Getting rid of the Apples

I'm in the process of selling my Apple boxes.
I have already sold Balrog, a 12" PowerBook; but now is time let Trantor and Thor go...
I was looking forward or maybe, looking for, a Compaq, but I guess I'll go for one of those new Thinkpads.

Balrog is no more (with me)

Being perhaps a little too busy lately, not much time to post around here on Oesediez...
The other day, about a week ago sold my lovely PB 12", mostly because I wasn't using it at all, so I gave it to someone who will give it a new life and a new love.
It served me well, but I really haven't used it that much, got 400 U$S for it, a nice deal I think, 512 MB RAM, a maxxed HDD with 120 GB, and 2 batteries (one pretty much beat up and the other one a new one, a replacement I got under the Apple umbrella)

Saturday PowerBook de-gunk

Yet another edition of the de-gunk series...
This time, it was Balrog's turn.
I have to say that compared to Hercules, the guts of this little machine are way, way cleaner, not to mention, everything it is packed amazingly tight, there is hardly any space left for anything other than the laptop's own hardware.
And, it was incredibly clean, specially the fans, once again, compared to Hercules' guts that were a freaking mess.

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SU Mystery Theater (18)

The last one for the moment...
Installed the available updates on Balrog last night, and, as usual so far, everything went A Ok.

Su Mystery Theater (15)

Installed the available updates on the piccolina, everything seems to just dandy after the mandatory reboot.

Su Mystery Theater (12)

And the same stuff for the beloved piccolina...
No problems at all after installing the whole shebang on Balrog.

Cycle Count Glory

A landmark on my "Apple experience"... The new battery for Balrog, life is good, and even better with a 0 cycle count on a battery :)

Balrog: Ubuntu screenshots

Some screenshots I took when installed Ubuntu on Balrog


The first boot onto the Gnome desktop...
Things were a mess, but the solution was pretty simple, keep the box clock on syncd with a proper NTPD server!!!

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Enabling the wireless adapter, AKA AirPort :p
Simple as a click, no problem whatsoever connecting to any Access Point.

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And the last one, just about to install Os X Tiger on it.
Ubuntu is great, but, for the moment, I'd stick with Tiger on it.

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(Apple) Love is all around

Balrog seems to be happy with its new family...
It came with a couple of really beaten down batteries, really beaten, about 45 minutes of life span, tops.
Anyway, I was checking the serial on those today, and for the nails of the cross of Jeebus, one of the batteries falls under the Exchange Program umbrella.

Un Fucking Believable

Called a local Apple reseller, went to the place, filled a form, and, it looks like on Thursday I'll have a spanking new battery for Balrog.

Balrog: Some Ubuntu info (1)

Some information from the Ubuntu install on Balrog.

esteban@balrog:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda
[sudo] password for esteban: 
/dev/hda
        #                    type name                  length   base      ( size )  system
/dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1         ( 31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/hda2         Apple_Bootstrap untitled                1954 @ 64        (977.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda3         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled           229910157 @ 2018      (109.6G)  Linux native
/dev/hda4         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                 4529473 @ 229912175 (  2.2G)  Linux swap

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=234441648
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

esteban@balrog:~$ uname -a
Linux balrog 2.6.25-2-powerpc #1 Tue Sep 30 14:49:00 UTC 2008 ppc GNU/Linux

esteban@balrog:~$ df -ah
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3             108G  2.1G  101G   2% /
tmpfs                 378M     0  378M   0% /lib/init/rw
/proc                    0     0     0   -  /proc
sysfs                    0     0     0   -  /sys
varrun                378M  104K  378M   1% /var/run
varlock               378M     0  378M   0% /var/lock
udev                  378M  2.8M  375M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 378M  104K  378M   1% /dev/shm
devpts                   0     0     0   -  /dev/pts
fusectl                  0     0     0   -  /sys/fs/fuse/connections
securityfs               0     0     0   -  /sys/kernel/security
binfmt_misc              0     0     0   -  /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
gvfs-fuse-daemon         0     0     0   -  /home/esteban/.gvfs

esteban@balrog:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor : 0
cpu  : 7447A, altivec supported
clock  : 1499.999000MHz
revision : 0.2 (pvr 8003 0102)
bogomips : 73.47
timebase : 18432000
platform : PowerMac
machine  : PowerBook6,8
motherboard : PowerBook6,8 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh 
detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 12")
pmac flags : 0000001a
L2 cache : 512K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld

Balrog, a new member of the family

Got a "new" toy yesterday.

A little 12" PowerBook beauty, yes, PPC... Yes.
It seems to be working pretty, prrettty good.
Maxxed up the builtin 256 MB RAM with another 512 MB stick I have from God knows what upgrade I did (the PB came with 2 256 MB sticks).

The thing has a 1.5 GHz CPU and a 120 GB HDD, really decent hardware.

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