The iMac I ordered last week arrived from Ireland today and I spent several hours getting it all set up. The ram install went pretty easy; remove ram cover, pull out two special all-black Apple 4Gig so-dimms, install two equally special Crucial “Ballistics” 16Gig so-dimms, put back ram cover, and…
A few weeks ago I was successful in re-acquiring my old pre-y2k rihahn.com domain, and decided I should put some sort of service on it. Said service would have to be suitably archaic though, so I spent some time pondering it… Last week I settled on using an old Mac,…
Back in early 2004 I moved from my home / unicorn sanctuary in Avon Colorado back to Fredericksburg Virginia for a potential teaching gig. This move was fairly spur of the moment and ultimately entailed getting rid of pretty much everything I owned that wouldn’t fit into a couple of…
This morning’s bit of computer wizardry was bringing an Apple Powerbook 165c back to life. The interesting thing with the 165c is it was the very first laptop with a 256 color display, and said display is a 9 inch 640×400 passive LCD. As an aside, making a laptop with…
Today’s ‘nothing better to do’ project was reviving an old dual-G4 tower. It’s always interesting to me just how small and snappy old operating systems were. This machine is basically a pocket calculator with less storage space than a $20 USB key, and OS-wise it feels a lot faster than…
Last night I ordered a new iMac; what may be the last of the big Intel machines from Apple. 27″ 5K screen, 3.8Ghz Intel Core i7-10700K, 8gigs of 2666MHz DDR4 ram, a terabyte of SSD, and a Radeon Pro 5700 XT with 16GB of GDDR6. I specifically ordered it with…