Re: need a barrel type plug - power adapter model A1021, for G5 powerbook

On Oct 22, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Dwight Hines wrote: > I just need a plug to replace theone the dog chewed up. I can cut and > solder the wires ok. As has been previously pointed out, no G5 PowerBooks, and the proprietary plug will be a problem, that external ground ring/shield isn't on normal

Re: Permissions Question, CCC 3.1.2 under Tiger & a few more Qs ...

On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:25 PM, insightinmind wrote: > On my PCI Graphics under Tiger 10.4.11 with 512MB RAM ... and I'm > using the 4 partition scheme: OS X Tiger, Classic OS 9.1, Apps, Docs. > I may have just solved most of my issues by installing a spare Adaptec AUA-3020A FW/USB2 Duoconnect

Re: need a barrel type plug - power adapter model A1021, for G5 powerbook

Dwight Hines wrote: > I just need a plug to replace theone the dog chewed up. I can cut and > solder the wires ok. I did this before on older powerbooks but I > can't remember where I bought only the little plugs. They costs about > 3.49 and it's a sin to buy the whole power supply for 30 or

need a barrel type plug - power adapter model A1021, for G5 powerbook

I just need a plug to replace theone the dog chewed up. I can cut and solder the wires ok. I did this before on older powerbooks but I can't remember where I bought only the little plugs. They costs about 3.49 and it's a sin to buy the whole power supply for 30 or 40 or fifty dollars when yo

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Oct 22, 2008, at 6:40 PM, James E. Therrault wrote: >> Meanwhile, I have a bunch of MacPro-equivalents which cost me a >> couple of hundred apiece (not a couple of thousand apiece). >> > > Would you build one for me? I replied privately with a suggested parts list. Anyone who wants the same

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

PeterH wrote: > > On Oct 22, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > > >>>The average buyer is not aware, and, more importantly, DOES NOT CARE >>>that MacOS X can be run on an Intel. >>> >> >>Apple does not WANT the public to be aware of this. Thus the >>alternative legal negotiatio

Permissions Question, CCC 3.1.2 under Tiger & a few more Qs ...

On my PCI Graphics under Tiger 10.4.11 with 512MB RAM ... and I'm using the 4 partition scheme: OS X Tiger, Classic OS 9.1, Apps, Docs. I've retained my Apps and Docs partitions from previous installations, and have done a direct Mac OS X Install of Tiger onto an erased partition that use to

Re: CCC

On Oct 22, 2008, at 2:35 PM, g3-5-list group wrote: > == 1 of 1 == > Date: Wed, Oct 22 2008 8:53 am > From: Dan > > > At 1:10 PM -0500 10/21/2008, George Hozendorf wrote: >> anyone tried the latest version of Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1.2? On my >> machine it's incredibly faster. > > hum. Hadn't ev

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008/10/22 Kyle Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 10/22/08 3:16 PM, "Bruce Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Broadcast into the ether: > >> And this has to do with Apple engineering how? Pixar has NEVER used >> Macs for render farms. They're used for the creative folk's >> workstations. >> >> Those

Re: USB hub form factor

> > At 11:44 AM -0500 10/22/08, hackmiester / Hunter Fuller posted: > > http://www.electronicplus.com/images/products/SRG-1000.jpg > > > > I'm using one of those right now! It's got my monitors, printer, and > > USB hub (my Windows box won't boot with it connected, for some reason, > > so

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This discussion is starting to remind me of the debate around the UMAX S900 > and other Mac clones that were prevented from an authorized upgrade path to > OS X. I think the discussion is as relevant now as it was then. I h

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Sam Macomber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 22, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Bruce Johnson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On 10/22/08 3:16 PM, "Bruce Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Broadcast into the ether: > And this has to do with Apple engineering how? Pixar has NEVER used > Macs for render farms. They're used for the creative folk's > workstations. > > Those were a warehouse full of intel machines in racks. I ha

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> eworldsale.com is ALWAYS out-of-stock on those loss-leader items, so >> they are hardly the "exemplar" of cost comparisons. >> Pullz! >> >> And, who, besides Apple, mandates that you HAVE to have an anemic bus >> speed, such as 1

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:30 PM, PeterH wrote: > > > On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> >>> Meanwhile, I have a bunch of MacPro-equivalents which cost me a >>> couple of hundred apiece (not a couple of thousand apiece). >> >> >> >> Please point out where I can get a dual Xeon qua

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > Pixar has NEVER used > Macs for render farms. They're used for the creative folk's > workstations. If Jobs' Pixar won't render his features using Macs then why should we buy Macs? Just buy whatever works, period. And, for some of us, that

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> Meanwhile, I have a bunch of MacPro-equivalents which cost me a >> couple of hundred apiece (not a couple of thousand apiece). > > > > Please point out where I can get a dual Xeon quad-core system with 2 > gigs of ram, Radeon HD2600 or equiv

