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There you go! My Sawtooth looks identical to the one on the left.

I hear the maintainer is a real jerk, though.

Man, you ruin my fun.

I've always said that if you want a G5, just go buy a Power Mac (and then stick Linux on it if you want). The liquid-cooled quad is decent and is my daily driver Mac, though I use it with 10.4 so I can still run Classic applications. The IntelliStations aren't bad hardware but AIX is not a good workstation OS and hasn't been since the 4.x days. I couldn't even get Firefox 3.6 to run on my POWER6 without errors all over the place.

That's a nice little system. With some extra RAM it should really cook. Mine is a 150MHz system also, but it's only a R4400SC, though the 256MB of RAM helps a lot.

Lol on the cooking part, though my R4400 seems to be fine without special dispensation (but it's not crammed in a corner either).

Since we're dusting off this thread ...

previously: system administrator/DBA (mostly HP-UX and AIX, a bit of Solaris and RH)

currently: physician (primary care and public health)

Just noticed three SoCalites in the last several posts, including myself. We should have a Sunny So Cal meetup one day.

I lost interest in Apple when they went Intel.

Can we get back to how Apple sucks?

I'm getting an Atrix dock so I can turn my Rpi into a "RISC OS laptop." Acorn A4, you were missed.

Always thought there was room for an iOS laptop, which might even be logical now that OS X is becoming more iOS all the time.

But if all you want is an ARMbook, the ARM Chromebook is looking very tempting. Just throw Linux on it if you don't want to run Chrome OS.

Pretty. But with 768MB of RAM, there's really no point to Virtual Memory being enabled except if you expect to run a *lot* of stuff simultaneously, from which you would benefit from the file mapping. Otherwise, OS 9 is happier with it off, and faster.

Use separate system folders for OS 9 and Classic. You'll get a lot more mileage that way. You can just duplicate the System Folder and tell Classic to use the duped folder.

Usually it's the other way around -- some marginal systems are iffy in Leopard but rock solid in Tiger. Tiger is a much more optimal choice for this machine, though you could coax it to run Leopard, of course.

Do you have an accelerator for the video card enabled? That would be the first thing I'd check, especially since the DVD player may depend on it. The Rage Pro should support that.

Classic mode may or may not benefit from that, but OS 9 natively definitely will.

How well does quake.sw run on an Indy?

14fps, ooer.

I have a Galaxy Nexus. It's a very good, though not perfect phone. It has no SD card, and its storage is accessed over aggravating MTP instead of something proper like USB Mass Storage, and I miss the charging light my Nexus One had. But the screen is nice, its battery life is not spectacular but certainly reasonable, I have an unlocked GSM version, the processor is more than up to the task of most jobs and I get updates as soon as the Mountain View Chocolate Factory poots them out. I'm sitting out the Nexus 4 and I'll get the one after that.

Which just needs port-specific maintainers. We have JavaScript compilation on PowerPC now, for example, if I may toot my own horn a little. There are MIPS and SPARC JaegerMonkey backends too.

I get wear just fine out of my G5. Once it gets to the point where it is not an effective browsing machine (it's nowhere near that yet), then I'd probably have the Intel mini run Linux in a VM and allow Firefox on the VM to connect to X11 on the G5 so I can still use the rest of the stuff the G5 works perfectly well for (Photoshop, Final Cut HD, games, Mac OS 9 Classic apps, basic Microsoft Office).

The MMJ adaptor on my VS3100 is just passive. I use a Solbourne S3000 as the console, just for yuks.

It gives them a good laugh back at corporate.

Other classic computers (mostly Power based, like Power Macs, etc., and 6502-based machines like the Commodore 8-bits).
Roadgeeking.

You can't?? Those bastards!

I just remember lusting over the Indy when it was advertised and for sale. No chance of buying one then. Many years later, I finally got one. I like the rest for what they are, but the Indy has a place in my internal fluid circulation pump.

Oh, I don't mind, and ta for the kind word

Internal or external SCSI? Is it one of the drives that "just works" with DECs?

MorphOS is neat but not a good fit for the G5. The G5s are really only happy running OS X. Everything else has "stuff that doesn't quite work." If you really want to run MorphOS, get one of the supported G4s; they are much cheaper and easier to maintain as well.

The only two G5s worth owning are the dual 2.3, the fastest air-cooled, and the quad 2.5, the fastest Power Mac ever built and the one with the most reliable liquid cooling system. The others are either not significantly faster than the cheaper and more reliable Power Mac G4s they replaced, or they have too many problems with their power supply or cooling system. The last-generation G5s are also quite power hungry. That said, I'm typing this message on my quad G5.

I run 10.4. Realistically, unless you have a specific interest, the best reason to keep a Power Mac around is Classic, and 10.5 doesn't have Classic. TenFourFox covers my browsing needs, I don't have to rebuy Photoshop or QuarkXPress, and I can run all my regular Classic apps. So the G5 is the optimal machine for me.

I actually like the MDD a lot, but my MDD has chewed through two power supplies. On the other hand, it's not as loud as the G5, and with the 1.8GHz dual 7447A card I installed, it absolutely rockets through stuff in OS 9.

But short of the MDD, I'm a fan of the Sawtooth. Cheap, reasonably power thrifty, hackable, upgradeable, common as dirt. I use one as a file server (with a gigabit ethernet card and a FW800-connected RAID array and a crap load of RAM), and it serves very well in this capacity.

Hey, that's pretty hot. The closest thing I have in my collection to a SPARCBook is my "luggable" Solbourne S3000 with that feel-the-heat orange monochrome gas plasma display. Even has the case!

Chance eBay auction -- got it for a ridiculously low price, and I suspect the seller had no idea what he had.

I have a soft spot for Solbournes since I used them in undergrad. Shame they're "just incompatible enough" to be difficult to run anything but OS/MP on. But this Sol is a nice, space-saving machine (I used to use a S4100DX but Sun monitors are cantankerous and heavy). I got Chimera and X11R6 running on it and it purrs like a kitten.

Still, that is a nice little SPARCBook. I'm still holding out for one of the IBM AIX laptops personally myself.

Neither would I. Or, for that matter, a Voyager.

The Rpi build has some issues with my Atrix dock that the Rpi is connected to (resolutions won't stick, for example). I need to reflash it and mess with it some more. Still, it boots so much faster than Linux, and it seems a better fit for the low-power CPU.

I mentioned this on 68KMLA, but for those who haven't played with them and have $200 burning a hole in your pocketses, the Philips hue wireless lighting set is tremendously fun to play with. Smart People(tm) have found that it communicates with the mobile app with a simple HTTP REST API. So I wrote a Perl script to do the same thing. Now I control my lights from my gopher server or over ssh.

http://www.floodgap.com/software/huepl/

I really, really want to get more bulbs installed! Must ... not ... go to ... the Apple Store ...