I couldn't find the hardware/memory/hard drive requirements for that, Rico. And I also love the "swap recipes" dig. First rate.

The only machines I have to experiment on don't have the faster-style Ethernet connection. Both the Bag-of-Orange iBook and the old Power Mac 7200 use the slower form of Ethernet and that would seem to rule out use as a server. But as a do-it-yourself recipe upgrade project, that might indeed be fun.

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I couldn't find the hardware/memory/hard drive requirements for that, Rico. And I also love the "swap recipes" dig. First rate.

The only machines I have to experiment on don't have the faster-style Ethernet connection. Both the Bag-of-Orange iBook and the old Power Mac 7200 use the slower form of Ethernet and that would seem to rule out use as a server. But as a do-it-yourself recipe upgrade project, that might indeed be fun.

I don't know were that comment came from regarding the recipes therefore I am not sure to the meaning behind the implications.

Those machines are a little long in the tooth. I wouldn't doubt Ubuntu server could possibly run on them though. Ubuntu server doesn't even use a GUI. You can put a GUI to it but that would of course hurt performance.

You could look for a Craigslist deal like this one. Any similar era machine would work well. They would work well for Mac OS X server too. What you spend can be used as a business expense I would imagine.

An older PC would also work.

Thanks, Rico. That looks good. If I can find the phone number of the children of a friend of mine who died recently, I've got a free MDD coming to me. Maybe.

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I don't know were that comment came from regarding the recipes therefore I am not sure to the meaning behind the implications.

Remember when the word "CrapSettler" had such a sting to it? Oh, those were the days.

Peace on Earth. Good will to Crapsettlers.

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I don't know were that comment came from regarding the recipes therefore I am not sure to the meaning behind the implications.

Remember when the word "CrapSettler" had such a sting to it? Oh, those were the days.

Peace on Earth. Good will to Crapsettlers.

Sure Greybeard. Bring on the Cheer.

Sorry to hear about your friend. Condolences.

If memory still serves me that MDD machine must be the sister machine to yours as they were both bought around the same time.

Thanks, Rico. Yep. A sister machine, and one that I was responsible for keeping working. I don't doubt the kids sold it on eBay or something even though as an old family friend they offered it (and most of her other stuff) to me. I didn't press it because I didn't want to be a vulture and probably these kids need all the money they can get. But I just left a message at Timmy's workplace and hope he calls me back and I'll see then if he has any of her old computer stuff he wants to get rid of.

yeah, seriously Brad, my sympathies on your friend.

Hey, it just hit me, we actually HAVE swapped recipes on thalo.net. I hope none of us takes up quilting, or knitting... we'll be in trouble.

My Adobe updater keeps asking me to update Adobe Acrobat version 8. It asks for my admin password and then proceeds to do nothing. The next time I open up a PDF or This happened on the old machine as well as the new. Does anybody know what preference or coupon or whatever I need to trash to get rid of this? I've tried trashing the prefs.

Did you update to CS5? If you did Acrobat 8 is an older version that belongs to CS3.

I did update to CS5. I'm using Acrobat 9 pro, but for some reason the updater loads and thinks I need to update Acrobat 8, which doesn't even exist on my system anymore.

I say "delete all"... still happens. I try installing, enter password... still happens. Not sure how I can clear whatever it is that says I need to update that version of the software.

In the Utilities folder in your Applications folder there is an Adobe Utilities folder.

In there you will find Updater folders that contain the Adobe Updater app. Ditch the older versions and just keep the one installed by CS5. It is probably one of those older versions trying to auto update.

Aha. OK, I see TWO "Adobe Utilities" folders. One is called "Adobe Utilities-CS5", and one is called plain "Adobe Utilities"... inside the latter was two Adobe updater apps, 5 and 6. I deleted 5. Let's see if that does it. Thanks, brother. Jeez, here I am looking through the library, prefs, application support... never thought to look in utilities.

You can probably delete the Adobe Utilities folder and just keep the Adobe Utilities-CS5 folder.

Hmmm, but there's no updater in the Adobe Utilities-CS5 folder. I think I need both.

I don't have CS5 so I don't know if they changed to a new system as to why the CS5 folder has no updater app in it. CS5 could be putting it in a different spot.

Have you run the updater from an Adobe CS5 app? You could probably be able to tell from there whether or not the Updater app 6 is running.

When I check for updates through a CS5 app, I get the "Adobe Application Manager"... and since I have nothing to update, it doesn't launch any other app. Meanwhile, when CS5 does need updating, it usually shows me in the menubar how many updates are pending.

Maybe I'm not running EITHER updater 5 or 6! I'm just afraid to delete 6 if the app needs it. So far no more problem trying to get me to update Acrobat 8, though.

The Adobe Application Manager does sound like it is something new. If the problem cleared up getting rid of updater 5 then mission accomplished.

Right, and so far so good, so thank you for your help. If it turns out they don't even use the updater anymore, then I'll delete it. But I can't check that for sure until the next round of CS5 updates.

For the spinning gear fun of it, I installed Tigard on my Bag-of-Orange (300 mhz G3 clamshell iBook). Technically, the Mother Ship supports only up to Panther (10.3). But using a 3rd party product (Xpostfacto), I got it to work.

It works pretty well considering the G3 and only 320 RAM. Hard drive space is tight. Still, with judicious prunning, able to install it (and primary part of Xcode 2.5) on 4 gig partition...which also contains a full (but pruned) OS 9 install.

I went a little crazy and spent a gratuitous 24 bucks and got a 512 dimm to upgrade the memory.

What prompted this was that I'd been playing around in UNIX a bit, trying to learn the basics. Well, I couldn't get some sample code to comp8le in Panthard. Still can't in Tigard on the B-O-O. I may need a fuller install of Xcode 2.5. I'll try that next.