What have you done with an early Intel recently?

[eyoungren]

That was the one with the probably dead logic board right?


That's actually really good all things considered. I've heard of people driving hours to pick up some old computer stuff.

So does this mean you now have 7 monitors or is it still 6?

Yes, the one I suspect has some bad component. I ruled out the power supply because it worked with the other display so it has to be some internal part.

The new one will just replace the old one, so it remains at six. I've just been running five right now because I haven't wanted to move things around.

 

[VirtuallyInsane]

I have thousands - some shelved, many either piled high, boxed or in crates. They range across various genres and encompass material related to intellectual interest, personal development, academic literature and light reading for sheer pleasure. Many of them I bought by the bag-load from thrift stores and other similar places where bargains can be had, many I bought online from eBay, many were purchased at the full whack from book-stores and many were donated to me.

That's pretty cool. I occasionally go to bookshops and look for offers. The Works usually has a lot of new books discounted for major prices and have 3 for 2 offers, etc. Tesco has 2 for £8, and so does ASDA. But yeah, I agree that charity shops/thrift stores, etc, and even eBay are great for bulk buying second-hand.

It's cool that you have a massive collection of books. I think my family is worried about me now, collecting all these books. Imagine me in five years lol I might need some of your crates.

But for real, it's good to have a home library of sorts. A collection of books to read and learn from. And vary your tastes. Variety is the spice of life, after all.

For example, when the campus for my alma mater closed down, a senior librarian invited me to pick through the library racks and take whatever I wanted: for free. In the end I went home with about 500 titles, plus journals and other publications stacked up in the van of an older sibling who watched with astonishment as I made endless trips in and out of the library with a book trolley. I later found 30 duplicates among the collection and gifted them to my dad when he made a short visit to the UK and he took them back with him to the Caribbean to enjoy.

Wow, that's cool. 500 titles is a lot, LOL. And a trolley. I bet that was a great day for you. I'm sure it was fun taking them all out of the van again. It's amazing, that you can just get that many books for free. It's nice that you gave your Dad some gifts, though. I hope he enjoyed the books.

When I eventually move to a larger home, I plan to convert one room into a study and I'll shelve everything in there and photograph the lot and also check which titles are out of print and scan them so that they can be made available electronically.

That sounds like a plan. If I ever get a big enough place of my own, I'm taking the biggest room and I am dedicating it to all my Apple products and starting a museum/study. And it will be controlled by a lock and a key

But it's cool that you want to photograph the books and scan the unavailable books. That takes some dedication.

In all brutal frankness, anyone who thinks that needs to be avoided for the sake of our sanity. I'm not expecting people to possess a book collection on my scale but if they regard reading as a boring chore then there's little scope for me to engage with them on any level that's constructive and beneficial.

Yeah, I agree. Too many people think that they need to be into the latest and greatest gossip and shun literature to not be superficial to others and come across as uncool, but to me, it's the other way around. All these crappy reality TV shows are just mind rot and idk how people actually legit watch them.

Definitely.

And places that aren't even in this world as well.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

I have thousands - some shelved, many either piled high, boxed or in crates. They range across various genres and encompass material related to intellectual interest, personal development, academic literature and light reading for sheer pleasure. Many of them I bought by the bag-load from thrift stores and other similar places where bargains can be had, many I bought online from eBay, many were purchased at the full whack from book-stores and many were donated to me.

For example, when the campus for my alma mater closed down, a senior librarian invited me to pick through the library racks and take whatever I wanted: for free. In the end I went home with about 500 titles, plus journals and other publications stacked up in the van of an older sibling who watched with astonishment as I made endless trips in and out of the library with a book trolley. I later found 30 duplicates among the collection and gifted them to my dad when he made a short visit to the UK and he took them back with him to the Caribbean to enjoy.

When I eventually move to a larger home, I plan to convert one room into a study and I'll shelve everything in there and photograph the lot and also check which titles are out of print and scan them so that they can be made available electronically.

