If you think Firefox could run a little faster on your Mac, then you might want to download one of BeatnikPad's custom builds of Firefox 3. "Minefield" (previously known as BonEcho for pre-3.0 releases) is Neil Lee's custom build of Firefox. He is currently offering custom builds for:
This week's rig features one of the best-looking G4s you'll ever see. Enterprising reader :: Jonathan transplanted the guts from his destroyed G4 into an ATX case he had lying around. Sure, the power buttons didn't line up and the had to do some sawing to make the ports accessible, but the important thing is that he saved a Mac. Good job.
This week's rig was chosen for one reason only: It made us shudder. We realize that the Cube wasn't exactly Apple's greatest success, but this is like using a Ferrari as a doorstop. At least we can take consolation in the fact that it's not at the dump. Poor little Cube.
The CRT iMacs will always hold a special place in my heart since my first Mac was a 'Blueberry' iMac (yes, I know the picture accompanying this post isn't a Blueberry iMac, it is an Indigo iMac) which is still being used today by my decidedly non-technical mother.
Neil Lee has once again gifted the Mac community with optimized builds of Firefox 1.5.0.4. There are builds for G4s, G5s and Intel Macs. Bless you, Neil.
If you have upgraded your Mac using my semi-cracky
How-To you may have also upgraded your Powerlogix CPU Director
software as time went along. Recently I updated to CPU Director 2.3b2, and when the drop down menu in System
Preferences > Energy Saver > Options > Processor Performance disappeared, I was worried. My CPU was no longer
dynamically changing speed up and down from 1GHz to 2GHz and was staying solidly at 2GHz.
It's just
another day at the office. That is, an office that houses two racks bulging with Xserves. Here you'll find Flickr user
el frijole standing next to 42 Xserve G4s, 5 G5 Xserve cluster nodes and 1 Xserve G5. We'd call that a pretty decent
rig, wouldn't you?
Beaknik Pad has released his G4 and G5 optimized recompiles of
Firefox 1.5.01 for your pleasure. This puts the release in line with the official Firefox release.
If
there was ever a doubt about Eastern European Mac fans, let that shred of uncertainty be squelched. Today on MacMod one of the most amazing car installs of a Mac I
have ever witnessed was posted after being translated [from Czech?].
The folks at Engadget have posted an exhaustively thorough article on an upgrade they performed on a 400mhz Powermac G4. Specifically, they replaced the stock processor with a PowerLogix PowerForce47 G4/2.0GHz, with 512K 1:1 L2 Cache per processor. In the process, they came up with more comprehensive set of instructions than the rather anemic list that shipped with the PowerLogix processor. After a short trip into the wonderful world of firmware, they've got their Sawtooth purring along happily with its new 2.0GHz heart intact. Check it out.
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| 5 | Mat Lu | 40 | 10 |
| 6 | Dave Caolo | 37 | 0 |
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| 8 | Brett Terpstra | 23 | 0 |
| 9 | Mike Schramm | 20 | 1 |
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| 12 | Joshua Ellis | 3 | 2 |
| 13 | Lisa Hoover | 2 | 6 |
| 14 | Chris Ullrich | 2 | 2 |
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