My old Quadra used to have a TV Tuner in it and be able to do image captures from live cable broadcasts, then I could import them into my cheap, incredibly easy to use paint program and do whatever with them. I believe it cost approximately half of what my laptop did! My laptop lets me chat and surf the internet. And rip CDs.
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
Well today it decided it wasn't going to wake up again, ever, as I'm being greeted with a totally white screen.
What's funny is that like doing searches on my own to try to figure out wtf this computer is doing right now (I mean not even the sad face x-eye Mac or the question mark Mac! NOTHING AT ALL! WHITE SCREEN! I know how to handle the other things!), everyone who is reporting similar issues to me is like bitching about how they have all this important blah blah blah they were doing with the Mac prior hand. Is it that no one who has this failure who is only using their Mac for chat, porn, and MP3s can be bothered to get in on the discussions, or is it because they don't die if that's all you use it for? Because yeah, it seems like my sleep problem increases tenfold whenever I've been using my iBook more for writing or photo work. If all I've done on the damn thing is use iChat for two weeks, no problems whatsoever with starting it up, back when it, uh, started up.
What does this imply??? Is there like some inherent instability in the majority of the "native" programs that come bundled with OSX or is this just really fucked up coincidence?
Also it seems that this particular issue with the iBook G3 was so bad they threw the whole "your warranty is expired, give us $500" shenanigans out the window, and searching on this same issue with "Powerbook" has not given me the same results--ARE IBOOKS PIECES OF SHIT? wtf?
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
*with the exception of my ancient PowerMac that I had when I was 14-15-16, which only died because my sister is a dick.
I am pretty close to deciding to become the female Punisher, except murdering computer firms, instead of bad guys.
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link
And then kind of ran away????
That was pretty funny.
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
If Apple store in Clarendon cannot do anything for me worthwhile like, I will be coming back up to NYC and hitting u up on the favor, though. I like desperately, desperately need this to work ASAP.
Graphics are nonsense; I had that system and just customized the entire thing with graphics of my choice. Of my choice, since I was like 14 at the time, was like a bunch of lame ass Monty Python cartoons and/or Madonna album covers but what the fuck ever.
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
You know what else? This lamp-shaped iMac is stupid. There's no reason the screen needs to be this adjustable, and in fact with an LCD screen that has color-shifting problems, it's best if it doesn't move at all. It's only to make the computer more anthropomorphic, more... cute. So people will fall in love with the computer like it's a kitten. Crafty to the point of being kinda evil.
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I have thought, on a few occasions, that OS7/8/9's desktop was more customizable than OSX's.
Maybe they are trying too hard to make things look pretty or cute and not spending enough time on making things sensible and working, anymore.
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
When I've been put off the G5 iMac as my next desktop computer because I hear too many stories about the power supply overheating thanks to them shoving everything in a thin white IKEA slab, it's time to reconsider the role "award-winning design" plays in your product development.
I kind of hate the OS X desktop. I have a menu bar, and a hard drive icon. I don't want a fucking DOCK, I never asked for a fucking DOCK, the whole rest of the computing world gets by without a DOCK. take that shit away and let me pick my own fonts. Dickholes.
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link
In an office where multiple people are using the same computer and there's limited desk space the lamp iMacs have been terrific.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Hold down the trackpad button on startup.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link
I will be at a loss forever, though, as to why pressing F12 (the eject button) worked to eject The Marriage of Maria Braun not ten minutes earlier, but refused to work just now.
Any suggestions on the other stuff, besides setting the thing on fire?
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
massive xpost
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Font management/selection/preview is atrocious in OS X. I got Suitcase but all that does is move fonts into and out of your Font folder, rather than you going and doing it yourself. Uh alright thanks I guess.
