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Who was (more) drunk, the visitor or the shrimp?

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"InfiniteReality Graphics - Power Through Complexity"
I'll say, that's a pretty good start ;)
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I could say what I like, or I could simply share the current itunes top 25, which is a lot more truthful than anything I would write about myself :D
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which I suppose is fairly accurate, but it doesn't count vinyl of course, and I have an old ipod mini which only holds a few albums which I throw on and change out randomly when the album starts to get stale. *edit: turns out itunes doesn't count ipod plays like my zune used to.

I also tend to listen to albums in their entirety.

I also recently discovered pandora. So far I've started it with kraftwerk, madeon, alan parsons project, and the beatles, and always get enjoyable results.

Anybody else still listen to a real radio? Mainly I listen to 91.7 WVXU, but also 92.9 WGTZ for music, or 97.7 WOXY for dancing music :)

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Has anybody tried a lipo battery yet? I'm not sure if it's the right battery type for this application (wrt standby discharge, recharging, lack of cycling), but I bought some 240mah, 3.7V lipo cells from amazon at $2 each for my thesis project and used a lipo charging IC built into my shoe. Just a mini usb port coming out to recharge, everything else is ANT (wireless)

but the price is very right. lipo is much cheaper than the coin-cells I was planning to use, can be recharged, and has slightly higher capacity for the same size.. good thing since the battery only lasts about 20 hours in my application!

http://www.amazon.com/Upgraded-Syma-S10 ... 653&sr=8-5 (the ad says 200mah, but mine were marked 240mah, ymmv...)

The smallest lipo battery, coupled with a charging IC for when the machine is on, should ensure the battery never dies.. and if it does, just charge it up again?
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Like it is getting stuck before it closes all the way, and then opening up again after two or three seconds of being closed? Try turning the whole machine :P upside down when it is "closed" ;) The way these mechanisms work normally oppose gravity, and if it's weak or broken then it might need a bit of help.

Obviously a temporary solution :D
Upppdated my computer to lion today. Mainly an annoyance to have to setup my wallpaper again, as well as figuring out how they changed the touchpad fingerpainting gestures; but MobileMe doesn't work after june 30th, and iCloud doesn't work with 10.6, so you are kinda forced into upgrading if you want to continue using your mail.

I just downloaded it from the app store, burned it to a CD, reformatted my hard disk and did a clean install (I wanted to clean my computer out, anyways). It's a lot easier than having to do a re-install of irix, for sure.

I think the only legitimate complaint that I have is that they made the close/minimize/maximize buttons smaller.

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I really like these guys, I have both of their albums... witty lyrics* and laid back guitar on the upbeat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4RMnOdM ... e=youtu.be
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monks_(UK_band )


vishnu wrote: From the sublime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmgAjkxq4Gc
wrong sublime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTCyZvb2Uzw


*e.g. "nice legs, shame about her face", et al
You eat Cadillacs; Lincolns too... Mercurys and Subarus.
huh I did not know there was a new mac out until I read this post... so I scoped it out.

yes, the screen is amazing and to me would justify the price (other new features notwithstanding) if I needed a new computer right now I would get that one. But I don't, so I'm not :D I'm sure apple will bring the retina display to the other models and even as a standalone monitor over time. (The white macbook appears to be missing from the lineup now :( )

you can upgrade the disk in the air without much issue and apple provides a battery replacement service even after the warranty is up, there's no need to be forced to trust a 3rd party battery. its a lipo battery anyways so it can easily last the life of the product (5 years or more)

The lack of a cd drive, ethernet socket, etc doesn't bother me. They dont have a floppy disk or 300 baud modem anymore either. That's how technology keeps improving.

on the other hand, did they really have to change the charging plug? It isn't any smaller, doesn't provide any extra capacity... I have 4 mac laptops going back to 2007 here and all the power supplies are more or less interchangeable.
(edit: added http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD504.. . lol)

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So who else has tried one out yet? There is no setting to actually use the full resolution. By default, the screen runs at 1440x900, and can be scaled up to 1920x1200.

I bet the new OSX coming this summer will support it with proper text sizes, etc, but for now you'll have to use a program like switchresx to set the screen to 2880x1800, and then have to deal with tiny text.

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Generatrix wrote: I'm open to hear more along the lines of this music genre! ...where to follow?
Alan Parsons, Jean Michel Jarre, Pink Floyd, Supertramp

Art of Noise, Kraftwerk, Frank Zappa...
"The Monks" won another fan here

The Clash, Queen, Styx, etc.. Monks are kind of interesting. It's a seemingly mainstream sound, yet there's nobody else that sounds like it.

