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Now I can tell people I've been reduced to eating cat food.[/caption]
Lazy binning day, with a bit of a Hello Kitty theme, which figures for Vancouver. First a can of pasta on top of a container bin, waiting in plain sight for anyone who wanted it. Then an older Apple Macintosh laptop -- I think a 2006-ish PowerPC processor aluminium PowerBook G4,, which was in a garbage bag, and then most of the AC adapter, which was in another bag, and the rest of the AC adapter, from another bag --- at least they were all in the same dumpster. But, I was in a catch-and-release mood -- not with the pasta. That was a keeper -- Japanese cartoon characters have forgotten more about pasta than Italians will ever know!
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See the Hello Kitty tie-in. Tempting to play with, but no way did I need another laptop.[/caption]
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Flies are always attracted to Apples in the dumpster.[/caption]
I gave the PowerBook to a bike binner who declared he could crack any password, and when I said it was PPC- not Intel-based, he countered by saying he had a program that would allow him to "install Intel on it." And he was sure it would be faster than his tower G4 -- I was only sure it would be easier to carry around in a backpack. I gave him everything, 'cept the fly, I saved that for my next post.
Now I can tell people I've been reduced to eating cat food.[/caption]
Lazy binning day, with a bit of a Hello Kitty theme, which figures for Vancouver. First a can of pasta on top of a container bin, waiting in plain sight for anyone who wanted it. Then an older Apple Macintosh laptop -- I think a 2006-ish PowerPC processor aluminium PowerBook G4,, which was in a garbage bag, and then most of the AC adapter, which was in another bag, and the rest of the AC adapter, from another bag --- at least they were all in the same dumpster. But, I was in a catch-and-release mood -- not with the pasta. That was a keeper -- Japanese cartoon characters have forgotten more about pasta than Italians will ever know![caption id="attachment_4112" align="alignnone" width="497"]
See the Hello Kitty tie-in. Tempting to play with, but no way did I need another laptop.[/caption][caption id="attachment_4116" align="alignright" width="252"]
Flies are always attracted to Apples in the dumpster.[/caption]I gave the PowerBook to a bike binner who declared he could crack any password, and when I said it was PPC- not Intel-based, he countered by saying he had a program that would allow him to "install Intel on it." And he was sure it would be faster than his tower G4 -- I was only sure it would be easier to carry around in a backpack. I gave him everything, 'cept the fly, I saved that for my next post.
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That's brilliant. I'd love to put Intel on my 2002 Quicksilver. No really ;)
*sets Dell laptop on top of PowerMac* There. I DID IT.
Seriously though a PowerBook is a nice score. Those things will run PPC Debian in their sleep.
You're right about it being a score. Hope it's new owner agrees. Couldn't keep it; I've two very functional laptops, and a 13-inch G3 "Icebook." (500 MHz?) -- never gotten a Linux distro to properly run on it -- beautiful "fit and polish," and I have my G4 iBook, pushed to the bleeding edge of OS X 10.5.whatever-it-accepted, after the MBP was nicked. TenFourFox was a godsend, but I seriously looked at PPC Linux, particularly PPC Debian, but it confused me terribly. All that's special about the G4 are the Sheepshaver, and Basilisk emulators, but I can run those on any platform.