What have you done with an early Intel recently?

[chaosbunny]

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.

I can definitely see Trip developing, especially in the episode "Congenitor". The thing is, I would have no problem with him on a ship like the Voyager - a relatively small ship within a huge fleet. They could even explain that after the Borg attacks, they had to use less experienced personel. But Archers Enterprise is the first warp 5 ship, so it's a little unbelievable to me that someone with such a lack of discipline would end up in such a responsible position.

As for early intel Macs, I end up using my Whitebook more and more. I originally bought it for collection purposes and to try out OCLP. But since Montery runs so good, it's now my everyday "couch-computer", and personally I prefer it to an iPad. My wife has one, I now have my 2010 MacBook - for much less money. My 2019 mbp is used for editing 4k and 6k videos for work and is tied (external screens, storage, peripherals, ...) to my desk at the home office or a color grading company I often work with. It's nice to have something I can just grab and sit somewhere. Value for money wise, that € 90,- white MacBook might be one of my best electronic purchases ever.

 

[eyoungren]

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

I do not recall exactly when I came in to this series, but it was in syndication in the 80s at some point and it was sci-fi so I watched. Schell was not a crush for me (but I totally get that), but she was my favorite character. Tough, strong, able to handle herself and take care of herself but at the same time nice. Schell herself matched her character as I learned later on. Primarily, I liked her though because she was exotic - at least to some middle class white kid as I was anyway.

 

[m1maverick]

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.

LOL! Famous last words of so many

 

[eyoungren]

LOL! Famous last words of so many

I get what you mean and I agree.

I was heading somewhere else with that though…

My Dropbox folder is on my 3TB drive. I could fill that Dropbox folder (and thus the drive) with 3TB of data, but because I have 4TB of storage with Dropbox I'd still have 1TB of data that I couldn't fill. Because the drive the Dropbox folder is on is at max capacity - not my Dropbox space.

Swap that with a 6TB drive and I can fill all my Dropbox space and still have 2TB left over on the drive itself.

I was writing quickly yesterday so my fault that wasn't clear.

 

[rampancy]

LOL! Famous last words of so many

I remember thinking that there was no way I'd ever run out of space on my Performa 6320/120 CD's massive 1.2 GB hard drive. A year later I was relying on Norton DiskDoubler and a stack of 100 MB Zip disks in a desperate bid to find a place to fit all of my files.

 

[eyoungren]

I remember thinking that there was no way I'd ever run out of space on my Performa 6320/120 CD's massive 1.2 GB hard drive. A year later I was relying on Norton DiskDoubler and a stack of 100 MB Zip disks in a desperate bid to find a place to fit all of my files.

My problem, which I keep kicking down the road, is my media folder on my NAS. I've got movies/tv shows that if I were to burn one by one (or even a few at a time) would take up one CD/DVD at a time. There is no cloud service that's going to inexpensively hold all that for me as a backup. And it keeps growing. I have yet to figure out a viable long term storage solution that does not involve a lot of time, money and storage media.

 

[theMarble]

My problem, which I keep kicking down the road, is my media folder on my NAS. I've got movies/tv shows that if I were to burn one by one (or even a few at a time) would take up one CD/DVD at a time. There is no cloud service that's going to inexpensively hold all that for me as a backup. And it keeps growing. I have yet to figure out a viable long term storage solution that does not involve a lot of time, money and storage media.

The way that I'm planning to do it is have the NAS be the first point of backup, then that will be backed up to USB external hard drive. They have the best cost per gigabyte and are reliable enough to serve as a long-term backup.

 

[eyoungren]

The way that I'm planning to do it is have the NAS be the first point of backup, then that will be backed up to USB external hard drive. They have the best cost per gigabyte and are reliable enough to serve as a long-term backup.

Thanks for the idea. Going to have to give that some thought but I might head down that road.

 

[rampancy]

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.

Okay, sorry to drag this back off-topic, but this is what really gets me about Enterprise. I think I remember the producers talking about how they wanted the NX-01's sets to resemble a "nuclear submarine in space" and yet they still come across as looking far more modern* than they should be considering how it's supposed to be set 100 years before TOS. And of course there's the fact that the NX-01 was directed by the studio to be a blantant rip-off of the atypically-designed fan favorite Akira-class from Star Trek: First Contact (when IMO it really should have looked more like Doug Drexler's unofficial "S.S Enterprise Refit" from the get-go).

