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Nope, just DVD Decrypter for that.

Wasn't that the question? I am a torrent whore. I admit it. But one of my students gave me the OSX 10.4.4 DVD, so it might've come from ed2k or gnutella or IRC, and I can't say which for sure. :)

I don't, but a couple of my students got it up and running to play World of Warcraft. I'm under the impression that there's not much to it once you get the binary-only drivers from ATI or nvidia that support 3D.

I like 7 better than 6, actually. I love how well NeroVision and Nero Recode work. NeroVision is at this point my favoritest windows app, just because it properly and automatically handles aspect ratio and will stretch DVD bitrates as far as you tell it - most DVD authoring tools puke after 2...

Something random: a scientific comparison of apples and oranges. For the ultimate in online sarcasm.

OSX runs just fine on a PC, once you get the right set of patches. :D

Yes, but the label is still rather misleading.

Er... since when does DVD Decrypter make AVI files?

WineTools tends to make life much more pleasant for the novice Wine user. It's a menu for getting the important stuff in place. I think it does a better job of configuring windows apps on Linux than the defaults that SuSE ships with. DVDshrink is one of the apps it'll install for you, but in a...

The instructions might've been adapted from other instructions that were from some older version of SuSE. Doesn't matter, when one follows the steps, one ends up with the ability to play back almost any media file. I really, really think that SuSE is a ready-for-prime-time desktop at this...

Sites that claim to deal with "music" and yet can't handle classical music or jazz - aren't really sites about music. It's like claiming to have a porn site but only having pictures of feet.

No problem. That one link inspired a couple days worth of lecture for my Linux class. Gilbo, you've been on fire with the informative posts here, but you really do have to give SuSE credit for newbie user experience, dvd support or not. If gentoo builds in libdecss, it's gotta be the only major...

http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/

Do you think they'll make them for proper CPUs instead of just Intel ones?

It is a gateway product that may lead the weak-willed to use of other Macromedia software.

1. Go into Admin Tools - Services and turn the Sound Service on (Automatic and Started, actually) 2. Go into Display Properties and Settings and Advanced and Troubleshooting and turn the Display Acceleration slider up all the way. 3. Set your pagefile to a large, static size (same minimum and...

... and are evil.

I think I've said this before: .NET 2.0 is not entirely compatible with 1.1. In most cases, code written for 1.1 will compile and run fine under 2.0, but that is not 100% sure thing. My understanding, from talking to developers, is that it's pretty much an 80/20 rule kind of thing.

Er... aren't the newest Treos PocketPC-based anyway? Personally, I don't think I could stand carrying around a Cell phone that big and chunky. Hell, I can barely stand to carry around a cell phone as it is, but those things aren't that comfortable to hold up and talk on, and I don't think...

Anyone who wants a free Buddy Code for Dungeons and Dragons Online, let me know.

Well, I was all set and ready to spend another day using Vista and to write about it it, but I had something funny happen when I turned on my Vista machine just now. All the way through boot-up, my display was completely normal. Normal colors, normal aspect ratio, normal everything. When I...

DEC + Compaq + HP = suck My recent experience with 3Com network equipment (APs and some managed switches) certainly haven't been bad. I've been thinking that 3Com has been getting better.

Too bad. I really liked Eccleston in "Cracker". I don't know that I could watch Dr. Who again. My association with the show is essentially based on one person I knew in college who personified every last one of the worst stereotypes one might have for a Science Fiction fan-type. The guy had a...

I will help you by taking one of the X1900s off your hands. :D

I'd have to split the files I want to transfer into 1.4MB chunks. I'd have to do that on floppy disks because the hard disk of that machine is almost full. I have to make the assumption that the floppy drive still works. Mac floppies do not use FAT. Newer versions of MacOS can read and write to...

Somehow, I don't think I can find CD Burning software that will work with OS 6 or whatever it has...

The only thing I can think to do is put a 50-pin SCSI controller into a Linux machine and taking that with me to facilitate the data transfer. But this guy wants the work done in his home, and taking along an extra desktop isn't really high on the list of things I want to do to earn some money.

