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  1. Post Your Desktop Background

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    Ehm, I'm using a stock Compaq Presario SR1519X if you want to look up the full specs but briefly 2.93 Ghz Pentium 4 processor (though os X sees it as a 3.8), 512 mb ram, intel integrated graphic, network and surround sound card. I think the integrated cards helped my cause as the Mac Mini uses some similar stuff.

    As for the applications, I didn't get any major problem, I get some temporary freezes when I have lots running, but that doesn't really have to do with the OS. Safari freezes on occasion especially on flash heavy stuff, but I downloaded Firefox and it works mint. iTunes works like a charm, quicktime too, Microsoft Messenger's a bitch compared to other IM clients but it works. Might be worth mentioning that I'm using the unupdated OS X 10.4.6.

    But the real test will come when recording stuff with garage band/logic but I can't do that right now as I tested the installation on a 4gig ATA HDD :P and that might be part of the reasons for my small bugs as it's too slow and probably more than 10 years old...

  2. Post Your Desktop Background

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    Posted · Edited by paolo

    Ehm, I guess I also have OS X on my PC, now :PAnd contrarily to popular belief it runs with only a very few glitches (the dock takes a moment to pop up when in hiding mode and the HDD doesn't always come back from "idle-sleep") and the installation was super easy :).

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  3. Hangover Cures

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    Ehm, I was thinking about this one. Could drinking a smaller amount of alcohol in a very small amount of time give you the same drunkness but for a smaller time lapse. By having less alcohol in your body, that would mean less dehydration so... less hangover ?

    EDIT :

    Rate Of Consumption

    Blood alcohol concentration depends on the amount of alcohol consumed and the rate at which the user's body metabolizes alcohol. Because the body metabolizes alcohol at a fairly constant rate (somewhat more quickly at higher and lower alcohol concentrations), ingesting alcohol at a rate higher than the rate of elimination results in a cumulative effect and an increasing blood alcohol concentration.

  10. Horizontal Dropouts

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    QUOTE(danny B @ Aug 10 2007, 07:07 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    horizontal dropouts are aweful to keep you chain tight standard dropouts with a rolhoff single speed tensioner *** nuff said..

    Ehm... did you ever try a proper horz drop-out set-up ? Just an axle like on here hub-surlyfixed.jpg and maybe chain tugs, though they are quite optional. Though you just might be a tension freak.

  12. Confidence Booster.....

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    Well, my confidence booster isn't really for confidence, it just makes me try stuff I'm too lazy I'm pretty sure I won't land it.

    I try something really sketchy with minimal risk for injuries but that I'm pretty sure that I'll bail. Then I'll just bail, get up and say f**k, it can't be that bad and then I start riding for real and give a try to anything I can think of. But that only happens when I don't ride for a couple of days, normally, I don't really have a problem with confidence, I actually feel reassured that I'm not confident on certain stuff.

  16. How Many Viruses Do You Have?

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    Yeah but OS X is totally different to linux. Whereas OS X is made to be easy to use, EVERYTHING in linux is a pain in the arse. FACT. I'm sure that with a spare few days you could probably get used to it and work out ways of using it properly, but every time I've tried Linux (about 4 times now) I've always one problem I couldn't sort out (Either sound, network, mouse) and had to go back to Windows. Whereas OS X just works straight out of the box.

    What distros did you try, and what versions ?

    I personally had only one problem installing Ubuntu on my computer, I didn't have the right screen resolution but it was an easy fix... and I think the newer versions of the installer rectified that problem and a lot of other compatibility problems... Then installing stuff is the other problem, well Ubuntu solves it with an application that lists some 22 000 free applications and it's as easy as clicking it and the program downloads it and installs it on it's own...

    Well the fact the OS X works straight out of the box is a bit of an understatement, it only has to work with a handful of computers... And apparently certain PCs can run OS X, but they are quite few.

  17. How Many Viruses Do You Have?

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    Mac's currently have no viruses. PC's currently have about 117,000 viruses. Get writing.

    Anyway. people will just report it and Apple will do a system update and fix it.

    Nah man, you don't quite get it...

    Mac OS X and most Linux distributions are pretty much uninfectable because you need give executables the permission to run then run it since things can't start on their own in Linux. Also, the virus shouldn't do a lot of damage since every part of the hard drive is protected except for you "home" folder and there's no way to change stuff in the stuff that runs the compy except if you open a terminal you need to type like sudo, gksu or su before a command to give you access to that protected part of the hard drive...

    I'm talking for Linux because that's what I know, but I'm pretty sure it's the same for OS X.

  25. Dmr Drone?

    in Beginners Trials Chat

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    But that's a cruiser bmx (24" bmx) and not a 24" mountain bike, so everything is bmx on it, 48 spoke wheels, the gear ratio is totaly bmx, 14mm axles... Not that it's bad in itself, considering you're on a trials forum, if you want to slowly modify it to be a bit more trialsy. It will be very hard to upgrade stuff with mtb/trials parts as they won't fit with the bmx parts. But if you want to put HS 33s and a smaller gear ratio, that shouldn't be much of a problem, but if you want to make it lighter and run disk brakes, you're going to have some problems...

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