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Tratkazir_the_1st said:
@eyoungren
External access - VPN only, but you'll need public ("white") IPv4 address & for more convinient usage - some DDNS service. Port forwarding is Evil in its purest form :D.
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You know lot about it, right ?... only, trying to reach login.asp doesn't work on all systems.
Specially these from the time before you were born...
 
Amethyst1 said:
Going by that screenshot it's 1280×1024.
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Of course it is, how ashamed I am now. I got it all wrong and measured the preview window too, thus expecting something really exotic. phuuh, just let me move on now and forget about that..

On Topic:
Just grabbed an Eizo FlexScan 2000S for free (20.1" 1600x1200, yo 2007), and verified it as a working one with my QS G4 933. Some serious real estate for OS 9 apps, isn't it.
 
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mikas said:
Just spying your screengrab and wondering..
What is your monitor resolution with that G4? Or are you doing vnc / screensharing or some other means to it? There seems to be binoculars in the menu bar, was that remote management icon.
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Yes, it's VNC. I do have a video card installed, but no monitor connected. And the binocs are for remote management.
 
pochopsp said:
Thanks again. So if I got it, you use your NAS and your G4 inside your home network, and the G3 server from outside. Is it right?
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I use all three from the inside. But only the server from outside.

It doesn't really matter though as since early 2020 I've been working from home.
 
Amethyst1 said:
Going by that screenshot it's 1280×1024.
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Yes…

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Although since it was brought up I changed the resolution.

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I know you guys already, just wanted to poke it a little..
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That was a HUGE screen in there Amethyst1.

Dronecatcher: I really could have been an Amiga guy too. If things just had gone a little bit different.

At nineties the university labs had Macs and Amigas bundled together in the same space for some reason. I guess both were in the marginal at the time.

So I did see some spectacular demos by Amiga scene virtuosos in FIN UNI labs. And some of them there available to play with too, like those .mod, s3m, and whatever digital formats there were used at the time, bundled with amazing graphics too. They twere graphically and musically very inspiring. I admired the Amiga scene a lot.
 
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mikas said:
I did try 1920 x 1080 too, but it gave me only 30Hz, against the promised 60Hz in the screen grab. And it was terrible, of no use at all. That was analog signal after all.
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Good to know that the S2000 can grapple with higher-than-native modes.
 
eyoungren said:
Yes…

Although since it was brought up I changed the resolution.
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OS X looks surprisingly nice in monochrome-- is this done in hardware or software?

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Today I've started work on the interface for my Internet Radio Radio maker project, using my Twelve. No picture yet, I'll share when it's mostly done ;)
 
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Doq said:
OS X looks surprisingly nice in monochrome-- is this done in hardware or software?
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It's stock OS X.

System Preferences>Universal Access.

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I also do the same with my G3 server. As both Macs are run headless (no connected monitor and in the case of the G3, no video card) I don't see any reason to use RAM for color rendering when it could be used somewhere else by the system. I mean, most of the time, no one is going to see it, so that's a waste of RAM on systems that top out at 1 and 2GB max. So…that's why I have it on.
 
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Amethyst1 said:
Does enabling this option reduce CPU or RAM usage? I’ve never bothered to check. (I have an actual monochrome LCD so I don’t need it.)
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RAM usage yes. Not a lot. You aren't going to suddenly have 500mb free or something. Maybe 500k or less. It's just a small optimization I make on headless systems. I also did it at my former job where the G4s were headless. And it saved some ram on a 7200 I was using as an OS9 Applescript server. That one did have a color monitor attached but for what I did with the Mac it wasn't necessary.

If you have a low amount of RAM though it can be appreciated.
 
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Another tip re: RAM. For every font your system has active your RAM will take about a 3-4k hit. Now with systems that have a lot of RAM and a below average to average amount of active fonts this is hardly worth mentioning. But if you're a graphic designer (like I am) and you've got hundreds to thousands of fonts active it can add up. This is one reason font managers warn you when you are activating a lot of fonts at once.

Some designers just dump all their fonts into the fonts folder. It's best to run a lean system (the minimum amount of fonts necessary for the system to boot and function) and allow a font manager to handle anything else you may need. It's also a good idea (if your font manager has the option) to allow fonts to only be active while the app(s) that requested them are open.

Again, not a huge deal when you've got Macs with 16GB or more RAM. Just something I learned in the early 00s when the G4s I'd use would slow down. When you've only got 500mb to 1GB of RAM it gets more important.
 
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Didn't stop it from falling on the side where everything was plugged in while copying over files from a USB drive. Drive's dead. It's now pretty badly dented and the charging cable looks like this. Gonna need to take it apart and do some serious repairs when I finally get the space to.
This happened during cleaning out a USB drive to format it and use it for Finnix after accidentally rm -rf'ing my /* on my 6600K. So all in all today's been pretty good.
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I figured out my RAM woes on this Mid 2004 7,3. Redid the 1TB SSD Raid and am getting 230/250 R/W's. I cloned my PowerBook Leopard and have am ready to start music and photo dumps. I think I need a new graphics card, the 5200 64MB isn't going to cut it. Anyone know a good 256 card this guy can run for a reasonable price? I also need to up the ram to 4GB as its only 1.5 right now.
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Jack Neill said:
Anyone know a good 256 card this guy can run for a reasonable price?
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You'll probably have to flash a card using a Windows/Linux PC as the stock Apple cards market rolls between nonexistent and stupidly high prices (in my opinion).

Some good cards are the Radeon 9800 Pro, FireGL X3 (can be flashed to a Mac X800XT) and the GeForce 7800GS. I run the stock 9650 in my G5 (basically an Apple 9600 Pro) and it performs well.
 
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