<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>IOhannes is also the "central point of failure" for a lot of Pd. There is only so much on person can do, so I figure its good to spread the work around :-)</div><div><br></div><div>As for running this box, as long as its online, I can easily maintain it. Someone local just needs to be able to keep it booted up and connected to the internet.</div><div><br></div><div>.hc</div><br><div><div>On Feb 27, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Greg Pond wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I will check the specs on my machines and get back to you soon. We have several surplus g4 and g5 towers here. IOhannes has a lot more knowledge and experience than I do so if he wants to do it then I am happy to turn it over to him- whatever is the best to keep the builds going. <br>
<br>Greg<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hans@at.or.at">hans@at.or.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Feb 27, 2012, at 12:22 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:<br>
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>> So the Mac OS X PowerPC machine from the build farm has died. The hard drive is intact, so all the data is there. I also have much more limited time for maintaining the PdLab machines. So I'm looking for someone to host the Mac OS X PowerPC builds. It can be really any recent PowerPC Mac. The old machine was a 300MHz G4.<br>
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>> Can anyone take this on? I'd hate to see Mac OS X/PowerPC dropped from the supported platforms since they are still quite capable machines.<br>
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> i think the iem could dedicate a G4 (733MHz, 750MB) machine.<br>
> it's currently running 10.4;<br>
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> i will have to wipe the disk first of course, but afaik it's not going<br>
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> i was hoping for a G5, but unfortunately the only one left is very<br>
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</div>Greg Pond has also offered a machine. Either works for me. A 10.4 machine would be nice so we can support 10.4 too. Basically, it just needs 10.4 and Xcode with all the updates, then Fink and JackOSX. That's it. If I have ssh root access, I can do the setup remotely.<br>
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