So, yeah. this is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Video quality is becoming quite amazing these days, huh?

If you don't have a recent (G5) Mac with Quicktime 7 on it, you won't be able to view those. If you do have a recent Mac with Quicktime 7 on it, you may be terribly sad that everything in the world isn't that high res. Interestingly, the downloadables 1080p versions (links to the right of each screen, even bigger files than the default versions) actually cause my dual-1.8 GHz G5 to stutter on playback. Though I suppose they might not if I weren't building things in the background. Since the slightly smaller ones have the same horizontal resolution as my monitor, though, I'm pretty satisfied with those.

ETA: It looks like the latest version of mplayer can play these quicktime movies. Somebody on a windows box with a technical bent should see if the Windows port can play them. I recommend testing with the Serenity Trailer, because, awesome.

ETA2: Turns out, my Dual-1.8 GHz G5 with 64 MB Geforce FX 5200 is below recommended system for playing back the 1080p files (the recommend a dual-2.0 with 128 MB VRAM). Wow. I really didn't think this system was going to be below recommended requirements for anything, ever.

If I could play back the 1080p stuff with no stuttering by only upgrading the video card, I might do it. Wonder if I could find a way to test that...

Either way, tempted to make 1920x844 screencaps of the Serenity trailer.

Either way, tempted to make 1920x844 screencaps of the Serenity trailer.

Tell me about it.

Sadly? I don't have the time to obsess today. Yardwork and other IRL events, too.

Andi's having problems with connection speed with OSX 10.3.9 on a dialup to her local ISP (casagrandeinternet.com) and their lack of support page is driving me craxy.

She has the correct G4 modem selected, but it is connecting at 24,000 bps. I hope it's not her phone line. The only number she has for dialup is 520-836-4344.

Anyway, if anyone here has any suggestions, or can find an alternate dialup for that provider, let me know. It's so bad she gave up on the Titanium powerbook last night and went back to her WebTV console.

That's just... wrong.

has anyone here loaded linux onto their ipods? If so, how is it working for ya?

Why would one do that? Because one can?

well, on the ipod hack websites I read there are a couple of reasons for it:

1) viewing graphics on the ipod; 2) playing games on the ipod; 3) recording sound on the ipod using relatively cheaper means than the Apple and Belkin microphones, etc.

here is a good site that discusses it:

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Ooh! I just discovered that in Opera you can manipulate pages open in windows that do not have the focus. If you perform the mouse gesture over the button (I'm assuming it works in the tabbed layout too) for that window, the page will refresh/close/back up/whatever. This probably explains some confusing behaviour I've written off over the past little while, and is also kinda nifty when you have 15 pages open.

So, yeah. this is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Video quality is becoming quite amazing these days, huh?

That gave me quite a startle, because just to the right of the Serenity trailer is my department's new HD reel. (Which, ironically, I can't watch here at work because the G5 in the back has yet to be connected to the network, and it's the only Mac in the entire office.)

Dear GOD, but watching video on the Powerbook is a dream. I can shrink a torrented video window to 1/2 size, and everything still looks perfectly legible.

I'm just blown away by the pretty -- the HD is a whole nother level.

Wow. Macs are super duper simple to add to a Windows network. Your techs must be really busy.

Unless it requires a new ethernet drop, that's a whole ballgame apart.