They are described as a "70s british punk band" which almost makes sense, but it's nothing like the oi/skinhead movement... almost inspired by The Clash.. I can get the rest of the album uploaded, or just share it elsewhere for you.

Sublime
my little sister is the ska/"modern punk" expert.. and she's not around for me to ask.. I'd say, try The Mighty Mighty Bosstones , Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish , Tim Armstrong, 7Minds . I also recommend Red Hot Chili Peppers (saw them play a few weeks ago, fantastic show!) and Yellowcard (with trademark electric violin, the entire "Paper Walls" album is very good)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIfDslLY7O0
In the Pit
When I'm in the pit
I'm going to punch and kick
When I'm in the pit
Don't you know, I'm going to fuck up shit

Got my wife-beater on
Steel Toe Doc Martins on my feet yeah
Run around in a little circle
I'm wondering who to beat
And you know it's really cool
'Cause I played football in high school
Gonna push some little girls tonight
Look out now... there's gonna be a fight

When I'm in the pit
I'm going to punch and kick
When I'm in the pit
Don't you know, I'm going to fuck up shit
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http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/ ... od_for_us/


I am probably in the minority here, but I use my "computers" for communication and entertainment, not "computing for computing's sake". Which is to say, I'm pretty mainstream, and my mainstream 1.4ghz c2d with 2gb of ram works quite well for me.

You can easily upgrade the disk (one screw holds it in) but since I use a nas at home, 64gb is plenty for me at this time.

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You'll be back... :D
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hamei wrote:
You guys can stand around and oooh ! and aaaah ! over the Emperor's beautiful royal blue coat with the blazing gold epaulettes...

hmmmm, reminds me of my theme-park-ride-operator days...

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Quote:
Not a chance. Theme parks are too smart to hire MBAs. You have to have a functioning brain* to operate potentially dangerous equipment.
but the outfits are much the same :roll:

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My sister took her macbook(pro) to microcenter for warranty work... they sent us a letter dated 22 june that it was ready for pickup... the paperwork with the machine said microcenter got the computer back from apple almost two months before that... now she's moved to an exotic locale for the summer, left on the 11th or thereabouts so I had to pick it up for her, and she is stuck without a computer until she gets back.

This is just a long string of misfortunes microcenter has applied to her poor little computer, which has been in the shop many times. They've put almost $4k of parts in it, and everytime they return it "fixed" there is a new problem. (first, for an innocuous dead pixel, then no hard drive, then no battery, then no wireless card) finally after the missing wifi card, we force them to send it to apple to have it fixed properly. which they did, and then sit on it for two months.

I think all that is left of the original machine is the keyboard and trackpad assembly. they've even changed out the chassis after stripping out a bunch of screw bosses. They've also "lost" the power supply and provided her with a new one, free of charge, which was nice :)

It's soooo nice to have a computer with a shiny new LCD screen with no dead pixel... only to display a HDD error message and nothing else. and have screws rattling around inside. And then you return it, and get it back with a working disk, and suddenly the battery only lasts for about... oh, half a second... when it worked perfectly beforehand... and later, with the new battery, suddenly, the airport card doesn't show up anywhere with any utility.. and if we look inside there is an empty slot where it used to be. Ugh.
Google: Don't Be Evil. Apple: Don't Be Greedy. Microsoft: Don't Be Stupid.
At that age everyone I knew was throwing rocks at the Establishment and burning cop cars.
Well, I'd like to tell you all about my dream, it's a place
Where strip malls abound and diversion's mere moments away
Where culture is defined by the ones least refined
And you'll be left behind if you don't fit in
It's all distorted in americana, my way

Well, fuck you
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Well, my dream has come true
Whoa, whoa, whoa
My vision has come true

Now, give me my cable, fast food, four-by's, tat's, right away
I want it right now, 'cause my g-ggeneration don't like to wait
My future is determined by thieves, thugs, and vermin
It's quite an excursion, but it's ok
Everything's backwards in americana, my way

Well, fuck you
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Well, my dream is coming true
Whoa, whoa, whoa
My vision has come true
Yeah, it's all coming true

I'm a product
Of my environment
So don't blame me
I just work here but I wanna fuck you

My rights are denied by those least qualified
Trading profit for pride, but it's, it's ok
Everything's backwards in americana, my way

