Second Annual Winter PowerPC Challenge! January 1-8, 2018

[skinniezinho]

After this challenge I figure I should go smartphone free.I gave the iPhone to my mother, and began searching for a nice and cheap feature phone. Found a store which had new old stock Sony Ericsson C702 and bought it.
Great things about Sony Ericssons in particular: iSync plugins available, can send sms through bluetooth with bluephoneelite and can run some java apps (like weather and puzzle bobble). Also in windows environment with myphoneexplorer I was able to sync it with outlook (which is able to sync with icloud) and so I can have everything on sync when needed.
Although not mine, this video resumes my feelings about it:

Using some old technology like feature phones and even powerpc computer, makes me focus more on the essential, being more productive, even if it takes some time to make them work at full power.

 

[Dronecatcher]

a nice and cheap feature phone.

Plus there's the financial gains - get a basic/retro phone and be free of constant feature/software updates that force it into premature obsolescence.
As an aside, I like having old phones and PDAs to see how far I can push them, exactly in the the same spirit as using PowerPC.

 

[Lastic]

Day 42 - 49

I've been fiddling around further with trying to SSH home towards my Xserve's VNC with partial succes.

https://charlesreid1.com/wiki/Chicken_of_the_VNC

Altough I've setup portforwarding which doesn't work ( must look at my Juniper Firewall ) , it does work via an SSH Tunnel but is slooow.

ssh -L 5900:internal_ip:5900 user@external_dns_name

and then connect Chicken of the VNC to localhost port 5900 (Display 0) , I did have to allow VNC access on Leopard Server.

Further more, tried to install Guacamole so I could use HTML5 to connect to the Xserve but gave up after getting the
dependencies installed via Macports but still have to get the source-code compiled , for those interested have a look here https://guacamole.apache.org/

Day 48

Tried disassembling my PB , only to wreck the DC board , on pause for now until a replacement board comes in ,
see here https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...rade-and-cpu-fan.2059980/page-2#post-25822494

Day 49

I wanted to create a Netboot image of my Tiger install so I can wipe it from my PB's SSD since I hardly use Tiger.

First loophole , OS X 10.5 Server cannot create Tiger images but can host them

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1548181?start=0&tstart=0

So you need Tiger and the Server Admin tools to create an image, of course the tools only install on Tiger.

https://support.apple.com/kb/DL162?locale=en_US

I tried this on my Tiger booted PB but it kept failing with a no space left on device , when I checked it kept mounting
a 400 Mb image which immediately runs full ( for a 10 Gb OS image )

CarbonCopyCloner to the rescue , created a DMG of my Tiger install to my Xserve.
Split a partition and restored the Tiger DMG to the new partition on the Xserve.
Booted the Xserve in Tiger, started System Image Utility , still no space left .

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/425715

Mounted the Disk Image and now System Image Utility on Tiger sees it as a source and a Netboot Image could be created.

Moved the NBI to the Netboot directory , rebooted into Leopard Server , activated the image.
Booted the PB holding the N key, waited 7 minutes and voila , Tiger booted over the network ...

And now I'm going to watch Altered Carbon S01 or Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency S02 .

 

[LightBulbFun]

Good to know that Leopard Server can host tiger images

its something I had been meaning to play with, currently my netboot server setup is just tiger server with a Tiger netboot image on it but id like to move to Leopard but keep my tiger images as well, so your findings should come in very handy

I wonder what OS X can host the most OS X netboot image versions...

 

[Lastic]

Good to know that Leopard Server can host tiger images

its something I had been meaning to play with, currently my netboot server setup is just tiger server with a Tiger netboot image on it but id like to move to Leopard but keep my tiger images as well, so your findings should come in very handy

I wonder what OS X can host the most OS X netboot image versions...

Biggest issue I have is that still have to stop Leopard Server's firewall or NetBoot doesn't work.

Still haven't figured out what services need to be allowed for it to work.

Once that is properly configured it's time for WAN netbooting aka Netboot Across Subnets , just for kicks.

 

[Project Alice]

I wish I would've seen this last month. I LOVE my PPC macs. I hope this will be an actual annual thing. I have my iBook G4, G3, and my powermac G5 that I would definitely take out of retirement for this.

 

[AphoticD]

I wish I would've seen this last month. I LOVE my PPC macs. I hope this will be an actual annual thing. I have my iBook G4, G3, and my powermac G5 that I would definitely take out of retirement for this.

I imagine @Gamer9430 will be around to host the mid-year Summer challenge (Winter for antipodeans like myself). Pull those old Macs out and crank the nostalgia up to 11!

 

[philgxxd]

I really enjoyed "Altered Carbon".