The city library where I live had this huge surplus sale about 15 years ago where they were moving literal tonnes of old books that they had ie: duplicates, triplets etc as well a old records, tapes and all sorts of old surplus stuff. I picked up so many hardbacks of my favorite books from that for my own library but my favorite score from that were a set of vintage 1950s Christmas holiday 33 & 45's including recordings of 30-50s old radio programs and other era recordings in their original cases & sleeves - many still had their pressed metal spindles as well. I had so much stuff - maybe 60-75 hardback books and 30 or so records and I think I walked out with it all for maybe $10 bucks. They've never had another sale like it. Nowadays I see the library surplus get looped into lot sales from the city/countys online auction website, so I think it will never come back but at least I got into that one. I have too many books now to fit in my office so I moved a bookcase of them into my garage by my bench and then my cook book collection went into my guest bedroom closet (for now). Speaking of cookbooks, I really enjoy old cookbooks. In my late teens when I just started culinary school, I had a second job cleaning persian rugs and there was a thrift store next door. Like any good picker, I would frequent their dumpster to see what they were throwing out. One day it was absolutely loaded with cook books from the 50s 60s and 70s. I must've grabbed 30 books out of that dumpster (all in fantastic condition) spanning all sorts of period cuisine from all parts of the globe, many showing clssic preparations of Classic cooking in the European tradition that you just dont see today which is always so nice to revisit from times (love the classics ie: culinary techniques). Anyhow I still have them all. Every single one.

Throwing away books is akin to burning them to me. It was pretty amazing to me that they'd just dump such a great collection of books in the trash like that. Anyhow, like you I plan to eventually be able to build a library into a small bedroom (in a perfect world have it be across from my office) and fill it up with all my favorite literature. Like old macs, here's to saving books from ignorance.

I posted this response on an 09 Alu Unibody MBP.

 

[VirtuallyInsane]

Oh yeah, I threw a 500GB SSD in my MBP '07 and it's faster now. More responsive. Doesn't seem as warm either. It still whines a bit, but it's 16 years old. It went a bit crazy temperature-wise when it was indexing though, but it seems to be normal enough now.

 

[Amethyst1]

Played with a HP Z27q, which uses Samsung's 5120×2880 panel rather than one made by LG. It's a dual-link DisplayPort 1.2 behemoth. So... how far can it go using a single connection from a RX 460? Bad news first: the refresh rate must be 59...60 Hz. The following modes are given as resolution | refresh | pixel clock.

3840×2880 59.973Hz 710.56MHz: black (same with 2880 and 3200 width)

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4096×2160 59.983Hz 567.25MHz: OK
4096×2304 59.986Hz 605.06MHz: OK
4096×2560 59.973Hz 672.06MHz: OK
4096×2686 59.958Hz 705.05MHz: OK
4096×2688 59.935Hz 705.31MHz: garbage
4096×2690 59.998Hz 706.56MHz: black (same with heights of 2692, 2694, 2696, 2698, 2700)

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4098×2160 59.908Hz 566.81MHz: black

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5120×2160 59.968Hz 703.56MHz: black

I've attached its EDIDs, extracted from AGDCDiagnose's output.

 

[TheShortTimer]

But it's cool that you want to photograph the books and scan the unavailable books. That takes some dedication.

Thanks but it's nothing compared to what Aaron Swartz attempted to accomplish with 4.8 million JSTOR articles. The way I see it, I'll be ensuring that future generations can also enjoy and have access to these books. Out-of-print books often command a king's ransom and it's unacceptable that people are denied access to information because of budgetary constraints.

Yeah, I agree. Too many people think that they need to be into the latest and greatest gossip and shun literature to not be superficial to others and come across as uncool, but to me, it's the other way around. All these crappy reality TV shows are just mind rot and idk how people actually legit watch them.

Anti-intellectualism is one of our greatest scourges. I think you'd appreciate this track, if you're not already familiar with it.

Throwing away books is akin to burning them to me.

Indeed and Stuart McMillen masterfully depicts this in the Neil Postman inspired Amusing Ourselves to Death.

There's a fine line between burning books and devaluing them to the point that you'd discard them: the outcome is the same. To keep this post on topic with the theme of what have you done with an Intel Mac recently, Amusing Ourselves to Death has been deleted by McMillen at the request of Neil Postman's estate but I found an alternate source and with the help of JDownloader on my 2011 MBP, I saved the entire set of images and can view them at my leisure and decide if I want to merge them into a single PDF using Adobe Acrobat DC.

It was pretty amazing to me that they'd just dump such a great collection of books in the trash like that. Anyhow, like you I plan to eventually be able to build a library into a small bedroom (in a perfect world have it be across from my office) and fill it up with all my favorite literature. Like old macs, here's to saving books from ignorance.

