Re: [what to do with a G5 running 10.4]

On May 18, 2021, at 12:45 PM, R. A. Cantrell wrote: > I was gifted an iMac G5 1.8 a few years ago and fiddled with it a while and > could not get it to a very serviceable situation. Has Safari, has Firefox, > but I get a lot of "could not establish secure connection" and "unsupported >

Re: I need help with my 2002 imac G4 17" all in one desktop

On Jun 22, 2018, at 9:01 PM, Will go wrote: > I inherited this imac and tried to get on it but I have no idea what the > password is and the only person who knows the password is no longer with us > is there anything I can do to get passed this or is it just trash now? It would help if you

Free OS reimplementations (Re: OS X backup script)

On Aug 6, 2016, at 11:25 PM, Russell Courtenay wrote: > I still would like to work on an ‘open source’ version of the OS X interface > to work over Darwin, I dunno, I would encourage you to support more than just Darwin. The vast majority of Darwin installations are

Re: OS X backup script

On Aug 6, 2016, at 1:04 AM, Russell Courtenay wrote: > I have been using Carbon Copy Cloner for years to make a bootable > (ostensibly) backup. Well, they seem to have changed their shareware setup so > after a certain amount of time it stops working. That’s lousy. >

Re: 2001 iMac. Is this machine still useful?

On Apr 9, 2015, at 8:42 AM, john kirby kirb...@gmail.com wrote: I have used Linux distros on PPC macs before and it's been successful. The only gap I ever noticed was shockwave/flash. I don't think it's even a possibility in those OSs. There was a Shockwave plugin, but I doubt it's of any