*so* worth it. Huge speed increase from before.


Backed everything up to CD/Server, swapped out the 128MB RAM stick with a 512M RAM stick bringing my total to 640M, and zeroed the HD. Totally wiped it clean.
Reinstalled the OS, set all the settings.... realized I forgot to save all my network settings (lost my work profile, gonna have to set that up again). That's all I lost. Everything else I backed up restored smoothly. TBird took all my email from before, AddressBook took all my AIM contact names and kept all the custom fields, Palm Desktop works and even synchs with my palm, Firefox imported bookmarks smoothly, VPC installed without a hitch and took my VMachine profiles, and iTunes didn't chow on the library like I've had problems with before. Even Keychain didn't give me many problems.

Switched my default shell from Bash (teh suck) to ZSH (teh w00t).... that took some googling, since MacOS wanted to dump me back into Bash every time I opened a new Terminal window.

Got most of the Mac-side applications installed, there's still a few UNIX apps I need to compile/install, then reload all my non-essential documents, pictures, porn, videos, games, etc.

I'm thinking I had about 7GB of preference files, remnants from old programs, font extras I didn't need, and other miscellaneous bullshit that had collected over 2 years that I finally scrubbed off this computer. I deleted everything I backed up, and even with all my shit backed up I still had about 10GB I couldn't free up, and after clean-installing the OS there was only 2.5GB used.

And a good, complete, up-to-date backup is a nice thing to have too :smokin:

I haven't had to do a re-format in a while. I used to do it twice a year, but I don't have half the problems I used to have with my PCs.

write up???

seriously, i suck with computers. something happens: "time to get a new one!"

but that gets expensive:(

And a good, complete, up-to-date backup is a nice thing to have too :smokin:
:werd:

I think I'm gonna have to do -another- fucking clean install on the G5. Its really been acting up lately.

write up???backup everything you want/need to keep. Format your drive to NTFS, reinstall windoze.

backup everything you want/need to keep. Format your drive to NTFS, reinstall windoze.

*cough* linuxiso.org */cough*

Slackware's a lot like UNIX. If you're a linux n00b, I don't recommend this distro.
Gentoo and Red Hat are good. I have a copy of DamnSmallLinux.org and it's a knoppix-based distro, fsckin' great emergency tool, since it's a fully-functional OS with plenty of tools, and the entire thing's <50MB.

I ran windows on my server for way too long. Switched to Linux and never looked back since.