Los Cuatro Ojos

World’s Easiest Quiz… Answers

ANSWERS TO THE QUIZ

1.  How long did the Hundred Years War last? – 116 years
2.  Which country makes Panama hats?  -  Ecuador
3.  From which animal do we get cat gut? – Sheep and Horses
4.  In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?  -  November
5.  What is a camel’s hair brush made of? -  Squirrel fur
6.  The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal? – Dogs
7.  What was King George VI’s first name? -  Albert
8.  What color is a purple finch? – Crimson
9.  Where are Chinese gooseberries from? -  New Zealand
10.  What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane? – Orange [of course]

Watch Your Language!.. Make Sure Your Trigger and Safe Words Are Straight…

Have You Been Outside Today?…

Goin’ For The Gold… Personally… I’d Rather Watch Dwarf Bowling…

Thank God For MySpace… Somebody Call The Cops…

Trying To Get To My Happy Place…

Guess What’s For Dinner Kids!?!

Honey!… You Shouldn’t Have!… I’m Speechless!…

I’ve Had My Share Of Skanky Lap Dances… But I Can’t Explain This One…

This’ll Save Money On The AirCon Bill…

Are You Still Using An Older Mac?.. Seems Like Lots Of People Do… I Do Too…

I ran into an article over at MacUser that got me to looking around the old Rat’s Nest…

Even though there are relatively modern Macs at my house… We keep and maintain a few older Macs that just won’t give up the ghost… The oldest one we run regularly came off the assembly line in 1997 and I can say for sure that there are definitely older (working) machines stashed away around here. I imagine that lots of folks think that these machines are pretty useless and are falling apart by now… Not True!… These machines are all built rock solid and I can easily get parts for all of them. Even the oldest machines described here will competently run at least Mac OS 10.2 with a readily available little piece of software called XpostFacto. Imagine trying to run XP on a machine that was designed to run Windows 95… To illustrate my point …see this comparison of Windows and Mac OS’s over the years to see the equivalents.
Here’s our little menagerie of senior citizen Macs.

We have an old all-in-one 5400/180 with a TV card that still does duty as a tv (with remote) and happily surfs the web in OS 9.2 using iCab.. It’s got Office 98 on it and PhotoShop 4 and tons of OS 9 games and kiddie programs… It even runs a Playstation 1 simulator… This machine has a 7.5.5 partition on it (Lemmings!)…We keep toying with the idea of dropping OS 10.2 onto this machine… But other than a 40gb hard drive… we want to keep it as close to stock as possible.

Most pictures courtesy of Herb’s Power Mac Stuff

Then there’s a G3 All-in-One (AIO) that lives under our LAN rack… It lives down there because it weighs 60 pounds!.. My oldest son and I tweaked it with a G4 500 Sonnet and two 10,000 rpm scsi hard drives… We used to sell these by the carload! But since they’re getting rare… We decided to tweak this one as high as we could and keep it… Superdrive, Zip 250, FireWire, The high end graphics card, the works… If for some reason my main machine goes down… This one goes on my desk… This machine runs Panther and is amazingly fast… Apple would have done well to sell these to the public.

Then… There’s a Power Mac 8600 still on patrol in the corner of my son’s room… This was my old machine… This beast has 8 RAM slots... There’s a 128 chip in each… She runs OS 9.2 usually… But can boot into 10.3 Panther or OS 8.5 … This machine is stuffed to the gills with a G4 upgrade card and lots of other goodies… 250 Zip drive, Combo Drive, etc… There’s a high end SCSI flatbed scanner hooked up as well as the last of the Paperport SCSI sheetfed scanners… She’s got an old OnePhoto snapshot scanner hooked up too… All my SCSI stuff lives on this machine… Two 10,000 rpm, 36GB scsi drives and a 60GB ATA hard drive make plenty of room for big scanned files… I don’t think there’s anything I can’t scan with this old girl. This machine runs Illustrator, PhotoShop, PageMill, Premier and a few more Adobe titles that I paid good money for… I was King of the Block when this machine was in it’s heyday… I can’t bear to part with the old girl.

Then there’s the old Power Mac 6500… The one with the sub woofer that bounces off the desk… He lives on the shelf in the laundry room and gets hooked up to run some crazy Mac software I brought back from Asia years ago… This machine is upgraded to a G4 500 with Sonnet and runs OS 10.2… Although we prefer to run 9.2 in order to run the floppy drive, Zip 250 and a few other goodies… As dependable as they come… This one has a TV card too… But that only works in OS 8.5

My 6500 doesn’t have the fancy cut out on the side though…

There’s a Strawberry, a Snow and an Indigo iMac packed away for posterity… The Graphite iMac 700 still gets used when the kids have company and want to play LAN games… The Snow and Graphite run Tiger.

I’ve got a Pismo and a Wallstreet Powerbook that see a little action these days… But my Blueberry iBook sees action at least once a week… Those machines all run Panther…

It’s not unusual for me to travel with my Blueberry when I don’t feel I need the horsepower of my G4 iBook… That little blueberry has a matching sheetfed scanner and a portable HP printer that all fit into it’s laptop bag… I maxed out the RAM and crammed in a 60gb hard drive… The kids DO NOT get to play with Dad’s Blueberry iBook!.. It lives in my bedroom.

