Help with new iMac please

I don't think that's your machine's problem.

Are you saying that were you to try to get on that page currently you too would get said message?

I were.

I thought this was going to be a revive from 2001.

I thought this was elaborate spam for rhodri.biz - but apparently that site really doesn't exist.

It's honestly not spam! That site was working last time I looked, when I had my old PC a week ago. So, has anyone here tried to click on the link, and did you get the same message I got/get? Sorry if I seem a little paranoid - I just unpacked my new puter today, so I'm a little anxious as I go through the applications.

MAC OS 9

Yeah, try it in Classic.

if your iMac is anything like my iMac, all of your problems can be explained by its inability to hold onto a wireless signal for more than 10 minutes

SCREEN SO BIG !

oh wait except for the motherboard failing. that one can apparently be explained by... the power supply failing (luckily both of these things were 100% covered by the warranty I didn't even think I had paid for)

Is MAC OS 9 behind the problem, jeff?

The URL works fine in every browser I have installed (including Safari).

NB: Intel Macs will not run classic.

works in safari 1.3.2.

Now it works fine, the server must have been down earlier.

this is like the monthly call from my dad at 5:30 on football Sundays - "Why can't I get on ESPN.com???? It keeps giving me SERVER TIMED OUT. What's wrong with my computer???? FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT"

tee-hee. yes, seems I was a bit knee-jerky last night! - crazed by the generous real esate, where small problems, even imagined ones, look big on a big screen. Thanks for humouring me, you super bunch of sniggering swells.

oh noes rhodri twitters! end times.

Hi. I just got a free iMac. One of these: http://reviews.cnet.com/sc/20293891-2-200-0.gif

but it has no power cable - what I'm wondering is do all iMac's have the same power cable or do I have to find one for this specific model? I basically have no idea about anything Mac-related.

the one from your kettle will probably do it. if it looks like a standard three-pin kettle plug, go for it.

NB: grimly enterprises inc accept no responsibility AT ALL if the thing blows the fuck up and takes your house with it.

Nah it doesn't have the standard PC kettle lead socket, I assume cos it's Apple and they have to be all special.

I've just found out I work round the corner from an Apple store, so maybe I'll just go and ask there!

any luck? my (original-style) iMac certainly has a bog-standard kettle lead. hmm.

Cnl. Poo I think that is the coolest computer Apple ever made. Jealous!

The 24" iMac is so awesome

Yah I went to the Apple store, they don't stock replacement leads, but turns out I already have the lead I need as it's the same as the one that goes into my HP laptop power supply. And there's a spare one floating around the office so I'm gonna have that I think.

Now - is there a free AVI to MPEG2/DVD converter for Mac? Then I can actually put it to use over the weekend - I've got all of series 1 of Heroes that needs converting...

Colonel Poo, search tuaw.com archives

Roxio's Toast will burn real DVDs from avi files. I think even the free Lite version does it. But rendering DVDs is always a very slow process that I hardly bother with, unless I'm making a DVD for a friend. My DVD player plays discs with DivX avi files, which lets you fit far more on, as well as being much quicker.

Or you could connect your Mac to your TV with a DVI to video adapter. But that's probably more of a solution for a laptop than an iMac.