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I got me a new 'puter. It's rad.

Ishcabittle

Ishcabittle

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Well, radder than my last shitbox.

I had loaded up a Powermac G3 400MHz with a ton o' shit, although the name "powermac" really overshot it. Powerfull for OS 9 maybe, yeah.

Well, that shitbox died, the CPU gave up the ghost. So I jumped on eBay and got a barebones G4 powermac... super bare bones... just the case, mobo, powersupply, and that's all.

With all the parts I had I was able to compose a relatively badass system. Badass by my standards in that I can watch an .avi in VLC without bogging my entire system down. I can also post at the same time OMG!

I'm only sayin' 'cause I'm excited. It's nothin' really special.
 
The Question said:
I once built an atomic bomb out of toilet paper, a pair of my girlfriend's panty hose and a dead Senator.
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Ted Kennedy's dead enough to make a bomb out of? I can't think of any other that's quite as combustible.
 
The thing that really amazed me was the fact that after shoving four hard drives, an HD controller, USB 2.0 card, 2 video cards, RAM, a new processor and a DVD-RW/CD-RW in there all at once it booted on the first go.

First boot, everything worked! That's never happened to me before. Normally there's one jumper fuckin' everything up, but for some reason it was smooth sailin'. Super duper!

I guess this is a rather self-serving thread... I just kinda wanted to nerd out a bit and I was excited about finally having some basic computer functionality. Wake-on-LAN, dual display, USB 2.0 (OMG!), target disk mode, all that shit. Gigabit ethernet, that's pretty cool. Now I just need a gigabit switch and another gigabit ethernet device to make it worth it.

Upgrading your computer is a never ending quest, isn't it? Kinda like workin' at the post office. The mail never stops. Maybe I should get an automatic weapon and shoot up my place of employment. Nah. It's been done to death.
 
It helps to have an older brother who works in a robotics lab and who can help you scavenge from defunct computers they throw away... :D
 
From what I was able to glean from about 30 seconds of searching, that sounds like hooking two macs up via a firewire connection, allowing for faster file transfers.

Don't think there's anything like that for Windows, short of physically transferring the hard drive between the computers.

It should be pretty easy in Linux, though, if it'll recognize the hard drive.

You should just be able to mount it.
 
TDM sure is usefull... faster file transfers, easy user migration, HD repair without disassembly, all that shit. There's been plenty of times where I wish there was such a thing for Windows, I was hoping there was something I was missing that y'all knew about. Ho hum.

New Powerbook, eh? Sweet. Booting on the first go is pretty cool, but it would be even cooler if you assembled the 'book out of spare parts and then booted it on the first go.

What revision 'book did you get, Conchaga?
 
Well, yes, Linux is your bag. I remember you telling me not to count on an exchange of Linux ideas... so I don't know what to tell you. ;)

:wink:

:slywink:

The Target Disk Mode function is built into the firmware of every Mac after 2001 or so, so I don't think it's really an OS function (you can have a totally blank HD and still boot into TDM). To get it to work in Linux I guess you'd need to install Linux on a Mac. :lol:
 
No, I was thinking more of some kind of limited network function you could enter into normally. Like you could get the two computers to talk to each other and recognize their respective hard drives, and be able to mount that.
 
Well other than mounting each drive via a network, I'm not sure that there's much beyond that. Hmm... We'll have to investigate.
 
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