Get off the damn highway!
Wow, man, it's kind weird to realize how far the web has come in the years since I first leapt on it.... nothing gives a good reminder like trying to cruise the information super-highway with a near model-T relic of a machine.
I got a good 7-hour look at my mom's newly purchased used iMac; a G3-640 Mhz with 320 MB RAM... not that bad really, but it's the OS 9.0.4 that kills it... like trying to get the poor thing a decent browser... of course Firefox doesn't go back that far, and nether does Opera (as far as I can tell... someone should tell Opera that their website sucks on sys req info), so that left the retro versions of IE and Netscape that the box came with... eesh -- can't trust IE as far as I can throw Microsoft, and Netscape is like a CSS retard.
Of course that doesn't cover the fun with javascript links that won't work no matter what browser you got (that's what took the most time, trying to get a printer driver the really round-about-way), heh, yeah... lot's of fun. What was frustratingly funny was I couldn't even bring up the sites I wanted to show her for getting her business started, like GoDaddy.com, PayPal, etc -- ha! fat chance...
She is able to return the machine (minus 20%), but it was the best used one they had... and frankly she can't afford much more then what she already spent... and well, I told her she can come use mine when she had a problem site to use. So hopefully this'll still work out.
Speaking of which, here is my mom and I (circa 1982-3 I think...):
Gotta love the forgotten crap stuffed under the couch -- LOL~ That and my lame attempt at trying to dress like a chola to fit in with girls at school (this was in Sacramento), I soon realized I'd never fit in though, and lived fairly happily ever since ^_^
~Liriel
I got a good 7-hour look at my mom's newly purchased used iMac; a G3-640 Mhz with 320 MB RAM... not that bad really, but it's the OS 9.0.4 that kills it... like trying to get the poor thing a decent browser... of course Firefox doesn't go back that far, and nether does Opera (as far as I can tell... someone should tell Opera that their website sucks on sys req info), so that left the retro versions of IE and Netscape that the box came with... eesh -- can't trust IE as far as I can throw Microsoft, and Netscape is like a CSS retard.
Of course that doesn't cover the fun with javascript links that won't work no matter what browser you got (that's what took the most time, trying to get a printer driver the really round-about-way), heh, yeah... lot's of fun. What was frustratingly funny was I couldn't even bring up the sites I wanted to show her for getting her business started, like GoDaddy.com, PayPal, etc -- ha! fat chance...
She is able to return the machine (minus 20%), but it was the best used one they had... and frankly she can't afford much more then what she already spent... and well, I told her she can come use mine when she had a problem site to use. So hopefully this'll still work out.
Speaking of which, here is my mom and I (circa 1982-3 I think...):
Gotta love the forgotten crap stuffed under the couch -- LOL~ That and my lame attempt at trying to dress like a chola to fit in with girls at school (this was in Sacramento), I soon realized I'd never fit in though, and lived fairly happily ever since ^_^
~Liriel
posted by Ethan at 9:02 PM
4 Comments:
Well yeah even if you dress like them they'll still just know you aren't one of them. It's all in the eyes. Too sharp and you're out.
You are so HOT! You trendy little thing! :D
Opera has their system requirements online. It seems anything after Opera 6 won't run on OS9.
ahHa! Thank you anonymous~! :D
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