@matigo Yes, b.
I have the new (new to me, at least) G3Pismo PowerBook. It’s fitted with a wifi card & has a viable internal HD which boots quicker than the CompactFlash installation (connected via FW CF card reader.)
The battery is shot, not unexpected in an 18-yr-old laptop. I can get a new one for $55 plus delivery, will investigate that. And I can connect an 802.11n PCMCIA (CardBus) network card to speed things up internet-wise if necessary.
I need to check the weather forecast. This is where the Windows Phone app 4castr is so good.
Trivia time. Robert FitzRoy, who commanded the Beagle and hired Charles Darwin as an educated companion for the voyage invented the word “Forecast” to describe his weather observation-based predictions.
He was one of the first weathermen as we understand the word.
@hazardwarning Wired uses up valuable USB ports, esp when talking Apple gear. Only 17” laptops have ever had more than two such ports.
The main reason though, for buying that mouse is its very programmable, small to suit my small hands and mot a touch surface like the Apple mouse. I have a mostly permanent twitch in my hands, can’t use the Apple mouse effectively.
/@matigo @joanna
@hazardwarning I bought a Logitech mouse a few years ago that goes for at least a year on a pair of AA alkalines. This was the Mac version, white in colour & $10 cheaper than the black windows version. The Windows one has a button with the Windows logo on it, the same button on the Mac one is unmarked.
Then I lost the thing, couldn’t find it anywhere so I replaced it with the Windows one.
I found the white one only 7 hours ago, under a little-used computer backpack bag.
It’s on it’s 2nd set of batteries & they’re still OK.
/@matigo @joanna
The Israelis and Arabs finally realised that if they continued fighting,
they would someday end up destroying the world. So they sat down and decided
to settle the whole dispute with a dogfight. The negotiators agreed that
each side would take five years to develop the best fighting dog they could.
The dog that won the fight would earn its side the right to rule the
disputed areas. The losing side would have to lay down its arms.
The Arabs found the biggest, meanest Dobermans and Rottweilers in the world.
They bred them together and then crossed their offspring with the meanest
Siberian wolves. They selected only the biggest, strongest puppy from each
litter, and fed them the best food. They used steroids and trainers in their
quest for the perfect killing machine. After the five years were up, they
had a dog that needed iron prison bars on its cage. Only the trainers could
handle this beast.
When the day of the big fight arrived, the Israelis showed up with a strange
animal. It was a nine-foot-long Dachshund. Everyone felt sorry for the
Israelis. No one else thought this weird animal
stood a chance against the growling beast in the Arab camp. The bookies
predicted the Arabs would win in less than a minute.
The cages were opened. The Dachshund waddled toward the centre of the ring.
The Arab dog leapt from his cage and charged the giant wiener-dog. As he got
to within an inch of the Israeli dog, the Dachshund opened its jaws and
swallowed the Arab beast in one bite. There was nothing left but a small bit
of fur from the killer dog's tail.
The Arabs approached the Israelis, shaking their heads in disbelief. 'We do
not understand,' said their leader. 'Our top scientists and breeders worked
for five years with the meanest, biggest Dobermans and Rottweilers. They
developed a killing machine.'
'Really?' the Israeli General replied. 'For five years, we've had a team of
Jewish plastic surgeons in Beverly Hills working to make an alligator look
like a Dachshund.
Tuned into a live streaming video which will come out as a podcast. It's cold & I have the electric throw rug over my shoulders & am toasty warm.
@streakmachine And still quite viable with 6 GiB of RAM & a 240 GiB SSD instead of the old 5400 rpm HD. That was a real bottleneck to performance.
// @matigo
@sumudu My first response is to ask if there is/was a backup strategy. Then, if not, why not?
@matigo No. Envious, perhaps, not jealous. Here's a list of what's currently in my collection:
// @streakmachine
