What have you done with an early Intel recently?

[chaosbunny]

I've got 11.6.8 on my 7,1. I find that once I get a few apps open the system slows down a lot? Is Monterey any better?

I just had Thunderbird, Firefox (with 4 Tabs and Netflix running), Preview, Affinity Photo with a 290mb picture, App Store and Activity monitor running at once without any slowdowns. Netflix continued to play smoothly most of the time, sometimes just some minor hickups when switching between apps.

Actvity monitor reported still 40% CPU inactive and about 8gb ram were used. According to your signature you have 4gb - I guess if you upgrade to 8gb your slowdowns should be gone.

 

[chaosbunny]

The cores idle around 50-70% with just opera running. Again, Im not too surprised by this and expect the cpus to calm down eventually - perhaps its some internal function like indexing etc.

That could be. At the beginning Montery on my 2010 MacBook was pretty laggy, but after about 30 to 60 minutes and installing the post installation patches everything ran smoothly.

 

[theMarble]

I just had Thunderbird, Firefox (with 4 Tabs and Netflix running), Preview, Affinity Photo with a 290mb picture, App Store and Activity monitor running at once without any slowdowns. Netflix continued to play smoothly most of the time, sometimes just some minor hickups when switching between apps.

Actvity monitor reported still 40% CPU inactive and about 8gb ram were used. According to your signature you have 4gb - I guess if you upgrade to 8gb your slowdowns should be gone.

Good to know, I'm still hunting around for a not-ridiculous price on 4GB or 8GB sticks of 1066 but hopefully everything will be much faster.

I also spy an Enterprise fan

 

[chaosbunny]

Good to know, I'm still hunting around for a not-ridiculous price on 4GB or 8GB sticks of 1066 but hopefully everything will be much faster.

I also spy an Enterprise fan

I paid € 47,- for 2 8gb sticks on amazon. Considering what these cost back in the day it was worth it to me.

Somehow I never watched Enterprise until now. I never liked the design of the ship. It looks good, but considering it plays 100 years before Captain Kirk it doesn't fit that it looks even more modern than the Voyager. Recently Netflix suggested it when I could not sleep, and now I'm hooked. I'm at season 2 and loving every episode.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

I paid € 47,- for 2 8gb sticks on amazon. Considering what these cost back in the day it was worth it to me.

Somehow I never watched Enterprise until now. I never liked the design of the ship. It looks good, but considering it plays 100 years before Captain Kirk it doesn't fit that it looks even more modern than the Voyager. Recently Netflix suggested it when I could not sleep, and now I'm hooked. I'm at season 2 and loving every episode.

Enterprise is great. A very underrated series that was killed off too early leading to an awkward & rushed ending - still one of if not my favorite ST series. One of my favorite aspects of Entrerprise was the noticeable shift from a boyscout idealism to a darker, grittier pragmatism towards the last season. That gritty aspect of humanity was nice to see and something the other series often lacked.

 

[eyoungren]

Enterprise is great. A very underrated series that was killed off too early leading to an awkward & rushed ending - still one of if not my favorite ST series. One of my favorite aspects of Entrerprise was the noticeable shift from a boyscout idealism to a darker, grittier pragmatism towards the last season. That gritty aspect of humanity was nice to see and something the other series often lacked.

I liked the series as well, just have a few criticisms, most of them around T'Pol and Trip.

- Towards the end, they treated T'Pol as a sex object and used a deus ex machina of drug addiction in order to give her 'emotions'. While Vulcans are not emotionless, this to me reflects lazy writing.

- The relationship between Trip and T'Pol was not believable. I never bought into it. Add in 'sensory Vulcan techniques for relaxation' (read: foreplay) and it just goes off the rails. Then they had to top it with them having a kid - who conveniently is killed off.

- Killing off Trip was just a stupid joke.

- Ending the series with a tribute to TNG was beyond irresponsible.

- I blame Berman and Braga for everything. At some point this guys were just phoning it all in while being major jerks and collecting their paychecks. Is it any wonder that the run of Star Trek TV shows ended with 'These are the voyages…"

Had they paid more attention to treating T'Pol as a proper Vulcan, along the lines of Spock and a few other things it might not have done as bad in the ratings as it did. One of the best things I always watched the show for was the relationship between Archer and T'Pol. It was professional and respectful and both knew that the other one was there for them.

My take anyway.

What did I do on an early Intel Mac today? I typed in this post above using an early Intel Mac.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

What did I do on an early Intel Mac today? I typed in this post above using an early Intel Mac.

