Well, well. This is my first post with the new eMac. *sniff* Goodbye dear G4 Cube, we’re all going to miss your stylish functionality and tireless work. Read the rest of the article for more about the changeover.
So, there you have it; everything you see and hear off of lebor.net is now being served to you from an Apple eMac. So how did it go? Well, rather less painful than I thought it would be. Once I’d accepted my fate, I immediately set about finding ways to make it work. For starters, I had to move all my data from one machine to the other. Carbon Copy Cloner, combined with an external firewire drive made it seamless. Clone to firewire drive, boot eMac from firewire drive, clone down to eMac. Next up: how to have two computers with only one mouse, keyboard, and display. Previously I had been using a very nice IOGear USB KVM to hook up the Dell and the Cube. But the eMac has a built in display. So away went the KVM. How did I do it? Windows XP has a built in remote desktop server. There’s a client for OS X. It’s very efficient, and even does audio passthrough. So now I have the eMac sitting on top of the Dell (I needed to raise up the eMac a few inches anyhow), and I use RDC to connect to it. And just to prove my geekery, and to test all the connections, I used RDC to get to the Dell, then opened up music.lebor.net in firebird, connected to the music on my Mac, streamed it to the PC, which passed the audio through RDC to the Mac, and out the speakers. Yeah, the Mac->PC->Mac->PC->Mac connection thing may have been a little over the top. I am such a geek sometimes. But it all works.
