EMac questions

Hey everyone,
I just aquired a used eMac but didn't get the software that came with it. It also doesn't want to start too easily and locks up while booting up. Could it be the backup battery? How do you format the drive? And where can I get the software for it? Don't know what OS version is installed on it yet either.
Thanks
Paul

G'day sethsdad,
Using a fingernail, pull down the optical drive door on the front of the eMac. Inside there's a label that tells you all about your eMac - ie CPU speed, RAM, etc etc. (At least, as at time of manufacture)
Basically, no matter which eMac, Mac OS 10.4 would be the best operating system to use. If it's a 1.25GHz or 1.42GHz eMac, you could look at 10.5, but it's slower and not really all that amazing.
Getting either 10.4 or 10.5 now is not a simple job, as Apple do not (openly) sell "old" operating systems. (Currently 10.6) You could try call Apple, and/or any local Apple resellers, and ask if they have an old copy of Tiger (10.4) or Leopard (10.5) to sell you... Or otherwise - eBay's the easiest option.
Don't buy a grey coloured Instal Disc, UNLESS it is labelled "eMac" (and hopefully your specific machine). Grey label discs are designed for the machine they are sold with.
Instead, get a Black label Instal Disc - universal version.
If the machine itself will not start:
Turn the computer on, and hold down the mouse button. This will eject the optical drive. Put the Instal Disc in, and then push the eject button on the keyboard/gently push on the tray to close it.
Now, hold down the "C" key on the keyboard, to make the computer boot from the optical drive. (Alternatively - hold the OPTION key, and it will look for all viable operating systems on the hard drive, any external drives, optical drive, etc, and let you choose which one).
Then just follow the prompts and instal a fresh copy of the Mac OS.
cheers
cosmic

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Hi, all.
Recently I became somewhat enthusiastic about the idea of using emacs as a DE. Basically, my reasons are that if you consider the extensions (or modes) for emacs to be apps, they have the following advantages:
-they are all integrated from the very beginning. No need to worry about toolkits, keybindings, etc. This way you get a really flexible environment
-they are lightweight. Yeah, perhaps, it's not as fast and tiny as some C apps are. But after all, I still think that it's hard to get over some 500 megabytes for emacs and all the vital extensions with their respective dependencies
-they are usually just frontends to existing and stable libraries and tools, and such they are pretty reliable.
Besides, the upcoming (it's March 2010, right?) 23.2 should include the Xembed function. Which means, the extensions will be even more interesting. There is already a WebKit webbrowser for emacs, called EZBL (since it's based on the infamous UZBL). I expect a video player to appear some day soon, and that would really mean you can actually do everything with emacs apps. Besides, the interfaces of these modes will get more sophisticated. Actually, if you could just remove the title bar, the toolbar and open Emacs full screen and get the floating mode behaviour for the buffers (not everybody likes tiling) - it would be a full-blown DE, especially if you could use it without any additional WM.
For me, there are already almost all the apps I need:
-text editor with viper (I just don't know yet if I could get VI-like keybindings for everything in emacs). I don't know if viper has all the functions of VIM, but anyways, with Xembed one could probably get vim to work as an Emacs application. Anyways, I mostly work with human language texts, so I don't really need all those text navigation features and regexps. I just think that vi keybindings and modular approach are more efficient.
-XMPP with jabber.el
-audio with EMMS. I guess there should be more options, I am looking for a frontend to MPD
-note-taking, PIM, simple spreadsheets - org-mode
-HTML documents with muse. Or directly via markdown
-IRC with ERC
-e-mail with rmail. I know there are a lot of other options, just didn't have the time to discover those.
-web-browser with w3m at the moment, waiting for EZBL to get mature. Anyways, I do a lot of work in text web browsers.
So, there is my first question: how can I create rich formatted content in common word processor formats. .doc is unlikely, so I am looking for .odt or .rtf. I know I could use latexrtf, I know there is pandoc, I was just wondering if there is something specific to emacs. Especially a WYSIWYG one. I know there is enriched.el, which actually has all the needed features, but can't work with RTF. Is there something else?
Second question is, which WM should I pick. I intend to run emacs full-screened and not use any external apps. I know there are sawfish and stumpwm which are supposed to integrate nicely with emacs and lisp-based environment. I just don't know what benefits does this give, if all the actual window management will be done through emacs? Apart from similar configuration syntax. Another option is probably to use something extra light and stable. CWM, for instance.
Third question: is it possible to manage wifi connections from emacs? Perhaps an interface to netcfg or something? I mean, something useful to laptop users, something with an ability to scan for available connections in a cafe or a university library. If I had something like this, there would be no need for a panel with applets in the external WM.

