@larand But wait, there's more!
// @matigo
@jussipekonen I know. My ancestry has a big lump up Highland Scot in it. Seems the weather might not be to dissimilar. Might be where my appreciation of such music stems from.
// @hazardwarning
A few days ago I'd been trying unsuccessfully to get a DVD encoded from a disc image file, using the Men's Shed iMac. Then, when shutdown time came, the Finder kept asking if I wanted to quit the encoding, quit it without saving or cancel. It made no difference what I chose, the window kept popping up & shutdown was aborted each time.
Fuck this, I thought, time for an Option key trick. Go to the Apple icon on the menubar, select Shutdown with the Option key held down. This cuts out the bullshit dialogue boxes and shuts down immediately.
Fixed.
A software DVD kept being spat out by the Titanium G4 PowerBook, so I've dragged out the heavy-hitter. I was given it by someone who no longer needed it. It'd a DL DVD burner in an external 5.25-inch multi-use enclosure with FireWire 400 & USB 2ยท0 connections. That did the trick.
Probably been at least 9 months since I last booted up my dual-processor G4 PowerMac. Only one issue with it: the Ethernet cable had to be removed from the ISP-supplied router because the connection is dodgy. As I now have an AirPort Extreme, I have spare reliable ethernet ports, so I used one of those. I was able to update the TenFourFox web browser, ClamXav anti-virus & download/install a single-site browser app, TenFourFoxBox.
@variablepulserate No. It's not as complicated as that, I'm pretty sure it's little more than changing the suffix.
Using instructions from a Macmost.com video, I used Applescript within Automator app to create a service that displays the selected word count of any text in any app on the Mac.
