Zoe: Planet's coming up a mite fast. Wash: That's just cause, I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all. Mal: Well, that happens, let me know.

'Shindig'


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Steph L. - Oct 16, 2005 9:53:07 am PDT #5129 of 10003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I may perhaps need to update Safari, but this Mac is also pretty ancient, so I might be running the most recent version that I can.

What OS are you running?


Sean K - Oct 16, 2005 9:56:10 am PDT #5130 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

10.2.8


Sean K - Oct 16, 2005 9:56:47 am PDT #5131 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

And 10.2.8 is the highest Mac OS this machine is going to be able to run. Sadly.


Steph L. - Oct 16, 2005 9:57:37 am PDT #5132 of 10003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I think you can run a more recent version of Safari in 10.2.8, though.


Sean K - Oct 16, 2005 10:01:33 am PDT #5133 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I just checked the Safari web page, and Safari 1.2 needs OSX 10.3

I don't know if there's an in-between version I can run. I'll poke around on the Apple site.


Betsy HP - Oct 16, 2005 10:02:35 am PDT #5134 of 10003
If I only had a brain...

Apple's iPod support page is supremely unhelpful. (Duh.)

Is there any way to transfer a music license from a dead iPod to a new iPod, or do we have to buy his music collection all over again? Because ouch.


DCJensen - Oct 16, 2005 10:04:34 am PDT #5135 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

And 10.2.8 is the highest Mac OS this machine is going to be able to run. Sadly.

Unless you use the free utility XPostFacto...


Jessica - Oct 16, 2005 10:05:37 am PDT #5136 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Safari doesn't have anywhere near the customized control over tabbed-browsing behavior that Firefox does, and I've gotten so used to it that it drives me batty when it's not there (moreso than having to use the mouse to post).


Sean K - Oct 16, 2005 10:12:03 am PDT #5137 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

It turns out I can run Opera 8.5

Safari doesn't have anywhere near the customized control over tabbed-browsing behavior that Firefox does

I forget, Jessica, why had you switched from Opera to Firefox? Cause I think you had gotten me hooked on Opera, but then I seem to remember something turning you off about it.

(Edited to put the correct quote from the correct thread in here)


Jessica - Oct 16, 2005 10:16:58 am PDT #5138 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Originally, I switched because Firefox was faster (I think because it uses extensions, rather than having all the customizations built in automatically), and because not having banner ads gave me more real estate in the actual pages.

Opera has since done away with the ads, and I haven't installed it on this machine, so I have no idea what the speed difference is. I suspect that I'm so used to Firefox at this point (and I have all my extensions set just the way I like them) that it would take something fairly drastic to make me want to switch again.