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What generation shuffle is it?Updating songs on my iPod Shuffle using my SLSD
I want a first-gen nano again, that thing is so cute2nd gen, 1GB model
I agree! I'd want an early model too if it didn't have the potential battery buldge issue. I'd probably go for a second gen personally.I want a first-gen nano again, that thing is so cute
At this point in time I couldn't tell you. It was some tricks I did using another laptop as a Certificate Authority middle-man via Proxy and some changes to SSL settings in Netscape's version of about:config and the preferences menu. Done over a year ago. If I ever had to reinstall the OS I'd be in trouble!
It has trouble formatting some pages and forget using YouTube at all (well, on mine with a lousy 128MB RAM and a hard disk that has serious issues with memory cache where it locks the system up doing anything hard to where I have to force power-off holding the power button) but it can pull up many SSL secured sites such as Go Vegan Radio's site to download my podcasts from their archive. I chokes on Xenforo a lot so while I can read Macrumors, I cannot login without the system freezing. If I had a RAM upgrade that worked I'd go farther.
I've been setting up Tiger on my new to me 15 DLSD. I think I prefer that over Leopard because it's generally smoother and faster.
I still haven't made up my mind which will be the OS I'll use by default on this computer, but I am pretty certain it won't be Linux. I've now tried Lubuntu 16 and 12 and Ubuntu MATE and as impressive as they are (i.e. very) they get in my way of doing what I'm doing on the computer. For instance the trackpad is not at all as responsive which I don't like.
Oh another thing. To my great joy I managed to kick start my Airport Express, which I thought was broken because it refused to connect even to unprotected wifi. I plugged in a Sagem PCMCIA wifi card which seems to awoken the AE from its slumber somehow (see the Odd wifi behaviour thread).
I still haven't made up my mind which will be the OS I'll use by default on this computer, but I am pretty certain it won't be Linux. I've now tried Lubuntu 16 and 12 and Ubuntu MATE and as impressive as they are (i.e. very) they get in my way of doing what I'm doing on the computer. For instance the trackpad is not at all as responsive which I don't like.
Oh another thing. To my great joy I managed to kick start my Airport Express, which I thought was broken because it refused to connect even to unprotected wifi. I plugged in a Sagem PCMCIA wifi card which seems to awoken the AE from its slumber somehow (see the Odd wifi behaviour thread).
Oh that's a tough decision...I find Tiger very refreshing actually looks-wise. There are only a few things I miss that later OS versions have, like the possibility of making the Applications folder behave like a start menu in the Dock, two-finger "right-clicking" and resizing windows on all edges. But other than that it's good enough for me
What about the UI? Which one do you like more?
I stick with Jaguar on my paltry system because it's the fastest so far and because I actually like the pinstripes. I wish the same tricks that made Netscape work for SSL would work on the in-built Internet Explorer seeing as the IE browser looks more 'Mac-like' but it doesn't support SSL period and no tricks exist to make that change.
If anyone's interested, there is a site to bring some compatibility back to older browsers and it's formatted to work with them, essentially it's archive.org customized for old browsers. If anyone's nostalgic for 1998 Internet again, here's the link:
If anyone's interested, there is a site to bring some compatibility back to older browsers and it's formatted to work with them, essentially it's archive.org customized for old browsers. If anyone's nostalgic for 1998 Internet again, here's the link:
Oh! I just remembered. A few days ago I updated my website on my iBook.
I bring my iPad 1 to work with me, as it still has great battery life, the calendar still works with iCloud, and I've got a ton of info that I need to access daily stored on it. A few days ago, I updated my website using it, which is something I had never done using it. Granted, the iPad is jailbroken and hacked to eternity, so it actually runs faster and better than stock ios 5.1.1.
I use iFile to do the edits to the html, and FTPOnTheGo Pro to upload the edits. Dropbox works in iOS 5.1.1, but will not connect to any of the old apps, so I have to use iFile's text editor to do the edits. My site is rocking it 1997-style- all-text, no-bloat, with a few pictures, so it's easy to edit.
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Some examples of modern HTTPS sites working on Netscape 9 on OS X 10.2
Nice! Same with my site actually, I have some pictures on pages and that's about it other than the text. All-in-all I think my site probably is about 40MB total I want to say and is done completely in Dreamweaver.
I have spent the last several weeks composing the following painting based out of a photograph in Photoshop CS2 on my MDD and G5 for a special occasion.
I think it's alright. However, I am still not 100% on the water's color fragmentation.
I think it's alright. However, I am still not 100% on the water's color fragmentation.
