[Phono-L] We're Back!

[Peter Fraser]

Nice!  Our cute li'l mac mini is permanently hooked up to the big LCD  
tv and acts as a media server with 1TB of movies pix and music, as  
well as being a Internet device with a 42" monitor.

What's macports?


Sent from my iPhone

-- Peter
pjfraser at mac.com

On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:13 AM, "Loran T. Hughes" <loran at oldcrank.com>  
wrote:

> Sure, Peter! The hardware hasn't changed. It's still a simple, first
> generation G4 Mac Mini. It was running the client version of OS X  
> 10.4, with
> some add-on programs (mainly from MacPorts) to make it act as a  
> server.
> Unfortunately, Apple security patches were starting to break things,  
> like
> email & spam filtering. So it was getting a bit hard to maintain.
> So I obtained the server version of 10.4, which pretty much works  
> out of the
> box. Now we're running a nice, clean server install that should  
> extend the
> service life of the hardware - for as long as 10.4 is supported,  
> anyway. The
> transfer went pretty smoothly - the toughest job was getting Phono-L  
> to play
> nicely with the new email system.
>
> You might ask why I stuck with 10.4 rather than upgrade to the current
> 10.5... hardware limitations. 10.5 is just too much to lift on the G4.
>
> So there you go, in a nutshell!
> Loran
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Peter Fraser <pjfraser at alamedanet.net 
> >wrote:
>
>> care to let us know the hardware and software details of the new  
>> server?
>>
>>
>> On Nov 11, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Loran Hughes wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your patience, folks. I've still got a few things to  
>> bring back
>>> on line, such as the Phono-L home page and the chat room. But it's  
>>> been a
>>> long day, so it's "Miller time!" I'll be back at it tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Loran
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