So, I have returned to the PowerPC fold after many years away. I won a damn near mint condition iBook G4 for $45 shipped (with a good and long lasting battery!). It's great. I miss real keyboards with key travel and 4:3 orientation screens. It's got Leopard and it works perfectly in every possible way. It's a 1.33Ghz with 1.5GB and 40GB and a DVD/CD-RW. To the degree one can have a potential daily driver iBook, this is the one.
I'm having some weird issues thought. I installed SmTube with MPlayer and it was working great with 360p videos. But then all of a sudden I started getting a Hostgator 403 error with TonVid, and no resetting has fixed it. I occasionally get the same error when using TenFourFox on a handful of sites as well. I don't have any hosting setup, just a regular wireless connection to a router, so I have no idea what is going on. However, 95% of the web works fine.
I do have Privoxy installed but I get the same error whether I disable Privoxy for all browsers or have it enabled for all browsers, or any combination in between.
Second, when I use Leopard WebKit, things load faster than TenFourFox (sorry!), but I have a constant problem where pages just stop loading. The progress bar will load to about 10 or 15% and then stop. This happens in all tabs and it will not start working until I quite and restart Leopard Webkit.
I may try using Demeter and linking it to WebKit and seeing if that is a generalized solution to all my problems, but I'm slightly frustrated with these weird issues. If I can get them solved, maybe I can keep PPC as a primary computer into the 2020s!
That said, my main productivity computer is a GEOS Commodore 64, so I can put up with a lot of nonsense in the interest of keeping a computer involved with things
I'm having some weird issues thought. I installed SmTube with MPlayer and it was working great with 360p videos. But then all of a sudden I started getting a Hostgator 403 error with TonVid, and no resetting has fixed it. I occasionally get the same error when using TenFourFox on a handful of sites as well. I don't have any hosting setup, just a regular wireless connection to a router, so I have no idea what is going on. However, 95% of the web works fine.
I do have Privoxy installed but I get the same error whether I disable Privoxy for all browsers or have it enabled for all browsers, or any combination in between.
Second, when I use Leopard WebKit, things load faster than TenFourFox (sorry!), but I have a constant problem where pages just stop loading. The progress bar will load to about 10 or 15% and then stop. This happens in all tabs and it will not start working until I quite and restart Leopard Webkit.
I may try using Demeter and linking it to WebKit and seeing if that is a generalized solution to all my problems, but I'm slightly frustrated with these weird issues. If I can get them solved, maybe I can keep PPC as a primary computer into the 2020s!
That said, my main productivity computer is a GEOS Commodore 64, so I can put up with a lot of nonsense in the interest of keeping a computer involved with things
