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I WOULD LOVE YOU TOO ADAM.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

Cozen-I still have a cdr full of stuff I promised you about a year ago that I feel terribly guilty about not sending out. Give me the wknd and I will see what I can do. s1ocki, too.

The pdf turned out to be a red herring, sadly. :(

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

Oh - Cozen, I MAY be able to set you up with something else you asked about that was previously beyond my grasp.

Starts with "L"...ends in "ogic Platinum"...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link

I just called them. Supposedly it shipped today. Grrrrrrr... better get here soon or I'll explode.

― the river fleet, Friday, 23 January 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link

i will kiss you with my mouth!!!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 23 January 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

airport extreme base station
airport extreme card
512 megs ram for my ibook
new ibook battery
lacie external hard drive

are there deals/combos/anything like that anywhere???

I would look around for different FW drive possibilities. Sure they (Lacie) are reliable, but I bought an Iogear case that is just as neat looking (and matches my powerbook, mixer, and MIDI controller to boot) for $119 CAD. Sure it's empty, but the price of a new ATA-133 HD still makes it cheaper than a Lacie.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 23 January 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago) link

This gives me a boner:

http://www.elgato.com/products/eyehome.html

Although, I have to wonder if there is a significant loss of sonic fidelty when you shoot audio over an Airport Extreme.

― don weiner, Friday, 23 January 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

GarageBand is a good example of getting what you pay for. While I am impressed at Apple's audio hardware and a couple of the interface doohickies, it is absolutely crap for making any kind of serious music as the requisite do-overs and retakes and mindbending bullshit that passes for track editing turns the whole enterprise into a pain in the neck and by the time I've gotten the bassline and the drums to sound anything remotely like I want them to I've sick of the whole idea of 'music' and quit out.

However I really don't feel like bitching too much since a $50 program like this is really no sweat, I could have spent 6-8 times as much and probably would have very very similar complaints (see me being totally sketchy about buying any studio program for my computer for 4 years, resulting in my complete lack of recorded output since 1998).

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 29 January 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago) link

OMIGOD, PURSEY IS SO CUUUUUUUUTE!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE HIM!!! (HSA is jealous already.)

OK, here's a question. You know how they claimed that Mac Office came preinstalled - how come mine is just a "test drive" version that expires in 30 days? Do they expect me to pay for Office, coz they can fuck right off if they do. Or do I just need to register to get the real version? (Or do then Windoze sweep down and eat my soul for getting a Mac in the first place?)

CAN I JUST PLEASE REITERATE HOW CUTE MY POWERBOOK IS?!?!?

― The River Kate (kate), Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:58 (twenty years ago) link

you have to pay for office, you only get trial, however the very good, and free, open office is out there. I'll get you sorted with all this crap if you come over when you get back.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 30 January 2004 01:09 (twenty years ago) link

Wait, I'm curious about open office too!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 30 January 2004 01:40 (twenty years ago) link

Open office only runs in x11 not in aqua, however its a very good fully featured office suite, the interface sucks somewhat. see here. I use it exclusively.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 30 January 2004 01:47 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.neooffice.org/

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 January 2004 01:55 (twenty years ago) link

i'm curious too. can you give us a short idiots guide to running openoffice (haha plus, what is it?) in panther ed?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 30 January 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link

or anyone who knows, obv.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 30 January 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link

1) Install X11, on the panther CD 3
2) Dowload Open Office from http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html
3) Run the installer
4) Start the launch Open Office appluication

― Ed (dali), Friday, 30 January 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago) link

just go to openoffice.org and download all the X.11 crap they point you to. It's not that difficult, just annoying when you have to start up like 3 programs to get it to run, and then it's ugly and horrible looking.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 30 January 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago) link

there is now a little script to do all the launching for you. It does look like a bad Win95 app though.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 30 January 2004 02:09 (twenty years ago) link

thanks ed & tom. i'm still pretty much a mac moron.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 30 January 2004 02:11 (twenty years ago) link

oh after a quick visit to the site i realise i won't be doin that on dial-up (173mb!) plus is it really any better than appleworks, which i run right now?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 30 January 2004 02:13 (twenty years ago) link

I will be bringing Pursey over when I get back, and if you could sort me out with this stuff, Ed, I would be much obliged! I've already changed my desktop background about five times. I'm so amused by all his voices. Yes, I know this will wear off soon.

