Mac in life, part 1

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...).

And today was the resurection day ! I decided to get it one more chance to boot. It does the second time I switched it on \o/ Yeeeeehh, the chime does it :) The PowerMac bootup up rather slowly (for a mac). About 3 min after I get the blue screen, not of death but of the desktop. I got no login screen, which surprised me. In fact I was logged in as System Administrator, hey, ho.. what ? ! As a linux user and manager, I know that being logged as an administrator is really baaaaaaaaaaddd (or at least very risky).

The long story short, I used all my afternoon to try to tune my brand "new" mac, trying to understand why the computer either didn't boot (no chime at boot) or being really slow to start program.

For the moment, Half of the problem is solved :
- the second hard disk seems to be responsible for the slowlyness of the system. (I removed it, and everything is going well now)

Next step : I need to reinstall MacOS X.. So I need to find first the DVD, and second.. a DVD player (Yeah, PowerMac G3s were shipped with CD player by the time). I'll keep you informed of the resurrection !