New Challenge?

[eyoungren]

I remember you mentioning the label while back. I have never used them myself but that does sound pointlessly annoying.

Yep.

This is why I go ballistic with Apple and am grateful for XtraFinder.

If you know that yellow is a pickup ad (meaning the ad ran a previous week), blue is a house ad, red is a kill (not running) and no label is a new ad then you can tell what is what at a glance.

Take the colors away and you can only tell by looking at the dates on the folders.

Apple thinks that showing you a stupid little ball is a great idea. Only problem is to see it (if you notice it at all) you have to make the window wider.

Oh sure, you can reduce the column width so you can see the little balls, but then all the folder names get truncated. We need to see untruncated folder names.

Some times I really hate Apple.

 

[redheeler]

That said, I hate the look and I hate the fact that starting with Mav, Apple killed labels and that starting with Lion, Apple hardcoded a minimum window size for Finder windows. I have to use an Applescript to get windows below that minimum. Yosemite fixes none of that. We use labels at work to quickly decide what ads are pickups, new, or house ads. Very hard to tell when all you get now is a colored ball that disappears when you size windows down.

Labels are still there, in the form of "Tags".

Edit: I see what you mean here. There's a setting in XtraFinder that will fix this.

I further hate that there seems to be no decent way to theme Yosemite. XtraFinder lets you manipulate things, but no one else seems to have come up with a theme and Yosemite has been out for a while. And Dark Mode only changes the menu bar and it's menus. How is it the developer of XtraFinder can change window backgrounds with reverse type on black but nobody else seems able to theme Yosemite?!

An app called flavours might be able to theme Yosemite. A system-wide dark mode is something I'm hoping for in 10.11.

Functionality wise, Leopard blows the doors off Tiger.

If I do take on the challenge, I'll be using both. Leopard on the G5, Tiger on the iBook G4.

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May I ask you why?

You had stated the reason.

 

[bunnspecial]

iDVD and iMovie. I occasionally have to edit small videos and burn DVDs. I use iMovie HD 6 because I'm familiar with it and I have no problems using it. I enjoy iDVD, but it can take hours to process video. Not a big deal if you set it to go when you leave work, but if you need something done the same day, you're not going to have a computer the whole morning.

My video skill are nearly non-existent, but I still seem to get involved in making one for church every few weeks.

I have an Xserve G5 sitting in the closet that doesn't run constantly, but that I do use frequently. This is one of the things I bought it for.

Basically, I do my editing work in iMovie or iDVD on my Quicksilver, primarily because that's where I have a good repository of files and also just where I'm comfortable working.

I then send the iDVD project file to the Xserve, and let the Xserve do the rendering. Of course, the time depends on the complexity of the project, but a dual 2.0 G5 can do it a lot faster than a dual 1.0 G4. It also frees up my Quicksilver to do other stuff.

Once iDVD is finished, I can take the image and burn it on my Quicksilver again. I would burn it in the Xserve, but sometimes I'm too lazy to walk down the hall and put a blank DVD in it

 

[eyoungren]

There's a setting in XtraFinder that will fix this.

Yes, I am using XtraFinder. Shame nobody else can figure this out except the XtraFinder dev.

An app called flavours might be able to theme Yosemite. A system-wide dark mode is something I'm hoping for in 10.11.

Not on Yosemite. Flavours 2 is being developed to work with Yosemite. There's been no word from the dev for a while now on that unfortunately.

 

[redheeler]

Not on Yosemite. Flavours 2 is being developed to work with Yosemite. There's been no word from the dev for a while now on that unfortunately.

Apparently you didn't click on the link I provided. There is already a public beta of Flavours2 for Yosemite.

 

[Beavix]

I use my PowerMac G5 every day. Since I upgraded its video board to the max it has become my gaming machine (Warcraft, Unreal Tournament, Quake...).

I'd still use a PPC Mac for work but I had to upgrade to Adobe Creative Cloud in order to be able to exchange files with my co-workers. That doesn't stop me from starting a project in InDesign CS4 on my PowerBook and continuing it on my rMBP, but going back and forth between versions is difficult.

 

[eyoungren]

Apparently you didn't click on the link I provided. There is already a public beta of Flavours2 for Yosemite.

