@oldgreypoet Sorry to hear it but understand. Have been thinking about doing the same myself. A quick tweet is far easier than a whole post.

Still some lightening and may get a bit more heavy rain but hoping the really nasty stuff is history and doesn’t pop up again.

Some interesting storms around us this afternoon. So far nothing more than a power flicker here and from wunderground.com looks about over.

Guess I’ll see if there has been any progress in getting Skype working on the PPC platform as that’s about all that’s keeping me using OSX.

Got the files needed installed and the old iMac G3/400 is better at playing DVD’s under Debian than the iBook G4’s are under OS X 10.4

DVD drive works. Now to locate and install the files needed to play a DVD.

Of course being a PPC machine flash isn’t working but I can live without that. Put a Bluetooth mouse on it and it’s working fine.

Haven’t tried the DVD player yet but will get to that soon.

Only used 2 of the AA cells as the mem holds fine at 3 volts. Got the computer all back together and everything seems to be working fine.

Got the external battery(s) installed on the iMac G3/400 DV SE. Used a $1.00 stickup LED light from DollarTree as the battery holder.