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    Macrobe Flash Player runs like molasses

    Some time ago I updated Flash Player to run again more than half of the Flash content out there. Now everything "works" again but the performance is deplorable. Especially when playing videos I often run into problems. The videos then play with 1-2 fps and the audio gets out of synch. I can't...
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    Tiger on my G3?

    A friend recently gave me some spare SDRAM for my "backup Mac", a 450 Mhz Blue & White aka Yosemite. A pity the board can only address 1 GB of the 1.75 gigs that are now in it. It is currently running 10.2 and I wonder if I should update to 10.4. I still have a family license lying around. I...
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    The iMac is 10 years old now

    Ten years ago, Apple introduced the first bondi-blue iMac. The "i" stood for the internal 56k-modem. Oh iMac, much has happened since your humble puck-mouse, 233 Mhz G3 beginnings. /wipes nostalgia tear Ars Technica Article
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    Airport Extreme

    I've seen other Airport threads here and this is mine ? It's more an annoyance than a real problem but hopefully other users can tell me if they experienced this too or not. Our household uses Apple because "it just works" so I want to get rid of this flaw if possible. Since I've changed the...
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    Mac-synchable mobile phone needed

    I'm searching a new mobile phone. The technical requirements are low, wouldn't it be for the condition that it has to be synchable in OS X. This still limits the choices, regrettably. In the past I liked my Nokia phones most, but am not up to date anymore about the phone industry. After some...
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    Euro 2008 Group Draw

    For the soccer/football fans out there (yes, both of you): Today was the group draw. Group A Switzerland Czechia Portugal Turkey Group B Austria Croatia Germany Poland Group C Netherlands Italy Romania France Group D Greece Sweden Spain Russia A tough draw for...
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    You think you know someone who's stingy?

    I have to vent about the recent encounters I've had with a long-time acquaintance of mine. I've got to know her back in middle school, ten years ago. We know each other fairly well from several school voyages that were open for my parallel classes, too. She became the girlfriend of my best...
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    One way signs explained

    Hopefully not a repost. Removable barriers vs car drivers // home page NSFW. Link optically clean. But it probably triggers filters so click on your OWN risk.
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    50 Years after the Hungarian Revolution

    Wikipedia Article Fifty years ago, the Hungarian Revolution begun, which was beaten down by a Soviet intervention. The revolution demanded the life of about 2500 Hungarians and 700 Soviet soldiers. About 180'000-200'000 Hungarians fled to Austria and from there to many western countries...
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    From iMovie to the Beamer

    Hi, I've edited a few projects in iMovie HD (5.0.2). For the first time, my source was a DV camera and the video material therefor is PAL, interlaced. I want to display the projects with a beamer on an iBook G4 with 1,33 Ghz, so I need to deinterlace. The problem is that iMovie doesn't...
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    Locked topic

    Text The topic in question may be written in a funny way or whatever, the offer is serious though. I'm curious if some user will succeed to meet me here sometime under the circumstance that the vast majority of the AT userbase lives in the US. The topic wasn't meant to be a joke or spam so...
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    To celebrate my 1000th post

    ...I offer a delicious locally brewed beer to the first ATer that happens to meet me. The offer is valid until I relocate, hit 10'000 or forget about it. ;) I wouldn't have thought that this account goes this far but I've actually written hundreds of posts with an online dictionary in a tab...
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    Human Rights Council Elected

    The successor of the often criticised UN Commission of Human Rights assumes shape. Here's the list of the 47 member states (the Commission had 53). The period of office isn't defined definitely, a 3 year-system was proposed (therefor the 1, 2, 3 years-comments by every member state). The bad...
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    To the Londoners and the guy from Riga

    ...assuming there is at most one person from Latvia here ;) I'll go on a journey starting next Monday, with a friend. We'll visit London from Monday to Thursday and Riga (Latvia's capital) from Thursday to Sunday and I still have to gather some informations for our trip. So if you're from one...
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    YK2 Bug

    Hello, for a short essay at my school and also because of personal interest, I'm gathering informations about the Y2K problem. The main focus of this essay is how lesser developed nations dealt with and were affected by Y2K. If you know something interesting about this I'd be glad to read this...
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    Server configuration

    Hello network crew, I'm writing this for a friend who works in a big corporate network. Coming from the Mac side I try to be as precise as necessary but don't hesitate to ask details if this description is not good enough. He has a Windows 2003 Small Business Server (IP: 192.168.100.2) and two...
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    New Symbol for the Red Cross

    Text Maybe not great discussion material but newsworthy nonetheless. Hopefully this logo will end the confusion where other logos than the red cross or the red crescent are in use, so the IRC will still be identifiable in crisis zones. Until now, only Syria opposes the crystal logo. They...
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    Soccer World Cup

    I browsed a few News site but since the qualifications don't make many headlines in the US, I thought I might as well post the list. Switzerland got its ticket this evening (local time) after a 2:0 win/4:2 loss in the barrage against Turkey :) Europe Germany (host) England France Italy...
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    Steel Trade Conflict 2002/03

    Hello ATPN During the last weeks I followed the discussions here rather quietly because I'm really busy. I'd like to write tons of things about the riots in France and other topics but the work for my uni is killing me... Among other things I'm writing a paper about the steel trade...
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    Anonymous sperm donor identified

    In the past I've thought about the anonymity of sperm donors. Which is the higher value, the right of the donor to remain anonymous, or the right of the child to know the biological father? I tend to the latter. Looks like this becomes a topic again...
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    How much matter gets converted to energy in power plants?

    In nuclear power plants, matter gets converted to energy. I'm curious how much matter gets lost per year. Miligrams, grams or more? According to wikipedia, there are about 440 active plants worldwide. In Switzerland there are 4 plants. The three smaller ones have a power output of 300...