Me too! - Late 2009 macbookpro both times.

To your point, lazy writing ie: sex sells, so with ratings in the toilet, I can see bosses pushing that on the storyline. I don't find the idea of their relationship impossible but how it was put/forced into the storyline wasn't very good. It's been 5 or 6 years since I watched through the series. Maybe it's time to do it again.

 

[eyoungren]

Me too! - Late 2009 macbookpro both times.

To your point, lazy writing ie: sex sells, so with ratings in the toilet, I can see bosses pushing that on the storyline.

I can understand why B/B (Berman/Braga) went there. They had success on Voyager with Seven of Nine. They tried to justify it later on by writing in character growth, but the explanation for continued use of the catsuit wasn't reasonable.

Which makes Jeri Ryan's initial hesitation to return to the role in Picard understandable.

So, why not try again with T'Pol? It just didn't work this time around.

 

[TheShortTimer]

- Ending the series with a tribute to TNG was beyond irresponsible.

- I blame Berman and Braga for everything. At some point this guys were just phoning it all in while being major jerks and collecting their paychecks. Is it any wonder that the run of Star Trek TV shows ended with 'These are the voyages…"

It certainly was a perplexing decision, tying in the finale to the events of TNG's (imho excellent and much more fun) episode The Pegasus - with Frakes and Sirtis unconvincingly reprising their roles within the episode's timeline. The need for Riker - by that stage a seasoned commander who'd rejected several promotions to captaincy, needing to turn to the original Enterprise as a historical reference point in order to solve his moral dilemma regarding Admiral Pressman's illegal cloaking device, was an insulting finale and it also undermined The Pegasus.

I can understand why B/B (Berman/Braga) went there. They had success on Voyager with Seven of Nine. They tried to justify it later on by writing in character growth, but the explanation for continued use of the catsuit wasn't reasonable.

Yeah, imho Voyager jumped the shark when they axed the character of Kes and replaced her with the almost constantly catsuit clad Seven of Nine. During Voyager's initial run I admittedly fell victim to Brannon and Braga's ploy but nowadays I cringe whenever the Scorpion storyline beckons because it marks the end of Voyager as a genuine Sci-Fi series and its transition to a desperate venture using sex appeal to evade cancellation.

Which makes Jeri Ryan's initial hesitation to return to the role in Picard understandable.

So, why not try again with T'Pol? It just didn't work this time around.

I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw that Ryan wasn't made to reprise the catsuit in Picard.

What did I do on an early Intel Mac today? I typed in this post above using an early Intel Mac.

In turn, I used an early Intel Mac today to indulge my Trekker passions in replying to this thread.

(I'll be forever mournful that we never got a TV series about Sulu's adventures as captain of the Excelsior - which was set up during the closing moments of Star Trek VI.)

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

(I'll be forever mournful that we never got a TV series about Sulu's adventures as captain of the Excelsior - which was set up during the closing moments of Star Trek VI.)

One of my favorite ST scenes/dialog of all time anywhere is when Captain Sulu is flying the Excelsior apart to help protect the Enterise in STVI - my favorite Start Trek movie.

 

[B S Magnet]

- I blame Berman and Braga for everything. At some point this guys were just phoning it all in while being major jerks and collecting their paychecks. Is it any wonder that the run of Star Trek TV shows ended with 'These are the voyages…"

Facts.

My take anyway.

Since we’re on ST:E hot takes: that horrific, trashy, outdated-upon-premiere Diane Warren theme song: nails-on-chalkboard-bad to my ears.

 

[TheShortTimer]

One of my favorite ST scenes/dialog of all time anywhere is when Captain Sulu is flying the Excelsior apart to help protect the Enterise in STVI - my favorite Start Trek movie.

ST VI is also my fave within the original series entries. I quoted that scene in another thread because of its aptness.

Since we’re on ST:E hot takes: that horrific, trashy, outdated-upon-premiere Diane Warren theme song: nails-on-chalkboard-bad to my ears.

I initially thought the performer was Rod Stewart or Bryan Adams and then discovered that Stewart originally recorded a version of the song.

 

[eyoungren]

Facts.

Absolutely. See Terry Farrell and Denise Crosby, as in the treatment of…

Braga at least had the decency to admit some wrong at one point - Berman still thinks everything he did was beyond reproach.

 

[TheShortTimer]

Absolutely. See Terry Farrell and Denise Crosby, as in the treatment of…

Braga at least had the decency to admit some wrong at one point - Berman still thinks everything he did was beyond reproach.

