Thanks! If you ever get hands on a Vega 64, even better. It's smooth saiting 30fps lock at 2560x1600 with high+ settings except in cities in New York.

hpcfactor is the best repository for windows ce applications nowadays

I'll be documenting the journey as a go. For now, the setup works and I can console in. I didn't manage to get fax through, but it's probably my problem with mgetty. My next step now is to get my analog landline reenabled.

At some point, I wanted to have the same server features and went through the same thought process. My Leopard installation now is mainly used for editing film photographs in Photoshop. I don't think server is worth it. The G4 is quite loud, the G5 is very power hungry and, at the end of the day, my rack of 3 Ivy Bridge Dell PowerEdges consumes the same amount of power as a single G5, counting 16 spinning disks! Unless you just want to play with the features then, by all means, go for it. Just make sure it is internal-use only.

yes it worked ok

Yes - and documented it here. =)

Years ago, from a clearance in the Netherlands.

They are expensive used as well.

Yes it comes ready. =)

I do. I wish I could afford one. =)

I am 10.000km from this server right now and never went beyond 2x 256 SATA SSD.

@@Shiunbird It was a problem with card itself. I exchange it. "New" card detects almost any drive size/type. Thanks

Why would you want a G5 for that? Unless you are really keen into the old software (or Logic 9 without any updates enough for you), then I don't think it makes much sense. Linux is very poorly supported these days.

@@Shiunbird cuz have GarageBand and is cheap

@@Shiunbird I have a other computer but don't work well with my guitar but I have used some years ago a G5 with my friend guitar and work well

@@Shiunbird and Logic 9 is good

@@FlakerGamerI've had 2 G5s. This Quad I sold. Now I have adual core 2.0. Both came from ebay and for both I paid a fair price and they were both super fine.

Google is your best friend, but here you go www.ghisler.com/wince2x.htm

@@Shiunbird thanks, I tried to open it on a Volkswagen China radio 5gg035280b (Windows CE), to copy or disc data item didn't work, it won't open

@@DimsonRoad Check the following: 1. CPU architecture of what you are downloading vs your infotainment. 2. See if you can get the Plus pack with regedit - maybe there's some background process running that kills whatever you may be trying to open. 3. See if you have the command prompt (cmd). Not all devices have it. Try to run it from there and see if it prints any error on stdout.

11.11

Very useful

That's amazing! How does it perform?

@@Shiunbird Really well! Trascoded one 4k HDR to 1080p film with about 5% load. I'm well chuffed with it. The P2200 is overhyped by people, this does about the same, if not better. Google the specs!

you can program it to be any string of text up to 32 characters and when selected it will make APs with that name

Marry him.

Thank you!

Not mine. But I gave it to a friend.

I think you can use any text editor with Softbench. By default it comes with emacs, but I think you can change it. I like nedit - it's my favourite one in irix. HP Application Toolkit comes with it. It is 6 CDs. I got it accidentally from the person I bought the workstation from. He promised HP UX and it didn't come with it. When I complained he sent me with the toolkit instead. It's lovely - tons of opengl demos too.

yup... not being compatible with the sh3 is a huuuuuge bummer. And the keyboard is indeed very fine. I find it a bit tiring for very long typing sessions but, compared to the crap most laptops come with these days, it's a gem.

did you build the array? I think you won´t see the properties unless you build the array first. I can't change the setttings to review the process, because the server is in production..

@@Shiunbird how would I build the array if the option is not present?

It's the first time I hear from someone who daily-drove them. It must have been fascinating. Computers and all their bloat are turning working with computers a bag of hurt.

Unfortunately, I wouldn't buy a Quadro for the Mac Pro just for this test. Bare Feats has a better comparison and indeed the G5 does very well and would do even better if matched on clock speed (slowest Mac Pro has higher clock speed than the fastest G5). The G5 should have lower memory latency as well, due to buffered RAM. That being said, I owned a few Core Duos and Core 2 Duo Macs and their Logic performance was AWFUL. Once I had a PCIe 2x SSD RAID 0 installed (Sonnet) and the G5 could handle uncompressed 4K video editing fine that way, 2 streams. My current G5 is a dual core late 2005 2.0 GHz. This is the one I currently own and use a lot. Very quiet, way less heat, and the power consumption is not too bad.

@@Shiunbird hi, thanks for the reply. Do you use your Dual 2.0Ghz with Logic? Impressive is the fact that you can edit 4K uncompressed (or in ProRes). Which program do you use? I don't remember if FC6 handles 4K. I own 5 iMacs from 2006 to 2011 and I must tell you that with each hardware update, the differences become impressive, especially when used with Snow Leopard, OSx which I love. The 533Mhz RAM of the Quad has lower latency and can be unbuffered but between the 2.5Ghz of the G5 and the 2.66Ghz of the MacPro there is no substantial difference due to the clock frequency, in fact I'll tell you again that the architecture it is very different and the G5 unfortunately has little 2nd level cache, compared to the Xeon which has 4Mb per processor which a CPU core can access completely; the G5 can enjoy a maximum of 1MB when the second core is sleeping. We also consider that Leopard improves the performance of the MacPro while worsening that of the G5; perhaps using Sorbet there would have been better results but to be honest the G5 was not able to enjoy all those software and hardware improvements that would have affirmed how successful the technology was that IBM still continues today with the Power10. Grazie!

@@Vlamat67 FCP will do and allow you to set arbitrary frame size. Mind you, though, that depending on the effect you set, it will choke. I used to use my G5 Quad for Logic but now the dual is running Debian Sid on server duty. It's on kernel 6.something. Now my Logic machine is the 1,1 of this video running in the garage I have with my friends and it is actively on recording duty with Focusrite Saffire interfaces. The dual handles uncompressed 2K in Shake as well, and up to 2K is actually documented. It gets quite slow depending on how many nodes you stack, though.

