Re: [G] spotlight

2006-02-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 23, 2006, at 6:33 PM, david_elmo wrote: Spotlight is quite good and fast... You have to use it a bit and look at it and it can grow on the most entrenched old pre X user I now retract every word I ever said on the subject whether or not any parts or aspects of my words were true

[G] Quick! Help! Can't Eject and Shut down

2006-02-24 Thread AB
I have too much on my plate to be messing with my computer today... but I did anyway. Currently must leave house soon for two days but can't properly eject FW volume and"system" volume from a disk image from an old system. The dmg volume was a back-up from my old ibook that is dead. I opened

Re: [G] Quick! Help! Can't Eject and Shut down

2006-02-24 Thread AB
I just shut down. As it didn't say I couldn't I assume it ejected all open volumes safely (hopefully). Still for future reference I'd like to know wht was hanging it up from ejecting. Please see previous post for details. Thanks. AB ___ Join Excit

Re: [G] Quick! Help! Can't Eject and Shut down

2006-02-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 24, 2006, at 10:47 AM, AB wrote: I have too much on my plate to be messing with my computer today... but I did anyway. Currently must leave house soon for two days but can't properly eject FW volume and"system" volume from a disk image from an old system. The dmg volume was a b

[G] Problems with iCab

2006-02-24 Thread Tom W.
I am using the most recent version of iCab on S ystem 9.21 on my G4 MDD. At times, in a window, like google's search window, the cursor just stops moving. I can type but no letters appear on the screen. After a few seconds, it sometimes starts again. Sometimes, though, I have to quit the app. This

Re: [G] Problems with iCab

2006-02-24 Thread darm0k
At 1:38 PM -0500 02/24/2006, Tom W. wrote: I am using the most recent version of iCab on S ystem 9.21 on my G4 MDD. "most recent version". sigh. The most recent public release? The most recent public beta release? The mode recent private beta release? The most recent private alpha release?

[G] X on a G3

2006-02-24 Thread George R. Hozendorf
There has been discussion in the past about how to install OS X on a beige G3. At the time it wasn't an issue for me, but now is. Can anyone detail what I need to do to get X to work on a beige G3? It only has a 6 gig HD. Do I need a larger one? Thanks, George -- G-List is sponsored by

Re: [G] X on a G3

2006-02-24 Thread Len Gerstel
On Friday, February 24, 2006, at 02:01 PM, George R. Hozendorf wrote: There has been discussion in the past about how to install OS X on a beige G3. At the time it wasn't an issue for me, but now is. Can anyone detail what I need to do to get X to work on a beige G3? It only has a 6 gig H

Re: [G] Moving lists to Google Groups

2006-02-24 Thread Doug McNutt
At 11:56 +0900 2/24/06, Cornett wrote: >G-Listerines, ListMom Dan, Nannie, anybody... >Help! Progress - or lack thereof - report. It appears that one will not be able to enjoy this list without purchasing a better computer that will handle the absolute garbage that Google uses on its web pages.

Re: [G] Moving lists to Google Groups

2006-02-24 Thread Tom Baker
On top of the other reported drawbacks and problems, someone once warned me that Google Groups "shares" your personal info with a lot of sales "partners," and you can expect a big increase in spam after joining. Is this true? Tom On Feb 24, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: At 11:56 +090

Re: [G] Moving lists to Google Groups

2006-02-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 24, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Tom Baker wrote: On top of the other reported drawbacks and problems, someone once warned me that Google Groups "shares" your personal info with a lot of sales "partners," and you can expect a big increase in spam after joining. Is this true? No. -- Bruce Jo

Re: [G] Moving lists to Google Groups

2006-02-24 Thread Brian McEwen
On Feb 24, 2006, at 3:25 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: Progress - or lack thereof - report. It appears that one will not be able to enjoy this list without purchasing a better computer that will handle the absolute garbage that Google uses on its web pages. I just don't trust it. I sent a mess

Re: [G] Moving lists to Google Groups

2006-02-24 Thread Len Gerstel
On Feb 24, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Tom Baker wrote: On top of the other reported drawbacks and problems, someone once warned me that Google Groups "shares" your personal info with a lot of sales "partners," and you can expect a big increase in spam after joining. Is this true? The closest I have

[G] PCI high speed USB card

2006-02-24 Thread Christopher Icha
Hi I have just installed a high speed USB card in my Quicksilver G4. The system profiler can see it, and describes the vendor name as Apple Computer Inc, but it doesn't seem to work when I plug anything in to it. I am running 10.3.9. Is there some kind of driver that must be installed? I

Re: [G] Moving lists to Google Groups

2006-02-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 24, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: We hope this helps. The Google Groups Team So I picked up the owner address where I asked about old fashioned SET DIGEST and the like messages. The result was not encouraging. This is not a LISTERV list, and so those commands won't work. Thi

Re: [G] Moving lists to Google Groups

2006-02-24 Thread GDB-B&W-X . 3 . 9
On Feb 24, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: On Feb 24, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Tom Baker wrote: On top of the other reported drawbacks and problems, someone once warned me that Google Groups "shares" your personal info with a lot of sales "partners," and you can expect a big increase in spam

Re: [G] Moving lists to Google Groups

2006-02-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 24, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Brian McEwen wrote: On Feb 24, 2006, at 3:25 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: Progress - or lack thereof - report. It appears that one will not be able to enjoy this list without purchasing a better computer that will handle the absolute garbage that Google uses on i

Re: [G] PCI high speed USB card

2006-02-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 24, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Christopher Icha wrote: Hi I have just installed a high speed USB card in my Quicksilver G4. The system profiler can see it, and describes the vendor name as Apple Computer Inc, but it doesn't seem to work when I plug anything in to it. I am running 10.3.9

[G] DVD player

2006-02-24 Thread Christopher Icha
How do I re-install DVD player on my Quicksilver? It is not present on my 10.3.9 at the moment. :0) ___ Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!. Enter now. http://www.yahoo.co.uk/blackberry -- G-List is sponsored

Re: [G] Moving lists to Google Groups

2006-02-24 Thread Chris Placzek
So how do we go about doing this though google exactly? Chris P Matthew S. Carpenter wrote on 2/22/06, 5:35 PM: > Doug McNutt wrote: > > >At 12:52 -0500 2/22/06, Dan Knight wrote: > > > > > >>Since the Macworld Expo in January, we've been creating new email lists > >>on Google Groups and

Re: [G] USB2 compatibility

2006-02-24 Thread Ray
--- Alexander MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You want a card with an NEC chipset. They also workwith deep sleep in OS X. Thanks. I ordered one of these cards, except I got mine on ebay for a lot cheaper and they work very nice. Although, I don't know why all of sudden my zip drive will not r

[G] What gives???

2006-02-24 Thread mi
Hi, At somebody's direction, I have gone to Google and joined thje iMac List (http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?lnk=oa), assuming that it was replacing the G-List ??? Is this not right? Have I erred? The reason I say this is that the people who are subscribed to the GoogList, don't seem to

Re: [G] What gives???

2006-02-24 Thread Charles Davis
As I understand it, thats what is supposed to happen! I just joined the 'google' list today, but things are still coming through from the 'lowendmac' list as of this time. (Your posting for example.) Chuck D. On Saturday, February 25, 2006, at 12:49 AM, mi wrote: Hi, At somebody's directi