Macrat - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Why Apple is good (Score 1) 715

by Macrat on Wednesday February 01, @02:52AM (#38888407) Attached to: Apple Forcing IT Shops To 'Adapt Or Die'

He got his chinese sweatshot workers jumping to their deaths in herds.

The same factory your M$ Xbox is made?

Comment: Re:Yahoo is more worthless than garbage (Score 1) 123

by Macrat on Wednesday January 18, @07:27PM (#38743432) Attached to: Jerry Yang Resigns From Yahoo

That site has nothing to offer other than legacy email account access and stock pumping/bashing on the finance boards.

I had forgotten about their stock message boards.

99.9999% noise.

Comment: Re:Kind of a bummer (Score 3, Funny) 123

by Macrat on Wednesday January 18, @07:24PM (#38743408) Attached to: Jerry Yang Resigns From Yahoo

He never did explicately say WHAT was better about yahoo mail.

Better than AOL I guess.

Comment: Re:Kind of a bummer (Score 1) 123

by Macrat on Wednesday January 18, @07:21PM (#38743376) Attached to: Jerry Yang Resigns From Yahoo

I have all my mail on my yahoo account, despite having a Google account as well. It's just that I created the Yahoo! one way back, around 1996-7, and have been using it ever since, and at this point, migrating over to Gmail would be too much of a hassle,.

I'm sure it will be less of a hassle when Yahoo gets sold and Yahoo Mail is shut down.

Comment: Re:Not comcast (Score 1) 235

by Macrat on Sunday January 01, @04:30PM (#38558428) Attached to: The 'Cable Guy' Now a Network Specialist

What benefits do ISP-provided name servers provide?

Slower lookups? :-)

Comment: Re:yeah im wondering why DHCP is not working (Score 1) 235

by Macrat on Sunday January 01, @04:29PM (#38558418) Attached to: The 'Cable Guy' Now a Network Specialist

i havent had to manually type in a nameserver in about 10 years.

I guess you are lucky not to have an ISP that has frequent DNS issues.

Comment: Re:Not comcast (Score 1) 235

by Macrat on Sunday January 01, @04:17PM (#38558330) Attached to: The 'Cable Guy' Now a Network Specialist

Last time I had a comcast tech out to fix my cable modem, I had to show them how to use ping.

Likely just a part time contractor.

Real Comcast techs know how to pull up a terminal and run commands.

I've had both.

Comment: Re:Is Google trying to fragment web? (Score 1) 165

by Macrat on Sunday January 01, @04:03PM (#38558244) Attached to: MAME Running In Chrome

Why don't we all just run Windows and use ActiveX?

How about Java applets?

Anyone remember Java WebStart?

Comment: Re:Mac Mini with EyeTV (Score 1) 232

by Macrat on Tuesday December 27, @05:33PM (#38508120) Attached to: DigiTimes Lends Credence To Apple-Branded TVs For 2012

EyeTV also did something nasty where they decided to switch programming providers without any warning whatsoever. I woke up one day and nothing was being recorded! It took me about 20-30 minutes to figure out how to get it to download program data again! Totally unacceptable!

Yes, Titan TV jacked up the price they wanted EyeTV to pay in order to access their feed, so EyeTV changed their software to use TV Guide.

This was announced by El Gato and notices were e-mailed to customers TWO YEARS in advance.

Needless to say, I replaced the entire Mac Mini + EyeTV setup with an HP desktop running Windows 7. The Microsoft DVR software is the best I've used so far; and I can play BluRay as well!

Clearly in this case it is THE USER that is buggy.

Comment: Re:Oh good (Score 1) 232

by Macrat on Tuesday December 27, @04:53PM (#38507660) Attached to: DigiTimes Lends Credence To Apple-Branded TVs For 2012

USB was standard on Intel motherboards before it was standard on Mac.

And yet the USB market was non existant until it shipped standard on the Mac.

The CEO of Intel has credited Apple for making USB popular.