Of course… My main machine is a Quicksilver 2002 1ghz DP loaded with Leopard, Tiger & OS 9 and is stuffed to the gills with goodies… I’ve described my machine in my Leopard review… I’ve never tried it… But I hear that this model will boot in OS 8… Funny… My kids machines all are higher end than mine… But I won’t give this one up for anything less than a Mac Pro Quad… And since this machine does everything I ask of it… I can’t justify the cost of that Mac Pro… Yet.

I wanted to put up a pic of my system (I’m VERY proud of it)… But Mama says that if I dare to put up a picture of my rat’s nest of a workspace… There’ll be early and prolonged PMS around here… She Wins!

Here’s lots of comments from other folks running older Macs over at MacUser

Watch That Loose Railing… The Super Already Knows About It…

Hillary… c.1978… Wonder If She’s Still Got Those Pants?

Free Internet… Get It?.. The Spammers Do…

Yeah… Let’s Boycott China… We’ll Bring ‘Em To Their Knees… NOT!!

PMS and Marriage Explained… Funny!

Oh God! Mama Made Mojitos!!

Mojito Recipe

I Failed The Test!!

Take The Test

Can You Tie A Knot Without Letting Go Of Either End Of The Rope?…

Here’s a challenge that really can be done! Pick a piece of rope and tie a knot without letting go of either end.

Solution HERE

If You Still Have Trouble… TRY THIS. 

How Much Money Did They Have To Spend To Prove This Theory?…Copulation cries help males rate success…

Males can tell by a female’s cry whether copulation has been an orgasmic experience.

The female emits ear-piercing calls when mating that vary depending on whether or not the male partner has successfully mated.

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Evolution Of Apple & Windows OS’s… Which Side Do You Come Down On?

HERE’S some of the machines that I still use that run every Mac system shown here… Lemmings still gets played in 7.5.5

This Bird Is Truly Macho… Or Is He Just Reckless?… Either Way… He’s My Hero!

Ever Wonder How Google Gets Those Markers On Their Maps?

A Nice Nivea Commercial…

A Nude Model On The Street Promotes Using Nivea … For That Baby Soft Skin…

See It At Corkscrew-Balloon.com

I’m Getting Questions…Here’s Some Answers…

Since I posted the article on the Red Dress Party… I’ve gotten more than a few emails informing me of people being surprised that I’m gay… I’m not… But I’m surprised at the number of people who had nasty things to say regarding gay folks.

LET ME MAKE SOMETHING PERFECTLY CLEAR…

If you are an intolerant ignoramus who feels that you have the right to dictate any grown person’s life either from a religious or perceived cultural standpoint… You’ve picked the wrong blogger to make your views known to… What the hell makes you think that a gay person…or any “different” person that is otherwise an honest non-dangerous individual is worse than the corporate and government pirates that openly wage war on the environment and humanity?

My sister is gay… and my favorite (late)uncle was gay… And they are among the most decent humans I know… Are you telling me that they deserve greater damnation than the assholes who are responsible for raping your wallet with today’s gas prices?

Or the miserable schmucks who manufacture substandard medicine and poison toothpaste?… Or maybe the folks who made the dogfood that poisoned your dog?… Do you actually think that a person who happens to have a different attraction to the opposite sex is as bad or worse than the people that lied 4000 innocent troops to their deaths on a wild goose chase?

Hell… Do you think that SPAMMERS are worse than gay people!?!?

If so… then you need to take a long hard look at your own life and motives… If the worse thing you can think of in this crazy world is that someone of the same sex might find you attractive enough to make a pass at… You are indeed a sick puppy.

And as for my comment about thinking it would be fun to squeeze my 295 pound, full bearded, foot size 13 ass into a red ball gown and party and get drunk for charity… Well… I think that shows more balls and confidence in my masculinity than any of the “macho” posturing played out by the intolerant asswipes that had the nerve to send me emails talking about what they’d do if some gay guy ever spoke to them… I sincerely hope that your next prostate exam is given by a gay doctor.

Don’t bother sending me your sick spew… I’ve got strangelets to worry about.

Scientists Working On A Project That Could Destroy Earth… Lawsuit Filed…

This thing could make a Black Hole or a Strangelet that could seriously hurt …if not destroy the Earth…

More strife in Iraq. U.S. financial system in crisis. Rice prices soar.

None of these headlines will matter a bit, though, if two men pursuing a lawsuit in a court in Hawaii turn out to be right. They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin smashing protons together outside Geneva this summer might produce a black hole that will spell the end of the Earth – and maybe the universe.

The world’s physicists have spent 14 years and $8 billion building the Large Hadron Collider, in which the colliding protons will recreate energies and conditions last seen a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Researchers will sift the debris from these primordial recreations for clues to the nature of mass and new forces and symmetries of nature.

But Walter Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole, which, they say, could eat the Earth. Or it could spit out something called a “strangelet” that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called “strange matter.” Their suit also says CERN has failed to provide an environmental impact statement as required under the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act.

Read More HERE