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You mean the cheapest good laptop that apple makes... You can get the white (old model) MacBook for $999, but don't waste your money on that. Between the Topcase chipping issues and frequent Harddrive failures that these machines have you'll be much happier if you drop the extra $299 and go with the aluminum body one.

Apple already announced that there will be a free software update available this summer for all iPhone users that will allow MMS and copy/paste, along with some other useful things such as push notification.

Can't GIMP open pdf's? I know that Photoshop can. If it can you should be able to export the pdf as another file type.

You only need to add that code if the favicon is not labeled favicon.ico or is not in the root directory of your website. Actually the new standard is 32x32. Older browsers will scale the image down, and some newer browsers display the favicon's 32x32.

Very nice layout truefusion! I can view it fine off your website... But still the same error for the attached image. Sorry, but you do not have permission to use this feature. If you are not logged in, you may do so using the form below if available.What, are regular old spammers members like me not allowed to view attachments uploaded by mods or something? Oh well...

There is nothing illegal about peer-to-peer itself. It is just a technology to allow data to travel from one computer to another using a specific port. I don't see why you think there would be anything illegal about it, unless you use it for illegal purposes, such as transferring copyrighted information. And in those cases, yes, there are plenty of laws prohibiting the transfer of copyrighted materials without the explicit permission from the copyright holder. The problem is that there really is very difficult to enforce laws like these, especially when the peer to peer server lives in a different country with different copyright laws.

Its WPA and WPA2 not WAP or WAP2. Other than that a well written explanation; I couldn't have done a better job myself. @lonebyrd: You can't go wrong going with WPA or WPA2 if you are worried about others getting into your network. WEP security can be cracked in a few minutes. The router assigns IP addresses not MAC addresses. MAC addresses remain the same for the remainder of that computer's life. When your computer connects to the router via DHCP, the router has a range of IP addresses to assign to the computer, it tells the computer what it's new IP address is, and the computer tells the router what it's MAC address is.

I find street-view very useful when I am planning on driving to an unfamiliar business or home, I usually look at the address I am looking for on google street-view first, so I can identify what I am looking for. It really helps in areas I am not accustomed to. Arial view does not allow me to see the front of buildings which is what I would be seeing while driving.

I find it truly fascinating how creative some of our members are. These designs are beautiful! Please re-upload that image truefusion, I'm getting an error when attempting to view it.

Quite a few good iPod Touch/iPhone apps are free. I've got quite a few, my favorite would have to be shazam which listens to a song and tells you what the artist/song name is. If you want to explore the avaliable apps you can do that from iTunes even without having an iPod Touch or iPhone. Just click on iTunes Store and click on App Store. You'll find all the free and paid apps there. Don't forget to recycle your old one for 10% off the touch! He was referring to the mac genius who helped him at the apple store, not the iTunes feature.

Apparently not all these streetview drivers are that great after all... here is an article about one driver hitting a deer, and the whole ordeal was uploaded to google streetview. It has since been taken down, of course. And of course just for everyone's personal amusement, Google streetview car being pulled over for a traffic violation:

I wasn't talking about captcha's for registering. I'm fairly certain that most of these accounts are created by real people, and then use some creation of their own to send out massive amounts of PM's. If we put a captcha on the send private message page, there may be some improvement. Remember, most of these guys only need one account, so it is easy for a human to set it up, but you can only have one recipient per private message, and I doubt someone is going to sit at their computer copying captcha after captcha in for every board member they send their message to.

It depends on what is causing the problem. If it is indeed the hard drive that has a physical issue and the unit is out of warrantee you will have to pay for the parts required to fix it (and since there is no iPod repair done in the store, it basically means a whole new unit). However if you believe the issue may be software related the genius can help you attempt to resolve it at no charge. It's worth a try bringing it in if anything to see how much the part would cost. Also, if you were thinking about purchasing a new iPod you can recycle your old one for 10% off a new one.

Unless you live in an area where there is no Apple Store near by you most likely would not ship it to have it repaired. If you do I have no idea what would happen. At the store we just tell them that jailbreaking voids their warrantee and we can't help them. Sometimes I show them how to get their unit into recovery mode and I suggest they try that at home. Also, there is no fee for the genius bar unless you are having something repaired or replaced out of warrantee. You are always welcome to make an appointment to see a mac genius or ipod/iphone genius if you need help with your unit. Go to apple.com/retail and select the nearest apple store to you. Then under Genius Bar click on "Reserve". This will allow you to set up an appointment to have your unit looked at so your issue can be resolved.

