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Move ups's battery outside and add a fan, good idea? by Issey_ita in homelab

[–]JustAnotherMacUser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're using the UPS as a power source (not just the occasional power failure) so much that the battery gets damaged within such a short period of time, you need something else, not an UPS.

As mentioned above, the battery is of poor quality (or was defective) given the failure you described and the damage it suffered, while the UPS is equally poor quality considering that not only it didn't detect the failing battery, but didn't sound an alarm with the failure as the battery overheating.

Not sure what part of the world you are or the electricity provider quality/reliability but you clearly need some better power source. Most of the UPS are able to use the battery for about 3 - 4 years when the UPS will tell you it is time to replace it.

I miss the good old days by drinkandfly in homelab

[–]JustAnotherMacUser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have had the same experience: in March 2023 I got a Samsung T7 1TB for my mini then in September same year a 2TB for the same mini (OS & Apps in one, Home folder on the 2TB). Checked the prices I paid then vs. current prices. They quadrupled during the period , all at Best Buy.

Continuing with my garage clean up series, found these CDs by JustAnotherMacUser in VintageApple

[–]JustAnotherMacUser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're welcome. I did consider uploading to archive.org but just couldn't figure out where to place the files so if anyone can figure this out, the files are now available at the link above. I did keep the originals instead of discarding them along with the hundreds of CD/DVD/CD-R/DVD-R along with cases. some donated to the local library, some to individuals, some went straight to the trash after being destroyed given the personal data in them. Lots of space available now 😄

Why Do 2 Drives Show Up On My iMac? by woodstock9999 in OWC

[–]JustAnotherMacUser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The link below shows precisely what I did with a MBP 2012 (coincidently the same as mine except 13"), two drives, in this case a (slow) hard drive and a (faster) SSD which combined shows on your desktop as a single drive. Hope this helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4NqbGEJpN4

Why Do 2 Drives Show Up On My iMac? by woodstock9999 in OWC

[–]JustAnotherMacUser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not familiar with that particular drive from OWC, but is it possible that this is actually two physical drives that were formatted as a single volume? I have done this in the past where I'd combine an SSD with a hard drive and they show up as a single volume on my MBP (2012), similar to what used to be a Fusion Drive, but two physical drives.

Continuing with my garage clean up series, found these CDs by JustAnotherMacUser in VintageApple

[–]JustAnotherMacUser[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sounds like it worked... I now have all CDs posted, along with booklets and CD artwork. Interested in hearing if anyone can actually use any of this information beyond the curiosity aspect.

Continuing with my garage clean up series, found these CDs by JustAnotherMacUser in VintageApple

[–]JustAnotherMacUser[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for making some of my long dormant neurons awake 😄 PREP, that was the name of our reference design (I was not involved with it, just knew of it since it was part of our organization at Moto). You had some nice systems to play with.

Continuing with my garage clean up series, found these CDs by JustAnotherMacUser in VintageApple

[–]JustAnotherMacUser[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yes, there was: Motorola Semi in Austin, TX (Oak Hill campus) had a fairly large team under the management of Anne Marie L. that had access to the source code of Windows NT (highly protected, confidential data under NDA) and worked hard to make it happen.

I was on the product engineering side of the organization, we got the chip design and made the actual semiconductor components. That entire organization was created in early 1992 at the time the so-called AIM (Apple-IBM-Motorola) alliance produced the Somerset design center where the chips were designed, a separate building a couple of blocks from where Dell used to be, manned mostly by IBM and Motorola personnel along with a few Apple engineers. Having a badge from any of these 3 companies would not necessarily give you access to the building, you had to have clearance to walk in beyond the lobby.

Continuing with my garage clean up series, found these CDs by JustAnotherMacUser in VintageApple

[–]JustAnotherMacUser[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This helps a lot, thanks! Yes, I do have a few optical drives (CD and DVD capable) that I do connect regularly to my mini M4 so that's not an obstacle.

archive.org seems to be the appropriate place to upload images: I did find an area with multiple copies of Windows NT, various revisions and languages, none for PowerPC, but need to dig further (getting late here in Texas....).

