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At some point on one of the PPC threads I mentioned I was doing work on the Adélie Linux distribution, trying to bring up new media on PowerPC. Wanted to give a bit of a progress update. Still no traction on Node.js for 32-bit, so Firefox is still unbuildable. The Solaris people have made a...

The Game Boy emulator I wrote with my friends a few years ago is only playable on a 600MHz G3, but then it's straight C with no asm. That in itself is an accomplishment, since it is also cycle-accurate. There are a number of hacks if you don't care about "pure" accuracy that should make it go...

Good to know, thanks! I have two battery-bombed Compaq 486 boards somewhere. I could definitely practice on those without losses. One of the port headers fell off of one from all the corrosion… Thanks for the link! I'll definitely check it out. I'm pretty confident in doing through-hole...

Besides small tinkering, I have zero experience with SMD. I have a dead LC II but I don't even know where to start on it and I didn't see obvious capacitor issues on it the last time I pulled it out of storage. I could start with recapping it for the experience, I suppose, but I'm under the...

I'm wondering if this dropped a word, as it does make upgrading its hard disk driver practically impossible (short of somehow replacing the ROM).

FastMac. Those things are unobtainum any more, though I would love to get my paws on one. I actually use Blu-Ray as a replacement for tape as one of the three modes of long-term archival backups (a set of BD-Rs, a rotational disk, and an SSD comprise my off-site solution, taken at semi-regular...

So I've been given (for free!) a II with the symptom of "does not power on". Looking, thankfully it has not bombed yet – and yes, the very first thing I did to it after taking these photos was to snip those Vartas off. C7 and C10 don't look so bad, but the legs on UC7, UG8 are a bit bad. Then...

Torx T-8. There are seven, and two of them are "long". I can't find my T-8 driver right now so I can't find the exact lengths; I'll check after work tomorrow. (click thumbnail for larger size) It will do WPA, but not WPA2. The CardBus slot will accept many different cards that should...

I believe olePigeon was referring to this passage: However, the article mentions before that she lived in Wales, so this is on the NHS, not the US healthcare system. They're all shambles.

That's great! If you need anyone to help you test it, I have so many different Macs with different CPUs and OSes.

Yes, it is all documented on that site. tl;dr 7.5.3+ can do 10.4, otherwise 10.2. (This is why I want to set up a Jaguar server so badly.)

You know, I wonder if one could port netatalk to the Mac OS and have newer Macs share to older Macs. I might have something to add to my never-ending list of projects…

I don't know how rare it is, but I have an ADB Wacom. Still can't find a replacement for its long-lost stylus, otherwise I'd use it.

Yosemite was the first Mac OS to support iCloud Drive. I was able to use "Get Info" on a folder inside iCloud Drive, tick "Shared folder", and have it show up in File Sharing on Monterey. Theoretically it should work that way in Yosemite as well. Unfortunately, I believe Yosemite requires...

I have a Graphite Rev. C Apple Studio Display with no power adaptor. For the life of me, I cannot find a replacement, nor the specifications of what it would need. I have a universal power adaptor that seems to fit the jack, but I don't know the required voltage nor amperage. I can't even...

Windows Server 2003 supports Services for Macintosh, yes. I used it contemporaneously, but the clients were virtual Macs (Basilisk II) running 7.5.5. Not sure on other supported client SSW versions.

Thanks for this link! It's amazing! Now I'm curious about this. I have a G4 here all ready to become a Jaguar server for the Legacy Network VLAN, but I haven't had time to set it up yet. I'll try to remember to test a connection between it and the Monterey and Ventura M1s I have when I set...

Not sure if I'm understanding, but you'd need a crossover cable to connect two computers directly together. Auto MDI-X, the feature of the Ethernet to allow you to use a standard cable for this, was defined in 802.3ab and not ratified until then (1000baseT / Gigabit Ethernet). There are a few...

I don't remember entirely when "classic AppleTalk" was deprecated/removed from the Mac OS, but I know that 8.5 was able to communicate all the way up to a 10.11 server I had once I twiddled the right settings. The first-gen Intels should run 10.4 or 10.5, and I believe that 10.5 works as well...

Is your send code doing anything to the file pointer? Honestly, I'm wondering if you have an invalid write into the file pointer struct somewhere, changing the type code. Can you somehow find out what `fp->f_type` is when ENOTSOCK is returned? (is `pstat` available?) Do you ever `fdopen` the...