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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #80 on: February 25, 2015, 11:11:02 AM »
Quote from: Dr David Thork on February 25, 2015, 10:27:31 AM
How is the battery life on this old laptop? Does it have a new battery? If not, I'm guessing you have about 20 mins unplugged.

I'll let you know when I'm done piecing it back together.
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #81 on: February 26, 2015, 07:37:13 AM »
I have put it together and am now (finally) installing OpenBSD.
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #82 on: February 26, 2015, 08:17:55 AM »
Quote from: Blanko on February 25, 2015, 09:04:14 AM
Quote from: Parsifal on February 25, 2015, 09:03:22 AM
Quote from: pizaaplanet on February 25, 2015, 08:20:12 AM
You could resort to the highly technical option of connecting the pins with a screwdriver to switch it on :^)

I have considered that, but the connectors are inconveniently placed. I would literally need to remove the keyboard and disconnect the touchpad every time I wanted to power the thing up.

Do you really need to power it up more than once?


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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #83 on: February 28, 2015, 01:06:24 PM »
I just compiled my first kernel on the new iBook. It took 16 minutes and 6.33 seconds, which is several times longer than it takes on my ThinkPad, but not as much longer as I would have expected. This PowerPC hardware seems surprisingly solid, given its age.
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #84 on: February 28, 2015, 03:21:48 PM »
And the battery life is?
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #85 on: February 28, 2015, 03:45:28 PM »
Quote from: Dr David Thork on February 28, 2015, 03:21:48 PM
And the battery life is?

I wouldn't know, I've been running it on AC thus far.
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #86 on: February 28, 2015, 04:38:56 PM »
Building the OpenBSD userland takes about 202 minutes. That means I can get a full OS built (excluding X.org) in under four hours.

Time to compile X.org and see how long that takes. I'd guess maybe two hours or so.
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #87 on: February 28, 2015, 05:39:27 PM »
Quote from: Parsifal on February 28, 2015, 04:38:56 PM
Building the OpenBSD userland takes about 202 minutes. That means I can get a full OS built (excluding X.org) in under four hours.

Time to compile X.org and see how long that takes. I'd guess maybe two hours or so.
Sounds like there is a huge amount of bloatware in there.
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #88 on: February 28, 2015, 06:17:55 PM »
Quote from: Dr David Thork on February 28, 2015, 05:39:27 PM
Quote from: Parsifal on February 28, 2015, 04:38:56 PM
Building the OpenBSD userland takes about 202 minutes. That means I can get a full OS built (excluding X.org) in under four hours.

Time to compile X.org and see how long that takes. I'd guess maybe two hours or so.
Sounds like there is a huge amount of bloatware in there.

Out of curiosity, what is your point of reference here? Given how loudly you like to proclaim your ineptitude with operating systems on a regular basis, I wouldn't have picked you as having any experience building them from source.
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #89 on: February 28, 2015, 06:56:25 PM »
Takes 20 mins to install windows. If its going to take 202 mins to put your crapware on there, there must be an awful lot of unnecessary bloat with it. :)
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #90 on: February 28, 2015, 07:38:41 PM »
Quote from: Dr David Thork on February 28, 2015, 06:56:25 PM
Takes 20 mins to install windows.
On an iBook?
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #91 on: February 28, 2015, 07:59:37 PM »
Quote from: beardo on February 28, 2015, 07:38:41 PM
Quote from: Dr David Thork on February 28, 2015, 06:56:25 PM
Takes 20 mins to install windows.
On an iBook?
On anything with a half decent intel processor and an SSD.
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #92 on: February 28, 2015, 08:16:52 PM »
Quote from: Dr David Thork on February 28, 2015, 06:56:25 PM
Takes 20 mins to install windows. If its going to take 202 mins to put your crapware on there, there must be an awful lot of unnecessary bloat with it. :)
You do know what it means to compile software, right?
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #93 on: February 28, 2015, 08:45:22 PM »
Quote from: pizaaplanet on February 28, 2015, 08:16:52 PM
Quote from: Dr David Thork on February 28, 2015, 06:56:25 PM
Takes 20 mins to install windows. If its going to take 202 mins to put your crapware on there, there must be an awful lot of unnecessary bloat with it. :)
You do know what it means to compile software, right?

If course he does. He is a software developer!
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I finally caved
« Reply #94 on: February 28, 2015, 08:50:24 PM »
Quote from: pizaaplanet on February 28, 2015, 08:16:52 PM
Quote from: Dr David Thork on February 28, 2015, 06:56:25 PM
Takes 20 mins to install windows. If its going to take 202 mins to put your crapware on there, there must be an awful lot of unnecessary bloat with it. :)
You do know what it means to compile software, right?

Beat me to it... I was going to ask why he was confusing compiling vs. installing (copying)... I can't imagine how long windows would take to compile.
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #95 on: February 28, 2015, 09:06:33 PM »
Compiling Windows on some laptop would probably take weeks.
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #96 on: February 28, 2015, 10:04:21 PM »
You hear that, Th*rk?
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #97 on: March 01, 2015, 03:42:57 AM »
... did Thork seriously just confuse compilation with installation? w0w

Also, compiling X.org takes just under three hours, which means a full recompilation of my OS including X takes less than seven hours. Not bad for a decade-old PowerPC laptop.
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #98 on: March 01, 2015, 04:14:11 AM »
Quote from: Parsifal on March 01, 2015, 03:42:57 AM
... did Thork seriously just confuse compilation with installation? w0w

Also, compiling X.org takes just under three hours, which means a full recompilation of my OS including X takes less than seven hours. Not bad for a decade-old PowerPC laptop.

I had heard that although the old mac laptops specs were not as powerful on paper as old intel based laptops, they performed comparably.  would you agree or disagree with this?
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Re: I finally caved
« Reply #99 on: March 01, 2015, 06:28:28 AM »
Quote from: Rama Set on March 01, 2015, 04:14:11 AM
I had heard that although the old mac laptops specs were not as powerful on paper as old intel based laptops, they performed comparably.  would you agree or disagree with this?

I haven't been using it for long enough to comment, but it definitely performs better than I would have expected it to.

Also, I just found an endianness bug in my window manager. Owning a big-endian system is already paying dividends.
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