Under Federal Law, if what you make after tips does not equal minimum wage, then the employer has to cover the rest. If your employer is telling you otherwise, then they can be investigated. They are also supposed to post a notice somewhere in the restaurant telling you this. The poster has been at every job I have worked at.
What I have seen most often is that wait staff don't want to report their actual tips, so they won't have to pay taxes on them. And if they happen to fall below minimum wage, they are screwed because they can't suddenly report their employer without alerting the IRS to their own transgressions.
I agree with Aeris and triple X. At 512mb of RAM, Tiger will perform, but not well. Your version of Mac Mini will accept a maximum of 1GB of RAM (one 1gb stick of DDR333). Here is a video that shows the disassembly of a Mac Mini ( http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cfm?page=Video/mini/med.html). Prices for the RAM run from $40-$60.
Also, running the combo updater would be the way to go. Tiger got more stable with each update, so updating to version 10.4.11 could fix alot of problems. I hope this helps.
Which Mac Mini do you have? PPC G4, Core Solo, or Core Duo? How much RAM does it have? Are you running Tiger or Leopard?
Some of the early G4 Mac Minis came with 256MB of RAM, which is not really enough, especially for Leopard.
You could also run the "Apple Hardware Test" off of the CD to see if it is a hardware issue. Instructions are here for Intel (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303081) but the same should work for PPC. The Apple Hardware Test is found on Disk 1 of your Mac Mini restore disks.
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) created Mosaic, not Digital Equipment Corporation. Mosaic was written by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina. They later founded Netscape with Jim Clark.
Sweet Tea, made properly, is the nectar of the gods. However, the quality of sweet tea down South varies from restaurant to restaurant. Small family run joints usually have the best sweet tea, followed by local chains. National chains usually screw it up, especially if they don't have any local natives employed there. Surprisingly, McDonald's does buck this trend, at least in NC, as all the tea I have had there was excellent.
This is a ripoff of an old "The State on MTV" episode from the early 1990's. Thomas Lennon (Reno 911) did a sketch were he loved bacon. He drank bacon, and even wore bacon.
And the hummingbird pics are beautiful, too!
What I have seen most often is that wait staff don't want to report their actual tips, so they won't have to pay taxes on them. And if they happen to fall below minimum wage, they are screwed because they can't suddenly report their employer without alerting the IRS to their own transgressions.
Also, running the combo updater would be the way to go. Tiger got more stable with each update, so updating to version 10.4.11 could fix alot of problems. I hope this helps.
Some of the early G4 Mac Minis came with 256MB of RAM, which is not really enough, especially for Leopard.
You could also run the "Apple Hardware Test" off of the CD to see if it is a hardware issue. Instructions are here for Intel (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303081) but the same should work for PPC. The Apple Hardware Test is found on Disk 1 of your Mac Mini restore disks.
Still...the bacon suit is neat.