TenFourFox FPR32 SPR2 available
TenFourFox Feature Parity Release 32 Security Parity Release 2 "32.2" is available for testing (downloads, hashes). There are no changes to the release notes and nothing particularly notable about the...
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And now for something completely different: "Upgrading" your Quad G5 LCS
One of the most consistently popular old posts on this blog is our discussion on long-life computing and how to extend the working, arguably even useful, life of your Power Mac. However, what I think...
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And now for something completely different: Australia needs to cut the crap...
I'm going to be very tightly focused in this post, because there are tons of politics swirling around COVID-19 (and anyone who knows my actual line of work will know my opinions about it); any comments...
View ArticleTenFourFox FPR32 SPR3 available
TenFourFox Feature Parity Release 32 Security Parity Release 3 "32.3" is available for testing (downloads, hashes). There are, once again, no changes to the release notes and nothing notable regarding...
View ArticleUnplanned Floodgap downtime
Floodgap is down due to an upstream circuit cut and TenFourFox users may get timeouts when checking versions. All Floodgap services including web, gopher and E-mail are affected. The telco is on it,...
View ArticleTenFourFox FPR32 SPR4 available
TenFourFox Feature Parity Release 32 Security Parity Release 4 "32.4" is available for testing (downloads, hashes). There are, as before, no changes to the release notes nor anything notable about the...
View ArticleQuestionable RCE with .webloc/.inetloc files
A report surfaced recently that at least some recent versions of macOS can be exploited to run arbitrary local applications using .inetloc files, which may allow a drive-by download to automatically...
View Articlecurl, 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...
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