Yes,just both an iMac G3 and should recive it in a couple of days,
it only cost me 140euros(65£) on ebay.co.uk
the tecnical configuration is:

Processor Speed: 500 MHZ

Hard Disk Drive: 20 GB

RAM Installed 256mb(expandeble till 1 giga and in the beginning the imacg3 used to have 64mb and run os 9)

Optical Drive YES

USB Yes( 2 usb,already both on amazon.co.uk a usb hub for 0,01 cent...rock'n'roll! )

Firewire Yes (some model don't have that,so i'm glad this one does)

Modem Yes

10/100 Network Card Yes




Other On-Board Sound

Operating System 10.3( as i sayd before it was origially designed for os 9 but with the upgrade and everythng it can run os x)





warranty 30 Day RTB






i had to buy a usb keyboard separately, i found the original one for a relativly low price,i decided to go for the origial one coz it has a usb input(or 2,don't remember) and also the apple key. with the keyboard i got the original mouse as well.




but on amazon.co.uk i got for 0,01 cent a 3buttons mouse coz i was told that those kind of mouse pluged in a mac can work fine,with also the second botton abilitated.
the deal is that the right mouse click on mack can be done with ctrl+normal mouse botton.
anyways,we'll see..

still don't know if i'm going to install ubuntu on it or not,we'll see..

that should be about it..
well,i don't really aspect to be able to do much with it,
but it should be a pretty nice machine to use to surf the net, to watch tv shows, films,to use openoffice,skype,gaim(msn), and so on,specially coz the screen is amazing,much better then the wide screan once in my opinion,i mean is like watching to a tv.
also if isn't already installed i'll try to install garageband so that i can finally have a try doying my podcast about dyslexia:Dispodcast.
the reason why i got that machine is to bring it back to italy on june.
so that at home my brother and parents(as well as me) can have a reliable desktop to satisfy their needs.(which are really basic actually:surf the net,download pics from cameras,use openoffice and so on..)
unfortunately i don't think that machine will andle my experiment of tryig all sort of virtual machines on it and so on..lol.

UBUNTU!!!!!!!!!
Just changed version of linux a couple of days ago, I think I'm gonna stick with that one for a bit :-)






here's the prog for install other progs:








there are sooo many coool progs like,here are my fauvorite:
amarock,audio player



vlc,media audio and video player,even dvd..which is cross platform btw



audacity, gxine,

Lyx ,which is an amazing prog for write scientific and non scientific text both in pdf and html format without wasting time in configuring the setting for the appearence.



and lots of others amazing....


none the less there also versions aviable for mac etc..

bacl to the os,you can abilitate the 3d desktop (I used to use it in my previous linux: mandriva)







ho amazing is that??!
anyways to conclude i just wanted to ad that i think is a wonderfull distribution coz the wiki zone and the forum is the best i've seen so far.. =)
cheers

stuff for free!!!
and let me convice you that is not crap:
first of all check this out:
is from BBC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7CohTJrNTk
or push play here:


there are various site proposing the same deal,
but inded the best one is the "free4me" coz here you just need to convince 10 other people to subscribe throught your link
and to accept one trial offer ,and then deleting the offer before the trial period expire.
the tricky part in convincing people is that for accept a tryal offer you have to give the credit card details,
and people just have to trust that they won't be used but just stored
and nothing's gonna happen if you unsuscribe to your offer on time.
as the bbc video shows is a pretty safe way to get a mac or whatever for free,
so if you feel like,feel free to use my link to subscribe.

here's my link:

http://macs.free4me.net/?r=31323

http://macs.free4me.net/makesig.php/31323.jpg






cheers

last week i went to the Natural History museum in London it's a very amazing place specially the part about human origins is really interesting. it's pretty amazing that the data they present is that chimps have 99,4% of DNA in common with humans. I mean i knew it was alot of DNA in common but didn't think was that much. 99,4% means that what's different is just 0,6% . I'm really courios also if anyone did any resarch about which genes are in this 0,6 % in common, and if yes what are etc.. there's a really interestinghe taxonomic classification, but talks also about behaviour. That's the book is sudgested in the video: Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes by Frans de Waal. There's an interstenting part about interview as well that can be view. in the beginning the video it is more about evolution:

• specialy the interactive demonstration/simulation about natural selection.
  
