What have you done with a PowerPC today?

[1042686]

Oh wow! I thought True Value was dead. They used to be huge in California, but when Builder's Emporium and Home Base/Home Depot got big they faded away.

Glad they are still around there because they don't exist in Arizona. Yeah, they are another place that has what you need.

Op- sorry for derailing your thread.

@eyoungren there’s a few here & one just happens to be Right in my neighborhood so a real-life neighborhood hardware store. The team that works there, has worked there for as long as I can remember, they know exactly where everything is at, and like Samons are very handy, knowledgeable and experienced service people. Also, without sounding like a nationalist weirdo, I have noticed that they source an abnormally large amount of American made tools, cast and molded parts etc. more than big box stores anyways which is awesome.

FYI, that 5/8 bore pulley I bought yesterday, was American made, cast right here in Chicago Illinois. It was $10 cheaper and frankly better than the Chinese pulleys the big box stores were selling on their website. Seriously, the Walmarts of home improvement

 

[eyoungren]

Op- sorry for derailing your thread.

@eyoungren there’s a few here & one just happens to be Right in my neighborhood so a real-life neighborhood hardware store. The team that works there, has worked there for as long as I can remember, they know exactly where everything is at, and like Samons are very handy, knowledgeable and experienced service people. Also, without sounding like a nationalist weirdo, I have noticed that they source an abnormally large amount of American made tools, cast and molded parts etc. more than big box stores anyways which is awesome.

FYI, that 5/8 bore pulley I bought yesterday, was American made, cast right here in Chicago Illinois. It was $10 cheaper and frankly better than the POS Chinese pulleys the big box stores were selling on their website. Seriously, the Walmarts of home improvement

Yeah, they're only going to stock what sells.

I hate rural, I've always hated it and I will continue to hate it for all the problems it caused me as a teen in the middle of nowhere. However, one thing it did teach me, courtesy of my dad, was that local hardware stores, local feed stores, local lumber stores, etc were and are better than the big boxes. These places survive because they know their customers and sell what their customers need and want versus what the franchise is telling them to sell. And they also know that if they rip off the locals or provide garbage quality they won't be in business very long.

So, you're experience parallels mine in that sense.

 

[Alex_K]

@Alex_K : Yikes. I'd try to enable / disable hardware acceleration in AF (prefs -> advanced -> general) and see if that helps. It may require restarting the browser after the change to notice if it helped or not.

Cheers

That fixed it for me. Thanks!

 

[MultiFinder17]

I'd only recommend you view this link on a G5 or intel machine, if you want a just-about useable experience. I tried testing the timeline on my G4 Mac Cube. It rendered perfectly... after about a minute. For a laugh, view it on Arctic Fox on 10.6.

You can't tell me what to do!

Seriously though, it works pretty darn well on my 12" PowerBook

 

[RogerWilco6502]

Played some SimCity 2000 and listened to some tracker files on my iBook

 

[Macbookprodude]

For the 1st time, after tweaking somewhat with Classila, browsed the internet for over an 1 hour with random sites - many, of course don't work, but a good many did work plus all classic mac websites. www.whitehouse.gov didn't work, but strangely my Maryland Unemployment website worked perfectly.. just had to enable Java to enter the actual site to file a claim - WHICH I DIDN'T because i did that already on my Mac Pro. But, all in all it was a good experience. I plan to also use PPCMC very shortly.

 

[Alex_K]

You can't tell me what to do!

Seriously though, it works pretty darn well on my 12" PowerBook

Thanks! I didn't even test in TenFourFox - thought it would be too slow. I now have renewed respect for TenFourFox too!

 

[2984839]

Doing some router wrangling this morning. My router is a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 4 running OpenBSD/octeon, and one annoying thing about it is that I cannot use sysupgrade to upgrade to the latest snapshot. U-boot will load the /bsd kernel directly instead of chainloading the OpenBSD bootloader. There may be a way to chainload it so I can remotely sysupgrade to each snapshot but I am too stupid/under-caffeinated to figure it out, so Tibook and serial cable to the rescue.

 

[Macbookprodude]

Nice G4 Titanium.. the only I want is a 1Ghz model, but they are hard to find.

 

[Macbookprodude]

You can't tell me what to do!

Seriously though, it works pretty darn well on my 12" PowerBook

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Refresh my memory please - how did you change the Mac OS X to a different pic ? I did it one time about 10 years ago and forgot how to do it.