Well, fuck you
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Well, my nightmare has come true
Whoa, whoa, whoa
My nightmare has come true
Yeah, it's all coming true
Yeah, it's all coming true
Google: Don't Be Evil. Apple: Don't Be Greedy. Microsoft: Don't Be Stupid.
Oh and I'm sure everybody here remembers these painful lessons...
a) the CRT's aquadag likes to build up a big charge the instant you remove the ultor short
b) The reason it's called a flyback transformer is because when you touch it you magically "fly back" across the room with all the swiftness and grace of a jungle cat.
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so, as a layperson... I suppose it's another excuse to party? :mrgreen:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/20 ... 20626.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/scie ... found.html

Peter Higgs wrote: I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge
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Yup. From the tomatoes on down*, phony as a three dollar bill. "Business logic ! Business ethics ! Profit ! Profit ! Gotta make a proooooofit ! Efficient use of reeeee-sources !" (As in, put it all in my bank account, you peasants.) Talk about the Big Lie .... diarrhoea is what it is.

* I have a quick civilization gauge : eat a tomato. If it tastes like cardboard, the society is worthless.


The How and Why:
http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/07 ... upermarket
Thinkpad x220 Slack + DWM

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SAQ wrote:
InfiniteReality4 was based on the same basic chips as other IRs, just with some speed-bumped and with more memory.

Looks like Bali was to be to IR what ODYSSEY was to IMPACT.


The codename matches, maybe it was the same guy who vacationed in Hawaii during IR development later went to Indonesia...

Code:
Maradona 13# hinv -vm
Graphics board: InfiniteReality
...

Maradona 15# /usr/gfx/gfxinfo
Graphics board 0 is "KONAS" graphics.
...

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The PSU fan should spin up as soon as the circuit breaker is closed. The back plastic panel is removed by pulling straight back - it will snap off and the plastic clips are fairly robust. The screws will then be obvious. ;) You can poke at the circuit breaker and mains lines going into the PSU (sometimes called off line switcher) with a multimeter.

Once you get the OLS working you can then track down the POKB error. POKB means a 1.5v or 3.3v regulator has faulted... but I would only worry about it if/when it happens again. (POKA is 5v or 12v fault). More details here http://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/ ... l#POKAPOKB

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Use a continuity tester to figure out where the mains go into the OLS. (i.e. without being plugged in). If you still need help figuring this out, I can post pictures or even a video on youtube, maybe by the end of the week. It's somewhat annoying that this is the one piece of the system (OLS connections) I don't have any pictures of, and I haven't had the ass-end of the machine apart in close to 5 years. IIRC my Onyx has the 2400w OLS because of the IR graphic but I believe the connections should be identical (it's been a few years since I had it apart, although it was up and running quake and bzflag just the other day :) they are fantastic machines... sadly the only monitor I have (at the moment) is an old 27" sony trinitron TV. Great TV, but the resolution is low for a computer screen :D )

FWIW I run mine on 120v, there are pros and cons either way, I've run it on 240v before but not recently... EU doesn't have the double-tap breaker panels like here so good luck with that ;)

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better watch out! I'm in a zappa funk lately!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Oo2zzwQCg
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I probably have at least 12 breakers in my panel here and I have just a 2-bedroom apartment. like, the clothes dryer (240v) has one, the oven (240v), a/c (240v), etc (120v), all the receptacles in each room(120v...), the bathrooms, etc, etc... it adds up.

The vast majority of distributions we did (in canada) were 600/347v. In the US it is all 400/208v, along with most of the equipment in the datacenter. so pretty much everything needed a transformer at some point. It's also not uncommon to have a 600/400 transformer, then the ups (from the US of course), then a 400/600 transformer :roll:

I never had to do anything with the residential breaker panel in the EU, but it looked like a regular single-leg 240v breaker panel to me. Of course.. 'not at home' was a different story ;)
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Anyways, I can't say for sure if it is better or worse for the OLS to be run at 120 vs. 240v. The power rating on 013-1592-002 is 2400W at 200V but only 1500W at 115V, if there is multiple RMs, for example, the system requires 240v. Theoretically, the lower current at 240v will put less stress on the primary, but if there is an insulation breakdown due to aging, it might be nasty even if it otherwise runs fine on 120v.

