I can't find an exact release date on them after a few minutes of Googling, but they are all well over 10 years old and plenty of my clients still have a few of them around. They aren't the fastest printers, but they are built like tanks and the toner carts are fairly generic and still rather widely available.
I wanted something a little better, so in 1994 I bought a ~$1400 LaserWriter Select 360, IMHO one of the best printers Apple ever made. 600DPI, 10PPM, 16MB maximum RAM, and even an internal fax card option. My Select 360 will be 10 in February, and it shows no sign of its age.
The newer printers I work on just feel cheap and insubstantial to me, especially the inkjets. And if this DMCA crap they're pulling to keep third parties from making toner/ink carts continues, I will keep my older printer for as long as I possibly can, with the help of fixyourownprinter.com, if necessary.
I put this card in my Series 1 TiVo about 2 weeks ago. Installing the card and getting the software onto the TiVo HD (reinstallation is necessary if you want to change the default network settings) was a breeze. The optional step, making a hole in the back panel and installing an RJ45 jack in it, was a bitch and a half.
The end result of having a TiVo I can extract video from and control via a web interface was well worth the effort, though.
...since it's a UK site, this is supposed to be "shag."
While "shag" is no biggie in the US, it is apparently almost as offensive a word in other countries as "fuck" is to Americans.
From the IMDB trivia page for "Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me": In the U.S., "shag" is far less offensive than in other English-speaking countries. Singapore briefly forced a title change to "The Spy Who Shioked Me." ("Shioked" means "treated nicely.")
If you use multiple browsers and you want identical bookmarks in all of them, then get Bookit. $12 shareware, I paid for it within 10 minutes of trying it out.
It lets you edit your bookmarks, and will sync the bookmark files of the following browsers:
Safari iCab MSIE Mozilla Navigator/Chimera/C amino/whatever they're calling it this week Netscape OmniWeb Opera
If you want to put the same bookmarks on additional Macs, you can do that as well, with a little work.
Bookit also gives you the option of putting bookmark dockling in the dock and/or putting a bookmark menu extra in the menubar.
Ok, you asked, so here is what I've got so far: ---------- Creating DVDs from TiVo Series 1 Recordings on the Mac I spent the better part of a weekend trying to burn a DVD containing shows I recorded on my TiVo, after extracting them from the TiVo and editing out the cruft with iMovie. As it turned out, the easy part was getting the TiVo networked so I could pull the video out of it with my Mac. The hard part was getting it into a format that I could easily edit, once it was sitting on my Mac's hard drive. After much trial, error, and cursing, I have written the procedure down for my own future reference. I decided to share it with other Mac users who also may want to archive their TiVo recordings to DVD.
These instructions assume the following: You have a Series 1 TiVo with Ethernet, telnet and ftp capability. The TiVo also has TiVoWeb installed on it, and has been modified by following the procedures here. Your Mac has QuickTime Pro 6 ($29) and the QuickTime MPEG2 Component ($19), both available from Apple.
(Steps 1 through 3 originally by Alexander Fajkowski, and are just included here for completeness)
1. Using the modified TiVoWeb page at <http://your.tivo.ip.address/ui/nowshowing>, find and note the FSIDs of the recording you want to retrieve.
2. Retrieve the recording from the TiVo: a. Open two Terminal windows (Window 1, Mac. Window 2, TiVo.) b. Window 1: cd/directory_where_you_keep_nc c. Window 1:./nc -l -p 1200 >/desired_directory_path/desired_filename.ty (Don't hit Enter yet) d. Window 2: Telnet to TiVo e. Window 2: cd/directory_where_you_keep_sendstream f. Window 2:./sendstream -s FSID1 [FSID2] [...] |./nc -n -w 5 your.mac.ip.address 1200 (Don't hit Enter yet) g. Hit Enter in Window 1, then Window 2. This starts the Mac listening for the stream, and the TiVo sending the stream.
3. Once file has been retrieved, convert it to MPEG2: a. Window 1:./tyc -s </desired_directory_path/desired_filename.ty >/desired_directory_path/desired_filename.mpg 4. Separate the MPEG2 file into separate audio and video files with BBDemux or your preferred demultiplexing utility.
