Apparently Vine Server has a monopoly on suitable VNC servers for Mac OS X. So I put it back online with Vine Server, we'll see if it crashes again.

yeah...i'm in agreement with Patrickcool here. i don't think the iphone has any bearing on their decision to repair those machines. in fact, i'm going to be so bold as to say tha…

As for the random terminal sleep issues, some machines can be pretty bad, particularly if they use the magnetic sleep switches. For the Wallstreet, if some hard drives are install…

almeath, If you do decide to try the open firmware trick to flash using the older 2.4 firmware, you may want to first read the cubeowner forum post where Pareis describes his disc…

almeath, The fact that your Sawtooth has boot rom v3.3.4 got me thinking last night about this very question, can trying to revert to an earlier version of the firmware make the m…

This is neat, I need to install a VNC client on my machine first. There needs to be more things like this.

The eMac is down for the night. The server kept crashing anyway. I'll try another server tomorrow.

I think if someone else is on it you may not connect. So try again later.

Hmm... I can't connect through any client I try.

To view this page, you need to log in to area “Generic Platform Web 0” on 75.17.80.165 Click to expand... It's a VNC server. You need to use a VNC client and the port specified…

To view this page, you need to log in to area “Generic Platform Web 0” on 75.17.80.165

I'm super bored and I have no other use for this eMac right now. So why not let people log into it with VNC and mess around with OS X? 75.17.80.165 port 5901 (display 1) No pas…

That sounds... really unlikely, but that's just me.

The eMac repair program has been going on long before the iPhone 3G was on sale... And before the 1st Gen iPhone was introduced in fact... Click to expand... Do you think I don…

What's cool is neither eMac qualified under the program but Apple fixed them anyway because they did exhibit the actual problem, which is the bulging capacitors. Click to expand…

What's cool is neither eMac qualified under the program but Apple fixed them anyway because they did exhibit the actual problem, which is the bulging capacitors.

The eMac repair program has been going on long before the iPhone 3G was on sale... And before the 1st Gen iPhone was introduced in fact...

They most likely did it because the eMacs have known issues that Apple originally refused to cover under warranty until they were threatened with legal action. They most likely did…

The date on my boot ROM is 8 August 2000 - definitely late in the producton run for a 400mhz model. I'm ready to run ROM update 2.4 (3.2.4) using open firmware, but I have a quest…

Typing this on a 1.42 GHz eMac, one of four I got in a pallet along with other stuff for about $25 total. Apple has fixed two eMacs free of charge after I called their support lin…

all of it works on my beige with an ATI 9200 in it. Looking at the dates, this computer came out in 99 and apple didn't take Open GL until later. Click to expand... Yeah, but …

all of it works on my beige with an ATI 9200 in it. Looking at the dates, this computer came out in 99 and apple didn't take Open GL until later.

According to the Japanese site that lists the various Sawtooth boot rom versions, $0003.31f1 (v3.3.1) appeared on the Power Mac G4 Gigabit Ethernet model. Technically, I would cons…

Thank you ccmac for your extremely detailed responses. I was tempted to put this one into the "too hard" basket, but this has roused my curiosity now. I'm going to keep at this for…

You should be able to temporarily disable Energy Saver by holding shift at startup, though. Have you tried this yet? If it works fine with out extensions, you can do a split-half…