I'm not sure it has one. Older Macs used ADB for a lot of things like that.

I've been asked to do an on-site job, to transfer data from a Macintosh Performa 550 to a modern P4. For the record, the Performa 550 has a 68030/33 in it (if you think 386SX/33, you aren't far off), a 160MB SCSI hard disk (with a Mac file system, of course), no ethernet, no PCI and no USB. The...

TweakUI exposes that functionality. But anyone who can get to disk management will see that the drives are there...

Kaposi's Sarcoma isn't caused by HIV, it just comes along for the ride. I don't think Incredimail is in and of itself the culprit, but I've noticed the same thing as Buck. Maybe some of their advertisers are doing nasty things like drive-by downloads. Regardless, I wouldn't let a user touch it.

I spent a while checking everywhere in Windows group policy and security templates, but there's nothing in Windows that'll actually do it based on an access control list. You could do it with a hardware profile, but that's pathetically easy to defeat. First hit on Google for anything like that...

All Western Digital drives are evil. This is quantifiable fact.

I'm not sure which is more offensive: The lights in Greg's new PC or Buck's continued intimations that I approve of Western Digital products. I was at a site for 14 hours yesterday because a Western Digital external drive failed and flushed data that I needed. I can't decide whether to bill a...

The Simpsons Title sequence, done in live action :)

It means ddrueding was drunk/stoned-posting.

... and how hate-filled, repressed and ignorant Christians can be.

I think Lunar means the topic reply notification e-mails, Handy. Like the "New Private Message Arrived" e-mails.

There's a season 2.1 and a season 2.2. Episode 2.19 just aired a few hours ago. :) I watched Dr. Who on PBS when I was young. The productions always struck me as more theatrical than science fiction from the US. They also looked like everyone involved in production was embezzling money out of...

There's WPA and there's WPA2. IIRC the last Linksys WRT54G (the new ones that don't run Linux) that I saw did WPA2. So do current Trendnet routers and PCI NICs. Probably APs too. On the low end, current Linksys products would be my starting point; they're almost universally available and...

The more Oscars it wins, the more Fundies have coronary episodes. I see it as win-win.

It was the 80s. The link goes to someone's project to build the (at the time non-existant) video game that was the basis for the plot of the movie. The Last Starfighter came out in, oh, 1984 and was one of the first movies to use any kind of CG effects. It was one of Robert "The Music Man"...

My ex- asked me about Vonage service tonight. She looked into it and was told by some Vonage salesdroid that their VoIP service doesn't work with home routers. Huh?!? Vonage apparently doesn't show their support site to non-subscribers, so I have no idea what they could even be talking about...

It's not economically viable to replace the HSFs, PSUs or cases for every machine unless I can demonstrate a clear and immediate need. Even if it only took me 15 minutes to make a parts swap, that's still paying me for a day and a half of work + cost of whichever part x 60. The larger issue to...

What about lessening the clusterfuck that happened after the fact? How many days did it take to get the Red Cross in? How long were phone, internet and cell networks dead?

Well, my Matsonic motherboard + C3/2000 can in fact saturate a 100Mbit network link by itself. If nothing else, that means it'd work as a storage appliance.

Why all the desktops? The woman who owns the company I work for doesn't like tower cases. Buck, are you talking about Compucase Desktop or Tower cases? I bought Compucase towers for as long as I could find them as part of my standard build and I don't EVER remember seeing idle CPU temps above...

Background: I maintain about 60 PCs in a classroom setting for my day-job as an IT trainer. Of those PCs, 24 are in Enlight 7200 desktop cases. Another 12 are inCompucase 7106s while the rest are in cases visually similar to the Evercase e1205, but without the front panel. These machines...

Anyone remember the movie "The Last Starfighter?"

What does mobilizing the military to set up communication networks have to do with declaration of martial law? The two things are entirely different. In the event that the disaster hadn't been serious, the military could've just declared the whole affair to be a joint-training exercise or...