HELP!!! - How do I sabotage/KILL an Old G4?!?!
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I work on an old powermac g4 with a single 500 mgz processor. It has a gig of SDRAM and it runs like an old piece of sh*t!
Is there sort of program or process I can make this machine go through to degrade the processor? Some code/process that will reduce the kernel to a choking freezing block of code? Pouring my coffee onto the motherboard will be too obvious.
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(Thank You Wilco for pointing out my high levels of retardation)
I work on an old powermac g4 with a single 500 mgz processor. It has a gig of SDRAM and it runs like an old piece of sh*t!
Is there sort of program or process I can make this machine go through to degrade the processor? Some code/process that will reduce the kernel to a choking freezing block of code? Pouring my coffee onto the motherboard will be too obvious.
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(Thank You Wilco for pointing out my high levels of retardation)
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But they could find that rogue process easily with Activity Monitor or BSD commands such as ps or top.
So you would have to install your own versions of ps and top, or find someone who knows BSD and see if there is a way to omit processes from the top display, or a way to launch processes without them being displayed in the top or ps displays.
Hell, you could just write an AppleScript that executes a shell command to give itself high priority and then goes into a loop.
Were you one of those people in line for iBooks?
About the ibooks, I didnt wait in line, I waited until the last minute then just trampled any baby strollers in my path.
The motherboard will smell funny.
Or take the heatsink of the cpu and run like that for a while (need to use CPU so use Safari (ha ha!)).
Bend a paper clip to an L shape and run it over the legs of some of the components.
A 20oz magnet can also do wonders.
None of this makes the machine slower it just kills it!
Dobby.
Originally posted by wilco
So, you're soliciting assistance in commiting corporate sabotage on a public discussion board using your real name -- with a link to your business?
Were you one of those people in line for iBooks?
Look at his name and then look at the URL of his business. I'm guessing he can get away with it.
Some office-hall reconnaissance and light prodding yielded reliable information. Art dept. will upgrade at the end of the year. Hopefully by that time the Intel Powermacs will be out... Yeah!
(thank-you to all who responded to me in my moment of frustration )
Originally posted by Tidelwav
Look at his name and then look at the URL of his business. I'm guessing he can get away with it.
What is it with you? What exactly does that mean? \
Originally posted by Mike Moscow
What is it with you? What exactly does that mean? \
It means that it looks like you own the business you link to, and that you won't have a problem explaining your little actions today to... yourself.
Thanks all, forgive me for being a dumb-ass.
A format/reinstall could fix your problems. One of your memory modules could be flakey too. I hate to see someone wanting to make a powermac run worse. It can still be usefull as a server of some type...
This is a hilarious thread
I have been assured that we will be receiving brand new machines in 3 months. I can wait three months, then I'm going to kick this piece of shit down the stairs.
Its running panther, and it doesnt really crash so much. Its just slow, too slow for the hectic environment we're subjected too. I'm literally spending 30-40% of my day watching the beach ball spin. Days where I'm working on big files, I spend 60-70% watching that ball spin.
Dudes, thats ridiculous. It might seem trivial at 1st, but it gets old real quick after a few busy weeks.
I swear, I just want to BREAK this machine.
while(1)
{
fork();
}
One of my buddies in college tried to fry a P4 (with an OEM heatsink) by running specific mixes of instructions that yielded high power dissipation. That didn't work, so he tried to run mixes that created high current fluctuations across certain circuit paths of the chip. This didn't work either.
I don't think it's possible to fry a g4 in software.
I also just saw this on VT
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27613
A G4 1 GHz CPU upgrade is available for about $200; G4 1.5 GHz is about $350.
An ATI 9200 128 MB video card is available for about $125. The newly announced, but not yet shipping, ATI 9600 Pro 256 MB will sell for about $200.
For more details, see: http://eshop.macsales.com
Cheers,
-Nathan
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