I've been living in Emacs for a few years now -- it works wonderfully. Though, I have to admit, I still need to leave it sometimes for a graphical web browser and fully-featured terminal.
ilembotiv wrote:Actually, if you could just remove the title bar, the toolbar and open Emacs full screen and get the floating mode behaviour for the buffers (not everybody likes tiling) - it would be a full-blown DE, especially if you could use it without any additional WM.
Everything except the floating buffers (Emacs windows?) is already possible.
.emacs:
;; Remove GUI elements
(scroll-bar-mode -1)
(menu-bar-mode -1)
(tool-bar-mode -1)
.xinitrc:
# Use Emacs as 'WM'
exec emacs -fs
ilembitov wrote:-XMPP with jabber.el
bitleebee + rcirc/erc is rather nice too.
ilembitov wrote:-audio with EMMS. I guess there should be more options, I am looking for a frontend to MPD
EMMS works well enough with MPD once its setup. There are some other options for MPD, though I've not tried them (easily locatable on emacswiki.org). I use EMMS with ogg123 and vlc.
In response to your questions:
1) I don't know of any word-processor formats which are well supported. There seems to be preliminary support for ODT and RTF, but not much more.
2) I've used StumpWM for a year or two in tandem with Emacs. In the end, the problems (crashing, broken features, perceived(?) slowness, binary size, etc.) outweighed any advantage it had from being implemented in CL. I would certainly choose a tiling WM for managing Emacs frames. I now use XMonad.
3) It is possible. I don't believe an extension currently exists for managing netcfg, though I'm sure this would be trivial to implement.

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On your second question, open System Preferences, Accounts, click Login Items tab, select Microsoft Word, Adobe (AdobeResourceSynchronizer), and Address Book, and click the minus botton at the bottom of the list. If you have Word or Address Book in the Dock, option-click the Dock icon and clear the checkmark next to "Open at Login".
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Eclipse does a pretty good job of this, but is way to heavy an environment for my taste. So, I ask, what is the Arch state-of-the-art emacs Python environment?

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Hi El Deanio
I haven't tried URU, but the site looks good.
The 32 MB VRAM is small isn't it, if compared to the 2005 model PowerMac G5 that has 128MB. The current iMacs 2007 have 256MB of VRAM.
The latest Macs would be about three times faster than you current eMac. I say about three times, because it would be an accumulative effect of faster processor, and RAM, faster BUS speed, larger CPU cache, larger VRAM: easily three times faster .
In defense of the eMacs, they do have fast Hard Drives at 7200 RPM the same speed as the lastest models. I think I'll hang on to my eMac for a few more years yet, if with a bit of luck it might run Leopard if I add more RAM. I skipped Tiger so Leopard might be a bit of a buzz, or it might be slower than glue on this G4. In a couple of months I'll know.
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Mike

To the best of my knowledge, the emacs that ships with Mac OS X only includes terminal support.
You can get pre-built Mac OS X emacs versions that support either X11 or Mac OS X Aqua GUI interfaces.
I'm a Vim user (and it only comes with terminal support; so I build my own from sources )
As a Vim user, I do not know how good any of the following Mac OS X emacs version are to use, but I'm listing a few that I found so you know that Macs are emacs friendly.
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Xemacs
<http://www.xemacs.org/>
Besides Google searches for "Mac OS X emacs", you can also search <http://VersionTracker.com> and <http://MacUpdate.com>
Or if you prefer to build your own, there is the Free Software Foundation emacs
<http://directory.fsf.org/project/emacs/>
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Can anyone tell me how I might find a replacement "power on" button for my eMac?
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There appears to be three wires that control these functions. If I can't find another button or case with a working button in it as a last resort it would be nice to know which two need to be crossed to start he up.
For now I'm stuck using this older slot loading iMac whose DVD player has always been a problem with over heating.
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.mac mail question:I have an old emac without an intel chip...

.mac mail question:I have an old emac without an intel chip...I have a .mac email account, I would like to be able to have my emails automatically forwarded to a gmail account. I cannot access icloud with this old machine, any ideas? thanks! and aloha!

Hello,
But you can setup iCloud email on you old Mac!
Do not delete the old account yet. sign up for an iCloud account if you haven't.
I understand .mac mail will still come through. Do not delete the old account yet.
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SMTP (outgoing mail server) information:
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• SSL Required: Yes
• Port: 587
• SMTP Authentication Required: Yes
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