Hear hear!

Keeping with books, it invokes parallels with the characters in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 who dedicate themselves to preserving the past - for the future.

I posted this response on an 09 Alu Unibody MBP.

Bravo!

 

[joevt]

Played with a HP Z27q, which uses Samsung's 5120×2880 panel rather than one made by LG. It's a dual-link DisplayPort 1.2 behemoth. So... how far can it go using a single connection from a RX 460? Bad news first: the refresh rate must be 59...60 Hz.

You can use edid-decode to find the largest 16:9 60Hz resolution.

for ((w=3840; w <= 5120; w+=16)); do
	edid-decode --cvt w=$w,h=$((w*9/16)),fps=60,rb=2 | tr -d '\n' | tr -s ' '
	echo
done

Below are some results under 710MHz. You probably want to use 4448x2502 since it has even vertical height and is under 705 MHz.

CVT: 4448x2502 59.999973 Hz 16:9 154.440 kHz 699.304000 MHz (RBv2) Hfront 8 Hsync 32 Hback 40 Hpol P Vfront 58 Vsync 8 Vback 6 Vpol N
CVT: 4464x2511 59.999990 Hz 16:9 154.980 kHz 704.229000 MHz (RBv2) Hfront 8 Hsync 32 Hback 40 Hpol P Vfront 58 Vsync 8 Vback 6 Vpol N
CVT: 4480x2520 59.999983 Hz 16:9 155.520 kHz 709.171000 MHz (RBv2) Hfront 8 Hsync 32 Hback 40 Hpol P Vfront 58 Vsync 8 Vback 6 Vpol N

 

[Amethyst1]

You can use edid-decode to find the largest 16:9 60Hz resolution.

Thanks. I tried the following modes (even height, CVT-RB, <720MHz pixel clock). All produce a black screen. 4096×2304@60Hz is the largest 16:9 resolution that works. Widths >4096 produce a black screen, even at heights of 1440 or 2160.

CVT: 4128x2322 59.986851 Hz 16:9 143.249 kHz 614.250000 MHz (RB) Hfront 48 Hsync 32 Hback 80 Hpol P Vfront 3 Vsync 5 Vback 58 Vpol N
CVT: 4160x2340 59.986113 Hz 16:9 144.387 kHz 623.750000 MHz (RB) Hfront 48 Hsync 32 Hback 80 Hpol P Vfront 3 Vsync 5 Vback 59 Vpol N
CVT: 4192x2358 59.979533 Hz 16:9 145.450 kHz 633.000000 MHz (RB) Hfront 48 Hsync 32 Hback 80 Hpol P Vfront 3 Vsync 5 Vback 59 Vpol N
CVT: 4224x2376 59.988823 Hz 16:9 146.613 kHz 642.750000 MHz (RB) Hfront 48 Hsync 32 Hback 80 Hpol P Vfront 3 Vsync 5 Vback 60 Vpol N
CVT: 4256x2394 59.992502 Hz 16:9 147.702 kHz 652.250000 MHz (RB) Hfront 48 Hsync 32 Hback 80 Hpol P Vfront 3 Vsync 5 Vback 60 Vpol N
CVT: 4288x2412 59.988285 Hz 16:9 148.831 kHz 662.000000 MHz (RB) Hfront 48 Hsync 32 Hback 80 Hpol P Vfront 3 Vsync 5 Vback 61 Vpol N
CVT: 4320x2430 59.979349 Hz 16:9 149.888 kHz 671.500000 MHz (RB) Hfront 48 Hsync 32 Hback 80 Hpol P Vfront 3 Vsync 5 Vback 61 Vpol N
CVT: 4352x2448 59.984776 Hz 16:9 151.042 kHz 681.500000 MHz (RB) Hfront 48 Hsync 32 Hback 80 Hpol P Vfront 3 Vsync 5 Vback 62 Vpol N
CVT: 4384x2466 59.985678 Hz 16:9 152.124 kHz 691.250000 MHz (RB) Hfront 48 Hsync 32 Hback 80 Hpol P Vfront 3 Vsync 5 Vback 62 Vpol N
CVT: 4416x2484 59.999932 Hz 16:9 153.300 kHz 701.500000 MHz (RB) Hfront 48 Hsync 32 Hback 80 Hpol P Vfront 3 Vsync 5 Vback 63 Vpol N
CVT: 4448x2502 59.986551 Hz 16:9 154.405 kHz 711.500000 MHz (RB) Hfront 48 Hsync 32 Hback 80 Hpol P Vfront 3 Vsync 5 Vback 64 Vpol N

 

[joevt]

Thanks. I tried the following modes (even height, CVT-RB, <720MHz pixel clock). All produce a black screen. 4096×2304@60Hz is the largest 16:9 resolution that works. Widths >4096 produce a black screen, even at heights of 1440 or 2160.