5. Convert the audio file to AIFF format with SoundApp or your preferred sound conversion utility.
6. Open the MPEG video track and the AIFF audio track in QuickTime Player, in separate windows.
7. Do a "Select All" and a "Copy" on the audio track.
8. Make sure there is no selection in the video track, and make sure the playhead/insertion point is at the very start of the movie. Then do "Add Scaled."
9. Now you should once again have a movie with sound-- the difference is, the sound will now remain in the finished product if you export to another format. Export it to DV Stream format.
10. Open the DV stream version of the movie file in QuickTime Player.
11. Divide the DV stream up into chunks iMovie can handle. NOTE: There is now an Applescript that automates this process, available here. a. Starting at the beginning of the movie, select a segment about 4 to 5 minutes long (or slightly longer, but they must be 2GB for use in iMovie) b. Cut the segment, open a new QuickTime window and paste the segment into it. c. Save it as a self-contained (DV stream) movie, and stick a number in the filename so you know how to reorder the segments in iMovie. d. Repeat as necessary until you have divided the whole movie up into DV video segments 5 minutes long.
12. Open iMovie, create a new project, and drag and drop the collection of segments on the clip shelf
It's indeed possible to make DVDs from TiVo recordings. I recently spent a weekend putting Ethernet (and a few other necessary hacks to make extraction possible) in my Series 1 and working out how to pull the shows off, get them into iMovie, edit out the commercials, and then burn to a disc with iDVD. As it stands now, I've got a full written page of steps to follow that I'm still trying to streamline and improve.
So to answer your question, yes, it's doable, but it's currently a tedious and ugly process-- and for that you can thank the greedy, ligitious bastards of the *AAs... for were it not for TiVo, Inc's fear of being sued into oblivion by aforementioned bastards, we'd be able to mount the TiVo drive as a network volume and pull the shows off in an editable format, right out of the box.
-Announce a 'strategic partnership' with the Plexiglas people -Send their own team of glaziers to study Plexiglas -Suddenly announce that they are changing strategic direction and dissolve the partnership -Six months later, Microsoft ClearPane, which looks remarkably like Plexiglas, is shipped.:-)
The best thing about it is that it has held up amazingly well in the ~11 years since it was made... the only thing about it that dates it are the scenes where you can see Windows 3.x is the OS on one of the computers.
Hear, hear! There were some definite laugh-until-your-sides hurt moments. And Kristy Swanson and the luscious pre-Alias Jennifer Garner only made the movie better.
[As Super Hot Giant Alien passes overhead, a Father and Son see up her skirt] Birthday Son: I want to go on that ride, Daddy! Birthday Father: Me, too, son. Me, too.
Damn, dude, you better read up on your industry history. I don't know the origin of what you posted about Osborne, but I think you'd have a good shot at finding it with the help of a good proctologist and a flashlight.:-)
Osborne got his start working for Intel. He wrote the docs for their first microprocessors.
For a while he had an industry-gossip columns (at least one was called "From The Fountainhead," IIRC) in Interface Age and InfoWorld magazines.
He self-published a book called An Introduction To Microprocessors. One of the cofounders of IMSAI was so impressed with the book, he struck a deal with Osborne to include a copy with each IMSAI machine sold.
That IMSAI deal provided the means for Osborne to start his own publishing company, which produced computer books. He would often go to Homebrew Computer Club meetings with boxes full of his books, and leave with empty boxes and wads of cash.
He eventually sold his publishing company to McGraw-Hill, for millions.
The money from that deal was what he used to start Osborne Computer. The Osborne I was designed by Lee Felsenstein, another prominent name in the history of the Early Days.
These Osborne facts and more can be found in the excellent book Fire in the Valley, by Paul Freiberger & Michael Swaine.
Same here. Some damned mortgage company in the Philly burbs has somehow gotten hold of my home fax number and keeps sending me shit I don't want or need. I've started reading up on the junk fax law, and I'm thinking about taking it for a spin in the Philadelphia court system, for shits and giggles (and ~$500 per unsolicited fax those assclowns have sent me).
