grimly: i realize this isn't ILM but any idea why it was such a limited pressing? you'd think that with the groundswell of interest in post-punk they'd have pressed more than like 1000 copies ... why not just keep it in print? was it the royalties for the motown songs, maybe?
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 25 May 2008 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i have no idea -- i thought they were going to press up more after the first run. i'll try dropping sean a line and see what he says (although i'm not sure how involved he was with the actual production).
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 25 May 2008 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe something like this? Hell, it lists Linux as a supported OS.
― kenan, Sunday, 25 May 2008 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been meaning to put my copy online to see what kind of mega-$$$$ I can get out of it.
While some labels are fine keeping CDs in print forever, others assume there's a limited market and don't want 1,000 CDs sitting in their closet.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 25 May 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
i'll give you 50 mega-$$$$ for it
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 25 May 2008 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll think about it. a few months ago I made a spreadsheet of all the CDs I was planning on selling in my great purge and The Future was up on amazon for 180...I may just have to see how much I can get for it.
― dan selzer, Monday, 26 May 2008 03:25 (fifteen years ago) link
e-mailed sean from blind youth/ex-rental, and he said:
There has been some talk about a reissue, but nothing definite yet. The original release was so limited because Richard (X) assumed 2,000 copies would be enough - no-one anticipated how much interest there would be! So, with copies going for silly money on eBay, maybe the reissue will happen now (possibly via iTunes, but hopefully on CD too), but that's all I know at the moment. Obviously, I'll update the website if I hear anything definite!
so there we go.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 11:57 (fifteen years ago) link
think we should maybe stop derailing the thread n ... hang on, this is ILX. sorry, as we were.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 11:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I has a nice new wireless keyboard so today I don't hate apple
could do with pgup/dn keys tho :(
― DG, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 12:28 (fifteen years ago) link
the more i use this fucking windows box at work, the more i love apple and everything it stands for.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
so lolz at the new Apple store in Boston being three stories tall and massive and having pretty much the exact same inventory as the Apple store in the Cambridgeside Galleria
I think I am halfway towards convincing my wife I need an Apple laptop, though. Anyone had experience/difficulty networking these with Windows machines?
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
nope apart from windows being its usual helpful self
― DG, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
at my parents house they have a desktop PC connected to a printer and a wireless router. i managed to get both of their powerbooks (both running panther) to be able to share files w/ each other and the PC and to use the PC's printer. there was some crap at first involving workgroups but it worked itself out.
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
lolz at the new Apple store in Boston being three stories tall and massive and having pretty much the exact same inventory as the Apple store in the Cambridgeside Galleria
oh of course! They all have *exactly* the same inventory. The Apple Store does not exist to be a brick-and-mortar retail establishment, and it's a thousand miles away from being a service center -- it's there to provide different levels and acreages of floor space for glorified Best Buy employees to mill around and explain to anyone who will listen that a .Mac account will really enhance their Apple user experience.
― kenan, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I used to think it was a shiny clean enticing place. Now it depresses the hell out of me. At least at Micro Center, there are options and usually someone geeky enough to know the difference between the products. The Apple store eliminates that little snag in staff training by only having one model of any Apple-compatible product at a time. Need a firewire hard drive? This is the one for you. How about an external DVD drive? We happen to offer this one fabulous model for your convenience. Etc etc.
― kenan, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
People are as free as they want to be.
― kenan, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
kenan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9hpMgKI_NU
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess I'm still dealing with the shock of having lost all faith. The pricey Apple product isn't always the best one, and all the employees in the Apple store are complete frickin' morons. Those are both facrs, you can look 'em up. :(
― kenan, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
facTs
Lookin' em up boss.
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Just tell me you don't have an Apple tat, kenan.
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe it can be worked into some kinda biblical montage, if so.
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
no. I have never even shamed myself with an Apple sticker on my car or my bedroom window. Momentary temptation, sure, but it passed. Like all such things, it will go the way of the Half a Garfield and the Darwin Fish.
― kenan, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
As much as I prefer Apple products to wintel, I don't believe in giving any for-profit company free advertising.
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Can you still say "Wintel"? You did hear about that little thing with the Apples and the... nah, skip it. ;)
― kenan, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
I needed computer speakers so I went to the new Apple Store in Boston. There was a queue, a fucking queue, of people waiting to get their picture taken in front of the Apple logo. Disgusting.
