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Yeah. I don't disagree with the performance numbers. Subjectively, though, Leopard on a G4 is still pretty snappy. For me, it was about size and power - no Intel machine until the Core Solo / Core Duo could even come close to the performance while using 30 watts or less. The Pentium 4 was...

No, unfortunately. I may've even learned about it here, but I can't seem to find the original links. Then again, they seem pretty cheap on eBay. Here's how I added the NewerTech Quadra Overdrive: http://www.ziaspace.com/~john/quadra630/

Someone was selling Performa 636 / Quadra 630 motherboards for cheap not too long ago. It was the one that has two SIMM slots, and I got one so I could have 196 megabytes of total memory. I downclocked it to 25 MHz so I could run a NewerTech Quadra Overdrive. I think the system needs a new...

I, for one, don't think that the Mac mini was a bad machine. If it had gigabit ethernet and took up to 2 gigs, I think it'd have been perfect for most PowerPC things. I got one new and used it for years as my primary machine. I had an Elgato EyeTV and had no problems using the system while it...

I plan to get one. The Amiga 600 is the cutest way to show off what m68k was all about - good old Amiga games, composite video output, 9 pin joystick ports - but it can now also show off the best of the m68k Mac world, too. Since the Apollo has HDMI, it can be connected anywhere now...

I've tried all the latest GNU/Linux images that are supposed to work (Debian, Suse, Red Hat, Ubuntu) on a Power Mac G5 (tried both a PCI-X dual processor and on a quad G5), and also tried all of them on an IBM Model 9110-510 (POWER 5+), and only Red Hat's and Debian's installers would boot, and...

GNU/Linux distros are all about making money and are no longer about doing cool, interesting things. Big endian PowerPC support only exists because of IBM support and has been cancelled by Debian for reasons that have very little to do with technical problems. Unfortunately, distro support is...

Sure, although I have no idea how you'd get a toolchain set up on OpenWRT or whether you could get a pre-build binary for stunnel from somewhere. I don't have time now, but soon I'll set up stunnel with an $8 or $9 computer and test it, then I'll share the configurations with everyone here.

Another option is to get any Unix computer (even a $9 C.H.I.P. will do) and use it to run stunnel as a client, with SSL, to your email server. Over the local network, your classic machine would then connect to it without SSL. So long as your local network is relatively secure, this is relatively...

Use Firewire Target mode and an older computer to install OS X 10.4 on the disk in the Power Mac G5, then update it to 10.4.11. Then it should work with the G5.

Just a thought - are the computers plugged in to the same set of outlets as the external SCSI enclosures?

Some USB-wireless devices with Ralink chipsets can be used on OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and support WPA2. In general they're more of a pain because you have to run the software and re-associate after each reboot (most of the time), and there's more overhead, plus you're probably limited to 8 Mbps...

Booting time doesn't mean much because it can change so much from one boot to another. How about the time it takes to launch half a dozen common apps until all of them are ready to be used?

I'm curious whether Panther really is all that much faster than Tiger. Sure, when Spotlight is running it's pretty pokey, but leaving the machine on overnight usually fixes that. I have Tiger on my original tray-loading iMac with a Sonnet G3 accelerator and 512 megs of memory. It's not fast...

You can use drives up to 2TB. The first partition just needs to be less than 128 gigs, I believe, or less than 4 gigs if you're booting 7.6.1, I think, or 2 gigs if you're booting 7.5.5. I've used 500 gig drives in a Quadra 630. Certain limits, like the 128 gig limit, came later because of...

Get an LED light bulb to replace that heater of an old fashioned light bulb, too!

Getting 10.5 running on older hardware is tricky but doable. There are ways to use kexts from 10.4 on systems that weren't supposed to ever have 10.5. I've read about PowerMac 9600 type machines with Leopard, for instance. My upgraded tray-loading iMac motherboard has a Sonnet G3 accelerator...

Perhaps some of the cheaper ones cause problems, but most do not. I've used many, even in production systems, without any problems. Many / most will even go to 80 MB/sec mode (tested with an SSD). I've used them with all sorts of machines - AlphaServers, Quadras (on both IDE and SCSI with...

Try setting your date to some time in the year 2000 or 2001 and see if that works. 

Sorry - "WebKit" is a rather generic name which can be confusing without context. There's a browser project called "leopard-webkit" which is basically modern Safari backported to PowerPC: https://sourceforge.net/projects/leopard-webkit/ It's 100% usable everywhere I've tried. I use this...