Quote: Originally Posted by macintologist Mac fanatics enjoy ranting about how Microsoft copies ideas from Apple and about how Apple is the "innovation department" for Microso…

Quote: Originally Posted by macintologist Apple Copies Ideas From Microsoft -Sticky menus. Originally, if you clicked on a Mac menu, it appeared and then disappeared as soon as…

um, i do know one way Apple copied MS: they saw how badly Explorer sucked and they rewrote the Finder in OS X so that it sucked just as bad. na

Quote: Originally Posted by DeathMan Because Microsoft developed something, that makes it copied? RTF is an open format. Don't be stupid. Puhlease. 90% of any debates on …

Real to give away 25 songs a month Don't have access to my PC now, but the offer is not showing up on the Mac version of the website. No credit card required... wonder how long t…

and about 16 gigs free. Tried to do a simple upgrade with a few options "deselected" (the additional languages and the extra printer drivers. Didn't work. Got a message "There w…

either it's a bad install disc, although the installer checks the disk, so it'd probably tell you if that was it. or it's a hard drive problem. i installed tiger on a Rev A Titan…

Have you installed 3rd-party RAM in it? If so, it might be a case of bad RAM. This happened to me when I first moved from 9 to X. Although the machine worked generally fine under …

yeah, interesting. i do have crucial memory in the machine - but it's worked fine since 10.2. I find it hard to believe the ram would crap out or suddenly be recognized as bad ra…

HI: Here is one data point. I have installed Tiger successfully onto a Rev. A (refurbished) 17 inch powerbook. I have 512 mb of Crucial Ram installed, and have upgraded the supe…

From Macfixit.com Quote: "dmnotifyd" apparently sending Apple user information Several users have reported that an application called "dnotifyd" is sending system inform…

Hm, I don't recall this coming up. But maybe, I missed it, because I did archieve install over 10.3, so Little Snitch got deactivated. I manually re-installed it, and never had any…

Well I know in System Profile you can now send your information to Apple for troubleshooting purposes. Fortunately, I don't have that process in the background running so I can't …

Quote: Originally Posted by Eriamjh From Macfixit.com Does anybody have any more information on this? /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DMNotification.framework/Versions/A/…

Stop being so paranoid, pay for your copy.

Insteresting, he prob has iDisk sync on and didn't think about that either.

Quote: Originally Posted by piracy /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DMNotification.framework/Versions/A/Resources/dmnotifyd handles .Mac Notifications (notify.mac.com). Thus t…

E.T. phones home...he misses it.

Quote: Originally Posted by ashtoash Stop being so paranoid, pay for your copy. So one should assume that every person paranoid about Tiger phoning home with information ne…

Quote: Originally Posted by alphasubzero949 So one should assume that every person paranoid about Tiger phoning home with information never authorized by the user has pirated it…

Quote: Originally Posted by Big Mac Impressive detective work (assuming you found all this out yourself). . . I don't think it's detective work... many of us suspect that a…

Quote: Originally Posted by Stradlater Another thing is: when people are worried about phone-home apps from companies they trust, it's usually because they pirated. Or mayb…

Some people don't like their bandwidth or CPU processes being wasted doing things without permission. I don't have .Mac so why would I want my CPU to check the server? No, I don'…

Quote: Originally Posted by nonhuman Or maybe it's because they're worried that the company is heading in a direction where they'll no longer be trustworthy. Vigilance is …

Quote: Originally Posted by piracy /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DMNotification.framework/Versions/A/Resources/dmnotifyd handles .Mac Notifications (notify.mac.com). Thus t…