What have you done with a PowerPC today?

[Amethyst1]

Part of that included a 512GB Dunkin' Donuts branded USB stick. That thing has just been sitting around because, well, who has a use for a 512GB USB stick?

Not to be paranoid, but there are "fake" USB sticks which advertise a very high capacity but can actually hold only, say, 8 GB. As soon as you write more data to them than they can actually hold, things go downhill.

H2testw (for Windows; click "Download" on the site; the tool's GUI can be switched to English) will test if a drive actually has the capacity it advertises. I wouldn't trust a "512 GB" drive until this tool confirms it is what it claims to be.

 

[Dronecatcher]

I listed my PowerMac G5 DC as I also have an iMac G5 and iMac G4 and Mac Mini G4... Limited space on UK houses

Just spied that on ebay...someone's going to get a bargain!

 

[Riku7]

Turning my favourite sheet music to beautifully formatted, easy to read lead sheets with iMac G4 + Pages. I'm so tired of never playing most songs to the end because I get too frustrated with all the pages not fitting onto the music stand at the same time, and losing track of the repeat markings and where the heck I'm supposed to jump next.
With lead sheets, I can compress the whole song into 1-2 pages which definitely fit the music stand, get a nice linear structure presented in front of me, and finally inspect the full structure at one glance. Also came up with a standard header to insert to all lead sheets so I can fill in some crucial things such as the preferred instrument preset to use, or the original written range of the melody, which allows me to instantly see how many half steps I should transpose it by in order to comfortably sing it that day. I mean, I should've done this ages ago…

They will go into the physical sheet music folders which – of course – have their beautiful spine labels made with the Mac in question.

 

[eyoungren]

Not to be paranoid, but there are "fake" USB sticks which advertise a very high capacity but can actually hold only, say, 8 GB. As soon as you write more data to them than they can actually hold, things go downhill.

H2testw (for Windows; click "Download" on the site; the tool's GUI can be switched to English) will test if a drive actually has the capacity it advertises. I wouldn't trust a "512 GB" drive until this tool confirms it is what it claims to be.

Uhhh…my mistake. That should read 512MB, NOT GB! I've fixed the post.

 

[Amethyst1]

Uhhh…my mistake. That should read 512MB, NOT GB! I've fixed the post.

OK. It could be a 8MB stick masquerading as a 512MB one though

 

[eyoungren]

OK. It could be a 8MB stick masquerading as a 512MB one though

I just ordered a 2TB stick. Let's see how long that lasts compared to the last two 1TB sticks which have long ago failed.

 

[eyoungren]

Used Adium for some chats and kept tabs on my email.

400mhz Titanium PowerBook G4.

Oh…wait…that was 2009. Sorry!

 

[galgot]

Used Adium for some chats and kept tabs on my email.

400mhz Titanium PowerBook G4.

Oh…wait…that was 2009. Sorry!

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I still have a Screenshot for my PowerBook Ti 667Mhz from 2002 ! What is that OS X ? Jaguar ? :



And today, fired up a PB1400cs running MkLinux DR3, to see if Was still ok... and connected it to the www via ppp via the iMacG5 in the background there running a pppd server :

 

[eyoungren]

I still have a Screenshot for my PowerBook Ti 667Mhz from 2002 ! What is that OS X ? Jaguar ? :

Oh, you'll beat me. I didn't get into Mac until 2003 even though I had one from 2001 onwards. I was still a PC person. We also didn't have internet at home really until 2004, so I wasn't really doing any of that stuff.

The OS shown would be Tiger. I didn't move on in to Leopard until about 2011 I think.

 

[alex_free]

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[eyoungren]

Just got my PowerMac G5 dual 2.0GHz. This is the biggest/loudest computer I've ever seen let alone owned. It sounds like your shifting to second gear when it turns on.

May want to check your thermal paste and recalibrate. My 2.3DC has always been quiet.

 

[eyoungren]

What have you done with a PowerPC in YEARS PAST?

