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Vintage Computing Files Archive is down???
I cannot access to VCFA on KDX cilent that I want to download System 7.5 Version 7.5.3 full CD. Even, the preterhuman.net does not have System 7.5 Version 7.5.3 full CD but only System CD that came from Apple Software Updates. I worried the Vintage Computing Files Archive.
Yeah it's only been down for like... months. :
The guy's needed funds for the archive forever. His donation funds have been empty ever since he started the archive (at least to my knowledge), and all of the money's been coming out of his own pocket. Maybe if you have some spare cash sometime, you could consider, I don't know, hitting that big orange button on the main page that says DONATE perhaps? 
Just a suggestion...
Just a suggestion...
Also, System 7.5 can be downloaded free from apple.
I need full CD of System 7.5 Version 7.5.3 (that included OpenDoc, QuickDraw GX, PowerTalk and Disk Images with CD Extras). The System 7.5.3 from Apple does not have 7.5.3 in floppies. :b&w:
Also, give the link for 7.5.3 installation floppies, not multipart.
Also, give the link for 7.5.3 installation floppies, not multipart.
OK. I want to check the user "Dzave" that included the server backup. In preterhuman.net, the "MacOS 7.5.3.sit" has only multipart, not floppies. I need the floppies version of System 7.5.3. VCFA long lived, but I like VCFA.
The multipart is the full CD AFAIK, just decompress them all and double-click the first part. You can then make an ISO in Disk Utility. That's how I did it. If you don't have Mac OS X then maybe someone here with the server space can do it.
That's how I did it. If you don't have Mac OS X then maybe someone here with the server space can do it.
And then, where is the older version (http://vintage.tsfsc.com/the-archive/) of http archive in Vintage Computing Files Archive?
An update on the status of the Vintage Computing Files Archive has recently been posted at http://vcfa.890m.com/. The problem has been narrowed down to a bad logic board. He is seeking donations to get a new server to bring the archive back online.
What kind of Mac is the server?
IIRC it was a Powerbook or iBook. Let me try finding the reference I remember.
Edit: I did remember correctly:
You can get an entire G4 tower for the same price as an iBook logic board.
Yeah, G4 towers are pretty cheap, but I also suspect he may be paying electricity on it, as it runs out of his home, in which case a G4 tower may be less desirable just because of the added power usage.
Right now, I'm hosting stenoweb.net on a mobile computer for kind-of similar reasons. (Heat, noise, and no need for anything more powerful than what the old ThinkPad has got.)
Right now, I'm hosting stenoweb.net on a mobile computer for kind-of similar reasons. (Heat, noise, and no need for anything more powerful than what the old ThinkPad has got.)
If the PowerBook uses 50W and the G4 uses 150W and he is paying 15¢/kwh:
$5.40/mo to run the PowerBook
$16.20/mo to run the G4 Tower
I don't think the G4 or even the PowerBook would be using that much though.
You can strip down the G4 some, unplug the CD drive and any unused cards, you basically want the hard drive, motherboard, video card, and PSU. Change to onboard ethernet if you use a card. If there's a backup drive make sure it spins down when not in use. Unplug USB devices when not in use.
You could probably get an entire PowerBook or maybe an iBook 500 MHz for $100 if you didn't care about the battery or screen anomalies. You could also get a G4 for $50 or less if you're looking in the right place. It might takes 5-6 months for the energy savings to catch up, but honestly if you don't have $10/mo to spare for more power or $50 to spare when the server dies then maybe running a server is not a good project for you.
$5.40/mo to run the PowerBook
$16.20/mo to run the G4 Tower
I don't think the G4 or even the PowerBook would be using that much though.
You can strip down the G4 some, unplug the CD drive and any unused cards, you basically want the hard drive, motherboard, video card, and PSU. Change to onboard ethernet if you use a card. If there's a backup drive make sure it spins down when not in use. Unplug USB devices when not in use.
You could probably get an entire PowerBook or maybe an iBook 500 MHz for $100 if you didn't care about the battery or screen anomalies. You could also get a G4 for $50 or less if you're looking in the right place. It might takes 5-6 months for the energy savings to catch up, but honestly if you don't have $10/mo to spare for more power or $50 to spare when the server dies then maybe running a server is not a good project for you.