RX 460 has a width limit of 4K? Or the HP Z27q does. Didn't you have a test with the RX 460 and a different display where it could do more than 4K?

The EDID #2 for the HP Z27q shows a 5K60 non-tiled mode. Where does that EDID come from? Maybe that mode requires 6bpc. It's a strange EDID with no other modes and no range limits defined.

    DTD:  5120x2880   59.992864 Hz  16:9    177.699 kHz    938.250000 MHz (aspect 16:9, no 3D stereo, preferred)
               Hfront   48 Hsync  32 Hback   80 Hpol P
               Vfront    3 Vsync   5 Vback   74 Vpol N

Did you try to override the range limits of EDID #1 and #3 using SwitchResX?
Monitor ranges (Bare Limits): 59-60 Hz V, 31-180 kHz H, max dotclock 540 MHz
Or maybe they don't matter since you achieved a dot clock of 705 MHz and also the Mac accepted the modes with higher pixel clock.

 

[Amethyst1]

Didn't you have a test with the RX 460 and a different display where it could do more than 4K?

Yes, 5K60 8bpc RGB via HBR3×4 on the Iiyama XB2779QQS.

The EDID #2 for the HP Z27q shows a 5K60 non-tiled mode. Where does that EDID come from? Maybe that mode requires 6bpc. It's a strange EDID with no other modes and no range limits defined.

Could it come from the .mtdd file in macOS (I’m using 10.15.7 for these tests)?

Did you try to override the range limits of EDID #1 and #3 using SwitchResX?
Monitor ranges (Bare Limits): 59-60 Hz V, 31-180 kHz H, max dotclock 540 MHz
Or maybe they don't matter since you achieved a dot clock of 705 MHz and also the Mac accepted the modes with higher pixel clock.

Not yet. Refresh rates of 30, 40, 45, 50 and 57 Hz all make the OSD report “Input signal out of range”. When feeding it custom modes that work, the OSD reports the horizontal and vertical scan rate instead of the resolution and vertical scan rate.

 

[joevt]

Could it come from the .mtdd file in macOS (I’m using 10.15.7 for these tests)?

Yes, that's right. I didn't notice that you used my EDIDUtil.sh script to get the results. I was confused because you said they came from the AGDCDiagnose and the mtdd does not come from there. My EDIDUtil.sh script when loading EDIDs from AGDCDiagnose or any other supported file will look for corresponding EDIDs in mtdd overlay and display EDID overrides and add those EDIDs to the list of EDIDs. The listedids command in EDIDUtil.sh shows the source of each EDID. Duplicate EDIDs are grouped into a single list entry with all sources of that EDID listed.

Not yet. Refresh rates of 30, 40, 45, 50 and 57 Hz all make the OSD report “Input signal out of range”. When feeding it custom modes that work, the OSD reports the horizontal and vertical scan rate instead of the resolution and vertical scan rate.

I suppose the problem can't be between CVT-RB and CVT-RB2 since you got some CVT-RB2 timings to work. For example the Dell P2415Q can do 4K60 CVT-RB but not CVT-RB2 (it's black).

 

[Jack Neill]

I grabbed a mid 2009 17" 2.8/8/500 at goodwill, I just put an Silicon Power 512 in it and fired up a 10.9 image.
I think it has the matte display? It has silver bezels. It has 700 cycles and could use a new battery. Not bad for 105$. Love the 17" screen.

 

[VirtuallyInsane]

Thanks but it's nothing compared to what Aaron Swartz attempted to accomplish with 4.8 million JSTOR articles. The way I see it, I'll be ensuring that future generations can also enjoy and have access to these books. Out-of-print books often command a king's ransom and it's unacceptable that people are denied access to information because of budgetary constraints.

Wow, that's impressive. And JSTOR wants the people who actually research the stuff to pay as well? Nah. That's unfair. That should be free to them, that's their own research. Taxpayer-funded stuff? Keeping it all hidden from us.

