Superduper geek crap accomplished this weekend…
1) Install Yellow-Dog Linux on an older PowerMac G3 I have (we don’t need no steenking Mac OS!) It’s up now–192.168.26.21 on my home network. Muhaha.
2) Install DCLinux on my old DREAMCAST. Yup, that’s right…a RAM/ROM based Linux box, blazingly, achingly fast….running of a former game system console. Almost done. It’ll be 192.168.26.201, machine name “traumeri.”
I’ve already upgraded my Handspring to a Sharp Zaurus 5600–a PDA that runs Linux (I have Apache/PHP running on it, hosting a small version of one of my websites…).
My next projects will be to install Slackware Linux on the leaf-blower and lawnmower and write two daemons (tentatively named “mowd” and “blowd”) that I can add to these devices as cron jobs to automatically do the yardwork. I’ll have to sync the clocks on the leaf blower and lawn mower, though, otherwise I might end up with some device conflicts if blowd kicks off before mowd has finished executing…
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June 27th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Mycroft writes:
> Install Yellow-Dog Linux on an older PowerMac G3
I put OpenBSD on mine, which has a “Yosemite” motherboard (the first B&W G3 released IIRC.) Does yours reboot automatically after losing power? Mine doesn’t. MacOS provides a way to configure this behavior, but I haven’t figured out how to do so on OpenBSD. I thought this might be a configurable Open Firmware parameter, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. I’ve searched Google for clues, but no joy. Can I buy a vowel, Vanna?
> I’ll have to sync the clocks on the leaf blower and lawn mower
Have you tried downloading NTD from John Deere’s web site?