My Powerbook has never spoken to me -- what are the instances in which OS X does that?
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§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 8:19:28 pm PDT #3407 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
NoiseDesign - Jun 15, 2005 8:23:52 pm PDT #3408 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
There's an option for spoken alerts somewhere in the preferences. If it's enabled then whatever text is in an alert dialog is spoken to you.
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 8:29:09 pm PDT #3409 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Huh. Wasn't default on in my install.
Eddie - Jun 15, 2005 8:31:11 pm PDT #3410 of 10003
Your tag here.
Make it say bad words ita! You know you want to!
NoiseDesign - Jun 15, 2005 11:37:05 pm PDT #3411 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
Huh. Wasn't default on in my install.
Yeah, I just checked multiple installs and it's not default on in any of them, I've got 10.3.4 on one partion here, 10.4.1 on another partition, 10.4.1 on the Mac Mini, 10.3.8 on the powerbook, and 10.3.9 on my server. All of them are on the default setting and they are all speech disabled.
I'm thinking that DX's G5 is possesed, or that someone was trying to be helpful and turned it on just to mess with him.
DXMachina - Jun 16, 2005 2:52:06 am PDT #3412 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I'm the only one who knows how to even find the preferences on that machine. I know I didn't turn it on. I don't think Quark turned it on, because it's a pre-OS-X version, plus, it was print monitor that was squaking, not Quark. That leaves the only other possibilities as either that it was on by default, or that our building was built on an indian burial ground, a possibility that I'm not about to discount.
Gris - Jun 16, 2005 6:47:06 am PDT #3413 of 10003
Hey. New board.
That could be cool! Maybe you'll get ghosts.
§ ita § - Jun 16, 2005 7:26:15 am PDT #3414 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kodak to stop making B&W paper. I guess the digital SLR is looking better and better.
I need to see if there's a digital that can share lenses with my optical. Of course, it's been so damned long since I used my SLR, I don't remember what it is.
tommyrot - Jun 16, 2005 7:33:30 am PDT #3415 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I need to see if there's a digital that can share lenses with my optical.
There are a lot of digital SLRs that do that. Some digital SLRs even come without a lens so you can use your existing lenses if you want.
I have an older HP digital SLR. I can attach a regular telephoto or wide angle lense to it, although I have yet to do so.
§ ita § - Jun 16, 2005 7:36:50 am PDT #3416 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There are a lot of digital SLRs that do that
It's not the digital I'm wondering about, so much as my traditional SLR for which I've already bought good lenses -- that's the compatibility angle I need to start shopping from.
I think it's a Nikon, but it's been in that bag forever. Since shortly before Burrell's first MonkeyPants was born, for sure.