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Running a PowerMac Headless – Finally a soluton that is cheap!

After searching around on the net i have rarely found much info on running Powermac G3, G4 or G5′s headless – the only thing i did find was some $30US DR Bott headless adapter which is quite a bit of money to trick the card into thinking there is a monitor attached. overall cost is under $10

After some research the result is very simple -

What you will need:
3x 75Ohm Resistors if you can’t get 75Ohm try what i did and get something else close to 70
1x DB-15HI Male Connector
1x DB9 Shell
1x 1N4004 Rectifier Diode

Solder the resistors to connect
Pins 1&6, 2&7 and 3&8.

Using the 1N4004 connect pins 4&5 with the silver stripe side connected to pin 5.
Put on the casing and voila! a headless connector that should work on Most cards with an 15-Pin PC VGA connector (G3,G4 Powermacs)

For the Powermac G5 or any other DVI system just connect this adapter to a DVI-VGA adapter and you should also be fine.

Basically what this does, is pulls a load on the signal wires to the same amount a normal monitor would, and also provides an ID Signal to the video card, as far as your mac is concerned there is a screen connected!

Well as some of you would know i have had to use Vista increasingly lately due to work and the fact that nobody really knows what they are doing with it yet.

Everything has been going alright with it i suppose, vista is sort of growing on me.

Well, there was one major issue for me (probably not for most people though) and that was trying to get WPA Enterprise encryption working, i tried everything to get it to go without any luck initially.

After many hours of plugging away at the vista machine and modifying settings on it and on the radius server i was tearing my hair out! it was 3AM and i had achieved nothing, and have seen many other people with problems due to vista’s implementation of 802.1x/WPA Enterprise.

I found that one thing stopping me was FreeRadius being out of date, turns out that Microsoft updated the MSCHAPv2 Standard and remained silent about it, and thus FreeRadius wouldn’t work – I was pretty pleased to read that! it would solve all my problems… or would it.

So i went on the journey of recompiling FreeRadius on my server, and it is a bastard to get working with OSX sometimes. Especially when it can’t find the MySQL Libraries….

Even after upgrading it didn’t work! AGH!!! i was tearing my hair out wondering where it was failing, the radius logs were more cryptic than anything mainly because it’s being handled by the EAP module :(

after a while i conceded that username/password PEAP challenges were not going to happen, so i moved on to certificates. I re-generated all my ssl certificates and distributed them to all the computers, and they all worked – except for the vista installation…

After much probing around i managed to get vista to take the CA cert and use it, but it still wouldn’t auth with it and the client cert, however i’d noticed that it had caused username/password challenges to work correctly – i had a poke around and looked at some MS Knowledgebase articles and it turns out that it was trying to verify the server identity via a certificate, a certificate that it previously didn’t have.

Regenerating the client cert ended up fixing that issue, but i wanted to be able to login with a username and password without needing to install the CA cert on the computer, turns out i have to untick “do not ask the user to verify new/unknown server certificates” or something like that along with “verify server cert before joining”

A Simple fix, i believe it is a combination of the vista issue and with Freeradius and that i was too tired to fix it on account of it being 3AM, however i hope that if anyone out there is having the same issue (my googling proves that there is indeed a lot of people with the same issue) that they will find this info so they don’t have to become an insomniac due to FreeRadius too.

Lol!

Some Myspace faggot directly linked to my site the cunt, i gave him a helping hand with his profile and spruced it up a little

Click the pictures to enlarge.

Before:

After:
Graphic Imagery.

His profile is found at: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=119793966

Update: LOL, already getting comments on his profile about the pic.

Update #2: He has now removed the pic.

Update #3: Added hotlink protection, and checked the logs. it seems there are others on myspace that have been posting images, the pages include the following, but you’ll need to hit ctrl+f5 on them as your browser has already cached the images off here;
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=6162666
And
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=8183868

W00t i got a mac classic today yeah!

I have no real use for it, but it is a relic from the past and i was glad i could get my hands on one.

In other news i’ve also tweaked the CSS and the site now renders in IE properly.

Specs

• CPU: 8 MHz Motorola 68000
• ROM: 512 KB
• RAM: 2 MB using 120 ns 30-pin SIMMs
• Display: 9″ b&w screen, 512 x 342 pixels
• Audio: 8-bit mono 22Khz
• Hard drive: 40 MB
• Floppy: 1.4 MB double sided
• Size (HxWxD): 13.2″ x 9.7″ x 11.2″
• Weight: 16 lb (7.3 kg)
• Addressing: 24-bit only
• Battery: 3.6 V lithium
• Expansion slots: none
• Upgrade path: none

Interfaces:

• ADB port for keyboard and mouse
• Two mini-DIN-8 RS-422 Serial ports
• DB-25 SCSI connector
• Headphone 3.5 mm jack socket

The following article is something i agree with basically even though i am a mac user, it is making a statement that apple supremacists, i mean lovers… are a lot like nazi’s.

I Fucking hate apple fanboys, they have no clue what they are talking about with their arguments, and they are an embarrasment to us normal people who use macs
(the worst argument they have is the virus thing, perhaps if they weren’t looking at child porn on their old pc they used to own, they wouldn’t have gotten any virii)

http://www.whatwouldplatodo.com/symposium/showthread.php?t=65

Ol’ Adolf would have preferred a Mac over a PC. Apple is the master race of computers. NOT that they are superior (quite the opposite), but Apple is on a serious purity kick.

It is my understanding that if one wishes to buy something for their Mac, the only option is to buy something sold by Apple. There is to be NO inter-marriage of computer components. To even CONSIDER putting something foreign into your Mac is unheard of.

Adolf (Yes, we’re on a first name basis) would have loved this. He was all for the proliferation of his Master Race through controlled breeding. To even CONSIDER putting something foreign into an Aryan woman was unheard of.

And how about gaming? Adolf was not known for any recreational pursuits. (He would have LOVED 8-ball, but that is another rant) Again, the Mac would be best.

Apple Vs. IBM was the WWII of the computer age. Like Nazi’s, Mac users have been marginalized by society. They exist, but only on the fringes. Normal, educated people find both Neo-Nazi’s and Mac users strange and radical. Both groups are needlessly vocal, self-righteous, and ever-present.

But I digress. Adolf was also interested in branding and a constant aesthetic. The Apple logo is the most prominent feature of the company’s advertising. If Apple is involved, you know it. The first macs all looked alike. This has changed in modern times, but only as far as colour is concerned.

Adolf Hitler would have been a Mac user. Hell, he would have bought stock.

Prospero