Re: MacBook core i7 : Mac Mini

2010-08-01 Thread Pierre Sahores
Thanks for those detailed infos, Paul. Kind Regards, Pierre Le 1 août 2010 à 21:06, Paul Looney a écrit : > Pierre, > I have a laptop and a Mini. > My customers have hundreds of Minis. > We've only had two Minis fail. Both were early G4s. Both failures were the > Firewire ports on the motherbo

Re: Determining Monitor Resolution

2010-08-01 Thread Steven Axtell
Thanks Jacqueline. Steve On 8/1/10 8:57 PM, Steven Axtell wrote: Is there a command that can be used to check the monitor resolution for a Windows PC? I want to be able to determine what monitor resolution the user is using when they are running my application. Try "the screenrect". If you

Re: Determining Monitor Resolution

2010-08-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/1/10 8:57 PM, Steven Axtell wrote: Is there a command that can be used to check the monitor resolution for a Windows PC? I want to be able to determine what monitor resolution the user is using when they are running my application. Try "the screenrect". If you need to know the available s

Determining Monitor Resolution

2010-08-01 Thread Steven Axtell
Is there a command that can be used to check the monitor resolution for a Windows PC? I want to be able to determine what monitor resolution the user is using when they are running my application. Thanks, Steven Axtell ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: on-rev facebook api

2010-08-01 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Andre good plan ;-) Cheers Monte On 02/08/2010, at 10:42 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Monte, > > I started but stopped, we could join in a open source initiative if you > think it is ok. > > :D > > Andre > > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Monte Goulding > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Is there a

Checking Monitor Resolution

2010-08-01 Thread Steven Axtell
Is there a command that can be used to check the monitor resolution? In an application I am developing, I want to determine the monitor rresolution that the user is using. Thanks, Steven Axtell ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.run

Re: on-rev facebook api

2010-08-01 Thread Andre Garzia
Monte, I started but stopped, we could join in a open source initiative if you think it is ok. :D Andre On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > Hi > > Is there anyone working on the facebook api for revServer? I'm keen to work > on it if anyone else is interested. > > Cheers >

on-rev facebook api

2010-08-01 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Is there anyone working on the facebook api for revServer? I'm keen to work on it if anyone else is interested. Cheers Monte___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage y

Re: MacBook core i7 : Mac Mini

2010-08-01 Thread Paul Looney
Pierre, I have a laptop and a Mini. My customers have hundreds of Minis. We've only had two Minis fail. Both were early G4s. Both failures were the Firewire ports on the motherboard. Everyone really likes these little computers. An advantage of the Mini over the iMac is that it will cost less o

Re: EXIF parser

2010-08-01 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dear Ben, My library uses the shell to run ExifTools. For Mac OS X, I have put everything into a bundle, while for Windows one exe file is sufficient. An external would be great. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-

Re: MacBook core i7 : a real powerfull laptop or a sadly build toy ?

2010-08-01 Thread Pierre Sahores
Interesting ! Perhaps has this to be verified sieral per serial of MBPs or perhaps would i have to replace my 1.8 inches internal hard drive by a solid state one ? Thanks anyway for your feedback ! Pierre Le 1 août 2010 à 19:45, Bill Vlahos a écrit : > This doesn't match my experience at all.

Re: EXIF parser

2010-08-01 Thread FlexibleLearning
Thanks for the responses. Hugh ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: MacBook core i7 : a real powerfull laptop or a sadly build toy ?

2010-08-01 Thread Bill Vlahos
This doesn't match my experience at all. I have a 15" i7 MacBook Pro with a solid state drive as my primary computer running lots of programs at once. I'm routinely using multiple cores and I don't have any heat problems. In fact, I have in on a base with a fan and it runs so cool I don't even

Re: MacBook core i7 : a real powerfull laptop or a sadly build toy ?

2010-08-01 Thread Pierre Sahores
An MBP I7 ? Best, Pierre Le 1 août 2010 à 19:25, william humphrey a écrit : > I run my laptop 24/7 - it's a macbook pro. I think the hardware that I > run 24/7 tends to work longer than the machines I let sit idle (but I > live in the rainforest so the electronics in probably gets corroded). > _

Re: EXIF parser

2010-08-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 31/07/2010 18:39, Mark Schonewille wrote: For a client of mine, i have created a library that uses ExifTools http://qurl.tk/eb . My library uses an additional .exe file on Windows and a .bundle on Mac OS X (which also includes a command line app). Hi Mark, Just to be clear, is this using sh

Re: MacBook core i7 : a real powerfull laptop or a sadly build toy ?

2010-08-01 Thread Pierre Sahores
True, but, to be honest, the first use of my MBP is devlopment and for this, it's realy a cool "pen" tool ;-) Any tought to share about the new macmini (i went always very happy with all the G4 and Intel's ones i got for my self or clients) ? Kind Regards, Pierre Le 1 août 2010 à 18:14, Richar

Re: MacBook core i7 : a real powerfull laptop or a sadly build toy ?

2010-08-01 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Marian, Both my laptops are installed on such aluminium + additional fans USB tablets ... but only the ASUS fans are running at less than < 3000 t/mn while the 720QM 8 virtual cores are 100% used on a 24/7 basis ;-) Best, Pierre Le 1 août 2010 à 17:33, Petrides, M.D. Marian a écrit : > Tha

Re: MacBook core i7 : a real powerfull laptop or a sadly build toy ?

2010-08-01 Thread Neal Campbell
I come from the corporate world and the MTBF and cost of ownership of laptops was so high that we had to get a VP signoff for many years to approve purchase of laptops. Also have the theft issue but we actually had office desktops stolen during long weekends a few times. This is from one of the m

Re: MacBook core i7 : a real powerfull laptop or a sadly build toy ?

2010-08-01 Thread william humphrey
I run my laptop 24/7 - it's a macbook pro. I think the hardware that I run 24/7 tends to work longer than the machines I let sit idle (but I live in the rainforest so the electronics in probably gets corroded). ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revoluti

Re: MacBook core i7 : a real powerfull laptop or a sadly build toy ?

2010-08-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Your story is among the reasons why I'm increasingly leaning toward building my own systems. Start with a barebones shell and customize as you like, and you get a solid 24/7 system that'll hold up well, for cheap and with total control over the selection of components that go into it --

Re: MacBook core i7 : a real powerfull laptop or a sadly build toy ?

2010-08-01 Thread Neal Campbell
I don't think any laptop is designed nor built for 7 x 24 operation. Laptop design is a compromise to start with as heat/power versus performance/noise/longevity is always unavoidable. I would take care designing desktop systems for 7 x 24, I wouldn't consider a laptop for that! Neal Campbell Abr

Re: MacBook core i7 : a real powerfull laptop or a sadly build toy ?

2010-08-01 Thread Petrides, M.D. Marian
Thanks for the heads up, Pierre. If I replaced my MBP (unlikely since it is almost new), I probably would have gone for the high end one. Now I'll be thinking twice. BTW, have you tried lifting the MBP up from the table surface a little? I put those little circular felt furniture pads (

MacBook core i7 : a real powerfull laptop or a sadly build toy ?

2010-08-01 Thread Pierre Sahores
In beetwin us (part 2) ... I owned lots of macs over the years, from a PWB 160 to the last MBP core i7 15" and you know what : the best of all in them was always the operating system 0S 7/8/9 and OSX. The bad thing in them was the construction quality - one time good (as the best of alls : PWB