Heck, I'm still doing half of my audio work on a blue-and-white G3 Mac. That's the Apple equivalent of Windows 98.

Apple would like to make that go away.

However, the PowerMac G3 is the last ADB-equipped Mac you can buy (although I do have a customer who has a G5 with an ADB -> USB adapter, I think he may also use the ADB keyboard with his 24" iMac!). It also has PCI slots, and Mac OS 8.6 or 9.x flies on it. You can use a Firewire hard drive to transfer data to more modern hardware (you may have to get a Firewire and USB drive) since Mac OS 8.6 and up have FAT32 support. If you want more power without upgrading, you can drop in a 1Ghz G4 card, although they may be getting scarce as they are no longer made, and you'll have to hit eBay to find one.

I wouldn't use it for anything networked (we have 2 at work that we will not network), but if you have a good enough audio app on it, you don't need to upgrade. Why bother when it works and you don't need to network it?

BTW the only way I'd ever network one of them would involve putting Linux or OpenBSD on it.

Exactly. I don't even do any processing on it, just recording. The raw files go onto a USB thumb drive with 10 times the memory space as the G3, and I do everything else on my Windows laptop.

I was running IE8 on XP with no problems? My porn sites must be less demanding.:blush:
Now I use IE9 primarily, and Firefox/Adblock for a few sites that take forever to load on IE. I'd rather not use Adblock, because that's how most of the sites I use make their money, but some sites are just ridiculous. Watching the status bar flash, is like it's the closed captioning of the disclaimer at the end of a shamwow commercial.
Both are on 7 Pro.

I guess I've contributed not a whit, to solving 3foot's Chrome problem. :o

xoB

do you clickthrough on any of those ads you see?

I am a constant user of Adblock on Firefox. I believe the sites that are supported by ads need a clickthrough, not just a pageview to "deliver" for the site. Actually, taken to its logical conclusion, it needs a clickthrough and a purchase, right? Everybody's selling something.

But when I watch those ads, I'm already "paying" with my attention. I have that in limited supply and I would prefer to spend it as I see fittest, not as someone else does.

Clickthroughs pay much more, but most ad networks pay a small amount for the number of impressions (views) as well.

What constitutes a view, Clodfobble?

If you and I both have computers, I have adblock active and you don't, we both visit the same page at the same time... what's counted? Is that an "impression"?

I ask out of ignorance.

Sorry, that question's above my paygrade. I imagine it would depend on how each ad network counts their views. The actual number of page views on a site is data that's publicly available, but I can see an ad network being able to somehow count from their end how many times the image is actually loaded, so maybe adblock users might not get counted.

Once in a blue moon.
From what I've read, I think Clod's explanation on page-views is correct.