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.
I would be there right now.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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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
-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!
HiddenSky - Mar 18, 2006 4:17:42 pm PST #7608 of 10003
"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who believe Joss Whedon is a genius and those who are wrong." - Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
Hidden sky --- thanks for the tip that it might be the firewall, I updated and now I can listen to streaming radio!That's great, I'm glad to hear it worked! As a hockey fan, I know following the play via the live stat sheet isn't the same as a radio or TV broadcast.
Jessica - Mar 19, 2006 6:41:21 am PST #7609 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Has everyone seen this documentary on ARPAnet from 1972? It's quite cool (and free, from Google Video).
Zenkitty - Mar 19, 2006 7:00:09 am PST #7610 of 10003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Whiney question: Why do I need Webroot Spy Sweeper? When I got my computer "fixed" the geek at BestBuy put it on, and I had to pay for it. Everytime I bookmark a site, it pops up an annoying window and makes me click to reassure it that I really meant to do that. As far as I can tell, that's all it does. I have Norton, and I have AdAware, so do I really need this pest? Can I just remove it?
esse - Mar 19, 2006 10:47:46 am PST #7611 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Zenkitty--you don't. I personally swear by AdAware and Spybot, which are both free and don't have the sort of pop-ups you're describing. However, it's worth noting that SpySweeper has caught some spyware that both AAW and SB missed before, which it why I did use it for awhile, until I got System Mechanic. (Though I still run SB and AAW first.)