Re: G4 Quicksilver 2002

2011-02-11 Thread Kevin Barth
I have both Leopard and Tiger on my dual-800 QS with 1.5gb ram.  Leopard
takes longer to startup, but once it has done so, I have no problems with
its performance.  I don't have a single-processor model to compare it to,
though.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Jay jonathan.newcas...@gmail.com wrote:

 Anybody running Leopard on a G4 Quicksilver 2002 800mhz with 1.5gb ram
 and how is it?



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Re: back up generator question

2010-10-30 Thread Kevin Barth
And do you have the same generator he does?  Or are you familiar enough with
the output of the generator he has to make the claim?

All generators are NOT created equal.  Some produce MUCH cleaner output than
others.  Spikes and surges can destroy sensitive electronics.  Square
Wave-producing generators may power lights and freezers just fine, but they
will not work well with computers.

Unless you are sure what your generator produces (and the only way to really
be sure is to hook it up to a scope and look at the resulting wave pattern,
or find someone who has done that), you will be much safer getting some kind
of a power conditioner.  It doesn't have to be anything elaborate.  Just
something with a voltage regulator in it to eliminate spikes and a filter to
convert square waves to sine.   Most decent UPSes will do it, or if you're
handy with a soldering iron, there are schematics for appropriate circuits
on the web.


On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Jonas Lopez jonaslo...@yahoo.com wrote:

 NONSENSE - what you have will work just fine -- you do NOT need anything
 else.

 Done this for years!.

 JML.

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Re: back up generator question

2010-10-30 Thread Kevin Barth
 not knowing too much about electricity 800 watts seems like a lot for
 our use.
 How much juice does a mac mini and external HD pull?


Well under 800 Watts.   Depends on what you are using for a monitor, of
course.

Per Apple, Mac Mini (without monitor) uses 85-110 Watts.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3468

External hard drive power consumption can be tricky to measure, because
under typical patterns of usage, they tend to spin up and down a lot.   But
even at peak usage, it should consume under 15 watts

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/-external-hard-drive,2045-16.html

Add to that whatever monitor you're using.   No LCD monitor of standard size
should exceed the 675 Watts you have left, or come close to doing so.  The
article below may help give you an idea of typical values, or you could
purchase an inexpensive device called a Kill-A-Watt to get a more accurate
reading.

I do have a UPS on my computer and one on our WiFi antenna power.

 testing sounds right, of course, but I wonder what failure would
 look like?
 what are the risks?


Power Spikes: best case scenario, blown fuse or circuit breaker.   worst
case scenario; smoke, explosion, and damage to your computer.

Square Wave instead of sine: best case scenario: no symptoms.   It works
just fine.   Worst case - equipment simply fails to power up, or does so but
doesn't function properly.   Never seen equipment seriously damaged because
it was fed a square wave instead of a sine - it tends to just not work
right.

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Re: iTunes De-authorize issue on a G5

2010-10-18 Thread Kevin Barth
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:

  When you have a DRM track the first thing to do is create a non-DRM
 duplicate, then trash the original DRM file and never worry about
 authorization again. It's your music, who are they to authorize
 anything?
 

 Forgive me here, but exactly how do I do this? Jeff


Create a playlist with the tracks you want to convert.  Burn the playlist to
a CD.  Then delete the tracks and re-import the CD.

The resulting tracks will be free of DRM, but will be lower in quality than
the originals, since you're putting them through a lossy codec to re-import
thm.  Whether or not the difference in quality is acceptable or even
noticeable is a personal matter.   I find it acceptable for mobile
listening, not so when listening on a decent pair of speakers.  Then again,
I feel the same way about the original iTunes files.  YMMV.

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Re: How to burn VIDEO_TS

2010-10-10 Thread Kevin Barth
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Lavode lav...@comcast.net wrote:


 On 10/10/10 10:34 AM, M Christol chris...@fuse.net wrote:

 step3: if you want audio, you'll need to create another folder inside the
 folder you created in step1.  Name this new folder AUDIO_TS.

 ==
 I don't think you strictly need the empty AUDIO_TS folder.


AUDIO_TS is used for DVD-Audio discs, and is supposed to contain
high-resolution audio for use in that format.  It has no  applicability to
DVD-Video, the standard used to burn movies, and the vast majority of modern
players will play a disc that is missing its AUDIO_TS folder just fine.
 There are a few older players that will refuse to play a disc without both
folders, though, so it's best practice to burn both (even if the AUDIO_TS is
empty) for discs you intend to distribute, or ones you expect might be
played on older equipment.

