Computers and Related Hardware/Software

bmwracer wrote:Ugh, this knucklehead at work decided to play around with the hub in our lab and ended up bringing down the entire network in the company... Grrr. :smack:

I got one word for that.

it's spelled as...

M-O-R-O-N

yume wrote:This is irrelevant to any of the previous discussions, but......

I'm thinking of buying a Mac (probably around the time Leopard comes out because I'm not too sure if I want to be running OS X, Rosetta and all that with the new Intel Core Duo....just because I don't trust new stuff),
....

I agree, I'd wait til at least the 2nd revision to the new Intel machines in terms of hardware. If you dont want to run Rosetta, then you'll have to wait until ALL the apps you want to run include the Universal Binarys, or have moved to the Intel specific instruction set.

1. I use an app called SDP to get streaming media (like those 30 sec commercials on J-sites), do you know if Macs have any similar media stream catchers? If so, can they catch MMS that's wma/wmv and convert to aac/mov?

Other than WMP or Real?

2. A lot of websites use this DRM thing that prevents users of OS X from enjoying multimedia, is there any other option to enjoy music vids etc. w/o PAYING on iTunes?

There are ways around EVERYTHING, and none of that BS, sony installs spyware without your consent worries.

3. Is there a Real Alternative for Mac?

Real Player? Dont use those types of media, but Real player works fine on my machine.

4. For G5 users: Is the iSight webcam compatible with other chat progs outside of iChat (because I think that requires a .Mac account! >_<)? It'd be nice to use it with MSN Messenger or Yahoo! (even though Yahoo! never seems to accomodate Mac OS X....only 9, which is weird).?

the iSight is way overpriced. A logitech webcam is cheaper and works the same.

Thanks for your help. I have other questions about data DVDs, etc., but I've already asked 4, hahaha ^^;;

you could probably get most of your answers here.

Thanks for your advice & link KRIM...

BTW, for iSight, the new G5 and Intel Core Duo come WITH the built-in iSight webcams. There's no way in hell I'd buy anything like that from Apple--isn't everything else already expensive enough? *lol*

Real Alternative is the "alternative" to using Real Player--gives you the codec possibility to play Real media without installing all of their crap.

littlemissfab wrote:I got one word for that.

it's spelled as...

M-O-R-O-N

Thing is, the fool didn't think he caused the problem, even though once we unplugged his hub, everything was restored. :shakehead: :smack:

bmwracer wrote:
Thing is, the fool didn't think he caused the problem, even though once we unplugged his hub, everything was restored. :shakehead: :smack:

try this on him to 'puffs

:boot:

seems someone ordered a 2.2TB NAS for our department to backup all our data.

nice :drooling:

I might buy a NAS case for the 250GB....but I would be afraid of storing stuff on it......and it's nowhere near 2.2TB.

well, get another 9 of those 250's, use 2 as parity drives and you'll be up to speed :mrgreen:

too bad i can't store my doramas on it.. :hehe:

dochira wrote:
I figured someone must have written it, so I checked:

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_details.php?plugin=webui

So far, it looks good, except I didn't fully configure it correctly. So I can't add new torrents right now, but I'll fix that once I get home later.

Hey, did you ever get it to work?

I can't seem to get thru my router.. im using dydns.org, and it keep reporting my IP as 192.168.X.X... not my external.. :bleh:

krim wrote:
Hey, did you ever get it to work?

I can't seem to get thru my router.. im using dydns.org, and it keep reporting my IP as 192.168.X.X... not my external.. :bleh:

It works for me. The only thing is the computer that I use to access the webpage remotely needs to have Java installed.

bleh, im sure it's a router issue. :grumble:

It sounds like it...

I tried...and I failed.

Q decided to wait on buying the HD.

krim wrote:

Hey, did you ever get it to work?

I can't seem to get thru my router.. im using dydns.org, and it keep reporting my IP as 192.168.X.X... not my external.. :bleh:

Is dydns.org configured on your computer? If so, it needs to be on your router. Most routers have a setting somewhere for that.

Or trying going to the dyndns website. It should see the external IP there.

tabana wrote:
Is dydns.org configured on your computer? If so, it needs to be on your router. Most routers have a setting somewhere for that.

that may be what i forgot. :headscratch:
:banghead: :banghead:

hey hey hey.. i have a question

i can't open Picasa on my laptop!!! like seriously.. i install it.. it installs.. then when i open it.. it crashes..

what's up with that?

Weird. I know it uses Internet Explorer as its framework. Either something is missing or there's something like an anti-spyware... :headscratch: Just guessing.

There's a help thread there: http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=0

Why am I getting this error message: "Fatal error, Picasa cannot continue"?

check this weird shiet out...it's not a major issue but i thought i'd ask those tech savvy individuals who frequent this thread...

noticed a while back that when i double click the my computer icon on my windows pc...the amount of memory used by each hard drive no longer appears underneath the hard drive icons...it just says local disk...wtf is up with that?