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by Bluebeetle69
Fri Apr 02, 2004 12:54 pm
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: EOC overtake in 7 days, but can we hold off Team MacOSX?
Replies: 48
Views: 24382

Remember the colours do not remain constant.
If you look at future production at current rates the charts are the same.
both list OSX as being just under 6500000 and EOC at 5700000 SPCR are just under OSX.
by Bluebeetle69
Fri Apr 02, 2004 6:57 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: EOC overtake in 7 days, but can we hold off Team MacOSX?
Replies: 48
Views: 24382

"Seems like EOC has picked up the pace more than the OSX bunch". Where is you info from? EOC put in average 25K ppd OSX are at almost 30kppd The overtake time for EOC with respect to OSX has dropped to 7 days (from 9) in 24 hrs With the momentum OSX have I think they'll overtake SPCR in 6 days and E...
by Bluebeetle69
Fri Apr 02, 2004 5:47 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: EOC overtake in 7 days, but can we hold off Team MacOSX?
Replies: 48
Views: 24382

Quote A dual Opteron should run around £1500... Where?? seriously i'd be interested if a Vendor could supply me with one for as little as that. I looked into getting an Oppie for my photo business and the cheapest quote I got was from firm called Armari (I think) and they wanted just shy of £5000. T...
by Bluebeetle69
Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:39 am
Forum: SPCR's Folding@Home
Topic: Alert: Team MacOSX shows life
Replies: 184
Views: 122332

what about Vectorworks Rusty? according to this website: http://www.architosh.com/news/2004-01/2004c-0125-apple-autodesk.phtml vectorworks has about a quarter of the users of Autocad, at around 400,000. and is the No 2 player i don't know much about CAD just what I read. Also they seem to think one ...
by Bluebeetle69
Sat Mar 20, 2004 2:21 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: What are you listening to right now?
Replies: 4309
Views: 2598763

Joy Division- love will tear us apart
by Bluebeetle69
Tue Mar 16, 2004 12:13 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: What are you listening to right now?
Replies: 4309
Views: 2598763

Pizzicato five— "twiggy twiggy"

African tribesmen remixed by Rusty Egan— "Burundi Black"

Matthew Sweet "100% Fun"

The Stone Roses "The Stone Roses"
by Bluebeetle69
Sun Mar 14, 2004 4:48 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: What are you listening to right now?
Replies: 4309
Views: 2598763

Today
it's been

fIREHOSE— Flyin' the Flannel

Thirteenth Floor Elevators— Easter Everywhere

Thelonius Monk— Bluenote Years

Tav Falco's Panther Burns— Behind the Magnolia Curtain

Big Star— Radio City

Mike watt— Ball Hog or Tugboat?
by Bluebeetle69
Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:37 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Would You Get A Mac?
Replies: 167
Views: 135343

BTW on a side note, are apple ibooks/powerbooks noisy/audible?

the ibooks are passive cooled i believe (mine is) you can hear the HD at startup but thats about it.
by Bluebeetle69
Thu Mar 11, 2004 6:21 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Would You Get A Mac?
Replies: 167
Views: 135343

Film makers moving to avid like this you mean: The film cost mountain done on a Mac http://www.apple.com/pro/film/murch/ or these http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/mar/01shake.html http://www.apple.com/pro/video/swaffield/ http://www.apple.com/pro/video/romanek/ http://www.apple.com/uk/education/...
by Bluebeetle69
Thu Mar 11, 2004 5:12 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Would You Get A Mac?
Replies: 167
Views: 135343

First off both Mac and Pc are pretty good with PS(i have both) Where the mac scores is with Colorsync, let me explain. If you open a document in a workspace say Adobe RGB edit it and save it, then drag the Tiff onto the Quark App shortcut to open Quark, how do you know the colour will be the same? O...
by Bluebeetle69
Wed Mar 10, 2004 3:28 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Would You Get A Mac?
Replies: 167
Views: 135343

how about this then

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5171944.html

I've just got a couple of tiny 160gb SATA's :D
by Bluebeetle69
Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:45 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Would You Get A Mac?
Replies: 167
Views: 135343

