Quote: Originally posted by Mallrat: thanks for the support everyone. Adrian, nice to hear from someone that can relate. I'm glad you're doing well, and I hope to join…

It really begs the question... What will Apple be like post-Jobs? I know anyone could technically run the company, few people have the reality distortion field like Jobs. He can …

No Jobs, no iMac? Boy you people have limited minds!

Quote: Originally posted by Eriamjh: No Jobs, no iMac? Boy you people have limited minds! Who said that?

Hey Mallrat, My father was diagnosed and treated successfully in 1984 for HD and will soon be celebrating his 62 birthday. So hang in there and I agree there is nothing like keepi…

Some posters here seem to think Jobs has Hodgkins, he doesn't. It's a milder form of Pancreatic cancer. People are confusing that with Paul Allen who has HD.

No confusion here. Just wishing Mallrat well on a serious challenge of a, albeit different yet still a, form of cancer. Cheers

I had surgery for prostate cancer in Feb and found the recovery to be far easier than I feared. I would bet that Steve was out of the hospital within a week and home recovering. …

Quote: Originally posted by kenaustus: I had surgery for prostate cancer in Feb and found the recovery to be far easier than I feared. I would bet that Steve was out of…

Phil Shiller's doing it. He's a great speaker too so the keynote should still be great.

Quote: Originally posted by rareflares: Phil Shiller's doing it. He's a great speaker too so the keynote should still be great. I wouldn't say he is great... Stev…

Schiller can be effective - he's emotional and funny when he wants to be (witness WWDC 2003 as a good example). He has done keynotes before (at the past two NAB conferences, if I …

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!

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5549064/ "The bizarre case of the bone-eating worms Marine worms dine on whalebone, and males live inside the females This female worm, from the newly …