And I'm sorry, but I'm not fully buying how "In a Mirror, Darkly" tries so hard to show just how much ENT really is supposed to be a prequel to TOS. (As fun and enjoyable a set of episodes as they are.)

*And I find that amusing when comparing the Crew Dragon in 2021 vs. the NX-01 in 2151. 😜

 

[eyoungren]

Okay, sorry to drag this back off-topic, but this is what really gets me about Enterprise. I think I remember the producers talking about how they wanted the NX-01's sets to resemble a "nuclear submarine in space" and yet they still come across as looking far more modern* than they should be considering how it's supposed to be set 100 years before TOS. And of course there's the fact that the NX-01 was directed by the studio to be a blantant rip-off of the atypically-designed fan favorite Akira-class from Star Trek: First Contact (when IMO it really should have looked more like Doug Drexler's unofficial "S.S Enterprise Refit" from the get-go).

And I'm sorry, but I'm not fully buying how "In a Mirror, Darkly" tries so hard to show just how much ENT really is supposed to be a prequel to TOS. (As fun and enjoyable a set of episodes as they are.)

*And I find that amusing when comparing the Crew Dragon in 2021 vs. the NX-01 in 2151. 😜

My biggest problem wasn't so much the ship itself, but inside the ship. I have issues with the ship, my primary one being that it resembled the aesthetic of NCC-1701-D too much. But again, inside drew my ire.

As stated, it was supposed to be a pre-Constitution class Enterprise. Yet everyone on the bridge has some sort of monitor to be looking at. Nothing that you might think would proceed all those dials, switches and flip buttons. Yes, the original Enterprise has a main view screen and so does this Enterprise, but how do you get from all these monitors at each station to the bridge of the original Enterprise?

And graphics on the displays?!!!!! Kirk would have killed for this type of Enterprise!

Other problems for me were ambient light levels. Oh yes, I get it - submarine. How come the original Enterprise was so brightly lit you could get a tan? Even 1701-D was more brightly lit, despite the 'mood' lighting! And while I love the color blue everything inside has a really obvious blue palette, overtone or tint to it (except possibly with the exception of sickbay and mess). Original Enterprise never had any of that.

Quite frankly I saw this as an unintentional 1990s coffeehouse effect. 🤷‍♂️

Let's do a comparison.

Let's say that original Constitution is the USS Triton, the US Navy's first nuclear powered submarine and that 1701-D represents the Virginina class boats. What does experimental Enterprise represent? Sturgeon class! That's the class of boats between the Thresher class (same time period as USS Triton) and Los Angeles class (late 70's early 80s).

What should have experimental Enterprise represented? A U-Boat. Any number of books or movies about U-Boats existed that they could have referenced. Dirty, leaky, cramped, smelly and always breaking down - it would have been far more believable.

 

[chaosbunny]

LOL! Famous last words of so many

My first Mac, a Cube, had a 20gb hd. When I got a C2D iMac in 2008 with a 500gb hd I thought, wow, this is huge. A couple of years ago I started to move from graphic design to video shooting/editing. I have a client who shoots everything in 6k raw. Some single projects have 2-3 Terabyte ... fun times.

I store everything on a growing number of 8-10tb hds that I put into my 2010 Mac Pro if I need them. That doesn't happen often once a project is finished though.

And I'm sorry, but I'm not fully buying how "In a Mirror, Darkly" tries so hard to show just how much ENT really is supposed to be a prequel to TOS. (As fun and enjoyable a set of episodes as they are.)

And graphics on the displays?!!!!! Kirk would have killed for this type of Enterprise!

To be fair, it would have been extremely hard to create something in 2000 that looks like a genuine predecessor of the 1960ies Enterprise and does not look ridiculous but at least somewhat realistic at the same time. The original series had a tiny budget to begin with, as far as I know. Dirty, leaky, smelly sounds interesting, but then it quickly would look even less advanced than the space station we have now.

They did a somewhat decent job in Star Wars Episode III, but they also had much better source material to begin with. A good example of this would be the Jedi Starfighters who need these hyperspace rings for faster than light travel. 30 years later the Rebel fighters have the hyperdrive built in.

Season 2 of Enterprise was great. I started season 3 yesterday and can already see the downfall you mentioned. Even the theme song got worse. I hope I'll make it to the end.