I do definitely think that there is an abuse of paywalls in regard to knowledge online. I think that it's unfair for JSTOR to keep all the research under expensive subscriptions that rip the ass out of paying for the research.

It's sad that Swartz ended up taking his own life over wanting to distribute information freely and that changes happened after he died. He definitely had good intentions. I understand what he was trying to do. But it's a pity that these big companies only seem to open up after a tragedy happens (i.e. Covid, someone dying, etc).

I think that information should be distributed freely, if possible, and that the people creating the information can still sustain themselves as well. But yeah, people should not be forced to pay so much money for information just because something is out of print and they need the information and are being held for ransom to access it.

Definitely an abuse of power.

It's good that people out there are trying to make things more equal, in terms of information distribution. And pass knowledge on and enjoy fiction from the past.

Anti-intellectualism is one of our greatest scourges. I think you'd appreciate this track, if you're not already familiar with it.

Thank you for sharing this song with me. I haven't actually heard it before.

Yes, definitely. Television is the drug of the nation, and it does breed ignorance and tradition, but these days, it's TikTok too. Social media in general. Too many people use it destructively like they used to with TV back in the day. This song is so true. This song is especially true today online and on YouTube and TikTok.

I loved the intro. I loved the message, and how he wants people to think and not be passive. That's the way things should be. That's constructive. People should be thinking, and not always passive consumers (you could also that a lot of people on this thread and thinkers and tinkerers who want to learn and keep their devices going for as long as they can, or restore old ones. That's why I love this place. We're all discussing and learning from each other).

"United States of unconsciousness" is a powerful phrase. Everyone is more connected than ever, yet they have nothing really to fully discuss a lot of the time. They do just echo back the rhetoric.

There's nothing on TV, I agree, mostly. Most of it is pretty crap, vapid stuff. The only things I watch are basically some shows on Quest (like, true crime stuff) and Monsters Inside Me, and the odd wildlife/factual documentary, but I even question some of those. But if it gets people starting to think and research things, it's good. To a degree.

"Straight teeth in your mouth are more important than the words that come out of it." TikTok sponsorship deals. I'm surprised that Colgate hasn't tried that one yet, with a nice influencer. Or someone famous.

"Race baiting is the way to get is the way to get selected." On 'both sides' it seems. You echo those points back, and you're on some political talk show. Or if you're Sneako, too. You just troll everyone and bring up "right-leaning" points to get attention. To get talked about, and get traction.

"Do we imitate it?" Yes, we do. We always have. Now, we have influencers.

Popstars are still soda popstars. Used for product placement for just about anything.

TV is a phrase where things are redefined. Social media. Definitions change all of the time. People try to change them. They try to influence politicians and people into their dumb groupthink. Everyone is an armchair activist.

I know my post was a bit long, but that song definitely made me think and bring up some points that stood out to me. The beat was great too. Loved that bassline, and the drums, it all fit perfectly.

 

[GMShadow]

I grabbed a mid 2009 17" 2.8/8/500 at goodwill, I just put an Silicon Power 512 in it and fired up a 10.9 image.
I think it has the matte display? It has silver bezels. It has 700 cycles and could use a new battery. Not bad for 105$. Love the 17" screen.

Yes, silver bezels rather than glossy black coverglass are for the matte screen. They're big tanks for sure - I have the same model.

 

[eyoungren]

Allright. I started around 2:30pm. I'm going to say this took about nine hours.

I'm not finished…but all the remaining stuff is the knick-knacks. I'll do those tomorrow.

As you can see, things have been rearranged.

 

[Jack Neill]

Yes, silver bezels rather than glossy black coverglass are for the matte screen. They're big tanks for sure - I have the same model.

Which version of OS X do you prefer with it? I started with 10.9 just to have something to boot. I am now dual booting it with 10.11.6. It seems a tad sluggish with both. The other C2D Macs I have run both quite well so I am wondering what's going on with it. My initial thoughts on the SSD install was to take the super drive out as well and Raid 0 2 512s to get higher R/Ws maybe something closer to SATA 3 speeds. I ultimately lazied out and just put 1 in and its sitting around 200/250 with the Silicon Power 512.

