http://toki.co.nz/macosx/ yet another blog BlazeBlogger 1.0.0 http://toki.co.nz/macosx/2012/03/8-back-to-os-x-firefox-36-eol/ Well after all my big words I couldn't do it - I'm now back on OS X. Why? Well there wasn't really one reason, rather a bunch of little things (the trackpad under Linux was a bit fussy which made using the machine a bit annoying, no sleep/resume, the machine ran a bit hot, couldn't play StarCraft/Diablo III/Doom 3/Aliens vs Predator...), basically this old machine simply runs better under OS X. With Safari out of support for over 6 months now and Firefox 3.6 approaching End Of Life I've switche Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:01 GMT http://toki.co.nz/macosx/2012/02/7-debianbook/ Well it turns out I didn't really like Ubuntu on the PowerBook for much the same reasons that it's been annoying me on my workstation - Unity is simply too buggy. I'm now running Debian Squeeze (6.0) on the laptop and I'm really happy so far - pretty much everything works out of the box with just a few tweaks to some configs needed to sort out the remaining issues. The biggest problem is the lack of suspend/resume (due to the graphics card used by the PowerBook - nVidia refuse to release some i Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:01 GMT http://toki.co.nz/macosx/2011/09/6-ubuntubook/ I'm thinking of installing Ubuntu PPC onto my old PowerBook - I don't think I'd get too much for it if I sold it now as it's pretty old so I figure it's worth more to me to keep as a portable device then the cash it would bring in. Why switch to Ubuntu? Well I'm a bit worried about the state of security updates for Leopard (which as you probably know is the end of the road for PPC Macs). Apple haven't come outright and said they're stopping support or anything like that but during the recent Di Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:01 GMT http://toki.co.nz/macosx/2011/08/5-steve-jobs-steps-down/ Well I guess the day was always going to arrive at some point - assuming it's not some blogger making it up and all the papers are rushing to publish it looks like Steve Jobs has resigned. Watch the stock dive... UPDATE: Looks like it's legit. UPDATE 2: Well it looks like the stock *didn't* dive - in fact Apple is looking pretty solid :-) I didn't expect such common sense from people! Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:01 GMT http://toki.co.nz/macosx/2011/03/4-stuck-on-firefox-36/ And the blows just don't stop falling on my poor old PowerBook G4 - I went and downloaded the Firefox 4 RC (seeing as it's being released tomorrow I thought I may as well try and beat the rush!) only to find that it only runs on Intel Macs. I'll keep trucking along with Firefox 3.6 for now (and I realise that Mozilla will probably keep supporting 3.6 for longer than Apple will support OS X Leopard) but it would be nice to experience some of this new found speed and cleaner interface. I did find Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:01 GMT http://toki.co.nz/macosx/2011/02/3-end-of-the-line-for-flash-on-ppc/ So Adobe have released the latest version of Flash player, 10.2, and it marks the end of the line for PPC Macs. I can't say it comes as a great surprise - most vendors have been dropping support for PPC from their software for the last few years, and considering how much my PowerBook struggles with flash video maybe it's for the best going forward. So I've un-installed the Flash plugin (I'd rather not have vulnerable software installed no matter how many sites rely on it...) and I'm experiencin Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:01 GMT http://toki.co.nz/macosx/2011/01/2-ssd/ Was just talking to a friend who owns a really early (2006?) MacBook Pro. One of his friends has just bought the new MacBook Air that I'm currently drooling over and he was really impressed with how fast the notebook is despite the fact that it should be slower on paper than his old MacBook Pro. So in an effort to breath a bit of life into his old laptop he fitted a 40GB solid state disk for the OS and apps and fitted a 640GB hard drive in place of the DVD-ROM (which had broken anyway he said) Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:01 GMT http://toki.co.nz/macosx/2010/11/1-trusty-powerbook/ Since buying my (second hand) PowerBook earlier in the year I've been really impressed with it - I use it far more often than I use my Intel based MacBook and if I had to give one up the PowerBook would be the one I'd keep. I know it's slower and more and more software isn't available for it (due to it being PowerPC, er, powered) but the construction of it is so tidy with all its aluminium, the battery still lasts around 4 hours and everything works as it should. But mostly it's the size - I've Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:01 GMT