No computer is an island, unless of course it's a Mac with an operating system prior to OSX. Last night after getting rid of most of the old Macs I had, I was wondering if there had ever been a version of MAME that ran on 68k Macs. There was, so I thought what the heck and maybe I'll continue with my scheme of turning these junkers into "arcade machines" in order to get rid of them. I fired up both computers to verify they are working, and both booted up fine. Same as...

Yesterday I finally decided I needed to get rid of a bunch of old Macs that I took home to save from ending up in a recycler's scrap heap. They all worked so I have been resisting for years turning them in as junk since I figured there must be something they could still be used for. Most were 6100 series PPC Macs, and can run Linux and might be useful as Linux experimental test beds. I knew I was probably never going to get around to installing Linux on them, and I have had them stacked...

I found the quote above while searching for answers to getting CUPS to work. In the past, I've usually become so frustrated with CUPS that I uninstall it and hunt down the lpr/lpd package and put it on my system. lpr works , and works quite well. I believe CUPS came about as part of the time honored tradition of "It ain't broke but I'm too lazy to read the instructions, I think I'll reinvent the wheel." After setting up my new server I quickly discovered I could no...

I finally got the living room box rebuilt with a new MythTV which is compatible with my backend. Now I can see that the HDTV tuner card is really working. I also set it up to netboot, man what a difference! It's so quiet now without an HD inside it whining away. I discovered that KTXL is broadcasting their digital stream at 1280x720 and 60fps. No wonder my 866mhz P3 can't keep up and stutters trying to play it! The obvious thing to do is to transcode it down to a resolution that it can...

Well I finally broke down and did it. I bought a tuner card to use with MythTV. Not just any tuner card, an HDTV tuner card. Why? Because I found out the local PBS station has two more channels that are being broadcast in digital! Yes, that's right, I wanted to receive more PBS! After a bit of research to make sure that the extra channels were really being broadcast and not just available over cable/satellite, I went searching for a tuner card. Not an easy task, all the online stores...