Was Crosby's departure due to Berman and Braga? I thought that she left due to toxicity by others within the camp who had greater seniority in 87/88. Please fill me in.

 

[eyoungren]

Was Crosby's departure due to Berman and Braga? I thought that she left due to toxicity by others within the camp who had greater seniority in 87/88. Please fill me in.

Crosby left because she was starting to get lucrative movie/tv offers. She asked to be written out.

Instead, Berman got petty and had her character killed off. The idea being that because she was dead she could never come back (at least as Tasha Yar).

Crosby's last scene was filmed out of order so the last time we see her was not her final scene. Berman comes on set with a cake to thank her, then rips off her Star Trek com badge and tells her "Guess you won't be needing that any more!"

https://twitter.com/x/status/1092268606711197698

 

[chaosbunny]

... killed off too early leading to an awkward & rushed ending ...

The tragic fate of many good series. I also like the darker approach, at the same time it's still not as dark as many current series and has some "Star Trek" humor.

- Towards the end, they treated T'Pol as a sex object and used a deus ex machina of drug addiction in order to give her 'emotions'. While Vulcans are not emotionless, this to me reflects lazy writing.

Wait, towards the end? It gets "worse"? She is wearing a skin-tight outfit since the first episode.

I can't image a relationship between Trip and T'Pol. Will be interesting to see where this goes. Trip is probably my least favourite character of the show. I'm at season 2 and he often seems childish and too emotional to me, sometimes even shouting in between when Archer or T'Pol have a negotiation with another species. Somehow unbelievable that he is third in command. Maybe Reed is right and they lack discipline on board.

(I'll be forever mournful that we never got a TV series about Sulu's adventures as captain of the Excelsior - which was set up during the closing moments of Star Trek VI.)

I would have SO watched that! I always loved the Excelsior design.

Oh and I watched another episode of Enterprise and posted here on my 2010 MacBook today.

 

[eyoungren]

Wait, towards the end? It gets "worse"? She is wearing a skin-tight outfit since the first episode.

I can't image a relationship between Trip and T'Pol. Will be interesting to see where this goes. Trip is probably my least favourite character of the show. I'm at season 2 and he often seems childish and too emotional to me, sometimes even shouting in between when Archer or T'Pol have a negotiation with another species. Somehow unbelievable that he is third in command. Maybe Reed is right and they lack discipline on board.

There's some stuff coming…

It helps, concerning Trip, if you think of him as a southern boy that's struggling to move beyond his preconceptions (which is really what his character is actually). He matures because there's stuff forcing him to.

But the reason I don't see the relationship working is that he's so different from T'Pol, even counting that she's a Vulcan. I can see a good friendship but not beyond that. Trip is kind of what makes T'Pol see the good in humanity. It's Archer that shows her humans can have some nobility on occasion.

As for her outfit, yes, it does get worse. And that's where the junior high school writing mentality comes in. Jolene Blalock loves Star Trek and was very happy to get this role - but was unhappy with how they wrote the character. And I agree. T'Pol is written like Cortana before she got a UNSC uniform makeover. All the physical stuff is not relevant to the character and it degrades because it's something you'd not think would happen to her. It's outside of what you'd think a Vulcan might do or be capable of, let alone out of character. But it's there because someone had to make 'sexy' work with 'Vulcan'.

Of course they write it all so it seems plausible and Blalock acts because she's under contract - but it's just a horrid thing to do to an otherwise fine and brilliant character.

 

[theMarble]

Since we’re on ST:E hot takes: that horrific, trashy, outdated-upon-premiere Diane Warren theme song: nails-on-chalkboard-bad to my ears.

Have you heard the planned theme for Enterprise? It's an extended version of the credits theme, yet matches up exactly with the images and text in the intro and is the exact length too. Apparently it was going to be used in the intro but was replaced close to airdate. I find FoTH fits well with the early years of Starfleet but Archer's Theme fits better in a Star Trek show overall.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Repaired a torn speaker in an 08 aluminum Macbook.

I also installed the DD1 Catalina post install patch including the broadcom update but seems to not have fixed the intermittent Wi-Fi after sleep break. Looking around it seems to affect 08 to 09 macbook & macbook pros and Ive read about a number of possible fixes, so will keep trying. Worse case scenario, I have to turn the macbook on and off a few more times lol. Still very happy with the outcome. Collin really crushed it with his series of patcher/installers.

 

[eyoungren]

Changed the background on my iPhone 6s+ by finishing up what I was working on the other day in PS (MacPro). Dropped it into the Photos app and was immediately seen on my 6s+.