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Re: Quicksilver CD-ROM

2010-10-05 Thread Kevin Barth
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Eric Herbert goo...@hillcotechnology.comwrote:



  OK, first off THANKS for the cleaners for my CD-ROM and DVD Player!
 
  Now, I ran the one for the CD-ROM unit and then stuck that CD-ROM back in
 and
  it STILL asks me to choose between Ignore and Eject.
  I believe I did look at this CD-ROM on my old Smurf (BW G3) and it is
 possible
  I saw it on the old 8600/200

 When it's asking if you want to Initialize, Ignore, or Eject, it means that
 either there is no data on the disc (never was burned), or if there is data
 on the disc, it's in a format the computer flat out doesn't understand is
 actually data (a corrupted or incomplete burn).  If the drive is reading
 other discs normally, it's the disc, not the drive.


Yes, but if I understand what he's saying, the same disc that won't read on
his QS is read properly on other machines, which means the disc isn't the
problem.

Here are the steps I would take (and indeed, did take...the optical drive on
my QS went about 8 months ago).  You may have done some or all of them
already:

1) Clean drive.   You might want to do this step 2 or 3 times, since it
takes more than one cycle sometimes.
2) Open the QS, disconnect and reconnect the data cable.
3) Replace the data cable.  This one can get a little hairy since the MOBO
connector for the data cable is not easily accessible without some system
breakdown.  So you might want to skip this and go directly to
4) Replace the drive.   ATAPI DVD-ROM drives are dirt cheap, and the only
thing close to being difficult about the process is removing the front bezel
from the drive.

If none of these work, your cable and/or controller might have gone.  There
are secondary ATAPI controller cards which might be an option if your PCI
slot is free.  If not, you might want to consider an external Firewire
drive.

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Re: Another Quicksilver Question possible dirty lense on drive.

2010-09-30 Thread Kevin Barth
If you don't have one, email me privately.  I have tons and would be happy
to send you one.

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Stephen Rudy sr...@cudc.org wrote:

 Dirty lens is my first guess. Get yourself one of those DVD drive cleaning
 disks with the little microfiber brushes sticking up on it. Cheaper than a
 drive, plus you can run it in your other optical drives around the house.
 Something like this:
 http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2361964CAWELAID=107592290


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Re: Quicksilver question

2010-09-29 Thread Kevin Barth
PC Cards are another name for PCMCIA cards, the type of small, external
expansion cards that were used in early laptops.  The original Airport card
was a PCMCIA, and the Quicksilver has a PCMCIA port to accept it.  However,
when the Airport is used, System Profiler lists it as an Airport card and
not as a PC Card.  A little Googling suggests that if you're willing to
forego the use of the Airport (or simply don't have one), you can make use
of some other PCMCIA cards in the Quicksilver, but to be honest, I don't
know why you'd want to.  In any event, it's definitely not referring to any
card you might have installed in your PC.

Under System Profiler I see this

 PC Cards
 PCI Cards
 Parallel SCSI

 I was asking about the PC Cards




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Re: Quicksilver question

2010-09-29 Thread Kevin Barth
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Kevin Barth godai@gmail.com wrote:

 PC Cards are another name for PCMCIA cards, the type of small, external
 expansion cards that were used in early laptops.  The original Airport card
 was a PCMCIA, and the Quicksilver has a PCMCIA port to accept it.  However,
 when the Airport is used, System Profiler lists it as an Airport card and
 not as a PC Card.  A little Googling suggests that if you're willing to
 forego the use of the Airport (or simply don't have one), you can make use
 of some other PCMCIA cards in the Quicksilver, but to be honest, I don't
 know why you'd want to.  In any event, it's definitely not referring to any
 card you might have installed in your PC.


Looks like I made a couple of errors of omission in the above response, so
to set the record straight..

The original Airport was only FUNCTIONALLY a PCMCIA card.  It was, in fact,
a rebranded version of a popular PCMCIA WiFi card of the time, but the
casing was modified sufficiently that it would not fit into a standard
PCMCIA adaptor.  This also means that a standard PCMCIA card would not fit
into the Airport slot without an appropriate adaptor.  More reason to leave
it alone, as fair as I'm concerned.

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Re: Writing on the wall...

2010-08-27 Thread Kevin Barth

  Unstable? I've never had any problem with Firefox on my g4's running
 Leopard. Or on Windows XP either. I did have problems with crashing about a
 year ago but that was because of a non-standard card I installed in my Dual
 1.42ghz G4. So, it was a hardware problem that showed up as Firefox
 crashing.