Very impressive results. I think the water looks truly great. What stands out to me (but I hasten to add that I say this not having seen the photograph and, even more importantly, not knowing how you want the painting to look) is that the sky jars a tiny bit with the smooth tree line and the beautifully rendered dynamic water. The central part of the sky is very dominant and pulls the eyes in. Skies tend to do that, especially when there's a G class star in frame but here I am wondering if, given that that's how the viewer's eye will react upon viewing the image, you want the sky to look like a sort of 'splash' or if you'd like to smoothen it out somehow to match sky's beautiful reflection in the water which is considerably less bright and energetically shaped? In the same vein, the highlights in the upper right-hand corner also seem a bit too bright and "blown" when compared with the water's reflection thereof.
I do like the play with the depth of field in the imate. Focus seems to be placed quite close to where the viewer stands, probably somewhere in the middle of the water, which is how a landscape photographer would do it to get as much DOF as possible throughout the image. Here, though, the photographer appears to have used a very small aperture, probably combined with a (graduated) ND filter to limit the DOF to the foreground of the image (and ensure that detail remains in the sky since a longer shutter speed would have been necessary to illuminate the dark foreground). The tell-tale sign is that the tree line is out of focus. The sky however appears to be less out of focus than the tree line (the splash is quite defined), which photographically speaking is an optical impossibility and jars a little with the rest of the image. A simple solution would be to add a small degree of sharpness to the trees' outline or to blur the sky ever so slightly.
I accept that not many viewers would probably notice this, and also that this is a painting of a photograph which opens the field for all sorts of artistic interpretation which is not available in-camera to a photographer. So whether these things matter at all depends on your artistic vision and I'm therefore hesitant to say this and hope you don't take it as criticism. It is a terrific image as it stands
Cheers
Philip
but here I am wondering if, given that that's how the viewer's eye will react upon viewing the image, you want the sky to look like a sort of 'splash' or if you'd like to smoothen it out somehow to match sky's beautiful reflection in the water which is considerably less bright and energetically shaped? In the same vein, the highlights in the upper right-hand corner also seem a bit too bright and "blown" when compared with the water's reflection thereof. I do like the play with the depth of field in the imate. Focus seems to be placed quite close to where the viewer stands, probably somewhere in the middle of the water, which is how a landscape photographer would do it to get as much DOF as possible throughout the image. Here, though, the photographer appears to have used a very small aperture, probably combined with a (graduated) ND filter to limit the DOF to the foreground of the image (and ensure that detail remains in the sky since a longer shutter speed would have been necessary to illuminate the dark foreground). The tell-tale sign is that the tree line is out of focus. The sky however appears to be less out of focus than the tree line (the splash is quite defined), which photographically speaking is an optical impossibility and jars a little with the rest of the image. A simple solution would be to add a small degree of sharpness to the trees' outline or to blur the sky ever so slightly.
I accept that not many viewers would probably notice this, and also that this is a painting of a photograph which opens the field for all sorts of artistic interpretation which is not available in-camera to a photographer. So whether these things matter at all depends on your artistic vision and I'm therefore hesitant to say this and hope you don't take it as criticism. It is a terrific image as it stands
Cheers
Philip
I rocked some Minecraft 1.2.5. The installer is awesome!
Thanks for the help, @pullman.
I knew it was incomplete ... it (more or less) looks a lot more seamless now.
Here's the SVG if anyone wants it.
I knew it was incomplete ... it (more or less) looks a lot more seamless now.
Here's the SVG if anyone wants it.
I finally have an internal HDD in my 700mhz iBook G3. Using the external SSD was fine, but having an internal HDD is more convenient. I used the HDD from my Clamshell iBook. It's a 60 GB 5400 RPM drive. It feels faster than the 10 GB HDD that my 500mhz iBook had, but slightly slower than the external SSD connected to the FW 400 port. I couldn't fit Jaguar on there, so it's just Tiger and OS 9.
Congrats, it looks great! Really well done.
Thanks for the help, @pullman.
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I knew it was incomplete ... it (more or less) looks a lot more seamless now.
Here's the SVG if anyone wants it.
This morning I listened to a couple of podcasts, then my laptop froze going to sleep, had to force power-off then back on, spent another 10 minutes resizing every open app (since it forgets the size on a force-reboot) re-open iTunes, find where I left off on the second podcast.
Did some writing recently using Word 2001 on my Dual USB iBook G3. Also wishing Clamshell G3s weren't so expensive, since the one I have doesn't work anymore.
Today? Today I’ve compiled an IRCd using macports and now have my G5 server running that ircd.