March 25, 2001
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This was definitely a weekend for tinkering and geeking about with computery bits. I finally got around to setting up my new G4 tower with its pixeliciously immense Cinema Display. Yes, I admit I spoiled myself rotten with this particularly indulgent piece of technology, but holy crap… if you’ve ever had the pleasure of sitting in front of one of these displays, you’ll understand why I needed to have one. My wife and kids are now using the five year old Power Mac 8500 with the upgraded processor board and the Apple Multiple Scan 20 monitor which replaced the humble LC475. The 8500 is still connected to the Shaw@Home cable modem until I get around to cancelling the service and finish configuring all of the TCP/IP settings to use the new ASDL subnet. Speaking of which… thank the supreme being of your choice for putting the boys at Sustainable Softworks and their amazing IPNetRouter on this sweet earth. Even though it took a fair bit of plowing through the sporadically confusing user manual to get the router configured and understanding that I didn’t want IP masquerading thank you very much, it most certainly beats the heck out of dropping a couple thousand clams on a hardware router with comparible features and performance. And thanks to Bruce over at Webcore Labs, I have a previously loved Power Mac tower to run it on. Coming up… hand-configured DNS, IP filtering, and multi-domain mail services on a vintage Macintosh. Stay tuned.
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