God, I need some actual software or MP3s or something for him soon!

― The River Kate (kate), Friday, 30 January 2004 02:50 (twenty years ago) link

I'm disappointed kate. Your really should have made a film about opening the box of your new mac

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 30 January 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago) link

Box? Single box? Man, mine came inside THREE SEPARATE BOXES and a weird polysomething bag. Not to mention that the boxes are about eight times the size of the tiny little Mac. This seems very foolish.

― The River Kate (kate), Friday, 30 January 2004 13:30 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

NEw High definition Final cut Pro, New Shake New DVD Studio Pro, new animation titling compositing software: Motion for less than half the price of the competition. New Logic Audio Pro.

Updated PowerBooks expected later Today.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 19 April 2004 08:48 (twenty years ago) link

The FCP update is free if you have FCP 4. (Yay!) I'm a tad miffed that they updated DVDSP a few months after I got it (and have only started to use it). But anyway. I'm curious to see how Motion turns out.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 19 April 2004 12:10 (twenty years ago) link

god damn it! I just bought a 1ghz Powerbook two months ago! grr.

― adam (adam), Monday, 19 April 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago) link

i'm curious about motion too, and dvdsp 3 (i just completed a huge project in dvdsp2!)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 19 April 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago) link

crap.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 19 April 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

spill something on it!

you can probably trade it up or something, can't you?

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 03:14 (twenty years ago) link

you can't trade in a dead computer.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 06:22 (twenty years ago) link

you know, this 4 or 5 year old g4 powerbook i'm using is quite a warhorse. if only the battery would stop falling out of the bottom of it.

i fear for its life every day. i *wish* they would take trade-ins!

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 06:25 (twenty years ago) link

Powerbook batteries are dead after 3 years and very decayed after 2. It's the same with all LiIon batteries. Unfortunately new ones are far from cheap. The eternal decision to make my computer portable again or keep £150 for the new computer fund.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 07:22 (twenty years ago) link

no no, @d@m just bought a new powerbook, but then a week later they came out with these ones; depending on where he bought it, he might be able to take it back and argue for an upgrade.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago) link

oh shit adam i thought of you when i read the news!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:28 (twenty years ago) link

my ibook's logic board died yet again (fourth time) a month ago, and after arguing for them to give me a brand new machine, i finally just agreed to have them repair mine. i sent it in and when i got it back, the fucker wouldn't turn on. after much cajoling apple finally conceded that it was a lemon and gave me a brand new ibook -- a g4 no less! the thing is amazing and i've never been so happy. holla!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:59 (twenty years ago) link

I'm leaning heavily toward getting an iBook, especially now that Yanc3y has proven that (after 4 hours) you can indeed get soulseek working on 'em.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

Sorry to be cynical and all, but there are several sites devoted almost solely to what's coming out soon (MacRumors, AppleInsider) - and all of them had good info well enough in advance that the laptops were being upgraded.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

Aaron, you could have asked! Though admittedly it took me far more than 4 hours.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link

No, that's fine. Sadly, I just don't have the time to read such sites. BUT...I got a brand new Powerbook for free. And it's fucking great. So I can't really complain.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

but you could...

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

cheapest place to get 512 megs of ram for 12" G4 ibook -> GO!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago) link

crucial.com?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...

http://images.apple.com/imac/images/indextop20040831.jpg

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Hark, is that the strains of Justin Currie I hear?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link

do any UK ilxers have a UK spare G3 iBook power adapter that they could sell me? mine's busted.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:19 (nineteen years ago) link

The iGo juice from maplin is your friend.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link

how come?

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link

$120?! there are reconditioned iBook chargers on ebay fr £29, I think I'll go with them.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link

The yoyo power supply is a really crap design the grommets wear out very quickly. Ive been through five and gave up. Momus has a Madisonline one which is very good too.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:58 (nineteen years ago) link

oh baby it's great to have you back, I missed you so much, let's never argue again!!!

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

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