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  1. SiliconValleyPirate

    Mini Goes South

    No, madmax's solution will work just fine. @cinemo: I'm really gutted for you having this issue. It's a real bummer when your drive goes fut on you, especially as you were *about* to make a full backup. It sounds like the hard disk itself has gone south somehow or other. The data likely won't...
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    Green background on monitor

    Sync-on-green usually gives an overall green hue/tint to the picture. If only the background is appearing greenish (as in the grey desktop background) it is possibly just poor definition on the monitor with all those little black & white dots. Try bringing the screen resolution down and see...
  3. SiliconValleyPirate

    Of Interest To Us All ....

    *Yawn* I'm not interested... Seriously though I'm glad they ditched it, it never worked very well to start with. No application that requires an OS 9 environment requires more than mid-range G4 PowerMac to perform optimally, and they are cheap and easy to find, so buy one and install OS9 if you...
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    Went to the rummage sale

    Language, Timothy... [:(!] !]'>
  5. SiliconValleyPirate

    eMac now at 900Mhz!!! (now with pics!!!)

    I'm glad to see old machines get a breath of life :) . I'm not usually an overclocker myself but this just seems like a cool (well maybe not - perhaps quite warm) idea :)
  6. SiliconValleyPirate

    B&W G3

    They must have dropped that from one HELL of a height, mine has fallen off several things and the handles are still very much in tact. Last time it fell it hit my Dell Dimension L1000r and ripped the side panel apart (a large metal piece fell out of the Dell, but thankfully it does still go...
  7. SiliconValleyPirate

    Which PCI Powermacs Do You have?

    9600/200 with a 640MB RAM and a G3/266/512K on a XLR8 ZIF carrier 8550/120 WGS with a NewerTech G3/233 PowerComputing PowerTower/166 with a G3/300 Sonnet Crescendo card The 8550 is running OS X Server 1.2.1 The PowerTower is running 9.1 (k-spit) The 9600 would be running OS X 10.3 if I...
  8. SiliconValleyPirate

    When I get Leopard....

    Yes, Leopard's APIs are written to robustly support ANY app that runs on 10.3.9 or 10.4.x to provide maximum backward compatibility *provided* the apps are written inside Apple's developer guidelines. If they *aren't* then issues may arise, but you'd hope iLife was, really :p . Apparently Adobe...
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    Do you miss the happy mac?

    Not last time I checked....
  10. SiliconValleyPirate

    Cheap fast G3 ZIFs 4U

    Sonnet Encore G3/500 1M ZIF CPU upgrade for Beige G3 and B&W G3 (will also fit some PCI PowerMac ZIF carriers). XLR8 G3/466 ZIF CPU upgrade - can't see a figure for the cache but I'd probably take a punt at 1M as it's an upgrade. Also for Beige G3 and B&W G3 (will also fit some PCI...
  11. SiliconValleyPirate

    Laser Printers: Vintage vs New(er)

    We recently had to bring in new lasers at work. I got LJ 1022s and tbh they are tacky and very lightly built, even compared to the 5 year old 1200s they are working alongside. They are more economical to run being HPs (no new fuser drums that cost as much as the printer every 50,000 copies) but...
  12. SiliconValleyPirate

    Welcome the brand new *NIX forum

    I'm well aware of that but I never said it ran on a Mac :p Effectively the ANS servers were just IBM RS/6000s with an Apple badge on them. No, it doesn't because almost all alternative OSs for 68k and early PPC boot out of the Mac desktop. MacMinix I believe ran in a window, whereas NetBSD...
  13. SiliconValleyPirate

    My workroom smells like burning electronics

    Probably just part of the HT electronics on the monitor going out in a ball of (very fast moving blue) flame. Might be repairable.
  14. SiliconValleyPirate

    Welcome the brand new *NIX forum

    I was waiting for someone to say that. Linux is *not* UNIX, it's an approximate rip-off of UNIX. UNIX is a standards set and Linux does not comply to it. How about 'Alternative Mac Operating Systems'? That covers BeOS and OPENSTEP too :p Don't talk crap, everyone knows the Mac Pro is one of...
  15. SiliconValleyPirate

    Amiga....

    The green screen is fairly logical, as Amiga's won't start without ChipRAM :) The 4000 doesn't need a battery to work, mine's never had one (I got the guy I bought it off to remove it). I'm a bit stumped really - if it were mine I'd swap the Warp Engine off for a standard 3640 CPU card and...
  16. SiliconValleyPirate

    Do any *nix variants support 601 upgrades?

    I know A/UX doesn't like the Turbo040 in my IIci, which is kind of... a bummer (to use the words of Ellen Feiss). I would doubt that PPC upgrades on a 68k machine would work with any OS that hasn't specifically had support added for them. IIRC they load something to the Mac ROM memory space on...
  17. SiliconValleyPirate

    Over 25 Macs liberated from Humble I.S.D

    I always wanted a 5500. They make great TVs. I even have the TV tuner kit for them in my storage. I don't live in the US tho so I can't have yours :(
  18. SiliconValleyPirate

    iPhone/iPod touch in the Newton Forum

    They are not sold under the Newton brand They don't run the Newton OS They don't have a stylus They aren't sold as PDAs They don't have an *official* SDK (even though they should have) They don't have any removable storage (SIM cards don't count, before you ask) They don't have a removable...
  19. SiliconValleyPirate

    Welcome the brand new *NIX forum

    So... does *NIX cover Linux then? ;)
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