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I've had an iPhone 3GS since August and the only thing I hate is that I have to pay Apple $100/year to develop software myself for my own device. My next phone will be Android based. I'm on Rogers in Canada and their network can handle the iPhone. We have 1/10th the USA's population though.

I smiled at the chair joke and the moustache app. It's nice they laugh at themselves! Most CEOs would not allow that. Microsoft's marketing videos have never been stellar, but who really cares?

yikes didn't mean to stir the pot so much. as i said:

I disagree. Most users don't even know it's easy to install a new OS in the first place and get their computer ready to run. Most users don't know about drivers; namely how to identify hardware and what to do once identified. Since Linux hardware support is built into the kernel and modern...

Okay back on topic... I'll say it once more, this time with a pretty graph so it's clear: what's good for MS is good for Apple (is good for the industry).

The feeling that people here act like high school girls in some kind of Microsoft clique? actually ... :rolleyes:

For people who prefer the CLI and learn to use it, they know how to get help with it. That's all I'm saying. I'm not saying everyone should use Arch or Gentoo and love pacman or portage. I don't need to drop to the command line to do that stuff in Ubuntu or Windows, nor do I want to. If PC...

Snow Leopard was a chance to do some spring cleaning. They changed as little as possible because they wanted it to be like the transition from PPC -> Intel, where they kept the look almost the same to make it seem like less of a radical change. They cleaned up the UI a little such as keyboard...

http://www.gurufocus.com/news.php?id=71513 Compare that to, say, IBM: For comparison here's MS: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft $236 billion. Apple is between Google and MS. Apple is doing just fine. It seems that what's good for MS is good for Apple...

How do you know to open google and search for nvidia driver? How do you know to install a driver at all? If someone takes the time to learn to use the CLI they know how to get help their as well. It's silly to argue that what you are familiar with is easier and more obvious and discoverable...

Almost everyone here has an agenda and is either a troll or only looks at things through their eyes. My work involves unix and the only way to make Windows usable for my work is to install Linux in VirtualBox. On the road I don't want to worry about Linux on a notebook (sleep, battery life...

Proprietary drivers are against the model of the Linux kernel. This is really an unfortunate situation because kernel development model is fantastic for kernel devel, but bad for integrating with the real world state of video cards which is dominated by proprietary drivers, a model which is not...

Been using Linux for almost 10 years now. Several of those years I used Linux exclusively on my desktop and servers, these days I mix in OS X on my notebook and Windows for media centre stuff. Who cares what works for everyone else? If Linux works for you use it, no need to force it on others...

You guys are all hilarious. I can't get over the groupthink on this site. Apple nets roughly 30% profit these days. Think about that for a minute while you go check what some publicly traded company you think doesn't suck pulls in percentage wise. Number of Macs sold is up 10+% over Q3 last...

TL;DR: I'm not trying to say OS X is perfect, but in a world of shitty software Apple does ok. A fellow canuck. :) At least someone gets it. Who cares if it's shiny, what's under the hood? Every modern desktop OS is (or can be) shiny: Win7, Linux + e17 ... or compiz if you like that sort...

What's with all the Mac hate? When Windows is easy to use it's good, but for OS X it's bad? I'm a developer and think that OS X is awesome. It's unix with proper package managers and all the other \*nix goodies you are used to. X11 out of the box so you can run useful apps like tcpdump...

The first rule of Apple is, you don't talk about Apple.

i could probably find a place for this box.

You could try upgrading the BIOS to see if it helps. I think it sounds like a bum fan. Since it's a Noctua and it's on a newer machine it should be under warranty (if it is indeed what's broken).

Congrats videomasterz, hope you had a great christmas in the new place!

It doesn't sound stupid at all to get the 45nm part, if it's worth $50 to you for the reduced vcore (thus heat). If the box is doing media stuff SSE4.1 might come in handy down the road.

What were you doing to stress the system when it hit 75C? If it was IntelBurnTest/linpack I wouldn't worry so much as you'll never duplicate that kind of load. If it was a prime calculation or folding then 75C does seem a little high, but not dangerous.

Great OC, below stock vcore to boot! My Q9450 takes 1.376v for 3.8ghz (CPUz load).

Comparing the Wikipedia pages for Core 2 (E7200) and Pentium Dual-Core (E5200) reveals that the e5200 is 1M of cache, SSE4.1, and 266mhz on the FSB shy of being a Core 2, despite sharing the same architecture and resulting clock speeds.

RAID isn't a backup, even if Asus decided to call it "backup mode". You need to schedule backups because if you delete something by mistake or a virus destroys your user folder those changes will be mirrored to the 2nd drive instantly. If a drive fails your machine will keep running. That is...

I like OS X but that image makes it look like a menu on the right, some dock type thing on the left and a regular 3D-looking dock on the bottom, drawn in a way that mimics 3D depth. It looks like NeXT with a few more angles.

The Windows software is flaky and I don't like that enabling the boot ROM causes disks attached to it not to show up in Windows (or the BIOS!). I haven't had any data corruption but I still trust the ICH10R more.

Everything else about the P45 boards was rushed to market, why take the time to do something as unimportant as data storage correctly? :p

In my experience the Drive Xpert stuff can be flaky. I'd stick to the ICH10R until you use all 6 of those ports.

Lower your Performance Level (tRD) to the lowest you can. Probably 5-7 at your clocks. My P5Q-E sets the PL kind of high on auto.

My 8800gt wasn't compatible with the BIOS that shipped with my ep45-ds3r. I had to boot w/ a PCI video card and update the BIOS. (if I had another PCI-e video card it might have worked, PCI is just what happened to be available)

The guitar isn't my thing either.... but drumming on Rock Band is close enough to banging on a real 5-piece kit that it is fun as hell. Maybe you need to try a different instrument, or vocals. Then again it's not for everyone, so yeah. No need to be a dick about it though. Everyone has a...

I'm not fond of computer <=> car analogies. However, you did take lessons even if they were informal and from a parent or friend. You learned basic safety of the road: mirror & shoulder checks, seat belts, chains in deep snow & ice, small kids in the back, who has the right of way, and so on...

university != comp sci wing of a university, sorry if you misunderstood.

Vista FTW? "1990s technology... today!"

You're right, no one smart uses Macs for real work. There are no successful Cocoa programmers. I mean, how could anyone get work done an a platform that comes with Apache, OpenSSH, zsh, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, XCode, and numerous other development tools right on the installation disc?

Could You Have Passed the 8th Grade in 1895?

True there are always going to be the ones who allow everything or plain get confused. It should be optional, perhaps the first time it alerts you it could have a prominent "fuck right off and never bug me again" button. A lot of people would quickly allow sites they frequent and it would be...

It's not like Apple to release a tweaker or modder's dream box. I wish they would spin-off a subsidiary or something to target us though. I too feel that they're ignoring a big segment in the $700-2000 price range. They need something alongside the iMac, something upgradeable with single CPU...

If you believe this you have been living under a rock since OS X was released. Since that time many a *nix geek and even a number of Win NT buffs have switched to Apple's platform. MS isn't the only one with awesome (and popular*) development tools anymore. Not for a while now. Remember that OS...