Vote Democrat!<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\nMaybe it’ll work. But I can’t do any of those, easily. I’m working on the first, but it’s a whole-hog approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it…..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flashback:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nOJ #6 – 8\/17\/2002<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Saturday, August 17th, 2002 2:55 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I used to be 1337, now I’m just 14m3<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, yeah, I bought a Mac. B+W G3. Got it in Thursday afternoon. It’s been a bit of a chore to get everything up and running, but I think I’m finally getting there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The machine I bought didn’t have an OS installed. No problem, because I wanted to run OS9 and OSX, anyway. I figured I’d grab a copy of OS9, and wait for OSX 10.2 to come out next week. First of all, I couldn’t find a copy of OS9. Nobody<\/em> is selling it. I only found one copy on Pricegrabber, but it was like 85 bucks, and didn’t seem to be from a reputible dealer. So I went down to CompUSA and asked whether I’d still get the $29 upgrade to 10.2 if I went ahead and bought a copy of OSX 10.1. They said that’s the deal, so I decided to go ahead and buy it. When I opened the box, guess what was inside? A copy of OS9. Turns out OSX actually runs a copy of OS9 inside a virtual machine in order to run legacy apps\u2026\u2026sorta like what OS\/2 used to do with Windoze 3.1.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAnyway, to get “Classic” mode to work properly, you’ve gotta have a working OS9 install. But OS 9.2.1 refused to install on my machine. I needed a firmware upgrade. Okay, so I’ll just do that from inside OSX, because that installs fine. No dice. The installer only runs in the old OS. Shit. Long story short, an older version of OS9 I found at work allowed me to run the update, then install 9.2.1, which is what I’m running now. I always dug it anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
OSX is sweet in its own kind of way. Right now I’m basking in the nostalgia of old skool mac, yo. It’s been a long time away, and I feel like a tool for not getting one of these sooner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In conclusion\u2026\u2026see the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Current Mood: nostalgic<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nI gave that Mac away after lending it several times. OS X 10.1 was fun in that if Finder crashed, you couldn’t do anything with the machine at all. Unless you turned on ssh access. Then you could ssh to it, and reboot it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With my opening topic in mind, I can only imagine if computers were regulated like the rest of the economy. There’d be a regulation that says I have to be able to run 68K Carbon binaries on my new Macbook Air. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeah. Good luck with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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