Reloading (that) Mac.
Author’s MUCH later contextual note: The Mac in this ancient cave-scribbling was a 15” PowerBook. It still runs (16 Nov 09) and will be, in fact, the place this website will be kept on that dusty but still serving machine. (If you only knew how many times I’ve disassembled it...)
Time for the periodic reload of the OS. Lessons learned: Make sure that the iPod (also recently reformatted) is storing ALL the extras.
It might have become necessary to read my contact info for the passwords ‘n stuff. Also, maybe backing up preferences might be ...uh... necessary. We shall see: Trying MoinX next. Oh crap, just lost my GIANT music list. Ok, I have the list-page itself. Ok, iSync. (All my devices have wildly cryptic names) OK. M...m...m...mail. Niiiice. 2059 messages. Ok, Quicken; Bing zam zowie. Turbo Tax? Good. Lost sight of the tax file, but manually pointing to it and it’s good. Now, the biggest, baddest of them all: iTunes. Well, looks like all +8k tunes are still there.
Did I get the speed I expected? Doesn’t seem so, right now. No hope of a new one in the immediate future. Wonder if they can get HOTTER as they age? I tried that fan-hack once, and ended up restoring the old settings. (And now, the entire the OS.) I think I’ll look for a GUI-fan-hack. Be Great.