AFAIK, the Pismo has only one CCFL, at the bottom. In fact, I can't think of a 'book of that age that uses more than one. Coius -- do you have a list of which "older" books you're…

meh, for that price, you can't go wrong. Also, doing a replacement on backlights is a BIG thing. Very hard to do, so if you aren't in for spending a few hours doing it, go ahead. …

I bought a raedon 9700 off of ebay. it's alot faster than the stock video card. but its basically a radeon 9800 but with less memory. for 89.00 it wasnt a bad deal.... I'm happy…

Also I imagine OS X Server 1.2 would not be very good as a modern server. As an experiment to play around with, sure. Click to expand... 1.2 is way more robust than most people…

Also I imagine OS X Server 1.2 would not be very good as a modern server. As an experiment to play around with, sure.

Has anyone done a same-machine speed comparison with 9.x.x?

Only a PC. I'm ordering one of those adapters that lets you plug a 2.5" laptop HD to a normal desktop IDE connection. Only $4, and I can just pop it into my G3. I'm not sure how I…

Okay so I opened it up last night and took the hard drive out. Today, I slipped in the original Apple 40 gb drive, since I had upgraded to an 80 GB drive. Low and behold, that driv…

I have ref-1 with a non-original commodity DVD drive on the original controller and that let me boot to install Tiger. Click to expand... Yep. Me too. I've even used a DVD-R dr…

Plus, I can only get it to serve on my local network, and I would like to access it over the internet. Not even FTP or SSH work. Click to expand... Really? I regularly use SSH …

Okay so I opened it up last night and took the hard drive out. Today, I slipped in the original Apple 40 gb drive, since I had upgraded to an 80 GB drive. Low and behold, that driv…

The normal OS takes more space, and I want it to be as small as possible. Plus, I can only get it to serve on my local network, and I would like to access it over the internet. Not…

All I need to do is find a copy of Mac OS X Server 1.2 or Mac OS X Server 10.4. Click to expand... Why? The normal OS can act as a server.

They're quiet? Quieter then a Gigabit G4? Click to expand... Don't know the Gigabit. But at least on the Sawtooth there's a fan you can disconnect with no trouble unless you ad…

They're quiet? Quieter then a Gigabit G4?

I'm hoping to get one for the office - it all just comes together in the B&W: near give-away prices, low power consumption for teh quiet, ADB keyboard and optionally a seri…

Another sawtooth - this one boots it too: http://www.danamania.com/tmp/86.png I think my 8.6 install CD is the one that originally came from my sis, years ago, so the disc I inst…

I just retired my B&W G3 450mhz (overclocked 400mhz) in leau of an eMac, but I have been thinking of putting it back into active use as a server. It runs great still, and s…

A problem are the rev-1 boards (a buggy Harddisk controller) and thefacts that the machine accepts only single sided RAM sticks and can't boot from Firewire,USB or ordinary DVD dr…

I've actually used Vista on a PIII Celeron, 800MHz with 512mb of memory. The easiest way to describe it is that it can happen, but that it's maybe not the most pleasant thing ever.…

can't boot from ordinary DVD drives. Click to expand... Really? I've booted my iMac (tray loader) off a couple of DVD drives...if a lowly iMac 333 that was never intended for u…

Running 3 hard drives in my G3 450mhz Rev. 2 box (dual 120gb ATA drives and the original 9GB SCSI), along with a CD burner and internal Zip drive. I'd have maxed RAM too, if more …

I bought a second-hand 5300ce, very well taken care for, in 2003. Never had a problem (touching wood). The battery still lasts 10 minutes. The display is actually good, considering…

Of my four 5300s, only one didn't experience hinge or power connector failure. Two were warranty repaired, one is still broken. (I got it after the warranty extension had expired…

... and they're CHEAP! Wegener Media has barebones B&W 300s for $9.99 + shipping. (No affiliation) Locally they go for free / cheap on craigslist all the time.