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Got a few things done yesterday before exhaustion and another headache dropped me; failed to get to a couple places I needed to go, because one took longer than expected. Somewhat headachy today -- not sure whether it's bad enough to take my migraine meds or not; not sure how much to worry about frequency of use on those, and do worry about running out of them again. At Balticon someone raised the question of whether the weather might be at fault for the unusual number of headaches I've been having. I wonder.

Did get more sleep than usual last night (positive side effect of the migraine med) but woke up in severe pain from my fibromyalgia a few times. Trying to get ready for the Homespun Ceilidh Band gig tonight (wedding reception in DC). Hoping I can at least start the event un-drugged. (Okay, I really mean w/o narcotics or the migraine drug -- I'll have some Ultram in me, and that's completely benign.)

Found a couple of different implementations of 'cron' utilities for MacOS earlier than MacOS X. Not sure yet which I'm going to install. Still looking for a free or cheap X server that'll work under MacOS 9.1. Thing is, when I do a web search for X and Mac, I get lots of hits for MacOS X. Even if I specify "X11", I get mostly hits for MacOS X, 'cause that has an X server built in, and I guess nearly all the folks using X under MacOS are using MacOS X. I do wish they'd just called it "10" instead of "X", 'cause then I could more easily search for the "X" that I mean.

So if anybody has clever search-engine tricks to share, or happens to know a free or inexpensive-shareware X server that'll work on a PowerMac 7500/100 under 9.1, I'm all ears. For that matter, if you have an opinion on which 'cron' to use, I'll take advice on that as well.

I want to use Opera on the Mac, but I think this machine might be a smidgen underpowered for it, so it's a good thing I've got iCab available as well. (I'm not making a whole lot of bookmarks until I decide which is going to be my main browser on this machine.)

Oh, and I finally got around to pre-registering for Pennsic.

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Actually MacOS X doesn't have X11 built-in, but it's a free download from Apple.

Your machine has a 225MHz 604e CPU in it, not the stock 100MHz 601. And there's always that G3 card, if you find time to play with it.

You can use Bookit to translate bookmarks between browsers.

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Right, you'd told me this box was accellerated and then it slipped my mind. I think the performance bottleneck is the virtual memory, actually. I tend to keep a lot of stuff open at once. I was playing MP3s earlier, and the playback was hiccuping until I quit most of the apps I had open and freed up some RAM. (It might have been the CPU cycles they were burning even though I had most of them idling -- MacOS 9 is cooperative multitasking, not pre-emptive, right? Which means busy-loops? -- but the big difference was when I got down to what fit in physical memory.) Anyhow, it's still faster than the 7200. Gonna wait until I have more attention-span than I've had lately before I try the G3 card ... and after I try to install Solaris on a Sparc 2.

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Hmm, not being a Mac person, but being a Master of Google-Fu, with this: +MacOS +"X Window" -"OS X"
the best I've got is:

http://www.tenon.com/closeout_order.shtml

(Not *really* cheap, but might be worth the money.) The info in this:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/x-faq/part4/section-15.html

is all completely out of date, but it includes some hints. Best bet is probably to find someone who still has a copy of MacX.

The general situation seems to be that Apple produced a free X server, so no one else made one unless they needed something better for another product. And when OS X came out, Apple and everyone else said "okay, we don't need to bother with that any more."

I bow before your Google-Fu skills, and I thank you for the links and the history lesson. Yeah, the advice on that page is dated, but it contains more clues than I was able to find in about an hour of searching. Doing more searching based on those cluse now. Thanks.

How did you send the Pennsic pre-reg? If I remember right, you have to have it in thier hands by 1 June, not postmarked.
This has led, on occasion, to Anna driving up to Cooper's Lake....
Ray has his email confirmation already. I am not going this year.

Realizing I'd left it a lot later than I'd meant to, I registered for Pennsic online. Got my confirmation in email. Sorry to hear you won't be there ... guess it makes sense, with your health problems, but it's still a downer.

The general lack of sunshine might also be giving you extra migraines too. A friend of mine in Ohio has a similar problem with too-prolonged closed weather. Ironic considering that her migraine doesn't like light at any form once it's in..

Not dealing with light at all is a pretty common feature of migraines (I have that problem when they're really bad; more of a problem with high contrast in my field of view for mild to medium ones). Thanks for the clue about weather. That is ironic. But potentially useful information. And not something I'd ever heard about.

Yahoo has a nice bookmark system.

If you decide to go with a Windows machine for your main browser, you can even get a toolbar.
I don't think a Mac version exist, though.
(The bookmarks themselves are not Windows dependant, just the toolbar.)

I really like the Yahoo system because I can consult it when I am at someone else's computer. Like the library, or Anna's.

I feel funny about off-site bookmark storage, but as others have pointed out elsewhere, it probably makes the most sense for me. (Probably makes more sense than trying to have 'cron' synchronize eight different bookmarks files on four machines and three operating systems.)

I'm not sure which to consider my "main" browser. Probably Opera under Windows, but I split things pretty evenly between the copy on the NT box and the one on the 95 box. After that would be the Mac, but I'm still figuring out what the ratio of Opera:iCab is going to be there, and whether I'll have any use for Nutscrape. Mix in Lynx, Links, and Opera under Linux (I don't think I've fired up Mozilla/Nutscrape under Linux for a while) ...

I'll have to look at tha Yahoo system. I do want something I can export/download to an easily edited text file (even better if I can then upload the edited version), and it has to conveniently support a hierarchy of bookmarks (i.e. folders). I really like the Opera concept of "active bookmark folder", where things can be put with one keystroke. It comes in handy when I'm saving my state in the middle of a project -- create a bookmarks folder for that project, make it the "active" folder, and go through all the windows hitting control-T.

But the gist is that yeah, it'd be really convient to not have to remember which machine I was sitting at or which program I was using when I bookmarked something.

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