One long-standing issue people have with QuickTime for Windows is its apparent insistence on becoming the default handler for video and images in IE and throughout the Windows environment, despite the setting of file associations to the contrary. Even if you set everything up to open in Windows Media, for some reason QuickTime is still [...]

“We choose Gentoo… not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that goal will serve to measure and organize the best of our energies and skillz, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and because of the pJE4R.”
– John F. Kennedy

UPDATE: I had originally titled this article “Home movies with Linux: Beginning the exploration (of things Linux can’t do)”, but have since changed the title to be a bit more fair. It is a given that Linux isn’t suited to certain tasks, but rather than show these things up as embarrassing shortcomings I’d much prefer [...]

Continuing my recent theme of examining the true value of a computer system by basing the evaluation on more than just price, here are a couple of great articles which outline the limitations imposed on something as trivial as audiovisual playback in Windows Vista. Both are based on information from Peter Gutmann, a security researcher [...]

11:30AM: Last question: “There has been a suggestion that Apple appeals to smaller elite than mass customer base. Is it your goal to overtake PC in marketshare?”
Steve: “Our goal is to make the best personal computers in the world and make products we are proud to sell and recommend to our family and friends. We [...]

This HOWTO has been updated and dramatically streamlined! It’s worth re-reviewing if you’ve read/implemented this method already. Keep in mind, this is for experts/enthusiasts and not those looking for a quick one-click solution.
The quality of video and sound is, for the average viewer, highly subjective. When it comes to viewing a DVD though, one [...]

Great article here covering the technology media’s discussion of security on the Mac.
It’s long been a peeve of mine that people claim *nix and the Mac by extension are insecure because they’re not widely deployed (this ignores the majority deployment of Apache webservers on *nix based systems, which the article doesn’t cover). The fact is [...]

I derived the following from the method Michel Fortin uses to create standalone copies of older Safari versions.

Right click the .pkg file for Safari 3 and ’show package contents’, and unpack Archive.pax.gz.
navigate into the new Archive folder. Take Safari.app out of Archive/Applications and place it somewhere.
Grab all frameworks from Archive/System/Library/Frameworks/ and place them inside Safari.app [...]