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tommyrot - Feb 01, 2006 4:49:18 pm PST #6932 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.

This terminal program for OSX mimics a vintage glass teletype machine, with screen warpage and everything!

GLTerminal emulates a 1970’s terminal monitor, complete with flaws in brightness, warped display curvature, and flicker. It even simulates baud rate lag. And! for extra verisimilitude, the character colors can be green or amber.

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::off to download::


Gudanov - Feb 01, 2006 5:36:47 pm PST #6933 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

That is a cool terminal program.


sumi - Feb 03, 2006 4:43:32 am PST #6934 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

Okay, so I was able to get the side panel off of my tower and can tell where my on/off button should be, but I cannot get the front off or the other side.

I don't see any other screws -- how much force is generally needed to pull the cover apart? I mean, should I be using the claw part of my claw hammer?


tommyrot - Feb 03, 2006 4:49:39 am PST #6935 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.

Usually the cover will slide off somewhat before it can be pulled off completely. It's often not obvious which way to slide it.

Hmmm... there must be an online guide to getting case covers off. If I get some free time I'll look....


sumi - Feb 03, 2006 4:56:37 am PST #6936 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

Oh, I'll look for it!

Thanks.


Theodosia - Feb 03, 2006 7:32:53 am PST #6937 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Has anybody run into trouble with podcasts not being erased from their iPods? I update my iPod just about every day, so that I can have a fresh bunch of songs on my "Not Recent" smartlist, and I just noticed that I have like 100 podcasts, when in reality I've been deleting them out of iTunes and should have about 30 to choose from.

I'm not sure what to do about this. Blank out my iPod and load everything all over again?


Jessica - Feb 03, 2006 7:36:19 am PST #6938 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The default setting is to keep all podcasts, but you can change it to "keep only unplayed" or "most 5 recent" (etc) by going into iPod Preferences in iTunes.


tina f. - Feb 03, 2006 7:43:48 am PST #6939 of 10003

The default setting is to keep all podcasts, but you can change it to "keep only unplayed" or "most 5 recent" (etc) by going into iPod Preferences in iTunes.

Oooh - new tip. I didn't know that. Very handy.

I *just* figured out you can organize your playlists into folders and subfolders with the newest versions of iTunes. Which I have wished for for a long time.


tommyrot - Feb 03, 2006 7:47:38 am PST #6940 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 *just* figured out you can organize your playlists into folders and subfolders with the newest versions of iTunes. Which I have wished for for a long time.

I love that feature. However, playlists are not organized this way on an iPod, so if you have a bazillion playlists you still have to scroll through them on an iPod.


DCJensen - Feb 03, 2006 8:09:33 am PST #6941 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

I don't see any other screws -- how much force is generally needed to pull the cover apart? I mean, should I be using the claw part of my claw hammer?

there must be an online guide to getting case covers off

Exactly, must be.

Sumi, is your machine a brand name, or the case itself? Sometimes there are specific instructions at the Mfgr websites.