Macrovision (was re: 15 Ti-Bk S-Video Out problem)
MEEP! John Acuff wrote: Actually, you can thank Congress for that. They were the ones that passed the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act), under the strong influence of the MPAA, and the RIAA. Well, sort of. Macrovision has been around for quite a bit longer than the DMCA (I remember their protection schemes getting in the way of a high-school editing project in 1992), but three minutes' worth of Googling around didn't turn up an exact date. Anybody who is interested, though, might find the following URLs interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrovision (Quick summary of the company and links to related IP topics) http://biz.yahoo.com/e/021114/mvsn10-q.html (A summary of the company's recent financial performance... I didn't realize that they were the ones responsible for pay-per-view cable scrambling, too, until reading this...) -me -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Silly points re: G3/Mac OS X Settlement
Just a couple of small, silly points about this big kafuffle that has clogged my mailbox all day long. (Don't you people have jobs?) First of all, John Acuff wrote: What will it be next version? Native G4 machines only? That would be nice. Even with only two generations of chips on the market until recently, hardware requirements for software have been a joke over the past year. Now that the G5 is here, and given that it seems to fit in as well with G4 benchmarks as the Pentium 4 did with the standards for previous generations of Intel chips, I'd be happy to see some reasonably accurate information about what kind of hardware is actually required to run stuff short of plunking down my money and crossing my fingers. Honestly, like Kyle said, unless you *have* to be running the latest version of everything (ie. you run a printing business or something, in which case hardware and software upgrades are presumably built into your budget forecasts), what's wrong with sticking to software and an OS that are appropriate to the hardware that you're using, and which you *know* work up to a certain standard? Meanwhile, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't you dare call my SE/30 a museum piece - it has a vastly important job - delivering and receiving email for a small non-profit organization. How many 1990 PCs do you know of that are still running without having visited the computer doctor? The Epson Apex (12MHz 286) that I bought in August 1990 is still going strong, and it's only been opened up to have additional hardware (sound card, 3.5 floppy drive, modem, ATI Mach8 graphics card with an earth-shattering-at-the-time 1MB of video RAM) installed over the years. As a point of curiosity, it ran MS-DOS 3.3 when I got it, briefly had 5.0 installed, and continues with 6.22 to this day; none of the silly graphical amendments to MS-DOS are active, and while I've tried to make it run at a worthwhile speed, I've given up on the idea of ever running any version of Windows 3.x on it. (Once the term graphics accelerator became even remotely common on the hardware market, regular obsolescence became a fact of life.) I haven't had a chance to check it out in almost two years, but I'd assume that the IBM XT that I inherited from a neighbour about a year later is probably still capable of running Lotus 1-2-3 the same as it always has. Right now, though, it's keeping speakers off the ground in a warehouse, a task that it will presumably be able to handle for years and years to come. -me, bemused -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Not really re: Sound Pass through in OS X, but close enough.
Sound pass through is set in OS 10.2.6 (and earlier versions of OS X?) using the Audio MIDI Setup application in Applications:Utilities. Strange location for this option, I think, but there it is. This is sort of neat. When I saw that the audio setup utility gave the option of adjusting channel levels for different types of inputs, I was finally able to fix a long-standing quirk of my iMic: the levels of any signal recorded when the iMic was connected to USB bus 1 (the port closest to the front of my iBook 800) have always been about half as loud on the left channel as they are on the right. That problem appears to have been solved now. Many thanks to whoever initially brought up the pass-through issue on the list! -me -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Interesting sound problem on TiBook
MEEP! Wiebe Wilbers wrote: Possibly, or, maybe we only notice it when USING iTunes ;). Other than during music playback, the Mac doesn't make much sound by which to judge the balance. I noticed the exact same problem (on my iBook 800, 10.2.6) a couple of nights ago when I plugged in headphones to do some compression work on a concert recording in Sound Studio. At first, I thought that six months' worth of being tossed into my backpack while I was at work had started to take its toll on my headphones, or that maybe the jack was going flaky. The night before, I had been having trouble with audio input (from a DAT recorder, via an iMic) coming out not-quite-balanced on one of the iBook's USB ports: when I plugged the iMic into the port closest to the hinge, software play-through worked just fine, but the left channel was WAY louder than the right channel; when I used the port closer to the trackpad, play-through was disabled but the signal was balanced. At this point, I wonder if play-through really WAS screwed up. I'm tempted to try to re-create the problem, keeping an eye out for gratuitous output balancing on OS X's part. -me -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wireless Encryption
Puzzling in their duality, Ryan and Amie wrote: Does anyone use WEP on their airport network? I left MacStumbler running on the train on my way home from work a couple of months back, and it picked up 60-odd networks on the way through a variety of business and residential neighbourhoods. About 1/3 of them were WEP-protected, primarily the obviously business-related networks (bearing the names of local banks and TV stations, for example). Personally, I leave mine open when I'm playing a game of Unreal Tournament (the network is actually called UTserver when that happens), but nobody has taken me up on the unspoken invitation to get shot at as of yet. I'm also thinking about sticking a bunch of promotional material (MP3, videos, etc.) for local musicians that I like in an open directory for whoever happens to stumble across it, but haven't tinkered around with the logistics of that kind of file-sharing yet. (It was stupidly easy to do on a Win98 home network, but I'm still getting used to this whole OS X thing, and only have the network up to play with intermittently in any event.) -me -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wireless Encryption
Again in chorus, Ryan and Amie wrote: So you are saying I should leave mine open and without WEP? Depends what has access to it, or vice-versa, hardware-wise. All of my day-to-day Internet access comes to me thanks to neighbours' open networks... if your set-up would provide that to anybody else who had access to it, and that's okay with you, then by all means, leave it open. If nothing else, it's a generous thing to do. (Keep in mind that not everybody will necessarily play nice and pay to do their serious downloading elsewhere... if you're concerned about download caps or anything, WEP might be the way to go.) -me -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wallstreet start up question.
MEEP! Andrew Johnson wrote: Since this is an old world machine, the os 9 loader begins and loads the software that boots os x. Just out of curiosity, when did this old world to new world (great terms, by the way) transition happen? I'm still getting used to my first Mac (an iBook 800), and originally made the jump from PCs after getting sick of the increasing reliance of every user on service techs, product-activation phone lines, etc., and I'm still getting used to the idea that you can't necessarily build a Mac from scratch without a hell of a lot of experience with its hardware and software. -me __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
