Update 3 (March 8): The Quadra800 as AIR is totally stable, I’m enjoying all the fun things on other sites (using a SE/30 as workstation) and playing with getting screenshots converted back and forth. My ImageWriter Network card should be arriving to day and so I will have print sharing up and available. Looking for…
Category Archives: Mac
Subtext BBS version 4
Subtext is an amazing, modern, retro application for System 6 (and 7.1) Macs. It is written and maintained by Joshua Stein. It implements a full BBS with telnet, serial (modem), fsxNet (fidoMail/Boards), uploads/downloads, IP geolookup and now as of version 4, syslog. You can download Subtext 4 at Joshua’s site: https://jcs.org/2024/02/19/subtext4 I’ve been running SubText…
MacTCP System 6 Error Codes
With my new project (running a BBS on my Macintosh SE in System 6) using SubText an amazing modern BBS software server from JCS (Joshua Stein) I’ve encountered some System Errors- and like most things on the Internet today they are hard to google for (it seems like the world just searches for OSX info)…
SE/30 and HD20
Dammit The (non-SCSI) Hard Disk 20 does not work with the Macintosh SE/30. The Macintosh SE/30 has the same logic board and ROM as the Macintosh IIx, which does not support the Hard Disk 20. Therefore, the code to support the drive is not included in the ROM of the Macintosh SE/30. So much for…
Photos and BigSur
Update: This issue has been solved. I had to completely repartition and format the external disks and ensure they contained at least one APFS Container. I’m guessing there is permission metadata contained in this that isn’t available with the partitions created in Catalina. Once they were partitioned and formatted in BigSur, and contained a container…
MacPro 5,1 – NVME Turbo Charging the Disks
Putting SSD drives into the MacPro was a total change in experiencing OSX. The increases in speed and responsiveness gave new life to this aging platform (mine is a Mid 2010). Â The next step in performance is using NVMe drives on the PCI buss. And this is surprisingly easy to do. Asus has an…
USB 3 for your MacPro 5,1
Now that my Mac is back I wanted to address another issue- lack of USB 3.1 and also general lack of USB. I’ve found that i’m using most of the available USB ports (many for multiple serial interfaces I use to connect to my SGI consoles). I also have a external drive that is USB…
MacPro 5,1 Firmware Problems
Recently my MacPro 5,1 (still running High Sierra) starting crashing on an OSX Update of some kind. It started mid-April and I’m not sure which one it was, but the Mac wouldn’t boot as it ended up in the crash screen for the installer with some sort of error on finding a file that wasn’t…
Syncing Apple Archaeology
The first post to my Syncing Apple blog was 14 years ago. It was about my G5 desktop rebooting on me. Not incredibly long ago for many people, but looking back at many of my postings the time from 2004-2010 was filled with many exciting advances in both OS and device introductions. A lot happened…
WOMBAT
I spent some good money and time getting my SE/30 uplifted and retrofitted for modern use. Both the motherboard, analog board and power-supply have been recapped, it has 32M RAM installed and a SCSI to CF adapter to ensure quiet operation and no surprise disk failures. The one failure I encountered was the keyboard and…
Jeff vs Steve
The ultimate 1987 Face Off  …
Save As… for Mountain Lion
This post has saved my bacon numerous times as I’ve installed Mountain Lion on systems:  http://www.tuaw.com/2012/07/29/get-save-as-back-on-mountain-lions-file-menu-easily-and-without/  Having Save As… is just a necessary part of how I work…
EEE 1201N Updates – New BIOS & Hackintosh info
There is a new BIOS up for the 1201N – version 321 (previous released was 318). The description on the site only says “Update brightness table.” so it dosen’t sound to exciting. Meanwhile, in the Hackintosh area, the 1201N has finally gotten it’s own official thread over at Insanely Mac- 209533. There is now a…
EEE PC 1201N vs Macbook Air
I’ve been trying to use the 1201N as my daily machine, at least in place of my Macbook Air. There are several advantages the 1201N has over the Air, and several disadvantages Pros – 4GB of RAM – Plenty of disk space – Smaller size Cons – No wifi after sleep, or sometimes after disconnecting…
Droid Maker – free ebook
I stumbled across and amazing free ebook recently- DroidMaker (the link takes you to the authors blog, where he’s release the PDFs). The story is an amazingly detailed history of the formation of Lucasfilm and the evolution of what became Pixar. I done some 3D modeling and rendering in the past (using Lightwave) and it’s…
VLC 1.0!
It’s released: VLN for OSX…
Picassa for mac beta
http://picasa.google.com/mac/ Is it time to give up on iPhoto?…
Leopard as NFS Server
It’s way way easy to make your mac running Leopard into a NFS Server. Check your firewall settings…
MacBook Pro – new trackpad
Just used the new MBP for about 4 hours. The new new ‘all one big button’ trackpad is really annoying. I had my thumb down at the bottom of the ‘pad trying to click a button that just isn’t there anymore. Having to remember to click the entire pad is just really…. weird. Too weird…
Leopard and iDisk syncing
Upgrading to Leopard 10.5.2 fixed many sync issues with iDisk, however, is stopped syncing all together on my ibook. This ars article has some good tips on fixing sync issues w/ iDisk. How-To: Truly reset your .Mac sync data…
Awesome image editor for MacOSX: Imagewell
I’ve been in search of a quick, simple and modern image editor for the Mac. For far too long I’ve been dragging around Photoshop 7, simply because I know I can use it to quickly do what I want. But what I need to do is limited. I want to resize and scale photos, add…
MySQL Python driver building (breaking?) on 10.5
Trying to get my mysql environment setup on 10.5 I ran head-long into the mysql python 1.22 drivers breaking with xcode 3. from _mysql.c:40: /usr/include/sys/types.h:92: error: duplicate ‘unsigned’ /usr/include/sys/types.h:92: error: two or more data types in declaration specifiers error: command ‘gcc’ failed with exit status 1 The fixed is coved over at the Ingels 3.0…
Lepoard Firewall – not your ipfw anymore
Browsing the net I came across a great site that answered some questions I had about the new firewall in Leopard. Using it now on the company macbook, and it’s nice. Having the 4 gigs of ram helps also. My poor macbook was pushed to the limit with just 2. The site is worth checking…
It’s a Big Ass Table
Take that apple!…
New Apple USB Keyboard
I’ve been dreaming of having a USB keyboard that uses the keys in my Macbook. I’ve been in total love with the keyboard on the MacBook since it came out and I picked one up a few weeks later. The keyboards on MacBookPros feel like crap. The current Mac USB keyboards are also near useless-…