Recent content by TekieB

They thought I was 18, and doing genuis bar stuff.

apple gave this person (in cali) all the apple certs /training for reatil and service (the service one is the one that matters) and i'm told the test is a bitch

Teenagers see right through that stuff, they have to put up with it at school, and know all the ways to hide stuff (alt tab, etc) quickly, and if the parents aren't computer savy, they will have no clue either. But I will agree, trust your kids, educate them on whats good/bad, even if it's you...

I know people that worked as genuises, flew to cali, the works. They hated working for the apple store, and quit very shortly after joining. But they still got to keep all the certs ;) From what she tells me all they do anymore is iPod work, with the occasional hardware error, and a few PEBKAC...

A seccond vote for aol (most updated, easiest to control) if they are already on highspeed use something like smoothwall w/dans guardian (that might be tough to turn off though, unless you set it in non-transparent mode, and force the daughter (login account, etc) to go though it, and have a...

you're right, crap, my bad

Mind of a windows user who desperately wants aperture Copy of aperture: $500 windows machine: free total: $500 assuming there would ever be a win version, at the same price "no windows version, looks like it's time to buy a mac" mac to run aperture: $3k (aprox for something serious)...

There are a few raw workflow apps for windows Phase one's Capture one (both platform, my choice) Bibble (both platform) Adobe camera raw (photoshop plugin) Adobe Lightroom (which had been mentioned) Adobe Lightroom/Bibble are the most "workflow oriented" (multi versions of single shot...

I'm more looking at preventing gamers from doing internet stuff, like warcrack/random crap that uses bandwith vs. "locking down" everything

18mm in use here w/ 14.5gig lib (on os x 10.4.5)

hey! I posted that from a mac

You cannot "build" an apple computer. You could hack osx on to normal x86 hardware (no support or anything, and borderline illegal.) However apple hardware uses standard PC parts (ram, hdd, vid cards) so you can upgrade them yourself