Friday, May 02, 2008
Anyone need a slow slow old Mac Powerbook?
If any of my illustrious readers are in need of a G3 Powerbook Wallstreet edition 266mhz G3 all souped up running 10.4 and without a battery, drop me a line. I'm looking for $100 on it.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
COOL OSX TRICK!
I like to refurb Macs and then sell'em. When I do sell'em I put the password as "password". I usually do all the updates and tweak the OS and defrag the drive as part of my refurb, so I set up an admin account for myself.
I just finished doing Battle Of Hastings' iMac and learned some unix commands to push that initial "yay I booted into OSX for the first time" thingy where it walks you through the initial set-up. And my admin account is still there for any troubleshooting I may need to do in the future.
Computers can be cool.
I just finished doing Battle Of Hastings' iMac and learned some unix commands to push that initial "yay I booted into OSX for the first time" thingy where it walks you through the initial set-up. And my admin account is still there for any troubleshooting I may need to do in the future.
Computers can be cool.
Labels: osx
Monday, May 28, 2007
I got a new computer...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
What I'd like to do...
Is get my Palm Lifedrive running the Mac operating system. OSX, OSX86, whatever... I just want it.
It could be possible. I can hack a 8GB compact flash card in there instead of the hard drive, that'd speed things up and make more room.
I dunno, just hoping someone who accomplishes this task stumbles here and writes me an e-mails saying: "I did it, here's how".
It could be possible. I can hack a 8GB compact flash card in there instead of the hard drive, that'd speed things up and make more room.
I dunno, just hoping someone who accomplishes this task stumbles here and writes me an e-mails saying: "I did it, here's how".
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Mail.app issues and tweaks!
Stolen from a post I put on 37
I've been having some problems with my Mail.app lately, I had e-mails that wouldn't delete (spam bounces), I couldn't quit Mail without a force-quit, it was sluggish, etc.
I researched and found this site:
Hawk Wings
Where among the tips I found:
rebuild the mailboxes
use Command-X to delete stubborn e-mails
Activity viewer within mail (it wouldn't quit because it was trying to deal with 1200 spam e-mails that hit my website catchall mails).
But what was really cool, besides changing my Mail dock icon and making the little notifications blue instead of red: Icon & Badges
was this tip for what amounts to defragging Mail's database to make it snappy as all get-out:
Vacuum command to fix Envelpoe database
My before was 13MB and my after was 5MB and wow.
I did Teflon's machine and her before was 219KB down to 170KB (someone else isn't as excited about internets and computers as I am).
Just a cool pass it along, as I hardly ever find anything this worthwhile.
I've been having some problems with my Mail.app lately, I had e-mails that wouldn't delete (spam bounces), I couldn't quit Mail without a force-quit, it was sluggish, etc.
I researched and found this site:
Hawk Wings
Where among the tips I found:
rebuild the mailboxes
use Command-X to delete stubborn e-mails
Activity viewer within mail (it wouldn't quit because it was trying to deal with 1200 spam e-mails that hit my website catchall mails).
But what was really cool, besides changing my Mail dock icon and making the little notifications blue instead of red: Icon & Badges
was this tip for what amounts to defragging Mail's database to make it snappy as all get-out:
Vacuum command to fix Envelpoe database
My before was 13MB and my after was 5MB and wow.
I did Teflon's machine and her before was 219KB down to 170KB (someone else isn't as excited about internets and computers as I am).
Just a cool pass it along, as I hardly ever find anything this worthwhile.
Monday, February 19, 2007
My new printer.
So I was on Craigslist looking for a printer because my Epson C64 got clogged to death in the black ink cartridge.
I came across an R200 which can print to disc, and I thought that'd be cool, it was $80 and still sealed, and I ended up getting it for $75.
It's the same form factor as my old one, so it was no issue to put it on my desk. It takes 6 ink carts instead of 4, but they are the same, so my extras from the C64 I can reuse.
I plug it in and install the latest driver, but that says you need an Intel for this driver, and I only have a G4. So I go online and start reading the horrid reviews. I get scared. I find a driver called Gutenprint, and install that.
No printer. I install the driver from the disc. No printer. Now I'm really scared.
I check the computer USB port, it's find. Power light is on. Still no printer.
I check the USB in the back of the printer, it's not fully seated.
I plug it in, there's the printer. I plug the printer into the Airport network, there it is.
Awesome. I print a 4x6 photo on photopaper using the Epson driver, results: kinda crappy. I print the same one using the Gutenprint driver (freeware @ sourceforge) and it looked like it came outta Walgreens photolab. Yay!
I need to get some print-on discs to try that out and see if I can find a thin glossy paper to do button art on so we can do our button factory with original artwork.
Also, I can do personal buttons for you for this sale price of $0.60 each with a minimum of 10. Write me at my sister website: mauzen.com for details, I can send a photoshop template to you to put your art on.
I came across an R200 which can print to disc, and I thought that'd be cool, it was $80 and still sealed, and I ended up getting it for $75.
It's the same form factor as my old one, so it was no issue to put it on my desk. It takes 6 ink carts instead of 4, but they are the same, so my extras from the C64 I can reuse.
I plug it in and install the latest driver, but that says you need an Intel for this driver, and I only have a G4. So I go online and start reading the horrid reviews. I get scared. I find a driver called Gutenprint, and install that.
No printer. I install the driver from the disc. No printer. Now I'm really scared.
I check the computer USB port, it's find. Power light is on. Still no printer.
I check the USB in the back of the printer, it's not fully seated.
I plug it in, there's the printer. I plug the printer into the Airport network, there it is.
Awesome. I print a 4x6 photo on photopaper using the Epson driver, results: kinda crappy. I print the same one using the Gutenprint driver (freeware @ sourceforge) and it looked like it came outta Walgreens photolab. Yay!
I need to get some print-on discs to try that out and see if I can find a thin glossy paper to do button art on so we can do our button factory with original artwork.
Also, I can do personal buttons for you for this sale price of $0.60 each with a minimum of 10. Write me at my sister website: mauzen.com for details, I can send a photoshop template to you to put your art on.