EDIT: Nevermind, I just noticed that it was complete marketing BS on Tyan's part. 2GB Dimms don't exist yet yes they do crucial put them up on their website this week!! http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/listmodule.asp?module=DDR+PC3200&Attrib=Package&cat=RAM BTW the memory controllers are similar on b...
by Bluebeetle69
Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:41 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Would You Get A Mac?
Replies: 167
Views: 135343

The question: Why does Apple claim only 8GB max. on memory for the G5? This is not meant to be insulting or anything, but I just took a quick look at the numbers. Can the G5 accept 2GB Dimms? yes it can support Way over 16gb but it needs non-error correction memory. The 2GB non Ecc parts are rare an...
by Bluebeetle69
Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:38 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Would You Get A Mac?
Replies: 167
Views: 135343

"And depending on your motherboard, you can REALLY load up on RAM (check out the Tyan Thunder K8W or K8S)". Tyan thunder 8 Ram slots supports Max 16Gb PC2700 (333mhz) G5 8 RAM slots supports Max 16gb of PC3200 (400mhz) I have both a Dual G5 2ghz and a Dual Xeon 2.4. The Intel is faster at Raw file p...
by Bluebeetle69
Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:14 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Would You Get A Mac?
Replies: 167
Views: 135343

Sorry Joe I use lots of different Os's OSX Linux Red Hat and of course Win XP I just guess i hate people going over the same old point update rubbish. Yes 10.0 was a Beta, Everyone admits that even Apple, thats why 10.1.5 was (and still is) a FREE update http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/m...
by Bluebeetle69
Wed Mar 10, 2004 7:49 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Would You Get A Mac?
Replies: 167
Views: 135343

Microsoft don't charge for service pack updates, only for full scale O/S updates. M$, for all their sins, don't try and screw customers for basic updates to their O/S like Mac do. PATHETIC Do you think Apple charge for service packs?? Basic Updates my arse!! ignorance is not clever little boy And do...
by Bluebeetle69
Wed Mar 10, 2004 7:40 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Would You Get A Mac?
Replies: 167
Views: 135343

I'll stop being pedantic when you stop being obtuse!! look Mac OS went Os 7 to Os8 to Os9 to 10.0 to 10.1 to 10.2 to 10.3 Microsoft went win 3.11 to win 95 to win 98 to win 98se to win me to win xp just because Apple now use a different numbering system doesn't mean they are point increases!!! what ...
by Bluebeetle69
Wed Mar 10, 2004 6:11 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Would You Get A Mac?
Replies: 167
Views: 135343

Apple charge people for each incremental update to the O/S? They don't I have yet to pay for ANY update. I started off with 10.3.0 then updated for free to 10.3.1 then updated again for FREE to 10.3.2. 10.3.3 is out in a few weeks and it will be free 10.4 (out next year is not an incremental increas...
by Bluebeetle69
Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:00 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Would You Get A Mac?
Replies: 167
Views: 135343

Quote "One reason (probably the main one) for me NOT buying a Mac is the whole thing is closed" " Mac is closed hardware, closed software". I would agree that the hardware is closed, but the software has more in common with Linux than Windows being based on open source "BSD" It's open core is called...
by Bluebeetle69
Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:43 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Would You Get A Mac?
Replies: 167
Views: 135343

An open-ended question to the Job-ites: If Mac's are faster, easier, prettier, and more secure....why is Apple's market share permanently in the sub 5% range? Well by the same token Mcdonalds must make better food than a Michelin recommended restaurant. The most commercially successful products are ...
by Bluebeetle69
Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:00 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Would You Get A Mac?
Replies: 167
Views: 135343

Oh Dear!!

Quote
"selling relatively inexpensive hardware that's been marked up considerably".

Take a look at the inexpensive hardware in the link below :D

http://www.billnoll.com/g5/010/

please post a pic of the internals of your PC
by Bluebeetle69
Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:55 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Would You Get A Mac?
Replies: 167
Views: 135343

For your Info it's not an established fact that Xerox invented the GUI. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=On_Xerox,_Apple_and_Progress.txt&topic=Software%20Design&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date on this page it lists the innovations that apple introduced with it's GUI (smalltal...