― Allen, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Wintel = Windows on Intel, no more, no less.
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow. I really don't get it.
On an "I hate Apple" note, Safari's become halfway dysfunctional in the last week and I can't figure out why, so I'm using Firefox most of the time now. (By halfway dysfunctional, I mean it won't let me click buttons or many links, and video doesn't work.) Great job, Apple!
― Maria, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
My first guess at the source of that problem would be Application Enhancer, if you have it.
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
also if your history is massively long, delete most of it
(or switch to firefox, which i've done. the history feature is kind of important if you're older than 12)
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
(By halfway dysfunctional, I mean it won't let me click buttons or many links, and video doesn't work.)
oddly enough firefox keeps doing this to me so i switch to safari for a while
― DG, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah me too. I seems like firefox gets "tired" if you use it or leave it on too long.
― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
the more windows you open without restarting the application, no matter what application it is, its memory usage will climb and climb
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i think
http://i25.tinypic.com/n3m9o3.png
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah me too. I seems like firefox gets "tired" if you use it or leave it on too long.-- sexyDancer, Tuesday, May 27, 2008 5:11 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link
-- sexyDancer, Tuesday, May 27, 2008 5:11 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link
http://www.firefoxmastery.com/firefox/firefox-hack-back-button-memory-consumption/
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Firefox 3 seems to have finally fixed the memory collection bug.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 07:04 (fifteen years ago) link
okay, so is there really no way to have muliple users on one machine running leopard logged in at the same time (as you can do in XP)? one user has to log out for the other to log in, right? You can't just switch users? ANNOYING.
― akm, Friday, 30 May 2008 02:29 (fifteen years ago) link
yes, there is!
http://www.apple.com/sg/macosx/features/fastuserswitching/
― Clay, Friday, 30 May 2008 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link
well, actually, this is more helpful.
http://www.usingmac.com/2008/1/21/leopard-fast-user-switching
― Clay, Friday, 30 May 2008 02:32 (fifteen years ago) link
oh yes, thank you so much! i was really missing this
― akm, Friday, 30 May 2008 07:20 (fifteen years ago) link
why can't you just tell Time Machine to back-up once a day instead of once an hour?
― dan selzer, Sunday, 1 June 2008 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
You are not to be trusted with such decisions.
― kenan, Sunday, 1 June 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
(but you can give this a shot)
― kenan, Sunday, 1 June 2008 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
The regular backups are incremental, so it's not really so much stress on the computer. If you are doing something where you need all available I/O, you should probably just turn off Time Machine while you are doing it.
― libcrypt, Sunday, 1 June 2008 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I have the oldest possible G5, and I'm always doing super powerful intensive pro computer user things. I'd rather not have to always be turning the thing on and off. Seems like such an obvious option.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 1 June 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Here is something that may help. Put the following in a file called TimeMachineOn.applescript or something like that and set a cron job to run it at midnight or something (e.g., 0 0 * * * osascript /Users/danselzer/Library/Scripts/TimeMachineOn.applescript <-- this in yr crontab). Make a similar script and change "is 0 then" to "is 1 then" and have it run when you get up or whatever.
activate application "System Preferences"tell application "System Events" tell process "System Preferences" click menu item "Show All Preferences" of menu 1 of menu bar item "View" of menu bar 1 click button "Time Machine" of scroll area 1 of window "System Preferences" repeat until exists window "Time Machine" delay 0.2 end repeat if value of checkbox 2 of window "Time Machine" is 0 then click checkbox 2 of window "Time Machine" end if end tell end telldelay 1tell application "System Preferences" to quit
tell application "System Events" tell process "System Preferences" click menu item "Show All Preferences" of menu 1 of menu bar item "View" of menu bar 1 click button "Time Machine" of scroll area 1 of window "System Preferences" repeat until exists window "Time Machine" delay 0.2 end repeat if value of checkbox 2 of window "Time Machine" is 0 then click checkbox 2 of window "Time Machine" end if end tell end tell
delay 1
tell application "System Preferences" to quit
― libcrypt, Sunday, 1 June 2008 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
You have to have GUI scripting turned on for that to work by the way.
― libcrypt, Sunday, 1 June 2008 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine AutoBackup -bool yes
^ i think this should make it only run manually (from menubar)
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 2 June 2008 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link
That's not really desirable either.
― libcrypt, Monday, 2 June 2008 00:53 (fifteen years ago) link