 

[eyoungren]

To be fair, it would have been extremely hard to create something in 2000 that looks like a genuine predecessor of the 1960ies Enterprise and does not look ridiculous but at least somewhat realistic at the same time. The original series had a tiny budget to begin with, as far as I know. Dirty, leaky, smelly sounds interesting, but then it quickly would look even less advanced than the space station we have now.

They did a somewhat decent job in Star Wars Episode III, but they also had much better source material to begin with. A good example of this would be the Jedi Starfighters who need these hyperspace rings for faster than light travel. 30 years later the Rebel fighters have the hyperdrive built in.

Season 2 of Enterprise was great. I started season 3 yesterday and can already see the downfall you mentioned. Even the theme song got worse. I hope I'll make it to the end.

U-571 gives a believable performance in the vein of what I mean, if not historically accurate. I think something like this drives more of the focus to the story - and can you imagine how much more impact a formation of Star Fleet and Archer's speech would be knowing all the travails the crew went through to get there?

Anyway, if you actually focus on the interactions between T'Pol and Archer and ignore the 'intimate' stuff with Trip and her it makes it a lot easier.

 

[rampancy]

Season 2 of Enterprise was great. I started season 3 yesterday and can already see the downfall you mentioned. Even the theme song got worse. I hope I'll make it to the end.

As much as I bagged it, I genuinely loved In A Mirror, Darkly, which is in Season 4. That two-parter alone is worth sticking with the show to the end, IMO.

 

[InAWhiteRoom]

Thank you for posting these pics and giving me plans/ideas for when I prepare the everything-at-once upgrade of my 2013 iMac (HDD to SDD, addition of NVMe blade, upgrading the CPU, and maxing the RAM) — all-at-once, as you now know, because of that foam seal. Like you, it was given to me, gratis, by someone who tinkered with Macs for a minute before returning to custom-built gaming rigs.

The tp rolls are an especially handy thing I’ll apply once that time comes!

I was browsing This Does Not Compute, there’s an excellent (and very entertaining) video of an SSD upgrade for exactly your iMac. Fortunately my mid 2011 had no foam, just magnets. The need for a ‘mini-pizza cutter’ sounds like a whole different level of commitment.

I reckon it’s worth it though. A clean install of Snow Leopard was running so smooth and fast that I‘ve just added a High Sierra partition. With the new SSD and max (32gb) ram, it boots in practically the same time with either OS, and I’ve just been settling down to netflix & youtube without any issue. Even Siri runs quickly, and my Apple Music subscription is now accessible too.

TL,DR: check out this cool video: https://iteroni.com/watch?v=Zp8RI0CxhVc

Happy foam cutting!

 

[rampancy]

Good News: I upgraded my "It-has-a-green-dot-so-why-is-the-GPU-seemingly-dying!?" MacBook Pro 3,1 to from 10.6.8 to 10.11.6. I can edit my Medium blog now and start up my account with Submittable! (Which didn't seem to work well with either InterWeb or ArcticFox.)

Bad News: The PCIe Lane Width has dropped from 8x down to 1x. Sigh. Thankfully I have another Green Dot MacBook Pro for my collection, but man, it's going to be sad to see this machine die when it does. At least there's potential for me to salvage it for use in an art project, as well as parts for my other MacBook Pros.

 

[avz]

A new Firefox ESR update (102.3.0esr) seems to bring some Dark Mode update, as Macrumors and Youtube pages are displayed in Dark Mode on High Sierra.

 

[wicknix]

Ehh, you can do dark mode in any version of firefox as low as 45 for sure on select sites. Youtube and macrumors have the option to display normal or dark mode built in to your preferences. For all other pages there are numerous extensions that give you that ability and they have been around for years.

Cheers

 

[avz]

Ehh, you can do dark mode in any version of firefox as low as 45 for sure on select sites. Youtube and macrumors have the option to display normal or dark mode built in to your preferences. For all other pages there are numerous extensions that give you that ability and they have been around for years.

Cheers

Thanks. Something must have happened in the last update though as I did not change any settings. Macrumors went dark mode straight after the browser update and with Youtube I remember I had to re-enable Dark Mode every time after clearing cookies, caches and restarting the browser but now it seems to persist. It is almost like High Sierra got some dark mode capability "under the hood" which is probably unlikely.

 

[MultiFinder17]

I've been working on giving some TLC to a 2009 13" MBP that was recently given to me. She's taken a beating, got a few dents and gouges, but inside it's solid. Got it torn down, cleaned out, repasted, and some new rubber feet on it to replace the originals that were peeling off. Got it running High Sierra at the moment, as I've found that to be the most solid and complete version for 9400M machines

 

[eyoungren]

Drives came in: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread....2233788/page-113?post=31527244#post-31527244

Taking care of the G4 'NAS' at the moment. Will be swapping out drives on the MP later.

