Apple 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 [UPDATE: Looks like this has been retracted.]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...
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