Post 1481516 by bobstechsite@bobadon.rocks
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(DIR) Post #1481511 by bobstechsite@bobadon.rocks
2018-11-25T13:12:51Z
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I was originally going to record a podcast today, but my mood atm on that is "meh" 🤷♂️ I'm instead going to be spending a lazy Sunday afternoon installing things on an old G3 Apple iMac. Also possibly reinstalling OSX on the iBook G4 now that my OpenBSD experiments on that are done.That will be my reward for tidying up power cables and installing a network switch in my home office ready for the coming week. 👍
(DIR) Post #1481512 by bobstechsite@bobadon.rocks
2018-11-25T14:25:48Z
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For those interested, here's Classila (the Mac OS9 port of Firefox) running on a G3 iMac. #retrocomputing
(DIR) Post #1481513 by bobstechsite@bobadon.rocks
2018-11-25T14:37:49Z
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And now for the iBook G4. I'll also be replacing the worn down keyboard with this replacement one (once I've given it a jolly good scrub!) #retrocomputing
(DIR) Post #1481514 by bobstechsite@bobadon.rocks
2018-11-25T15:41:25Z
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I ran into a bit or a roadblock with the new keyboard. While it scrubbed up well, the metal strips underneath really wanted to be the same shape as a banana! This meant about a dozen keys didn't work. Gah! 🤦♂️On the upside doing the keyboard swap (then swap back) was I discovered the reason the Airport card wasn't working was because I hadn't reattached the antenna cable properly when I did the RAM upgrade on this thing. 😅It's fair to say I'm good at making mistakes to learn from! 😁
(DIR) Post #1481515 by bobstechsite@bobadon.rocks
2018-11-25T16:51:02Z
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If you're wondering what the holdup is now, I discovered that none of the Leopard and Tiger disks are of any use because they're either too scratched or upgrade copies.My solution has been to download a clean DMG of Tiger from an abandonware site, burn that to a DVD and then use that to install a base version of OSX. I can then use my legit Leopard disk to overwrite it!On the upside though, I did find a handy update disk ISO for Leopard while doing this 😅
(DIR) Post #1481516 by bobstechsite@bobadon.rocks
2018-11-25T17:47:46Z
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Right, Tiger is now successfully installed! It might surprise the fediverse to learn that OSX 10.4 can still phone home and ask for updates, so it has the latest fixes and the most recent version of Java it can support.Now I have 10.4.11 on this machine I can finally start the Leopard upgrade. 👍
(DIR) Post #1481517 by mdhughes@cybre.space
2018-11-25T17:56:51Z
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@bobstechsite I liked Tiger best. Snow Leopard was tolerable, but it's been further and further from my preferences since.
(DIR) Post #1481623 by bobstechsite@bobadon.rocks
2018-11-25T18:01:13Z
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@mdhughes I still have a copy of Snow Leopard! Alas, it only works on Intel Macs (which makes sense. It original came with a 2010 model Mac Mini I kept for 6 years).I agree with your assessment. Part of me is tempted to stick with Tiger (iLife '08, iWork '08 & Office 2004 will run on it), but Leopard gives me a fighting chance of getting more modern free software running it.
(DIR) Post #1482040 by bobstechsite@bobadon.rocks
2018-11-25T18:13:09Z
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@mdhughes plus the ability to encrypt my home directory is definitely a welcome addition 🤓
(DIR) Post #1482041 by mdhughes@cybre.space
2018-11-25T18:23:05Z
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@bobstechsite OK, drive encryption's probably worth it. There was a virtual FS hack that let me do that back in the day, but I had to have the OS drive unencrypted, only my external drive was secure. Could just as easily have used an encrypted DMG as a safe store.