[Cube] maintenance issues, Onyx and Cube running tiger

[Steven Southerden Dive]

Rod,

Rambling is good for you. You can't have all that bottled up inside  
you for too long. Anyway, I agree about the Cube's keepableness.

Steve

On 27 Feb 2006, at 18:49, Rod Duncan wrote:

> Me too - As my video card has sleep issues the machine is "always  
> on" like Ken,  I have the display going to sleep after 15 minutes.  
> The upside is it always appears on the network. I have a number of  
> computers (AI portable, son's iMac, new iMac G5) airported  
> throughout the house with the Cube sequestered in the studio with a  
> laser printer attached which is also always on and sleeping. It is  
> nice to have any of them print to the Cube and the laser printer.  
> In addition, I use Netopia's Timbuktu and visually bring up all the  
> different machines on each other's monitor's. Tres cool.
>
> The Cube is the only computer I can't sell. I recently bought an  
> iMac G5 2.1 GHz (iSight model) as I wanted a PPC G5 with AppleCare  
> before they all ended up running on InSmel's. I have too much  
> invested in pro PPC software to go down the Intel/hell upgrade road  
> - yet. I fully thought I would sell the upgraded Cube. (have it  
> maxed out with RAM, 120 Gb Barracuda, upgraded video card, Sonnet  
> 1.2 GHz processor etc. Dual monitors. But then couldn't bear to  
> part with it. Ha. Only time this has happened with any computer I  
> have owned. These Cubes do find a place in our visual heart. As  
> nice as the iMac G5 is (running a firmware patch that allows dual  
> monitor spanning/virtual desktop across the 20" internal and a 20"  
> NEC in portrait mode) the Cube doesn't have to make an apologies as  
> it still feels pretty darn zippy by comparison.
>
> Didn't mean to ramble.
>
> Rod
> "My addiction isn't drugs or alcohol - it is more expensive... my  
> Mac's"