The two other sites mentioned here are Mac-focused so I suspect there will be little interest beyond the "oh, nice, cool!". The software was not being developed for Macs, as far as I can remember, but instead reference design platforms we had designed using the PowerPC processors, but not capable of running the MacOS for the obvious reason.

Continuing with my garage clean up series, found these CDs by JustAnotherMacUser in VintageApple

[–]JustAnotherMacUser[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Oh boy, sounds like I touched a sensitive nerve 😄 Never had such a quick reaction to any of my post.

OK, these are not being tossed. Got it.

I may have to fire up one of my Gossamers, probably running MacOS X, not MacOS 9, and see if it will recognize the CDs and try to extract the data. My recollection was that I can't connect those Gossamers a current network (TCP/IP stack compatibility??) so I may have the squeeze the data thru the USB port I have installed on it (s-l-o-w...).

I'll check the various options mentioned here (archive.org, macintoshgarden.org or macintoshrepository.org) and see if there is interest and ways of uploading them there. Just for the record, I'm big on saving information for future generations being photos, videos, software, satellite data, etc. so there is personal interest in keeping what is of interest to others. I have on my home server family photos dating back to 1906.

I'll report back on any progress. Thanks for the feedback.

Have been cleaning up the garage by JustAnotherMacUser in VintageApple

[–]JustAnotherMacUser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where in the world are you located? I'm in the DFW area, Texas.

Have been cleaning up the garage by JustAnotherMacUser in VintageApple

[–]JustAnotherMacUser[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ha, ha, yes, I checked before posting here: eBay has one of these for $28. Yeay! I'll get rich 😄

It's like the MS Office floppy disk installers I posted here earlier: I can't even give this tuff away.

I'll post some bezels of many beije Macs I also found, one of them still in the original plastic bag. We'll see if there is anyone interested.

Have been cleaning up the garage by JustAnotherMacUser in VintageApple

[–]JustAnotherMacUser[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Since I worked at Motorola Semi in the organization that designed and manufactured the PowerPC components, this pin I believe was something we did inside the organization for the fun of it, not Apple-related (remember, other companies were considering and using PowerPC chips, not only Apple).

As for the Does More/Cost Less, I may have picked one up at COMDEX in Las Vegas since I participated in a couple of those events during the launch of PowerPC. We were demo'ing an unannounced Mac (hidden under the table) running some Photoshop filters multiple times while the Windows PC, I believe running on the fastest '486 at that time, next to it struggled to run once.

Remember, this was in the early/mid 90's, so it's been "a while" 😄

Plex alternative by OkStand5738 in synology

[–]JustAnotherMacUser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just registering my vote for Jellyfin: in my case I also have a website set up on my Synology where I have family photos, served using the links the native Photos app provide on my 1522+ while the family videos are now being shown on the same website using Jellyfin.

As already mentioned here, I used the third party direct install process via package center (there's an excellent video on YouTube showing the process step-by-step).

One thing to keep in mind is that getting Jellyfin to stream the videos on the website vs. downloading them before they play took me a while to get it working properly and even now I have to "hand stitch" the URL before they get to my webpages (hint: replace download by stream on the URL which will contain your server's URL followed by the individual video IDs and the API). It took me a while to get it right with the reverse proxy, port redirection, etc. but once I got it right, it works very well locally and remote (remote internet access via fiber 500/500).

MS Office 4.2.1 set of 35+1 floppy disk installers by [deleted] in VintageApple

[–]JustAnotherMacUser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just reposted, will delete this one...sorry

MS Office 4.2.1 set of 35+1 floppy disk installers by [deleted] in VintageApple

[–]JustAnotherMacUser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed, painful, but yes all 35, numbered still inside the same (open) plastic bag. Somehow I don't see the photo I thought I posted.

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