The collected works of fu - Page 7

it's no big deal to convert text to shape(s) but it's something that gets done when all design/layout is finished and it's heading for print. and as thein said it saves the headache of missing fonts.

i guess that one guy designed something and sent the file to geo for edit/checks. anyway, glad you sorted it out geo

no professional does like the consolidation bastardization of iOS & Mac OS. jobs's romantic plan was that the iAppliances would drive sales in a way to protect/enhance the professional line without circling the drain every now and then, but i guess we have to wait and see, 2013 is (supposed to be) the year of the mac.

looking at their hardware line, everything that comes with a built-in screen (iMac included) could (potentially) turn iOSesque. home products meant for home use and most of apple's customers now come from the iPeriod and on, touchscreens and tight integration, all fine and dandy. the professional line is where the question remains.

i don't worry about mac pro* refresh cycles though. if there's nothing decent to write about, we better wait until it's ready. i know of a lot of post places, a bunch of fellow artists that tried the all-by-myself-desktop-jockey solution, and a number of art-schools that employ xserve/xsan solutions. all of them are still in use but otherwise unaware of apple's exact sales figures.


save your passion for better things, get what you can afford and let someone else worry about specs+buttons syb. current projects got me working on a dozen 2009 & three 2008 MPs daily, they still are rocksteady machines. the last of the G5s (PCIe) were also decent battle-weary rockers. for a hackintosh, neko used to have a thread here documenting his journey and iirc he was happy with it.

woo boy, did we hijack chc's introduction thread or what? welcome aboard chc, i read in another thread that you maintain/update browsers for older macs, thanks heaps for that :)

[*: there's a myth (that turned into hysteria lately) that the pros update their machines every time a new spec is published. a professional machine is not meant to be recycled every 12 months and no professional gives 2 funks about the latest cpu/gpu that will cut him 2.3 seconds of realistic work hours. but i guess we have to redefine professional, cause it ain't the kids on youtube that benchmark new vs old models by boot times & launching a trillion of apps at login, nor a few self-proclaimed photo/video-graphers that launch blogs/sites with a few pics, a trillion of graphs/specs and a ton of boo-hoo the new nvidia is out for the pc, the mac is left behind .]

is this one of the utilities that's bundled w/ the developer tools rec?

welcome aboard chicane

are you one of the isp folks up in ipswitch? if so, you used to provide broadband to a friends shop :)

do we have any architects here?

another fellow artist, professional, friend, real person gone ( 1 , 2 ).

in loving memory

Dancers rappel from the Digital TV Tower as part of an aerial performance in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. Dancers from the group "No Air, Danza Aerea" or "In the Air, Aerial Dance," present an aerial show every evening on a full moon. The tower, also known as the Flor do Cerrado, was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

my brother told me so yesterday, then i realized that the whole orchestra knew it :(

zeus, who's gonna take the weight?

christmassy loop :)

how's the weather up there duck? give us a pan shot with your funky bike somewhere inside the frame, it'd add some interesting contrast to the grey sky.

displaced? yes i've been there, but hell no, misspelled too?

haven't bumped into a corel-maniac recently, but some print folks love corel because it's able to do both vectors & bitmaps under the same roof. all fine and dandy if you give them a .cdr file. all hell brakes loose if you give them anything else because the translation from illy/ps et al funks up the margins every time.

few years ago, i was working on a story that turned into a pop-up book and decided to have some of the thick carton guides printed before i cut+sew by hand. went through all of the trouble to measure everything by the last mm, locked all the guides in my .ai file and sent it to a shop round the corner. the batch came out totally displaced and i ended up doing everything by hand.

bo's gorgeous in her navy pinstripe sleepingbag :)

it won't fix dodgy code/design but there's a little addon / bookmarklet that makes reading online a bit better. it ain't perfect (screws alignment every now and then) but it usually cleans up most of web litter . hope this works on irix?

^ with all those badass noisemakers in your signature you might appreciate a silent brake smj :)

for conversions and general home serving duties the mini is perfect. stack/hide/forget-able, makes no sound. i'm likely getting one to handle my librarian duties.

those old MPs will handle everything you need and then some. i've got a whole orchestra recording into one and a few of them tackling those fake 4k frames from red that every kid is mad about.

what does the mba burp for syb? ssd space or ram?

i found out that 4gb is borderline bearable for aperture . i store all of my "current" archives on a HD hanging off the AEBS, now thinking of getting a mini or find a gigabit-ethernet enclosure (that won't sound like a jet plane) to overcome the flaky usb connection.

what a year, maybe we should merge the death rolls of 2012 :(

last time i heard him live was in london, early 90s iirc, together with zakir hussain

don’t have to ride it, just frame it :)

this thread reminds me of days long past when qtvr was still in beta. yours truly & his wild bunch were having lots of cursing fun testing tripods, heads and the limits of digital photography which was then in its infancy.

keep shootin’ duckling

few drinks no girl, uhmm... probably moondog (the whole homonymous 1956 album). problem is the hangover buzz next morning

ah, music quiz?

name zis girl




or go straight to the funk of it (revisited): headbone connected to your backbone, backbone connected to your leg bone, leg bone connected to your ass bone...

what's your favourite G4 chc?

iirc the last ones (mirror door) were known as wind-tunnels due to a batch of rejected propellers that apple used as cooling fans inside the case (or was it the psu fan?)

my favourite G4 was the quicksilver. clean lines, easy to upgrade, rock-solid piece o' tool :)

^ bah!

give us a shot man, otherwise it's all rumors :)

i feel the same way for the you-es & most of u-rope

i guess you get to meet real persons in afghanistan hakim. what's your favourite part so far, compared to europe?

