It sounds like Tiger would solve all or most of your computer problems.
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Tom Scola - Mar 17, 2006 2:25:06 pm PST #7598 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 17, 2006 2:26:49 pm PST #7599 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Speaking of Mac Mini's- Is it possible to run a mac mini with an old imac for the monitor, so we think? I am still using a 2nd gen ruby Imac,and it is so pretty....
Allyson - Mar 17, 2006 2:33:43 pm PST #7600 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
My problem seems to be that my old OS (10.1) can't support a decent browser...this means I can't use things like Turbo Tax, for example. It keeps getting in the way of me using my computer for things like that, which are important to me.
Tom, folks keep telling me that Tiger would kill my wee iMac. I'm not entirely sure that that is true, but I'm ig'nant.
-t - Mar 17, 2006 2:36:03 pm PST #7601 of 10003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Allyson, I had to add memory to my iMac before it could take Tiger. That and a firmware update is all it needed, though.
Allyson - Mar 17, 2006 2:40:14 pm PST #7602 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I have a 700 MHz processor with 512 MB of RAM. Well, I started out with 512, at least. I'm keeping heavy graphic files and music on my la cie.
-t - Mar 17, 2006 2:55:07 pm PST #7603 of 10003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's a faster processor than I have. I think 512 MB is supposed to be what you need for Tiger, though I bumped up to 1 GB since I was upgrading. It definitely sounds like your iMac is beefier and newer than mine, so I can't imagine why Tiger would run on mine and not yours. Unless your data files are leaving not enough memory free or something.
Gudanov - Mar 18, 2006 5:26:51 am PST #7604 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Here are the requirements for Tiger:
It looks like some iMacs are supported. If you have a firewire port then I'd say you can probably use it.
There's always Yellow Dog Linux, but I'm thinking you want less adventure in your computing experience.
DCJensen - Mar 18, 2006 6:02:55 am PST #7605 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
One can upgrade to Tiger on many unsupported Macs, you just need a 3rd party utility called XpostFacto.
It works, it just isn't as straightforward as a regular install.
Spidra Webster - Mar 18, 2006 7:42:17 am PST #7606 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
HAR.
About 6 years ago I made my Lombard into a dual-boot between OS 9 and Yellow Dog. I had never done Linux before. It was a bitch trying to find help locally or online because few people were running Linux on a Mac and even fewer were doing so on a laptop. I tinkered with things for a while then decided to give up when it became clear that the new MacOS was going to be based on FreeBSD. Of course, I didn't actually have the money for a new Mac box or OS X for another 4 years...
If I'm a good girl, I should start messing around in the terminal today. I still don't know shit about Darwin.
askye - Mar 18, 2006 2:50:24 pm PST #7607 of 10003
Thrive to spite them
Hidden sky --- thanks for the tip that it might be the firewall, I updated and now I can listen to streaming radio!