Myspac* comedy

[flaviomatani]

Apart from Russian brides, who seem to have dried out, and the umpteen teenage metal Californian bands who really, really want you to be their friend, there's the 'sponsor links'. I always seem to get the ads for guitar teachers that begin with 'Don't tell me you still suck at guitar' and 'Guitar teacher scams'. Er, hellow, your ad-targetting software robot is misfiring somewhat? I happen to be a guitar teacher...


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[deinelakaien.livejournal.com]

Flavioooo!!!!!
We hust got a Mac!!!! *jumps happily again and again*
I would like to talk to you,or rather we would like tontalk to you about some softwere advice.........xxxxxxxxxxx

[flavius-m.livejournal.com]

Ok, what you need to know? (err, this could be a long conversation:)

[deinelakaien.livejournal.com]

Thank you,Flavio:)
Very nice of you.
Thunder said you would be very happy to hear we have a Mac-because you are a great fan of them:P
I think Thunder will be the one who will have questions:PPP
I am the one who just adores the look of it ( tipical woman-as Thunder says:/ ) and has no clue what does it already have and what not.
So we will probably arrange some meeting soon somewhere.... What do you think?
We owe yoy 100s of drinks anyway:)))
High time to start.xxx

[flavius-m.livejournal.com]

What Mac did you get? This would tell me what software bundle you have.

[deinelakaien.livejournal.com]

"Blobby"-this is what Thunder says.
I like it.I think it looks great:)
I have no idea what Mac it is though.My man is a computer brain of the house-nort me. I can iuse them quite well,sometimes I manage to download some virus here and there...You know...
All I know is thet it is a Mac:P
As I said Thunder will need to speak to you about it;)

[flavius-m.livejournal.com]

'Blobby' is not a recognised Macintosh model:P

That makes it sound like the old iMacs with the CRT screen, but you say it is a new one. Is it a big white thing with the computer contained in the screen? or a very small white box?

[ravenstoker.livejournal.com]

It's actually a G3 blueberry iMac running OS9. New to Aga, somewhat old to the Mac community (although certainly more recent than the Quadra I used to have! ;)

It can, apparently, be persuaded to run Jaguar but nothing later *shrug* - I dunno, I've not used a mac for ages (as you can probably tell from the Quadra reference!

Anyhoo.. I'm sure we'll see you about at some point (Dev tonight! :) so we can maybe chat then.

[flavius-m.livejournal.com]

Ok.

What system it runs depends on what particular model it is. If it is the very first Blueberry without Firewire, then it is true, it cannot run anything more recent than 10.2 -or not, at any rate, without jumping through hoops. If it has firewire it can run up to current 10.4.x. More important, if you are going to be running OS X, is how much memory it has. It wouldn't be worth your while to run any flavour of Mac OS X on the base memory those machines used to come with (64 or 128 meg). You need to have at least 256. At the very least. The more the merrier, as always with those things. You can still get 512 meg chips of the kind it needs (I think it is PC133 SODiMMs but I would have to check that), but of course you have to decide whether it is worth your while spending money on it. Also, what size hard disk have you got? Replacing the hard disk is a pain on those machines but it can be done. Again, if you havce something like a 6gig hard disk it is not woth it to try and install OS X. Disks are plentiful and cheap, thoguh and I myself have a number of 40 and 80 gig disks lying around doing not very much, you could have one of those. But taking the thing apart and replacing the disk is a mission.

New toys are always good, though, and there's quite a bit you can do with it. It will probably need more memory and it probably will need more disk space. If you can run OS X on it then it would be a much more interesting machine as you could run much more up to date stuff.

[ravenstoker.livejournal.com]

I'll hold back on going overboard with upgrading the thing but more memory, more storage and an airport card are on the cards, I think, along with OSX if poss.

We do have firewire on it, aye, but it is the base config - 64Mb Ram, 6Gb HD :-/

How much for one of the hard drives?

[flavius-m.livejournal.com]

An Airport card is a difficult one: they're rare like gold dust and people want a king's ransom for them (any clichés left?:P) . The drives ... dunnow, a couple of drinks for a 20 gig if I find it...don't know, we'll see. About wireless, I understand some bluetooth wi-fi adapters work but not all -you have to find third party drivers, I seem to remember. I haven't had to do this so I haven't done any homework on it but easy enough to get to find out. If it is a firewire imac you can take it all the way to current system, once you have enough memory and hard disk space. That doesn't mean it would be a sensible proposition to try and run Photoshop or Final Cut in it, mind you, but for general use it'd be ok.

[ravenstoker.livejournal.com]

An Airport card is a difficult one: they're rare like gold dust and people want a king's ransom for them

Seemingly so, if my initial searches are anything to go by. I think I'm going to move the router into the lounge and get me a wireless adapter for my PC instead. Admittedly easier, me't'inks!

Really, it's only going to be used for basic internet stuff and word processing I imagine.

If you do find the drive, I'll be more than happy to furnish you with many drinks squire! :)