Isaiah’s Blog

Today I’ll be talking about servers… media and file.
Blue and White Powermac G3
This one is a G3 400 with ~600mb of RAM, running Mac OS X Tiger, also known as our media server. This old computer (originally introduced in January 1999) has run well for us the past couple of years as our media [...]

So far so good. Linux is running pretty well on my iBook. There are some stability issues, but those are mostly dealing with Compiz and the GL desktop causing some wake from sleep issues. I’ve had to hard shutdown a few times, because it would hang with a black screen at wake, [...]

Today is day 2, technically, as I started this experiment yesterday.
Today I found some faults in the PPC version of Ubuntu.  It is not supported by Ubuntu themselves, but the community, which means that some things are completely unavailable.  Things such as Flash 9, and Automatix.  These are only caveats for a few sites, but [...]

My iBook made it back home safely from the good people at iResq.  They did an excellent job, and my iBook now has far more space then I need at this time.  Woohoo!  I wholeheartedly recommend going with iResq if you have any mac/ipod repair needs.  http://www.iresq.com
Now, for the second part of the title.  I [...]

Monday, I mowed Barbara Cambell’s lawn for 3 hours. That doesn’t include trimming or the finishing touches, which I will get done tomorrow. And that is on a rider mower. Yea… it was tall. It hadn’t been mowed in quite a while, and my hands became green (you wouldn’t like me [...]

Ah… Dillon left us yesterday evening. He went back home with his grandparents, and was very happy to see them. I think Sara and I had just gotten used to having him around, and now he’s gone… Baby withdrawls…
The enclosure for the external hd I use on the Powermac G3 died last night… [...]

We have just released the new Ubuntu Christian Edition. It is a
Linux distro geared towards the needs of Christians. It is built
directly from the standard Ubuntu distribution and includes
preinstalled Christian software. The initial release contains
GnomeSword Bible software and a few minor graphical changes. Future releases will include more Christian software as well as some
additional tweaks [...]

I’ve now put Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) on my ibook G4, with much success.  It falls and wakes up from sleep almost as fast as in OS X (which is instant), and I now have the Airport Extreme wireless card working too!  Using this link and following the instructions exactly, I was able to [...]

I installed the Ubuntu 6.06 Beta onto our 466 Celeron. I must say that the upgrade is well worth it in terms of speed (even on the old 466!). Everything opens faster. The User Interface is now much more polished and easier to use. I’m looking forward to the full release [...]

The weather is once again back to 50* F, and made all of the snow melt away.  Whee.
I spent some of yesterday and today working on the old 466 celeron we have, installing a 40 gb harddrive and reinstalling Ubuntu 5.10. Ubuntu is a distribution of linux in case you did not know.  Linux is [...]