I visted this page hoping to see the PowerPC 970 top of the list, but all it gets is a "Dishonorable Mention". After going through three PowerMac G5s, all of which had their processors die within 4 years, I still bear a grudge.
I'm pretty sure they have a wiskers or wire bonding problem too, and the water blocks clog.
I picked one up that was labeled "crashes while booting" or some such from the goodwill near my house for something like $20 some years back. Brought it home, and noticed that the water block got burning hot when it was turned on, and tubes feeding the radiator were room temp. I broke the water loop open and flushed it out, and a whole bunch of white crap came out of the block. So, whatever the coolant apple shipped with it, was clogging the block. Reassembled the whole thing, had a terrible time getting the air of the system, but in the end it ran pretty good for a while until I left it off for a few months, and it refused to boot. In an act of desperation I hit it with the heat gun and that magically fixed it for a few weeks, and it did the same thing like a year later when I tried to boot it again.
I ran some benchmarks on it to compare with a POWER4 I also have, and yah lots of clock, shitty IPC. It was really cool in 2001, but by the time apple was putting them in mac's they were pretty terrible in comparison to the amd/intel's.
I don't know what OP was running but the G5 iMacs were some of the machines suffering from the early 2000s capacitor plague[0]. The power supplies and power regulation on the logic boards would die on those all the time. If you were lucky it was just the power supply but the problem usually needed a PSU and logic board swap.
The processor in a G5 PowerMac came on a card that had the VRMs, capacitors, and a bunch of other stuff on it. It was basically like a tiny motherboard that attached to your motherboard.
Oh no, the last time this happened there were definitely other casualties. The motherboard was left in a particular state of undeath, where it wouldn't quite power on. But if you jumped the ATX header it'd sort of attempt to boot and give some beeps.
After that I added a bunch of grounding to my house and I haven't had that much damage in one lightning strike before.
Yeah, but it had some performance issues. The 970 was such a bummer. I read the book The Race for a New Game Machine, and the crap show around Apple, the 970, and especially the Cell was just so infuriating.
"Think of the children" is used to pre-emptively attack any opposition to what is being proposed, i.e. "you are against this? you don't care about children?". It is despised by privacy advocates and I wouldn't support any group who used a tactic like that.
Kids' privacy seem like a very valid use-case for that. Because kids and adults are not necessarily easy to distinguish, bingo bango bongo, privacy for everyone by default.
I think the reference was to languages in general. In James Joyce's Ulysses there are four or five chapters which all tell basically the same story, but written in wildly different styles - one like an ancient legend, another a 'stream of consciuosness', and so on.
We use Perl::Critic [0] to deal with issues like that. It has enabled us to develop a very consistent style, and helps new devs adopt to it quite quickly.
Interesting perspective there. Worth noting that Larry Wall trained as a linguist and "often compares Perl to a natural language and explains his decisions in Perl's design with linguistic rationale" [0]
> On a good day this is nuanced yet clear and informative, on a bad day it is James Joyce.
So true. I think Perl golf could be Samuel Beckett.
I always get a good laugh when I'm reading an article on the Guardian about protecting my privacy and look up to see uMatrix reporting 182 trackers blocked.
