{"id":1723,"date":"2007-08-27T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2007-08-27T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T14:16:00","slug":"dear-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1723","title":{"rendered":"Dear Apple."},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I’m irritated. Doesn’t help that I’m in DC, still working at 7:20 in the evening, having caught the 7:55am flight down here. I’m irritated at Apple.<\/p>\n

We have a server with PPC chips (Apple XServe, slot loading). It needs a new OS. In the several years since this machine came out, there have been a few changes to the Apple line. These include:<\/p>\n

* The OS now comes on DVDs, not CDs. This machine has only a CD drive. <\/p>\n

* Back in the day, these machines did not come with any video options onboard. You could buy a “PCI-X” video card … but that was it. We do not have a “PCI-X” video card … and no, you can’t just jam a regular $20 PCI video card in there backwards. Trust me on this.<\/p>\n

* Apples are now Intel based, not PPC based. <\/p>\n

* They changed the boot code so that if you make a bootable image on a new machine (my laptop), it ain’t gonna work on the old server. This means that I can no longer just “pretend” install on my laptop onto the target mode-ed server … since they’re different architectures using different boot codes. <\/p>\n

I’ve done this more than twice<\/a>, and it’s almost always different in some unique and awesome way. I’ll spare the details, but the solution that we’re closing in on here involves a firewire disk, a spare PPC workstation, two different machines in target mode, and a lot of profanity. I really want to get the serial \/ USB adapter involved somehow … but I’m not sure it’s going to be necessary. <\/p>\n

Oh yeah, and in between cursing at the machines, I had a decent set of conversations about health insurance with my employer. I’ll leave out the details, but let’s just say that these weren’t the conversations that leave one in a *better* mood than one started.<\/p>\n

Thank God I’m in the same town as a Dogfish Head brewpub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, I’m irritated. Doesn’t help that I’m in DC, still working at 7:20 in the evening, having caught the 7:55am flight down here. I’m irritated at Apple.<\/p>\n

. . . → Read More: Dear Apple.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}