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Wow. Going to miss you. I liked the new... 16,047 Views / 135 Replies  
Wow. Going to miss you. I liked the new format/content, but I guess it was't enough.

Thanks for the content over the years. Wish you all the best for the future.
Posted by Drash, on Jun 21, 2016 at 03:55 AM, in Mac News
Woah - joined 2001. Doesn't time fly! 1,909 Views / 17 Replies  
Woah - joined 2001. Doesn't time fly!
Posted by Drash, on Jul 2, 2015 at 09:42 AM, in Mac News
Spent a good few hours since Music released... 1,909 Views / 17 Replies  
Spent a good few hours since Music released trying to get (music) home sharing working and came to the same conclusion. Didn't find anything with web searches. Nice to see I'm not going mad. Not so...
Posted by Drash, on Jul 2, 2015 at 09:41 AM, in Mac News
Worth noting that one difference with 128 vs 256... 5,183 Views / 25 Replies  
Worth noting that one difference with 128 vs 256 VRAM is in gaming - used for storing textures so more VRAM = ability to select a better visual setting. IIRC, PC stuff but still relevent, GRAW (and...
Posted by Drash, on Oct 28, 2006 at 03:21 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Just to say thanx to Alex - been following the... 152,496 Views / 1,309 Replies  
Just to say thanx to Alex - been following the thread, as always, but not giving too much feedback - my bad.

G4 v6NG feels somewhat faster than v6 - I've had 19,500 s and 21,800 s compared with...
Posted by Drash, on Jun 27, 2006 at 10:03 PM, in Team MacNN
fft_test2 edited into my previous post. Any... 122,060 Views / 970 Replies  
fft_test2 edited into my previous post.

Any chance of some new threads for each test say? - after all this forum seems wasted if most traffic actually goes in to one of a couple of threads. I know...
Posted by Drash, on Jan 31, 2006 at 01:22 AM, in Team MacNN
Apple Altivec DSP 8 629.145600 16 ... 122,060 Views / 970 Replies  
Apple Altivec DSP
8 629.145600
16 1048.576000
32 2621.440000
64 3145.728000
128 3670.016000
256 8388.608000
512 4718.592000
1024 5242.880000
2048 ...
Posted by Drash, on Jan 26, 2006 at 04:12 AM, in Team MacNN
I've got 59 (and 10+ to download ???) :confused: 122,060 Views / 970 Replies  
I've got 59 (and 10+ to download ???) :confused:
Posted by Drash, on Dec 7, 2005 at 11:03 PM, in Team MacNN
OK now I'm confused - I HAD... 122,060 Views / 970 Replies  
OK now I'm confused - I HAD boinc_4.44ppcG4Superbench shoehorned inside a previous version of BOINCManager (can't lay my hands on its version no. at the moment) and it worked (ie. inside as a...
Posted by Drash, on Dec 5, 2005 at 12:36 AM, in Team MacNN
Am I doing something wrong - I download whatever... 4,584 Views / 51 Replies  
Am I doing something wrong - I download whatever BOINCManager is currently going (the one that sits in the menubar), then I open the package up and replace the boinc unix executable with the...
Posted by Drash, on Nov 30, 2005 at 12:26 AM, in Team MacNN
Now that did make sense :) Thanks. In my defence... 122,060 Views / 970 Replies  
Now that did make sense :) Thanks. In my defence I think I fried my brain a bit reading that annoying mojo2 thread over in the lounge - giving him an audience only encourages him :brick:

Ash
Posted by Drash, on Oct 1, 2005 at 01:57 AM, in Team MacNN
Can someone explain in really simple terms what... 122,060 Views / 970 Replies  
Can someone explain in really simple terms what the fuss is all about with these short work units? There's always been some, as long as I can remember, long before any optimized clients, just looking...
Posted by Drash, on Oct 1, 2005 at 12:19 AM, in Team MacNN
eMac 1GHz 1GB ATI 7500, 10.4.2, g4-a5,... 122,060 Views / 970 Replies  
eMac 1GHz 1GB ATI 7500, 10.4.2, g4-a5, BOINCManager 4.44 with superbench shoe-horned in

Just been tracking down a sporadic general system slowdown that seems to be linked with more than usual...
Posted by Drash, on Sep 28, 2005 at 12:44 PM, in Team MacNN
1GHz eMac, 10.4.2, 1GB RAM g4-a5 seems... 122,060 Views / 970 Replies  
1GHz eMac, 10.4.2, 1GB RAM

g4-a5 seems slightly quicker than a4 roughly giving 8100-8300 ish with a single 7500, whereas a4 gave (over a larger sample) 8300-8500 with a smattering of 7600s

