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    Performance with Google apps

    A pretty simple question which probably has 400 answers, none of them conclusive, but I'll ask anyway:

    The other day, I was helping someone at work in a task which involved them logging into...
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    Re: App suggestion: Stellarium

    LOL!

    Seriously, the next time I'm at compusa, I'm going to install this on their test machine with the 30" CD. You really have to turn your head from side to side when using that thing while...
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    Poll: Re: Do you Dual boot?

    All my machines are single boot--my laptop (a dv4000) came out of the box and got breezy installed w/o ever booting into windows :-) Took me a week to figure out why my dvd player wouldn't...
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    Re: App suggestion: Stellarium

    This has to be one of the nicest software packages I've looked at recently...thank you so much for pointing it out. These developers deserve some serious $ I think...did you see that one of them has...
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    Re: People are dissapointed at Apple

    I think this is false, and the perception that its true has something to do with their computers being white and shiny--thats what seemed to do it for me anyway. It used to be because they were about...
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    Re: People are dissapointed at Apple

    IMHO, the second claimed overlooked point is no longer true of Apple and hasn't been for some time. There was a pretty wide ranging study done just recently that indicated Apple portables in...
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    Re: Songbird-like application for *nix?

    FWIW,

    Songbird runs perfectly in Wine right now if you want a preview of the native version still forthcoming--and don't want to taint your soul by using an evil OS...no wait :-)
  8. Thread: Gtkpod .99.2

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    Re: Gtkpod .99.2

    FWIW,

    I just put a page with packages up here

    I finally managed to compile these with working video support, and figured they might help someone out.
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    HOWTO: Video on iPod w/packages

    I, probably like you, am tired of trying to track down the exact CVS snapshots, compile them in the proper order with the proper interlinking flags all to get what I consider to be essential...
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    Re: Gtkpod .99.2

    Would you mind if I posted (or if you'd like to post!) the compiled GTKpod over at my iPod and OSS site (link in my sig)?

    It really is a HUGE pain to compile and the last time I did it, I didn't...
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    Re: OSX86 Project Shut Down

    Just as a disclosure, I've had more than a dozen macs since 1984 and I still own one now. I've also spent quite a bit of time at OSX86 project. I own OSX Tiger in two forms: I have an install of...
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    Alephone

    I don't see much around here about it but there is a fantastic old-skool FPS with a great storyline that has been open-sourced: the Marathon series.

    More info and D/L here:
    ...
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    Re: iTunes 6.0 running in Wine

    You're entitled to your opinion, of course. I manage 30 or so podcasts and ~120G of music. For that, I haven't found anything that works better than iTunes.

    And besides, the point of the post was...
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    iTunes 6.0 running in Wine

    Hey all,


    In case you missed it, Frank's Corner has the 411 on getting iTunes 6 running in the new version of iTunes in the newest wine:

    http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=itunes6

    You'll...
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    Poll: Re: How do you iPod?

    Yes you have. And for all of you who don't know, endershadow has done an INCREDIBLE service for the OSS ipoding community in putting together an excellent script and HOWTO on getting our video ipods...
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    Poll: Re: How do you iPod?

    I think I've been through all of the possibilities twice. I think if I were just doing music, I'd get by with gtkpod and rhythmbox--though random losses of file databases are really annoying when you...
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    Re: HowTo: Encode Video for iPod Video

    I was just setting up a machine this morning and also noticed that libgpod is missing from the repositories. I wonder what the heck is up. If you're interested, its pretty easy to build from source:...
  18. Re: Thinking about going to OSX. Please attack me

    Amen. Everyone should spend a little time with the OS9 finder to see the finder done right.
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    Re: Podcasting from Ubuntu

    Hey dkitty, do you have a link to your feed?

    I'm getting ready to get some university faculty set up for podcasting, and I think we too are going to use audacity. Like most other things, its so...
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    Re: HowTo: Encode Video for iPod Video

    Oh man do you rock ender...

    I'm thinking that this weekend if I can get some time, I'm going to try to put together a script which will pull video out of my MythTV folder at a specified time and...
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    Re: "No CL" challenge?

    Odd how the messages got mixed up...something to do with the database downage or something.

    Anyway, I've been keeping notes of when I have to head to the command line and I've found a couple of...
  22. Re: HOWTO: MythTV with Hauppauge PVR-150 on Breezy

    Hey, thats super-catchy!

    I know this is asking a whole bunch, but if you feel like it, document the process of getting SKY working--I've heard it really is a pain in the ****. If you get things...
  23. Re: HOWTO: MythTV with Hauppauge PVR-150 on Breezy

    LOL! Okay Richard, who's directions are you following, theirs or mine :-)

    In an ideal world, I'd do quite a few things differently (correcting spelling etc. for starters). So if your point is that...
  24. Re: Thinking about going to OSX. Please attack me

    Not to burst anyone's bubble, but it was actually a Mini which finally broke the dam for me: I sold mine and ended many years of being a Mac owner. The internal drive was so slow I think my G4 400...
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    Re: "No CL" challenge?

    You know I suppose I just assume that everyone does use it alot...perhaps I'm wrong. It would be interesting to see what different usage patterns are. I know that I have a tendency to open a terminal...
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