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I was planning on buying one, but never got the money for it. Did some computer work for them, submitted my invoice, and I got the old "I don't have a job" excuse. Now I am out $250 and a new iPod touch. Guess my 4th gen U2 iPod will have to keep going a little longer, even though the hard drive...

Well, it looks like the preterhuman site is almost back up. The front page now tells about the server, and the link to the hotline/kdx page is there. however, when I try to connect using KDX, I get a "remote host refused connection" error. Soon, very soon...

I say a car computer. I have been looking at converting a EEE 700, 701, or 702, but these machines are really compact little beasties. This might work in a pickup, SUV, or possibly a van. :D Though if I were to go with the seperate CPU path, I would want something that is compact enough to...

Nice. I got a Seagate Freeagent Desktop a year ago, 250gb for $80. It was a refurb. Sucks the sleep timer can only be adjusted in the windows software, but I borrowed a friend's machine to do it on. It worked perfectly, until leopard. When I tried setting it up with time machine, it would get...

So much for freedom of speech and the right to assemble...

The normal OS takes more space, and I want it to be as small as possible. Plus, I can only get it to serve on my local network, and I would like to access it over the internet. Not even FTP or SSH work.

I just retired my B&W G3 450mhz (overclocked 400mhz) in leau of an eMac, but I have been thinking of putting it back into active use as a server. It runs great still, and should serve up a backup of my files perfectly for a long long time. All I need to do is find a copy of Mac OS X Server...

Sweet. I have 4 of them, 1 700mhz, and the rest 1.25ghz. I managed to cobble together a 1.25ghz from the parts of the others. It runs leopard a treat with 2gb of RAM, but no core image means some eye candy is lacking. I plan on assembling the 700mhz and let my parents use it with 512mb of RAM...

Well, I got at least one eMac working. I took the one Dan gave me on Saturday, and swapped in the motherboard out of the one that was arcing. Low and behold, it comes right up. I swapped in my DVD burner and hard drive from my B&W G3, and that machine is now officaly retired. This 1.25ghz...

Well, I did manage to get the mobo out of the 700mhz and remove the hard drive without discharge, so I might try to see what all is wrong with the other 1.25ghz and swap in parts as needed. I am going to get at least one working machine out of this for all my effort.

good news bad news here: Bad news: I took the eMac in to the apple store, and they looked on their system and the earliest appointment would be 4 p.m. (this was at noon). I decided to hold off until after Christmas, and after I get back from my trip. Also, I put in the serial number onto their...

nice, I loved both my pismos, and both died in the end. Fine machines, just a bit poky at times.

yeah, I am going to take the whole shebang into apple and have them diagnose it for nothing, then take out the problem part and take it to the TV repair shoppe. I just need to learn how to discharge a CRT quickly.

I know just the place. There is a nice little TV repair shop that has old equipment and open TVs all over the place. Authorized RCA repair center, but I think they could look at my white lump. I was going to take it to the apple store tomorrow, but the snow storm is moving my way, and we are...

good news about the reported 1ghz emacs. I flipped the CD cover open and the configuration was right there: 1.25ghz/256mb/40gb/CD that makes it fall under a USB 2.0 revision, and a 2gb RAM limit, but the 1.25ghz model of that one came with a superdrive, so it might be a custom configuration...

ok, so does anyone happen to have another server? I checked out preterhuman now that it is back up, but the file are not there yet.

no it's not. I tried to connect to it to get something for the hotline server I am setting up on the WGS 9650 I conquested yesterday, but I am getting a connection timeout message.

ok, I powered up the 9650 after making some modifications. DAMN this thing is loud. the 2 seagates are showing up, at 4gb a piece, the full height hard drive was split into 2 partitions, and I found out it's a monster 18gb. the 2.1gb is not showing up. Needs ID changed. RAM is reported at...

damn, the 2 1ghz machines are YM617, and the 700mhz is YM217. Now what? I did manage to hotwire the 700mhx by cutting the power line and connecting the red and black wires and it started right up. I would use it if the hard drive were not so hard to replace. You have to discharge the CRT just...

well, didn't they have some capacitor problems across the board a while back? Then maybe this could be one of them. In which case, I am in luck, since they are still honoring that.