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TheShortTimer said:
Thundercats aired in the UK but most of the episodes were never broadcast. I might hunt down the box set and correct this travesty. It's available on Blu-ray which is even better. :)

Today, thanks to my ever trusty 2011 MBP, High Sierra and VLC, I watched the 2021 documentary Storm Lake which chronicles the struggle of biweekly local paper The Storm Lake Times to remain financially viable amidst the ever increasing demise of local news outlets and provide their readership with the utmost quality of journalism.

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The above photomontages were put together using snapshots from the documentary that were generated by VLC and then assembled in PhotoScape X.
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A lot of the 'grass roots' stories are lost when community papers like that go.
We still have a free weekly one delivered here.
 
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mortlocli said:
Here's our local free community newspaper..delivered weekly.
There's a daily paid newspaper as well.

Digital Editions - Star Media

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Ahhh Ch/Ch… I used to be on an undernet irc channel around 2000, on which most of its regulars were all from there. Also, my former house mate grew up there before heading to North America to become a physicist and then a prof.
 
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Amethyst1 said:
Plays fine for me.
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Interesting, as this is what I see...

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GMShadow said:
It's probably region restricted - Shout Factory may only have the US rights.
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You are correct that it's geo-blocked to the UK. Since it works for @Amethyst1 in Germany, I switched my VPN location.

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Now, I can view it! :D

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Regional restrictions be damned! :)

mortlocli said:
A lot of the 'grass roots' stories are lost when community papers like that go.
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Yes - and that's a major theme in the documentary.

mortlocli said:
We still have a free weekly one delivered here.
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Good! I hope that continues. :)

B S Magnet said:
Oh yeah? Beat dis

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Tim Simenon: an overlooked figure in the history of UK electronic music. When the genre and its pioneers and legends are discussed, I rarely see his name mentioned and that is a crying shame because he played a pivotal role during the 80s alongside the likes of the more widely recognised Coldcut, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode etc.
 
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TheShortTimer said:
Interesting, as this is what I see...

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You are correct that it's geo-blocked to the UK. Since it works for @Amethyst1 in Germany, I switched my VPN location.

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Now, I can view it! :D

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Regional restrictions be damned! :)
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Post-Brexit, the U.K. have sort of become the Untethered Kingdom.

TheShortTimer said:
Tim Simenon: an overlooked figure in the history of UK electronic music. When the genre and its pioneers and legends are discussed, I rarely see his name mentioned and that is a crying shame because he played a pivotal role during the 80s alongside the likes of the more widely recognised Coldcut, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode etc.
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Tim Simenon, Gary Clail, Danielle Dax, Peter Ford… but especially important to note how without Simenon and that short, but lively side-branch of acid house which was Rhythm King’s bread and butter, the club music world would have been deeply impoverished.
 
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TheShortTimer said:
Thundercats aired in the UK but most of the episodes were never broadcast. I might hunt down the box set and correct this travesty. It's available on Blu-ray which is even better. :)
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It didn't even air on our available channels in central Europe when I was a kid. But my parents took me on a 1 month trip to Boston, San Francisco and Hawaii when I was 6 years old. I still have many happy memories from that trip. One of them are these cool US cartoons. I didn't understand English back then but still loved them. I got a Lion-O action figure which I still have today. It's fun to watch it with my kid now.
mortlocli said:
Thunderbirds are go!!

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Didn't know that. Looks nice, thanks! I might give it a try. :)
 
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B S Magnet said:
Ahhh Ch/Ch… I used to be on an undernet irc channel around 2000, on which most of its regulars were all from there. Also, my former house mate grew up there before heading to North America to become a physicist and then a prof.
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When I first moved here in 1992, I thought it was a city of eccentrics...could explain why there were so many on the irc channel..??
 
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Tiger on 2007 MacBook Pro goes MateView. I somehow ended up passing on all dual-link DVI to DisplayPort converters I've owned so far (LOL!) so I'm stuck with single-link DVI (165 MHz pixel clock) which allows e.g. 1920×1280@60Hz, 2304×1536@42.7Hz, 2568×1712@34.7Hz and 3168×2112@23.2Hz CVT-RB.
 