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I'm a newb. but part of our "warm up" soundtrack was st. alfonzos... when I was in high school... and you say pop like it's a bad thing! I'm a drummer. I like 4/4 time. and 3/4 and 7/8. none of this 17/19 stuff...
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Isn't 13/8 the same as just alternating 4/4 and 7/8 ? Can you provide a recording? ;)
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Our bass drum tech / PA sound guy was big into FZ. He talks like FZ with the same accent and everything. "great googly-moogly!"
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I pulled the OLS out of my :Onyx: and took some pictures. I have an Onyx, but all "everready" desksides (including challenge L) should be the same. The mains voltage comes in through the connector on the left (looking at the back of the machine), and the DC and signal comes out the right. The top pin is "hot" (what it is called in north america), the middle pin is "neutral", the bottom pin is "earth". With the breaker closed, all 3 should be a closed circuit all the way to the end of the cord that plugs into the receptacle (should check out the cord too ;) ) I'm adding some extra pictures for posterity...
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Here's the other side of the OLS:
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Here is where the 48V and OLS signal goes into the system backplane:
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Here's where the power for the SCSI devices comes out, as well as power for the fan and the connection to the system controller interface:
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To remove the large panel covering the backplane and system controller (and whatever else is in the back of a challenge L, I honestly don't know. If you want to provide a picture that would be interesting for me). Anyways, it helps to not remove the two screws on the bottom, just loosen them halfway so they can prop up the panel once all the other screws are out.
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(mine is also in the living room ;) but I live alone, at least for now)
It sure would suck if the POKB is caused by the IP25 :( It could also be the system controller.

If you want to hear what the healthy system should sound like, you can check out this video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-iQ_AqEJjk (this is my old youtube channel so don't bother messaging or commenting, my current channel is /themightynutmeg )

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After deciding that I would jump into FZ's works, and not knowing with which album to begin, I simply :D acquired ;) his compleet (more-or-less) works in lossless format:

While Apostrophe' is still one of my favourites, and Overnite Sensation as well (especially the flow of "Camarillo Brillo"), the technical awesomeness the polymodal "Rhymin' Man" (Broadway The Hard Way), and switching style two bars at a time is really amazing, and the irony of doing something like that over a C&W bassline.

It's a fairly severe case of "far too much good stuff" until I can actually listen to it all... Of course I tried Weasels after sky's recommendation and it was thoroughly enjoyable but demanding. I made the mistake of trying to multitask while playing "Didja Get Any Onya?".. and pretty much just sat and listened the rest of the album..

I haven't heard stuff like this in years.. Not since drum corps days.. where we would be occasionally ordered to "now play that in Ab Phrygian"... not sure if that's a marimbist thing or just a weird drumline thing..

‎"at this very moment on the stage
we have drummer "A" playing in 7/8
drummer "B" playing in 3/4
the bass playing in 3/4
the organ playing in 5/8
the tambourine playing in 3/4
and the alto sax...blowing his nose..."
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Wow! I love it! The options page saddens me, I want some of those RM6-64 and a DG4-8. And ASO. and the list goes on... :P

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hamei wrote: If you can point out any significant differences between chimpanzees Twittering away in the trees four million years ago and "social networking" I'll happily kiss your hairy black treeborne ass.

Does society want/need anything different?
You eat Cadillacs; Lincolns too... Mercurys and Subarus.
frankblues wrote: I should be clearer. I think Tim Berners Lee and a NeXT box (rumored to be the one he wrote the WWW browser on) at the Olympics is inherently cool. That the American commentators didn't know who he was is pretty lousy.


But the American commentators are historically always lousy and kudos to Hope Solo (ex. especially football commentary) for finally saying something* about it. I haven't watched the 2012 ceremony (yet) but I remember for the Beijing ceremony in 2008 I simply seeked out a bittorrent from a network without commentary because the broadcast commentary where I was, was nails-on-chalkboard annoying.

Anyways, I will be for-sure looking for the cube when I watch it because that is totally awesomesauce IMO.


*added:
You eat Cadillacs; Lincolns too... Mercurys and Subarus.
It would be interesting to hear from all the professional UI people on here about the tabletization of everything. It seems to me that forcing the (WIMP-y) PC into the (tile-y) tablet world is the same mistake in reverse that the early tablet people made of trying to make it WIMP-y (think Windows CE).
The mac air was sold as sort of an ipad-with-a-keyboard, at least the early 11" that I have, that was the video that sold me on it. They later took a lot of the ideas in iOS and put it in lion. So I also have an ipad (1st generation) and an old 9" symbol tablet (about 1.5 inch thick, but also waterproof dustproof etc, P3 800mhz, etc) that runs windows XP. All of these machines tend to work very well with regards to the interface. Different, but work well none the less.

Mac OS X developing toolset is over looked. Outside of iOS app developing you don't hear much about folks digging into what OS X has to offer and pretty much for free (once you own a mac).
For my thesis project I used an iphone as a host to a wireless footy monitor of sorts (using an ant transceiver to the 30pin connector). iOS is pretty cool but it definitely takes a lot of adjusting, especially for the likes of me, who's focus revolves around feet, shoes, (to a lesser extent, sensors, analog, and microcontrollers); and most definitely not software... but it was done, workable, and very reliable (never crashed on us) in the end. It sure beats having to carry around a laptop when running, or running on a treadmill..
You eat Cadillacs; Lincolns too... Mercurys and Subarus.
ClassicHasClass wrote:
Sadly, I don't think "kids today" (get off my lawn) are as interested in programming as my generation was.