@hak:

predictably, you get to live a real life over there. wish you make the best of it :)

ironically, we only get real when things go rough.

not so sure about the "play" part anymore (at least for the majority either in us or eu). more like, work / replace real social life with a "social" placebo on screen / sleep. repeat . gogol was right, madness is a feature, not a bug :)

@winni
xenophobia is what's being pushed back into eu/us as a norm, wrapped into the phony paper of "recession". mere survival for folks in places like afghanistan is a different universe.

indeed it is. and just like any behaviour fueled by fear, it tends to a) drive people mad every time they lose a dollar here or there, and subsequently b) make people blame their neighbours next country/continent/galaxy for all evil


and i always pick a funky neighborhood to reside where no one's excluded from walking around but the bigger picture usually involves more than mine or your neighborhood


we don't have to spill any virtual ink for that, you could post a shot of the average guy in your neighborhood and hakim could do the same :)


a propos, where's you cool habitat at? & what do you think of the current state of europe?

adiós rockers & 'gators, catch you later on a fluffy cloud

goodbye cruel world

^ no, federico got us covered :D

i guess that both jj and sky are looking for specialized firewall features but since jj mentions dd-wrt and reliability, here's a short nekochan story:

years ago i was looking for a solution to block ads & flashy unicorns at router-level and tillin pointed me to dd-wrt. reading high and low i ended up using tomato ( 1 , 2 ) on a common wrt54gs. it did (and still does) all i need and then some, all via a browser-based gui that folks like me can setup in 5 minutes ( also sports a cli for folks who don't like guis). besides ad-blocking, i just need file transfers between each base. i used to use the built-in vpn features too, but i offloaded most of my vpn needs to witopia since i'm mostly on the road.

i eventually bought 3 of them and found peace. the same old wrt54gs ones in ny & london are still up running -no problemo- for 6-7 years now. i only had to reboot them for a firmware update. i managed to muck up the one in berlin so i'm looking for a replacement, till then the AEBS undertakes router duties.

i stopped worrying about whatever cheap plastic box each ISP hands out w/ every dsl loop when i found out that i can just set it up in bridge mode, plug it into the wan port of my router and go.

my needs are simple, not sure if this will take the weight of a bunch of vpn tunnels or other demanding requirements. smallnetbuilder reports throughput figures & dd-wrt/tomato compatibility for newish models.

x-mas boon, congrats!

now you can let that horse do the dirty job while you're out swinging with your girl :)

congrats smj, it's raining MPs

this thread reminds me of sky's mac path in reverse, he was so happy with his hack he bought real macs


i think i've read about this before, is it a matter of swapping cpus? or does it involve soldering irons and further software hacks?

sky, how do you manage your recordings done w/ the ipad? plug everything in, rock+roll+burn the house down, then export à la goodreader?

i'm thinking of byuing an ipad for my brother, tho i'm pretty sure he won't like the way of exporting files from the ipad (i wouldn't like exporting a 30' session to dropbox over wifi) as he'll most likely want to finish things off w/ logic.app

on a similar note, i'm working on some scenes that involve recording a full orchestra and about 600 extras (humans, not wacom-based monsters :)) as part of the crowd. some of these recordings come from a presonus setup and my sound guy is using an ipad to check feedback from where the crowd is ( similar usage in a gig-club ) and make sure it won't fcuk up the dialogue channels.


zis zoundz very goot, if i get him to test this i'll come back w/ an honest report

pure quality smj, thank you


hell yeah, i still remember the time i had to get one to replace the fan in my colo(u)r classic some decades ago

merry hoho kids!

i'm looking for a router replacement and i bumped into this: Mini AirPort Express line to wireless Router WiFi Express Adapter for MacBook

chinese sellers crack me up, don't know what to pick for a title:









(sources: Micro USB For Apple , iPhone Wifi Adapter Compatible iPad Macbook Air Computers )

ipad auto-speller and wordsmithery be damned, here come ze chineze zellerz. all this and brains ISO9001:2000 certification y'all!

kowalski, shoot me up twice man

there's a german saying that goes like «if you want to learn something, travel» (oskar could probably give us the original punchline)

i was walking around town, popped-in the café across the street and here's the answer to all questions about quality:



it's (half-)dead jim.

nice setup fock

did you sort the F190 w/ a proper 13w3 adapter?

