How do I know which words are literal and which are not? How can I learn the Word of God if what is written in the Bible can't be understood by reading?

Do I read the book and know, in my heart, what is and what isn't? What if I find that none of it should be taken literally?

Do I seek out someone to tell me which words are literal and which are not? There are so many people that want to tell me how but they all tell me different things. Is an older church better? A newer church? A popular church? One that supports a more literal interpretation or a less literal interpretation?

Should I listen to you? You say you have it all figured out. So does the Pope. And Warren Jeffs. Why would I listen to you instead of one of them? Why would I listen to one of them instead of you?

A system controllable relay in the power supply would do the trick.

Turning a computer on can take several minutes of repetitive, non-productive work. You need to boot the system, log in, open applications, open documents, and find you place in the documents. This can take several minutes.

Standby mode takes care of this hassle at the cost of a few Watts of power. Now they have a way to get the benefits without using those few Watts of power.

"...uphill both ways..."

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There are a lot of web-based resources that may help students with difficult concepts. Math and science are particularly well represented, of course.

VMs aren't really an option for me because I'm testing multi-media software and the audio skips with some applications. I'm using a Mac Mini that is multi-booted with

Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X 10.4, and Mac OS X 10.5. Linux is a little harder to get on there (EFI and all) and I'm not sure about BSD, Solaris, etc. Overall, it works well enough for me.

Triple booting a Mac isn't too bad; you can use Hybrid MBR/GUID. Quad booting and up is more difficult because you have to use MBR and get around the limitations of the Apple installer.

The following organizations have shut down DRM servers rendering content unaccessible:

• Wal-Mart
• Yahoo!
• Major League Baseball
• Microsoft (MSN Music and PlaysForSure)
• Google (Video store)
• Sony (Sony Connect and ATRAC)
• Virgin Digital

These services were backed by large, credible companies. I bet the customers who bought into the promises are now regretting it. I would also bet that they are not insiginificant in number.

Security updates can be costly. Different versions may be different under the hood and require extra work to backport security fixes. Testing is also expensive; a change to security may break another feature.

10 years is a long time in the computer world. Over that stretch of time, computers become 100 times as powerful. Is a Pentium II really a viable computer today? Many people upgrade for new features or because their old computer died.

Also, it's not feasible to support a 10 year old OS. How many people are still running Windows 98, as their sole OS or their primary OS? How many people are running hardware intended for Windows 98 (e.g., Pentium II)? How many manufacturers are making hardware that is compatible with 10 year old hardware? How many are still making drivers for Windows 98? 10 years after the release of an OS, it's ecosystem is pretty much dead and anyone supporting a 10 year old operating system is pretty much chucking money down a hole. The same goes with most software. Would a secure version of Netscape 3 be worth running?

If there were money in supporting software for 10 years, then companies would already be doing it. Some companies will support old OSes for a fee but keeping an old OS up-to-date will require a *lot* of money.

There is far more money is selling you Windows Vista today or Windows 7 tomorrow than there is in providing you with patches for 10 years ago.

I can't guarantee prices now but a Leopard upgrade was $99 for a single license and $129 for a 5-pack when I picked it up some time ago.

A better solution for you may be to look into one of the PowerPC Linux distributions. It'll breathe some new life into old, but still good, hardware.

10.3.9 hasn't seen any kinds of updates from Apple for months. As of Friday, the following common internet software does not have the most recent version available:

• Safari* (1.3.2 vs 3.2)
• QuickTime* (7.5 vs 7.5.5)
• Firefox (2.0.0.18 vs 3.0.4)
• Flash Player (9.0.151.0 vs 10.0.12.36)
• Adobe Reader* (7.1.0 vs 9.0.0)
• Java* (1.4.2 update 12 vs 1.5.0 update 16) (6 is available for Leopard but isn't compatible with Safari)

* This item hasn't received any updates recently and is presumed to be unsupported.

The following internet software has a most recent version available:

• Opera (9.62)
• Shockwave Player (11.0.3.470)
• Flip4Mac (2.2.1.11)

While this list is not exhaustive, these are commonly used applications that are exposed to the internet. The lack of OS, Safari, and QuickTime updates says that the platform is no longer supported Apple. The lack of recent major versions says that other companies are stopping support for Mac OS X 10.3.

Alive? Yes. Well? No. 10.3 is living in an iron lung.