Tech : Holiday Hardware Hacking II {Cube Upgrade}

[Riandy74]

Holiday Hardware Hacking = MMM = M3?

It should be Triple-H lol

[donniethemacwiz]

wow adam has a lot of stuff in his dock!

[BitConfig]

Lolz at his nuts at 6:10

[julosx]

Why the second G4 rune with OS 9 ? Shouldn't it be running with Tiger or some other OS X OS ?

[MacManLtd]

Adam B's Catch Phrase is not a phrase but an action, pushing up his glasses. (thumbs up if you agree.) [14:52]

[MrMacFreek]

What do you have planned for this year Al?

[The12345hassanali1]

dont you have to ground your self or is that with pcs olny

[sillychicken599]

@The12345hassanali1 You are men't to do it with any computer. Mac's use the same hardware as pc's. Same thing. Different OS

[Wired2X]

The Borg were the best Star Trek villain of all time. Alfred, we are Borg, you will be assimilated, resistance.. is futile.

[k3ytech]

I think Adams catchprase should be "what do you mean we?" he used that at least twice in the video.

[sballo86]

Greetings from italy!!

I am a lucky owner of this spectacular mac and many others mac as the ibook clamshell, power mac g3, imac g3 ecc.. congratulations for the yours job!!! this mac is the best for design and low noise. Incredible is a computer of 2000!!!

paolo

[SuperDjchicken]

lol his catch phrase iz "oh geez ur nevre gunna get that right it's"

[Dms12444]

Actually, now we have to base TX, or 10 base 100,000.

Don't you just love the old days of 10 Base 5.

And I was born in 1995.

[EvanTrezeguet]

You say "knock it off" WAY too much. Nice vid tho.

[irulethe70s]

put the old processor in and check the fan

[irulethe70s]

look up dell and compaq and others like it on urban dictonary

[irulethe70s]

pull the damn bracket off and screw them both

[bikefixerex]

hey u ***** im a 13 year old kid in belguim

[ellendegeneresinamin]

Can't wait for Holiday Hardware Hacking 3! Haha, loved the ending.  "The B in Adam B stands for..."

[chinesefury]

Al & Adam B, we need a follow up HHH 3

[chinesefury]

I love when you and the great Adam B do the classic Mac equipment, it's just so nostalgic. Keep more of it coming.

[joseisamacgeek]

omg I got the monty python and the holy grail joke. LOL. This video is awesome!

[RaveSnoreThrong]

marder!

[HHvitsten]

I can´t wait for H3 III:)

[areahighone]

The NIC card is as old as the SUX

[applesauceprod]

i was sick so i didnt go to school :D

[drticzon]

I wish you guys cut out all the BS and show the upgrade. My G4 Cube runs Tiger, but after seeing how your fired your G4, I just may pass on this upgrade.

[aceyage]

This is what makes Mr. DiBlasis videos so entertaining.

Whos wants to look at a boring tutorial video of a 8 year old computer anyhow? Might as well have some fun!

[drticzon]

I wish you guys would cut out all the BS, and just show the upgrade.

[roger767]

I would love to see the return of the Cube.

[irulethe70s]

i found this on urban dictonary

The phrase was made widely public by a YouTube Director who was involved in describing the during the upgrade of a Macintosh G4 computer.

In the video, an old Macintosh system is heavily upgraded with excessive and expensive add-ons (specifically, the video card) to make it an "FF-Class System."

The drain from the FF-Class video card was so excessive, that it caused a problem with the power supply where the machine wouldn't even boot!

[Omellykim]

"Fat Fuck" Class as defined by YouTube user Alfred Diblasi. Something exceedingly--often humorously--large.

[itemnumbernine]

Can you guys please die. when was the last time you got laid without spending or showing of your money. Never

[THEDEFOCATOR]

Haha i was thinking the same thing!

[WargMX]

One word: Epic Fail!

;P

[kyle8293]

thats two words...

[Deersindal]

glasses push is subliminal catchphrase lol

[xMaStRmAtTx]

its only 33 minutes long

[One3teen]

I need to get a fan for my cubes, they get hot....thats disturbing i apologize.

[hotfartes]

im 14 and its spring break ( its braden from ustream )

[logistix1111]

I used to work at Hawkeye Marketing in Charlotte, NC. My idiot boss Steve Smith threw out like 10 of these things. I took them out of the dumpster and made $1,500 by selling them on Craigslist.

[dayceroberts]

SCAB nahh only jokin what a fool your boss was

[Minimum91]

THREW OUT?! I am Sorry that is THEI Most Stupidest thing anyone could EVER do. That Is truly dumb. I am still drooling to death over those mint condition G4 Cube Enclosures that are on eBay. I really need to get a better Housing for mine. Mine is really scratched up.

