User:Tonyr/Journal/May07 - Revision history

Tonyr at 21:16, 27 May 2007

2007-05-27T21:16:21Z

Tonyr: 27may07 section

2007-05-27T21:15:51Z

27may07 section

Tonyr: /* 18May07 */ B&W G3/SCSI comment

2007-05-19T06:40:55Z

18May07: B&W G3/SCSI comment

Tonyr: 18may07 section; mac triage

2007-05-19T06:00:38Z

18may07 section; mac triage

Tonyr: /* 16May07 */ Beige g3 NOTE

2007-05-18T14:32:08Z

16May07: Beige g3 NOTE

Tonyr: /* 16May07 */

2007-05-16T15:56:09Z

16May07

Tonyr at 15:55, 16 May 2007

2007-05-16T15:55:36Z

Tonyr: 16may07 section start

2007-05-16T14:58:14Z

16may07 section start

Tonyr: /* 12May07 */

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12May07

Tonyr: /* 10May07 */

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10May07

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-===27May07==
+==27May07==
 Not a lot of new adventure stuff in the past week.  Mostly recycling and getting  triage in place.  Rfs informally approved Tray-load iMac dismantle/recycle in Eval1.  All-in-One old style (like, Performa, like) go there, too.  Both need REJECT sticker from MacShelf.  Triage at the Mac Shelf takes a good chunk of time.  For now maybe it is better to let stuff accumulate and deal with it once or twice a week.  It would be really nice if there were a Mac volunteer who could do some of that.
 Learned about dismantling/recycling laptops (for Mac notebooks/laptops): Remove HD, separate Display form Body, recycle HD, Body, Display separately.

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	Ubuntu changed the device naming in Feisty, so that everything looks like a SCSI device. Maybe that is a source of confusion. The way to test that is to install Edgy and see how that goes. There was another B&W G3/SCSI tower a while ago that installed and ran Edgy(6.10) just fine.		Ubuntu changed the device naming in Feisty, so that everything looks like a SCSI device. Maybe that is a source of confusion. The way to test that is to install Edgy and see how that goes. There was another B&W G3/SCSI tower a while ago that installed and ran Edgy(6.10) just fine.
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		+	===27May07==
		+	Not a lot of new adventure stuff in the past week. Mostly recycling and getting triage in place. Rfs informally approved Tray-load iMac dismantle/recycle in Eval1. All-in-One old style (like, Performa, like) go there, too. Both need REJECT sticker from MacShelf. Triage at the Mac Shelf takes a good chunk of time. For now maybe it is better to let stuff accumulate and deal with it once or twice a week. It would be really nice if there were a Mac volunteer who could do some of that.
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		+	Learned about dismantling/recycling laptops (for Mac notebooks/laptops): Remove HD, separate Display form Body, recycle HD, Body, Display separately.

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 Here's how it's shaping up.
 * All Apple stuff still comes to the Mac Pile for initial consideration.
-* Laptops, notebooks, iMac slot-load, G3/G4 towers and anything newer goes to MacBuild.
+* Laptops, notebooks, iMac slot-load, G3/G4 towers, Cubes and all newer systems go to MacBuild.
-* Any system with a CRT is dismantled/recycled by MacBuild, except original 'little square box' all-in-one Macs which are stored on the Warehouse Mac shelves as Maquarium candidates.
+* Any system with a CRT is dismantled/recycled by MacBuild, except original 'little square box' all-in-one Macs which are stored on the warehouse Mac shelves as Maquarium candidates.
-* Any system without a CRT is examined for a 3.6v Lithium battery, which is harvested if found, affixed with a '''Rejected''' sticker and moved to Eval 1.
+* Any system without a CRT is examined for a 3.6v Lithium battery (which is harvested if found), affixed with a '''Rejected''' sticker and moved to Eval 1.
 * All beige monitors are recycled.
 * All other monitors go to MacBuild for testing.
 * All ADB keyboards and mice are recycled unless there are requests for them.
 * All USB keyboards and mice go to MacBuild.
 * All printers are recycled except LaserWriter Pro, 12/6xx and 16/xxx models, which go to Printerland.

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	note: Loren recycled a Beige G3 today that had PC100 memory. Did I get this wrong, or was it possibly an		note: Loren recycled a Beige G3 today that had PC100 memory. Did I get this wrong, or was it possibly an
	update of some kind?		update of some kind?
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		+	==18May07==
		+	''Mac Triage''<br>
		+	Here's how it's shaping up.
		+	* All Apple stuff still comes to the Mac Pile for initial consideration.
		+	* Laptops, notebooks, iMac slot-load, G3/G4 towers and anything newer goes to MacBuild.
		+	* Any system with a CRT is dismantled/recycled by MacBuild, except original 'little square box' all-in-one Macs which are stored on the Warehouse Mac shelves as Maquarium candidates.
		+	* Any system without a CRT is examined for a 3.6v Lithium battery, which is harvested if found, affixed with a '''Rejected''' sticker and moved to Eval 1.
		+	* All beige monitors are recycled.
		+	* All other monitors go to MacBuild for testing.
		+	* All ADB keyboards and mice are recycled unless there are requests for them.
		+	* All USB keyboards and mice go to MacBuild.
		+	* External peripheral devices are evaluated by MacBuild on an individual basis.
		+	* All printers are recycled except LaserWriter Pro, 12/6xx and 16/xxx models, which go to Printerland.

