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Define "bad FireWire." Unfortunately, you're probably looking at a logic board swap. I had a mini that ate its ATA controller and that was about all you could do (no slots to get around the problem).

As an open-source alternative to Photoshop, I like Krita more than the GIMP. Doesn't do everything that Photoshop does (the G5 is around for that) but it does a lot of it and is cross-platform.

Actually, on big-endian systems, I find the BSDs to be better choices (Linux on 32-bit PPC is not well-maintained and many distros don't even offer it anymore). All of the major BSDs (NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD) will run splendidly on that, though I'm a longtime pro-NetBSD bigot.

Oh, I hope you're going to sell a few of these.

I've actually got the source code for Mac Heretic (I asked and the author provided it). I should post that somewhere.

No, not the client - actual NetWare. It looks like this: This is NetWare 4.11 running on a Power Mac 6100, though the project (codenamed Cyberpunk) was actually intended for the Apple Network Server. Incredibly, there is still a Forth word "setenv-netware" in the production ANS ROM. Cyberpunk...

The Apple Network Server's implementation of AIX had a secret weapon, and that was a full Unix-side implementation of AppleTalk, Apple events and the Program-to-Program Communications Toolbox (PPC Toolbox). Apple published demonstration applications where Mac clients could offload their...

I love Engrish, but I love bombastic Engrish even more.

I have that very bag for my beat-up TiBook G4. I put a little foam spacer in there so it wouldn't bang around so much.

It's still Apple Events because they can go from Mac to Mac. The facility you want is the PPC Toolbox (not PowerPC: Process-to-Process Communication). https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/mac/pdf/Interapplication_Communication/PPC_Toolbox.pdf

Yes, this is pretty much what Apple Events were designed for.

I managed to land an unopened copy of the Cyberdog Programmer's Kit book. This included a full CD-ROM with Cyberdog 1.0, the Cyberdog SDK, and many interesting videos and documents. With tweaks it all builds in CodeWarrior Gold 9 and generates real, working Cyberdog/OpenDoc parts. So here they...

Kind of a bust in the Bay Area due to the clouds, but got a few decent shots pretty much the same way!

What makes you conclude it's a prototype? It looks like it has a daughtercard in, but that could just be a repair.

Did you install the OS 9 disk drivers when you partitioned it?

For me, I found the Portable more appealing than the PB100 because the PB100 is basically a miniaturized Portable - but the Portable was first, and weirder. Then again there aren't many 68K PowerBooks I like. I do have a 540c but it has an iffy display connection I keep putting off dealing with.

I hadn't considered a VBL approach and I agree that makes things simpler, but if something's hogging the CPU, it should still need to yield to let the process monitor actually display anything, I would think.

Back on my MDD Mac. The tool I was thinking of is ProcessInfo.app: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/processinfo-131 It does have CPU load and a nice graph, but remember, it won't necessarily be accurate if something pins the CPU.

There's a couple nice process explorer tools the names of which currently escape me (not with my Macs at the moment), but I don't remember if they did CPU load. Difficult to do accurately in any case because classic Mac OS is cooperatively multitasked. An application that hogs the CPU, and many...

How much RAM do you have? ;) Jokes aside, Classilla prefers to be on a system with at least 128MB of RAM and the default allocation is sized for that. If you have less, then leave it alone (but consider virtual memory or RAM Doubler if you'll use it a lot). If you have more, then you might...