[DuffCookie1]

I wish i still had my G4

[hulio1987]

great stuff!! man these hd-vids are awesome!

[TheUltimateGamerz]

omg... 33 minutes in HD. What if they had all shows like this =P

[twgoldwood]

adam b's catchphrase is...

BONG

[JoTee2244]

I am 14!!!!!!!!!!

[dayceroberts]

no one cares!!!!!!!!!

[dirtbiker095]

that some good stuff-WHOSYOURDADDY

[Jordanballa17]

hahaha 6:26

[randomsvideolibrary]

Adam B's catchphrase shall forever be known as... "DRIB DOOG!" *fanfare*

-Mike

[sillysaml]

Thanks Alfred, just watched in HD first time, great video as always

[themaritimeman]

Hey! I have a Rage 128 Pro in the computer i'm using to watch this! Old, but rock solid video cards!

[fatboyuk3]

I MELTED ONE OF THEM TODAY

[dayceroberts]

u lost alot of money

[pstce38]

awesome as always, first time I've watched it in HD.

[iXzion93]

Alfred ,you have something with Belgium ?? 13 year old Belgian guy , flemish . Lol i quese almost no american knows in Belgium they speek Flemish and French .

[pstce38]

plus those crazy German speakers in the east :D

(Dutch btw)

[iXzion93]

he's speaking flemish ?? i din't heard any flemish :s this is flemish : ik heb geen vlaams gehoord hoor xD . I'm a belgian xD

[iXzion93]

omg i'm such a dork it was a joke -_-'

[Jaycalabria]

lol i learned what FFClass means from one of your old video awhile back.

[Jaycalabria]

Great vid, luv the art in the background.

[iwillg4]

I wasn't even alive then!

[Harwood12productions]

steve jobs doesnt like noise? then why is the powermac g4 so fricken noisey!!!! lol

[ilikefriedfood]

your scary in hi def

[Cupra123]

Alfred, please tell me something... does your type of work (btw, what do you do?) require the use of a Mac, or you simply use them because you are a fan?

Honestly, as a PC user I find it quite amazing how much money and time people spend upgrading their old macs. I mean, Mac used to be very stable and professional.. but nowdays I think that a PC is just as powerfull and trustable.

Happy holidays.

[poopskinTheLiar]

if i had a catch phrase/action, it'd definately be me hiking up my pants (if i ever showed up on screen...Once i get to a PC with camstudio, i'll upload some videos i've made since i got our camera back.

[Allu356]

funny video lets chat

I NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO Yl

[mindstage]

Hey guys - I think your problem is this: In order for the Firmware upgrade to flash correctly, you must have a hard drive installed, with a clean install of OS 9.2 on it.

[Haol9]

His Catch Phrase should be "This is Adam B." since he says that in every one of his videos. :D

[NorCalExplorer]

I was surprised that you could not hear the fan. To bad the new cpu failed, I would like to have seen 10.5 run on it.  Heard of this video on the Retro Mac cast today and could not wait to see it. Great video over all. Hurry up and put out H3 part 3 soon. Have a Merry Christmas.

[macnerd93]

if you mean the G4 cube their is no fan inside the G4, it relies solely on air in take

[NorCalExplorer]

Did not Adam B put a fan in it to help cool the new processor?

[zkorpioz]

are they lovers?

[Haol9]

No O_o

[Hildron101010]

I hate it when people say you can't upgrade Macs. Screw those WinTards. You can upgrade them.

[Hildron101010]

Maybe this one didn't work so well because of that companies processor.

[Mycatisbigfoot]

I put more ram in my mac book thats upgrading XD and emmk Put more ram and new prossers in his mac pro

[dscala20]

also: in pump up the volume, christian slater's alter ego was Happy Harry Hardon...

[AppleGeek1984]

Yeah... I remember paying good money back in the day for a 1GB hard drive..Sorry about the processor not working.. As a mac tech/geek myself, there is nothing more irritating than money spent and time wasted when your upgrade doesn't work... but OWC kicks ass, I'm sure it will work out.. They have helped me out before..

[Stevenup7004]

Where did you get your coffee table? I love it. Oh, and nice beard AdamB xD

[dscala20]

etymology is the correct word. meaning the study of the root or origin of words... :)

[ratsouffle]

I wasn't even born then!

[PHPManTut]

Hahaha great video Al really funny like ur videos .

if u want to know what FF-Class mean go to :

urbandictionary(.)com/define(.­)php?term=ff-class

[PHPManTut]

why i cant add a comment :|

[jorjor619]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO watt is the B in Adam B

[beastlyboy83]

please check out deathjam294 on youtube!

