At any rate, I will leave this here.
Stay tuned!
Starting Over
I look back at everything I have written here over the years. I see lots of unfinished and half done projects. Cooling mods for PowerMacs and ancient IDEs on PowerBooks, all of which have been lost to downsizing, moves and storage unit thefts. It is wild how much things have changed over the years.
At any rate, I will leave this here.
Stay tuned!
At any rate, I will leave this here.
Stay tuned!
Gratitude
I am sure most of you have heard about the news regarding TenFourFox and Classilla. If you have not here is a link to what I am talking about,
https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-end-of-tenfourfox-and-what-ive.html.
Reading this has made me look back over my PowerPC Mac experience. I am left feeling extremely grateful. Prior to my experiences with post Leopard PowerPC Masc I had only dabbled with Ubuntu on x86 and amd64 machines here and there. Running Debian Jessie and Wheezy on PowerPC Macs is what really gave my GNU/Linux skills a solid foundation. Having the ability to hop over to Tiger and/or Leopard and run TenFourFox at any given moment throughout all these years has been nothing short of amazing. One of, if not my most favorite periods of time in my technical journey has been the time spent on PowerPC Macs. TenFourFox was an absolutely integral part of this time.
Feel free to join me in the comments as I close by thanking Cameron Kaiser. We really appreciate the tireless, amazing work you have done for our community. Thank you for everything!
https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-end-of-tenfourfox-and-what-ive.html.
Reading this has made me look back over my PowerPC Mac experience. I am left feeling extremely grateful. Prior to my experiences with post Leopard PowerPC Masc I had only dabbled with Ubuntu on x86 and amd64 machines here and there. Running Debian Jessie and Wheezy on PowerPC Macs is what really gave my GNU/Linux skills a solid foundation. Having the ability to hop over to Tiger and/or Leopard and run TenFourFox at any given moment throughout all these years has been nothing short of amazing. One of, if not my most favorite periods of time in my technical journey has been the time spent on PowerPC Macs. TenFourFox was an absolutely integral part of this time.
Feel free to join me in the comments as I close by thanking Cameron Kaiser. We really appreciate the tireless, amazing work you have done for our community. Thank you for everything!
Still A Place For OS9
For years I've used my Macs to produce and write music - generally favouring Propellerhead Reason for purely electronic pieces, Garageband where real instruments need to be recorded and often using both in combination.
The final step to a recording after mixing down
is mastering to give it that extra zing and dynamics - for this I use
SonicWORX which is an OS9 application.
Initially this would mean copying files to a thumbdrive, moving to an
OS9 machine, processing then copying back but now I complete the process
with VNC over Ethernet.
My OS9 machine for this task is my 800Mhz G4 iMac which sits in my desk corner keyboardless and mouseless.
I activate sharing between it and my Mac Pro, copy the files to be
processed across, then use Chicken of the VNC to open up a remote
session on the iMac.
The audio files are processed and copied back in the same manner they were sent.
So, there's still a place for OS9 and it's easy to include it in an OSX workflow.
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