The Design and Implementation of laffer1

I just replaced my 10 gig maxtor drive in my iMac (5400 rpm) ATA 66 with a Seagate Barricuda 80 GIG ATA100 7200 RPM drive. Talk about a difference. I just got mac os up.. i had to install os 10.1, 9.21, 9.22, and finally 10.2 to get it setup right. It was a pain to take apart.. but i did it. Caryn helped a lot. I had to remove the radiation shield, etc. The new drive is VERY quiet. The iMac doesn't have fans, so its almost like the computer isn't making noise. You can hear the CDROM when its spinning a slight noise when the HDD runs and the power supply/monitor part makes a slight noise. Its the quietest computer i've ever heard now. (including PC laptops)

iMacs are interesting inside. There are two boards mounted on a metal peace in the center torward the bottom. The bottom board has the ide controller, and some of the connectors. The top board has the video stuff (except mirroring vga connector), Processor, huge heat sink, etc.

The hard drive is mounted in a bay including the cdrom drive torward the bottom. I had to remove the ram to get out the hdd. There are like 9 screws to get to the HDD.

My iMac has a faster drive than my shitty pc.. (it had a 40 gig seagate 5400 RPM). My mac has more ram, and it hauls ass. Hell my apple is faster other than the video card.

I can now install virtual pc and run windows on the mac. I plan on running win2k with the developer tools. Aside from a few games, I will be totally mac based. I plan on formatting the pc and setting it up as a server at some point. (freebsd of course)

I've gone to Mac! If i had a g4 and 16mb ram video card i'd have everything i need.. but i'll live for now. The hard drive holds off buying me a new computer for awhile. I dusted out the imac while i was in there. Its much quieter and the speakers sound new again!

I received dido's latest album for free in exchange for a review on my website i need to write today. I'm listening to the cd for the first time now. I bought the white flag single a few weeks ago on apple music.

I have several packages installed that i require now. I was playing with fink, but the packages are so out of date on it. I also found out its not Panther compatible so i uninstalled it.

There is a rumor that Panther has a ports or packages collection like FreeBSD based on the DarwinPorts project (opendarwin.org)

I think i'll hold off on installing a lot (other than ant and tomcat) I will install OpenOffice 1.1 though.

I have windows 2000 installing right now. Its about 2/3 of the way though.. i've been installing macromedia stuff at the same time so its slow. I just realized that adobe and macromedia have new versions of EVERYTHING. What a pain in the butt.. new photoshop, illustrator, dreamweaver, fireworks, flash, etc. It looks like adobe is getting smarter though.. for 500 bucks they have a pack for students that has everything i use plus go live. Too bad macromedia is cheaper.. 200. I use ps, illustrator, dreamweaver and fireworks for webdesign. I wanted to use flash more, but i really suck at it. I bought flash mx acedemic to learn it but i never got around to doing anything good with it.

why did i pick win2k over xp.. simple.. i have a 400 mhz g3.. try running xp on that. Caryn could do it on her dual powermac g4 with 1.25 gig of ram.. but not me.

Of course she doesn't use windows anymore. (really not at all.. she doesn't even use my pc) I think she used it once in 10 months for a stupid project that required the windows word equation editor.

i want this thing to end.. i have so much stuff to install. Still need to install flash, photoshop, illustrator, office, starcraft, diablo, windows software, idea, fetch, acrobat reader 6, etc.

i wont get to work on JJ for at least a week.. my java ide is not installed and i'm still recovering from tests.. plus i have one more on monday, and a death lab on tuesday. it sucks cause i'm so close to having spell check.