From the article: Microsoft submitted documentation to substantiate its claims about the security of the software and said the advert was not designed to mislead the consumer.
Their substantiation is pretty fucking worthless IMHO, as long as the software includes a EULA that absolves Microsoft of any responsiblity should the software NOT be as secure as they claim.
But there already were updates before that were released through Software Update-- and I've seen them 'want' to be downloaded to machines that never came near an iPod, and even to a machine running OS X Server. We just mark them 'inactive', but still...
Apple should build "a check for iPod update" feature into iTunes, with the option to have it check automatically-- then only people with an iPod would enable/use the feature, anyone who didn't use iTunes could just download the updates from Apple's site, and anyone who had no need of it at all wouldn't even see it come up in Software Update.
...I have to nominate a few models, specifically the machines that were built around the Power Mac 7100, Power Mac 8100, or Power Mac 9500 chassis. With any of those machines, you had to take the whole goddamned thing apart just to upgrade the RAM.
Same with the first few revisions of the iMac before they designed in the easy-access trap door, but the machines above were worse-- I never worked under the hood of one of them without bleeding.
Maybe he wasn't but maybe he should have been. As their market continues to decrease, they should really care about everyone that is NOT an apple user.
Uh huh. And maybe you should've read his friggin' post, because it's fairly obvious he IS a Mac user-- he just prefers the Power Macs, for the reasons he listed.
Steve has managed to keep the company alive, barely.
Yeah, they're SO just scraping by, with about 17 of the last 20 quarters or so being profitable, and at least half of those in a down economy. You want to talk computer companies barely alive, let's talk Gateway-- not Apple.
And that's because YOU weren't their target market for them.
The iMac was designed to be used by grandmas and the like, to send e-mail and browse the web. People like grandma don't need expansion or upgrade capability. Grandma won't be swapping out her video card and processor over the weekend to squeeze a few more FPS out of Quake III. As long as the machine starts up and runs when she wants to use it, it will always be plenty fast for grandma.
Don't call them cheap crap just because they didn't meet your needs. They were very good machines, they did just what they were designed to do, and for whom they were designed to do it, period. If they didn't, the model wouldn't have survived on the price list for almost five years, so show some freakin' respect-- if not for the iMac, there might not have BEEN those Power Macs you like so much.
Mac addicts seem to be far less likely to sell their computers on ebay
Are you kidding? Every old Mac I've sold except one has been sold on eBay. There are always tons of used Macs for sale there. I've also bought two Macs on eBay-- I got an older Graphite G4/350 tower for my company, to be our OS X Server testbed. And I'm typing this post on my G4/733 Quicksilver. If you're persistent you can find and acquire a good machine for a decent price.
The only trouble if you're a buyer is Macs usually retain a high resale value, and there are usually a lot of people interested in the better machines-- especially now, when older machines that can run OS X well are a hot item-- so they get bid up into the stratosphere.
If you're selling, though, it's great-- I loved getting $800 for a 1.5 year old iBook 500MHz a couple months ago.
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...the Apple LaserWriter II series.
I can't find an exact release date on them after a few minutes of Googling, but they are all well over 10 years old and plenty of my clients still have a few of them around. They aren't the fastest printers, but they are built like tanks and the toner carts are fairly generic and still rather widely available.
I wanted something a little better, so in 1994 I bought a ~$1400 LaserWriter Select 360, IMHO one of the best printers Apple ever made. 600DPI, 10PPM, 16MB maximum RAM, and even an internal fax card option. My Select 360 will be 10 in February, and it shows no sign of its age.
The newer printers I work on just feel cheap and insubstantial to me, especially the inkjets. And if this DMCA crap they're pulling to keep third parties from making toner/ink carts continues, I will keep my older printer for as long as I possibly can, with the help of fixyourownprinter.com, if necessary.
~Philly
I put this card in my Series 1 TiVo about 2 weeks ago. Installing the card and getting the software onto the TiVo HD (reinstallation is necessary if you want to change the default network settings) was a breeze. The optional step, making a hole in the back panel and installing an RJ45 jack in it, was a bitch and a half.
