Interesting news from Siggraph. You may remember from last year... Kaydara was the company that said "Mac OS X is the [Unix] platform of the future", and that for unix they would…

My vote: good. Alias has shown interest in Mac OS X with their releases of Maya. Hopefully this acquisition will give them a sharper edge in making Maya on OS X better.

Quote: Originally posted by CD Hanks: My vote: good. Alias has shown interest in Mac OS X with their releases of Maya. Hopefully this acquisition will give them a sharp…

Undecided as of now. Alias have promised to maintain Motionbuilder on all support software and not just hook it up to Maya and dump the rest. As to what this means for OS X, I don…

As the LG stock optical drives in the Pismo die, I am trying to compile a list of replacement drives that can be placed into the bezzel (aka "universal adaptor"). For some more i…

there was also talk that the matshita ujda 710 drive also works well with little or no modification. just read about your pepboys experience and that's a damn shame. have you mad…

bstone, xlr8your mac has a great compiled list also. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/..._feedback.html Many of them are installed in the Pismo, great list and user feedback. …

Toshiba SD-R 6112 2xDVD-R 1xDVD-RW 16xCD-R It works on a Pismo. I'm doing a backup to a DVD-R as I'm writing.

I also recommend the xlr8yourmac database. After reading the posts there I decided upon a Lite On combo drive. Now there are two versions that work (that I know of). I forgot the m…

I've been given the task of rewriting some old software for a flight school. The current app was written in an old version of Omnis. One of their chief complaints is the amount of …

It sounds like you might like an interface similar to NetInfo Manager. It has an NSBrowser representing a tree hierarchy in the top half of the window, and the bottom half is an NS…

Thanks Chuck, will take a look at it, I don't frequent Netinfo Mgr too often!

- it has a wireless touch sensitive lcd with in built airport card that will enable me to read/browse in the loo. - priced at 1500 USD

They call those iBooks.

Quote: Originally posted by amsalpemkcus: - it has a wireless touch sensitive lcd with in built airport card that will enable me to read/browse in the loo. - priced at …

Quote: Originally posted by amsalpemkcus: - it has a wireless touch sensitive lcd with in built airport card that will enable me to read/browse in the loo. - priced at 1…

Quote: Originally posted by djohnson: why do you need a touch sensitive lcd??? make that a tablet/stylus combo for data entry.

Quote: Originally posted by ort888: They call those iBooks. ibooks have keypads dummy!

Quote: Originally posted by djohnson: why do you need a touch sensitive lcd??? ...in the loo?? Seriously though, the features you want are:[list=a][*]Technological…

Quote: Originally posted by amsalpemkcus: - it has a wireless touch sensitive lcd with in built airport card that will enable me to read/browse in the loo. - priced at …

Quote: Originally posted by Visnaut: ...in the loo?? Ubiquitous computing and universal thin clients will come someday, but any attempt to implement it today will be wh…

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i will take one for a christmas present

Quote: Originally posted by hayesk: I'd buy a PowerMac today - if it had dual 5GHz processors, 16GB or RAM, 1TB of hard disk space. - priced at $20 USD I think th…

We all know how well the Wintel notebook computers are doing. But seriously, considering how horribly the notebooks are selling, the added cost of the hardware, the luke warm qu…