"Opera 6 beta 1 for Mac is now available at http://www.opera.com/mac.
The press release:
www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2002/09/20020925.html
-- egil h.

" I placed an order for the 1GHz Sonnet ENCORE / ST Processor upgrade for my G4 450Mhz AGP a couple of months ago. I am told that it shipped and it will be delivered to me in a couple of days. I will mail in benchmarks as soon as I get a chance to install it.
Thanks.
k"

"Hello Mike: While surfing tonight, I ran across the following Japanese site that has some information about the new Sonnet Crescendo/PCI G4 800 card. I don't read Japanese, but it certainly looks like this guy overclocked his card to 960MHz! Perhaps someone can translate this information?
http://www.sevencolors.net/mocw/cpu/cpu02.htm
Gordon H."

As noted in the past here, Google.com and Altavista's (Babelfish) have web page language translators - google doesn't currently list Japanese however as an option. The translations are not always good, but here's tthe english translated page using Babelfish.
The page notes adding a 2nd Fan and boosting the bus speed to 60MHz - since the bus/cpu multiplier is already at the max 16x, boosting bus speed is the only option for higher CPU speed. (Many macs won't be able to run a 60MHz bus speed reliably.)

"Hello. Today I read about the fix for the Sonnet ATA 100 card. I have one and have had it disabled since I first learned of this problem on your website. I followed the instructions for the fix. Upon verbose logging, I noticed that the Ultratek100.kext package was "not authentic and would be ignored" by the system. However, the system booted beautifully. So now the test....restart. I restarted with verbose logging. The very first line reported said "loading Ultratek100 from archive. The system booted beautifully. I then restarted without verbose logging. The system again started beautifully. I then decided to remove the Ultratek100.kext altogether. This seems risky, but remember if the system won't boot I would just shutdown and use the internal ATA33 bus (of my PCI G4)

Using the terminal command sudo rm -r "drag the file here for path" . I rebooted, verbosely, and yes, the line
loading com.firmtek.driver.Ultratek100 from archive
appeared. The system booted beautifully. System Profiler reports the presence of an Ultratek100 card on the PCI and alas! I enjoy the speed of my Segate Baracuda IV once again.

Dignosis: The Ultratek100.kext in 10.2 is to blame. AND, there is a driver included in the Mach kernel, no kext is needed. I reccommend simply deleting the Ultratek100.kext using the terminal and then happily using your Sonnet Tempo ATA 100 card.
Jed DiPaola."

• Other World Computing G4/450 in Beige G3 (rated 8)
• Other World Computing G4/550 in B&W G3 (rated 10)
• Sonnet G4/500 in B&W G3 (rated 10)
• XLR8 CarrierZIF w/G3 300 ZIF in 7500/100 (rated 9)
• XLR8 CarrierZIF MPe w/G4 550 ZIF in PowerTower pro (rated 1)

(Warning - Overclocking may not be reliable and could lead to hardware failure or corrupted data.) You can find the full reports by searching the database selecting the indicated Mac model and upgrade card brand/type. If you've upgraded the CPU on your Mac, please post an entry in the database. Search the database for entries from most every upgradable Mac model *before* you buy. (Searchable by mac model/upgrade brand). For detailed reviews with performance tests and install tips, see the CPU Upgrades page.)

Combo DVD+CDR Drive Reports:
• IDE Samsung SM332 (32x10x40x + 12x DVD ROM) in Dual G4 DDR (OS X)
  (no iTunes/DB support)
  
  IDE CDRW Drive Reports:
• Lite-On LTR-48126S (48x12x48x) in G4/AGP (OS X)
  (no itunes support or discburner support)
  (FYI - Illustrated CD drive install guide here covers G4 towers up to the Digital Audio Model, Beige G3 MT, B&W G3 and 8600/9600 Macs)
  
  Firewire CDRW Drive Reports:
• SmartDisk FWCDRW-V8 8x8x24x used w/PowerBook G3 lombard (OS 9.2)

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