A while back I got an “OldWorld” PPC Macintosh to play with, from one of my brother’s friends. It’s a PowerComputing PowerCenter Pro 210. Here’s the specs (from dmesg): cpu0 at mainbus0: 750 (Revision 3.0), ID 0 (primary) cpu0: HID0 8090c0a4<emcp ,DOZE,DPM,ICE,DCE,SGE,BTIC,BHT> cpu0: 273.69 MHz L2 cache present but not enabled It’s got 256MB of […]
Author: Ira Snyder
SCALE 5X
I went to SCALE 5X this past weekend. I had a really great time. I saw many good talks, the one that I think was the best was probably the one about Open Source Licensing, by Chris DiBona from Google. I also got to meet and have lunch with the PR guy from the team […]
GNU Autotools
To anyone that wants free autotooling (autoconf, automake, etc) of their project, or help doing so: please ask! I’ve spent quite a bit of time learning how to do it, and now I’m decent. I’m probably not the best there is: I don’t have that much experience yet. However, I’m willing to do it for […]
Asterisk Rocks
Well, the past few days I’ve been procrastinating on updating my resume, and doing other things that I should be doing. I’ve been learning the Asterisk Open-Source PBX! I’ve had quite a bit of fun doing it, too. So now I can make calls from my computer via VoIP (both SIP and IAX) as well […]
Backpacking Again
Me and my brother went backpacking again, recently. We took the Mt. Zion Loop, aka the Big Santa Anita Loop. It was fairly cold, mostly because the sun wasn’t out very often. No snow like last time. Overall, a nice easy hike, splitting about 10 miles across two days. I’ve put the photos in my […]