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.
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Gudanov - Mar 18, 2006 5:26:51 am PST #7604 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
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.)
meara - Mar 19, 2006 12:07:05 pm PST #7612 of 10003
So, normally if I'm viewing a PDF on my powerbook, I just use Preview, because, well, it works, and no sense in downloading extra stuff.
But I want to type in a form (my 1040) and Preview doesn't seem to let me do that. Is there a way, or do I just need to download Acrobat, or...?
esse - Mar 19, 2006 12:50:56 pm PST #7613 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
PDF is a (more or less) high-res image file. Acrobat Reader only allows you to view it. To edit PDFs you can use the full version of Adobe Acrobat, but it costs some moulah. You probably should just print it off and do it by hand.