Quote: Originally Posted by Caltabiano I've been told to address this forum as the more knowledgle about running BOINC on macs. I'm running Climate Prediction on a G4 with OS 1…

I have a dual 2.5 G5 Powermac. I recently purchased a hi gain antenna that has a sma connector on it. My question's 1. what kind of connector is on the back of the powermac where …

Hello all, great site is there any way I can connect my kids G3 wirelessly to my Linksys router without having to chunk down 125+ for an airport extreme? I would like to use a Link…

I have a Linksys router and use a Linksys wireless access point, about $50, for my wireless computers. I assume the G3 has an airport card.

The wireless game adapter should be fine after you get it configured. I'm using one (a Netgear) with my daughter's G3/500 iMac.

does it?

If you were in a laboratory measuring in partial nanoseconds....yes.

Think they'll get it to work on Intel?

i'm sure it will go universal...at some point. shapeshifter slows my 1.33g powerbook down...a bit. enough to be noticeable (compared to a "test" user account). but not enough to m…

Not very noticibly on my G4 933. However, what did slow it down was Dashboard. I disabled that thing!

I have looked through the forums, looked through the folders on my computer and cannot find where to install the Optimized G4 Boinc Superbench client that I downloaded from our for…

OK.... Here is what I did for Mac os X 10.4.xx. This may not be the correct or best way but seemed to work for me. If you are already running BOINC manager, select 'no new work' …

Quote: Originally Posted by Knightrider OK.... Here is what I did for Mac os X 10.4.xx. This may not be the correct or best way but seemed to work for me. If you are already r…

The client downloads automatically for all projects into the projects folder for that project. On seti at home you have an option to install a highly optimised client which is avai…

Quote: Originally Posted by OneMacGuy I cannot find the Boinc client. I can find the Boinc Manager and I can find the hdd\library\applications support\boinc data\projects folde…

Quote: Originally Posted by beadman BOINC Manager IS the BOINC Client. The SETI Client is, for example, named "seti@home-G4-a5" or something close to that. If you use the SETI c…

Team MacNN has several different flavors of optimized BOINC Manager, depending on whether you have a G3, G4, or G5, and 10.4.x or 10.3.9. The web site is here for the optimized BO…

Quote: Originally Posted by beadman As I understand it, the optimized client gives you a little higher bench marks, which helps your credit scores, but it also results in the BO…

Quote: Originally Posted by gulliver That's correct: the optimized clients (and science apps) make optimum use of the altivec engine of the G4 and G5 processors. Therefore they …

Quote: Originally Posted by OneMacGuy That is not quite true for the gain on the Intel based optimized clients. I have installed the optimized clients on probably 10 of my comp…

Quote: Originally Posted by Shaktai control clicking on the BOINC manager app to "show contents" of the package. Once you do, a window will open with a folder called contents.…

I need some help on this. I've switched from CLI to Boinc manager. However the Boinc manager is not sending the completed work units. I switched because, the prior CLI stopped sen…

for some reason, i can connect to my phone from my computer, but not the other way around. when my phone is searching for my g5, it's not recognizing it. what could i be missing…

which version of OS X needs the OS 9.2.2 thing? beacuse i wanted to install panther on my iMac G3 and i didn't know which one needed it thanks

No version of OSX needs OS 9.2.2. You boot off of the OSX install CD and then depending on your needs you select a type of install, e.g., clean, upgrade, archive and install, etc.…