Recent content by nak-1

Try a quick google then and see if you can find anything in your price range!

You may want to check your phone bill to make sure that your call charges haven't suddenly got a lot more expensive...

Warning, once you have had a nice fast connection you won't want to go back....

IP - Internet Protocol IP address - an address that conforms to the Internet protocol These are displayed in the form a.b.c.d where the values of a, b, c, d can be between 0 and 255. IP addresses are associated with a network interface that is connected to the network. So whenever you connect...

This really depends on what you want to do. If your are constantly having to change value's in text config files/shell scripts etc. on some sort of *nix via the terminal vi is invaluable. For me this is mainly because I have yet to come across a terminal session where I can't run the command...

First question has to be what kind of protocol are you using for your network? If you are using appletalk switch to TCP/IP as soon as possible. Best solution, stop using an OS 9 machine as a server. Use the OS X one instead, the operating system is built for a multiple user environment unlike...

Short answer is that they do choke on space. RAM is RAM is RAM. the biggest speed bottleneck in any computer is how fast you can get data to the processor. It doesn't really matter what technology from what vendor you use they all have the same problem. This is most clearly indicated by the...

If a cancelling magnet is going to completely cancel the magnetic filed from the magnet used in the drivers in your speaker it would have to have exactly the same magnetic characteristics as the magnet used in the driver. This will never happen. What does this mean in practice? The magnetic...

Essentially any conductor will act as a magnetic shield. The best conductors are metals so you could try some kind of metal foil. However the results may be pretty variable as different metals have different properties. It is worth noting that magnetic fields drop off as a power law. And...

It's true it's resource hungry, but that's not really what I was talking about. I would agree that they need to shift the workload from the processors to the GPU on whatever card happens to be in the machine, a situation that won't be improved until the next iteration of OS X. However it in no...

Yes, but what makes it so usable is Apples undoubted skill at UI design and presenting a complete solution that just works. Best of both worlds?

Somebody got there first with adium, BrickHouse , allows much finer control of your ipfw firewall than the Mac GUI under system preferences without having to resort to Terminal.app

I beg to differ that the open source community is not thinking about Mac OS X. Fink has already been linked. However you can also head over to Gentoo where you can download a port of their 'portage' system to mac os x. The whole idea of this is that it strides towards making source code...

I find this lot quite helpfull.

Sorry, I should also add that you have declared the fuction foo properly by indicating that the values passed are pointers. Too easy to forget that one...