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Wednesday, February 28, 2007


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.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007



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

Sunday, January 14, 2007

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