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decided to give my 2008 Mac Pro some love. i own 2 of these, one of them is very faulty, crashes randomly in both macOS and Linux.

this one (the second one) is faulty as well, but i can't quite figure out what's wrong with it. it runs High Sierra fine, but that's hell these days. i've tried to OCLP big sur, monterey and ventura on it, all of those attempts failed horribly. it gets halfway through the installer, crashes and reboots, on a loop. very odd.

i bought both of them for €25 each from a seller who listed them as faulty. the first one as i already explained is unusable due to the random crashing, so i've used parts from it in this one, namely the ram and optical drive.

so far remaining faults with this one then are that any remotely modern macOS version is a big no no, but, Linux for some reason is perfectly stable. everything works, even suspend which i've had issues with on Mac's of this vintage before.

it also has a dodgy ram slot. half the time it detects the stick, half the time it doesn't. it's fine though since the difference is 21 or 22gb of ram. both are plenty for my use.

i also love having one of these on my desk again. reminds me of 2014 when i was first getting into Apple, and i had a G5 on my desk.
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full specs:
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as you can see, on this boot it decided not to use the 1gb stick in the dodgy slot lol.

it's crazy how capable these machines still are. if you can get a modern OS on it it still multitasks like a beast
 
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Powering up my two Blackbooks and letting each run through a battery cycle in order to help preserve the batteries (at least that's the thought).

EDIT: And my 2008 Mac Pro and using it to make this edit.
 
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m1maverick said:
Powering up my two Blackbooks and letting each run through a battery cycle in order to help preserve the batteries (at least that's the thought).

EDIT: And my 2008 Mac Pro and using it to make this edit.
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Reading that made me think bout the battery in my iBook. Wondering if it's functioning better than the battery in my iPhone mini...which isn't as good as it once was.
 
Since my last post on this subject, Lucasfilm have now released the full trailer for the latest Indiana Jones instalment - which I've also watched on my 2011 MBP with High Sierra and the always reliable VLC.

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Nazis as antagonists for the third time? I'll reserve judgement till I've watched the film. If I dislike it, I never have to watch it again...
 
Tratkazir_the_1st said:
Installed at basic level HaikuOS on my A1342. Not used, only first boot & power off. At first glance - boots fast (HDD & DVD replaced with SSDs :) ). But ISO don't works with Ventoy, so had to find USB stick and dd ISO on it.
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There's two ways of having haiku on a boot up stick. Installing it via Etcher..which results with a very limited storage space...no matter how large the USB stick. If you do a software update with their info window open..you can see the amount of free space diminishing. However a reboot will get some back..so to is an app that you can install that wipes out the back up files. If you try out new software like a browser, it will run out of free space. I've pointed out this free space limitation factor and was told it was so haiku can be burnt to a CD...in the discussions.

The second way is to run haiku and use the built in USB installer, and that allows storage access to the entire USB stick. There is however two instructions on how to do this. The first only hints that there's more detail in the second instruction..there is a link..if you look for it. The second instruction which is also for installing to HDs, includes the formatting requirements..which are nescessary for booting from a USB with free space to work. I have not been successful in doing this..yet.

There are nightly versions of haiku which apparently are smaller..so my next adventure will entail trying one of those with etcher to see if I get more free space.
Oddly enough the smaller nightly versions are recommended for using if attempting a rebuild as they include extra software.

They've been adding linux packages so the range of software is increasing.
 
Amethyst1 said:
This means I should be able to drive the T221 at 3840×2400@48Hz using two of these in OS X.
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I love it when things just work :D

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Bertha's tiles are set up as follows if she receives four 1920×1200 inputs:

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The setting to give each monitor separate spaces has to be disabled so windows can span multiple monitors and the menu bar isn't duplicated on additional monitors. Full throttle using just two DisplayPort outputs:

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I created an EDID override file to add the 48 Hz mode and to get rid of the boring "Matrox DualHead2Go" names.
 
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