That’s the ticket. I’m installing a secret flask holder in one of my Powermac G4s.
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Why install anything? The Zip bay makes for the perfect hidden compartment!
Functionality must be maintained & I have a thing for mac Zip drives. I do have an Apple logo flask filled with a 5yr homemade cinnamon bourbon around here somewhere. I can mock that up.
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I could use some help again: Looking at the second picture, would you say this is the 1680×1050 screen or the 1920×1200 one? (In any case, I'll be careful since the seller doesn't know anything about the machine.) Thanks in advance.
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Looks like 1680x1050 to me. The menu bar is usually noticeably slimmer at FullHD. The Dock and icons are resizable and can fool you but the pictures aren't the best and I cannot be 100% sure.
Thanks. It's a shame that implies a CCFL backlight. Giving it a miss then.
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Running the first and only portable version of Mac OS8, specially devel....ok, it's just a custom skin but there was once an attempt to release 'fat' binaries that would run on this and a Mac.
This is the Linux driven Sharp Zaurus SL-5600, a 400Mhz XScale curio from the early 2000s. Whilst it's fully functional with it's stock OS, the real fun was always with a custom ROM and tweaking Linux to the limit - quite hard to achieve now without the help of the Way Back Machine and no hope of linking up to long gone repositories.
This is the Linux driven Sharp Zaurus SL-5600, a 400Mhz XScale curio from the early 2000s. Whilst it's fully functional with it's stock OS, the real fun was always with a custom ROM and tweaking Linux to the limit - quite hard to achieve now without the help of the Way Back Machine and no hope of linking up to long gone repositories.
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When I met my wife for the first time, her sister had one of these phones. That little qwerty keyboard just stuck in my head. You speak to missing repositories - it would be cool if we could host our own repositories for the old stuff we enjoy. I mean most of us already have NAS of some sort. I guess it would be about hosting the needed files on our NAS and then pointing the software to our NAS instead of the old repository locations. In the back of my head, when OSX updates finally break for OSX, I think doing that would be pretty cool to maintain the feel of the machine and have a functioning outdated software update. Oh the irony gets ya right in the feelies.
And exactly how to do that, I am unsure.
And exactly how to do that, I am unsure.
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No phone. Just a PDA.
@Dronecatcher - that is beyond awesome. I am a huge fan of the Zaurus line, had several of the Japan-exclusive clamshell models with that mind-blowing VGA screen. (SL-Cxxx). And yep, I ran OpenBSD on mine
It doesn't get any cooler than that.
Would certainly be a task for this beastie - almost everything needs dependencies, then you have to match the right dependencies for the right version/OS/model and so forth...
Yes, a VGA model would've been nice but the prices are a bit scary....
They've been collector's items for years.
If you're interested, here's what I used to have in my collection, along with their respective distros:
c700 (cacko)
c750 (ex-dev, openzaurus)
c760 (pdaXrom)
c1000 (Debian)
c3100 (this one had OpenBSD)
Fun fact - one of my clamshells belonged to a former developer well known in the Z community, and it had the latest snapshot of what he'd been working on on it.
A huge fan...no kidding
Was Coreplayer every released for Zaurus do you know? The mediaplayer on the stock ROM is useless (for video), I've got MPlayer working from console but that's hardly ideal, ever other player failed and one that works really well is trial only - I've emailed the authors for a code if remotely possible (I actually bought some of their software in the 2000s - when £30 for a video app seemed like a good idea!)
Thinking I'd never need them again, I foolishly deleted all my Zaurus-related bookmarks after selling my last one - and my archive only contains clamshell-related stuff
Sorry. This site is a mirror of the Cacko feed (an improved version of the original ROM).
Ohhh, my $7 adaptec USB2 card came in and is humming right along in my B&W. Very happy. Now if my Radeon7000 will come in, I'll flash that bad boy and be rid of this icky vga-out rage128.
I know it’s happy because upon reboot, it started bonging again. Before this, it was silent protest from day one. Speaking of bongs, it's much softer than I assumed it would be and reminds me of a Intel g1 24" white Imac.
I know it’s happy because upon reboot, it started bonging again. Before this, it was silent protest from day one. Speaking of bongs, it's much softer than I assumed it would be and reminds me of a Intel g1 24" white Imac.
iPod Remote for iPod Mini and optical drive for my iBook. Will post pictures when they arrive.
iPod Remote for iPod Mini and optical drive for my iBook. Will post pictures when they arrive.
I've been on the look out for one of those apple branded remotes for my g2 ipod. Going to use it in my w123 as I have a charging dock that broadcasts it to my radio.
Thanks for that. Actually, with the Way Back Machine, there's no shortage of preserved .ipk archives - the problem is knowing which ones work on the 5600, so it's trial and error. And as it's Linux, installing apps manually doesn't give you any safety net when things don't work or go wrong.
I needed to get one for an upcoming project cuz I accidentally broke some click wheel functionality while upgrading the storage a few years back
Good to know the stuff has been preserved. If you can find a mirror of a complete repository, there should be a file that specifies dependencies - copying the whole thing to an SD/CF card and specifying that as the source within the package manager gives you a local repo to install stuff from. That's how I did it on one of mine IIRC.
A Nokia N800 or N810 is also worth picking up if you're into this kind of devices I reckon - faster hardware, 800×480 screen, built-in Bluetooth and WiFi, and... the ability to run real Mac OS thanks to a port of Basilisk II.
An Apple Mini Display Port to Dual Link DVI so I can run a BTO Late 2014 Mini on a 30" Apple Dual Link DVI. Sure not PPC, but the monitor is from the era.