Macrovision (was re: 15 Ti-Bk S-Video Out problem)

2003-11-02 Thread Taylor McLaren
MEEP! John Acuff wrote: Actually, you can thank Congress for that. They were the ones that passed the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act), under the strong influence of the MPAA, and the RIAA. Well, sort of. Macrovision has been around for quite a bit longer than the DMCA (I remember their

Silly points re: G3/Mac OS X Settlement

2003-10-29 Thread Taylor McLaren
Just a couple of small, silly points about this big kafuffle that has clogged my mailbox all day long. (Don't you people have jobs?) First of all, John Acuff wrote: What will it be next version? Native G4 machines only? That would be nice. Even with only two generations of chips on the market

Not really re: Sound Pass through in OS X, but close enough.

2003-10-03 Thread Taylor McLaren
Sound pass through is set in OS 10.2.6 (and earlier versions of OS X?) using the Audio MIDI Setup application in Applications:Utilities. Strange location for this option, I think, but there it is. This is sort of neat. When I saw that the audio setup utility gave the option of adjusting channel

Re: Interesting sound problem on TiBook

2003-08-14 Thread Taylor McLaren
MEEP! Wiebe Wilbers wrote: Possibly, or, maybe we only notice it when USING iTunes ;). Other than during music playback, the Mac doesn't make much sound by which to judge the balance. I noticed the exact same problem (on my iBook 800, 10.2.6) a couple of nights ago when I plugged in headphones

Re: Wireless Encryption

2003-08-02 Thread Taylor McLaren
Puzzling in their duality, Ryan and Amie wrote: Does anyone use WEP on their airport network? I left MacStumbler running on the train on my way home from work a couple of months back, and it picked up 60-odd networks on the way through a variety of business and residential neighbourhoods. About

Re: Wireless Encryption

2003-08-02 Thread Taylor McLaren
Again in chorus, Ryan and Amie wrote: So you are saying I should leave mine open and without WEP? Depends what has access to it, or vice-versa, hardware-wise. All of my day-to-day Internet access comes to me thanks to neighbours' open networks... if your set-up would provide that to anybody else

Re: Wallstreet start up question.

2003-03-13 Thread Taylor McLaren
MEEP! Andrew Johnson wrote: Since this is an old world machine, the os 9 loader begins and loads the software that boots os x. Just out of curiosity, when did this old world to new world (great terms, by the way) transition happen? I'm still getting used to my first Mac (an iBook 800), and