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Depuis le mois de novembre 2007, le voisin construit 2 bâtiments juste en face de mon appartement. Je travaille à distance et depuis chez moi. ainsi depuis 8h du matin jusque 12h30 et de 13 à 18h, c'est avec un concert de pelleteuse de marteau piqueur et de marteau sur du métal que je travaillais.

After some weeks, I'm finally at my new flat ! No more in France but in Switzerland... Country of the Gruyère cheese and swiss chocolate. But this is not the point today. I'm planning to build a "multimedia corner" in my living room. Many questions are arriving in my little head, and honeslty I don't know yet exactly what to choose.

First : TV.

Here's an update of my Powermac G3. today it's about the apps.

Yesterday, I decided to work the whole day using the Mac. Ok, this was primarily, for website update (My current job is to configure a Drupal site). After that day, the power mac is slow, but wait, for web browsing, emailing and chatting, it's ok.

I also look at some tiny Apps, you could run on Panther. Here is the complete list of installed Mac Apps :

Internet

Guess, what, a friend of mine "found" a dying Apple iMac G3, somewhere to be thrown in any bin. He got it back home, and just gave me for some days, I could try to look at it and update it. This Mac is for his 11 years old daughter.

After a quick tour of the beast, it's a "Bondi blue" iMac G3. Here are some characteristics of it :

For now 2 weeks, I'm switching on regularly the powermac to see if everythin is running fine. I start iPhoto and add lots of photos, add lots of music into itunes library, and yes it seems to go well :)

Last monday (12th), I was giving one more chance (I'm really too good) to my 2 PC133 RAM (128 and 256 MB). I really find that 448 MB of RAM is not enough to run Panther smoothly, and adding 384 MB of RAM couldn't be that bad, even if my experience showed my that these RAM didn't work.

(note to myself : I really need to build simpler sentences).

Okay... I spend the last days, since my ladt post to install, and install and reinstall the Power Mac G3. but this time I decided to think a little more of what should be really changed. The previous day were the place for lots of tries to discover and find out the possible part which may stick... The result is pretty simple actually :
- either a RAM problem,
- or a hard disk issue.

Last Sunday, I get a copy of Mac OS X.3 (Panther) on CD, from a friend, to test if this version could be installed on the Power Mac. As, I didn't success to install Mac OS X.4 (Tiger) on it, may be a previous version could help. So during the last 3 days I tried to install, and install, and install, and even install the CDs... but nothing helped out. I always got the same error at the end of the CD 1 installation : "There were errors during the installation".

Tonight I get a copy of MacOS 9 & OSX install CD/DVD. I took me 2 hours to visit my friend, as he would'nt let me go : He got some issues with his Ubuntu Linux ;) Who sais I'm the linux guy ? !

Back home, I dismount my DVD player from my PC (Acer did something cool... there's no screw fixing the player to the box), and remount it in the PowerMac, checking if, of course, the player was Master and no Slave.

Several weeks ago, I can get my hand on an old powermac G3 (the blue and white tower). I knew from the owner that it was (obviously old) and had some difficulties to run smoothly. In fact the Mac had some unkown problem that makes him run slow or simply freeze at boot time (no more chime to be heard...)