# Argh! Crappy xmas-Old Mac wanted **URL:** \ **Category:** Random\ **Created:** [December 15, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/argh-crappy-xmas-old-mac-wanted/3623 "2019-12-15T14:33:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RobM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@RobM](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/RobM)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/argh-crappy-xmas-old-mac-wanted/3623/41 "2020-01-29T10:57:07Z")
Damn! Sorry to hear, man. Try and keep your head up and her butt clean! ---
**Author:** ![schpengle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/schpengle/32/238_2.png) [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/argh-crappy-xmas-old-mac-wanted/3623/42 "2020-01-29T12:07:30Z")
Will do! šŸ˜ƒ heading up there now.- was composing the Probate solicitors letter - thenā€¦ the PowerPPC powerman died! aaargh. 3 flashing powere button LEDsā€¦ this is relentless! now on the 667MHZ TITANIUM (woo hoo) PowerPC powerbook. Im reslient, if not terribly productive. currently using the keyboard off one of theseā€¦G3 iMac [https://www.techeblog.com/apple-imac-g3-anniversary/](https://www.techeblog.com/apple-imac-g3-anniversary/) Its alongside and slightly more dead than the G5, but a lot less than this G4 ---
**Author:** ![schpengle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/schpengle/32/238_2.png) [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 2:52am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/argh-crappy-xmas-old-mac-wanted/3623/43 "2020-02-07T02:52:50Z")
Hey!! guess what? oh yeah! My Mac is alive againā€¦ well, in a ZOMBIE kind of way šŸ˜ƒ Clamshell mode baby! I found a DVI adapter for the video output andā€¦ it works! but only if I quickly turn it on and slam the little minxā€™s lid shut pretty quick, with an external keyboard and mouse connected. Then, the display swaps from the closed screen to the external one! šŸ™‚ current resolution is aweful, ā€¦not so much Retina as Rectum. but hey! ā€¦itsā€¦ ALIVE! ---
**Author:** ![Printninja](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/printninja/32/1181_2.png) [@Printninja](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Printninja)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 3:46am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/argh-crappy-xmas-old-mac-wanted/3623/44 "2020-02-11T03:46:58Z")
šŸ˜† ā€œā€¦to the last I _grapple with thee_ ; from hellā€™s heart I stab at _thee_ ; for hateā€™s sake I spit my _last breath_ at _thee_ .ā€ ā€• Herman Melville ---
**Author:** ![RobM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@RobM](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/RobM)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/argh-crappy-xmas-old-mac-wanted/3623/45 "2020-02-11T11:32:38Z")
Rectum? Damn near killed him! ---
**Author:** ![schpengle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/schpengle/32/238_2.png) [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/argh-crappy-xmas-old-mac-wanted/3623/46 "2020-02-28T20:01:36Z")
Ha! and I here I am! on an Older Firefox derived browser (Waterfox 56.2.11) > **[Waterfox - Free & Open Web Browser](https://www.waterfox.net/)** > > Browse the web your way, with the indie web browser. Free, open and customizable. as it shows this forum and some other sites that otherwise fail to render, ANDā€¦ I cant upgrade blah blah and itā€™s a 2007 white macbook, with ā€¦El Capitanā€¦ now, what number OS is this, and what version of PineGrow can I run? Oh crap, battery about to die. I had to strip it an resolder the cells. Ok till laters OH yes, and the Internet died at my place last night, in the torrential rain. Butā€¦ cant complain, It IS ā€¦ free wifi, from a neighbours, into a DD-WRTā€™d SysLink repeater/bridge, which sends the Network to the GEEKORIUM room, via a pair of ethernet over mains power adaptersā€¦where it goes into a few switchesā€¦and wifi repeater, SO it actually APPEARS likeā€¦ I _have the Internet_ And I just spent the day stood with my poor horses, in Storm, whatever it is called, in pretty full on rain , RIGHT NEXT to the flooded Tawe river in the Swansea valley - which burst up under the river defences last week, geysering up through the ground, after tracking along the Large mains gas pipe that goes under the swollen riverā€¦ as I was being assaulted by the lunatics from the ex horse sanctuay next door, whilst watching them pull the poor suicide guy out of the river at the bottom of of my fieldsā€¦ SO no internet for few hours, and I just spent them with my clothes hanging up infront of my friends fire, (who is on Day 4 of _Giving up smoking_ along with his partner who is on day 2 - My! what a fun visit that was!) drying out my clothers and am now back home, to find I have SOME Internet connectivity, šŸ™‚ Great! Life is too short to whine about stuff sometimes šŸ™‚ (oooh! this has just started charging again! great) Lets have a look at some web stuff and see if my old faithful will fire up too šŸ™‚(and this batter has just stopped charging agian. grrr SMC resets and some more soldering probablyā€¦) ---