[dannybetts123]

Cool Video A+++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[zeppelinboys]

No Firewire 800? Nice video! It's crazy that Apple could make it as small as they did.

[toberichmoe]

Adam B!

[toberichmoe]

what is the difference between HD and high quality

[daniel75o]

NOTHING Hd is just short form

[advancewars658]

HD is better quality obviously it isn't true HD it's compressed but still pretty good quality for streaming i still find videos with "high quality" Choice no HD so yes there has to be a difference not sure how u upload HD and not High quality probably by using H.264

[adwolfe12]

Adams knife fight must of been with butter knives.

[xxprojektrevolution]

you are my favorite..

[Xcokedav096]

why dont you just call him adam?

[thedekester18]

What camera are you using? What export settings? Very good quality!

[CrazyTobster]

Wow 33min long I did not know that You Tube could hold videos that long... I think I watch all tomorrow so fair it wicked video like always...

[mblaine01]

omg, Alfred, you're killing me

[DRBUK]

i wonder if its possible for u, alfred to do a whole video with your british accent.lol.....interesting.lol

[DrJohnBecker]

I wasn't even born then! :D

[dddaaannn360]

so is he getting another cpu that hopefuly wont melt

[chinchilla2302]

i love OS 9 :D

[SidMac3]

Nice one Al, I wasn't born then, Plus i'mthe 13 year old kind AdamB spoke about! Although i'm from the UK

Happy Christmas

[wbagam]

hehe Thanks!

[wbagam]

I think a video of your blender is needed!

[randomsvideolibrary]

It's not a blender! It's a Vitamix SUX 9000! Search "girl scout redux" on his channel and you'll find the full video of it in action.

[LAG09]

So did OWC want replace the bad G4-uppgradecard? Or haven't they had time to get back to you yet?

Also considering the fact that the CPU fired itself I think it's bossibler you forgot to (properly) connect the extra fans' powercable...

[ThisIsAdamB]

Oh, I connected that little sucker. I heard the fan spinning, don't know if you can hear it on the video. Besides, I think it would take more than thirty seconds to fry that CPU if the fan wasn't running.

[Hanzi89]

Nice with the beard Adam B! Get som videos up there B!

[randomsvideolibrary]

As soon as you said "Steve Jobs hates fans," the fans on my ratty-old HP (PC) tower, running XP, started grinding. It was just beautiful!

[TheBritishExport]

"I wasn't even born then"

[DavidsTechShow101]

That sucks about the Cube, like WTF that thing was supposed to be FF-class. BTW why are you running OS9 on that Cube they came stock with OS X.

Great video Alfred.

[Groudon185p]

listen, he said it had no HDD in it.

[DavidsTechShow101]

That is an XFX Video Card, didn't know that would work in a Mac. Could I get a GTX280 to run in a MacPro.

[colinstu]

What does the B stand for?! LOL

[Zanesavage]

Awesome video Alfred! I am addicted to your hacking videos bro!! Keep up the great work!

Zane

[omid11]

guessing from his surgery :p

[omid11]

how did adam get that scar on his chest?

[randomsvideolibrary]

He was in a knife fight!

[ThisIsAdamB]

Well, I was drugged and unconscious in Miami and two masked men with small, sharp knives came at me and cut me open.

But they were surgeons, I was properly anesthetized and I did give them my permission to do all that to me...

But yeah, go look at my "Knife Fight" video...

[kevinward]

yo adam b is hilarious

great vid

[thecreativeone]

Great video! It was good to see the team back at work. Also thanks for the video shout out! It felt awesome to see some of the footage from our trip. Good times to come!

[carlheanerd]

Man, it has been ages since Al and Adam been in the same movie for this kind of stuff. Good to see this kind of video back again!

[carlheanerd]

I'm so jealous, I would love a cube to put on display in my room. Some good white lighting from underneath.... I rant. At any rate, tell Adam I like the goatee! (though I fail to see why one needs facial hair for a Floridian winter)

[ThisIsAdamB]

The facial hair started out as laziness. I was at home sick for a few days around Thanksgiving and I didn't shave at all. The first day I went back to work, I looked in the mirror and said "I'm not shaving all that", so I did the sides and left the rest alone.

Actually, I've had some sort of beard almost continuously since the early '90's, except for the last couple of years. And a female friend of mine says she likes it, so it's staying for now...

[carlheanerd]

LOL, that's wonderful! Sounds like something I'd do. Anyhow, please that lady-friend!

