[Liverpool] distros etc

Tue Apr 28 15:45:01 UTC 2009

It is madness indeed. It didn't all go to one guy, dribs and drabs really. I
sold at a time when the vintage synth market had crashed. Anyone worth their
salt would know that a pristine cosmetic condition TR-808 drum machine (with
MIDI retrofit) is worth more than £1000. However mine sold for around about
£500 :( and that's the machine i miss the most!
I know what you mean about the screen size. My MacBook Pro (and indeed the 4
other PowerBooks before it) were 17" screens, needed for sequencing. I do
miss the 1920x1200 resolution on the MBP :(

2009/4/28 Stephen Mount <stephen at dreamcreators.co.uk>

> Once again - I've considered putting YDL on my PS3 but never got round
> to it!
>
> Also - that's just madness regarding the £10K kit. It's a shame - I
> guess the other guy got the bargain though. I recently sold a 6-weeks
> macbook (early 2009) for £570 whereas I paid £670 for it. Just
> couldn't deal with the 13" screen at all. I have a 17" MBP and that's
> good as I can take it anywhere and it's pretty much a desktop
> replacement!
>
> I read Ubuntu PPC version works on the PS3 and might do that. The
> message that comes up that says hi you need to format your disk scared
> me originally when I bought it ;-) (this was xmas so jobs had finally
> died down!)
>
> On 28 Apr 2009, at 16:28, oscillik wrote:
>
> > hehe you can't beat me - sold £10,000 worth of analogue and digital
> > synthesizers, and my prized Atari Falcon030 at a massive loss
> > (garnered
> > around £3000 for the lot). all so i could get the latest MacBook Pro
> > at the
> > time! how silly was i? i regard it as both the best and worst thing
> > i've
> > ever done. and where is the MacBook Pro now? it's failed logic board
> > is in
> > the bin, i'm sure :p
> > as for that website, the text isn't too small...at least not for me :D
> >
> > are you running YellowDog on your PS3? i installed that on my mates
> > PS3
> > because he was interested in playing around with Linux. After
> > finding out
> > that the WiFi is not the most trivial thing to set up, we both gave
> > up on
> > it!
> >
> > 2009/4/28 Stephen Mount <stephen at dreamcreators.co.uk>
> >
> >> Regarding framerates: If it's not playable - I won't play it. In
> >> fact,
> >> back in the day, 18 months ago, I sold a ~1300-1400 gaming computer
> >> for a MacBook. I sold it for £500 6-months later so that I could
> >> afford a MacBook. Now, I look where I am now and don't regret it at
> >> all. I still think that OS X is the web developer OS of choice!
> >>
> >> I'll give you an idea of when I was last playing games:-
> >>
> >>       "Stephen Mount as known as stemount is a gamer from Manchester,
> >> United Kingdom (Great Britain). stemount has a Steam rating of 0.1
> >> and
> >> was last online 8 days ago."
> >>
> >> Also - that was actually not even a game - that was to test a GSP'
> >> web
> >> application I wrote (http://bioservers.co.uk/our-network) - I know, I
> >> know - the text is too small. But what the customer demands, the
> >> customer gets ;-)
> >>
> >> I also have a PS3 which is mainly a media player at the moment over
> >> uPnP media sharing!
> >>
> >> Stephen
> >>
> >> On 28 Apr 2009, at 15:51, oscillik wrote:
> >>
> >>> ahhh but those framerates are theoretical, since most games are
> >>> capped at
> >>> 60fps. unless of course you've modified your config files, in which
> >>> case in
> >>> multiplayer that's cheating ;)
> >>>
> >>> and where do you find time to play games? seems you've got your
> >>> hands full
> >>> with school and web commitments :p
> >>>
> >>> On Apr 28, 2009 3:39 PM, "Stephen Mount" <stephen at dreamcreators.co.uk
> >>> >
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I play CSS + HL2DM on my MBP (2.5 core 2 duo / 4gig ddr2 / 8600M GT
> >>> 512MB) at about 130-140fps using Crossover Games.
> >>>
> >>> This is an acceptable framerate for me - not brilliant. I have not
> >>> tested the same game in Windows on it though - but I don't think
> >>> that
> >>> it till have much improvement. Something to try though. :-)
> >>>
> >>> On 28 Apr 2009, at 13:09, oscillik wrote: > Hi Stephen, > As an
> >>> electronic
> >>> musician, audio editing...
> >>>> I started out with SuSE 6.0 <http://tr.im/jUeM> which, back in 1998
> >>>
> >>>> was a > bit of a bitch to get going (text mode install, lack of
> >>>> immediate
> >>>> internet > connectio...
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