 

[eyoungren]

Drives came in: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread....2233788/page-113?post=31527244#post-31527244

Taking care of the G4 'NAS' at the moment. Will be swapping out drives on the MP later.

And now the game of musical drives (copying files from one drive to another) begins!

 

[B S Magnet]

EDIT to amend! I was wrong about the 48—>44.1 downsample! I tinkered about with the data even further, and looking in some obscure setting panel, was informed that NOAA satellites transmit specifically at 11.025 kHz. So I opened WXtoImg to display “expert” mode. This enabled me to change the satellite to the correct one. Meanwhile, I re-saved the audio data from last night as 11.025 kHz. I also touch’d the file with as close to the moment when I recorded it last night, give or take ten minutes. I opened it, again, in WXtoImg, and LO AND BEHOLD:

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Next thing I hope to learn is how to capture an image from a mode called “SSTV” — “slow-scan television” — which is a technique those aforementioned music radio pirates use to identify themselves before they begin a music show. They’re basically digital-to-analogue colour pictures.

✂️ [snip]

Tonight, I’m spending my time trawling the megahertz stumbling across two different kinds of pirate radio: one kind is very much like the film, Pump Up the Volume, in which (so far) three different pirate feeds have been playing music and, earlier, listening to Brazilian dudes hijack geostationary US military satellites to re-transmit back to earth. They’ve been doing this since the mid aughts, and so long as one has line of sight to one of the satellites (there are four), one can pick them up pretty loudly and clearly.

The one I’m listening to, albeit faintly at the moment, is being covered in real time on another forum called HFunderground — a forum dedicated to clandestine radio transmissions. Even though the sound quality for the other two music broadcasts have been stronger signals, it’s more the music picks of this DJ which keep making me smile (what makes me smile isn’t always whether I like the song, but rather the way a DJ picks what they play and how well they keep you on your toes).

After posting the above, I spent a lot of trial-and-error, trying to find a SSTV — slow-scan television — reader for OS X.

Most of the open-source SSTV projects out there (I tried looking into three of them) would run into dependency stumbling blocks for which there were not suitable remedies for Darwin/Mac — including a set of audio libraries explicitly designed for Linux and Linux alone (ALSA, as memory serves). There are a few Windows SSTV utilities, but nothing I could find for Mac (or anything which could be compiled in a Mac/Darwin environment).

Until… I found this lone utility called MultiScan 3B, now only accessible through Web Archive.

The utility can both read and create SSTV images. It will automatically detect the type of scan encoding and duration (each quality standard has a set duration of audio through which the image is encoded, with many of them seemingly set to the 36-second encoding standard; 72-second is the highest quality).

I’m glad to report it works in High Sierra. I have not yet tested it on earlier iterations of OS X/macOS:

So far, I’ve managed to read two I’ve received from those aforementioned pirate radio stations playing music. This is the above example from the last one I managed to receive (others, if you follow that link, also had trouble getting a clean recording of the SSTV image, as there was a lot of noise in last night’s atmosphere). The above example was sourced from a sound file I recorded from the side-band broadcast (but much noisier visually since I tried to do some audio post-processing with the raw recording).

Below is the original, slightly less noisy, along with the very first SSTV image from another pirate radio show I picked up last weekend:



Mind you, if you follow those links to the threaded discussions, most of those folks are basically running Mac Pro-level equipment in the analogue radio realm to my basement-budget Core Solo Mac mini. But I wanted to see just how well I could manage using the barest minimum of equipment (a USB adapter for RTL-SDR, plus an eBay knock-off of the Youloop antenna).

I’d say, “Not too bad, all things considered.”

 

[eyoungren]

Copying files…7 hours to go.



Good tool to have BTW, SATA to USB. This drive was one of the 3TBs that came out of the G4. It's sitting on top of the 2TB drive I pulled from the MP. That drive is next.

Writing on the WD Green is not mine - previous owner who had it in a NAS.

 

[chaosbunny]

Copying files…7 hours to go.

Good tool to have BTW, SATA to USB.

If only it was Firewire800.

 

[Amethyst1]

If only it was Firewire800.

It may be USB 3.x — in that case the MP “just” needs a USB 3.x card.