Working with Pre-Intel Macs (and the Apple IIGS) - A Blog
Is there a 64-bit (PPC64) Linux release for a late 2005 G5 Quad that just works? Well, it turns out that there is, MintPPC64! Look up MintPPC on Google and visit the site MintPPC64 for the complete story. The site is structured in a clean, straightforward way that makes it easy to navigate and use. [ ]
I have always wondered whether equipping your Power Mac G5 Quad with PC2-4200U-444 RAM would make for a faster machine than if the same machine were equipped with PC2-3200U-288 RAM. It seems obvious that the faster RAM ought to make for a faster machine, but as we shall see in a moment, it doesn t really [ ]
Many of you may have revived or upgraded a Power Mac G5 (any of the models, all the way up through the G5 Quad). You purchased a shiny new SATA HDD (spinner or SSD) to give it more storage and faster access but your Power Mac steadfastly refuses to see the new HDD, even in [ ]
The Achilles heel of most late 2005 Power Mac G5 Quads is the Liquid Cooling System (LCS), a largely invisible part of the G5 Quad, tucked discretely behind the shiny G5 face plate you will see when you open up your Quad. That faceplate is prominently visible in the photo below: Late 2005 Power Mac [ ]
The Achilles heel of most late 2005 Power Mac G5 Quads is the Liquid Cooling System (LCS). When it starts to fail, your G5 Quad will run louder and hotter and eventually will cease to operate entirely. This blog post concerns itself with servicing that LCS, so that your Quad remains a productive member of [ ]
Today, I added eSATA to my Power Mac G4 AGP Graphics (a.k.a. Sawtooth )! I love working inside this machine such easy access, so nicely laid out. This picture shows the machine after the SATA card is installed, but before the SATA to eSATA adapter is installed. If you look really carefully you may be [ ]
I have written about this topic tangentially in the past, but today I would like to make it the front and center topic be wary of your expectations as you try to solve whatever problem you are currently working on. Why do I post this? Well, over the past several weeks, I have been [ ]
I ve always been fascinated with spinning hard drives. They are an amazing technology if you stop and think about them for a moment. Multiple mechanical platters whizz around at up to 10K revolutions per minute (RPM), hold that speed precisely and store mind-bogglingly large amounts of information (terabytes these days) by encoding bits in microscopic [ ]
I recently upgraded my PowerMac G5 DP 2.3 GHz with a WD Blue 2 TB HDD (spinner, not SSD). I had not planned to post about it, but the results were impressive enough that I thought I should pass them on. Upgrading an HDD is a fairly low impact way to achieve significant performance improvements. [ ]
Post Body: In a recent post, I introduced AquaFox, a revived TenFourFox-based PPC web browser. In my initial testing of it, AquaFox looked very promising indeed and so I decided to put it to the ultimate test – accessing a banking web site. This may sound like a very ordinary task, but banking web sites [ ]