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I installed Xubuntu 8.10 on my iMac G3, though this time to take up the entire hard drive. After I finished the lengthy install and rebooted, I got the normal bootstrap+yaboot routine, but then heard the CRT turn off and the power LED started dimming in regular intervals (Not smooth like the...

Trying to set my PowerBook 150 up as a webserver but am running into a problem: Crashing before the program loads up completely. When I open the program, It displays this: At this point I have to jank the power cord and battery. I am running Mac OS 7.5.3 with RAM Doubler and connected to...

Today I checked the mail on the way home from school and happy to see that my battery arrived. Brought it home and opened it up. It is a 7800 mAh battery, a little big, though considering that the computer isn't that big or heavy to begin with, I am happy. The only problem with it is that I...

While I was getting my stuff that I was going to sell with my spare P4 machine checked out at the register, something got my attention. It was a box of 3 full games for DOS... I got it for $5. The games included were Terminal Velocity, Rise of the Triad and Black Night. Not bad. Picture taken...

Thanks mom and dad! I think they thought it was time that I got a portable computer that wasn't outpaced by a graphing calculator, then there is the fact that it doesn't look too good in public... Well, this nifty blue computer is certainly VERY handy even though the battery is a little small...

I have recently got my trusty PowerBook 150 on the web once again. I have a POP3/IMAP email service that I like to use on it, though one thing has bugged me about Eudora Lite and POPmail 2: Garbled text from the email service such as Printable HTML and random things from the server (Spam...

I don't currently have the tools and or parts to repair the hard drives in my PowerBook, though they both can use an Asante EN/SC Mini and a floppy. I have my my Freenas with an Appleshare server and my iMac G3 with OS 9.2.1. I can't seem to figure out what files go in the extensions folder on...

As my PowerBook 150 has bitten the dust I no longer have a portable computer. I have been reading Wikipidia articles and websites about the PowerBook 1400. I am used to the cruddy screen on my 150 and love a color screen when I see one so the passive matrix wouldn't be a deal breaker. I would...

Got an older Dell from a brother's friend the other day. I didn't check the RAM when I got it, though I shoved a 256 MB stick and installed Xubuntu 7.10 on the 6 GB hard drive. It has a 400 MHz pentium 2. Works pretty good machine but had no room. I set it up for my little brother, he is...

After a month of trying to locate the old Hp M307, we got a new camera! a Canon A590, we got 2 1 GB cards, can get 2xx pictures with the settings cranked per card. Some very neat features (rotate the camera and the screen rotates, face detection). Quality is good, light, and TONS of features! I...

I went to the Value Village today and got some normal conquests (USB card with two ports , Ethernet card, Yellow cat5 cable and a power cord for standard PSUs), but something grabbed my eye, a HUGE quantum 5.25" hard drive. The bigfoot TX. I'm going to get some pictures in a minute.

I went down to see some relatives and my cousin said he got a PC from school and didn't know what to do with it... So he gave it to me! It is in good shape, quiet, clean and specs are not too bad! 1.8 GHz P4 38 GB Hard Drive 512 MB RAM 64 MB AGP Graphics card I am installing XP pro as I...

Well, I was going to reinstall my OS on my 180c after getting my PowerBook to VGA adapter... I attempt to boot up and see a a flashing question mark (Of doom). I don't think too much of that until I boot from a disk tools floppy and see that drive setup doesn't see my hard drive at all. I...

I have my PowerBook 180c with Ethernet (EN/SC Mini). IRC works and a few other apps work, though Appletalk is giving me problems. It has worked when I had to transfer the 19 part files to reinstall OS 7.5.3 (Running off of a modified network access disk copied to my hard drive with MacTCP and...

I have scored this wonderful box here from wthww (I can't thank you enough). It works VERY well and looks mighty sturdy. He also threw in a PowerBook SCSI adapter for very little (I LOVE YOU). I might have my PowerBook 180c next to me more for IRC in game or something...

I have recently gotten a PowerBook 180c and want to change the desktop pattern to a 640x480 PICT image. I open it in simpletext and copy the whole thing, though when I paste it into the desktop pattern control panel, It says that the picture is too big. Is there any software that can help me out...

I am having some trouble with sending files from my PC to my PowerBook 180c with Stargate (File transfer program). I have checked all the connections on my custom cable yet I still get slower-than-normal speeds and a ton of packets that have to be resent. The cable is quite long, could this be a...

I got my PowerBook 180C in the mail today! I was expecting a bare PowerBook, though I got: Club Kidsoft, (Shrink wrapped), AOL, Compuserve disk in sleeve, Another AOL disk, MacComCenter (With book), and!, A motorola 28.8k modem! SWEET! I could not be more happy with this!

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On June 2 I got my computer parts I ordered for my PC from btecanada.com: XFX branded Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 (128 MB), Socket 775 3.4 GHz P4, Cheap foxconn motherboard (No SATA, DDR2, Core 2 duo support, PCI-E) with AGP, 3 PCI, DDR 400, Socket 755, (Huge) CPU fan. I bought these cheaply so I...