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:09 PM, PeterH wrote: > > Did anyone notice that the last several Pixar feature-length > animateds were "rendered" using Intels, and not Apples? And this has to do with Apple engineering how? Pixar has NEVER used Macs for render farms. They're used for the creative folk's

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Oct 22, 2008, at 2:58 PM, PeterH wrote: > Meanwhile, I have a bunch of MacPro-equivalents which cost me a > couple of hundred apiece (not a couple of thousand apiece). Please point out where I can get a dual Xeon quad-core system with 2 gigs of ram, Radeon HD2600 or equivalent video card

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Oct 22, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> The average buyer is not aware, and, more importantly, DOES NOT CARE >> that MacOS X can be run on an Intel. >> > > Apple does not WANT the public to be aware of this. Thus the > alternative legal negotiation of this case. Keep it

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Simon Royal wrote: > And it is not as if the high price tag means superior build > quality. Not > wanting to talk ill of Apple but for such a price they shouldn't > have so > many mistakes (hardware wise). Apple's hardware is fully-simulated, to the best of Appl

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

This discussion is starting to remind me of the debate around the UMAX S900 and other Mac clones that were prevented from an authorized upgrade path to OS X. I think the discussion is as relevant now as it was then. I have never accepted the logic that Apple must of necessity be the only hardware p

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

Hi And it is not as if the high price tag means superior build quality. Not wanting to talk ill of Apple but for such a price they shouldn't have so many mistakes (hardware wise). Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Oct 22, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Bruce Johnson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> >>> >>> Can you hear that in the background? That is sound of the Linux >>> flavo

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:41 PM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The average buyer is not aware, and, more importantly, DOES NOT CARE > that MacOS X can be run on an Intel. > Apple does not WANT the public to be aware of this. Thus the alternative legal negotiation of this case. Keep it on t

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> >> Can you hear that in the background? That is sound of the Linux >> flavors creeping up to pounce on the market in a major way while Apple >> tries t

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > Keeping this cat from coming out of the bag with the holiday sales > season come up makes a lot of marketing sense. All that ad money > portraying Microsoft as stubborn and entrenched in it's own selfish > policies at the expense of

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > > Can you hear that in the background? That is sound of the Linux > flavors creeping up to pounce on the market in a major way while Apple > tries to ignore the need of an Apple OS for the PC. AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:30 AM, Simon Royal wrote: > >> >> Hi >> >> I thought this was a bit odd. Apple and Psystar come to a settlement. >> >> It seems Apple aren't going to bury the clone makers like everyone >> though

Re: USB hub form factor

Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Steve R wrote: > >> I've searched >> for a web image but no such luck. The unit raises my monitor by 3", >> has 5 3-prong receptacles at the back with corresponding power >> switches + Master at the front. > > Wow. I haven't seen one of thos

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > BY DEFINTION an illegal trust MUST involve MORE THAN ONE COMPANY. > > Apple, despite the fevered dreams of the 'iwaanacheepmac11!!' > crowd, a computer company with <10% of the market share, could not > POSSIBLY form an 'illegal monopoly',

Re: Mirror Image?

At 9:42 PM -0400 10/21/2008, John Callahan wrote: >Does anyone know what Mirror Image is Never heard of it, but Google led me to: >and why I can't shutdown unless I quit the application and I can't >even find it with Spo

Re: USB hub form factor

Oh, sure, I have three and they're all different, but this is the spirit of the device. 2008/10/22 Steve R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > At 11:44 AM -0500 10/22/08, hackmiester / Hunter Fuller posted: >> http://www.electronicplus.com/images/products/SRG-1000.jpg >> >> I'm using one of those right no

Re: USB hub form factor

At 11:44 AM -0500 10/22/08, hackmiester / Hunter Fuller posted: > http://www.electronicplus.com/images/products/SRG-1000.jpg > > I'm using one of those right now! It's got my monitors, printer, and > USB hub (my Windows box won't boot with it connected, for some reason, > so I just turn off th

Re: USB hub form factor

At 8:48 AM -0700 10/22/08, Bruce Johnson posted: > On Oct 21, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Steve R wrote: > >> I've searched >> for a web image but no such luck. The unit raises my monitor by 3", >> has 5 3-prong receptacles at the back with corresponding power >> switches + Master at the front. > > Wo

Re: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

At 12:57 PM -0400 10/22/2008, insightinmind wrote: > > That is, leave the 750 GB FW hard drive as it was, except perhaps >> to defragment it, though >> likely not helpful anyway. > >I meant to add, I think OS X keeps things orderly, yes. It tries. And the HFS+ design naturally fragments les