We don't know what kind of connection the monitor is using. It could be DVI, or something else. VGA is pretty much basic component analog but once you get into the realm of digital, things start to get a little weird.

I am not too familiar with the "wireless everywhere" cards, but as far as I understand, they should plug directly into your computer. I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't be working. Make sure that you have any necessary drivers or software installed, and try contacting the manufacturer. I'm sorry that I couldn't be of more help to your issue.

Since it's my job to take all of the appointments for this kind of stuff at the apple store, I'll tell you that jailbreaking your unit voids your warrantee. We've got fancy plaques that explain all the legal mumbo-jumbo about modifying the software that comes on the units. Your best bet is to try and force the unit into recovery mode, and then restore it using iTunes. To do this, restart the unit by holding down both the home button and the sleep/wake button until you see the unit start to reboot, then let go of the sleep/wake button and remain holding only the home button until you see a connect to iTunes icon on the screen. This functionality is built into the firmware and it is doubtful that attempting to modify the OS damaged this. Once you get it into recovery mode you should be able to restore it using iTunes. Now I tell you this not so you can have another go at trying to jailbreak it, but so you can have a functional unit again.

I agree with you here. This is some bad parenting on the boy's parent's part. You'd be surprised how much children learn from movies and TV. Chances are it was his father's weapon and perhaps learned some things from his father as well. The frontal lobe of the human brain deals mostly with decisions and common sense. Unfortunately this area of the brain isn't fully developed until the individual is 25 years old. A boy that age would be incapable of making reasonable decisions of that magnitude. He may have just been angered by her, and was incapable of imagining the consequences of his actions.

What type of connection does the monitor use to connect to the computer with? Perhaps your graphics card isn't powerful enough to drive it.

It depends on what type of 3G phone you have. Some phones like the blackberry allow you to use the phone as a modem very easily, while other phones do not allow it. Also, some carriers limit the amount of monthly bandwidth you can use, many say unlimited but if you read the small print you'll most likely find a cap on your data usage per month.

Yeah... Google has already done this for most of the United States, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia. But now I'm seeing some in France and Italy as well. They've built it right into google maps so you can get a better view of a certain street you are looking at. Interesting picture of the car. I've always wondered what kind of rig they've got set up to take those pictures.

Huh... OS X has had this functionality since it came out back in 2001. It took Microsoft long enough to rip it.

I thought I made it clear that I was kidding when I told you to sudo rm -rvf /... Or was this something else?Edit: and those who think I was trying to be malicious: I was not. Haslip asked what the quickest way to clean up his harddrive was

Haslip is canadian! But I suppose talking to him outside of Xisto allows me to know some things that some don't. Do me next!

I'm probably a little late on this but I'd figure I'd dump some of my knowledge here, since this is my major after all. Why do computers use binary? It would be far too inaccurate to use any other base. Base 3 may have worked (no voltage/low voltage/high voltage), but there are a lot less mistakes made when just using two values: no voltage and high voltage. Imagine if imperfections in the output of the power supply could cause bits to be changed. Reads and writes to memory could never be trusted and probably would cause the operating system to crash if the wrong value of memory was passed to it, especially while booting.You can learn a lot more about how exactly the computer uses binary when you take a look at the way the ALU works inside a CPU, or when you look at the connection between the CPU and RAM. If you look at the wiring between the CPU and RAM you will find many connections that can be grouped into different busses. The address bus usually consists of about 32 bits. Each of these bits is actually a wire with either voltage (on) or no voltage (off). These 32 bits can be interpreted as a 32 digit binary number, which tells the RAM which memory location the CPU wishes to either read from or write to. Next you have the Data bus, and the Read/Write bus. When the Read/Write bus is on, it tells the ram that it wishes to write whatever value is being passed to it over the data bus, and it writes this to whichever location is being sent by the address bus. When the Read/Write bus is off it tells the ram that it wants the ram to pass whatever value resides at the address that the address bus is passing to it over the data bus.Another great example is if you look at the chip design. Specifically of the ALU and how it gets and sends its data. On a two-bus architecture the ALU will traditionally get both inputs from either bus, then it will calculate and store the result in a register designated to storing the result. At each connection to the busses the ALU and registers have gates which either allow voltage to pass through or not. Things could get quite confusing if instead of using binary (on/off) computers used base 3 (low/high/off), and the more bases the worse it would be.Now with that out of the way, I'd like to say shame on all of you who hear binary and immediately start talking about computers. Sure computers use Base 2, but binary is something mathematical, and you should take a mathematical approach to learning it. You should actually look up what bases actually mean and learn to count in any base, not just base 2.