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Vesuvio
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on: July 19, 2008, 02:10
Now that I've had some fun tinkering with 7.6.1 on my G3 upgraded Powerbook 1400 (making it do things that astonish and amaze the kids who only know Macs in the OS X era), I'm interested in setting up the most stable 7.6.1 system I can. I crash at least once a day, though most of those are caused by the Orinoco wireless driver, especially when switching from wireless back to Ethernet, or vice-versa. It’s a very fussy driver, but I’m forgiving because I’m amazed that it works at all. Some of the “risky” things I’ve done are edit the System resource to report 8.1.0 as the installed System, enabled speculative processing for my Vimage G3 upgrade card, installed Appearance Manager, and installed Office 1998 (ha-ha). Anyone one have an opinion on the degree of risk invovled with any of those (especially the speculative processing, which I don’t know much about)? I could live without all of those mods, especially if someone could tell me how to enable the stream tuner you get in SoundJam 2.5.3 in the free version that runs without mods or Appearance Manager. The add-ons I don't think I could live without are BeHierarchic, Network Time, Default Folder, Sleeper, Hidden Finder Features, RamDoubler 8 and SpeedDoubler 8. Anyone have stability issues with only of those? The software I use every day are the WannaBe Browser, IE 5, Netscape 4.8 (whose mail component actually works with gmail IMAP), Fetch 3, SoundJam, BBEdit Lite 4.6, and Word 5.1a, all of which seem to be solid. I'd like to hear some of your uptime reports, what features you turn on and off to achieve good uptime, what software is most reliable, and what you consider to be absolute no-nos. It goes without saying that I’ve applied all the essential updates offered at this site :-}. --V |
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wove
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Reply #1 on: July 19, 2008, 02:21
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Quote from: "Vesuvio"
Speculative processing is used by G3 and newer processors and speeds processing. It is a good thing and should cause no problems. The appearance manager slows down 7.6, but I am not aware of it adding instability. The Office Applications should be solid, but the "office manager" components always seemed a little dicy to me. Networking in 7.6 especially when pressed hard can be fussy at least compared to networking on newer systems. In many respects the greatest changes in computing since the time of 7.6 is changes in networking and networking applications. bill
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