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That last post was a lie.


Nice cover up.
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The good news is that I managed to salvage a bunch of old posts from the archives that I'd initially reported as permanently lost. Looks like I have every post going back to the launch of the site.

I'm working on the database backend now and really hope to have something for you guys to test soon.
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I'm assuming that the test will be held separately from this site. In other words, this site will stay up until we are done testing as opposed to the beta version of the new site replacing this site entirely before testing. Right? Did any of that make sense?
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The beta forums are on a separate standalone server, which is where we'll be doing our testing. Once the forum is considered good enough for live use, the entire site will be moved to that server and the domain redirected to the new IP address. Then I'll begin development on the rest of the site so we can start running articles, comics, contests, reviews, etc.
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sounds great Jay,cant wait to see the new site,in with the new out with the old.
1 question for you Jay,you recommended the OppoDigital dvd player to me in another thread,i was wondering do you have this player?and if so,what is your personal review?
thanks for your time and this GREAT site
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When it's ready to test there will be.
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So, do we have a timeline, or are we pestering you too much?

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Sorry for the delayed reply. Been a bit busy with this whole marriage thing.

Tomorrow is the last official day of the honeymoon, so I'll be getting in a bit more R&R before getting back to work. I was working on the database when I left off, so I'll get that finished up this week. Then I need to polish the UI and we should be good to go.

Two big changes in my life recently. The first is, of course, being married. We got through the first week okay. Only 60 or 70 more years to go.

The second big change--and for a geek like me, probably the bigger of the two--is that I have a Power Mac G5 on its way. Yes, I'm making "the switch". Some specs:

Dual 2.5Ghz
1.5 gigs of RAM
GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB
Airport card (which will hopefully play nice with my Belkin router/wireless hub)
Bluetooth
250GB SATA HDD
Mighty Mouse

It has Panther pre-installed, but I ordered a copy of Tiger that I'll install before I do anything else. Same monitor for now (Planar PX191), but I plan on upgrading to a 23" 1920x1200 at some point and ditching my multimonitor setup.

Macromedia was kind enough to let me upgrade my Studio MX 6 Windows license to Studio 8 for Mac, so my development efforts should proceed fairly smoothly. Not sure if Adobe will be as kind with my Creative Suite; somehow I think I'm going to take it in the ass on that one. I'm keeping an old Windows box on hand so I can run ColdFusion Server and SQL Server and mimic the hosting environment of the site.

Some people suggested I wait until the Intel switch occurs, but that's next summer at the earliest and I have a feeling the first Mac OS to run on the Intel platform is going to be a bit buggy. I'll let other people work out those kinks and then upgrade to a Mac/Intel machine (Mintel?) in a couple years.
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Ah, another one who has surrended to Steve Jobs, eh?

Jay, you do not have to apologise about the new forum development. Your life and your marriage are more important than this... Go ahead and enjoy it!
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Ah, the student has become the master! M'man! Welcome to the Dark Side!!!

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According to the tracking info it's at my house now. Should be a fun evening. I've never worked on a Mac before (at least not in a technical capacity) and I'll be performing a clean installation of Tiger. Hopefully Apple's reputation for ease of use will bear itself out
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So what made you switch? You were such a Windows shill before.
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So what made you switch? You were such a Windows shill before.


I wouldn't have called myself a shill, just someone who liked to build his machines to his liking and didn't find the Windows 2000/XP experience to be a negative one (Win98 and earlier are a different story entirely). I was also a big gamer when I first got into PCs back in 1998, and the Mac wasn't a good platform at that time if you wanted to play the latest games. I also had bad recollections of my mom's Power Mac from my junior high school days. That thing was a piece of garbage and was one of the reasons I went with Wintel when I bought my first PC and stayed away from Mac for all these years--sort of like a Mac user who hasn't used a Windows OS since Win98 and insists that Windows is complete trash.

I have several reasons for switching. PC building and tweaking used to be a fun hobby of mine, but now that I have more things occupying my time--including new, preferred hobbies--I'm not really interested in building my own PCs anymore. And there's no way I'm giving Dell $2000 for a high-end PC loaded with spyware and a bunch of garbage I don't want or need. My mom bought a pretty sweet Dell laptop at my recommendation late last year, and I was horrified at all the garbage they throw on there. The system tray was completely packed with all kinds of junk running at startup. Quite a different experience from the Dell purchased by the guy who lived across the hall from me in college. That thing rocked and was lightning-fast. Dell has gone so far downhill I almost want to cry.

Also, the bulk of my time spent on computers is for design work. Mac has always been the darling of the design community, so it was a logical move. I can now interact with other designers, printers, and agencies without fear of compatibility problems.

Geeks also like new toys. I had a lot of fun playing around with my Power Mac last night. There was some frustration, but overall it was a good experience. The Mail setup wizard was annoying because there was no way to bypass it and create accounts directly that I could see. It insisted on checking my login info during setup and was having problems connecting to my POP server (worked fine in Entourage), so it just sat there churning away for several minutes. Canceling the wizard closed Mail completely. Kind of dumb. Installing Tiger couldn't have been easier though.

