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Jobs has magic powers, thats the only way I can explain this: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL For those of you going to it tommorow, Apples stock closed at $80.86 today... Could he have asked for a better closing price? Brian

snmpd is core dumping on my in Tiger and I'm wondering if anyone is having the same issue? You can test by running the following in a terminal window: /usr/sbin/snmpd -f -V Then in another terminal windows run: snmpwalk -v2c -c public localhost system I get a dump with an error about...

FedEx shows my Tiger box arrived today, yay Apple! :) Brian

So, it appears that Pages has no mail merge functionality. My question is, am I one of a select few freaks who uses mail merge, or is it commonly used? Brian

Figured if anyone from here would be at the LISA conference this week it'd be from this forum, so, anyone at the LISA conference this week? Brian

I need more memory for my new iBook G4. I know it's specs say it uses PC2100 but many sites also list PC2700 has working in it. Does anyone here actually have PC2700 in their G4 iBook here? If so, what brand? I tried a 512M PC2100 from Centon (they were out of PNY and this was the only 512M in...

Just noticed on the main .Mac page that iPhoto 4 has a feature I've been dieing for. It now has the ability to edit previously published albums on your .Mac account. No having to use the crappy web based editing tool! I hope iLife arrives at my house on Friday.... Brian

The title says it all. I finally got around to getting my printers installed on my box. Setup my HP Deskjet 845c and HP Photosmart 130 with the latest HP drivers, and I was actually impressed, they are starting to be decent drivers, the P130 even shows ink levels! So, I get them setup on my box...

HP will be selling an iPod based device under the HP name, and will begin shiping iTunes on every PC it sells..... http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040108005648&newsLang=en Brian

Haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but CNet is reporting (http://news.com.com/2100-1042_3-5068747.html) that VirtualPC will not work on the G5 until the next full release of VPC sometime in the next year. The article says a complete rewrite is needed because some functionality is missing from...

I'm looking for some sort of jog dial to use for editing in iMovie. Of the 3 options I've found (Griffin's PowerMate, Contours ShuttlePro and SpaceShuttle A/v) I'm leaning towards the PowerMate. I've never used any of these in editiong software but I'm leaning towards the PowerMate because...

Just a warning not to attempt to use Beachball.app with 10.2.4. It will basically render your system useless. See http://users.wpi.edu/~phoenix if you've already messed with it on 10.2.3 or if you killed your 10.2.4 box. The fix is to put the proper CoreGraphics file back in place. An error...

I have created a FAQ on Apple's X11 server with many questions asked here, and on other sites and mailing lists. You can get to it at http://www.misplaced.net/fom/X11. This is still a work in progress, so any suggestions or additions are welcome. Brian

I may have missed this in all the threads as of late, but incase no one has pointed this out yet Tivo is adding Rendevous techonology into it's series2 units so you can do things like play iTunes music on your TV (or home theater system if you're like me). See...

Apple has jumped aboard and has a beta of their x11 server with a quartz window manager for download as of today: http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/ I'll let you know how it works when i get home and install it:) Brian

Anyone else notice XDarwin is _extremely_ quick in 10.2.3? I'm running XDarwin 1.1 threaded with SHM support. Brian

Just got back from lunch at the mall, and walked by a kiosk selling those little tiny radio controlled cars, I had to get one, as they were just about sold out (had 7 left, between me and my boss we bought them out). These things rock. I can't wait to get one home to taunt my cats with :) If you...

http://news.com.com/2100-1040-962417.html?tag=fd_top_4 According to CNet, Apple doesn't like MacWorld moving to Boston starting in 2004, and will not be participating in it. Also, they are re-evaluating if they will participate in MacWorld NY 2003 because of the move to Boston. Brian

Atleast, this is according to Dantz, who has for the time being stopped supporting anyone using Retrospect on OS X with Adaptec cards until Adaptec fixes the problem. Basically they say the drivers send bogus data to the devices, and can cause corruption and/or device failures. Ofcourse, I do...

Well, just got my $66 refurbed Radeon 8500 and go it sucessfully flashed, so now I'm QE-Enabled and I love it. The speed just blows away my two rage 128 cards. Also, watching DVD's behind a terminal window is just too cool to play with, which leads me to some interesting things to note: 1...