curl, Let's Encrypt and Apple laziness
The built-in version of curl on any Power Mac version of OS X will not be capable of TLS 1.1 or higher, so most of you who need it will have already upgraded to an equivalent with MacPorts. However,...
View ArticleTenFourFox FPR32 SPR5 available (the last official build)
TenFourFox Feature Parity Release 32 Security Parity Release 5 "32.5" is available for testing (downloads, hashes). Aside from the announced change with .inetloc and .webloc handling, this release also...
View ArticleThe current status of DIY TenFourFox
Due to family and work issues my time has been curtailed for all kinds of things, but at this point, at least, there's something for you to work with: as promised, the TenFourFox source code has been...
View ArticleDo you run Void on your Power Mac?
If so, heads up, because builds for your configuration may be ending soon (along with Void PPC on big-endian platforms generally). If you want this to continue, and you've got the interest, chops or...
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The strawberry iMac that made the Wikipedia
Apparently the strawberry iMac G3 is to blame for Wikipedia, and in keeping with the stupid prices people are paying for collectable Power Macs (to the chagrin of those of us actually using them), you...
View ArticleUpdates to TenFourFox on Github
Happy New Year (I'd like to say nothing can be worse than 2021 was, but I don't want to tempt 2022). Fortunately, we're starting the year off right with new changesets on Github for the TenFourFox...
View ArticleNext update set available for TenFourFox
Security patches and a couple tweaks have been landed on the TenFourFox Github, so warm up your computers and prepare to rebuild. The security patches mostly cover DOM and media, but the tweaks add a...
View ArticleApril patch set for TenFourFox
I've had my hands full with the POWER9 64-bit JIT (a descendant of TenFourFox's 32-bit JIT), but I had a better idea about the lazy image loader workaround in February's drop and got the rest of the...
View ArticlemacOS Oxnard
Those of us in southern California are shaking our heads. I like the City of (San Buena)Ventura fine, but Ventura isn't exactly in the same snobbish class as, you know, Big Sur or Monterey. I mean, if...
View ArticleNetwork Solutions screws the pooch again
Floodgap appears to be down because Network Solutions' name servers are timing out and name queries are not reliably resolving (everything's up on this end). There is no ETA. If this continues for much...
View ArticleSeptember patch set for TenFourFox
102 is now the next Firefox Extended Support Release, so it's time for spring cleaning — if you're a resident of the Southern Hemisphere — in the TenFourFox repository. Besides refreshing the...
View ArticlePower Mac ransomware? Yes, but it's complicated
Wired ran an article today (via Ars Technica) about apparent macOS-compatible builds of LockBit, a prominent encrypting ransomware suite, such as this one for Apple silicon. There have been other...
View ArticleApril patch set for TenFourFox
As promised, there are new changesets to pick up in the TenFourFox tree. (If you're new to rolling your own TenFourFox build, these instructions still generally apply.) I've tried to limit their scope...
View ArticleApple provides grated cheese with the wine
Today Apple asked, would you like cheese with your wine? It's nice that the stench of Intel has finally drifted off Apple's product line, leaving us once again with a RISC cheese grater atop the heap....
View ArticleFloodgap downtime
Just a quick note: Floodgap is down due to upstream issues beyond their control. I'm hoping we'll be back up in a day or two more. Sorry about that. E-mail still works, so anything you've sent me will...
View ArticleAugust patch set for TenFourFox
The next patch set has landed, bringing the TenFourFox security base up to 115ESR. This includes the usual new certificate roots and updates to pins, HSTS and TLDs, as well as applicable security...
View ArticleWebP chemspill patch on Github
A fix is in the TenFourFox tree for MFSA 2023-40, a/k/a CVE-2023-4863, which is a heap overflow in the WebP image decoder. Firefox 45 would not ordinarily be vulnerable to this but we have our own...
View ArticleGoogle ending Basic HTML support for Gmail in 2024
Understandably they're saying little about it publicly, but word is getting around that Google's fast, super-compatible Basic HTML mode for Gmail will be removed in a few short months. "We’re writing...
View ArticleOne less Un*xy option for 32-bit PowerPC
Most of you still using a Power Mac as a daily or occasional driver are probably either running Linux, Tiger or Leopard, and a minority on OS 9. Despite many distributions no longer shipping 32-bit PPC...
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Donnie Darko uses OS X
I think it's been previously commented upon, but we were watching Donnie Darko over the weekend (controversial opinion: we prefer the director's cut, we think it's an improvement) and noticed that...
View ArticlemacOS Sequoia
Do you like your computers to be big, fire-prone and inflexible? Then you'll love macOS Sequoia, another missed naming opportunity from the company that should have brought you macOS Mettler, macOS...
View ArticleCHRP removal shouldn't affect Linux Power Macs
A recent patch removed support for the PowerPC Common Hardware Reference Platform from the Linux kernel. [UPDATE: Looks like this has been retracted.] However, Power Macs, even New World systems, were...
View ArticleFebruary patch set for TenFourFox
I was slack on doing the Firefox 128ESR platform rebase for TenFourFox, but I finally got around tuit, mostly because I've been doing a little more work on the Quad G5 and put some additional patches...
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A PowerBook G4 reporting the news
The San Francisco Chronicle had an article today on the retirement of KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern. I'm an all-news-radio junkie and I happen to enjoy his pieces when I'm in the Bay Area, but...
View ArticlemacOS Tahoe
It's WWDC again, and Apple has turned the volume knob to add 11, jumping from 15 to 26 with macOS Tahoe. Meanwhile, Tahoe keeps Intel Mac owners blue by eliminating support for all but four models —...
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