With the moving of services away from Parallels Desktop on Intel Mac hardware I have inadvertently brought back compatibility with Mac OS on the Macintosh Rescue network. Netatalk 4 seems greatly improved over previous versions with a broader range of compatibility. FreeBSD is my favourite operating system for running Netatalk as I have found that…

I am now moving to a new phase with Macintosh Rescue with significant announcements from Apple. Macintosh Rescue has always intended to be an archive or museum preserving a period in software history. macOS Tahoe is officially the final version of macOS with any intel compatibility and therefor will be the final update in the…

I recently upgraded to an iPhone 16 Pro and am delighted with its camera and its service as an iPhone: unfortunately I did not anticipate something: Oracle! At the end of 2024 I got a pestering e-mail from Oracle about account changes, followed it, logged-in with my password and was prompted to acknowledge a notification…

Today marks my first failed attempt to upgrade an activated Windows 8.1 Pro system to Windows 10 Pro. Microsoft recently announced that free upgrade paths from older versions of Windows would end with older software keys no longer activating Windows 10 installations. I tested this today with a VirtualBox running Windows 8.1 Pro that I…

If an individual bought an Apple computer in the 90’s then kept their field of view inwards toward Apple only what operating systems would they encounter? Obviously there’s System Finder, System 7, Mac OS, Mac OS X, OS X, and macOS. There are then the servers with AU/X, Mac OS X Server, and then there’s…

With improvements to Parallels Desktop 19.3 I found myself ready to transition more of my Macintosh Rescue services to Apple Silicon so yesterday decided to virtualise my NetInstall service which was hosted on a Mac mini (2018) with an i7 processor. When macOS Sonoma was released I noticed that on the bootpd manpage the NAME…

On Monday, May 6, 2002 Steve Jobs said farewell to a dear friend of the Macintosh world: Mac OS 9. Today Saturday, April 1, 2023 Macintosh Rescue does the same, but the legacy will live on. Up until now I have proudly hosted a network that supports present day Mac’s and all the way back…

It’s coming up for WWDC 2022 and Tim Cook has “exciting things” including the State Of The Union. Here is the state of my Union with Apple: I deeply regret the decision I made that brought me into the world of computing as an Apple user. Many years ago I purchased a discounted iMac G5…

This evening was very sad for me. I’ve been using an authenticated Jitsi Meet service running on cloud hosted virtual machines. I have had success running with a few users on a Nanode available from Linode.com , but decided to reduce costs by moving to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and using a VM in the Free…

Another announcement has been made by Apple positively entitled “the future of macOS Server”; which of course is Apple speak for “destroying macOS Server”. As of April 21, 2022, Apple has discontinued macOS Server. Although existing customers can still keep running the final version (5.12.2), but this will not work beyond macOS Monterey. This means…