![]() According to the Powerbook, the stick has the Macintosh PC-Exchange (MS-DOS) format, which means nothing other than FAT32. The data is stored on a USB stick, which I then plug into my modern Mac Mini. It’s often the case that things which are no longer developed are further «improved». The app still exists today and has hardly changed in over twenty years. I’m writing in the app TextEdit which was already installed on the notebook. But only because I don’t need to use the full stop a lot. I can avoid tinkering with it for the time being, since the key is still hanging on the edge and can be pressed back into the grid. Even the full stop key on this one is loose. Luckily, it didn’t cost much to get it glued back on. On my first notebook, the G key sprung off when I pressed the keys with a bit too much verve. Writing a text shouldn’t be difficult.Īs long as the keycaps don’t break off at least. I still wanted to work on the Notebook so I decided to write this article you’re reading about it. I thought I had watched YouTube videos on the Powerbook but that can’t be right because YouTube has only been around since 2005. That’s also where my memory has been playing tricks on me. The web has changed too much in the last 20 years and I completely underestimated that. I’ll have to take the images as they are.Ĭonclusion: even with the proxy, I can’t properly use the internet on the Powerbook in 2023. I can’t change that either, because in the old browsers you can only change the font size. When I disable CSS in Firefox, the images become visible but are way too big. It’s missing basic elements such as images and links. The layout is unusable, both on IE and on Firefox and iCab. It works in the sense of «data is transferred». But the most important website in the world, digitec.ch, is responding. However, a lot of pages still don’t open. The web pages that were only showing error messages before started to load. Since the proxy connection can be configured both in the system and in the browser, there are many ways for a proxy novice like me to go wrong.Īfter trying what feels like all the wrong configurations, something happens. ![]() It’s just one line in the terminal and that’s it.Ĭonfiguring the proxy on the Powerbook alone isn’t easy. Using a 10-year-old Raspberry Pi to connect a 20-year-old notebook to the internet? Sounds like a brilliant idea. I have a lot of time to think about the absurdity of what I’m doing. The new system is unbearably slow on the old Pi. So I download the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS and reinstall the system. When I first turn on the Raspi, I notice the system isn’t loading properly anymore. So I blow the dust off my old Raspberry Pi from 2012 and install the web server software nginx on it. However, many years ago I once successfully installed a web server on a Raspberry Pi. Sounds daunting to me, since I’m anything but a network specialist. It consists of setting up your own proxy server that receives the encrypted web connections and forwards them unencrypted to the Powerbook. I found a workaround on the web, using my current computer, of course. If I enter « instead of « I’m usually redirected to an encrypted connection. Unencrypted connections would still work, but they hardly exist anymore. If the old browsers are using the more modern TLS then it must be an outdated version of it. They use the SSL encryption method, which no server now supports because it’s considered insecure. Eventually I come to realise that the problem is much more critical: the old browsers aren’t compatible with new security standards. ![]() Since the problem is security errors, I fiddle a bit with the certificates in Firefox without knowing what I’m doing exactly. These two browsers display the Google page better than Internet Explorer, but only by a short mile. I have the same problem with Firefox and with iCab 3.0.5 as with Internet Explorer, although the error messages are slightly different. With Firefox I have to go back to the first version because even version 2 doesn’t run on my system. As a result, I start looking for alternative browsers. It’s always been a bit special and I don’t really mean that in a positive sense. My first thought was that it was because of Internet Explorer. Clicking on a Google search hit always generates a security error.
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