Recent content by Hugh

Yes, Leopard-WebKit will enable system wide frameworks, but so far I've hesitated to allow this as I'm not sure of the benefits. Good to know I'm on a par with Safari 7 now. Cheers :) Hugh

I've just discovered this and am trying it out on a 15" PowerBook 1.5ghz http://code.google.com/p/leopard-webkit/. Am I right in thinking this will bring Safari up to date with later versions not compatible with 10.5? Information seems a little sketchy on what the webkit actually achieves...

I am typing this on a 1.33 iBook, but due to a loose joint with the Airport card which caused a KP on startup I have had to disable it and use a USB Ralink wifi adapter. I also had to shim this iBook because unless you pressed hard on the left side next to the trackpad the machine started up...

I've just 'shimmed' a G3 900 iBook with a British 2 pence coin. Surprisingly it seems to have worked and the video is fine for the time being. Unfortunately I didn't realise the CD drive doesn't work, so it's got to come apart again some time. Cheers :) Hugh

Hmm, difficult to find ... Would this one suit from eBay US - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-PowerBook-G4-A1025-Series-PRAM-CMOS-BIOS-Battery-With-Cable-820-1343-A-/151147143077?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2331125fa5 - seems to be $10 to buy and about $9 to ship to NZ, or this one from...

https://xlr8.com/machspeedcontrol-osxandos9combo.aspx is the place for the software, and you need iStat Pro for hard drive temp monitoring - 4.71 is the last free version but I can no longer find it on the net. I have it backed up so I will pm you my email address so I can send it to you ...

OK, no problem. These Pismos go very well in Tiger with the G4, but I had to go one step further and experiment, hence the Leopard. As for temp monitoring, I downloaded the XLR8 software from their website - it also boosts the backside cache to increase performance. I can always share it with...

Just come across this - I am currently running a Pismo with the G4 550, 1 GB RAM, 100 GB 7200 rpm hard drive as my main laptop. The backside cache has been boosted to 219.7 MHz. I've managed to get Leopard installed and working nearly perfectly, and from memory on the XLR8 MACh Speed Control...

Great stuff, I recently scored a Graphite 466 as part of a job lot. Tiger working pretty well on the 80gb hard drive I installed, dual booting with OS 9.2.2. It's probably cost me more than it's worth; I spent £39 on a new battery and about £15 on 512mb RAM, but I love this machine and lately...

I don't know how far you can go with conductive paint; I've only used it to repair bad connections, or a blob of it to bridge gaps when overclocking, but over time the work seems to have held OK. Cheers :) Hugh

Umm, have heat gun, but my first attempt at it was trying to put a G4 onto a Pismo daughter board, and it ended up a total mess. I find it's easier with minute solder repairs to use conductive paint applied with a pin and under a magnifying glass, that way you can scrape away any excess. It...

Well, I finally got around to looking at the damaged iBook, and it will not always boot as Macdrone says, but holding down hard to the left of the trackpad helps. I started it in Target Disk Mode and cloned the whole system over from my working iBook, then backed up and removed the relevant...

Thanks again; I've done some more reading, and if it is the airport causing panics, I can disable the kexts responsible as above and use a USB wifi adapter I have spare. However, the seller stated sometimes the iBook won't boot, so it could be more basic stuff like bad RAM. Just have to wait...

Thanks, I was not aware this is so common a problem (I'm typing this on my own iBook 1.33 now), will look at the KP if I can get the thing to boot at all. Can you disable airport from boot disc or open firmware? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1512347?start=0&tstart=0 seems to think so...

... and today's surprise, an iBook 1.33 complete with kernel panics for £5.50 (just over $ 8) . http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261251505597?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 Hopefully will only need a new install, as the hard drive is a complete pig to change. Lucky I've got...