TenFourFox: A fork of Mozilla Firefox 4 for the Power Macintosh and Mac OS X Tiger PowerPC

2011-03-25 Thread Vic Mabus
Remember how you tried to update Firefox in Tiger and it didn't work? http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ This is from the Clasilla guys; it's optimized for each of the G processors.  The devs promise "dramatically faster _javascript_, WebM video, compat

Corsair Nova 32GB SSD On Sale for $69.99

2010-06-18 Thread Vic Mabus
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Nova-32GB-SSD-Rebate-Netbook,10697.html#xtor=RSS-181 I saw this bargain on Tom's Hardware, but I haven't found any adapter that would allow me to put one of these in an old PowerBook with PATA (or is it PITA?) interface. It would have to be quite slim. Has an

Slashdot News Story | Google Reportedly Ditching Windows

2010-05-31 Thread Vic Mabus
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/06/01/011203/Google-Reportedly-Ditching-Windows?from=rss by rolfwind (528248) on Monday May 31, @09:24PM (#32413200) Macs are only more susceptible to spearfishing because the monitor and body are one. Ram a spear through that and the whole m

iMac KP

2010-03-15 Thread Vic Mabus
My nephew gave me his 800 MHz iMac--the one with the hemispherical base and articulated arm. Because it's quiet, I use it for a music server with a connected stereo system. It has a 320 Gb HDD and 1 Gb RAM (new from OWC). I did A&R of Tiger. Everything seems to work great, except when liste

Kernel Panic on Cube

2009-01-16 Thread Vic Mabus
Help! I've always admired the aesthetic design of the Cube, which came out right after I bought my first Sawtooth (figures). I've watched the prices for years, anticipating the day when it would fall below the "You paid how much?" threshold. Having arranged a swap, I've got my Cube, nicely upgr