I missed your link last night. I'll take a look at it later today at work. Thanks!

 

[eyoungren]

Apparently you didn't click on the link I provided. There is already a public beta of Flavours2 for Yosemite.

OK. Apparently it's a work in progress.

There are a limited number of themes and sometimes the menu bar reverts to white or to Dark Mode. I can live with that. I found a dark theme that in combination with XtraFinder's ability to reverse colors has given me about 95% of what I want.

We'll see what happens as they update it.

I know what I will be doing with Flavours 1 and my MBP tonight though.

 

[A.Goldberg]

Yep.

This is why I go ballistic with Apple and am grateful for XtraFinder.

If you know that yellow is a pickup ad (meaning the ad ran a previous week), blue is a house ad, red is a kill (not running) and no label is a new ad then you can tell what is what at a glance.

Take the colors away and you can only tell by looking at the dates on the folders.

Apple thinks that showing you a stupid little ball is a great idea. Only problem is to see it (if you notice it at all) you have to make the window wider.

Oh sure, you can reduce the column width so you can see the little balls, but then all the folder names get truncated. We need to see untruncated folder names.

Some times I really hate Apple.

I like to color code my files as well. I agree it was much better when the entire row of the file was highlighted. The little colored circle is not as effective and takes longer to visually assess. If they want to stick with the colored ball, it should be all the way on the left

 

[Altemose]

I am up for the challenge using an iBook G3!

 

[eyoungren]

I am up for the challenge using an iBook G3!

Just link to your last thread about it. You passed.

 

[ptdebate]

This would be a pretty easy challenge for me. I don't do CPU-intensive stuff like video encoding/decoding so the G4 would serve me just fine. With the FireGL x3 installed it's a very impressive machine.

Perhaps a Classic OS challenge? No OS X for a set period of time. I'd be down for that.

 

[Altemose]

Just link to your last thread about it. You passed.

I have no problems doing it again!

 

[robertdsc]

I don't think any sane individual would disagree with that sentiment!

I'll bite.

Until I graduated to Snow Leopard in September of 2014, every Mac I used ran Tiger. I ran a separate partition for Leopard for one purpose only: to connect to my iPhone 4. Otherwise, Tiger was the order of the day. Everything worked flawlessly, given the limitations of today's software.

I ran it on a G4 466 up to a G5 DC 2.0. The memory use is much less, even under full load, the visuals are cleaner, and there is no pink anywhere in the UI.

I have since upgraded to Leopard on the DC G5 for use with uTorrent. I have a separate program (whose name escapes me at the moment) for Tiger that did torrent work, but I liked uTorrent better.

Otherwise, I'd use Tiger in anything any day of the week. If I found a decent PowerBook on CL, I'd use Tiger, not Leopard.

 

[poiihy]

I'll bite.

Until I graduated to Snow Leopard in September of 2014, every Mac I used ran Tiger. I ran a separate partition for Leopard for one purpose only: to connect to my iPhone 4. Otherwise, Tiger was the order of the day. Everything worked flawlessly, given the limitations of today's software.

I ran it on a G4 466 up to a G5 DC 2.0. The memory use is much less, even under full load, the visuals are cleaner, and there is no pink anywhere in the UI.

I have since upgraded to Leopard on the DC G5 for use with uTorrent. I have a separate program (whose name escapes me at the moment) for Tiger that did torrent work, but I liked uTorrent better.

Otherwise, I'd use Tiger in anything any day of the week. If I found a decent PowerBook on CL, I'd use Tiger, not Leopard.

"Functionality wise" not speed or looks.

 

[MyNaturalColour]

Yes, used to be one of his subscribers... not anymore.

After the massive success of the Hackintosh series, everyone (including myself) is very interested in the powerpc challenge becoming a thing once more sometime. Feel free to check out a few of the latest videos if you fancy and maybe the original series will pop up sometime.

 

[Ih8reno]

After the massive success of the Hackintosh series, everyone (including myself) is very interested in the powerpc challenge becoming a thing once more sometime. Feel free to check out a few of the latest videos if you fancy and maybe the original series will pop up sometime.

Great videos for the hackintosh. I'm very curious as to what you have planned next!

