I’ve had quite a problem getting Darwin 8.0.1 to boot on my B&W – holding down the C key doesn’t work, and so that is pretty much it as there are no other instructions… Now I have been messing around with the OpenFirmware settings quite a bit so may have stuffed up some invisible extra, [...]
I’ve had a little issue trying to get more than 4GB of data onto this unit, and the usual Google wasn’t helping much. Checking all of the jumpers showed that hardware compression was enabled, but both tar and dump refused to go beyond 4GB of data, which was rather annoying as my root partition is [...]
BBC – Radio 4 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Play the adventure online: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_new.shtml Oh dear – this could be the biggest waste of my time in quite a while (and makes me glad I no longer pay by the minute for my connection), but it does satisfy one of my mild [...]
This is a bug in Apple’s Disk Utility – it will totally choke on my G3 B&W when presented with a drive that has had a NetBSD/macppc disc label applied (ok, incorrectly applied with disklabel and not pdisk, but that’s not the point !). Once logged in the system notices that there is a drive [...]
A modified rapid white loaf from page 25: 300g Strong White flour (Tesco) 50g Strong Brown flour (Tesco) 50g Strong Wholemeal flour (Hovis) 3/4 tsp Yeast (Tesco) 1 tsp Salt 1 tbsp Sugar 1 tbsp Milk powder 1 tbsp Sunflower seeds 1 tbsp Pumpkin seeds 280ml Warm water Not too bad – a nice nutty [...]
Well, I’m going to admit defeat for the moment – I haven’t yet managed to get a decent rapid bake cinnamon and raisin bread. I’ve added everything in one go, and got mashed up raisin bits due to excessive mixing; I’ve added raisins when I thought the mixing was nearly over and had all of [...]