Server…

[eyoungren]

Server doing it's job. Streaming music to my Quad while executing a backup to the external drive connected to the PC.

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I may has asked this already, but how do Play Counts work on a shared iTunes library (notably on two or more computers running iTunes 4.0)? Does each computer have its own settings and play counts? Or is it saved on the server's library preferences and distributed to any connected?

I believe I can answer this now.

Play count does not show up in the column list when connected to a shared library. Any plays from a client do not show up in the count on the server.

So, play count only applies to a client with a local library.

 

[eyoungren]

Ah yes, yet another 'Doing it's job post'.

G3 taking my 17" PowerBook TM backup while streaming the iTunes 4 library to the PowerBook.

I love when old hardware is working productively as designed!

 

[1042686]

Ah yes, yet another 'Doing it's job post'.

G3 taking my 17" PowerBook TM backup while streaming the iTunes 4 library to the PowerBook.

I love when old hardware is working productively as designed!

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Looking good. And to think I was feeling productive reorganizing my ppc software library & hdd images off my boxes & onto my NAS.

That B&W server is certainly the coolest bit of old tech I’ve seen in quite a while.

Always nice to see RD get a lil cameo action.

 

[eyoungren]

Looking good. And to think I was feeling productive reorganizing my ppc software library & hdd images off my boxes & onto my NAS.

That B&W server is certainly the coolest bit of old tech I’ve seen in quite a while.

Always nice to see RD get a lil cameo action.

One of these days I'm going to get all the crap sitting on my storage drive (on my Quad) burned to disc. I have enough discs, I just don't want to be spending several days at it.

I like the fact that I've done enough upgrades to make the Mac entirely viable as a server, but not so much that I've pushed it to the limit of it's capabilities.

I've still only tapped maybe 10-20 percent of what it's capable of doing with server software. If I can get over my fears of setting up a VPN that'll be next.

I just happened to be in that thread when I was capturing the screenshot so RD got free publicity.

 

[eyoungren]

Well…apparently I haven't updated this in a while. Anyway, things happened.

Not sure what and when, but today as I was swapping Cinema Displays the server decided it was time to start acting weird. Spent two hours troubleshooting with no real resolution. I had to connect a monitor to realize it was kernel panicking on boot.

After almost a week of moving stuff around (garage) and getting two Mac Minis back up (one with two HDTVs) I'm done with this. If you know me then you know that I advance my hardware about 10-15 years behind everyone else. The G3 is 23 years old and was only serving to share the 2TB RAID enclosure. I've got other stuff that's working.

No real idea what I will do with this thing, no real idea what the problem is. But right now, I don't care. 2TB RAID is connected to the MacPro now via a long FW800 cable and the G3 is in the garage with all the cards removed.

There comes a point where the far end of my slow tech advance moves past PowerPC and I think it's starting to happen now. I have no plans to put this G3 back in service for what it was doing. I had diminishing returns with my old QS and I decided at some point earlier this year that when this stuff starts to fail I will be cutting my losses.

It was a good run…

 

[scarlett7447]

Not sure what and when, but today as I was swapping Cinema Displays the server decided it was time to start acting weird. Spent two hours troubleshooting with no real resolution. I had to connect a monitor to realize it was kernel panicking on boot.

Sounds like a RAM problem to me. My machine was randomly freezing and crashing and it turns out some of the RAM was dying.

 

[DearthnVader]

Well…apparently I haven't updated this in a while. Anyway, things happened.

Not sure what and when, but today as I was swapping Cinema Displays the server decided it was time to start acting weird. Spent two hours troubleshooting with no real resolution. I had to connect a monitor to realize it was kernel panicking on boot.

After almost a week of moving stuff around (garage) and getting two Mac Minis back up (one with two HDTVs) I'm done with this. If you know me then you know that I advance my hardware about 10-15 years behind everyone else. The G3 is 23 years old and was only serving to share the 2TB RAID enclosure. I've got other stuff that's working.