The main problems I have with Firefox are on my Intel MacBook, so pardon me
if discussion of them is a bit off topic.  But the last few updates have
resulted in frequent crashes and freezes requiring me to force-close the app
and then re-open it.  Annoying.

I haven't had a problem with this on either my G3 or my G4, but then I don't
really use either of those machines to do much web surfing these days.

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Re: Writing on the wall...

2010-08-26 Thread Kevin Barth
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Illirik Smirnov illir...@gmail.com wrote:

 Who uses Firefox?


I do, most of the time.  Yes, it's slow, and especially in the last couple
of releases has had some stability issues. But Safari lacks some of the
plugins that I use on a day to day basis.  Hopefully that will change.

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Re: Quicksilver trouble

2010-08-14 Thread Kevin Barth
Have you tried resetting the PMU?


On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:46 PM, TVirkkala multi...@wirkman.com wrote:

 Thanks for all the help. but I really blew this question (below). It turns
 out that the system just shuts off before the login window comes up. The
 system itself is shutting down. The computer goes off.


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Re: Whatever happened to RAM disks?

2010-08-07 Thread Kevin Barth
 Ram disks are not for storing programs . they disappear on shutdown unless
 set up for reboot.


A lot of people use RAM drives to store executables, in fact.   Yes, they
disappear on shutdown unless set up for reboot.  So set them up for reboot.
Adding a few seconds to a reboot that I might do once every couple of weeks
seems like a fair trade for faster access and execution of frequently run
applications during that time.

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Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin Barth
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:46 PM, admin oneluc...@mac.com wrote:

 How do you do that?  I always wondered why one monitor couldn't work for
 all uses.  Thanks.

 It's not difficult.  I have a KVM switch set up to allow me to share the
monitor between multiple CPUs.  One of the CPUs has an ATSC tuner in it,
allowing me to watch TV on the same monitor

They also have digital converter boxes with VGA output.  Unfortunately they
are rare and relatively expensive.

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Re: Card Reader

2010-07-19 Thread Kevin Barth
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:


  Why would a 24x CD-ROM be a requirement for a USB 2.0 cardreader, this
 makes no sense.



The speed requirement makes no sense (and no difference in all
likelihood...), but these devices often have drivers for pre-windows 2000
operating systems enclosed on CD, so in that context having a CD drive is
definitely a requirement.  Shouldn't make a difference for the OP.

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Re: plain text please

2010-07-17 Thread Kevin Barth
With due respect, seems to me that a steadfast insistence on plain text is
dated and unrealistic.  Most people today are using email clients, either
online or localized, that are capable of accurately reproducing emails
encoded with fairly complex HTML markup.  It's fast becoming the norm.  PINE
and ELM were lovely little apps in their day, but they're pretty well
anachronistic now.   WYSIWYG editors are embedded in everything these days.
Insisting that people not use them to their full capabilities seems pretty
silly.

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Re: plain text please

2010-07-17 Thread Kevin Barth

 JUST DON'T SEND HTML!  Well, there are reasons for it but rarely, if at
 all, on a mailing list that's for users of older machines.


Just because we're all users of older machines doesn't mean we use those
machines exclusively to read emails.   And even if some of us do, so what?
My G3 is very capable of reproducing email with markup.  Isn't one of the
purposes of this list to show how even older Apple machines are capable of
modern tasks?

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Re: plain text please

2010-07-17 Thread Kevin Barth
 Well, Plain Text traditionally refers to Low ASCII characters
 and numbers (0-127). Anything else is likely to be non-standard
 and can produce unpredictable results on the receiving end of
 an email (or any other internet transmitted file for that matter).

 Ken


The aim at the LCD argument.   I prefer a somewhat looser (and to my mind,
more practical) standard.  What can the average user's machine reasonably be
expected to understand?  Sure, somebody may be reading this email on an
aging ][+ or text-only Linux client.  But this list isn't geared toward ][+
users or users of campus mainframes.  If i had to assume anything, it would
be that people on this list are using at least something as up-to-date as a
G3 to read their email.  And as noted, those machines are quite capable of
decoding markup.  Even if specific users choose not to do so.

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Re: plain text please

2010-07-17 Thread Kevin Barth
 For those of you arguing that anyone's machine can display HTML and styled
 text, that's not the point.  One of the posts that triggered this came
 through in huge blue letters on my system.  In the past, some posters have
 sent HTML that displayed as fine print only a lawyer could love.  The point
 of using plain text is to allow each subscriber control display parameters
 at his/her end as best suits them, rather than to force them to wade through
 annoying or unreadable fonts.