If...
Posted by Drash, on Sep 21, 2005 at 10:21 PM, in Team MacNN
Same here 30+ units, all valid, mostly alpha3,... 122,060 Views / 970 Replies  
Same here 30+ units, all valid, mostly alpha3, taking c. 9000s whereas stock is nearer 27,000s (1GHz eMac 10.4.2, 7450 client). Compares quite well with my AMD 3100+ which takes c. 9000s stock or...
Posted by Drash, on Sep 11, 2005 at 07:04 PM, in Team MacNN
OK, had time to let things settle in a bit, so... 608 Views / 5 Replies  
OK, had time to let things settle in a bit, so here's a progress report.

Shaktai, I'm on broadband, so I'm connected all the time.
Benchmarks have improved using the replacement profiled G4...
Posted by Drash, on May 22, 2005 at 08:31 PM, in Team MacNN
Cheers Shaktai - I noticed the SETI outages... 608 Views / 5 Replies  
Cheers Shaktai - I noticed the SETI outages notice, but this has been occuring for several days now (4+) - I can't see any pattern yet , other than when my last work unit HAS actually finished it...
Posted by Drash, on May 21, 2005 at 03:08 PM, in Team MacNN
BOINC Advanced GUI problem? 608 Views / 5 Replies  
I'm using v. 4.37 of the above for SETI, I've got LittleSnitch set to allow BOINC port 80 out on any IP but all I'm getting in the messages section of the Manager is this EVERY SECOND, damn the copy...
Posted by Drash, on May 21, 2005 at 11:33 AM, in Team MacNN
Thanks mikkyo, now I'm learning something! I... 1,811 Views / 23 Replies  
Thanks mikkyo, now I'm learning something!

I created a sub-folder "/Applications/BOINC/TEST/" to my main boinc folder and put "account_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml" and "boinc_4.19_ppcG4test" in...
Posted by Drash, on Feb 3, 2005 at 07:18 AM, in Team MacNN
Apologies, my earlier post wasn't very clear. I'm... 1,811 Views / 23 Replies  
Apologies, my earlier post wasn't very clear. I'm using Javalizard's Altivec Setiworker (4.30) and having problems with the less optimised safer compile for G4 (I'm using an eMac with 10.3.7). I run...
Posted by Drash, on Feb 2, 2005 at 02:53 PM, in Team MacNN
Not sure the G4test client is working for me... 1,811 Views / 23 Replies  
Not sure the G4test client is working for me (SETI opt. client 4.30 eMac 10.3.7) - I'm getting:

2005-02-02 01:38:57 [SETI@home] scheduler init_op_project to...
Posted by Drash, on Feb 2, 2005 at 08:52 AM, in Team MacNN
Problems here with the optimised 4.19 also when... 1,811 Views / 23 Replies  
Problems here with the optimised 4.19 also when using optimised seti client 4.3 on a G4 eMac - hangs trying to get work from server, CPU at max. running boinc but nothing happens. Old boinc 4.13...
Posted by Drash, on Jan 30, 2005 at 03:40 PM, in Team MacNN
In the meantime you could always try ... 576 Views / 8 Replies  
In the meantime you could always try

http://www.boincstats.com/stats/user_stats2.php?pr=sah&st=0&to=100&or=&ti=30246

Ash.
Posted by Drash, on Oct 25, 2004 at 02:06 PM, in Team MacNN
The gcc 3.3 build seems to be working fine - the... 976 Views / 14 Replies  
The gcc 3.3 build seems to be working fine - the benchmarks are once again higher than standard: eMac G4 1GHz 1GB 10.3.5

Before, using boinc_4.13_powerpc-apple-darwin:

Benchmark results:...
Posted by Drash, on Oct 20, 2004 at 11:01 PM, in Team MacNN
Got XCode 1.5 (standard install with CHUD 4 also,... 976 Views / 14 Replies  
Got XCode 1.5 (standard install with CHUD 4 also, tho. I'm no power user, just a bit of light tinkering) but I don't seem to have gcc 3.5, just 3.3 and 3.1 (I think). Running the BOINC client I get...
Posted by Drash, on Oct 20, 2004 at 10:07 PM, in Team MacNN
me too! 599 Views / 6 Replies  
I was using the optimized 4.11 and was getting units rejected, something like bad name - can't quite remember the reason. Anyhow, I installed 4.13 and so far haven't had a unit rejected. I also...
Posted by Drash, on Oct 16, 2004 at 10:52 AM, in Team MacNN
BOINC 4.09 released 346 Views / 0 Replies  
I'm using an optimiized compile of 4.06 along with the Altivec enhanced 4.30 SETI client for G4 7450 (thanks mikkyo and javalizard). Will this new version be required at some point and/or will it...
Posted by Drash, on Sep 29, 2004 at 12:03 PM, in Team MacNN
Networking 10.3.2 and YDL 3.0.1 (or trying to ...) 457 Views / 0 Replies  
setup: iMac G3 266 MHz running Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 connected to 1GHz eMac running 10.3.2 via an ADSL Ethernet router/firewall/switch.

