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I was asked for some advice to pass along to a class of graduating young people. It wasn't bad for something I pulled out of my butt in about three minutes, so I thought I'd post it somewhere before it got lost in the outbox.

The PowerPC Penguin, Part 1

In the first part of this two-part series about Linux on the Mac, Pawel Leszek will show you how Mac users can benefit from Linux and what they should expect from Linux on a PowerPC. The second part will be an extensive LinuxPPC 2000 installation tutorial.

IE4.01 runs like molasses in winter on Pauline's Performa 630 with 8MB RAM. Not surprising really. So I'm trying out iCab pre-release 2.3 and it certainly feels snappier and there's much less disk thrashing and more sustained modem activity. It certainly throws up a page quicker than IE4 since it fills in the graphics after the text. I like it a lot. Time will tell if it's a marked improvement.

I checked out the price of Performa expansion memory earlier and found 32MB SIMMS for the Mac at $36. I wonder if there's a UK supplier with similar prices. Must look later. I'm sure 36MB (4MB + 32MB) would make a world of difference ;-)

I am very impressed with this latest version of iCab. Especially nice for machines with slow modems and low RAM configuration is the ability to filter images by URL and/or by size. No more annoying banner ads for me!! iCab renders pages very quickly indeed - and that's over a 28.8k modem. And it's only a 3MB footprint so the VM hardly kicks in since the OS is less than 6MB too.

I'll be virtually back at work tomorrow (Thursday), it's been almost a two week break and now I'm regretting not doing more than I did workwise. But the break was good and it was great to spend the time with the family over Christmas and New Year.