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The PowerPC thread about nothing

lowendlinux said:
With all this talk about ThinkPads I need to represent for my Latitudes. They've just keep getting better over time and run all Intel stuff so Open Source support is always great. :)
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Aye! Latitudes are awesome! I have my trusty E6410 with Win 7 pro, and it's great. I absolutely love it. I also have my "vintage" Latitude LM, sporting a 3GB HDD, a P1+MMX, Windows 95, Office 97, and I have no clue how much ram is in it... That laptop is the most durable thing I've ever used, and it's a brick.
 
I owned precisely one Latitude: The venerable D600. It creaked, the network port died suddenly and the cramped USB ports worked themselves loose so that any device attached would constantly detach/reattach itself. It was my first hackintosh.

I would never buy another.
 
Altemose said:
@weckart I am surprised you got OS X on there. The D610 was more regarded as a perfect Hackintosh back in the day.
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I was a early tinkerer. The hardest part was getting video to work as the D600 had a PPC era GPU and no Intel drivers were ever developed. Eventually I got Tiger to run with full screen (1400x1050) unaccelerated video. Some video formats would play in a window, nonetheless. It smoked my spendy PowerBook G4 1.5GHz and I never believed another word that came from Cupertino's PR machine.
 
I found this interesting. I did some benchmarks with LibreSSL on the T42 and PowerBook G4. Both are running the same operating system (OpenBSD -current) and the same version of LibreSSL (2.2). I had both running at their maximum clock speed, so 1700 MHz for the Pentium M and 1499 MHz for the G4. Results are in number of bytes per second processed. I bolded the results that were the fastest of the two computers. The "type" row refers to the size of the blocks upon which encryption was performed.

T42: 1700 MHz Pentium M (Dothan)

type ------------ 16 bytes -- 64 bytes -- 256 bytes -- 1024 bytes -- 8192 bytes

aes-128 cbc ---- 40632.06k -- 34374.99k -- 16531.54k -- 27646.54k -- 29036.75k
blowfish cbc ---- 50562.77k -- 55485.38k -- 57140.28k -- 57915.46k -- 57426.78k
idea cbc -------- 23817.22k -- 24565.32k -- 24987.48k -- 25055.43k -- 24963.00k
rc4 -------------- 172268.06k -- 230980.11k -- 254502.04k -- 261203.22k -- 263293.75k



PowerBook G4: 1499 MHz G4

type --------------- 16 bytes -- 64 bytes -- 256 bytes -- 1024 bytes -- 8192 bytes

aes-128 cbc ----- 43165.59k -- 49513.49k -- 50420.53k -- 51002.34k -- 51153.58k
blowfish cbc ----- 46486.30k -- 52786.48k -- 54444.61k -- 55940.20k -- 55675.56k
idea cbc --------- 32158.86k -- 34903.08k -- 36133.33k -- 36150.25k -- 36066.50k
rc4 ----------------- 83820.97k -- 92019.14k -- 95996.67k -- 97211.28k -- 97024.85k
 
Everyone here loves their ThinkPads! I always wanted to Hackintosh a HP Pavillon 9905, but the AMD processor limits things and makes it harder to run OS X. I just gave up and installed Windows 7...
 
Had several ThinkPads in my time. Sturdy little things and I've always preferred that track-nipple they have instead of the usual trackpad. Don't have any anymore regretfully, I went through them pretty fast since I'm very abusive to my laptops.
 
MacCubed said:
Everyone here loves their ThinkPads! I always wanted to Hackintosh a HP Pavillon 9905, but the AMD processor limits things and makes it harder to run OS X. I just gave up and installed Windows 7...
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There has been a lot of progress the last year or two with regard to AMD CPUs and you can pretty much run it all now. The only sticking points are iCloud/AppStore, which seem to use the Intel CPU as part of the authentication process. There are some workarounds but I have not looked recently to see if Apple has confounded these again.
 
weckart said:
There has been a lot of progress the last year or two with regard to AMD CPUs and you can pretty much run it all now. The only sticking points are iCloud/AppStore, which seem to use the Intel CPU as part of the authentication process. There are some workarounds but I have not looked recently to see if Apple has confounded these again.
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Yeah but the only OSes that it could handle are tiger and leopard. 1.42 GHz and 768 MB RAM aren't helping. Rather have speed rather than eye candy. Win 7 is like running Tiger on a Wallstreet...
 