Apologies if you've heard this one before, but I'm getting...
Posted by Drash, on Feb 2, 2004 at 06:47 AM, in Networking
Got it working (using yaboot).!!! Used 4... 635 Views / 4 Replies  
Got it working (using yaboot).!!!

Used 4 partitions (in order from the top) 1GB MacOS9 for system, 6.5GB for YDL for root which included 1MB for bootstrap for yaboot, 36GB for YDL (broken down...
Posted by Drash, on Jan 28, 2004 at 01:45 AM, in macOS
Thanks for the reply. The YDL installer says... 635 Views / 4 Replies  
Thanks for the reply.

The YDL installer says Old World (that needs to use BootX is) is PRE iMac, and yaboot is for New World - iMac and beyond, which cannot use BootX. So ... I'll stick with...
Posted by Drash, on Jan 27, 2004 at 04:18 PM, in macOS
Dual boot 9.2.2/Linux with the 8GB Open Firmware Limitation 635 Views / 4 Replies  
I've got an old 266MHz iMac which has the 8GB open firmware limitation with a 40GB Maxtor 7200rpm drive fitted. I was wanting to install linux and add it to my network.

I've done a successful full...
Posted by Drash, on Jan 27, 2004 at 07:15 AM, in macOS
Wht such variation in network speed? 464 Views / 1 Replies  
Can anyone explain why my network is so slow copying files one way, but so much quicker the opposite way?

Configuration: iMac 266MHz tray loading 384MB RAM 40GB 7200rpm Maxtor Mac OS 9.2.2...
Posted by Drash, on Jan 16, 2004 at 11:36 AM, in Networking
The SO DIMM finally arrived, and I fitted it in... 733 Views / 8 Replies  
The SO DIMM finally arrived, and I fitted it in the bottom slot and it works ok. It is so small compared with the 128MB I bought a couple of years ago!

To Kenneth re. Crucial's ref. nos. It seems...
Posted by Drash, on Feb 19, 2003 at 09:58 AM, in Mac Desktops
Netscape wont save as..., why???? 413 Views / 0 Replies  
MacOS 8.6, MRJ 2.2.5, CarbonLib1.6

Netscape 7, 7.01 & 7.02 all work fine if slower than Explorer, and everything seems to do what it should except the menus that are for saving pages/images etc....
Posted by Drash, on Feb 18, 2003 at 11:58 PM, in Applications
Apologies KarlG 733 Views / 8 Replies  
I just re-read your your post. Doh!!! You're right, I totally mis-read what you were saying.

Looks like I'll be buying the PC133 DIMMs -- Crucial have just confirmed that the part I'm interested...
Posted by Drash, on Feb 17, 2003 at 02:31 PM, in Mac Desktops
Are you sure about slowing the bus? I thought... 733 Views / 8 Replies  
Are you sure about slowing the bus? I thought that the PC133 relates to the max speed of the DIMM - 133 MHz, so putting it in a slower bus wouldn't be a problem. However, were I to put a 66MHz DIMM...
Posted by Drash, on Feb 17, 2003 at 06:45 AM, in Mac Desktops
PC100 or PC133 for rev. B 266MHz iMac? 733 Views / 8 Replies  
Just browsing Crucial's site and they recommend a PC100 256MB SODIMM for my Strawberry iMac, using their memory selector. However if I search just for chips they do a PC133 256MB SODIMM for half the...
Posted by Drash, on Feb 17, 2003 at 01:01 AM, in Mac Desktops
Fried B/S Cache? 362 Views / 1 Replies  
I have a strawberry 266 with 160 MB (128 + 32 l/p) MacOS8.6. It has started crashing/bombing randomly on virtually any app especially the finder (even while idle in background) with type 1, 2, 3, 10,...
Posted by Drash, on Aug 13, 2001 at 11:31 PM, in Mac Desktops
 
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