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Lately, I'd agree. Back in early 2000s, OS X really was something new. It had the NextSTEP underpinnings that turned into a shiny, user friendly Unix that really did "just work" for the most part. Yeah, it had rough edges, but compared to where Windows XP and then Vista was at the time, it really did seem like the best option as far as commercial software was concerned. From OS X 10.1 - 10.4, it actually got better and faster with each release.

But it also had a full Unix shell underneath. That became my gateway into what was possible on other Unix like OSes, and then that led to going full time with Linux. Now all commercial operating systems are just a way to monetize and advertise to people. Thankfully the open source options have caught up and surpassed them.

The eMac was so cool, and what a great first computer to grow up with. Those cases make for great cat beds when emptied out, btw! :)

How about this? We covered our previous attempt at getting iChat working with well known guest in the PowerPC community. https://forkbombpodcast.com/e/episode-37-ichatav-and-intervi... What if we have a part 2 now that we have it working with you as the subject matter expert on it? Just keeping it as a conversation, no real script, and questions as they come up.

We should probably keep the rest of this conversation private. My email is in the blog post, so feel free to reach out there if you're interested, and if so, thanks in advance!

Really, it's just a chance to hang out and know what you're about, what you enjoy doing, how you got into the industry, and anything about your time at Apple and with iChat that you care to (or are allowed to) share. We'd come up with a list of questions that we're the most curious about, but I see it as a way to just have a good time on a recording and have a good memory to look back on while sometimes making new connections and possibly friends along the way.

On a personal note, when iChat AV was released, I used to enjoy going into Apple stores and setting up the Macs there with a video conference via Bonjour and I would just leave them that way because I thought it was so neat.

I'm curious why they did they're own thing and how closely it functions to the actual spec. I never did consider trying this against an actual STUN server.

Oh neat! What was your computing experience like back then? Do you remember what you were trying to figure out?

This is incredible and thank you for the reply. My friend and I are obsessed with computing history and this time period was especially fun for the both of us. Thank you for being a contributor to it.

I'm curious, would you be open to talking about your experience on a podcast with us? https://forkbombpodcast.com/ It's noncommercial, no ads, and is just for fun.

If not, I'd love to know more here. You all must of been really proud of what you built.

Firewire. Yes.

I was not aware of this.

I wrote this guide after getting annoyed with talking to disembodied heads from the chin up, low lighting, and vertical videos from my therapists. I took it as an opportunity to create a comprehensive, but simple as possible, tech guide for them in the hopes that it can improve the quality for us as their patients.

It's written by me, a human, without the use of AI. There are no ads on this site, no trackers, and no affiliate links. There never will be.

If you too have a subpar experience and get distracted by your otherwise well meaning therapist's tech challenges, please feel free to send this to them.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Interesting the it was especially during a full moon.

True story. No AI with the exception of the milk carton image.

This was so easy yet this specific set of instructions does not seem to show up anywhere when Googling for it, so I wrote them up myself.

Blogging with and ancient laptop and OpenBSD

RSS feed is fixed. Thanks again!

The previous version of the driver from 2015 is still freely available. I got lost there for a bit too.

I have fixed it. Thank you for pointing that out.

I was under the impression that the Server version allowed for acting as a domain controller which I have never tried with NT4 before.

You can thank BSSG for that. It came with that theme. https://bssg.dragas.net/

Noted and thanks. I will try to get it fixed.

Hey, thanks for letting me know. I have not tried the RSS functionality of BSDG yet but I will try to get it fixed.

Ah, good to know. Thank guess it would be better to say “Learn how NT domain controllers work.” Thanks for the correction.

This is how my friend (who is in Florida) and I (who is in New York) network our retro machines together as if they were on the same physical LAN. It's makes use of pfSense, OpenVPN, and FreshTomato. It's a long read but it was a fun project. I hope someone finds it useful.