**Author:** ![schpengle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/schpengle/32/238_2.png) [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/argh-crappy-xmas-old-mac-wanted/3623/47 "2020-02-29T09:42:57Z")
Nutsā€¦and now that little white macbook is constantly crashing and shuuting down due to hardware,a few minutes after booting.they fans sound like meat grinders, so maybe time to strip it and check those-as well as sorting the weird battery charging stuff. Now writing g this on the tablet againā€¦mmm yes, most definitely NOT a pro web dev, but more a highly persistent hobbyist **Bastler** ---
**Author:** ![schpengle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/schpengle/32/238_2.png) [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/argh-crappy-xmas-old-mac-wanted/3623/48 "2020-04-17T13:16:21Z")
UPDATE! no it wasnā€™t! It was shutting down due toā€¦ WATERFOX! gah! it takes out the whole OS. makes you have to press the Powerbutton for hard reset it you ā€¦download anything. open downloads window Open a private tab open _About:config_ to try and check and do something about it. took lots of figuring out until I came across the complaints about the downloads. I only used Waterfox so that I could download things to take home to my dying mac with no displayā€¦ so Id walk somewhere, find an internet connection, get excited, browse for the latest PG download or whatever, in the dark , squatting behind a car or suchlike and BANGā€¦ crashā€¦ 3 times or more, battery dies, walk home, wanting to frisbee computer into a bin So it turns out on Mac OS Lion 10.7.5 ā€¦ if you go above **Waterfox 56.2.11 Classic** your in for a world of frustration. This was a pain to find, so here is a link. > **[Waterfox](https://www.fosshub.com/Waterfox-old.html)** > > Waterfox: Free software download for olderv versions of windows, osx, linux. where you will find it. Also, I have now installed the Legacy version of Firefox Quantum by _ParrotGeek_ of _Dosdude1_ hacked mac Installer fame (he helps make the legacy device drivers) for my version of 10.7.5 Lion os. this is found here. [https://parrotgeek.com/fxlegacy.html](https://parrotgeek.com/fxlegacy.html) and if anyone is wondering why on earth I am writing all of this, it is because this is what other people on budgets/poorer states may be doing to view your information/stunning websites, so if you content is meant to cater for this sort of clientele too, then it will give you some idea of the hoops they have to jump through view/not be able to view your content, so that you can adjust /tweak accordingly. oh yeah, its also a challenge šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Printninja](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/printninja/32/1181_2.png) [@Printninja](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Printninja)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/argh-crappy-xmas-old-mac-wanted/3623/49 "2020-04-18T20:37:46Z")
Man that is a rough way to live. I feel bad for you. ---
**Author:** ![schpengle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/schpengle/32/238_2.png) [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/argh-crappy-xmas-old-mac-wanted/3623/50 "2020-04-18T21:56:11Z")
Ha! are you kidding me? that was a GOOD day! šŸ™‚but I NOW HAVE INTERNET ( friend lent me a dongle thingy) and so I am stil on the white macbook now typing this, but they can BOTH now get to Internet! woo hoo. THis quantum seems fine on this And now, my display less macbook, can fire up on an external monitor and workā€¦ until it too crashes! That can run the latest PG šŸ™‚ ā€¦ between crashesā€¦ grrr, dylib.lib or suchlike high in the crash traces. need to sniff around. but, there you have it. and rained yesterday, a bit, so the mud filled fields, which then turned to spikey, baked mud dust bowls in the past week of baking 20 C has now dropped to a state of _normal_ now waiting for grass to burst forth. woo hoo. For my my horsey lady friends to feast upon! _Chomp!_ AH, life, tis but a challenge to wonder over šŸ™‚ And Iā€™ve also just had a birthday šŸ™‚ I got some cake!.. by accident, but I dont care šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Printninja](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/printninja/32/1181_2.png) [@Printninja](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Printninja)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/argh-crappy-xmas-old-mac-wanted/3623/51 "2020-04-25T23:23:31Z")
Happy belated birthday šŸŽ‚ ---
