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Sent: Thursday, 9 October, 2008 4:00:01 AM
Subject: Re: External drive won't mount on 10.2.8 after mounting on 10.5 system
I was (and am) careful to eject the drive from the
Simon,
On Oct 8, 2008, at 5:07 , Simon Royal wrote:
Glen
I have done some digging and the Sawtooth is quite hard to upgrade
processor wise.
I think maxxing it to its 2GB RAM limit is a better way to get
better performance.
I have already installed a 7200RPM hard drive replacing
Hey Simon...
On Oct 8, 2008, at 7:18 , Simon Royal wrote:
Hi.
I've always bought Mac RAM. However, slap the word Mac on RAM and
it's price hits the roof.
Heh... just like parts for my, long gone, Ford Thunderbird Turbo
Coupe. An alternator for my little black 'Bird went from $125 to
On Oct 9, 2008, at 9:17 AM, Simon Royal wrote:
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Subject: Re: Still Fuzzy TFT
From: Len Gerstel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 09/10/2008 14:15
On Oct 9, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi.
I still have a grainy picture on my TFT. It is hooked to a PowerMac
G4
On Oct 9, 2008, at 4:17 AM, g3-5-list group wrote:
== 4 of 4 ==
Date: Thurs, Oct 9 2008 1:07 am
From: Simon Royal
Peter
I know the differences between SDRAM, DDR, DDR2, 144pin, 168pin,
200pin and 240pin.
You do get PC RAM and Mac RAM, in the sense that some sticks will
work in
On the leopard system, there's nothing to repair, the drive is fine.
On the jaguar system, repair won't do anything because the drive is
journaled.
I don't think there is actually any problem with the drive, this is
some inconsistency between the two systems that the older system can't
Len
It was given to me, but had been working on a Cube and PC with no probs before
I got it.
Simon
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Subject: Re: Still Fuzzy TFT
From: Len Gerstel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 09/10/2008 14:42
On Oct 9, 2008,
On Oct 9, 2008, at 3:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, Thanks for the advice so far.
What actually happened was that I was downloading a driver for the
scanner, which was followed by the optimizing feature [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Optimizing can't hurt your System, it just pre-linking files for
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From: Steve R [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 9 October, 2008 11:55:36 AM
Subject: Re: External drive won't mount on 10.2.8 after mounting on 10.5 system
At 3:14 AM -0500 10/9/08, Kris Tilford posted:
On Oct 9, 2008, at 2:07 AM,
On Oct 9, 10:21 am, Ted Treen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Buying Apple-branded RAM is an exercise in expensive futility. So is playing
around with anonymous RAM by trial error.
Far better to visit Crucial's website
http://www.crucial.com(orhttp://www.crucial.com/ukfor those on my side of
At 6:28 AM -0500 10/9/08, Kris Tilford posted:
Did you repair the file system or not?
As I posted, it wasn't my external drive. It was my neighbour's drive
that had worked without a problem via NAS and USB on Vista and
10.4.11. The Vista machine is wired to the router, the iMac is
On Oct 9, 2008, at 3:55 AM, Steve R wrote:
At 3:14 AM -0500 10/9/08, Kris Tilford posted:
On Oct 9, 2008, at 2:07 AM, Ted Treen wrote:
For what it's worth, the error that verify on 10.2 shows is Invalid
Leaf record count (it should be 1 instead of 0)
Why are you using verify rather than
On Oct 8, 2008, at 7:18 PM, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi.
I've always bought Mac RAM. However, slap the word Mac on RAM and
it's price hits the roof.
In looking for 256MB and 512MB sticks of PC100/133 desktop RAM, will
PC RAM work as it is dirt cheap? Is there anything to look for.
There
Hi.
I have a monitor and a new (to me) Mac which I am having problems with. Trouble
is I can't narrow it down to whether it is the monitor or Mac and have no other
Mac to test it on.
