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JH - 14 Sep 2006 14:26 GMT

I have a G3 with OS X and am planning to use it with my DSL connection
and a NO-IP static address to host my personal sites. About 7 or 8
different domains sites. The DSL is off a router in my bedroom. Do I
need NO-IP? Does my IP change?
Can the hardware and OS do it? Any other ideas? My Go-Daddy hosting
fee is near $400 a year, besides the challenge might be fun, but if
it's impossible or impractical, I'd like to know now
It didn't have a keyboard or mouse. Should I get usb stuff or ADB
ADB is new to me. Really, Macs are new to me. They've changed a lot
since I had one.
This G3 has 224 MB ram and 20 gig HD
I have a firewire ext HD for more storage, but I'm not clear on what
RAM to buy to Upgrade,
I found a nice manual at
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs
-G3/PowerMacintosh_G3/PowerMacintosh_G3.pdf#search=%22mac%20g3%20back%20panel%20
layout%22
but I still need some basic explainations.

Also When I worked at a ComputerLand back in 84 I bought the Mac on
it's
release. The inside of the case has the signitures of the design team
embossed or whatever you call it.
Anyone know the cash value today? Thanks. John

P.S. I have the trial version of Forte Agent. (it isn't free any more)
Anyone have the old free or know of a good, free newsreader, for the
PC right now. I have to get the G3 going.

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Bert - 18 Sep 2006 21:46 GMT

>I have a G3 with OS X and am planning to use it with my DSL connection
> and a NO-IP static address to host my personal sites. About 7 or 8
> different domains sites. The DSL is off a router in my bedroom. Do I
> need NO-IP? Does my IP change?

You have to get with your ISP to find out if your IP is dynamic. My DSL is
dynamic, so my IP changes whenever I connect. If you have a dynamic IP, you
need no-ip, if you have a static IP you only need to register a name. (No-ip
can provide that too. I have my name registered with no-ip.)

> Can the hardware and OS do it? Any other ideas? My Go-Daddy hosting
> fee is near $400 a year, besides the challenge might be fun, but if
> it's impossible or impractical, I'd like to know now

I serve a website from right here at home. The no-ip DNS is free for basic
service. DynDNS also provides the same type of service for free. Both have
a client that runs in the background and updates the DNS as your IP changes.
Definately better than $400 per year. I don'y know if either provice a
client that runs on Mac. I would imagine that they do.

> It didn't have a keyboard or mouse. Should I get usb stuff or ADB
> ADB is new to me. Really, Macs are new to me. They've changed a lot
> since I had one.

I don't know much about Mac, but I would go with USB. It seems that would
be more compatable and scalable.

> This G3 has 224 MB ram and 20 gig HD
> I have a firewire ext HD for more storage, but I'm not clear on what
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> embossed or whatever you call it.
> Anyone know the cash value today? Thanks. John

They were saying about $300-$400 at last known sale (eBay.)

> P.S. I have the trial version of Forte Agent. (it isn't free any more)
> Anyone have the old free or know of a good, free newsreader, for the
> PC right now. I have to get the G3 going.

I use Outlook Express on WinXP. It's not much, but it gets the job done.
You should have OE5.5 for Mac on your os X. I think it does NNTP.

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Bert - 28 Sep 2006 04:50 GMT

>>I have a G3 with OS X and am planning to use it with my DSL connection
>> and a NO-IP static address to host my personal sites. About 7 or 8
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> I use Outlook Express on WinXP. It's not much, but it gets the job done.
> You should have OE5.5 for Mac on your os X. I think it does NNTP.

I don't think you can use Outlook Express on osX, at least its not very
good. You can get Thunderbird for free from Mozilla along with Firefox for
web browsing. I noticed that osX comes complete with Apache web server so
you won't have to install anything. Just follow the instructions and that's
it.

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