Yes, there are always a few folks out there who, out of ignorance or
misguided desire to express themselves have to use an oddball font.  Seems
it would be more productive to address those individuals directly and ask
them to change specific aspects of their markup rather than insist on a
blanket suppression of all markup by all users.



 One of the reasons for using plain text is conservation of bandwidth as
 some of us are still on dial up, spit.


I'm on a slow connection myself.  Often not much faster than dialup.  This
argument makes no sense.  How many more characters must be downloaded to
display a message that has HTML encoding than one that is plaintext?  Even
if we really stretch and say several thousand, that's still a fraction of
a second's difference at typical dialup speeds.  Your email client probably
wastes more time handshaking and authenticating with the server.  Connection
speed is irrelevant to the argument.


 I believe that is also the reason for the tradition of doing so going all
 the way back to...


The fact that things have always been done this way has never been a
particularly compelling argument against change.  To quite the Brady Bunch,
When it's time to change, then it's time to change.



 All plain text does is default to a non-proportiona font family such as
 courier.  IOW, an I takes up the same space as a W etc.

 Just makes things run faster for those of us still stuck in the slow lane..


OK.  so now it seems you're arguing that everybody should limit themselves
to plaintext because you can't read a proportional font?  Or at least that
you find a proportional font harder to read than a non-proportional one?
This might actually be a reasonable argument.  IF it is shared by a
significant number of the other members on the list.  Personally, I have no
problem reading proportional fonts, and I prefer them for everything except
source code and other applications where spacing and column position are
significant.  I actually find non-proportional fonts annoying for free text
like emails and ebooks.  Personal preference, and I don't think mine has any
more right to be enforced than yours does.

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Re: G3 Lime iMac and 10.4 instal CD

2010-06-15 Thread Kevin Barth
Another possibility is what I did on my G3.  If you have access tp a
MacBook, put the Tiger DVD in its drive and throw it into hard drive mode.
Then hook it up to Your G3 via USB.

 At 4:01 PM + 6/15/2010, janespra...@comcast.net wrote:

 I need to install 10.4 on a G3 Lime iMac. However, I have a few problems
 to overcome.
 1. I live in Portland, OR, and the iMac is in Las Vegas, where I will be
 visiting.
 2. The iMac does not have a DVD drive. The Tiger install disc (disk)
 that I own is DVD.
 3. I do NOT have access to an external CD drive to take with me.
 4. I can't seem to find a Tiger install CD.




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Re: G3 Lime iMac and 10.4 instal CD

2010-06-15 Thread Kevin Barth
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Matt Rhinesmith platni...@gmail.comwrote:

 Lime iMacs can't boot from external HDDs, as they have no FireWire


Yup.  That's why I specified using USB.  Although as another poster noted,
there are some G3s that have firewire.  Mine does, for example :-)   But I
didn't use it, and didn't specify it in my post.



 and booting from USB isn't supported on G3s.


Installing Tiger isn't supported on G3s either.  Sometimes you need to do
a little experimenting to see what works even though it isn't technically
supported.  Yes, you CAN boot from USB on a G3.

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Re: Can I add IR to my Quicksilver?

2010-05-24 Thread Kevin Barth
Hadn't thought of that.  Yes, that is another possible solution, thanks!

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:13 PM, ben64sm...@googlemail.com 
ben64sm...@googlemail.com wrote:



 You can buy IR extenders, they are used were you have set-ups like a
 Sat box in one room and a second TV in the bedroom, they comprise a
 detector and an IR transmitter either wired together or wireless, as
 far as I am aware these will work with any IR device including the
 Apple remote.
 you should find suitable devices at any TV shop.
 Ben.



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Re: Can I add IR to my Quicksilver?

2010-05-21 Thread Kevin Barth
The media center is in another room than the Macbook, which needs to remain
there most of the time because of the printer, hard drive, speakers, etc.
that are generally attached to it while I'm at home.  If I don't want to go
across the room to use the mouse/keyboard that are connected to the Media
Center every time I change the channel/volume, I guess it goes without
saying that I don't want to walk into the other room to do the same thing.

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Charles Lenington macso...@brightok.netwrote:




 why not use apple remote desktop and manage the QS from the macbook?



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Re: Can I add IR to my Quicksilver?

2010-05-19 Thread Kevin Barth
Trying this again.  My first attempt got rejected for excessive quoting...

Thanks, everybody, for your suggestions!  I think Jeffrey's device is
exactly what I'm looking for.

Kevin

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote:

 I got this IR and software, works great with that apple remote you have!!!
  Jeff


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