The end result of having a TiVo I can extract video from and control via a web interface was well worth the effort, though.
~Philly
Microsoft would never be doing it, if Apple hadn't already done it!
/me puts on "Microsoft 'Ideas' Promotion '03 = Apple 'Ideas' Promotion '89" t-shirt
~Philly
...since it's a UK site, this is supposed to be "shag."
While "shag" is no biggie in the US, it is apparently almost as offensive a word in other countries as "fuck" is to Americans.
From the IMDB trivia page for "Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me":
In the U.S., "shag" is far less offensive than in other English-speaking countries. Singapore briefly forced a title change to "The Spy Who Shioked Me." ("Shioked" means "treated nicely.")
~Philly
If you use multiple browsers and you want identical bookmarks in all of them, then get Bookit. $12 shareware, I paid for it within 10 minutes of trying it out.
C amino/whatever they're calling it this week
It lets you edit your bookmarks, and will sync the bookmark files of the following browsers:
Safari
iCab
MSIE
Mozilla
Navigator/Chimera/
Netscape
OmniWeb
Opera
If you want to put the same bookmarks on additional Macs, you can do that as well, with a little work.
Bookit also gives you the option of putting bookmark dockling in the dock and/or putting a bookmark menu extra in the menubar.
~Philly
"In 1215 at Runnymede, doo-dah, doo-dah..."
Which sort of proves the point that things are more easily remembered when put in a catchy song.
~Philly
Ok, you asked, so here is what I've got so far:
/directory_where_you_keep_nc ./nc -l -p 1200 > /desired_directory_path/desired_filename.ty (Don't hit Enter yet) /directory_where_you_keep_sendstream ./sendstream -s FSID1 [FSID2] [...] | ./nc -n -w 5 your.mac.ip.address 1200 (Don't hit Enter yet)
./tyc -s < /desired_directory_path/desired_filename.ty > /desired_directory_path/desired_filename.mpg
----------
Creating DVDs from TiVo Series 1 Recordings on the Mac
I spent the better part of a weekend trying to burn a DVD containing shows I recorded on my TiVo, after extracting them from the TiVo and editing out the cruft with iMovie. As it turned out, the easy part was getting the TiVo networked so I could pull the video out of it with my Mac. The hard part was getting it into a format that I could easily edit, once it was sitting on my Mac's hard drive. After much trial, error, and cursing, I have written the procedure down for my own future reference. I decided to share it with other Mac users who also may want to archive their TiVo recordings to DVD.
These instructions assume the following:
You have a Series 1 TiVo with Ethernet, telnet and ftp capability.
The TiVo also has TiVoWeb installed on it, and has been modified by following the procedures here.
Your Mac has QuickTime Pro 6 ($29) and the QuickTime MPEG2 Component ($19), both available from Apple.
(Steps 1 through 3 originally by Alexander Fajkowski, and are just included here for completeness)
1. Using the modified TiVoWeb page at <http://your.tivo.ip.address/ui/nowshowing>, find and note the FSIDs of the recording you want to retrieve.
2. Retrieve the recording from the TiVo:
a. Open two Terminal windows (Window 1, Mac. Window 2, TiVo.)
b. Window 1: cd
c. Window 1:
d. Window 2: Telnet to TiVo
e. Window 2: cd
f. Window 2:
g. Hit Enter in Window 1, then Window 2. This starts the Mac listening for the stream, and the TiVo sending the stream.
3. Once file has been retrieved, convert it to MPEG2:
a. Window 1:
4. Separate the MPEG2 file into separate audio and video files with BBDemux or your preferred demultiplexing utility.
5. Convert the audio file to AIFF format with SoundApp or your preferred sound conversion utility.
6. Open the MPEG video track and the AIFF audio track in QuickTime Player, in separate windows.
7. Do a "Select All" and a "Copy" on the audio track.
8. Make sure there is no selection in the video track, and make sure the playhead/insertion point is at the very start of the movie. Then do "Add Scaled."