 

[GMShadow]

Which version of OS X do you prefer with it? I started with 10.9 just to have something to boot. I am now dual booting it with 10.11.6. It seems a tad sluggish with both. The other C2D Macs I have run both quite well so I am wondering what's going on with it. My initial thoughts on the SSD install was to take the super drive out as well and Raid 0 2 512s to get higher R/Ws maybe something closer to SATA 3 speeds. I ultimately lazied out and just put 1 in and its sitting around 200/250 with the Silicon Power 512.

I've got mine triple partitioned but only dual boot - 10.6 and 10.14. Never decided what to put on the third partition. 10.14 runs well enough for me - I'm not doing anything super stressful, but browsing/discord/IRC behaves fine. Mine is the 3.06GHz model but I can't see that little clock speed difference mattering.

I've also got a Silicon Power drive in it, a 1TB unit.

 

[Jack Neill]

I've got mine triple partitioned but only dual boot - 10.6 and 10.14. Never decided what to put on the third partition. 10.14 runs well enough for me - I'm not doing anything super stressful, but browsing/discord/IRC behaves fine. Mine is the 3.06GHz model but I can't see that little clock speed difference mattering.

I've also got a Silicon Power drive in it, a 1TB unit.

I have used SP drives in a few things in my Mac Museum and found them to be quite reliable and speedy enough while retaining a good price point. I also was interested in 10.14, but recently I have been putting various versions of OS X/macOS on different machines just to have a massive multi boot catalog. I am thinking about keeping it on 10.9 and 10.11.6. 10.9 for me is one I always like to play with because I never had a Mac capable of running it when it was current and I like to reminisce.. I have 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.9, 10.12, 10.13, 10.14, 10.15, installed on various other Macs around here already tho. And anything that can natively run 13.3 is. I do have 13.3 running quite well with OCLP on a 2013 21.5". And my last functioning Hack, a Optiplex 7010 is serving 16TB of Plex to the world via 10.15. I am sure this new 17" will find its place in the Museum..

 

[B S Magnet]

Lots.

Been busy writing a proposal on my recently purchased late 2011 A1278 (running the same build of Snow Leopard 10.6.0 which shipped with my mid-2009 A1278 I bought at the Apple Store in early September 2009), involving the usual writing tools I use and then flowing the content into QuarkXPress, as one does.

But today, and for probably the entire coming week, I’ve dragged in my A1418 (not quite early Intel yet, but close) to take on the duty of playing my entire catalogue of projects and collaborations, in chronological order, involving my singular favourite composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and artist of the last fifty years, Ryuichi Sakamoto. I was privileged, incredibly privileged, to bear witness from the front row his 2010 piano concert performance, on which he played and controlled, remotely, a second baby grand Yamaha piano (for his pieces requiring two pianists).

 

[TheShortTimer]

Terminal cancer, gosh. #RIP.

In tribute:

 

[B S Magnet]

Terminal cancer, gosh. #RIP.

In tribute:

He was candid and honest about each time cancer ravaged his body and how his subsequent work was a part of that awareness of mortality. He survived throat cancer in 2014, then hit with rectal cancer in 2021. It is probably likely that that latter cancar is what metastasized and spread through the rest of his body these last two years.

First Yukihiro Takahashi in January and now Sakamoto-san, leaving but Haruomi Hosono as the remaining survivor of Yellow Magic Orchestra (Hosono was also the eldest). This is turning into a year of grief for music pioneers from within my lifetime.

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EDIT to add: This is a B-side/outtake from Sakamoto’s 1984 solo album, Ongaku Zukan (released in a slightly different form the following year in the west as Illustrated Music Encyclopedia): one of the only collaborations I know of with him and another pioneer, one of my all-time favourite musicians and songwriters (arguably, the person who invented city pop and whose work is heavily sampled in vapourwave), Tatsuro Yamashita — who is, touch wood, still alive. The following blends Sakamoto’s unmistakable composition and piano work with Yamashita’s incomparable voice:

If you’re not familiar with Yamashita, his first album, way back in the early 1970s, covered parts of Pet Sounds. Here are favourites of mine from 1977, 1980, 1983, and 2005. (I’m sharing these for the sake of shining a light on his talent while he’s still with the living.)

 

[B S Magnet]

Lots.

Been busy writing a proposal on my recently purchased late 2011 A1278 (running the same build of Snow Leopard 10.6.0 which shipped with my mid-2009 A1278 I bought at the Apple Store in early September 2009), involving the usual writing tools I use and then flowing the content into QuarkXPress, as one does.