@@Shiunbird complimenti! ;)

Technically, Mac OS X Leopard (and maybe other releases) is UNIX-certified (at least on Intel). I honestly don't think it would be much different than today. The clunky desktop environments (think IRIX or early CDE) were more result of the limited performance than anything else. Even early MS releases and classic Mac OS were way less refined than what we have today. But if you want to imagine the unpredictable, have a look on the latest Solaris and get it up running in SPARC. Or boot FreeBSD on PowerPC.

Late classic Mac OS is honestly a train-wreck, even though I love the clean and straight to the point GUI. However, yes, Mac OS X really went downhill. It became bloated, plus all the telemetry and phone-home anti-features. Ugh... My favorite OS X release is Leopard.

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I won't go around buying devices for the sake of this experiment (the next OS will probably be nextstep 3.3), but yea... I actually have a childhood friend who has been daily driving Android for 4 years. He doesn't have a desktop computer or laptop, relying only on a galaxy note and external keyboard when long typing is required. But damn, I just can't.

@@Shiunbird I have been using 34 keys split keyboard, something like Ferris Sweep but my own build. Two halves put on top of each other are only slightly bigger than your average smartphone, it is wireless and portable. Typing and coding with such a keyboard is not a problem actually, but it only makes sense when you need such portability, a 6.7" screen will always be a limiting factor, but checking your server or doing occasional ssh-ing on the go is totally doable. As for apps you can actually pass-through xorg and launch big desktop applications like libreoffice, again the screen size and lack of mouse will be limiting, but with a 11-12" tablet screen you can actually make it work and actually daily drive it, but again you need some kind of constraint to actually wanting doing that, maybe in Africa you would only have a single solar panel and very little daily energy, then such setup would make sense.

@@JamesSmith-ix5jd Interesting setup. Yes, indeed, in a constrained environment, I guess Android and a small keyboard would do. But I'd not voluntarily choose such setup. I am evaluating different operating systems to see if there are things I am missing from other environments that I find interesting and could try to incorporate. Keeping an open mind! =)

My current setup is Windows desktop (I don't game much but sometimes I need to test something for work, especially seeing how things would perform from our customer's perspective, and running my Canon PRO-1000). General web browsing, banking, communications: corebooted thinkpad x230 with qubes os. General computing (freecad, gimp, basic internet browsing, scripting for work): FreeBSD on a ThinkPad W530, modded with 1vyrain (Intel ME partially out, internal webcam and mic disabled) and a W530 keyboard (flashed EC). Hobby coding: HP-UX and Softbench.

@@Shiunbird Do you have KVM switch? Or how do you switch between physical systems? They are separate and are not sharing anything between each other?

@@JamesSmith-ix5jd The Windows system is a desktop PC. The FreeBSD box is a ThinkPad W530 (no automatic external storage mounting, no network start on boot). The Qubes OS machine is a corebooted X230. The Windows machine is in a different VLAN. No KVM.

Maybe the computer is off and there's now no driver thermal control, so the fans spin on full throttle for thermal safety? For example, I think the Mac Pro fans will also go full blast if you keep the side panel for too long. I can't say for sure, because when I had this setup I'd always power the PSU off after I was done. I now did the pixlas mod on my internal PSU so I don't use an external PSU anymore.

Low budget: 2 boot SSDs, 4 data SSDs. All SATA. High budget: 4U chassis, 8 NVMes in PCIe carriers. High capacity SATA. And I'd look at newer low vattage Xeons. I´d not go for SAS because I need to keep a fan. I don't trust the cards to last too long without at least a chassis fan pushing some air through. At the end of the day, my setup is not fanless anymore. I didn´t cash to go full SSD, so I need fans to push air through the SSDs. I got now 2 E3-1260Ls, each one with 32TB raw storage, for a total of 64TB raw. Each one is doing raidz2 and I keep a spare disk in each server. The whole cost of the project was 1000 EUR, so I think that's fine. I can work next to the boxes no problem. Doesn't do more noise than my ThinkPad W530 when the fan goes full speed. My only mistake was getting a 2U SAS enclosure for the server you see in the picture. Even after replacing the fans with noctuas, there's a bit of an annoying whine. Before the setup was in my living room, so it had to be quiet. Now I got a rack, so it's ok.

Pretty much. I ended up migrating to a Librem 5. Most components have native support in kernel so I hope it will last longer than most devices.

I've never heard of python 3 support for wince.

You probably can, but I can´t confirm. My watch is with a friend 10.000km from here.

@@Shiunbirdbut I wanna want how

I don´t get the question.

@@Shiunbird What task are you using it for on daily basis?

@@CaribouDataScience I am trying to find out the operating system that the least gets on my way when I am working. I am mostly doing code and other text-related tasks. Web browsing is a part of my day, but no video watching or things like that.

Hard to say. When I tested it, I could see that there's no cutoff point, it just becomes less reliable. I managed to go 3 floors down and go to the street and my access point logs still would register deauth requests sometimes.

No way. In the context of the era, you couldn´t have your 5/8 MHz workstation preoccupied with nonsense such as driving output like that - you just prepare the content and leave the interpretation to the expensive, powerful, output device. I think postscript is turing complete.

I'm glad you enjoyed. I find PostScript absolutely fascinating and I wish I had more time to explore it and learn it properly.

If you have opencore and a supported Mac OS, I think so. A bit too expensive to try, though.