• social learning in primates, video. they focus a bit with the role of playing and how it is realate with learning. also the role of imitation in learning.
• evolution or modern human, video.
• human origins , video .
• how does evolution work , video.
• quiete surprised to see that a whale went into the thames in London. interview with the guy that rescued the whale.

the part i enjoed the mostis the photographic exposition.
according to me that's the most impressive picture.

how dangerous are electromagnatic radiation produced by cellphones?

here's an intersting experiment done by 2 russian journalist

basicly as you can see they put an egg betwen 2 phones and call each other for 65 minutes,after that period the egg was cocked.

on,one hand i did some reserch when i was at high school and i found out that after a couple of seconds that you are at the phone,the hear temparature starts to raise and after a little while the cortical membrane becomes less tight and some outside protein pass trough it and attacks/damage some neuros[ still looking for that reserch i did previously in highschool in order to find some more clear evidence about it]

on the other hand this other web site says:

A cell phone battery doesn't actually carry enough charge to heat an egg to the required temperature.

Skip the following figures if you don't care for physics:
A fairly average 3.6V mobile phone battery stores 730 mAh, which is 2,6 Wh (Watt hours) of electric energy. This is 1.7 kcal or enough to warm a 60g egg by 28 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit). In other words, if all the energy used by the cell phone was converted into microwave energy (a lot of the electricity warms the silicon in the electronics and the display and thus just warms the handset) and all that energy were to radiate *only* at the egg and in no other direction, the egg would barely reach body temperature before the battery goes dead. In practice only a fraction of the energy would turn into microwave radiation that warms the egg. The numbers simply don't add up. Given the known specification of mobile phone batteries and the laws of physics it's doubtful if even dozends of mobile phones piled around it were capable of boiling an egg.

i still dunno..i do think that this fisics evidence is a focused on the cellphone battery and not on what is inportant: the electromagnetic feild and radiation which is active during a conversation..and there are ways of misuring it..

LINUX

anyone else using it?
personally I've divided my laptop in 2 parts and on one part i got mandriva linux free edition
and on the other windows xp.



for those who were wondering what am i talking about here's a link to linux on wikiepedia .
a great podcast that i've loved listen to and that helped me alot becoming a little bit more familiar with linux is:linux reality.
besides that there's still lot of stuff that i got to learn about it,like how to install programs :-S
but hey,here's the fun..if was easy would be boring after a while,no?!

ok,someone may be wondering why i'm soo faschinated by it..
well,several reasons:

first of all the philosophy that is behind open source programs,which was synthetically expressed as "Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech,not as in free beer."

second the concrete realizations of most of linux distributions is something that i guess as never happened before: Think about it, we are talking about people creating theire own distribution and realise it on the www and anyonelse(with the appropriate knowledge ) from all over the world with an Internet connection can improve it and then realise it on the web and so on, and that imply that the "finale" distribution is fruit of people that other ways would have never meet them selves and that probably will never fisically do.


and most important of all, as once i heard in a survey from the economist web site"designing an engineering architecture implies defining a social structure".
think about what social structure create the open source model....inconstrast to the windows or apple one..

the acquatic theory
hmmm..what is it all about?!
if you are as curiouse as I was when i first heard of it, on the side you can find some more links about it.

btw,what i though could be intersting one of the evidence that seems to support the theory, one sentence I found on the wikipedia under "aquatic ape hipotesis":

"Kawamura in 1962 observed a troop of Japanese macaques developing bipedalism in water through cleaning sweet potatoes therein."


at the Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Kyoto University they
found out that Japanese macaques consume more energy when using bipedalism.


comparison of acquatic hipotesis with terrestrial models...