With Dell's volume, they could really do some damage to the general PC industry if they straighten out their customer service. It really is a nightmare the way it is now. I've own…

Positive note - this should work to solve the DELL problem. I agree that XP is crap but no need to reinstall. Go the ControlPanels->System->DeviceManager and DELETE the drive…

Quote: Originally Posted by kymacman My powerbook is a dream, and looks like a new dual 2.3 powermac may have to be the answer to my problems. Anyone else have similar problem…

Quote: Originally Posted by Cadaver With Dell's volume, they could really do some damage to the general PC industry if they straighten out their customer service. It really is a…

time to whip out the good'ole dell poster ... .

Quote: Originally Posted by meelk "hey I havent had anything but crap product from Apple recently, but man am I happy about it!" Did you actually read what you wrote? I k…

Quote: Originally Posted by discotronic I know exactly what I said. How many Macs have you owned? I have owned a Mac since the early 90's. I am usually on an (at most) 2 year up…

Dell's market share is huge, and they market to people who have trouble tying their shoes-or even closing the velcro straps on their shoes. So Dell gets a LOT of tech support call…

Quote: Originally Posted by foo2 Why would that make him a troll? What makes him a troll is other comments he has made. I'm not going to say that the price of Apple's ha…

Quote: Originally Posted by oyno This form of research is absolutely pointless unless all computer makers had exactly the same market share, so please stop it. I am pretty …

I bought the new Sony Ericsson K750i mobile phone for two reasons: it has a 2 megapixel camera and a slot for a Memory Stick Duo Pro up to 1GB. The screen size is 176x220 and other…

is it worth the effort? i prefer to just look at girls while waiting.

Quote: Originally Posted by Hanul Of course there are a lot of block artifacts, because of the compression, but you can recognize the actor's faces, so it's ok. Hey, you watch i…

Well, the MPEG-4 movie is excellent. It must be the MPEG-4 to 3GP conversion. I use QT as encoder. I tried several settings, but all but the standard one failed to play on my phone…

My question is how much image are you going to get on a cellphone screen? I firmly believe that some films MUST be seen on a big screen, at least the first time, and that a small …

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter My question is how much image are you going to get on a cellphone screen? I firmly believe that some films MUST be seen on a big screen, at…

because its teh h4xx0rz 1337 thang to do.

Better to do some shorts. Like the SW cartoons or the Simpsons. Shorter and sweeter (I have a Nokia 6630 with hot swoppable mmc cards, including a 256mb with a few vids on it).

I think Randman has the better idea. Besides, animated shorts don't need nearly the resolution to be able to see what's going on. Really guys, when I watch a movie, I want to rol…

My son sat through the whole Episode IV on the phone and he enjoyed it ;-). Ok, he is a child, a big Star Wars fan, running around the house with his Darth Vader mask... Sure, the…

Sound like way too much work to get a movie onto your phone...

Yes, the bad part is, that you can't do it with a batch job (Automator anyone?), because someone has to change the DVDs. For one movie it's a simple two-step process, which takes a…

You don't have to convert it to mpeg4 first!! Use ffmpegx, it can convert directly from DVD to whatever you want, including 3gpp.

I was hoping to stop using OSXvnc.app, and start using Apple Remote Desktop for my VNC server (which I use in conjunction with x2vnc to share keyboard & mouse between several c…

I haven't had your exact problem, but I have got issues with ARD running on Panther server (Xserve) at work. I connect to the Xserve using Chicken of the VNC and it regularly stops…