9. Now you should once again have a movie with sound-- the difference is, the sound will now remain in the finished product if you export to another format. Export it to DV Stream format.
10. Open the DV stream version of the movie file in QuickTime Player.
11. Divide the DV stream up into chunks iMovie can handle. NOTE: There is now an Applescript that automates this process, available here.
a. Starting at the beginning of the movie, select a segment about 4 to 5 minutes long (or slightly longer, but they must be 2GB for use in iMovie)
b. Cut the segment, open a new QuickTime window and paste the segment into it.
c. Save it as a self-contained (DV stream) movie, and stick a number in the filename so you know how to reorder the segments in iMovie.
d. Repeat as necessary until you have divided the whole movie up into DV video segments 5 minutes long.
12. Open iMovie, create a new project, and drag and drop the collection of segments on the clip shelf
It's indeed possible to make DVDs from TiVo recordings. I recently spent a weekend putting Ethernet (and a few other necessary hacks to make extraction possible) in my Series 1 and working out how to pull the shows off, get them into iMovie, edit out the commercials, and then burn to a disc with iDVD. As it stands now, I've got a full written page of steps to follow that I'm still trying to streamline and improve.
So to answer your question, yes, it's doable, but it's currently a tedious and ugly process-- and for that you can thank the greedy, ligitious bastards of the *AAs... for were it not for TiVo, Inc's fear of being sued into oblivion by aforementioned bastards, we'd be able to mount the TiVo drive as a network volume and pull the shows off in an editable format, right out of the box.
~Philly
Close, but here's what they'd really do:
:-)
-Announce a 'strategic partnership' with the Plexiglas people
-Send their own team of glaziers to study Plexiglas
-Suddenly announce that they are changing strategic direction and dissolve the partnership
-Six months later, Microsoft ClearPane, which looks remarkably like Plexiglas, is shipped.
~Philly
However, since we're discussing a Windows security hole, shouldn't one of the glass panes be broken?
Take a closer look at that icon. It looks to me like a rock has been thrown through all four panes in that window.
~Philly
Also, the only known movie to feature a Colecovision in one of the scenes. Zaxxon was being played on it.
I own a copy, and I watch it all the time.
The best thing about it is that it has held up amazingly well in the ~11 years since it was made... the only thing about it that dates it are the scenes where you can see Windows 3.x is the OS on one of the computers.
~Philly
Hear, hear! There were some definite laugh-until-your-sides hurt moments. And Kristy Swanson and the luscious pre-Alias Jennifer Garner only made the movie better.
[As Super Hot Giant Alien passes overhead, a Father and Son see up her skirt]
Birthday Son: I want to go on that ride, Daddy!
Birthday Father: Me, too, son. Me, too.
~Philly
Another vote for Dirty Work right here.
Half Baked and The Pest are also on my list.
~Philly
Damn, dude, you better read up on your industry history. I don't know the origin of what you posted about Osborne, but I think you'd have a good shot at finding it with the help of a good proctologist and a flashlight. :-)
Osborne got his start working for Intel. He wrote the docs for their first microprocessors.
For a while he had an industry-gossip columns (at least one was called "From The Fountainhead," IIRC) in Interface Age and InfoWorld magazines.
He self-published a book called An Introduction To Microprocessors. One of the cofounders of IMSAI was so impressed with the book, he struck a deal with Osborne to include a copy with each IMSAI machine sold.
That IMSAI deal provided the means for Osborne to start his own publishing company, which produced computer books. He would often go to Homebrew Computer Club meetings with boxes full of his books, and leave with empty boxes and wads of cash.
He eventually sold his publishing company to McGraw-Hill, for millions.
The money from that deal was what he used to start Osborne Computer. The Osborne I was designed by Lee Felsenstein, another prominent name in the history of the Early Days.
These Osborne facts and more can be found in the excellent book Fire in the Valley, by Paul Freiberger & Michael Swaine.
~Philly
Same here. Some damned mortgage company in the Philly burbs has somehow gotten hold of my home fax number and keeps sending me shit I don't want or need. I've started reading up on the junk fax law, and I'm thinking about taking it for a spin in the Philadelphia court system, for shits and giggles (and ~$500 per unsolicited fax those assclowns have sent me).