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	As a side note, Early (Beige) G3s have been candidates for CPU upgrades out in the great world,		As a side note, Early (Beige) G3s have been candidates for CPU upgrades out in the great world,
	up to as much as 1GHz. They can also take up to 768 MB PC66 memory. Does this make such machines candidates for Ubuntu?		up to as much as 1GHz. They can also take up to 768 MB PC66 memory. Does this make such machines candidates for Ubuntu?
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		+	note: Loren recycled a Beige G3 today that had PC100 memory. Did I get this wrong, or was it possibly an
		+	update of some kind?

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 software is hard to come by.  I was advised to watch ebay.
-''NextStep Recycling, Eugene''
+''NextStep Recycling, Eugene''<br>
 Dave came by on Tuesday to report that he had received an email from Lorraine saying that NextStep would not be picking up/recycling Mac hardware from FG anymore.  Dave had the impression that it was not cost effective for NextStep anymore.  This raises a lot of issues, not the least of which is reworking Mac triage.
 As a side note, Early (Beige) G3s have been candidates for CPU upgrades out in the great world,
 up to as much as 1GHz.  They can also take up to 768 MB PC66 memory.  Does this make such machines candidates for Ubuntu?

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 ''NextCube''<br>
 Dave brought a NextCube (68040 based?) to MacBuild last week and asked if we would like to attempt

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	''Feisty''<br>		''Feisty''<br>
	Michael stopped by and inquired about MacBuild's use of Feisty vs Edgy. I said we were installing Feisty on hegher end machines, especially Dual Processor machines, since Feisty had a better PPC SMP kernel version, and that MacBuild would move to Feisty in General as the '''Rsync''' images could be added to the HD replicator.		Michael stopped by and inquired about MacBuild's use of Feisty vs Edgy. I said we were installing Feisty on hegher end machines, especially Dual Processor machines, since Feisty had a better PPC SMP kernel version, and that MacBuild would move to Feisty in General as the '''Rsync''' images could be added to the HD replicator.
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		+	===16May07==
		+	''NextCube''<br>
		+	Dave brought a NextCube (68040 based?) to MacBuild last week and asked if we would like to attempt
		+	to refurbish it for the museum. There are three Next slabs in the museum's collection
		+	also, along with keyboards and an original monitor. I did a little research and joined
		+	a forum at [http://www.nextcomputers.org http://www.nextcomputers.org] to try and
		+	collect more information. The user community is small, and NextStep/OpenStep OS
		+	software is hard to come by. I was advised to watch ebay.
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		+	''NextStep Recycling, Eugene''
		+	Dave came by on Tuesday to report that he had received an email from Lorraine saying that NextStep would not be picking up/recycling Mac hardware from FG anymore. Dave had the impression that it was not cost effective for NextStep anymore. This raises a lot of issues, not the least of which is reworking Mac triage.
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		+	As a side note, Early (Beige) G3s have been candidates for CPU upgrades out in the great world,
		+	up to as much as 1GHz. They can also take up to 768 MB PC66 memory. Does this make such machines candidates for Ubuntu?

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 ''CD Audio Skip and Gxine''<br>
-There is an earlier entry about the ''CD Audio Skip'' phenomenon on slower Macs.  The fixes were to
+There is an earlier entry in [[#4Jan07]] about the ''CD Audio Skip'' phenomenon on slower Macs. The issue with using '''gxine''' as a solution then was to make the default operation of '''gxine''' not use any visualization.  I never addressed that.  Interestingly, there has not been any feedback at all from store customers about this.
-replace the CD drive with a newer model, or install '''gxine''', which has configuration parameters that can be tweaked to improve the situation.  The problem with '''gxine''' is that it wants to present a visualization by default which intereferes with the smooth CD playback.  The issue then was to make the default operation of '''gxine''' not use any visualization.  I never addressed that.  Interestingly, there has not been any feedback at all from store customers about this.

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 A sketchy recap of the past week...
-''Scream Entertainment Grant''<b>
+''Scream Entertainment Grant''<br>
 Prepared and disbursed four G4 Powermacs and two monitors to Rick Fernandez, Scream Entertainment
 contact.  He said they will be used for facial distortion feature at this year's Scream at the Beach
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-''MacBook'''<br>
+''MacBook''<br>
 A 2.0G/512PC5300/80 MacBook (2006? Core Duo) arrived 10 May. It powered up once after I took it apart and put it back together.  Apparently the previous owner had done the same, but there were a
 couple of screws missing and one stripped screw site.  The DVD slot had been distorted from above,