My Powermac G4 Case Mod from 2003
I was talking to MacHeadCase yesterday about future computers, and we were comparing what each of us had. It was then that I realised that I’d never talked about my Mac on this website and/or blog. So I got my digital camera out, a Sony T-1 and built a little page about my Mac and what i did to the case.
It’s a bit of a mishmash of a computer now – many of the components have been upgraded, and being the first tower case computer i’ve owned, am reluctant to give it up, and want to upgrade it as much as possible.
It’s quite old though now – bought it in August 2000 as a 1st generation Powermac G4, with a 450MHz processor, Zip Drive, DVD ROM, 20Gb Hard Drive and 128mb RAM.
It now has a 2nd hard drive: 120Gb Maxtor, a DVD±RW in addition to the DVD ROM, 640Mb RAM, and no Zip Drive. I’ve added an extra 4 USB ports, and a wireless network card. The original ATI rage Pro graphics card was replaced 4 years ago for a NVidia GeForce 2MX, but that is now due for replacement – i think a Radeon of some description will be the best.
At some point i will want to replace this mac, possibly with a Powermac G5, but they are expensive, and don’t have dual optical drives which drives me nuts. Perhaps I’ll go for a cheaper 2002 edition of the Power Mac G4 Desktops or as I’ve threatened for many years buy a Windows Computer because it’s cheaper and easier to upgrade.
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First Post – new blog
Hi there
I’ve decided to give this blog another go – this time on my own web space, with wordpress after lots of recommendations
I started off with a blog on blogger, only to find that there was another blog there using the same title & theme as mine by someone else, and if you google searched for my blog you got there’s which had been going way longer!
But that wasnt the reason for me not posting much – i had far too many forums where i was posting, and not enough time to use the blog
And I also tried using blogger to host it on my webspace with success, but i didnt like it, so i stopped
Fast forward 4 months and since everyone seems to have a blog in some shape or form, i think i need to get up to speed in all this. I also seem to have a lot to rant about these days, so no time like the present.
So who am i?
I’ve been around the internet a while now – i’ve been a member of many forums – though i’ve only really stayed with a few of them for the long run
I now have a forum on my own site, and a wiki to go along with it [not any more damn spammers]
I do all my web page designing by hand, though i have used most of the apps out there from the cheap end of Pagemill or Front Page through to Dreamweaver. I’ve just become a stickler to detail and like good, well formed code. After i learnt XML and XHtml initially to understand Apple’s Mac OS X preference files, i started to see why i should redo my website in xhtml, and how much neater it looked & behaved.
Gone were the font tags, in came CSS. Gone were all the unnecessary javascripts, and finally, the site conformed to W3C guidelines and passed their validator
But anyway, enough introductions, welcome the new blog
I will need to spend some time setting everything up here as it all looks a bit white and lacking in everything