Still reloading XP
The traffic going home was the worst I'd ever seen it. The roads in every direction were blocked. After an hour on the road, I gave up trying to drive the seven miles to my apartment and went out to dinner with my wife who managed to drive to the restaurant without much trouble.
What does that have to do with computers? It meant I got home at just before 8 p.m. I stayed up until almost midnight reloading application software onto my XP machine and loading new software up on a couple of the Macs but didn't get finished. Apple released iTunes4 and QuickTime 6.2 yesterday in conjunction with their new music service. Obviously, I haven't had any time to look at that yet and see how I feel about it. I didn't even get the new software loaded up on all the Macs. I have one desktop and two iBooks to go.
Meanwhile, I'm almost done with my desktop's application reload. I suspect I'll finish today. I have only a few games and simulators to load up. Then, I'll finish tweaking my Start Menu setup, defrag the hard disk, and see if I can accomplish what I initially started out to. I'll turn on my external Firewire drive, check out its condition using Norton's Disk Doctor, and try backing up my data (D) drive.
I decided not to sell my iMac and have, instead, been toying with the idea of upgrading it with more memory, a bigger hard drive, and replacing its CD-RW with a (4X) Superdrive. Instructions on how to do that are at: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/iMac_g4/imac_g4_takeapart.html.
I'm not sure I want to take that risk; the procedure most certainly will void my Apple warranty and there are a few months left on it. More importantly, I really love iMacs and know if I hosed this one I'd want another one. They're not cheap. Having to reload the XP machine has taken some fight out of me, too; I'm not sure I want to mess with trying to restore another computer right now. I'm going to have to think about that.
What does that have to do with computers? It meant I got home at just before 8 p.m. I stayed up until almost midnight reloading application software onto my XP machine and loading new software up on a couple of the Macs but didn't get finished. Apple released iTunes4 and QuickTime 6.2 yesterday in conjunction with their new music service. Obviously, I haven't had any time to look at that yet and see how I feel about it. I didn't even get the new software loaded up on all the Macs. I have one desktop and two iBooks to go.
Meanwhile, I'm almost done with my desktop's application reload. I suspect I'll finish today. I have only a few games and simulators to load up. Then, I'll finish tweaking my Start Menu setup, defrag the hard disk, and see if I can accomplish what I initially started out to. I'll turn on my external Firewire drive, check out its condition using Norton's Disk Doctor, and try backing up my data (D) drive.
I decided not to sell my iMac and have, instead, been toying with the idea of upgrading it with more memory, a bigger hard drive, and replacing its CD-RW with a (4X) Superdrive. Instructions on how to do that are at: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/iMac_g4/imac_g4_takeapart.html.
I'm not sure I want to take that risk; the procedure most certainly will void my Apple warranty and there are a few months left on it. More importantly, I really love iMacs and know if I hosed this one I'd want another one. They're not cheap. Having to reload the XP machine has taken some fight out of me, too; I'm not sure I want to mess with trying to restore another computer right now. I'm going to have to think about that.
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