**Author:** ![schpengle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/schpengle/32/238_2.png) [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/argh-crappy-xmas-old-mac-wanted/3623/52 "2020-04-27T08:47:41Z")
Yay! happy MeMas! Cheers. How are tricks over there with your good self? I had a really (un)Eventful birthday, with everyone hiding from each other over here, BUTā€¦ did get two books Id lent out posted back to me ā€¦ WITH A HOME MADE CAKE in the parcel! woo hoo! andā€¦3 textsā€¦no cards. Wow, Im as popular in the real world as I am here šŸ˜›hee hee In other newsā€¦after having been making great initial progress in learning CSS Grid , with the Mozilla docsā€¦and working on my horsey blog, wellā€¦ the weather is JUST TOO NICE hereā€¦so I was spending quite some time with the horses and then calling in on a mate on the way back home how has multiple Sclerosis, to check all was well with him (sitting outside his house, under a car port, with wifi) but was not getting home till 11-12 most most nights, so that took its toll after a month or so of that so coming home earlier now and the current fascination for my tiny squirrel like mind is **SEWING!** Oh yes! sewing machines! fantastic things. Horses are large., like much bigger than a dog ā€¦or a chickenā€¦or a , well you get the idea. And we keep them outside, in Walesā€¦where it rains a lot and freezes. Not very nice for a big furry beast. So we put coats and rugs on them, to ease our guilt. Horses werent designed to wear clothes. They have hooves. Have you ever tried doing up buttons and velcro with hooves? Or teeth? It doenst end well, so they tend to use trees and barbed wire fences to _Take them off_ā€¦ if they feel inclined to do so. This usually leaves you with Ā£30-Ā£40 worth of shredded material laying usually , in horse manure, as a loving touch to say thank you ā€¦ Now, if you see the size of the holes they ripā€¦ and then see the size of a sewing needleā€¦ it can be a daunting/demoralising task. Enterā€¦theā€¦ **SEWING MACHINE!** tadaaaa!!! And I have a few of these I have laying around (well, stacked neatly on metal shelving in my bedroom, which, after all is where all geeks with a non existent romantic life keep piles of kitā€¦ dont they \>? please say its not just me!) Well, I have no started watching these, by this incredibly English, school Maā€™m type, - I really like her instructional techniques though. like your favourite infant school teacher who doesnt teach down to youā€¦ Made to Sew > **[Premium Online Sewing Classes | Dressmaking Patterns](https://madetosew.com/)** > > Learn sewing, dressmaking and tailoring classes online. Professional sewing courses and premium dressmaking patterns. Online shop for sewing supplies, fabric and haberdashery. and their youtube channel for beginners of course šŸ™‚) https://www.youtube.com/embed/IGITrkYdjJs?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLfxTlKMr7TsBay4qFSxMgxLxJDyv38J6v and This American chap. and now sewing is amazing! I have just replaced the fly zip on my trousers, reinforced the Crotch, which I always destroyā€¦ (as I have a 36" inside leg, and no one makes trousers for Giraffes, so , they get stretched and wrecked) and thenā€¦ sown on a buttonā€¦ WITH A SEWING MACHINE!! woo hoo. Then, I started on my rucksacksā€¦ oh yeah baby, fix fix fixā€¦ and nowā€¦ remember those horse coats? with BIG holes Mwaa haaa haaaā€¦ _Come to me, my precioussssssh_ > **[Gollum (SmĆ©agol) | Lord of the rings, Gollum smeagol, The hobbit](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/389420698998814608/)** > > Oct 28, 2012 - This Pin was discovered by Paul Davis. Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest SO, I have set up a table (between windows in bedroomā€¦yes, TWO windows! wow. Never had a room with 2 windows in wall before, all rooms been too small) and today I hope to clear the back yard and put a table outside. Oh and put one in the kitchen too. NOTE!.. I have the smallest kitchen in the world. _possibly not_ IT doesnt even have a kitchen sink! too small. **UPdate** ā€¦ didnt clear the back yardā€¦ but got another sewing machine. Damn you ebay! ---
**Author:** ![schpengle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/schpengle/32/238_2.png) [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/argh-crappy-xmas-old-mac-wanted/3623/53 "2020-12-23T14:04:48Z")
BUMP! Well,After a year, Ive been lent an iMac. woohoo And now have this old white Macbook But am mostly out in torrential, Mud field fields Looking after My horses. I moved to a new vertical Swamp a little over a week ago. It looked pretty good until we arrivedā€¦and the torrential Welsh Weather but stillā€¦ HAPPY XMAS (CovidMas?.. CMas?) Everyone!! šŸ™‚ lets see what 2021 bringsā€¦and if its as _interesting_ as this last yearā€¦jeeeez [Previous page](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/argh-crappy-xmas-old-mac-wanted/3623.md?page=2)