The collected works of zmttoxics - Page 2

".c.exe". Haha. Have you been programming in windows for too long? -o tenmillion would have been fine, and probably wouldn't have caused me to have a morning chuckle.

Ya sorry, I should have said my solution was for MacPorts...

I would bet that most of the people that still have them want to keep them for quite some time...

There is a lot that a modern graphics card can do that IR can't too. Like programmable shaders, cuda, open cl, and of course - play games.

I get the impression they are trying to build an empire out of cow shit - and fast.

The blade 1000 ram is compatible with the 2000, but not the 2500. The IIIcu and IIIi cpus have different memory controllers. The 1500/2500/v250/v210/v240/v440 etc, all use DDR 1 PC2700 ECC Registered.

Thats true, sorry. I had a typo. 2100 is what the manual calls for. I do have 2700 / 3200 mixed in my 2500 at the moment though.

My experience with G4s is that having a Quartz Extreme supported gfx card makes the world of difference when running 10.4 or 10.5. Being faster then 8XXMhz (825?), it should run 10.5 fairly well - though I recommend 10.4 if you are turning this into a fileserver. I run 10.5 Server on my 1.25 eMac with 1GB of ram. Does good as a file server, not so well as a daily surfer (needs more ram, 10.5 is a pig).

A top end G4 is a pretty mice machine for older games. My 400mhz sawtooth (cpu overclocked to 533 / bus overclocked to 133) with a Fx5200 gpu, was just enough to really enjoy Quake 3 @ 1280x1024. If you find your self wanting more, single cpu G5s are a dime a dozen and perform excellently with 10.5.

I run many 10.5 / 10.6 servers, but nothing to fancy for backups.

Here are some solutions:
-The desktop way: Time Machine with an external source (NFS can be done with tweaking, SMB is much easier). Time machine can be configured for WHAT is to be backed up. I have one system that purely does /Users/.
-The server beginner way: Super Duper or other external products with scheduled backups to an external source of your choice
-The unix way: write some backup scripts to archive (tar + bzip2) your data and copy it to the storage location of your choice, then add the scripts to CRON with a timing solution of your choice.

I prefer the cron way my self. I do daily (for ex: sub user working directories) and weekly (for ex: the whole user directory).

For external storage, a gigabit NAS server is a good choice. Otherwise I recommend springing for the FW800.

For the GFX card, you will need an ADC adapter of some sort if you move to a more modern card. That system I believe can do AGP, so your best bet will be to search around for a PC equivalent card and flash it. That is what I did to get an fx5200 working in the G4 Sawtooth I had. DirectX 9 cards like the Fx5xxx and Radeon 9xxx series will have the quartz extreme support you want.

Your G4 may already have it though. Best to check under System Profiler before replacing the card.

Under Technical Information and System Requirements it says you need an Intel cpu. So no.

http://themacelite.wikidot.com/wikidownloads2

There is an excellent resource for vga roms.

Yes, they are standard 32bit pci slots.

http://www.everythingusb.com/miglia_tvmicro.html

Looks like the one works on PPC Macs using Elgato Eye 2 or what ever it is. Some more research may be required for the tv tuner options...

As a note, playing videos is more CPU intensive then GPU intensive. Having a nice GPU doesn't mean you can watch 1080p H.264 videos and the like.

Can't help ya there, I never owned an ACD of any kind.

Edit: Well I guess that would have been a Studio display, not a cinema display, but I can't remember.

Very cool. Some day when I am rich and famous, I would love to take a trip over there.

Looks pretty lame. Almost like a dell blade server.

Oh wow that is lazy (and kind of embarrassing).

'sudo su' enter your user passwd, then 'passwd' to change the root password.

10.3 is a problem for newer software these days. You should be running 10.4 or even 10.5. I managed to find the dmg for MacPorts for Panther which should have pidgin in it, but it looks like Panther is unsupported officially by MacPorts so you may run into problems.

http://svn.macports.org/repository/macp ... anther.dmg

My father is getting one by the looks of it. My MacBook is getting long in the tooth so I think I am saving my money for new Macs before I get one.

Rumor has it that multitasking is coming to the next major release of the iphone os, so that should make these things just TOP DAWGS.

Intel mac mini of any kind is a better purchase IMHO. I have a 1.25ghz eMac still with 1gb of ram running 10.5 server. It does ok for emergency surfing / documents, but I would go insane with it as a daily driver. My 1.83ghz C2D mini runs circles around it, and my girlfriend's 2009 2.0 C2D mini is just fantastic.

Buy a G5.

Looks like mips based mainframe. You might be able to run mips arch linux on it, but I have a feeling it wont be worth the trouble...

Some random article was like "They are releasing the MIPS based CS7402 mainframe later this year...", it was on google. Could be totally wrong.

I found the article where I had read MIPS, I think I can safely call that one a mistake.

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/THREE+NEW ... a085406874

It looks like they USB3 cards are all going to be PCIe, so no. Besides, that old G4 wouldn't be fast enough to take advantage of it.

It only appears if there is a bootable cd in it.

I have done this with a Caldera DOS (DRDOS/FREEDOS) cd before, should work. Just have a FAT32 partition handle to store the roms on (NTFS might work too).

As long as the ROM on the card is big enough for the bios, it shouldn't be a problem.

Good luck!

There was a piece of software to do the compatibility check for you but I can't find it... :\

Actually, I dug through miles of my old macrumors posts and found the link.

http://www.newertech.com/tech_support/uni-north.php

Instead of complaining you could help him write support for it. :p

I just had MOST of my macbook replaced because of an idiot tech that wrecked the bluetooth while swapping out the worn out superdrive.

Now, that sounds terrible, but that machine has been rock solid otherwise, cdroms DO wear out (and when it travels in my filthy bag with crumbs and screws flying everywhere, its not surprising). This macbook has been solid and will probably last ME another couple years. That is to say, I will be tired of playing with it then, not it wore out (I suspect its got MANY years of life down the road).

So how good is a warranty for a mac though? Thats a good way to judge a product. I asked the tech to replace the keyboard, bottom plate, and lcd hinge plastic for wear cracks - done and done free of charge. Thats a good warranty. You can bet if you mac isn't playing well, someone somewhere is there to help and get it right, even if its minor hairline cracks in plastic.

My MacBook idles around 60 and does 70+ under load.

Drive replacement is the only fix if your are sure that ALL blanks are rejected. (Some drives don't like some blanks)

Can't be too much, any modern ${3,4}00 video card is a better purchase for todays large video work. However, that isn't to say you wont find a collector or something willing to pay big.

+1.

I have had 2 of these over the years, and I still have one in the office as a 10.5 server. A few weeks ago it lost a disk so I did a ram / disk / airport (:D) upgrade at the same time. Took me half a day, super pain. Though, it also took me a half a day to get my Mac Mini fixed up...

I have done that a few times, don't feel bad.

I would try reloading the firmware on the ipod.