The sheer beauty of Macs....

geek said:
sorry mate, completely the other way. Mac OSX, underneath the hood is an operating system called Unix. much of the software it runs "inside" is open source which means you can download, change, rebuild it as you see fit. you can download the "source code" to very large parts of the system from Apple and tinker with it. Microsoft platforms don't come anywhere close to letting you do this.
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Not within my current limited capabilities though. I've got most of windows system tinkering figured but I'd have to start afresh with Unix. I do like being able to think "I'd like to do suchnsuch with my PC" and go on to tinterweb and download a piece of free software written by somebody clevererer than me to do it. My latest game is to control my media player from my phone. How cool is that! My phone is now a remote control for my PC. Can you do that in half an hour with a MAC with only tinkering skills? :)
 
Atkule said:
How cool is that! My phone is now a remote control for my PC.Can you do that in half an hour with a MAC with only tinkering skills? :)
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It would take me at least twice that to think of a reason why I'd want to, after I'd got past "If I can do it, so can some other fekker".
 
Bigtwin said:
to think of a reason why I'd want to, after I'd got past "If I can do it, so can some other fekker".
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1. because you can. Unrestrictive see ;) Kidding! :D
2. Bluetooth connection has to be authorised for a specific device so it is securish.
In this particular case my computer is not physically reachable from the kitchen (where I have extra speakers) so a remote control of my entire music collection is quite handy :)
 
geek said:
sorry mate, completely the other way. Mac OSX, underneath the hood is an operating system called Unix. much of the software it runs "inside" is open source which means you can download, change, rebuild it as you see fit. you can download the "source code" to very large parts of the system from Apple and tinker with it. Microsoft platforms don't come anywhere close to letting you do this.
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Hands Up anyone that downloads kernel code, and modifies it then? :tumbleweed

You can EXTEND OSX and Windows through fairly simple means, but actually recompiling bits of the kernel and relinking it all is Linux-land. Even then it's usually just a case of building in new drivers to support some odd boot device.

The mac is just right because it's rarely broken.

Edit see: http://www.salling.com/Clicker/mac/ for bluetooth remotes.
 
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Manny Fagnet said:
Yes,Leopard is brilliant.

Quick Look,Cover Flow,Stacks all very very clever.

Chnages to iChat let someone else share your system over the net and file transfer is a click away.

Get it !
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Right thats me sold..

I use Salling Clicker its only 12 of our UK pounds, control your mac from your bluetooth phone, you can even see iTunes album art on your phone, read emails etc etc, and they do a Windows version too. Not free but its hardly expensive either and does it all without tinkering!
 
Bigtwin said:
Just upgraded me RAM. I timed it - took under 90 secs. Undo 4 captive screws, lift off panel, press in chip, screw panel back up. Done.

Did same on PC once. Casings apart, farting about with dodgy connectors in tiny spaces, loads of casing nuts and bolts - nause.

Cost £14.99. This thing flies now. They are just SOOO brilliant.:thumb
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90 seconds seems like a long time.... try a modern Compaq and get your Ram fitting time down a bit more.
 
cookie said:
can you buy a mac with 2 x optical drives & 2 (or more) x HDDs?

was wondering about that the other day. they all seem pre built with limited hardware. maybe you need one of those lovely free standing G5(?) things to get that sort of config?
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The desktop G5 has space for 4 HDDs with up to 3 terabytes of data storage plus 2 optical drives. Top spec with two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors and 16GB of RAM yours sir for £6764.02 but you do get free shipping.
 
emjay said:
The desktop G5 has space for 4 HDDs with up to 3 terabytes of data storage plus 2 optical drives. Top spec with two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors and 16GB of RAM yours sir for £6764.02 but you do get free shipping.
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:eek: makes my dual core G5 look very tame... those new intelmacs are super fast
 
Invicta Moto said:
90 seconds seems like a long time.... try a modern Compaq and get your Ram fitting time down a bit more.
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You have to count the glueing it back together time as well you know.

Anyway, 1/2 of my time was moving the speakers and pot plants so I could pick it up.
 
emjay said:
The desktop G5 has space for 4 HDDs with up to 3 terabytes of data storage plus 2 optical drives. Top spec with two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors and 16GB of RAM yours sir for £6764.02 but you do get free shipping.
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bargain.
 
Leopard upgrade hits Mac firewall

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7071017.stm


"A test of Leopard revealed that installing it led to the firewall on a Mac being turned off and its default setting changed to leave it disabled."


Check your firewalls guys.

Not many virus/worms out there for macs but if you use microsoft applications you might get one if your firewall has been switched off.

No doubt a wee upgrade will be out in a few days to correct this.

Keep Macing:thumb2
 
Got a router on your broadband? - Then you are very likely behind a NAT firewall anyway, and none of the services on your mac are reachable from the outside.

Can I get 'back to my mac' working though, can I bollocks? - See above. (It's supposed to use UPnP to open up your router)
 
Thank you

and that..:thumb2

I learn something new everyday and today I learned one new fact about Leo Pard, and one thing about my network that I had forgotten. I have 9 months experience of my macbook and twenty within windows environments.

Aesthetically the black bakerlite retro appealed, and innards wise the spec was fine. I had wondered for years as a sad style/techno flunkie was I missing something? I have since acquiring the quirky little love used it nearly every day in my time, and continuing my daily corporate toil within Windows.

Conciliator that I am: I can understand both the fanatics and the detractors perspective, and I have found myself positively ambivalent about my mac, I continue to enjoy exploring the macworld and its a fun machine.

Bit overpriced, lousy battery charge time considering size, nice and quick, mac office fine and lots of fun features.i.e widgets and photo booth.Networking simpler than Windows, its great really and I'm generally pretty critical in my evaluation. Both corporations spin them though, I think, in terms of their relative advantages.

So go one you know you want one...maybe
 
an end to surfing porn with your Mac

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7079777.stm

"The problem is with his computer, as only six months after he moved from using a virus-prone Windows PC to a Macintosh computer the first serious threat to Mac users has been observed "in the wild".

It's a Trojan Horse, a piece of code that pretends to do one thing but actually compromises your computer.

This one spreads through online video sites, taking advantage of the fact that there are many different ways to display video, each requiring slightly different software to encode and decode moving images."

"The Trojan sits behind an online video and when you try to play it you get a message from Quicktime telling you to get a new codec, and if you follow the link you'll be sent to a site that hosts the malicious software.

Click "ok" and enter your systems adminstrator's password and it will be installed on your computer with full system access after which you are, to use the jargon, "pwned", or scuppered.

And you don't even get to see the video you were after.

I'll be sad to see his innocence go, but perhaps it is an inevitable part of growing up, like losing belief in Santa Claus or parental infallibility.
Bill Thompson
At the moment the fake codec is being spread via porn sites, but it will quickly spread to more mainstream sites, and that's when it will get dangerous and could affect a lot of Mac users who believe that they don't need to worry about system security.

Of course this Trojan relies on social engineering to spread, and it does not mark a breakdown in Mac OS security or anything like that."

It was going to happen sooner or later :(

Be careful outhere
 
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