Snow Leopard on an 1984 Macintosh

Image by Stefan Schlautmann via Flickr

The restoration of old cars, furniture, boats, and anything that catches the eye and imagination is a major pasttime for many of us.  I have to say, though, that as a geek I rarely get the urge to re-work an old Dell server, or re-work an ageing laptop.  Technology seems to have a "here and now" quality that once surpassed, gets quickly turned into a "in the shed with the rest of the junk".

If you want to make your junk back into useable stuff, here is a How-To for you.  Over at Instructables.com they have the instructions for upgrading a 1984 Macintosh to Snow Leopard, in a nice step by step format with pics.  Disappointingly, the first step is open the case and throw out everything you find, but despite that, it is a good hack/project.

Jason

...if it is not Broken, I'd hang on to it.  It may be worth something one day.

Peace and File-sharing: between Mac and Windows 7

Image by roychung1993 via Flickr

If you have or want a multi-platform home or office, the biggest question is "can we get the Mac's to talk to the PC's?"  Um, yes you can, but there is the messing around with the network if things don't work straight away.

It's normally enough to ensure a one platform network.  Though I have to say that with all the work Apple have been doing to bridge the gap, there shouldn't be too much hesitation anymore when working with both platforms.

Gizmodo.com proves this with a handy post "How To: Make Your PC and Mac Share Stuff Like Best Friends" where they run through all the manual setting up, with screen shots, for getting Mac's and PC's to talk.  This is really handy if you're trying to get your head around the changes in Windows 7 networking.

Jason Remnant

...if it's not Broken, go to the next step.