I’m finally attempting to put this old Macintosh to use, kind of…well, there’s really nothing that the poor thing can do that my laptop can’t do better. The Mac, referred to as “WeasyMac”, is a 350 MHz G3 (the Blue and White tower), with 512 MB of RAM, what I assume is an ATI graphics card (not a 3D card though, I think it’s a Rage Pro or something), and a couple of undersized hard drives.

As inspired by this XKCD comic, I figured out how to use the Say command through a terminal to make the built-in speech synthesizer say rude things. Then I went and figured out how to set up SSH, which apparently is as easy as running Apple Software Update and enabling Remote Login from the Sharing control panel.

Now, I have no idea if this thing will be accessible from outside the network, but if I ever need to severely creep out my parents, I can just crank the thing up to max volume (manually, as I don’t know the terminal command to change the volume), and commence rambling through an SSH terminal from the living room, via my laptop or something.

This is almost as funny as when Malachai figured out I had my laptop’s Windows Messenger service still enabled, logged into my desktop via SSH, connected to the laptop via Samba, and NET SENDed silly things to the laptop through administrative notices. Heh. Hell, even if I can’t access the Mac directly from an outside network, I could always bounce the connection inside – SSH into the desktop, then SSH from there to the Mac.

The poor old Mac doesn’t get much use outside of that…well, I was thinking of redesignating my computers to match those of the cast of Left 4 Dead. The ordering of them would be as follows:

Francis (my gaming rig)
Francis is easily the biggest, most intimidating of L4D’s survivors, so it’d make sense that he be the most powerful machine in my possession.

Bill (my old DOS machine)
Bill is a Vietnam vet, a relic of his time. Much like MS-DOS.

Zoey (the laptop)
I would rather name the Mac after Zoey (since the Mac is the girliest machine I own, no offense to you Mac users), but Mal insists that the laptop be Zoey, as it is the smallest.

Louis (the Mac)
While I’d rather assign Louis as the laptop (as the laptop is more “business” oriented and Louis is a businessman himself), Mal prefers that Louis be the Mac, after the inside joke we have of Louis being the resident druggie (as our L4D group consists of Mal, my brother, and myself, with my brother playing Louis exclusively and hogging all the pills – again, no offense to you Mac users).

I probably won’t bother putting this into action until I get really bored.