Comments on: HN 059 – The saga of the eMac http://hypernonsense.com/2007/01/30/hn-059-the-saga-of-the-emac/ Podcast/Internet radio from San Luis Obispo, CA Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:55:12 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Dave Calderbank http://hypernonsense.com/2007/01/30/hn-059-the-saga-of-the-emac/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Dave Calderbank Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:04:31 +0000 http://hypernonsense.com/2007/01/30/hn-059-the-saga-of-the-emac/#comment-57 Damn this is some tech show! A few things that you guys might find handy: You can use a firewire cable to connect 2 Macs with TCP/IP over firewire. It's much faster than ethernet. And if you start up the eMac in target disk mode (hold command + T during startup) you can acces the HD like an external HD and drag anything you want onto the other machine (again with a FW cable) The ability to boot from a CD and run apps is not a real security risk, there is a utility in OS X called Open Firmware Password, use that and nobody can boot from CD or from another drive, it locks out any key combinations you could use during startup. A real security risk is that any password will be erased if you take out the battery or all RAM modules. If you wanna be safe use crazy glue to hold those in place :) Not sure about the ethernet issue. Maybe it's got something to do with the settings on the iMac. I had the same problem when i connected my iBook G4 to my network, turned out there was something wrong with my TCP/IP settings, when i tried to move something to another machine it would upload it to my ISP first and than back again. Every Mac including the 233 Mhz iMac has built-in 10/100 Mb ethernet, so it's probably software related. Also the speed of the machine doesn't really matter, that's only slightly noticable if you upload to a slower machine. Downloading from a slower machine should not be a problem. -Dave Damn this is some tech show! A few things that you guys might find handy: You can use a firewire cable to connect 2 Macs with TCP/IP over firewire. It’s much faster than ethernet. And if you start up the eMac in target disk mode (hold command + T during startup) you can acces the HD like an external HD and drag anything you want onto the other machine (again with a FW cable)

The ability to boot from a CD and run apps is not a real security risk, there is a utility in OS X called Open Firmware Password, use that and nobody can boot from CD or from another drive, it locks out any key combinations you could use during startup. A real security risk is that any password will be erased if you take out the battery or all RAM modules. If you wanna be safe use crazy glue to hold those in place :)

Not sure about the ethernet issue. Maybe it’s got something to do with the settings on the iMac. I had the same problem when i connected my iBook G4 to my network, turned out there was something wrong with my TCP/IP settings, when i tried to move something to another machine it would upload it to my ISP first and than back again. Every Mac including the 233 Mhz iMac has built-in 10/100 Mb ethernet, so it’s probably software related. Also the speed of the machine doesn’t really matter, that’s only slightly noticable if you upload to a slower machine. Downloading from a slower machine should not be a problem.

-Dave

]]> By: Andy Melton http://hypernonsense.com/2007/01/30/hn-059-the-saga-of-the-emac/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Andy Melton Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:38:03 +0000 http://hypernonsense.com/2007/01/30/hn-059-the-saga-of-the-emac/#comment-56 Great episode. I really enjoyed it. I will be writing a blog entry soon about my first Mac, a used Mac and what all I've done with it. (It's an iBook G3 600MHz) A lot of the stuff you talked about is what I'll be talking about, although, no porn for me :( The slow transfer speed across the network could be a variety of things. The network card in the old iMac might have only been capable of 10 Mbps (although, that seems stupid). Also, the hard drive could have been a slow 4200, 5400 RPM drive. My old Toshiba Satellite took FOREVER to transfer files across the network. It has 200MHz and 32 MB of RAM (running Windows XP, sadly). The guy could have used a laptop to use the Mac, but, only if the Mac had like VNC or something installed and activated on it previously. Anyways, great episode, enjoyed it! Great episode. I really enjoyed it. I will be writing a blog entry soon about my first Mac, a used Mac and what all I’ve done with it. (It’s an iBook G3 600MHz) A lot of the stuff you talked about is what I’ll be talking about, although, no porn for me :(

The slow transfer speed across the network could be a variety of things. The network card in the old iMac might have only been capable of 10 Mbps (although, that seems stupid). Also, the hard drive could have been a slow 4200, 5400 RPM drive. My old Toshiba Satellite took FOREVER to transfer files across the network. It has 200MHz and 32 MB of RAM (running Windows XP, sadly).

The guy could have used a laptop to use the Mac, but, only if the Mac had like VNC or something installed and activated on it previously.

Anyways, great episode, enjoyed it!

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