~Philly
The fourth annual PhillyClassic kicks off on Friday, March 28 and lasts through Sunday evening, March 30.
~Philly
From the article: Microsoft submitted documentation to substantiate its claims about the security of the software and said the advert was not designed to mislead the consumer.
Their substantiation is pretty fucking worthless IMHO, as long as the software includes a EULA that absolves Microsoft of any responsiblity should the software NOT be as secure as they claim.
~Philly
Because it was a PS/2 exclusive, all those people who only played GTA3 on the PC now had to buy a PS/2 to get to the sequel!
No, only those people with absolutely no self control and sufficient disposable income.
The rest of us just hunkered down to wait for the inevitable release of the PC version, which was announced a week or two ago to be May, 2003.
~Philly
But there already were updates before that were released through Software Update-- and I've seen them 'want' to be downloaded to machines that never came near an iPod, and even to a machine running OS X Server. We just mark them 'inactive', but still...
Apple should build "a check for iPod update" feature into iTunes, with the option to have it check automatically-- then only people with an iPod would enable/use the feature, anyone who didn't use iTunes could just download the updates from Apple's site, and anyone who had no need of it at all wouldn't even see it come up in Software Update.
~Philly
...I have to nominate a few models, specifically the machines that were built around the Power Mac 7100, Power Mac 8100, or Power Mac 9500 chassis. With any of those machines, you had to take the whole goddamned thing apart just to upgrade the RAM.
Same with the first few revisions of the iMac before they designed in the easy-access trap door, but the machines above were worse-- I never worked under the hood of one of them without bleeding.
~Philly
Maybe he wasn't but maybe he should have been. As their market continues to decrease, they should really care about everyone that is NOT an apple user.
Uh huh. And maybe you should've read his friggin' post, because it's fairly obvious he IS a Mac user-- he just prefers the Power Macs, for the reasons he listed.
Steve has managed to keep the company alive, barely.
Yeah, they're SO just scraping by, with about 17 of the last 20 quarters or so being profitable, and at least half of those in a down economy. You want to talk computer companies barely alive, let's talk Gateway-- not Apple.
~Philly
And that's because YOU weren't their target market for them.
The iMac was designed to be used by grandmas and the like, to send e-mail and browse the web. People like grandma don't need expansion or upgrade capability. Grandma won't be swapping out her video card and processor over the weekend to squeeze a few more FPS out of Quake III. As long as the machine starts up and runs when she wants to use it, it will always be plenty fast for grandma.
Don't call them cheap crap just because they didn't meet your needs. They were very good machines, they did just what they were designed to do, and for whom they were designed to do it, period. If they didn't, the model wouldn't have survived on the price list for almost five years, so show some freakin' respect-- if not for the iMac, there might not have BEEN those Power Macs you like so much.
~Philly
Mac addicts seem to be far less likely to sell their computers on ebay
/350 tower for my company, to be our OS X Server testbed. And I'm typing this post on my G4/733 Quicksilver. If you're persistent you can find and acquire a good machine for a decent price.
Are you kidding? Every old Mac I've sold except one has been sold on eBay. There are always tons of used Macs for sale there. I've also bought two Macs on eBay-- I got an older Graphite G4
The only trouble if you're a buyer is Macs usually retain a high resale value, and there are usually a lot of people interested in the better machines-- especially now, when older machines that can run OS X well are a hot item-- so they get bid up into the stratosphere.
If you're selling, though, it's great-- I loved getting $800 for a 1.5 year old iBook 500MHz a couple months ago.
~Philly
Unfortunately, in less than one year the boy will have grown too big to fit inside anymore.
:-)
At which point the guy could:
a) have another kid
b) sell it on eBay for $$$
c) tinker with it and make it remote-controlled
d) c, then b
If it were me, I'd add remote control along with a motor for turret-rotation, put a wireless cam or two on it and enjoy it for a long time to come.
If his dad does that, I'd hate to live on that kid's block on Mischief Night in 11 or 12 years, if the tank lasts that long.
~Philly