There are a lot more kids today that are into computer programming then there were back in the stone ages (continues to dance on your lawn). There's just... peculiarly enough... people who use computers today without being into programming, which tends to muddy up the waters a bit. Going from 99% of computer users being able to code programs, to maybe 5% or so... but the number of programmers is much bigger.

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astouffer wrote:
jan-jaap wrote:
FYI: I've tried to de-solder a component from an IO4 once and even with a professional desoldering station is was absolutely not happening. Those PCBs are simply too thick, you will destroy the traces on the top layer before the inside gets warm enough.


Ever try a heat gun?

A real hot air soldering tool is a good investment and you will be hard pressed to go back to a heat gun after using one. However, in this case you might need to double-fist with one of each.

You want a lot of localized heat very quickly. Maybe even try a plumber's propane torch. I wonder what sort of damage you could do with the proper wavy-reflow soldering oven. Or even one of those ovens the deli uses to toast sandwiches (yum!)

(edit: added thoughts)
Ideally, you want as much heat in as small a point as possible. Spreading the heat, having too much heat applied before the solder point melts, will likely result in SAQ's dire predicition of de-laminating the board. I used to have a 150w soldering gun which would be an ideal candiate.

SGI advises solder rework on Onyx boards in their own diagnostic tools (irsaudit):
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DIAG                Replace DG board; repair by reworking flawed ASIC.

There might be some hints in the service manual. But admittedly, the IR boards are not quite as... manly... as the Ebus boards proper (no VRMs, for starters, and more SMD bits).

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SAQ wrote:
alexott wrote:
zizban wrote:
GLterminal does rock...too bad it doesn't work real well on intel.

For OS X 10.7 and upper (without Rosetta) one may use Cathode .


Hmm...Interesting... I hope that the concept of building UIs around the concepts shown in movies doesn't go any farther. Especially not to the GNOME/KDE developers.

Retina-compatible, too! How wonderfully ironic!

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At that price you could get the macbook pro.

For some reason, I was expecting this to be cheaper than a PC...

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"InfiniteReality Graphics - Power Through Complexity"
I'm all fine n' dandy with them coming out with a new model... 20% lighter and slimmer, faster processor, slightly bigger screen, whatever. Stuff to be expected. But how on earth can they call this thing the second coming of Jesus when there isn't a single thing it does, that the old model can't do?

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What a stupid fiasco. Why do you people up up with this horseshit ? Does anyone think that Apple has no idea how many phones they will probably sell ? They didn't have enough time to prepare ? They can't afford to stock product ? They are too fucking stupid to manage a retail operation ?
Apple knows exactly what they are doing, and they do it very well. This is how they end up with all the money in the world.

Although I'm starting to figure out what these .panic.plist files mean on my 4S, so hopefully I can get it to stop crashing soon (not jailbroken, but with developer profiles; for my footstrike datalogger project) Everything is pointing to skype.app, I deleted that and the phone has been working for almost 48 hours now... what a bunch of plonkers.

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I tried lion, and lasted about a month before I went back to 10.6. I use FCPX as well and I actually like that (but only casually, I use adobe PrEl 10 on windows xp at work)

I also still use windows xp and irix 6.5.22, so 10.6 is very modern by comparison..

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"InfiniteReality Graphics - Power Through Complexity"
GeneratriX wrote: Hello there!

About the subject The Monks... oh well... I guess I'll need some kind of lobotomy to remove from my brain "I Can Do Anything You Like" and "Space Fruit" among other songs... how the heck they were shielded from me for so many years? Tanked music before the tanked-anything age? :D

Never had too much interest for punk/ska movement, and now I hear them and I like a good chunk of their music. Good! I want more! Maybe along the rest of the weekend, maybe not... we'll see. Time to sleep a bit!

Keep adding. All the best,
Diego

I'm slowly uploading this album to youtube, since it apparently doesn't exist at all anymore. This was one of my father's favourite groups. He saw them twice in Ottawa and also in Toronto (about 4 hours journey by car). One of the shows, they did a 5-minute intro to this song, with lots of fog and other special effects, shivvvering and whispering, and that eerie solo guitar wailing riffs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0cV3qZ1mpA
Google: Don't Be Evil. Apple: Don't Be Greedy. Microsoft: Don't Be Stupid.