No real idea what I will do with this thing, no real idea what the problem is. But right now, I don't care. 2TB RAID is connected to the MacPro now via a long FW800 cable and the G3 is in the garage with all the cards removed.

There comes a point where the far end of my slow tech advance moves past PowerPC and I think it's starting to happen now. I have no plans to put this G3 back in service for what it was doing. I had diminishing returns with my old QS and I decided at some point earlier this year that when this stuff starts to fail I will be cutting my losses.

It was a good run…

Why is it always such a sad thing, these Mac's seem like our friends I suppose.

 

[eyoungren]

Why is it always such a sad thing, these Mac's seem like our friends I suppose.

Yeah, but like any friend who's been drinking your beer, eating your food, sleeping on your couch and then throws a fit when you ask it to clean up or do the dishes - there's a time.

 

[DearthnVader]

Yeah, but like any friend who's been drinking your beer, eating your food, sleeping on your couch and then throws a fit when you ask it to clean up or do the dishes - there's a time.

I suffer from crippling anxiety, the only thing that provides me any relief is fooling with these old Macs.

Even tho they cost me money most of the time, the relief it provides me is worth its' weight in gold.

I normally get them from Facebook MarketPlace for cheap and in bunches, so I can sell working parts of them and buy more stuff to go with them.

I pretty much end up breaking even and I have lots of fun PPC stuff to play with.

The bonus is we find ways to push what these old system can do.

 

[eyoungren]

I suffer from crippling anxiety, the only thing that provides me any relief is fooling with these old Macs.

Even tho they cost me money most of the time, the relief it provides me is worth its' weight in gold.

I normally get them from Facebook MarketPlace for cheap and in bunches, so I can sell working parts of them and buy more stuff to go with them.

I pretty much end up breaking even and I have lots of fun PPC stuff to play with.

The bonus is we find ways to push what these old system can do.

Anxiety is no joke. It's caused my sister a few trips to the emergency room for panic attacks. So, whatever helps is always worth the investment. I have to say that the insides of the older PowerPC Macs are a lot friendlier than the newer ones.

 

[B S Magnet]

I suffer from crippling anxiety, the only thing that provides me any relief is fooling with these old Macs.

Along with making old Macs work wonders beyond expectations, you and I also have this in common.

 

[eyoungren]

Server is back…



A couple years ago I took it down. At the suggestion of another member I had shifted PCI cards and was experiencing kernal panics when rebooting.

Today it was working fine. But the MOMENT I had a NIC reinstalled and ethernet cable plugged in I got a KP on boot. So, I shut it down and rebooted with the cable unplugged. No KP.

Hmmmmm…

So, for whatever reason this was the problem. It KPs whenever there is a boot with the network cable plugged in. After plugging the cable in AFTER it fully booted - no issue. Weird. But, well problem solved. Two years or so later.

I timed the Mac to full boot without the cable plugged in. Around 50 seconds to the desktop. If I have to reboot again, I know that I have to give the Mac at least 50 seconds minimum before plugging the cable back in.

Other issues that will be resolved on Monday: I have my Sonnet Tempo card installed, but I only had ONE SATA cable and NO Molex to SATA power cables. I have to wait for those to come. I also have a used SSD coming for my MacPro. When that arrives, I will pull the 6TB hard drive from my MacPro that this SSD will replace and that will be plugged in to the G3.

Since I'll be opening it back up, I'll drop the second NIC back in.

Once I'm all done the server will be sharing one 3TB drive and one 6TB drive.

EDIT: Oh, PS. That monitor you see is NOT connected to the G3. Behind the closed door is a Dell Windows XP computer I got from the Goodwill a while back. The monitor is connected to that. For right now anyway. The PC is there because I want to get Mechwarrior games back up and running. My son and I had fun with those, but they seem impossible to run on emulation. And this is an XP machine, so it's right in the wheelhouse for that era of games.

Going to go back to the Goodwill for another monitor that has VGA and DVI. Will hook the VGA up to the PC and the DVI to the Mac.

 

[eyoungren]

Server shares are back up. One 3TB drive and one 6TB drive.