just rotate the darn pics so we won't get any νευροκαβαλίκεμα

nailed the new year's (lindy's) cheesecake again :)

meglio stasera peter panther :

smokin', do the funky chiken and happy two-oh-one-free rockers & 'gators :D

Every bit of clothing ought to make you pretty
You can cut the clothing, grey is such a pity
I should wear the clothing of Mr. Walter Mitty
See my tailor, he's called Simon, I know it's going to fit

Here's a little piece of advice
You're quite welcome it is free
Don't do nothing that is cut price
You know what that'll make you be
They will try their tricky device
Trap you with the ordinary
Get your teeth into a small slice
The cake of liberty

^ nice quality & best!

haven't seen anything this neat in ages (my father is a retired electrician)

if your handiwork is still like that, next round o' drinks on me vish :)

^ i'd add the "waist high culture" & the "transparency of evil" among others :)

(if you liked lapham's take you'd most likely enjoy the original (poem) by c. cavafy which also inspired coetzee's take on the same title)

uhmmm early 60s, 62-63...

and he was a sakamoto right? i always thought that ryuichi sakamoto is related to him but he keeps reminding me otherwise

almost my kind of poizen, you've got it vish :)

great news everyone, nice to see the /beta & development categories alive and kickin'

wish dieguito-general could come back and work on his video editor again

@syb, be-bop-a-lol-raptor

just wait for the next wave of fear of unemployment & evil neighbors

Now he's running down the dark
Diabolical awaits
Grabs him by the ankle
Ain't it just like fate
Diabolical laughs
In an alley full of suits
Forget the same
you'll be different now
Somewhat shorter on one side
Let go
Oh no
Would you diabolical inside
Panic in his brain pulls and gets away
Losses him a foot
It's a dark and evil day

See him running, limping blood
Something soft is just ahead
Something soft is Gentle
He's fallen at her side
She comforts him with kisses
He dreams of suicide

(robespierre since you enjoy movies and we're talking about barbarians: there is an ok french-canadian film titled the barbarian invasions or something- can't recall the original french title)


yes it's complicated, people vote but they have no clue what they're voting for. don't forget that the US system is one of the most bastardized ever as it started as a european copy and it got stirred and shaken along the way. one/two decades ago the US consensus was hallucinating about resembling the golden era of ancient Athens in terms of democracy. free-this, free-that, untill they realized they're all masturbating+slaving to a bunch of graphs coming out of stock market tickers.

u-rope is no better at this time, but it's slowly waking up. and since you are in europe, what do you think of the current european mess?

reading this thread again i see oreissig & sgtprobe chiming in which is nice because usually the european members just come and bitch about the US every now and then but won't talk about the mud on their own lawn.

and that pretty much sums up the problem of europe. europe forgot what europe is. europe spent the last 5 decades bragging about diversity, civilization and how much better it is than its average american counterpart. a phony fairytale because:

- you can't talk about anything american and keep europe out of the picture (historically, socially, economically, you name it)
- europe ended up being a photocopy of its own american photocopy when it tried the EU experiment (weee! we gonna unify europe and get a single, unified currency to stay "competent", just like the US!). picture a hotel, half of it furnished and ready to accept visitors, the other half still in blueprints (not only for economic reasons).
- thanks to globalbastardization europe turned out to be almost the same shit as the US, except for a few different haircuts and accents. all the major bailout fiascos in the states had similar shows at their european branches.

all this productive/competent brainwash has to go. now. the northern side of europe always had grey skies and heavy industries. the southern/mediterranean side of europe always had blue skies, agriculture and tourism (similar geographical differences in the US but on a bigger scale). the current brainwash in europe dictates that "good, productive europeans" pay for "bad, unproductive europeans". huh? you bite that? your hard-earned life savings were never meant to be confused with intra-organizational EU budgets (EFSF, black funds, bribes etc). but hey, let's scare the funk out of everyone by questioning their job security or savings, or both.

the common distraction line in both EU&US right now is chinesification with an added spice of xenophobia. " see how productive the chinese people are? all for $2/month and 5 grains of rice. bad, bad boys, you've been getting overpaid for so long, now we gonna have to adjust you job/wage/life ".

this is true, internationally. the financial industry is nothing but an imaginary sex fiend for a bunch of greedy horcefaced gamblers who can't socialize. anyone who understands what a debt-based economy is, try to explain it to the folks in your neighborhood (CDS, spreads, leverage effect etc. and count how many will laugh/cry/collapse). the price of bread on your table is being gambled up in the stock market tickers, it's not based on normal wheat production. the whole thing is gossip-driven.

to make it all stick together it is everyone's fault. democracy requires a mature, thoughtful, educated public. the right to vote doesn't come with an undo button, it is the ultimate civil right. part of our civil life includes the duty to monitor whoever we did elect, and take them down every time they fuck up the public for their own personal reasons. kinda hilarious when the same channels that are selling you democracy talk about bailouts for the preservation of democratic and economic stability .

this ain't about left or right anymore guys. this is the biggest redistribution of wealth in the history of mankind.

it is a freaking, tasteless mess and probably the best time to use condoms. no more newborn slaves.

robespierre get your wild bunch together, we need a new "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" or just photocopies of the original. i'll call upon ariadne, nemesis and plato, looks like we have to re-invent the wheel.