Changing the power supply unit on a powermac g5, after it blows up!
November 27th, 2007
If the PSU on you’re powermac g5 has gone, or you think it may have, you aren’t the only one (see macintouch forums). When I was reading around on the subject I read the failure rate is around 11%, I can’t remember the exact figure but hopefully I’ll find it again later. Luckily Apple did acknowledge the problem and has extended the warranty on the power supply, which you can claim here: Power Mac G5 Repair Extension Program for Power Supply Issues
A relatively new customer phoned us up last week in a panic, claiming his server (the powermac) had stopped working and wouldn’t even switch on. We’d recently set-up a remote backup solution for him and installed an extra internal hard drive in the powermac for local backup. I’m guessing the extra load of the hard drive took it over the edge. Needless to say he needed the server back up asap.
Phoning around we found one supplier with a spare powermac psu in stock. None of the local apple stores did and most companies sounded confused, as if I was asking a silly question. We ended up paying £150-£200 for the psu, a little on the expensive side but desperate times call for desperate measures.
Cape town web cams and photos
November 1st, 2007
This summer I visited Cape town and even though it was winter there the weather and views were far better than here! Its a beautiful place and I often check up on the web cams available of the area. There are even some of the beaches we visited, which is quite cool - if only I’d arranged somebody to take a screenshot of me.
Some of the better and more updated cams I’ve found are:
- Kapstadt.de
- Bay tv (these guys have quite a few)
- Fish Hoek Galley (we went and ate here)
I’m quite proud of some of the photos I took on my point and shooter. As there don’t seem to be too many decent sized images online I thought I’d put them up for all to see. I’ve brought them down to half size to save some space!