 

[SkyBell]

Up until a little over a month ago, I was basically PPC-only. I did have a SR MacBook and a late 2006 iMac, but both of them were very seldom used. (I sold the MacBook in February, the iMac died in March) 95% of my computing was done either on my eMac or PowerBook G4. It's certainly doable, if not a little frustrating sometimes.

Nowadays, I've got a Core i7 HP EliteBook that I use probably 60-70% of the time - but my eMac still gets used almost everyday: I'm typing this post on it, in fact.

I'd be down for the challenge; my eMac may still get a decent amount of use, but my PowerBook has all but been abandoned as of late. Perhaps I could put it back into service for a bit.

 

[ptdebate]

Up until a little over a month ago, I was basically PPC-only. I did have a SR MacBook and a late 2006 iMac, but both of them were very seldom used. (I sold the MacBook in February, the iMac died in March) 95% of my computing was done either on my eMac or PowerBook G4. It's certainly doable, if not a little frustrating sometimes.

Nowadays, I've got a Core i7 HP EliteBook that I use probably 60-70% of the time - but my eMac still gets used almost everyday: I'm typing this post on it, in fact.

I'd be down for the challenge; my eMac may still get a decent amount of use, but my PowerBook has all but been abandoned as of late. Perhaps I could put it back into service for a bit.

Have you considered hackintoshing your Elitebook? I hear it's pretty easy with those models as long as it's Sandybridge or newer.

 

[robertdsc]

"Functionality wise" not speed or looks.

I can do just about everything fine in Tiger. VLC works for almost everything that QuickTime can't handle, editing type and creator codes via TypeShuffler isn't broken as it was in Leopard (and Snow Leopard, for that matter), TFF works without issue, iTunes 9 is my favorite version, Photoshop is fine, and the memory usage by Tiger is far less than Leopard, something I had to deal with when I ran a G4 466 as my daily driver for several months in 2012. That G4 had 1.5 GB of RAM and I was comfortably under 1GB almost all the time. With Leopard, that never happened when I tried it on the same Mac.

 

[ptdebate]

I can do just about everything fine in Tiger. VLC works for almost everything that QuickTime can't handle, editing type and creator codes via TypeShuffler isn't broken as it was in Leopard (and Snow Leopard, for that matter), TFF works without issue, iTunes 9 is my favorite version, Photoshop is fine, and the memory usage by Tiger is far less than Leopard, something I had to deal with when I ran a G4 466 as my daily driver for several months in 2012. That G4 had 1.5 GB of RAM and I was comfortably under 1GB almost all the time. With Leopard, that never happened when I tried it on the same Mac.

Do the lower CPU overheads of Tiger result in any improvement with HD video performance in VLC?

 

[robertdsc]

Do the lower CPU overheads of Tiger result in any improvement with HD video performance in VLC?

I have no idea. I never did anything like that to test it out.

 

[SkyBell]

Have you considered hackintoshing your Elitebook? I hear it's pretty easy with those models as long as it's Sandybridge or newer.

This is the model I have. The thought has crossed my mind once or twice, but honestly I only have a few minor annoyances with Windows 7 , and versions of OS X beyond Snow Leopard don't really suit me.

 

[ptdebate]

This is the model I have. The thought has crossed my mind once or twice, but honestly I only have a few minor annoyances with Windows 7 , and versions of OS X beyond Snow Leopard don't really suit me.

I hear you. I'm not super fond of Yosemite but admittedly I haven't spent much time with anything 10.6-10.9. Leopard is great and I'm about to install SL on my new MacBook if it ever arrives.

Apparently the operation with your Elitebook is possible, but with the one caveat that you'll have to install an OSX-compatible WiFi card.

http://www.tonymacx86.com/hp-probook/114532-hp-elitebook-2540p-i7-intelcore-2-13ghz.html

http://www.tonymacx86.com/hp-probook/77057-guide-installing-mountain-lion-hp-probook.html

 

[MacCubed]

After the massive success of the Hackintosh series, everyone (including myself) is very interested in the powerpc challenge becoming a thing once more sometime. Feel free to check out a few of the latest videos if you fancy and maybe the original series will pop up sometime.

I loved the Hackintosh videos you posted! I really want to build one on my own but shipping is always too expensive