You know what I've never understood about computers? Why should anyone have to "save" anything, ever? Why isn't it just all on there all the time? I spent 3 hours working on some document, you tool, you think I don't want to "save" it? I mean really now.
xpost: you could try shooting it.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Download Yasu, let it run everything.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― just adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.laptops4me.com/images/pict/SNY-TR3AP1_LG.jpg
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― just adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
And yeah, Tracer, I'm kind of hoping that this is a display issue somehow, not a computer-itself issue, but everything I'm reading indicates this is not the case. :(
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
I didn't notice the all-white screen hassle upthread. Did you try booting into open firmware and reseting the NVRAM?
(cmd-opt-o-f on bootup, then type "reset-nvram" "set-defaults" "reset-all" )
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 14 March 2005 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link
so I can just walk into the apple store with this thing and someone will help me out?
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 14 March 2005 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost
tracer otm. i often have totally differing degrees of success w/customer service if i just take a different approach.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link
I like a little glitz. The trouble with OS X is that it's not likely to be *your* glitz, just theirs, which is arrogant on Apple's part (shockah!). Like Tom says, you can't even change the system font. I don't much care for Lucida Grande, but guess what? Apple likes it, so I get to stare at it every day for several hours.
I do want my desktop to be prtyy though, since I spend so much time there. It's like my apartment -- in a way it's even more personal. I mean honestly, cooking and watching TV and sleeping, how glamorous does it need to be?
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
This is only for particular models. I looked it up before buying a G5. I don't have any problems (yet).
This lamp-shaped iMac is stupid. There's no reason the screen needs to be this adjustable, and in fact with an LCD screen that has color-shifting problems, it's best if it doesn't move at all.
Well, no, I don't think so. In fact I have a hard adapting to the non-moveable G5. :-(
― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link
It’s quite terrifying how even a small amount of tinkering can lead to a proliferation of multiple unpatched instances of pythooon across one’s Mac.
― Ed, Friday, 24 May 2024 02:04 (one week ago) link
lol
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 May 2024 17:39 (one week ago) link
You speak from personal experience?
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 May 2024 17:40 (one week ago) link
I'm working on a project called Typhoon, I'm going to suggest any python bindings be called pythoon
― default damager (lukas), Friday, 24 May 2024 20:48 (one week ago) link
I have an iPhone 5C in a drawer that I thought I might do something with. Like, turn it into an iPod, or use it as a backup burner or something. But it's stuck on iOS 10, won't show up on my Mac when I plug it in, and won't let me login to iCloud because iCloud requires at least iOS like 15 or something. I just want to use it as a dumb device, I don't even want any iCloud or phone functionality. Really lame! By the way i LOVE how small it feels in my hand. Almost miraculous.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 26 May 2024 22:11 (five days ago) link
What color 5c do you have
― calstars, Sunday, 26 May 2024 22:55 (five days ago) link
blue
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 26 May 2024 22:57 (five days ago) link
Oldest one I have is a 4s, heavy af
― calstars, Sunday, 26 May 2024 23:24 (five days ago) link
My 4S plays the role of DJ Flan, a music repository in my car glovebox whose shuffle play picks are sly and mercurial
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 27 May 2024 05:38 (four days ago) link
> By the way i LOVE how small (the iPhone 5c) feels in my hand. Almost miraculous.
My current phone is an iPhone 12 mini that I bought refurbished several months back, which I bought because it's only slightly larger and heavier, yet is reasonably up to date and runs the latest version of iOS. The follow-up 13 mini was the last of the Apple small phones (same size but a bit heavier than a 12 mini). My ageing eyes don't care for the smallish screen though, and I'm having way more difficulty typing on the small keypad than on the larger phone it replaced - odd since I don't recall having that problem with the first-gen SE I had a few years back, which is the same size as a 5c or 5s. I'll probably go back to a larger phone when the 16 ships presumably this autumn.
― Lee626, Monday, 27 May 2024 07:10 (four days ago) link
Yeah the keyboard feels very cramped.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 27 May 2024 08:35 (four days ago) link