For quite a long time my classic dual G5 Powermac stood around. I really fancy the design of the aluminum housing and Apple’s OSX. Although the G5 is still quite powerful there is only very limited software still available. I kept running it with the latest OSX for PPC until about three years ago. Ever…
Well, I decided to host my site on my own server. So I took a started off taking a thin client and plugged a compact flash card into it and installed FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, PHP and WordPress. For a first try it really went quite well, but after some time the entire system crashed frequently….
I redesigned my “old” pages and molded them into WordPress. For sentimental reasons and the sake of DIY I published the MSP430 and the GLCD (SED1530) articles, although TI brought out the “LaunchPad” and the GLCD is not available anymore at the web-shop I purchased it from. There are still some things coming up, once…