A Geek Goes Flying

Two things came up using my Thunderbolt 2 dock with my MacBook Air M2 running macOS 14 Sonoma. The first, I noticed it was using my spotty ‡ WiFi connection instead of the faster, reliable wired interface in the dock. Today I learned you can Set Service Order and configure the order in which macOS tries network interfaces (VPN connections are always at the top of the list and tried first, apparently): Network Systems Settings page with Set Service Order... selected Huzzah. Next, every time I connected the Thunderbolt hub, I was getting a pop-up I had to clear, which was annoying: Pop-up Under Privacy & Security, scroll down to Security and find the "Allow accessories to connect" setting, and tweak to taste: Accessory connection security setting Running smoothly now.

Screenshot of PowerBook 2400c running iTunes, MacSSH, Fetch After spending all that time banging on the PowerBook 1400c/133 , I was ready when my “Eleanor” popped up on eBay – a PowerBook 2400c with a G3 upgrade already installed! So that’s what I have now. (Need to move the 1400s along to a new home.) It came already running Mac OS 9.1 on a spinning rust hard drive (want to swap that for a PATA SSD like Transcend 32GB PSD330 or (more likely the better option) the OWC 120GB Mercury Pro Legacy 3.5-inch IDE/ATA Solid-State Drive Kit ( OWCSSDMXLE120) , but that’s a non-trivial task ). The Cisco Aironet 350 was recognized on it and didn’t give me the pop-up I got on the 1400, but I couldn’t get it to work. The Orinoco worked just fine, so I’m using that, with a Cisco (Linksys)  WRT54G2 flashed with DD-WRT . Moved some software onto the machine using CompactFlash cards and a PCMCIA adapter, to bootstrap it a bit. Current stack: Classilla 9.3.3 iTunes 1.0 MacSSH 2.1fc3 Fetch 3.0.3 Word...