Yes, how is one to remember all these things, constantl upgrades, passwords that now seem to be reset every three months, then 8 digits minimum, they want upper case,lower case, special characters in the mix, then the iPods, different palms, , cell phones, digital cameras, all with different do-dads to remember- there is a combo drive, then there is a super drive, , the minus R the plusR, the RW , the DVD recorder and the CD player, the DVR , the numerous remote controls, the plugs, USB, the firewire, the serial whatever, the varied transformers, some for 110 only, some working at up to 240 volt, one can never be quite sure whether the device will work or sizzle in the 200 volt range, the oodles of connecter plugs for the different nations, England's awful size , Germany's crazy embedded ones, the wild cord jungle behind our computer connecting those printers, scanners, palms and iPods ( those lovely photos never show you that mess) the routers , the wireless connections , the hot spots which often are cold spots until you spend days to reconfigure your computer settings, the different TV screen sizes, and types, the 4/3 the 13/9 , full width, stretched width, black bands on the sides, black bands on the top, black bands along all four sides, then the analog part, intermixed with some digital confusion------ remember the quiet times before the technical mania took over? Now we need brains to store all the computer stuff and we had hoped the computer would be our brains while we were engaging in the pursuit of leisure. - Yet- in the face of it all, don't we love it? Marta On Jul 26, 2005, at 12:07, Jerry Freeman wrote:
> I applaud the humility of your admission. I knew Tiger was on DVD, but > never questioned that your G4 didn't have a DVD drive. Reminds one to > check the mirror :) > > On Jul 26, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Robert Klein wrote: > >> FYI on the hard drive issues on the G4. The fine folks at MacTown >> (nice store!) resolved the issue. I?m embarrassed to say that I did >> not realize that my G4 did not have a DVD drive in it (this is not >> the machine I use on a regular basis), so that?s why it would not >> recognize the Tiger DVD. The reason the OS 9 Software Install and >> Restore CDs did not boot is because the firmware had been updated and >> would not allow OS 9.0 to boot (it has to be 9.2+, I think). That is >> why only the Disk Warrior CD would boot. >> >> It now works like a charm and Tiger is installed. >> >> Robert -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2537 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050727/2cace649/attachment.bin
