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Re:Perfection?
Monday, July 26 2010 @ 05:27 PM CDT

everything i've experienced in my entire life is no more than anecdotal evidence

that fact applies to everyone

get over it

Re:Perfection?
Monday, July 26 2010 @ 05:32 PM CDT

Quote by: bug67 You really want to know why I'm so bitter? How about the THOUSANDS I've blown on my Mac bassed studio only to lose decades of work due to poor quality control bought at a premium price.

That's rough man, I actually know the feeling. The very first Mac I got was an Apple G5. I dropped 3 grand on that sucker, brought it home, turned it on, and the fans proceeded to start blasting at a million miles per hour. It sounded like a get engine at one point. then it died.

I've also had numerous kernel panics.

Anyways at least we had a good banter

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Re:Perfection?
Monday, July 26 2010 @ 05:35 PM CDT

Quote by: bug67 Quote by: SmokeyVW get over it But, Bill, that's no fun! I'm bored and I need some anonymous excitement!

fine.

carry on!

Re:Perfection?
Monday, July 26 2010 @ 05:53 PM CDT

Bug sounds like you may be a candidate for the hackintosh. Check it out if you don't already know about it.

I have a mac mini and even that has more than enough power for anything i need. I got it for like 450 on ebay. I upgraded the HD and processor for like 150 bucks.

I have not ever had any issue with any of my macs and I have owned 4 of them and kept them for a very long time. In fact I sold my 7500 to jdholliday many years ago after i had it for 6 years and then he used it for a very long time as well. Bummer you have had so many problems with yours.

I have had extremely bad luck with my two office PCs: The Dell desktop at my office (2 HD failures within a year) and also with the eMachines unit which totally died after just past the one year warranty. Junk I tell ya! Who knows, lets just agree that all computers that die on us sucks!

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Re:Perfection?
Monday, July 26 2010 @ 06:21 PM CDT

Quote by: bug67 in love Linux Mint 8 (Helena)

Linux Mint is a very elegant OS, it's the closest to an Apple experience as far as linux distro's go and it's underlying technology is Ubuntu. I had a box with Linux Mint 7 Gloria installed on it at one point. Personally when I worked for a small IT company we used Fedora a more experimental branch of the corporate edition of Red hat and for personal use I would dabble in Gentoo.

I also don't blame your lack of interest in a Hackintosh. I've installed OSX on several X86 PC architectures and found them to be lacking

Re:Perfection?
Monday, July 26 2010 @ 06:42 PM CDT

click -->Things change

New gov't rules allow unapproved iPhone apps

New government copyright rules would allow iPhone owners to download third-party apps

JOELLE TESSLER
AP News

Jul 26, 2010 12:14 EDT

Owners of the iPhone will be able to legally break electronic locks on their devices in order to download software applications that haven't been approved by Apple Inc., according to new government rules announced Monday.

The decision to allow the practice commonly known as "jailbreaking" is one of a handful of new exemptions from a 1998 federal law that prohibits people from bypassing technical measures that companies put on their products to prevent unauthorized uses. The Library of Congress, which oversees the Copyright Office, reviews and authorizes exemptions every three years to ensure that the law does not prevent certain non-infringing use of copyright-protected material.

In addition to jailbreaking, other exemptions announced Monday would:

_ allow owners of used cell phones to break access controls on their phones in order to switch wireless carriers.

_ allow people to break technical protections on video games to investigate or correct security flaws.

_ allow college professors, film students and documentary filmmakers to break copy-protection measures on DVDs so they can embed clips for educational purposes, criticism, commentary and noncommercial videos.

_ allow computer owners to bypass the need for external security devices called dongles if the dongle no longer works and cannot be replaced.

Re:Perfection?
Monday, July 26 2010 @ 06:53 PM CDT

I don't know, I'm more concerned with making my mortgage payments right now...