 

[lepidotós]

Uh... in 2021, I used a 900MHz G3 to write and go online and play The Sims with countless hitches. Before then all I could do was ogle wistfully at the Power Mac G3 B/W and, before then, iMac G3 233, because I'm little more than a child and wasn't old enough to meaningfully interact with a PowerPC computer. In any case, my family were a Windows family, and I'm kind of a black sheep for liking Linux.
I also installed Mac OS X via USB which is allegedly impractical, got a Windows XP virtual machine going, and booted Sorbet Leopard on as low as 128MB RAM.
My... I guess collection also kinda blew up from two Macs to like I think eight.​

 

[wicknix]

So... It turns out i really don't like Tiger. It lasted 2-ish weeks. The love affair is over. See ya. Back to Linux on the 17" PowerBook. Ahh... That's better.

 

[eyoungren]

So... It turns out i really don't like Tiger. It lasted 2-ish weeks. The love affair is over. See ya.

I hear you. I never cared for Tiger either.

 

[MysticCow]

Yesterday, I used my trusty iMac G3 600. I was in OS 9 and Word...even got a printer networked (aka, at work) and working PERFECTLY!

 

[lepidotós]

Backing my Linux up. I'll be using Sorbet Leopard on this G5 for a few weeks, compare the current release and the one coming in May, and then switch to OpenBSD, or FreeBSD if Open gives me trouble. Void is just too slow and I want to check if it's just not optimized for this iMac or if I have a hardware fault at hand (I suspect I may have faulty RAM).
Have to copy over everything manually via a USB drive since either way I do it, neither it nor my Hi-Res will recognize each other with TDM.
You can see some pixel art I drew in GIMP on the G5 for a project I was doing.
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[wicknix]

Void is just too slow

I noticed it looks like you are using Mate. If you haven't already, turn off the marco compositor. It will speed things up greatly. It's really only meant for GPU's that have true hardware 3d rendering. On these old machines the best most of us get is software 3d rendering. You'll need to install the "mate-tweaks" package and it'll show up in the control panel. Both IceWM and Mate run smoothly on my 1ghz PB.

 

[whiskersld]

Did some old myspace surveys and uploaded them 2 both spachey and my site... made a custom wttr icon in ps and chatted using the gardens gateway.

 

[lepidotós]

@wicknix I'm only using it for the file browser while I copy all the stuff over, I usually use Window Maker and it still crawls, as does IceWM -- which I'm using in the video I linked. I haven't noticed a huge difference with Marco on or off.​

 

[galgot]

Backing my Linux up. I'll be using Sorbet Leopard on this G5 for a few weeks, compare the current release and the one coming in May, and then switch to OpenBSD, or FreeBSD if Open gives me trouble. Void is just too slow and I want to check if it's just not optimized for this iMac or if I have a hardware fault at hand (I suspect I may have faulty RAM).
Have to copy over everything manually via a USB drive since either way I do it, neither it nor my Hi-Res will recognize each other with TDM.
You can see some pixel art I drew in GIMP on the G5 for a project I was doing.
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I have the same, 1.8Ghz iMac G5 with 2Gb of RAM. Triple boot Leopard, Tiger and Void.
And true, Void is not super fast on it, though I use xfce which it's suppose to be light. I mean it's Ok, but what bugs me is fan noise, seems everything need ressources and it spins up the fans. And that for every Linuxes I've tried.
Happens when booted in Leopard too, but less.
And in Tiger, it's just fine.

 

[lepidotós]

Mine is 1.6, though I suppose that shouldn't make too much difference. Did you upgrade to an SSD?​

 

[galgot]

Mine is 1.6, though I suppose that shouldn't make too much difference. Did you upgrade to an SSD?​

Nope, it's big 1Tb spinner.

 

[wicknix]

Strange. This is the speed it runs on my 1.3ghz 12" powerbook.

 

[galgot]

Strange. This is the speed it runs on my 1.3ghz 12" powerbook.

That is fast compare to my iMac. I was going to upload a 10 mn vid to get from boot to this page on Macrumors... but I'll spare you the torture of watching it
Yeah... maybe I should change WM. But still the fans always humming for every page I load is bothering... don't thing changing WM would fix that.