iMac, part II

When I got my new Dell and moved the old one into the kitchen for HWMBO, I had to quickly move the iMac, so I put it in the guest room upstairs. This was a pain, as I had no internet connection upstairs, and thus couldn't use it for my iPod or anything else.

I bought a Linksys ethernet bridge last week, and hooked it up yesterday. After a few glitches (very bad manual writing as well as bad design of the installation program) I got it working. The iMac is now up there and connected. My iPod works with its copy of iTunes as well.

The final addition was hooking up the Dell speakers (that I didn't care to use for my new computer because the old Aiwa system, two speakers that can be hung on the wall and a subwoofer were perfectly good) to the iMac. The sound is gorgeous!

Now I wouldn't say that this will send me out running to buy a Mac Mini or anything. However, I'm quite pleased with it, and for a very low price (probably about GBP 200 overall, including the iMac itself, the added memory, the 80 GB hard disk, and the copy of OS X) I've gotten a very useful little computer. I shall be using it more often now.

The bad news is that the Dell laptop has developed a wheeze. I thought it was the fan, but the exhaust fans on the back are doing fine. If there's a fan inside, perhaps it's that. If not, it's the hard disk noisily packing up. Crumbs!

Someone has a lot of time on their hands...

...so they've produced this website, which appeals to the Latinist in me, but grates on the singer in me. Besides, whatever happened to "a language understanded of the people"? The link was buried in the paid ads in Private Eye.

That being said, I like this one:

Misit huc Magos Oriens:
stella tres nos ducit agens
rura rivos campum clivos
donaque transferens.

O SIDUS ADMIRABILE
CLARA PULCHRITUDINE
NOS PRAECEDENS, NUSQUAM SEDENS
NOS AD LUMEN DIRIGE!

Natus est ad Bethlehem Rex:
aureus confirmet apex;
totus sine cuncto fine
pareat illi grex:

Numinosum offero tus:
noscitatur ture Deus;
ornent iuncti Summum cuncti
cum prece laudibus:

Ecce! myrrha acerbum olens,
umbras imminere docens!
Cruciatum immolatum
en lapis opprimens!

Iamque vindicatus ovat,
se victorem nuntiat;
angelorum terra chorum
laude reduplicat.

Presumably you can all make a stab at figuring out which hymn this is. He's even preserved the internal rhyme in the third line of each stanza in the English version.

Macte virtute esto!