And finally, OS X is pretty. I have a strong attraction to good aesthetics. Superficial, but it adds to the experience.

I still enjoy using computers, but their purpose in my life has shifted from mostly toy to mostly tool.
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Also, the bulk of my time spent on computers is for design work. Mac has always been the darling of the design community, so it was a logical move. I can now interact with other designers, printers, and agencies without fear of compatibility problems.

Geeks also like new toys. I had a lot of fun playing around with my Power Mac last night. There was some frustration, but overall it was a good experience. The Mail setup wizard was annoying because there was no way to bypass it and create accounts directly that I could see. It insisted on checking my login info during setup and was having problems connecting to my POP server (worked fine in Entourage), so it just sat there churning away for several minutes. Canceling the wizard closed Mail completely. Kind of dumb. Installing Tiger couldn't have been easier though.

And finally, OS X is pretty. I have a strong attraction to good aesthetics. Superficial, but it adds to the experience.


Nothing superficial about it at all. Pretty packages and looks make you want to work/play with something. Be it a car or a computer or a woman or one of any number of other things.

I never use Mail or Safari. If I'm checking POP mail on a Mac, I stick with Entourage. Yes, it's Microschlock, but it's always worked very reliably. One of the better Windows software packages. Of course, at work I'm only running Panther, so maybe the Tiger upgrades to Mail and Safari are better. But I won't know just yet, and I doubt I'll be giving up my beloved Firefox anytime soon. Don't want to upgrade to Tiger just yet as it would require the new versions of Adobe software which I cannot yet afford. Maybe sometime down the line a bit. Or, if I buy a whole other Mac and run Tiger on that one while still running Panther on my PBook so I have the backup.

Good reasons. Well thought out. Not just someone who made the jump simply to make the jump. Kinda the same thing with me when I switched. I was going to go into video editing back when I was in grad school. I researched it and found out Macs were best. This was 1999. So I got my PowerBook. Granted the PC I owned before that was Win98, I didn't dislike it. In fact, when I actually went ahead and sold my old NEC, I nearly cried. I loved that machine. It was a great little Winbox. But it was aging and needed to be replaced. I still use Windows now. My work PC has XP on it and I like how it works. But I've just become so ingrained in the Mac culture that a Mac is all I own at home. May change. Who knows? Especially if work were to buy me a computer for home (not friggin' likely, though). One can never say for sure what will happen from one given day to the next.
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never! never will I turn to the darkside! PCs forever!

Although my favorite computer of all-time was my Commodore 64. I wish they still made Commodores today.
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I downloaded the Office 2004 trial. Entourage is very similar to Outlook on Windows and was much easier for me to set up, so I'll be picking up Office 2004 when the trial expires. I'll probably go with the Professional version because it comes with VirtualPC 7.

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never! never will I turn to the darkside! PCs forever!

Although my favorite computer of all-time was my Commodore 64. I wish they still made Commodores today.


I've been thinking about picking up a Commodore 64. One of my friends had one when I was a kid and the games were a lot of fun. Been thinking about picking up an Amiga too for messing around. Their owners seem to love the shit out of those things.
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well, just keep in mind that graphics and sound will not be anywhere near as good as todays PCs and Macs are. But, for its time, it had great graphics and sound. I good memories of that computer, good memories.
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You're talking to a guy who plays his NES more than any other console he owns. Graphics always have and always will take a backseat to gameplay.
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Tell that to Sony and Mircosoft I wish they'd get that message.
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I downloaded the Office 2004 trial. Entourage is very similar to Outlook on Windows and was much easier for me to set up, so I'll be picking up Office 2004 when the trial expires. I'll probably go with the Professional version because it comes with VirtualPC 7.

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never! never will I turn to the darkside! PCs forever!

Although my favorite computer of all-time was my Commodore 64. I wish they still made Commodores today.


I've been thinking about picking up a Commodore 64. One of my friends had one when I was a kid and the games were a lot of fun. Been thinking about picking up an Amiga too for messing around. Their owners seem to love the shit out of those things.


I had a Vic 20, which was pretty cool for it's day. I learned on it, and an Apple II. If you can get your hands on an Amiga, it may prove costly as those seem to be quite the collector's item because of their graphics abilities. I think in the early, early days of Babylon 5 the CGI was done on one of those...
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Tell that to Sony and Mircosoft I wish they'd get that message.


Can I get an amen for that? Halelujah brother!

And still... there are nintendo bashers all over the world.
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Tell that to Sony and Mircosoft I wish they'd get that message.


Can I get an amen for that? Halelujah brother!

And still... there are nintendo bashers all over the world.


I don't know why, nintendo was there for us in the begining. Nintendo will always be #1 to me.