And to think, I'm in a 'greenie', super enviro-nut (yes, I drive a Prius, and I've had only compact flourescent bulbs since 1999; and am seriously looking at switching from THOSE over to LED bulbs, which are still $30 a piece...,) yet I'm in the process of replacing my G4 server with a massive beast... I must say, though, the thing makes an excellent space heater.
Just checked the link... Itanium, eh? Nice to see that there's someone still "thinking different" from X86/X64, even if it's from Intel. :b&w:
In case you haven't noticed, I HATE the ubiquity of X86 processors in desktops/laptops these days. It's all too boring and the same for me. xx(
I don't think Prius is that good either. By the time you pay $5000 over a Corolla (or is it more or less now, I don't know), are you really saving money on gas for the lifetime of the car? I don't think you are. Especially when you have to buy new batteries after 5 years because yours are spent up and don't work well anymore.
However, CFLs are smart. They last 5x longer and use 4x less energy even if they cost twice as much initially. Just by the fact that they cost 2x more but last 5x longer, that's 2.5x the value over old bulbs on that one metric alone.
Being an ultra-geek, I created a speadsheet comparing the three vehicles we were looking at at the time. With my outrageously high estimate gas price of $2.00 a gallon as the average over ten years (hah! It exceeded that within 6 months of buying the car!) I was due to hit the break-even point vs. one alternative at the 5 year point, vs. the second at the 7 year point. The car is now 5 years old, and by my spreadsheet's calculations, I have already broken even against both. Sometime around the 150,000-mile mark, it will even have paid off compared to just keeping the SUV it replaced.
As for the battery, there are many reports of Priuses (Prii?) going strong on their original battery pack at the 200,000 mile mark. You get slightly worse gas mileage, (40 vs. 45 MPG) because the battery can't hold as much charge, but you still do much better than a conventional car. (A taxi company in Vancouver, BC, has used Priuses since 2001; and got over 330,000 km (205,000 miles) before he replaced it with a newer model; and it was running just fine. Another taxi company in BC used a 2001 Prius for over 435,000 km (270,000 miles,) before retiring it without needing a battery replacement. I may drive more miles than average (my five-year-old car has almost 80,000 miles,) but I'm nowhere near the wear-and-tear these cars experienced. (And a cab's stop-and-go usage is even harder on the battery than my mostly-highway miles.)
The Prius is a little bigger than the Corolla, enough that it was the smallest car (interior passenger room-wise) we were looking at. The Corolla was just too small. Had the Camry Hybrid been around when we bought ours, we probably would have gotten that. (Or even the Accord Hybrid, which wasn't very impressive...)
Modern CFLs are great, the early ones (1998/1999) were horrendous. They all claimed a five-plus-year life, yet every single one I bought in '98/99 died within one year. Most of their replacements lasted barely a year as well. And, of course, back then, they were more like 10x as expensive.
Im not green but that little kia I have is slightly out of tune and still getting 38mpg with the air conditioner on, based on the MPG given above with the prius I kinda feel good, maybe Ill go get a tuneup, toss some better spark plugs and a K&N filter in there and see if I cant beat 45 mpg with a normal gas engine
With small cars, it's not hard. I used to have a Hyundai Accent (probably the same chassis as your Kia,) and with ultra-careful driving, I could push it up into the 40s. With the Prius, I can be my normal leadfoot self, and get the mid 40s. If I drive ultra-carefully, I can reach the mid 50s.
I don't drive as much as you I guess. Actually, the warranty on my Cobalt just ended at 3 years and the car has almost exactly 36,000 miles (which also ends the warranty).
I only put a few thousand miles on it the first year because all I did was drive to high school 1 mile away and to friends' and minor errands and such, so it wasn't exactly 12,000 miles per year. But over the life of the Cobalt (paid exactly $13,750) vs the life of the Prius ($20,000+) I don't think I could break even with my current driving habits, so it makes sense to have the Cobalt.
I would not mind having like a GM EV1 or something (if they weren't all crushed) especially since I have my van now. The EV1 would be absolutely perfect.
I only put a few thousand miles on it the first year because all I did was drive to high school 1 mile away and to friends' and minor errands and such, so it wasn't exactly 12,000 miles per year. But over the life of the Cobalt (paid exactly $13,750) vs the life of the Prius ($20,000+) I don't think I could break even with my current driving habits, so it makes sense to have the Cobalt.