Re: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

At 6:02 AM -0400 10/22/2008, insightinmind wrote: >On Oct 21, 2008, at 11:12 PM, Dan wrote: > > So you had a large empty space that was unpartitioned? If not, then > > you didn't just "add"... you did a massive data move to create the >> contiguous free space, then re-wrote the partition map,

Re: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

At 11:50 PM -0400 10/21/2008, insightinmind wrote: > >On a first pass, Disk Utility came up with a Key Length error on the >first partition ... trying to Repair it with a 2nd run, showed no >errors needing repair. Do it again. A key error can be serious. >Should I continue, and erase my old d

Re: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

> That is, leave the 750 GB FW hard drive as it was, except perhaps > to defragment it, though > likely not helpful anyway. I meant to add, I think OS X keeps things orderly, so defragmenting is not necessary. Another AFIK ... Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstu

Re: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

On Oct 22, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Al Poulin wrote: > > Bill: > > I am in digest mode, but I have read through the entire thread online. > > I wonder why a simpler method would not work. That is, leave the 750 > GB FW hard drive as it was, except perhaps to defragment it, though > likely not helpful

Re: USB hub form factor

http://www.electronicplus.com/images/products/SRG-1000.jpg I'm using one of those right now! It's got my monitors, printer, and USB hub (my Windows box won't boot with it connected, for some reason, so I just turn off that switch during startup...) 2008/10/22 Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >

Re: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

On Oct 22, 2008, at 4:43 AM, g3-5-list group wrote: > > == 2 of 4 == > Date: Tues, Oct 21 2008 7:27 pm > From: insightinmind > > What I have done is ADD 4 partitions at the "end" of the 750GB FW > hard drive I use under Leopard on my Quicksilver to do my Time > Machine backups. It said it would no

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:30 AM, Simon Royal wrote: > > Hi > > I thought this was a bit odd. Apple and Psystar come to a settlement. > > It seems Apple aren't going to bury the clone makers like everyone > thought, > more of a slap on the wrist and stop building your clones. > > http://yro.slashdo

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down Annoying

At 9:11 PM +0100 10/21/2008, Simon Royal wrote: >Energy Saver function and switched off putting the hard drives to sleep. > >However, my 120GB which is slave to my boot drive always sleeps. >Then when you go to access it, you hear it wake up and there is a >delay in accessing it. Sometimes the

Re: CCC

At 1:10 PM -0500 10/21/2008, George Hozendorf wrote: >anyone tried the latest version of Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1.2? On my >machine it's incredibly faster. hum. Hadn't even realized it was out! I'll give it a whirl. Thx! Might be interesting to compare it to the latest SuperDuper. - Dan. --

Re: USB hub form factor

On Oct 21, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Steve R wrote: > I've searched > for a web image but no such luck. The unit raises my monitor by 3", > has 5 3-prong receptacles at the back with corresponding power > switches + Master at the front. Wow. I haven't seen one of those in YEARS. Beige, with orange neon

Re: The application SyncServer quit unexpectedly

On Oct 21, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Marty Levine wrote: > > I googled SyncServer and ended up in the Apple Discussion forum and > found a > message that recommended deleting the following file. >~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local > > Before I do that, is that the recomme

Re: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

On Oct 21, 2008, at 7:27 PM, insightinmind wrote: > What I have done is ADD 4 partitions at the "end" of the 750GB FW > hard drive I use under Leopard on my Quicksilver to do my Time > Machine backups. That is a mind-bogglingly bad idea. The whole point of Time Machine is to NOT put all your

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

My Reply follows quote. On 22/10/2008 01:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I thought this was a bit odd. Apple and Psystar come to a settlement. > >It seems Apple aren't going to bury the clone makers like everyone thought, >more of a slap on the wrist and stop building your clones. > >http://yro.sl

Re: How do you skin a G4?

I went on in ... and took my newly acquired G4/400 Yikes! all apart ... taking digital pics as I went through the process. Maybe I'll document it for others? Thanks for the Tips: Goo Gone (early mix), the need to take it all apart to get to the inner clips for the sides, don't force anything

Re: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

On Oct 21, 2008, at 11:12 PM, Dan wrote: > > At 10:27 PM -0400 10/21/2008, insightinmind wrote: >> >> What I have done is ADD 4 partitions at the "end" of the 750GB FW >> hard drive > > So you had a large empty space that was unpartitioned? If not, then > you didn't just "add"... you did a mass

Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

Hi I thought this was a bit odd. Apple and Psystar come to a settlement. It seems Apple aren't going to bury the clone makers like everyone thought, more of a slap on the wrist and stop building your clones. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/19/1511231&from=rss What gives. Simon

Re: Formatting Mac Disk for a PC

Hi Macs can format to MS-DOS, which I assume is FAT16. While this is not good enough for any new Windows installation, it might make the drive visible on a PC straight away and then just need formatting in the simple way, rather than having to find a hidden util to get the drive recognised. T