A listing of things that I had to do to configure my Powerbook G4 for the SoC environment.

1. Fix network settings in Network Preferences (see ooiwt's notes)
2. Download and install:
   1. StuffIt Expander
   2. Cyberduck
   3. VLC
   4. iBackup
   5. MacCVS
   6. Quicksilver
   7. Firefox
   8. Adium
   9. Aqua Build of Emacs
   10. Xcode 2.2 (developer tool kit for MacOS X)
3. Fix keyboard auto repeat, enable touchpad scrolling (neat!) & click.
4. Fix tabbing in Firefox - done (google "tabindex firefox macos" look for Sidesh0w's blog)
5. Fix remote emacs key binding for backspace/delete (in Terminal's windows preferences)
6. Port profile from sf0
7. Port emacs initialization, recompile byte-compiled files
8. Fix printing at home (to fixed IP address HP 5m)
9. Fixed printing at school (see Ooiwt's instructions)
10. Fix CVS to work (set CVS_RSH to ssh)
11. Install and try out iDupe for getting rid of duplicate tracks in iTunes
12. Reinstall VPNclient from Cisco website
13. Midikeys (for Garageband :-D)

In progress

• Ruby on Rails install following instructions on (http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger)
  1. Readline
  2. Ruby
  3. RubyGems
  4. RubyonRails
  5. FastCGI (with ruby bindings)
  6. PCRE
  7. LightTPD
  8. MySQL (and native bindings)
• Install software
  1. XDarwin
  2. Xfig
• Troubleshoot double command
• Learn MacCVS
• Get Charles Sutton's list of Mac apps working on the G4.

Min-Yen Kan <kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg>

Created on: Thu Mar 16 23:10:37 2006 | Version: 1.0 | Last modified: Wed Jun 21 09:53:09 2006