shwango! blog

well, i might have to call my mac ii “lazarus” cuz it’s been raised from the dead! (for those without a religious upbringing, i think you still know what i’m talking about. not that i’m into all that…)

i’ve got it up to system 7.5.5 and open transport 1.1. (still need to update that – i heard that only 1.1.1 and up are stable.) it’s getting a bit sluggish now if i do things while the web server is running. i need to find some old 30 pin simms… i can boost it to 128mb ram if i can find 8 16 meg simms!

i also started looking for digidesign audiomedia ii card and sound designer software – that’s what made me fall in love with the mac ii when i first saw it. ebay’s got some stuff that might work.

i had been having some trouble with machttp 1.3 – it was too slow. and i knew it should be faster. my first web server i ever set up was machttp 1.? on a mac lcii and ran acceptable. i didn’t think it was the networking since pings to the box were fast and ethernet appletalk file serving was speedy.

i think it was a dns issue – lookups seem to kill it. i may revisit 1.3 but now i’m happy with 2.5 – with dns lookups off! it’s speeding along now! not too bad for 15 bucks at hamvention a few years ago.

hmmm… will macperl run on it? if perl will, maybe movable type would… well, for now i’ll just hack on some apple script code… if i can remember it!

maybe i’ll put the box on the public ‘net for all to bask in it’s glory! well, that is after i try to put linux on it…

hats off to all the old mac lovers still out there with site up for drivers, software, tips and tricks!