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John M. commented on Martyn McFarquhar's blog post 'Do Psystar deserve to go bankrupt?'

Alright, but what I want to know is: if it's Apple's OS, why don't they have the right to specify what hardware they'll let it run on? I don't see how you can call them anti-competitive since if you have Intel-compatible hardware, you have lots of O…

June 3

John M. replied to DigitalMan's discussion 'Do you prefer Intel or AMD?'

(@Chris Galin: Macs don't suck. PowerPC chips didn't make Macs suck, either. I have a Performa 6400/200 with OS 8.6 on it that still runs 13 yrs. later and can surf the Net on my LAN (I got a 10/100 card for it years ago) just as fast as any of my P…

February 9

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What kind of geek are you?

Not sure... there are "kinds"? Is that like breeds or species?

Why do you consider yourself a geek?

How so? Because I said so.

How did you find out about our Geek community?

Keoni invited me to join...

What are your "geeky equipment" specs?

Lord.. which one? The old Macs I haven't recycled yet (Color Classic, Performa 6360, Performa 6400 / 200); my work laptop (HP 8710w); my cell (BB 8830); my home workstation (2GB Corsair, AMD Ath.X2 5000, 8600 GT w/ 512 Mb, 2 320Gb WD HDs, LITE-ON DVDRW, generic card reader, floppy drive (so I don't have to hunt one down if I need to), Acer 22" monitor...

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Rich!

What makes you laugh?

(I'm old school) Monty Python, Terry Pratchett books

What's the geekiest thing you've ever done?

You don't need to know... that's so I don't have to make you, well, you know....

What do you do to entertain yourself?

BF2, Mythbusters, New Yankee Workshop (when I bother to get up that early on a weekend) because if you've ever seen Norm Abram's shop, you know you've seen a woodworking tool geek...

Favorite music, movies, books, shows, artists, games, people, events, hobbies, etc.?

(See above) LOTR, The Hobbit, The Simarillion, Book of Lost Tales (see a trend here?), Ghost in the Shell (anime with a understandable storyline), The Great Escape, The Longest Day (and other classic war movies)

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At 7:18pm on December 11, 2008, John M. said…: Well... I bought GTA-IV for the PC the other day thinking to use my DVI-to-HDMI cable for the first time; that why I asked you how you were running yours. THEN I found out that Rockstar is using Sony's SecurROM DRM to protect the game. So now my dilemma is whether to use my one AMD 8450 X3 chip to build a machine just to play GTA on; I don't want Sony's rootkit DRM screwing up my regular game PC.

At 2:12pm on November 30, 2008, keoni said…: Hey John- good to hear from u man. Very astute observations u have there. I am using a dvi to hdmi cable for the 27" and it does a pretty decent job at keeping things looking good. I can run it at either 1360x768 or 1920x1080. Crysis Warhead, Fallout 3, and Far Cry 2 look amazing. I am going to load up Lord of the Rings Online tonite and have a go at that since i am running DX10 hardware and i heard this game had amazing visuals. ttyL8tr man. peace and positive energy.
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