 

[RogerWilco6502]

Getting ready to upgrade the storage in this

 

[Hughmac]

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A very brave person
The only time I tried to get a hard drive out of an iBook I ripped it apart because it was badly broken and going for scrap.
I saved all the screws though for when someone like you would need 'em

Cheers

Hugh

 

[Amethyst1]

Getting ready to upgrade the storage in this

Good luck. I had to do it once on my iBook G4 and dread to think back

 

[iluvmacs99]

A very brave person
The only time I tried to get a hard drive out of an iBook I ripped it apart because it was badly broken and going for scrap.
I saved all the screws though for when someone like you would need 'em

Cheers

Hugh

When I was working at the non-profit computer recycling organisation, we had young volunteers who were really exceptionally gifted in opening up a totally broken iBook and fixed it all up working. And most of them are mentally challenged as well! Since my former career was working as a mental health nurse, I was able to lead them. Anyhow, what I was getting at was that, I had a nice young autistic kid that comes in with his mom and he would kept asking me about iBooks as he loved taking them apart. We had our in-house tech that just broke an iBook trying to get the hard drive out and took him about 4 hrs and failed. So I sold that broken iBook to him and asked him to remove the hard drive. He came back 15 mins later with the drive!!! I said holy s*t -- WTF?!? A week later, he brought back the dead iBook I sold and I thought - Oh no, he wants his money back which was $10. But no, he brought it back to show that the freaking thing actually works! He managed to cobble up a number of iBooks to make that one work. Anyhow, I am going to miss him as I had used him on occasions to get to those nasty iBooks which I hate working on. For him, it was as easy as pie.

That lesson taught me to never ever underestimate a young kid with a challenging mental health condition do to a pain in a neck iBook. LOL

 

[MultiFinder17]

Refresh my memory please - how did you change the Mac OS X to a different pic ? I did it one time about 10 years ago and forgot how to do it.

System --> Library --> CoreServices --> loginwindow.app --> Contents --> Resources --> MacOSX.tif.
Change that file to whatever tiff image you like. Just be sure it's small enough to fit in the About This Mac window!

 

[Dronecatcher]

Change that file to whatever tiff image you like. Just be sure it's small enough to fit in the About This Mac window!

Invaluable advice

 

[Macbookprodude]

Neato !

 

[RogerWilco6502]

A very brave person
The only time I tried to get a hard drive out of an iBook I ripped it apart because it was badly broken and going for scrap.
I saved all the screws though for when someone like you would need 'em

Cheers

Hugh

Good luck. I had to do it once on my iBook G4 and dread to think back

Thank you xD

We have closed day one: I took it apart, accidentally breaking a screw stalk that I missed when reading the disassembly guide. I will fix it with baking soda and superglue. I was able to test it and it works great and now I am in the process of putting it back together. Things are going smoothly with the next thing I need to do being repairing the stalk.

 

[bobesch]

For the 1st time, after tweaking somewhat with Classila, browsed the internet for over an 1 hour with random sites - many, of course don't work, but a good many did work plus all classic mac websites.

Great to see You back on track, Sir!
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& don't forget to add some deodorant!

 

[RogerWilco6502]

& don't forget to add some deodorant!

Ok, noted. Why, if I may ask?

 

[Amethyst1]

Ok, noted. Why, if I may ask?

These Snow iBook G3s are known for stinky keyboards.

 

[RogerWilco6502]

These Snow iBook G3s are known for stinky keyboards.

Ah, okie

 

[bobesch]

These Snow iBook G3s are known for stinky keyboards.

I once removed the stinky foil from benath a spare iBook keyboard to try getting rid of the smell.
Placed the garbage in a shelf close to the bathroom door.
My wife happend to return to the showers for a second douche after she passed by that shelf ...

 

[Macbookprodude]

Great to see You back on track, Sir!
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& don't forget to add some deodorant!

Thank you, I am not sure what it is because Classila is rendering a lot of sites fine and there are tons that are using http -I even read the news on Foxnews, and other sites.. I couldn’t get into www.whitehouse.gov though, but my bank I could and Maryland Unemployment’s website, also a state government website. It rendered 95 percent just didn’t enable Java. Dunno, maybe because of COVID-19 they laxed the https. Still, Wikipedia is a no go.

 

[alex_free]

Emailed a FFMPEG Makefile patch to the OpenBSD ports maintainer which adds an AltiVec flavor for a significant performance gain. (.7x file conversion speed vs 1.1x in one of my benchmarks).

Also tested Mplayer with AltiVec enabled in the compile, and I have enough performance to play 360p 264 videos full speed without av de sync using x11 VO.