programming and I figured I might learn a lot more about programming if I inspected the contents and code of programs that I think are well designed and functional. To that end I wanted to see how the application Shorten works. For anyone who is not familiar with it, it...

Hey Everybody check out my amazing new hard drive! I don't konw what is more amazing about it- the fact that I got a 150GB Firewire drive for $153 retail or the fact that I am using somewhere one the order of 10^9 times the capacity fo the drive without writing a single file. I guess it shows...

I remember rumors/hype about Panther having "native support" of x11 applications. Does anyone remember this and is it true? What does native support mean? Can you run x11 apps in Aqua just by double clicking?

I can't believe no one has mentioned the best new feature in this build. The icons that grow and shoot out at you are cool but the gold animated lock that visibly switches back and forth between authenticated and de-authenticated is the greates UI improvement since those funny rectangles that...

I bought an 160GB IDE Hard Drive on eBay the other day and when I viewed it using disk copy (latest Panther seed), it said that the capacity was around 120 GB while Available was 157GB under Windows NT format. This seemed odd to me but odder still when I re-formatted it to OS X Extended, the...

I have an iBook from last year with (2)12MB/s and (1) Firewire port. I recently bought a 160G USB2.0 Hard Drive But I had neglected to realize how abysmally slow USB 1.1 is. So my question is, how can I hook up my hard drive to my computer to get decent throughput? The best case would be a USB...

What is the deal with those green software coupons that came with my new iBook and I assume come with all new macs? Supossedly, they are redeemable for new software. Can I use one to get panther when it comes out? I doubt they would let me walk away with DVD Studio Pro for just a green coupon...

Hello, I am anundergraduate, non-CS major. I am interested in learning how to port or help port apps written in linux and any of the unix variants to run natively in Mac OS X. By this I mean take whatever the orginal programmer has written and make it into a a double-clickabble package that...

does anyone else notice this? If so, do you find it annoying? If so, do you know how to fix it? When I click on the URL bar, it just puts a cursor in betweent the words. Most of the time I want to type in a completely new address, not edit the old address. Even more annoyingly, Safari...

The Safari site claims that the browsers has seemless downloads, i.e. that it will not save small files to the desktop and will automatically open files with the appropriate app. Does anyone actually find this to be the case? With windoze media, it saves a 40K file on the desktop which I have...