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I vote for the steam roller. :D

Today I installed a long, stereo 3.5mm to r/l rca cable from my PmG5 to my stereo amplifier to play music from my NAS. I also fixed a cd carousel player which holds 51 cds so I’ve been filling up a spreadsheet of which album is in what slot. Otherwise I will totally forget what’s what thus the...

I picked up a fan controller and temperature module for a 5.25” bay in my tower off amazon and installed it. The unit looked great unpowered and had what I needed in sensors and fan controls but the lcd was too bright lol :LOL: when on. Believe it or not there were multiple time and alarm...

Installed some games (UT & Q3A) & some of my fav productivity apps (Toast9, iwork08 & omigraffle5) to my a1047 PCI PowerMac G5 and connected a 1T external and pointed TimeMachine to it … still backing up lol. This has turned out to be a very fun Mac to build up and those games absolutely slay...

Odd number boards are a prevailing board preference for the simple fact you can’t have a tie lol (so they’re expedient & efficient) however I have found when profit motive is not a consideration, an even# board was more cooperative, communicative and open to compromise simply to avoid tie votes...

I don’t care for the odd number. In the bylaws the director of admin/moderators is expected to cast a tie breaking vote in the case a tie occurs. With three board members this is not possible and creates a consolidation of power (two bms in, one by out) that is concerning. I propose that we...

LOL two things I never thought I'd see in one sentence - "pee" and "iMac'. Gets a chuckle every time I read about your adventure with the whizzer iMacG4. :D

For the 2026 PowerPC Challenge, I took my a1047 PowermacG5 and did something similar, partitioning two SSDs into 3 partitions for Lubuntu16.4, Shuriken 10.4.12 and Sorbet 10.5.9. That is a really fun machine now :) My next project with that old linux kernel is to attempt to relink to current...

I've not used Mint but its default Cinnamon layout looks nice & spacious and easy on the eyes with its dark theme. I'm sure I'd like it just fine :) One thing to consider is if you find Cinnamon to be sluggish on that 2012 air, xfce will bring a snappier experience. It is an option with Mint as...

@phunguss any idea where the resistor came from?

of course not @Tashtari - you are making rash hyperbolic judgments on those who you perceive as disagreeing with you which I do not appreciate. I stand by my assertion that it is BMoW's responsibility to pursue this - let me explain. The over arching point Im trying to make is that the courts...

I AM NOT A PATENT/TRADEMARK/COPYRIGHT LAWYER - LOL :D - Just a regular guy trying to make sense of CCO licensing haha! The CC license clearly states that they are irrevocable meaning they cannot be changed or removed. BUT it also says that licensors can change the license or stop offering the...

Great question - I don’t know exactly lol. Best guess is around 3-4hrs on the dual 2ghz a1047 G5.

Finished TFFx which works great. The rattle in that Sony was a free Frank Sinatra CD lol. It must’ve slipped out of the carousel and jammed itself under the reader/CD arm which was preventing it from returning the CDs back to the carousel. It’s working great now. I also linked my NAS music...

How one stores their laptops/portables yields equally vigorous accusations 😅 Yanno Id love to try a new paste but my AS5 spawned babies somehow because I keep finding tubes of the stuff around - in my office, out on my garage bench, in the guest bedroom (how and why? lol) so I can’t in good...

Thermal paste works. I used Arctic Silver 5 on my revb a few years back and it works great but any paste (as5, mx, etc) should do the job. just be sure not to video it and definitely don’t post it on YT or you’ll be harassed by the how-to party officials and shunned forever 😅

Compiling fresh Tffx for this Tiger/Shuriken install. I forgot to change my power settings so the Mac went to sleep instead of finishing while I was asleep - Oopsie. :DLol. It’ll finish while I complete my $9.99 goodwill Sony CDP-CX53 refirb. Something is rattling around inside and the carousel...

Heat is usually what destroys a computer & PowerPC CPU’s are notoriously power hungry & hot running :) so keeping its thermal paste in good condition is key to its health & longevity. I liken thermal paste to car oil; just because your car runs and isn’t broken (yet), that 15k mile oil is...

Your thought about removing the dvd drive would absolutely provide room for additional fans and without the drive there, you have easy molex power to draw from. If you needed a drive, a usb superdrive would work well for when you needed it. Hmm, maybe with the fan, you'd even have room for an...

Do you think the resistor you installed may be slowing things down too much when under load causing added heat resulting in the heatsink assembly & bottom getting hot? Instead of slowing the fan with a resistor, you could use something like G4fancontrol. Maintain maximum fan speed and ramp it...