Catherine Schell, Maya - Space 1999

 

[eyoungren]

Just bought two seller refurb WD Gold drives (Enterprise). 6TB.

One will replace my current 3TB drive I use in the MP (bay 4) for cloud services (Dropbox, Box, etc). I have 4TB of storage with Dropbox so technically with a 3TB drive I could never fill all of that. I'll pull out the 2TB drive in bay 3 and this 3TB drive will shift to bay 3 from bay 4.

That'll give me the following: Bay 1 - 1TB SSD, Bay 2 - 6TB HD, Bay 3 - 3TB HD and Bay 4 - 6TB HD. Total of 16TB storage for the MP.

The second new drive is going to go into the G4 NAS, replacing one of the 3TB drives that is in there now. I've only got 500gb of storage left on that drive. In doubling the storage I will be able to fully backup my main NAS which is 6TB.

So, I'll end up with a spare 3TB and 2TB drive. I already have a 2TB WD Green doing nothing so I might upgrade another one of my NAS enclosures from 2TB to 4TB by dropping those two 2TB drives into that.

 

[avz]

Repaired a torn speaker in an 08 aluminum Macbook.
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I also installed the DD1 Catalina post install patch including the broadcom update but seems to not have fixed the intermittent Wi-Fi after sleep break. Looking around it seems to affect 08 to 09 macbook & macbook pros and Ive read about a number of possible fixes, so will keep trying. Worse case scenario, I have to turn the macbook on and off a few more times lol. Still very happy with the outcome. Collin really crushed it with his series of patcher/installers.

Great work on that torn speaker. Nice and tidy. My Late 2008 unibody also had a very badly torn speaker(made me wonder why I could never hear the bong). I have attempted to fix it with some rubber hermetic but eventually decided to replace the whole speaker.

 

[B S Magnet]

I initially thought the performer was Rod Stewart or Bryan Adams and then discovered that Stewart originally recorded a version of the song.

Yes, I’ve had the misfortune of hearing Rod’s version. I can count on less than one hand the number of tolerable Diane Warren songs in existence. Most of everything she’s ever pumped out is dreck.

Her songwriting rival of the time, Holly Knight, cranked out tonnes of solid pop tracks and even co-wrote the theme song for ST:E’s temporal contemporary on syndicated TV, Angel. Speaking of, the last really good Rod Stewart song was the Knight-penned “Love Touch”, from Legal Eagles, in 1986.

Crosby left because she was starting to get lucrative movie/tv offers. She asked to be written out.

Her 1988 appearance in Miracle Mile seemed to signal her shift toward the big screen.

Instead, Berman got petty and had her character killed off. The idea being that because she was dead she could never come back (at least as Tasha Yar).

Berman was a hack and a menace.

I find FoTH fits well with the early years of Starfleet but Archer's Theme fits better in a Star Trek show overall.

Crrrrrinnnnnnnnnnnnnggggeee…

 

[rampancy]

Rather surprised to see this thread transform itself into a Star Trek geek out, but I'm not complaining...

re: ENT and Brannon and Braga, there isn't much that I can add to what's been already said (and I too mourn what could have been with Jolene Blalock's T'Pol), except that "A Night in Sickbay" is one of the most ridiculous and hilarious things I've ever seen in Star Trek. I have to say though, seeing a bare-chested Archer with a chainsaw was worth the price of admission.

The episode Threshold though...that pretty much broke VOY for me (and majoring in Ecology and Evolution at the time, man, that really hurt). Braga was really pushing it with the TNG episode Genesis and "Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome", but...the salamanders in Threshold was just too much for me.

Speaking of reverting to a primordial forms, my old "green dot" not-quite-dead*** MacBook Pro 3,1 is still hanging on. After some fighting with VirtualBox I got wicknix's custom version of Slax 10 working with it.

I also got TenSixTube working -- which has made YouTube usable again, but the main issue now is that I've lost volume control entirely on YouTube. This has become a real issue because for some strange reason, YT videos sound really loud, even on my lowest system volume setting.



***I'm still amazed/mystified that this machine hasn't died, even though the PCIe Lane Width on its "repaired" GPU reads 8x instead of 16x.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Catherine Schell, Maya - Space 1999

I had a bit of a crush on Maya when Series 2 first aired In retrospect, the "new look" Space 1999 wasn't a patch on the first series - nothing can surpass the corpse regurgitating alien spectre in Dragon's Domain or the cerebral head scratchers like The Testament of Arkadia