Hi,
After trying every conceivable way to get a viable 32-bit PPC Linux with
a web browser that can read https:// websites on my iLamp (15" G4 iMac),
I gave up and installed Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 only to discover that PPC
Safari has exactly the same problem that I had with Firefox on YDL 6.2!
To cut a long story short, I've now installed the InterWebPPC port of
Firefox under OS X 10.4.11 and this seems to work with most, but not
all, secure https:// web sites. Then, I crashed and burned trying to
listen to BBC Sounds, because there are no suitable codecs available.
I retrieved my iLamp from the HackSpace because I didn't like it just
sitting on the shelf gathering dust and being robbed of its keyboard.
I've now bought two faulty keyboards off eBay, to be returned: The Apple
A1048 is a membrane keyboard and not all of the keys were working on the
two that I've bought. It's a fiddly job to repair the membrane tracks
using a conductive pen and that would cost about the same as a
second-hand keyboard, so I've risked it bought a third one - Fingers
crossed that all they keys on this one will actually work!
If anyone is interested in playing around with Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger on
my G4 PPC iLamp then I'll bring it back into the HackSpace. Otherwise,
it's going on eBay soon unless someone at the HackSpace wants it FOC?
Bye,
Tony.
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