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Show HN: OS X 10.11 Platinum System Theme(github.com)
1 points by jd3 11y ago|3 comments
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by jd3 11y ago
I recently converted all of the classic Macintosh fonts to modern dataforks, if anyone is interested. Clone to ~/Library/Fonts. Warning: If you don't want your system font to turn into Charcoal, remove the 'Charcoal 10.1
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I believe our bank just stopped accepting stuff from the version of quicken that my father uses to do his financials. To this day he runs quicken on a 2005 (!) iMac G5, which is his daily driver.
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I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that netflix started sniffing the UA. You can't even play a video in SeaMonkey 2.39 without the incredibly stupid general.useragent.override.netflix.com;Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac
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this is totally feasible with a custom .car file that you can embed into your program. The problem is the titlebar text. I hacked together a working SIMBL script back in the 10.6 days that fixed the problem, but it's probably lost. Int
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I remember reading this article a few years ago. I never thought the story could get worse. Tragic.
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I think you are underestimating Apple's apathy when it comes to doing anything of real interest anymore. We don't even get Darwin .iso releases or changelogs anymore. [0] We are left in an arguably worse state of affairs. It'
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https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-osx/ https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix ...
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Thanks! Yeah it reminds me of this video I saw of some guy running super arcane Windows 3.1-era stuff on W8/10 or something with little modification. Btw, if you have rootless disabled, I have made that OS X 10.11 theme available for d
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Ah yes, you're right! I worked on this over the summer, so I must have gotten them a bit mixed up. I copied the FONT info from each one into the NFNT portion of the resource fork in a newer file, then imported that file into FontForge
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by jd3 11y ago
I find it amazing that the bitmap fonts that shipped with Macintosh OS 1 (and System 0.85 for that matter: different 'Chicago' and the strange 'Swan Song') still work on OS X with only a trivial modification: Splice the
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nice. didn't know xmms could play tones like that. I've moved on to using mpd+theremin on this install, but I still have good 'ol xmms through pkgsrc ;) really cool stuff.
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I'm so confused as to whether Mozilla Thunderbird utilizes ChatZilla itself as the irc backend or if the developers simply re-wrote irc support from the ground up... ChatZilla is by far my favorite client and I would love if it could s
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Uh, no. Maybe if you use that awful flavours program that hooks into the system graphics API and swizzles all of the changes, but I patch the system files themselves (ThemePark, [S]ArtFileTool, ThemeEngine, whatever AZielenski comes up with
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I have skinned my OS X install with custom fonts[0], traffic lights[1], and icons[2][3]. [0]: https://github.com/dtinth/YosemiteAndElCapitanSystemFontPatc... [1]: https://github.com/alexzielenski/T
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I agree. Whenever the option to change icons to text labels is available, I will use it. It's a shame that Apple's finder is ostensibly shit when it comes to text label support. No forward, no change/shadow when `pressed`, et
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that's kind of what happens when you take some of the brightest minds that hacked on Plan9 and Inferno for years and have them build a programming language. It's going to be unique. Idealistic. Romantic. reading many of the points
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I've always been fascinated by numbers stations/the conet project/etc. The aforementioned websdr program has given me hours of entertainment in the past. It's always fun when there is a genuine unsolved mystery to theori
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It may not be much, but I have been themeing OS X for a years now with themepark/(s)artfiletool/themeengine. It may not be as easy as it was on OS9, but I've made some pretty cool stuff. I do agree that it's ridiculous t
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sort of reminds me of that torrenttornado javascript extension by one of my favorite Mozilla add-on developers https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/torrent-tor...
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As long as we're talking about shades of blue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_blue
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nice. I remember reading about this (what feels like) ages ago at this point. Patiently waiting to see if Terry Davis shows up. reference:[0] [0]: https://usesthis.com/interviews/terry.davis/
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really makes my blood boil. straight up anti-competitive.
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wow, nice find. I've never come across any of jwz's actual academic/LISP work in the wild. very cool.
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(if anyone is interested, OPs post was flagged for a few hours then subsequently unflagged. take this as you will.)
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Fascinating read. Thank you for this. Reminds me of a piece Jamie Zawinski did a few years ago[0][1] regarding a similar issue relating to VC's and "your one and only youth." [2] [0]: https://www.jwz.org/grunt
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Stallman must be happy now that someone is actually listening (albeit; not to him)
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interesting. I check in on usenet every once in awhile, but mostly just on mozilla/eternal september news servers (primarily for seamonkey/OS X/dr. who-related stuff). Interesting tid-bit. thanks for clearing that up.
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actually just recently updated my 9menu from 1.8 (released 6/1/04) to 1.9 (released 6/25/15) [0]. Apparently took Mr. Robbins 11 years to fix some compile warnings HA. It came as a shar. I was dumbfounded for a moment as
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Cool technology, but I don't understand why every tiny little feature or program costs money on mobile. The price of convenience?

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