Probably wasn't going to buy it in the first place as I am not a huge COD fan, but now with these limitations I probably wont even buy it when it is cheaper since most of my play would be online.

Quote: Originally Posted by mrarroyo Also take care of not running power cords in parallel w/ signal cables. Specially if your signal cables are not shielded. I haven't noticed any issues in having my box with like 4 power bricks about 2" away from a usb hub which has 4 wires...

4 hooks under table, plastic storage container, hang container from hooks, ziptie everything in little bundles in storage container, dont ziptie wires which would be strained in bringing container down. My container is like 20x30x10cm it has a 3.5" external drive, 7 port usb hub, power brick...

Quote: Originally Posted by Arainach No, you didn't. Apple just changed the math on how they measure hard drive space and made themselves incompatible with the rest of the world: They now line up with the standards put in place by drive makers. Its a horse a piece which way you...

Quote: Originally Posted by Uncle Erik I'll be heading over to the Apple Store for a copy of Snow Leopard today. If anyone out there can get to an Apple Store today, there's usually swag. I got a t-shirt when I picked up 10.5.. I got nothing when I went at 9:30AM even though they...

For reference I did snow leopard cleanly today. Pop in snowleopard disk, restart and boot off disk, erase partition with disk utility. Install Snow Leopard. Then insert your laptops OSX disk 1 (that it came with) (have disk 2 ready) and there is an option for "optional installs" click that...

Using Rip right now to do all my CDs in ALAC, they all got scrambled since I last did a large portion of them so it is warranted to do it again, as it doesn't take much longer than looking for unripped ones. I have noticed it crashes a fair amount sometimes randomly but that may be due to its...

500GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue

I have been using 7 for a while, other than a few issues where apps didnt want to install in 64bit due to a wrong version and picky apps that arent used to 7's implementation of 32/64bit Works well, sorta wish i ordered the upgrade but I figure the extra 50 bucks for an OEM copy will be...

I had a comfort optical 3000 and its wheel got clogged up in a way after a while, some rubbing alcohol on the wheel itself and a quick dissection and cleaning of where it rotates fixed that (their smooth rotating wheel) Was looking at the bluetooth one for my laptop but decided against it...

With max I know you can have it add to library, so you could look at your existing itunes library, see the structure, tell rip to save the files in that structure and add them to itunes (provided it lets you like max) and that could solve any issues.

Ok cool, I noticed musicbrainz could be lacking at times so having a second source would be nice. I noticed itunes didnt embed album art which became a problem with apps such as boxee. Not sure if you ever do so but for transcoding to mp3 for portable devices, should max do the trick fine?

Quote: Originally Posted by krmathis Rip has actually been in beta stage since last year. I have been using it since beta 1, and it has matured a lot during the 6-7 months it has been in development. To a stage where it now feels quite stable, secure and user friendly. Until...

Sbooth has now put Rip into beta stages which is a AccurateRip using program for Mac OSX Rip from sbooth.org I was wondering if anyone tried this. Probably around december I want to put my entire CD collection into flac but I was finding Max with MusicBrainz a bit difficult to get correct...

Quote: Originally Posted by Arainach Google Apps is not an Office killer. It can't do a tenth of what Word and Excel can do, and a lot of businesses truly use all that functionality. Besides, it hasn't even tried to compete with the real reason MS Office is dominant - Exchange. There's...