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PPC Luddite: Compile a Custom Kernel on Debian
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Now with more jazz flute! Thursday, July 16, 2015. Compile a Custom Kernel on Debian. This post is mostly a note to myself in case I ever have to do this again, but if you can make use of it, please feel free! So you'd like to compile your own kernel in Debian. There are at least a few valid reasons why. First, the reason I did it, is to test kernel patches. Second, you may want to configure your kernel to work around driver bugs. For example, see this Debian-PPC-mailing-list thread. Fakeroot make-kpkg -...
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PPC Luddite: Lock Down Your Mac With Security Mode
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Now with more jazz flute! Monday, December 8, 2014. Lock Down Your Mac With Security Mode. You may recognize Adam Albrec as the author of PPC Media Center. A suite of Applescripts that serves as a GUI wrapper for youtube-dl, and as a past guest poster here. Along with the Applescripts comes a very. So what do the scripts do? The primary app is a simple toggle that will change your laptop to a 'Secure Mode' which implements the following security features:. When toggled again, all the security features li...
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TenFourFox Development: July 2015
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What's new in TenFourFox, the Mozilla browser for Power Macs. Saturday, July 25, 2015. Updating you on 38 just-in-time. Did you see what I did there? For the past two weeks my free time apart from work and the Master's degree has been sitting in a debugger trying to fix JavaScript, which is just murder on my dating life. Here is the current showstopper bug-roll for 38.1.1b1:. I have a presumptive fix for the webfont "ATSUI puke" on the New York Times, but it's not implemented or well-tested yet. This...
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PPC Luddite: iOS 9 is not OS 9
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Now with more jazz flute! Friday, June 5, 2015. IOS 9 is not OS 9. If you plan on scanning the tech headlines in the next several months, make sure you don't misread iOS 9 as "OS 9." You will be bitterly disappointed. You will be especially aghast at reports of new features such as multi-user support. In 2015. Labels: Mac OS 9 Will Far Outlive Your iOS 9. Will Far Outlive Her! June 9, 2015 at 6:29 AM. June 9, 2015 at 9:16 AM. This is a great resource Dan! February 6, 2016 at 10:53 AM. IBook 700 MHz G3.
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PPC Luddite: Installing Debian Linux on PPC Part I - Pre-Installation
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Now with more jazz flute! Monday, March 12, 2012. Installing Debian Linux on PPC Part I - Pre-Installation. 4/24/15: Updated for Jessie stable]. I've been meaning to do this for awhile, so I've finally gotten around to giving you my thoroughly complete guide to installing Linux on your old iBook, Powerbook, Mini, or Power Mac. This will be an epic told in five parts: Pre-Installation, Installing the Base System. And Bugs and Quirks. How many partitions to create for dual-booting? And find an ISO to downl...
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PPC Luddite: Some Linux News
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Now with more jazz flute! Saturday, March 28, 2015. If you've been perplexed and flummoxed by the crash-on-startup problems with webkit browsers, a fix appears to be on the way. This Ubuntu bug report. Has several links to other various bug reports on the same problem, so if you want to delve in deeply, go crazy. There are also patch files for testing posted here. The Debian bugs marked resolved indicate the patches will migrate into Testing soon, so hopefully our Long Webkit Nightmare will be over.
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PPC Luddite: Installing Debian Linux on PPC Part II - Installing the Base System
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Now with more jazz flute! Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Installing Debian Linux on PPC Part II - Installing the Base System. 4/24/15: Updated for Jessie stable]. And the section, "Loading Missing Firmware". Then after you choose your time zone, you're taken to the real meat of the installer- the Debian partitioner. Next, create a swap partition following basically the same procedure. Go down to Free Space, create a new partition, enter the size (should be at least as much as your physical RAM for hibernat...
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PPC Luddite: Installing Debian Linux on PPC Part V - Bugs & Quirks
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Now with more jazz flute! Monday, March 19, 2012. Installing Debian Linux on PPC Part V - Bugs and Quirks. 4/24/15: Updated for Jessie stable]. So now you have your system all up and running, but there are a few things that don't quite work right. If you've installed Testing some bugs are to be expected, but there are other bugs and general quirks on PowerPC Linux that have been around a long time and will likely persist. Mac OS 9 Issues. Dual booting between Linux and Mac OS 9 also has an issue with sys...
