Friends: I'd like to say thanks to list members who are helping us set up a Power Mac G4 server here at Low End Mac headquarters. The original plan was to upgrade to Comcast Business and host Low End Mac here to save on hosting fees, but several people pointed out the danger of down time due to power outages.
We typically have at least one power outage of 4-8 hours every year, a few off less than two hours, and several brief ones (under 10 minutes) that we can ride out with a UPS. Problem is that if this happens at night or when I'm away from home, LEM could be down for hours on end. That would mean a loss of income, since most of that is generated by displaying ads. Instead, we're setting up a development server that may also function as a mirror of lowendmac.com just in case our primary server has problems. We'll also be hosting a few low traffic sites that don't make us money, saving us a bit on hosting fees every month. We have received a Digital Audio Power Mac, a 1.8 GHz dual G4 upgrade from Giga Designs, and promises of RAM and retired copies of Mac OS X. I'm in the process of benchmarking the Power Mac with its 533 MHz CPU and ATI Rage 128 Pro graphics card for publication on LEM today. I have run into a problem with the Giga Designs upgrade. I've tried to install the firmware update software on our Mystic as well as the Digital Audio after making sure that each Mac had up-to-date firmware. Whether I boot into Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.4.11, or 10.5.6, the updater reaches a certain point and goes no further. If any of you have tips, I'd be most grateful. If I can get this 1.8 GHz dual G4 upgrade working, we may further change our plans and turn it into our production machine, replacing our dual 1 GHz MDD Power Mac G4, which would then become our in-house server. (Alas, the upgrade doesn't work with the 167 MHz bus in the MDD Power Mac.) We'll see what happens with this upgrade. Thanks again to many generous list members for their support. Dan Knight, publisher, Low End Mac --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to LEM-Swap. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] LEM-Swap is for buying & selling Mac stuff. It is not a discussion list. Reply to the person who made the original posting, never to the list. Software piracy is illegal and not allowed on LEM-Swap. Except for software originally provided with computers, no software is to be left on hard drives (other than freeware) unless the original installer and password are included. Shipments valued at US$100 or more should be insured, and shipments valued at US$25 or more should be shipped so they can be tracked. See the list FAQ - http://lowendmac.com/lists/swap.html - for guidelines on postings, feedback, and dispute resolution. Seller feedback at http://groups.google.com/group/swap-feedback Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
