― stet (stet), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Quark's great strength lies in being very like an old-school pasteboard. InDesign's lies in being like all the other Adobe apps (and, y'know, working and shit), but it makes translating the Quark metaphor really hard.
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
-- The Real DG
:(
― bad hair day house (fandango), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link
though I think I'm just going to have to eventually, or find a solid thinkpad to force linux onto. somebody put the worst virus I've ever seen IRL on my machine the other day good lord.
― bad hair day house (fandango), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.apple.com/imac
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link
If you've got another format you can say this about... bring it on!!!
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
problem is is that apple would have to pay a royalty on every copy of iMovie with Mpeg-1 encoding support and that isn't worth it (see also SanDisks trouble with one of the mpeg licensing authorities). Mpeg-1 has awful licensing for encoding, MPEG-2 is even worse, MPEG-4 is much saner.
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
here is a big list of email addresses and real addresses and phone numbers at apple for you to complain to, if you wish - http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/action-alert-tell-steve-jobs-and-apple.html
which, it strikes me, could come in handy for some of the other issues that have been brought up on this thread.
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 9 September 2006 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Paul Eater (eater), Saturday, 9 September 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 9 September 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
"My Macbook has been struck by the affliction that's affecting quite a number of the machines; it keeps switching itself off, eventually getting into a cycle of turning itself off every time you hit the power button. A PMU reset fixes it, or at least allows you to boot it up, but the problem comes back a few hours later. What fun. It's in with AppleCare at the moment, but many have got their machine back 'fixed' only to have it begin again a few days afterwards."
Something similar started happening to my G4 Powerbook (1.67GHz, 1 GB RAM, 100GB HD) last week. I checked in some of the Mac online forums, and the problem seems to be fairly widespread, especially with machines purchased in 2005. Apparently, the cause is a faulty temperature sensor in the trackpad which sends misleading information to the machine's power management unit. I checked my system log using Console, and noticed that the message: "Power Management recevied emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep" appeared several times. Luckily my computer is still under warantee (for another 4 days),and I bought Apple Care. I'm taking it into the Apple store tonight, and I hope that they can sort it out quickly, without me having to go back several times. I've heard mixed reviews about Apple's customer support.
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
OK, now I do hate Apple.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link
if you're using bash as your shell:
for f in *.zip; do unzip "$f"; rm "$f"; done
(NB do not blame me if this goes horribly wrong and fucks your machine up, cos I haven't tested it)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Ed, that reminds me why I don't do that - there seems to be a weird Finder bug on my machine, whereby if I right slick on more than one file that's selected, Finder immediately crashes 75% of the time. Very annoying!
― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Note also that, when it crashes while opening an archive, it often leaves behind large invisible temp folders.
― M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link