Cool. Haven't tripped the techfantastic in about 500 posts, and I come in on a blog discussion! Excellent timing as I'm about to set up my own.
And speaking of setting things up. I'm ashamed to say that I began asking questions here about upgrading my eMac nearly 2 years ago...and I'm just now doing it. "Time flys..." is a cliche for a reason...
Pushing past the shame, I have two last, and probably super stupid questions.
1) I want to add as much memory as I can, and the specs say I can expand to 1G. There are only two slots available, but I can replace the current 128 with two 512s or a 512 and a 256, right?
2) If I do replace the existing stick, will I need to offload all my files first? I'm assuming the files are stored on the hard drive, but I don't know if changing the memory effects them. When I called "Geeks on Call" to find out about having someone else do the upgrade, the chick sort of scared me with how dangerous a process it is.
eta: Okay, 3 questions: Any thoughts on the best brand for memory? I need dimms 133s and on smalldog, I see Kingston, Crucial, PNY...
I can replace the current 128 with two 512s or a 512 and a 256, right?
Right
If I do replace the existing stick, will I need to offload all my files first?
no.
the best brand for memory? I need dimms 133s and on smalldog, I see Kingston, Crucial, PNY
All three have their proponents. You can just take the ram Small Dog lists for an eMac under 1 Ghz [link] if you want it to just work, and be covered by warrantee as long as you own your computer.
The memory is purchased!
And the form to exchange the dvd for Tiger for cds has been downloaded. (Curse apple for making me love them and then jerking me around!)
Whoa. Sorry for the thread killage.
I've worked out my dvd drive issue via a call to Tekserve in NYC, which came very highly recommended by a 'builds his own' tech contact.
Looks like the LaCie D2 DVR is the way to go. USB compatible and not very expensive. Bonus...lightscribe permanent labeling on the appropriate media.
Really though, all I need to do is read data dvds and play movies.
Low expectations...that's me!
Woot!
New memory has been achieved.
1024 on board baybee...
Bring on the upgraded software!
Geek humor: [link]
Care to explain the joke for those of us apparently not Geeky enough.
In the Unix/BSD/Linux/Apple command line world, you are limited by your login as to what you can do. Unless you log in as root, in which case you can do anything. Logging in as root is considered dangerous because you can really mess things up - especially if you forget you're actually logged in as root. But sometimes you need the unlimited power of the root user.
'sudo' is something you preceed a command with if you want to execute just that one command as root, reducing the chance of you screwing up.
Prophylactic Simon Sez.
Yup. Geeky.