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But today, and for probably the entire coming week, I’ve dragged in my A1418 (not quite early Intel yet, but close) to take on the duty of playing my entire catalogue of projects and collaborations, in chronological order, involving my singular favourite composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and artist of the last fifty years, Ryuichi Sakamoto. I was privileged, incredibly privileged, to bear witness from the front row his 2010 piano concert performance, on which he played and controlled, remotely, a second baby grand Yamaha piano (for his pieces requiring two pianists).

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Today I’ll show off a glance of my iTunes 10.6.3 library as it plays “Field Work”, the collaboration between Sakamoto and Thomas Dolby in 1985:

(Note: not all my Sakamoto-related stuff has been brought into the library. Everything I add gets thoroughly completed, insofar as metadata accuracy. What remains is probably, at least, an additional 24 hours’ worth of new content, all in my “B-level” priority for adding, as “A”-level priority goes to content likely to be dropped in during a live DJing set.)

The single, never released in North America (but was in Europe, Japan, and Australia/NZ), polarized the heck outta Sakamoto/YMO fans. Some loved it, though many more despised it. It’s a single of its moment, drawing heavily from then-state-of-the-art digital sampling and production techniques Sakamoto was using in his experimental 1985 album, Esperanto. The end result was an uncanny resemblance to another 1985 single better known to North American audiences: Duran Duran’s “A View to a Kill”.

There was a long-form music video, released to 8-inch LaserDisc:

One more fun fact: the line, “Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto, you’re beautiful!” from Dolby’s “My Ding-a-Ling” single “She Blinded Me with Science”, refers to Sakamoto’s then-second wife, Akiko Yano [link to “I Sing”, a YMO-backed/produced track from her 1981 album, Tadaima], whose voice is familiar to Dolby fans from the track “Radio Silence” — recorded almost a year before “Science” was.

Anyway, gonna get back to brushing up on my field work (more QuarkXPress layout work).

And lest I be remiss and veer too far afield of the topic (though, yes, this belongs in Mac Spotting), name every device you can spot in this shot of Sakamoto in his home studio, starting with what he’s looking at:

 

[Amethyst1]

For the RX460, you should try a DisplayPort 1.4 MST hub since it can support HBR3 input.

A Delock 87737 is on the way. (FWIW, I couldn't find a four-port DisplayPort 1.4 MST+DSC hub so tests with two dual-cable 5K60 displays aren't possible right now.)

I suppose the problem can't be between CVT-RB and CVT-RB2 since you got some CVT-RB2 timings to work.

All my tests were using CVT-RB timings. I just tried 2560×1440@60Hz, 3840×2160@60Hz and 4096×2304@60Hz CVT-RBv2. The first mode works, the other two don't (black screen).

Today I’ll show off a glance of my iTunes 10.6.3 library as it plays “Field Work”, the collaboration between Sakamoto and Thomas Dolby in 1985:

Is it just me, or is the cover reminiscent of a Mac application?

 

[joevt]

A Delock 87737 is on the way. (FWIW, I couldn't find a four-port DisplayPort 1.4 MST+DSC hub so tests with two dual-cable 5K60 displays aren't possible right now.)

MST hubs can be chained several levels deep like Thunderbolt or PCI or USB or FireWire. So you could connect two Delock 87737 to get 5 ports from a single port. I'm not sure what the limit is. I suppose adding more MST hubs won't make your GPU support more displays - Intel is usually limited to 3, Nvidia can do 4, some AMD can do up to 6. Nvidia might consider a dual SST display as a single display out of the 4 allowed (I believe I achieved 5 connections to a Maxwell Titan X with the Dell UP2715K as the last display taking two connections).

Do you have a GPU that supports DSC? You'll want to verify that the MST hub has the firmware to support DSC. You can use AllRez to check that. I don't think I've seen an MST hub that can decompress 10 bpc so you may be limited to 8bpc when using DSC.

 

[B S Magnet]

Is it just me, or is the cover reminiscent of a Mac application?

I always parsed it as mimicking an Amiga environment, but the faux-UI of the sleeve art (which, if you notice closely, was a pic taken of a CRT display), it could have been made in another drawing application of the time. Given how it was later 1985, it’s likely it was mimicking the Workbench, as there weren’t many colour GUIs at the time.

It also vaguely looks like GEOS, but GEOS didn’t happen until 1986: