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    Image of CanadaStig CanadaStig
    12:34 PM

    In reply to XBMC Updates to 9.11 Camelot, Brings Awesome New Look, Improved Features
    This is the new VLC for me, includes all the codecs by default, free, open source. using it on my macbook, my win7 pc, and my xbox
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    Odin approved this comment CanadaStig was starred CanadaStig was unstarred
    Image of Odin Odin
    02:14 PM

    @CanadaStig:
    Really? I find it's just overkill on a desktop. While XMBC is god on a media PC with a remote I find it's entirely too clunky (compared to other options) if you're navigating with a mouse+keyboard.
     Reply
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    Image of Golf_Nut Golf_Nut
    12/23/09

    In reply to A Mockup of the Firefox 4 User Interface: Hello, Gorgeous!
    Anything that provides more space for actual webpages and less for toolbar features i'm all for.
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    Image of Identity Avatar Identity Avatar
    12/23/09

    In reply to A Mockup of the Firefox 4 User Interface: Hello, Gorgeous!
    I want my next firefox to be very fast and very sleek.
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    Image of Dmoralize Dmoralize
    12/23/09

    In reply to A Mockup of the Firefox 4 User Interface: Hello, Gorgeous!
    There focus should be put on making it fast again. I liked Firefox, but it got real slow compared to Chrome.
     Reply
    ID Ron Burgundy promoted this comment Dmoralize was starred Dmoralize was unstarred
    Image of atheos atheos
    12/23/09

    In reply to A Mockup of the Firefox 4 User Interface: Hello, Gorgeous!
    Cool, so they know how to combine the looks of Chrome and Safari. Too bad it still won't change their engine to Webkit.
     Reply
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    Image of Stndsh0 Stndsh0
    12/23/09

    In reply to A Mockup of the Firefox 4 User Interface: Hello, Gorgeous!
    But will it have jumplists (Windows 7 things) by default?
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    Image of Calzo Calzo
    12/23/09

    In reply to A Mockup of the Firefox 4 User Interface: Hello, Gorgeous!
    I prefer a Rosa button. 'Cause I want to click that...

    Yeah so I'm going to go ahead and say sorry right away...

    Sorry
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    12/23/09

    @Calzo: Please go sit in #timeout for a while.
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/23/09

    @Rosa Golijan: Where I live, timeout is the name of a lowbrow "club" where men go to see women.
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    Image of Calzo Calzo
    03:13 PM

    @Rosa Golijan: Yes ma'am.

    Did I tell you that you are awesome? =]
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    Image of Joe Stoner Joe Stoner
    12/21/09

    In reply to How To: Make Your PC and Mac Share Stuff Like Best Friends
    Matt, I'm sure you enjoy the casual writing style, but did you have to type out "wanna" nine times? If it's a big article and you're going to feature it along the top bar, why not proofread your article?
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    Image of matt buchanan matt buchanan
    12/21/09

    @Joe Stoner: it was that or "want to." and I never actually pronounce the full thing.
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    Image of syko21 syko21
    12/20/09

    In reply to How To: Make Your PC and Mac Share Stuff Like Best Friends
    Note of Warning: If you leave the network share mounted on snow leopard and put your laptop to sleep it will not be able to access it on wake. Its a known bug that no one seems to care about fixing. Workaround if you forget to unmount before closing your laptop is to turn off airport and then disconnect the network drive with the little eject icon. It will take up to 30 seconds to eject but once you turn the airport back on everything will work just fine.

    If you try to eject while still connected to the network, finder will hang and it will stop you from shutting down or restarting normally.
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    matt buchanan promoted this comment Edited by syko21 at 12/20/09 6:45 PM syko21 was starred syko21 was unstarred
    Image of bfdhud bfdhud
    12/20/09

    In reply to How To: Make Your PC and Mac Share Stuff Like Best Friends
    Dropbox is the easiest way to share files between osx and win
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    AkkiRonin approved this comment bfdhud was starred bfdhud was unstarred
    Image of AkkiRonin AkkiRonin
    12/21/09

    @bfdhud: And the iphone too.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    12/20/09

    In reply to How To: Make Your PC and Mac Share Stuff Like Best Friends
    1. make sure its FAT32 for maximum compatibility
    2. copy files over
    3. walk to Mac, plug it in
    4. copy files off
    5. rinse repeat
    6. laugh at people sharing it over wires pretending these three all talk the same lingo, limited to only LAN connections.
    7. If you find you need morethan a flash drive, check back to the early point of article about an NAS, you will fall in love with them, especially if you have multiple users, possibly a few using media sharing especially.
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    Slack3r78 promoted this comment deanbmmv was starred deanbmmv was unstarred
    Image of Slack3r78 Slack3r78
    12/20/09

    @deanbmmv: "6. laugh at people sharing it over wires pretending these three all talk the same lingo, limited to only LAN connections."

    Except for the fact that they *do*. SMB/CIFS is supported by Windows, Mac, and Linux. In fact, the NAS units you're championing generally use CIFS.

    A flash drive is nice, but network sharing is considerably faster and more convenient once it's set up.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    12/20/09

    @Slack3r78: Yeah and the NAS units don't really require much of the above hassle.
    If you're only sharing a few files between a few, then a flash drive will do, with the benefit of not needing to set anything up at all, and it'll work on PC's outof your network.
    If you figure you're going back n forth, just buy a damn NAS, and that's still going to be much simpler than the stuff you have to do up top.
    It seems to be only the 'moderate' network user would be in any hassle. light user gets away with the flash drive, heavy user gets the NAS, which also offers up a back up ( I believe the HP ones to timemachine too?)
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    Image of Slack3r78 Slack3r78
    12/20/09

    @deanbmmv: a NAS still isn't a replacement for having your boxes set up to talk to each other. There's a lot of convenience to be had from having access to your user directory on each box you use for what's literally 5-10 minutes worth of setup.

    And if you're a 'heavy user' moving large files around, A--B is by definition faster than A--NAS--B.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    12/20/09

    @Slack3r78: But NAS--A/B/X/PS/C/D is much easier than
    A-B
    B-PS
    A-X
    D-C
    etc etc. you get the point and you can't to topology in the comment box.
     Reply
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    Image of Slack3r78 Slack3r78
    12/21/09

    @deanbmmv: The point is that a NAS is complimentary to point-to-point rather than a total replacement. I don't see what's particularly difficult to understand about that.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    12/21/09

    @Slack3r78: Oh nothing. I understand that its kinda parallel to it.
    But if you have several devices set up and want to share, a NAS is ususally a better option than wrestling with the fact that they don't like each other.
    If you've just got a mac and a windows machine, and want to share a couple of files, well you're mostly going to be fine with a portable drive until the 4GB file problem arrives. Though it's rare to be working with 4GB files except for video. And if you're working with video...a NAS is a good idea. (one of the reasons I have one)
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    Image of Eric Eric
    12/20/09

    In reply to How To: Make Your PC and Mac Share Stuff Like Best Friends
    Question: My school runs Mac servers and I want to connect to shares from my PC at home. Macs can connect from anywhere using "Go - Connect to Server," but I have no idea how to approach this on my Windows 7 machine. They don't have NFS enabled in Server Admin, which, I have been told, makes the process impossible. This is deliberate on the part of the IT department, because the technology director believes that all Macs are immune from viruses and all PCs are riddled with them. Can anyone help?
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    token_illiterate_commenter promoted this comment Eric was starred Eric was unstarred
    Image of token_illiterate_commenter token_illiterate_commenter
    12/20/09

    @Eric: All I can suggest is to complain until they get an admin that knows what the hell they are doing. In a school environment it's not the admin's job to decide what kind of computers the users have to buy. I administer a network where all of the desktops are Windows and have never had a server infected. Of course the servers aren't Windows...
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    Edited by token_illiterate_commenter at 12/20/09 4:28 PM token_illiterate_commenter was starred token_illiterate_commenter was unstarred
    Image of Eric Eric
    12/21/09

    @token_illiterate_commenter: Yeah, good point. Unfortunately I work for the tech department so it would be bad form to complain about my boss. Especially given the fact that word travels fast and any complaints I registered with the higher-up's would soon reach my boss.

    Still, you make a good point that I shouldn't sit idly by. I'll figure something out.
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    Image of Theo Pak Theo Pak
    12/20/09

    In reply to How To: Make Your PC and Mac Share Stuff Like Best Friends
    I use Dropbox. It's easier for me because it automatically syncs every connected computer, plus it has a nice web interface. It's basically a fancy gui for svn. The main dowside is the 2GB limit for free accounts.

    if u use this link you get 250MB extra for free. [www.dropbox.com]
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    Slack3r78 promoted this comment matt buchanan approved this comment Theo Pak was starred Theo Pak was unstarred
    Image of Slack3r78 Slack3r78
    12/20/09

    @Theo Pak: Dropbox is awesome, but it's not really a replacement for local file sharing. Dropbox uses Amazon's S3 backend, which means you're sending everything to the public internet and back. That's fine when you're just moving small documents around, but does you know good once you get to files more than a few meg in size.

    I guess you *could* upload a movie-length video file to Dropbox and stream from there, but it's not something I'd really want to do on a regular basis.
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    Image of KenK KenK
    12/20/09

    @Slack3r78: There's something new in the current version of the Dropbox client (first time I saw it anyway) that will try to replicate files over your LAN before pulling it over your cable/DSL modem. I paid for the 50GB account and I think it's been worth it.
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    Image of Louis Krause Louis Krause
    12/20/09

    In reply to How To: Make Your PC and Mac Share Stuff Like Best Friends
    That's way too much work. Something should be done to make this an easier process.
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    Jux promoted this comment Edited by Louis Krause at 12/20/09 3:06 PM Louis Krause was starred Louis Krause was unstarred
    Image of Zanzan42 Zanzan42
    12/20/09

    @Louis Krause: If you install an mDNS service (such as Apple's Bonjour) on your Windows XP machine, it can participate in network browsing in the same way that Macs do.

    If you then have shares defined on your Windows machine, your Mac should see the machine in the Shared pane of any Finder windows.

    mDNS is a standard, and works well for local subnet browsing of any shared network service (file or print).
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    matt buchanan promoted this comment Zanzan42 was starred Zanzan42 was unstarred
    Image of mathew mathew
    12/20/09

    @Louis Krause: Something has been done, it's called Zeroconf. However, whoever wrote this guide is used to doing it the old-fashioned way out of habit, and wrote the guide accordingly.
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    Zanzan42 promoted this comment mathew was starred mathew was unstarred
    Image of Zanzan42 Zanzan42
    12/20/09

    @Louis Krause: Here's more information on zeroconf (of which mDNS is Apple's implementation):

    [en.wikipedia.org]

    It's built to make these things mostly automatic, and has it's roots in how service discovery was done in the AppleTalk protocol stack.
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    Image of Rohit Chander Rohit Chander
    12/20/09

    In reply to How To: Make Your PC and Mac Share Stuff Like Best Friends
    You guys should discuss crossover cable sharing. Supposedly that is extremely fast and I have always wanted to learn how to do it between my mac and pc. I always have to send 5-10 gbs worth of media between computers and over the network is too slow. If I learned how to use crossover between my two computers, it would be golden!
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    MikeSWelch promoted this comment Rohit Chander was starred Rohit Chander was unstarred
    Image of MikeSWelch MikeSWelch
    12/20/09

    @Rohit Chander: Unless there is something wrong with your router there will not be a noticeable difference between a direct connection and connecting via a router.
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    Image of yossarian yossarian
    12/20/09

    @MikeSWelch: actually there'll be a huge difference since most cheap routers don't do gigabit (100mb/s) ethernet. so you'll transfer at least 5 times faster through crossover as long as both computers do gigabit (this is the case with modern macs and pcs).
     Reply
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    Image of Rohit Chander Rohit Chander
    12/21/09

    @MikeSWelch: Really because one of my family members tells me that it is almost 10x faster using crossover.
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    Image of MikeSWelch MikeSWelch
    12/21/09

    @yossarian: Obviously gigabit(1000mb/s) is faster than fast ethernet(100mb/s). I meant if everything else was the same speed it won't matter.
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    Image of redman042 redman042
    12/18/09

    In reply to Leak: Windows Phone Ads Could Debut at CES 2010
    Well, that's the state of Windows Mobile in the eyes of the masses: Everyone is more interested in the Burger King Funnel Cake sticks.

    Now if that screencap said "Apple iPhone 4", it would be a whole different story...
     Reply
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    Image of John_001 John_001
    12/18/09

    In reply to Leak: Windows Phone Ads Could Debut at CES 2010
    The Burger King ad on Jan 04 2010 leaked onto my TV about 15 minutes ago during UFC Fight Night...
     Reply
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    12/18/09

    In reply to Leak: Windows Phone Ads Could Debut at CES 2010
    Crap, apparently I had the same idea as every other commenter out there...
    But yeah... Funnel cake sticks... arrghlrghlrhlghlrghlrg
     Reply
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    Image of njdevil njdevil
    12/18/09

    In reply to Leak: Windows Phone Ads Could Debut at CES 2010
    Screw WinMo, The Funnel Cake Sticks are the real "Game Changer" here.
     Reply
    tande04 promoted this comment njdevil was starred njdevil was unstarred
    Image of njdevil njdevil
    12/18/09

    In reply to Leak: Windows Phone Ads Could Debut at CES 2010
    Holy shi-

    Funnel cake sticks?!
     Reply
    Segador promoted this comment njdevil was starred njdevil was unstarred
    Image of Segador Segador
    12/18/09

    @njdevil: The world as we know it just changed.
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    Image of njdevil njdevil
    12/18/09

    @Segador: For real. And Burger King too- the Verizon of the fast food world.
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