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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007I have been trying and trying to install Ubuntu and DSL to the purple iMac of death with no luck at all. I have basically given up and am thinking of using one of the busted up laptops instead. I will probably use Tommy Sunshine’s and a 22″ CRT monitor then build the cabinet around [...]
Stupid Linux or Stupid iMac
Monday, June 18th, 2007I have been trying to get this imac to boot from a cd for a while now and it keeps hating me. I put in the cd, push the power button, hold down ‘c’ and all it does is flash the folder ‘?’ nonsense and then loads the normal OS. Why? So I thought maybe [...]
Collecting Supplies
Sunday, June 17th, 2007I was able to aquire most of the wood we need from scraps at work. Wednesday afternoon I cut it into the pieces needed: 8 6′ pieces 12 4′ pieces All the wood we need now is to build either a cat tree for them to climb on or a method to install shelves in [...]
Here is the Idea for the MAME Cabinet
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Old Purple iMac MAME Arcade Machine
Friday, June 15th, 2007Heres the plan: Install some form of linux onto old iMac (ubuntu, DSL, whatever) Find two sets of USB arcade style joysticks for super cheap, maybe with lite up little ball things. Set up MAME-ness, make sure to include Ms. Pac-man, Galaga and Golden Axe. Maybe a street fighter Find bigger monitor, hopefully 20″+ so [...]
New Laptop plans
Monday, June 11th, 2007As I have mentioned before Sarah and I have two old laptops that when added together equal maybe one working laptop. We where thinking about trying to trade them in to Circuit City (denied) and also about donating them to somewhere. I recently, in Popular Science, read about damn small Linux and some interesting projects [...]
Listening to the Weather Station
Monday, June 11th, 2007Sunday Sarah and I went over to my parents house to help put together my dad’s new fancy weather station. It was a pretty fun time of doing manly things and it went up pretty fast. The funniest thing about putting it up was that we put everything together, drilled holes and ran all the [...]
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