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27th September 2008, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Wayne
Up your Mac's memory to a gig or more and grab a copy of Leopard and install NeoOffice, Transmission for torrents (Macs get the latest version long before they bother to package it for Fedora) HandBrake for ripping your DVDs and Burn for making CDs/DVDs. The latest version of HandBrake is only available for Leopard  There's a whole bunch of freeware out there for Macs (Perian adds extra multimedia codec support to your Mac) and it's much easier to use HandBrake than struggling to get the ripping apps working well in Linux. If only I had the cash.... Steve Jobs may be the devil but at least his stuff works!
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You should know that Leopard will not work on a G4 chip... 
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27th September 2008, 01:21 PM
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Are you sure about that? I believe we're running a few at work on G4's. (I could be wrong, can't check till I get back there, but I don't think I am.)
Ah, just checked. G4 should be OK, it's the G3's that weren't.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/
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27th September 2008, 01:27 PM
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Hi Scott, I'm not sure what post you're replying too 
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27th September 2008, 01:38 PM
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Hi Scott, I'm not sure what post you're replying too
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When that happens it is almost always when someone replies to Kona  
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27th September 2008, 01:50 PM
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It's one of those days were I don't know whether I'm coming, going, or have already been and come back Having a few glasses of ale doesn't help either! 
OK. Time to relax with some Poirot....
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27th September 2008, 02:08 PM
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Poirot? Hercule Poirot?
I like the TV series as much as I like the books, it is one of the few TV series which are true to author's vision.
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27th September 2008, 02:26 PM
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Yes, the one with David Suchet as Poirot (His brother is/was a newsreader) If you like David Suchet, you might also like a mini TV series called "Blott on the Landscape" adapted from a Tom Sharpe book.
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27th September 2008, 02:35 PM
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I remember some reasonably good shows about Pirot. I also remember an old movie--I must have seen it in the 60's--a version of Murder on the Orient Express.
Anyway, yes, I was replying to Kona's saying that Leopard doesn't run on a G4.
As for coming and going, we'll leave out all the silly jokes about the difference between Japanese and English with that.
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27th September 2008, 05:37 PM
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Blott on the Landscape :
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A landowning MP attempts to have a motorway built through the grounds of his wife's ancestral home.
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That sentence says it all doesn't it 
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27th September 2008, 08:07 PM
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Yes, the one with David Suchet as Poirot (His brother is/was a newsreader) If you like David Suchet, you might also like a mini TV series called "Blott on the Landscape" adapted from a Tom Sharpe book.
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David Suchet recently featured in an episode of ' Who do you think you are? ', a series in which celebrities research their family history. Some of the revelations about his antecedents would have given Poirot a headache, such as his grandfather, a Russian born Jew, becoming a naturalised Turk so he could settle in Prussia!
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27th September 2008, 11:00 PM
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Well I'm pretty happy with Panther so we'll see. Thanks.
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