SHAOS

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Now oil company where I usually change oil uses new computerized system, so now I should change oil after 3 months since zero unixtime - April 1st, 1970 (or it may be April 1st, 2070? ;)

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Sent from my Treo 680

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Today I received package with memory upgrade for PowerBook G4 (additional 512 MB for $40), PowerMac G4 (two additional 128 MB for $12 each) and also 3 batteries ($5 each) for PowerMac G4 and iMac G3 (not yet discussed here):



Screenshot from MacOS X running on my 15" PowerBook G4:



It says "Bus Speed: 167 MHz". Is it correct? I thought it should be 333 MHz...

P.S. According to specification it's correct...

Labels: apple, macosx, photo, powerbook, powermac, ppc

Yesterday we saw a hawk in our local park:

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Sent from my Treo 680

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Today I got my Power Mac G4 400 MHz for $150 (incl.shipping)! It's a nice system from 1999 that has 256 MB RAM, 13.7 GB HDD, CD-ROM, 10/100 Ethernet, USB keyboard & mouse and 3 free PCI-slots.



I've just installed Debian 4.0r3 from "Businesscard-CD" (computer was delivered with MacOS 9.2 onboard). Probably I will do some upgrades as second Ethernet interface, additional memory and new battery for clock. I plan to use it as router and home web-server and may be as node for my "homebrew" distributed computing network...

Labels: apple, distributed_computing, linux, photo, powermac, ppc

One year ago I bought refurbished 15'' PowerBook G4 from Apple web-store (no more PPC models are there now) for $1411 (including taxes and free shipping) to play with Debian GNU/Linux port for PowerPC. This laptop has PowerPC G4 processor running with frequency 1.67 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB HDD, DVD burner. Also it includes installation disks with MacOS X 10.4.


I made it dualboot: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 "etch" (boot by default with partition 50 GB plus swap 2 GB) and MacOS X 10.4 (second optional boot with partition 20 GB). Also I made special 6 GB ext2 partition for data copying between OSs (ext2 drivers for MacOS X are available on sourceforge.net).

Now I'm thinking about upgrading memory to 1 GB, but I don't know should I use exactly the same memory (Samsung) or I can put any compatible (PC2700) 512MB to second memory slot?

Update Apr 13, 2008: I've just found exactly the same memory module online for $39.97

Labels: apple, linux, macosx, photo, powerbook, ppc

A few days ago I got a chance to walk near this piece of art in Manhattan. Now I know that it's AT&T building...

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It's great to have ability to post messages and pictures from my Treo directly to blog through e-mail!

Sent from my Treo 680

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