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I can confirm another website to work with InterWebPPC/10.4Fx: NameSilo's web hosting interface. Through it on my Benbridge, I got my website UltraReality (that I wrote on Donatello with Classilla Composer) up and running. It's actually decently speedy, at that -- far faster than Fiverr's web interface. Fully featured, too, including drag and drop file uploads.
 
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Recieved my second chinese battery-replacement for my powerbook G4 15. No, this one didn't work either (surprice), anyway, it was nice of the german importers to send me another one anyway. Duh. Next time i'll pay the full price for a good quality NewerTech NuPower i think.

Other than that... I'm waiting, and waiting for Adelie Linux RC3 to, finally, be announced
 
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Watched the last hour of Evolution 2022 on Twitch using the DC G5.

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Can you elaborate on what is happening on your screen......:oops:
Is this a 'live' deathmatch being streamed, with viewers posting comments below......?

It's all new to me......😬

Are you running Linux (from the top right readout), or Windows.
 
Can you elaborate on what is happening on your screen......:oops:
Is this a 'live' deathmatch being streamed, with viewers posting comments below......?

It's all new to me......😬

Are you running Linux (from the top right readout), or Windows.
To my knowledge he it's watching EVO tournament but I dind know that it was already going on this year and following the live chat with Chatterino that is available in the Void repo (I'm "too old" to watch and chat at the same time:p) and it's Void Linux (XFCE, ICEWM?) with some themes to look like Windows 9X/2K (expired link by now, but if you ask I'm sure that he in the right time will share again)
 
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A Power Mac after my heart, that G5.

All I did was put OS 9 back on the Beige Restoration Project after realising that the Wings card is not fully functional on OS X Server.

also i got a wings card for the beige restoration project
 
I used a SCSI2SDv5.5 as a thumb drive, to install a bunch of software including Office 4.2.1, Claris Works 4, Photoshop 5, PageMaker 6.5, WordPerfect 3.5e and HyperCard 2.4 on a new PowerBook 5300cs.

Not just new to me, but an actual new PowerBook 5300cs, previously unused and still sealed in its wrapper. Manufacture date November 1997.
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I do seem to like these!
 
Would it not have been worth a fortune..💵💵💵💵💵💵...if left sealed....:oops:

I thought it might be worth a bit, and I was tempted to leave it sealed up once I'd actually seen it and verified that it was indeed sealed from the factory as it had been described. But I only buy what I plan to use, and a PB5300 is as close to perfect for what I need as I've found. Plus, well, it didn't actually cost that much - which is why I was rather doubting the description was accurate.

What it might be worth sealed up is an abstract, but what it's worth in the pleasure of using it is very tangible. Admittedly, I'm probably weird!
 
Today i streamed to twitch.tv via the G5. I tested the ability to use discord in firefox, watch youtube, got audio mostly working etc. Everything is laggy due to ffmpeg using 95% cpu to create the stream, but hey, it works.
If you have time to waste there are 3 videos because the stream crashed a few times. ;-)
 
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If it's not too personal to you, what do you do with the 5300?​
I do a lot of technical writing, developing training materials and courses, and project proposals and the like. Modern systems are waaaaaaay too distracting to work efficiently on them. I'm also really fussy about keyboards because I make a lot of errors on keyboards that don't help locate my fingertips on the keycap centers. Older systems with dished key caps, good key travel and some tactile feedback are much better for me to use.
 
I do a lot of technical writing, developing training materials and courses, and project proposals and the like. Modern systems are waaaaaaay too distracting to work efficiently on them. I'm also really fussy about keyboards because I make a lot of errors on keyboards that don't help locate my fingertips on the keycap centers. Older systems with dished key caps, good key travel and some tactile feedback are much better for me to use.
I should also add that as time has gone by, the bloat of new features and the obsession with flat and texture-free interface design has steadily made modern systems less appealing, and less easy to navigate. I much prefer the simplicity of early Mac OS, all the way back to System 7, for getting out of my way and providing only the resources I need to navigate and use them.

As much as a modern system provides tremendous power to run almost anything, these classic Macs actually have a wealth of software tools that are slim and efficient enough to be much more productive for me in real terms.
 
I used a SCSI2SDv5.5 as a thumb drive, to install a bunch of software including Office 4.2.1, Claris Works 4, Photoshop 5, PageMaker 6.5, WordPerfect 3.5e and HyperCard 2.4 on a new PowerBook 5300cs.

Not just new to me, but an actual new PowerBook 5300cs, previously unused and still sealed in its wrapper. Manufacture date November 1997.
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I do seem to like these!

It’s been so long since I’ve been on Mac OS that I forgot about the fat trash can representing “not empty”.

Of course, to see the fat trash can, now I can’t help but think of the Oscar the Grouch extension. :)
 
I guess it's time for me to resume fighting with the 7500, last time I posted, I ran into many troubles (floppy drive dying, running into brick walls with Netatalk-2...) but this time we're making some progress!

First, I got a new Mac, and that's my iBook G3/466SE (which runs OS9, you'll see why in a few instants), second, I ordered a replacement FDD (along that a Zip drive carrier caddy).

With all that said and done, I've set up a small network with the iBook (which will act as a server, I could've used my iMac G4 if I had kept 10.2 Jaguar on it, but since I'm out of CDs to burn, and that I've always dreamt of owning a iBook G3 Clamshell... The rest is history.) and the 7500 in it. So that way, I don't have to rely on floppy disks (especially after the incident I had with the older FDD!).. It's a bit slow (and for some reason my iBook tends to lock up a few times) but it works... And that leads us to the next thing I'm doing, transferring a System 7.6.1 installer onto a Zip disk. (I don't have any other storage medium capacious enough to accommodate the install files)

I've already made a disk image of the 7500's HDD if I would ever want to go back to 7.5.2, so I don't have qualms about erasing the HDD and making a fresh install of 7.6.1.

Plus another thing I noticed, if I put my Sonnet G3 upgrade card in the 7500, I cannot format floppy disks anymore (I can erase them but can't create a new partition, and reading already formatted disks works perfectly) but if I put in the original 601 card in it, that's where I can format floppies again without issues... I have little to no idea why. I thought it is because the G3 is too fast for System 7.5.2's formatting routines (speed sensitivity issue?) so I'm going to try with 7.6.1 and see if it does the same thing.

I'm tempted to make a new thread here about this problem (as I want to use this 7500 as a bridge Mac to load up software on older 68K Macs that lack a 1.44M-capable disk drive), because I can't find anything about this strange issue.
 

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