However, my iMac G3 has a VGA port. Could I hook the monitor to this to check
whether the same fuzziness
On Oct 9, 2008, at 6:06 AM, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi.
I still have a grainy picture on my TFT. It is hooked to a PowerMac
G4 Sawtooth.
I bought a new high quality, shielded, ferrite core cable as I read
that naff cables can cause problems, but this hasn't resolved it.
The picture
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From: Al [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, 9 October, 2008 2:56:03 PM
Subject: Re: PC RAM?
On Oct 9, 4:07 am, Simon Royal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter
I know the differences between SDRAM, DDR, DDR2, 144pin, 168pin,
Bruce.
I'm no Mac newbie, I had thought of that. It also makes no difference.
The whole picture is fuzzy but it is most noticeable on text.
Simon
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Subject: Re: Still Fuzzy TFT
From: Bruce Johnson [EMAIL
At 5:30 PM -0600 10/8/2008, Stephen Conrad wrote:
BTW... Your use of - is rather confusing. The is used to
indicated QUOTED text. Prefixing that with a dash just looks like a
typo.
= Better? I do it to point out my replies.
No. It makes the reply *harder* to find. Leave out that
At 5:30 PM -0600 10/8/2008, Stephen Conrad wrote:
Well, I looked in one of their emails and it said to assure delivery:
Beliefnet would like to ensure that you are receiving your newsletter
subscription in your inbox.
Please add [EMAIL PROTECTED] into your address book.
I did this. It doesn't
On Oct 9, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Simon Royal wrote:
Bruce.
I'm no Mac newbie, I had thought of that. It also makes no difference.
The whole picture is fuzzy but it is most noticeable on text.
Crap, another wonderful theory killed by those damn facts. :-)
Have you tried different refresh
On Oct 9, 2008, at 11:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Things go awry when vendors do not comply with the
technical design standards.
NO!
Really? So you're saying if RAM violates JEDEC specs it will still
function normally. Interesting. I wonder how they do that.
You REALLY don't get
At 3:18 AM +0100 10/9/2008, Simon Royal wrote:
I've always bought Mac RAM. However, slap the word Mac on RAM and
it's price hits the roof.
In looking for 256MB and 512MB sticks of PC100/133 desktop RAM, will
PC RAM work as it is dirt cheap? Is there anything to look for. I
know older
On Oct 9, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Dan wrote:
Each PC- monikor is a *family*, that includes a range of
specifications. The family specifications are published / controlled
by Intel.
These are controlled by the industry standards group, JEDEC, of which
Intel is a minor participant as it got
On Oct 9, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Dan wrote:
Do NOT use:
Parity, ECC, registered or buffered SDRAM DIMMs. Parity is
not a problem. ECC, registered and buffered use a different socket
key.
256 Mb technology, 32-bit wide, EDO or FPM. none of these
would fit the socket, anyway.
At 9:51 AM -0400 10/9/2008, Len Gerstel wrote:
I am not a memory geek, but the underlying theory is that low density
memory is better
No. Higher density chips support faster access times and higher life-cycles.
and that is why Apple required it.
Apple was just being cheap on the controller,
Bruce
The monitor is a cheap TFT given to me by a friend who used it on a G4 Cube
and a PC and he didn't notice bad picturing.
I haven't tried it on another Mac myself, but I do have an iMac G3 which I
am going to hook it up to just to check if the picture is better on there.
If it is, then
At 12:23 PM -0700 10/9/2008, PeterH wrote:
On Oct 9, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Dan wrote:
Each PC- monikor is a *family*, that includes a range of
specifications. The family specifications are published / controlled
by Intel.
These are controlled by the industry standards group, JEDEC, of
On Oct 9, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Dan wrote:
*shrug* My impression from talking to a friend (a chip engineer) is
that nothing gets passed/done without Intel's nod. They cough and
the spec rattles.
IBM controlled the DRAM specs for the early Power Architectured Macs.
