IOhannes is also the "central point of failure" for a lot of Pd. There is only so much on person can do, so I figure its good to spread the work around :-)
As for running this box, as long as its online, I can easily maintain it. Someone local just needs to be able to keep it booted up and connected to the internet. .hc On Feb 27, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Greg Pond wrote: > I will check the specs on my machines and get back to you soon. We have > several surplus g4 and g5 towers here. IOhannes has a lot more knowledge and > experience than I do so if he wants to do it then I am happy to turn it over > to him- whatever is the best to keep the builds going. > > Greg > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Feb 27, 2012, at 12:22 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 2012-02-27 02:56, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > >> > >> So the Mac OS X PowerPC machine from the build farm has died. The hard > >> drive is intact, so all the data is there. I also have much more limited > >> time for maintaining the PdLab machines. So I'm looking for someone to > >> host the Mac OS X PowerPC builds. It can be really any recent PowerPC > >> Mac. The old machine was a 300MHz G4. > >> > >> Can anyone take this on? I'd hate to see Mac OS X/PowerPC dropped from > >> the supported platforms since they are still quite capable machines. > >> > > > > i think the iem could dedicate a G4 (733MHz, 750MB) machine. > > it's currently running 10.4; > > > > i will have to wipe the disk first of course, but afaik it's not going > > to be used any more. > > > > i was hoping for a G5, but unfortunately the only one left is very > > unstable and won't boot every other day (and if it boots it will power > > down for no apparent reasons after some minutes/hours) > > Greg Pond has also offered a machine. Either works for me. A 10.4 machine > would be nice so we can support 10.4 too. Basically, it just needs 10.4 and > Xcode with all the updates, then Fink and JackOSX. That's it. If I have ssh > root access, I can do the setup remotely. > > .hc > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Access to computers should be unlimited and total. - the hacker ethic > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity. - Bill Moyers
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