I would not mind having like a GM EV1 or something (if they weren't all crushed) especially since I have my van now. The EV1 would be absolutely perfect.
Yeah, if you take it seriously, have the funds available, or as in the case of the VCFA administrator, receive donations, then a powermac would be a suitable server.
I've actually been thinking of grabbing a G4 or G5 running debian Linux, Leopard or Leopard Server to replace tacgnol (the laptop server I've got right now), as a more robust solution, although that is borne very specifically out of my own personal desire to run old, ancient, mostly unsupported, proprietary UNIX platforms.
I also have a pentium dual-core system that I may put back in the server role, where it was before I realized that it's really more horsepower than I need right now, but I can easily mirror the dual 750gb disks in that machine, and use it as a backup server for whatever other machines I have, as well as just web/shell.
Anyway... not everybody who is willing to run something like the VCFA has a P|DC box hanging around, or even a powermac G4 that they can just drop into service. And likewise, not everybody with G4s and similarly powerful machines is willing to run an archive like VCFA. (I have the computational horsepower and the bandwidth for it, but in a round-about way, I work for my ISP and am unwilling to host anything that might break our AUP, and thusly get me fired.
I've actually been thinking of grabbing a G4 or G5 running debian Linux, Leopard or Leopard Server to replace tacgnol (the laptop server I've got right now), as a more robust solution, although that is borne very specifically out of my own personal desire to run old, ancient, mostly unsupported, proprietary UNIX platforms.
I also have a pentium dual-core system that I may put back in the server role, where it was before I realized that it's really more horsepower than I need right now, but I can easily mirror the dual 750gb disks in that machine, and use it as a backup server for whatever other machines I have, as well as just web/shell.
Anyway... not everybody who is willing to run something like the VCFA has a P|DC box hanging around, or even a powermac G4 that they can just drop into service. And likewise, not everybody with G4s and similarly powerful machines is willing to run an archive like VCFA. (I have the computational horsepower and the bandwidth for it, but in a round-about way, I work for my ISP and am unwilling to host anything that might break our AUP, and thusly get me fired.
i understand the appeal and benefits of running at at home server, but I just use a hosting company
pay up front for 2 years of service, get free domain renewal and proxy and it boils down to less than 5 bucks a month for quality uptime on a fast pipe and let someone else who is obligated by contract do all the bs maintenance work
yea maybe I cant run my own quake server with it, but being connected to a linux box with ssh and all the usual stuff on a oc480,0001,1000,8 and hassle free just works better for me
pay up front for 2 years of service, get free domain renewal and proxy and it boils down to less than 5 bucks a month for quality uptime on a fast pipe and let someone else who is obligated by contract do all the bs maintenance work
yea maybe I cant run my own quake server with it, but being connected to a linux box with ssh and all the usual stuff on a oc480,0001,1000,8 and hassle free just works better for me
Once I'm done at the university, I will likely need to discontinue having my own server, as I'll have an electric bill, and a slower network connection. The extend of my shell use tends to be screen+irssi so a system like sdf.lonestar.org would be suitable for that, and I could easily host my website somewhere else, or simply discontinue the use of my own website in the way I use it now.
With the laptop or another low-power device (dectop, anything atom based) as a server I'd probably be okay to host little things out of my home. There's no real reason my personal blog needs to be on a particularly fast connection, except that it makes getting slashdotted so much more fun.
With the laptop or another low-power device (dectop, anything atom based) as a server I'd probably be okay to host little things out of my home. There's no real reason my personal blog needs to be on a particularly fast connection, except that it makes getting slashdotted so much more fun.
The server we're discussing is hosting abandonware. Most real web hosts won't allow that on their server, so he has to run it himself.
We're still not talking about huge amounts of power here. You guys must have really expensive electricity or something.
At the apartment where I live we don't have individual electric meters. They meter the whole complex, and then we pay a sub-divided rate based on the square footage of the apartment as well as the number of occupants. My entire utilities bill (includes water, sewage, electric, trash, and gas) is never more than $100/mo even in the summer. We have chilled water air conditioning though instead of individual compressors so I think that saves money as well.
I could run several servers and basically the entire complex would be subsidizing those servers. I only have a 1.5 Mbps upload though, but it is a static IP.