Remember: PowerPC is an
On Oct 9, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Simon Royal wrote:
Bruce
The monitor is a cheap TFT given to me by a friend who used it on a
G4 Cube
and a PC and he didn't notice bad picturing.
Might he have lower standards or (more likely) simply been used to
it? I remember when I finally replaced
Hi
I know this is a long way off, but what do we think Apple will do after
they reach Mac OSX 10.9 'Lion'.
Will they go for 10.10? Will the abandon the whole numbering and name
system before then? Will they leave OSX behind and move on to something new
altogether?
Of course nobody knows, I
On Oct 9, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Dan wrote:
Because Apple doesn't use ECC,,, that means your
data in the older system was foo -- And you never knew it until the
crash hit!
Apple used parity in its ill-fated Apple Network Server.
With parity, a single-bit error can be detected, but not
oThanks everyone for their helpful suggestions. I know I have to
update My Disk Warrior before I can use it on OS 10.5.5.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Kris Tilford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: October 7, 2008 8:45:56 PM EDT
To: Wilton Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Disk Warrior-How?
On
I'm getting in on this rather late, but were you by chance using
Flurry as your screen saver? The reason I ask is because I had a
similar problem using a cheap LCD. I left it on with Flurry as the
screen saver and started noticing the fuzzy looking image on the
screen that you describe.
Hey, fellas and girls, not nice to give people serial numbers for
pirated software on a supposedly respectable mailing list.
Don't know where your listmoms are, or what rulz you have, but tsk, tsk.
Also, I can't believe a Macintosh list is all top-posted! Yeesh.
Hope this helps,
M
Cheers
At 11:02 PM -0700 10/8/2008, PeterH wrote:
On Oct 8, 2008, at 7:54 PM, Ken wrote:
Well, PC100/133 is pretty specific. It is not PC RAM. It is RAM.
PC66/PC100/PC133 is SDRAM.
Higher levels of RAM may be DDR, DDR2 or DDR3.
They are ALL sticks of synchronous dynamic random access memory, aka
Doug
I was using Flurry. But the problem started as soon as I hooked up the
monitor. I will try using a different screen saver or not one at all.
Anything is worth a try.
Simon
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On Oct 9, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Michael Kopp wrote:
Hey, fellas and girls, not nice to give people serial numbers for
pirated software on a supposedly respectable mailing list.
Which is against list rules, as all parties to this convo should well
have known. However, it's entirely possible it
At 22:03 +0100 10/9/08, Simon Royal wrote:
I know this is a long way off, but what do we think Apple will do after
they reach Mac OSX 10.9 'Lion'.
Will they go for 10.10?
There's nothing wrong with that. Other 'NIX apps do it.
But the X in OS-X does NOT stand for the base of decimal
On Oct 9, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi
I know this is a long way off, but what do we think Apple will do
after
they reach Mac OSX 10.9 'Lion'.
Will they go for 10.10? Will the abandon the whole numbering and name
system before then? Will they leave OSX behind and move on
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Bruce Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 9, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Simon Royal wrote:
I know this is a long way off, but what do we think Apple will do
after
they reach Mac OSX 10.9 'Lion'.
Will they go for 10.10? Will the abandon the whole numbering
2008/10/9 Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
related as a number (otherwise the name of the operating system would
be 'oh ess ten ten point five', not 'oh ess eks ten point five' which
is what everyone calls it.)
Um, that's because they're wrong. Apple calls it Mac Oh Ess Ten and
I think Jobs
At 10:03 PM +0100 10/9/2008, Simon Royal wrote:
I know this is a long way off, but what do we think Apple will do after
they reach Mac OSX 10.9 'Lion'.
Unix has been plodding along since the late 1960s. What the heck -
lets stick with it another decade. No need to THINK Different. Just
keep
On Oct 9, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Dan wrote:
I know this is a long way off, but what do we think Apple will do
after
they reach Mac OSX 10.9 'Lion'.
Unix has been plodding along since the late 1960s. What the heck -
lets stick with it another decade. No need to THINK Different. Just
keep
;-)
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