OK. Since this thread is about nothing really but tangently connected to PowerPC, I'll drop a topic that's come to mind at the moment.

I love that despite three years of advances (since I discovered it) Netatalk still works on jailbroken iPhones.

I've used Netatalk since iOS 5 and it's one of the first tweaks I install when I jailbreak. For those that are unfamiliar with it, Netatalk is basically Appletalk on your iPhone. What it does is allow me to simply "Connect to Server", select my iPhone and then mount the root file system on my desktop like any other ordinary server share. I can then use my Macs (both PowerPC and Intel because this is Appletalk) to browse my iPhone's filesystem.

The only thing you have to do (should do) is change the root passwords before you use it. That requires installing OpenSSH on your device first, then changing it via Terminal. But once that is done it's as I describe above.

This makes it very easy to sideload stuff, use my iPhone as storage or do any number of other things such as loading ringtones.

I always hear people talking about SSHing in to their devices in the JB forums around here and I don't understand why this tweak isn't more popular. I'd rather mount my iPhone as a drive versus messing around at the command line. But to each his own I guess. It works for me.
 
SkyBell said:
I do prefer to use my eMac (when it's working properly, it isn't at the moment) above all my other machines; I've got a pretty decent HP EliteBook that gets passed over in favor of it often. :)
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If you're pretty attached to your eMac, I have a couple of 1.42 GHz machines in storage. They both work, at least they did when I stored them last year. Should you need parts, or a complete machine, I can hook you up.
 
ctmpkmlec4 said:
If you're pretty attached to your eMac, I have a couple of 1.42 GHz machines in storage. They both work, at least they did when I stored them last year. Should you need parts, or a complete machine, I can hook you up.
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I really am, but its biggest problem is the CRT is on the way out, and I'm pretty certain I won't be up to tackle that when the time comes, unfortunately. :(
 
SkyBell said:
I really am, but its biggest problem is the CRT is on the way out, and I'm pretty certain I won't be up to tackle that when the time comes, unfortunately. :(
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Should you need a donor, let me know. I know they're probably not cheap to ship, so I'd probably be willing to let it go for a super low price. How far have you hacked into an eMac before?
 
SkyBell said:
I really am, but its biggest problem is the CRT is on the way out, and I'm pretty certain I won't be up to tackle that when the time comes, unfortunately. :(
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Well if the CRT dies, you could try and acquire another one and then image the disk to the new one using TDM.
 
Altemose said:
@SkyBell You likely could swap the whole CRT assembly from a donor eMac relatively safely.
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Really? I admit, I've never looked at any instructions or pictures on how to get inside of one, for lack of a need to do so, but perhaps it may actually be within my limited skill set.
ctmpkmlec4 said:
Should you need a donor, let me know. I know they're probably not cheap to ship, so I'd probably be willing to let it go for a super low price. How far have you hacked into an eMac before?
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I'll keep that in mind, appreciate the offer. I definitely haven't gone any further than installing an AirPort card or upgrading the RAM, neither of which requires actually getting into the guts of the machine.

Really, at the moment, it's sitting unused as it will not update 10.5 at all, and I can't find my 10.4 DVD at the moment. When I do, though, I'll see how things are going with it hardware wise at the time and figure out the correct course of action.
 
I always have grounded the CRTs and discharged them before any repair. I have swapped entire CRT units between monitors before and I doubt eMacs would be too hard.
 
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I wonder if any of the later IBM power chips would've been suitable for a portable.
 
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