[Imactherforeiam]

Great Video, I Loved the cube

[Alucardx11]

OMG the HD quality youtube version is amazing!

Great Job Al, great to see AdamB again! :)

[ThisIsAdamB]

Geez, I see him every day and it's no big deal.

[mchief190]

First...AdamB's Beard is awesome...the beard alone is kickass enough to watch this video.Second that old modem was made before i was born, but considering that i still use a ratty old Windows 95 computer means im probably one of the most retro dudes on my block..fortunately for me my 95 is like nearly 14 years old yet it still does some of my work for me and play some old games...so all the old tech that you show Al brings a tear to my eye...

[pwn247]

Great video as always! :D You and Adam are Steve and Jobs.

[cecilworsley]

It not "NIC card". That means Network Interface Card Card. That does not make since. Haha

[adiblasi]

Yes, we scrapped putting in the new one, as we didn't have the proper cutting tools. It didn't matter anyway, as you'll see.

[adiblasi]

Thanks. Now I have to think of an encore for 2009!

[iDarek92]

lol lol you didn't know what the thermal paste was :P and your not supposed to touch the top of the cpu because the oils from your finger will cause it to heat up more :D

[adiblasi]

I tried using it as toothpaste - it didn't work to well. :)

[macfan9000]

WHAT DOES THE "B" STAND FOR!!!???!?? NOO!! Lol, yet another classic video. Did the processor really burn up?? Thats insane! I did that with my video card on my first computer (Compaq Desktop Pro)

[adiblasi]

YES - the processor did indeed do a melt down. For real.

[macfan9000]

Holy crap!! Overpower much? ha ha! If you can on your next video or two try and add in a little bonus clip of the visual results please? I'd like to see the crash and burn of it, in efforts to compare my mishap.

[kornfreak0naleash]

Very very nice. This thing flys. Love the video!

[adiblasi]

Thanks, Korn. I take that as a very nice compliment on the editing!

[experthe]

man! I wish the g4 cube worked!

[adiblasi]

Yes, me too. I hope Other World will help me out!

[kelly6756]

There were plenty of callbacks/redundancies to remind us how much of a pain the Mac Mini was :P

[adiblasi]

Kelly, holy crap, that Mac Mini REALLY was a pain -- well, not too much of a pain to me, I was working the camera, but YES a pain!

[jalland]

Sweetness. A really great video, I must say. Funny as hell xD

-j.

[adiblasi]

Thanks, J

[WillThePlank]

Oh dear about the cpu, Lets see what happens and hope for a redux!

[adiblasi]

Will, I'm sorry my UK friend, I just don't see you as the type of person using the phrase "Oh Dear..." LOL! Yes, we'll redux that cube with the old CPU after the holidays.

[whill44]

Adam B's catch phrase is Woooossssss. From his Leopard OS install on his computers.

[Minimum91]

I just Bought a Cube System from ebay few days ago. It has no screen though.

This was really Fun To watch. You guys are really great!

Anyway, happy holidays to you and everyone else too ;)

[adiblasi]

Thanks!

[scorch11111111111111]

FF Fat Fuck thats what it says

[adiblasi]

Yup, that's it. I remembered when I created that phrase with a friend, and it was described in great detail in Urban Dictionary.

[WastedYears94]

"Flash *ahh ah*

Lmao!

great video

-Mitch

[adiblasi]

Mitch - holy crap, you caught that extremely subtle joke, referencing the Queen song from the Flash Gordon movie? Tremendous. It's actually an AdamB joke. Cousin Rich was informed of that too -- and when he attended a session hosted by Adobe, every time they referenced 'Flash', he would do the "ahh ah", and people started cracking up!

[poopskinTheLiar]

Also, Adam B.'s last name means "Bit bucket" shorthand for Dev/Null. therefore, the B. stands for void.

[dbmeagle]

ADAM BBBBBBBBBBB!!!!!! I miss you bud!!!!

[TheFilmPro]

i told you that the "b" stood for

[SgtDecimal]

Very awesome and funny video! Merry Christmas!

[adiblasi]

Thanks, you too!

[poopskinTheLiar]

i really oughta get a mac to work in tandem with my PC. i'll probably see if i can save up for a cube and upgrade it to be roughly on par with the XP-machine (which shouldn't be hard, my piece of trash only has 512 mb of ram)...oh, and i gotta find a way to run FIXBOOT on the xp-machine.

[poopskinTheLiar]

in case anyone wonders why i need to fixboot, it was a horrible dualbooting accident.

Those LED lights are frickin' beautiful!

And I've seen several iterations of the classic OS system. Heck, I run OS 8 on my PSP. It actually runs pr