Breathing life into a 7500 Power Macintosh

I bought a 7500 in 1996 for its upgrade capabilities. Up until now it had been running OS9.1 and I had upgraded the CPU to a Sonnet Crescendo PCI G3 400mhz, increased the RAM to 256MB and upgraded the hard drive to 4GB. Yesterday I managed to get OSX 10.2 installed on a seperate partition to the OS9.1 installation using Ryan Rempel's superb XPostFacto 4 open source software.

In addition to the installation guidelines I did the following:

• Changed the internal SCSI bus id from 0 to 1
• Removed all PCI cards

After the base installation of OSX 10.2 my Belkin Wireless USB Network Adaptor (F5D6050) was not recognised. Upgrading to 10.2.4 fixed this issue. I am currently running 10.2.6 and everything seems to be ok.

Engage Studio in book 'Web Design: Studios'

As a co-founder of the design studio Engage I am pleased to announce their inclusion in the book 'Web Design: Studios' by Julius Wiedemann.

While at Engage I was invovled in the Universal Design Studio project, which is featured in this book. See more of the project at www.universaldesignstudio.com

Alfresco v1

I am pleased to announce Alfresco has released the first version of its Open Source Enterprise Content Management Solution. I am proud to be a member of the Alfresco team.

Read more at www.alfrescosoftware.com