Last weekend I moved mac.fiveforks.com off our home iMac (vintage 2004) in the living room to a G3 (vintage 1999.) I got the G3 several months ago for free and, it has been running in test mode without a hitch in my basement. Its name is Wart, Merlin’s nickname for the young King Arthur.

Last night I moved Wart downtown to a server closet, so while the older 400 mhz G3 is three times slower than our 1.25 ghz iMac, it has 4 times the speed access to the internet. This is kind of like the tradeoff someone working downtown makes when moving from a bigger house in the suburbs to a smaller house in the city to cut commute times.

This week I was handed a bigger house. A G4 (vintage 2002) which I will swap out with the G3 when I can find the time.

Eventually I’d like to go to an XServe.

Note to self:

The manual address with automatic DHCP mode did not work. George coached me through hand plugging these:

IP 4.21.254.11

Router 4.1.254.1

Netmask 255.255.255.0

DNS 4.21.254.3 4.21.254.4

Network (not needed) 4.21.254.0

Gandalf (who is from a different book) is sitting next to Wart on .10.