Re: Powermac g5 or mac mini.

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 4, 2008, at 7:48 AM, Josh Smiley wrote: Thanks for all the ideas everyone. I keep seeing rumors that new mac minis are close. Nov 10? NOt according to the Mothership... http://tinyurl.com/6e8z4h Despite Internet rumors of forthcoming product releases, an Apple representative

Re: Powermac g5 or mac mini.

2008-11-04 Thread Josh S
I guess, i will be buy my Mac mini today via Microsofts live.com for 25% off. :D Ironic isn't it? Josh S [EMAIL PROTECTED] Smiley Electric 303-710-2147 North Denver, CO --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's

Re: Powermac g5 or mac mini.

2008-11-04 Thread dorayme
On Nov 4, 4:08 am, Josh Smiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my first post to the group. I have been a Mac user for the last 6 years. I have always wanted a Powemac/macpro.  The cost it what has always held me back. ... My current setup is a 24 Samsung LCD that I use for playing xBox

Re: OS 10.3

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 4, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Al Poulin wrote: I'd go after 10.4 but I'd need a new processor. True, unless you use some geekish techniques to fool the 733MHz problem. What '733 MHz problem'??? That only applied to some iLife programs, like iDVD and Garage Band. 10.4 will run VERY WELL

Re: Sleep issue on G4 Tower

2008-11-04 Thread Mark
Anne Keller-Smith wrote: Hi - it has decided to have insomnia. Used to sleep really well. Sometimes it will sleep after a minute which is how I set it in Energy Saver. But the hard disk doesn't go to sleep. When I select sleep under the Apple Menu it wakes up after about 5 seconds. Any

How much bandwidth is in use?

2008-11-04 Thread Jonas Lopez
How much bandwidth is in use? I wondered if we have a way of telling how much bandwidth is in use when I am running a webcam or 2 webcams or what ever. I have DSL and just changed from 768 to 1350 for another $ 10 bucks a month, expecting to see better performance viewing things, but no

Screen Burn In

2008-11-04 Thread Simon Royal
Hi My new eMac is working lovely, but I have noticed a dark square in the middle of the screen. All three machines took a while for the screens to work properly. The two 800's were very fuzzy and slightly green tinted for about 5 minutes and then it wore off and has been fine all day. The

RE: Powermac g5 or mac mini.

2008-11-04 Thread Josh Smiley
Thanks for all the ideas everyone. I keep seeing rumors that new mac minis are close. Nov 10? In about a year my wife and I are moving to mexico for a bit. Not sure if have a PC and a Mac will be very portable. Also, I checked out Pystar machines. I like what they want to do. But psystar has

DLink G122 Keeps Disappearing

2008-11-04 Thread Simon Royal
Hi I have a DLink DWL G122 USB wireless dongle on my eMac G4 1.25Ghz running Leopard, however every so often at random intervals (usually no more than 15 minutes apart) it will suddenly appear as if the device has been removed. System Preferences says not connected. If I pull it out and put

is my mac afflicted?

2008-11-04 Thread dan frederiksen
how do i find out what is wrong with my mac g3 bW which will not erase the sentence without moving slow,the highlighter doesn't cover without displacing or write in the subject bar without displacing and writing the remainder on the body. In some instances it will displace the sentence around

Re: DLink G122 Keeps Disappearing

2008-11-04 Thread Dan
At 8:04 PM + 11/4/2008, Simon Royal wrote: DLink DWL G122 USB wireless dongle eMac G4 1.25Ghz running Leopard every so often at random intervals (usually no more than 15 minutes apart) it will suddenly appear as if the device has been removed. System Preferences says not connected. If I

Re: DLink G122 Keeps Disappearing

2008-11-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't mean to sound negative, but mine started doing the exact same thing. If you have a Windows box, try it with the windows driver and see if it does the same thing. When mine did that, Dlink ended up declaring that a fatal electrical short had occurred, causing the device to short out when it

Re: DLink G122 Keeps Disappearing

2008-11-04 Thread Simon Royal
John That's not negative, that's helpful. Maybe I should have mentioned that it has lost it's out plastic casing. It is just bare board. I don't have a Windows box (I won't allow one in my house), but I do have another Mac Icould try it on. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news,

iMac G3 Bracket WaveLAN Card... On eBay

2008-11-04 Thread Simon Royal
Hi I know this is a bit of shameless plugging but I have just listed my iMac G3 Airport bracket and WaveLAN wireless Airport card on eBay. As these are increasingly hard to find I thought I would share it on here in case anyone needed one.

Re: DLink G122 Keeps Disappearing

2008-11-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's good to hear I'm not the only one to lose the plastic casing, same thing happened to mine. I can't blame you for not allowing one in your house, but my family is mainly full of Windows people, so I have no choice :) I'd definitely try it on another computer and see what the results are.

Failed Backup

2008-11-04 Thread Wilton Shaw
Hello, I bought a 259GB external disk to use for backing up my internal 80GB HD on my eMac, which is using OS 10.5.5. One of my friends on the email circuit recommended that I divide the disk into two partitions, one the same size as my internal HD ( 80GB ) and the other what was

Re: OS 10.3

2008-11-04 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
I've been using Firefox, don't care about Safari. On Tuesday, November 4, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Al wrote: Oops, I said wrong, thinking of 10.5 Leopard! Sorry. And, indeed, the Panther version of Safari is in a sorry state these days. Al Poulin Anne Keller Smith Down to Earth Web Design G4

Re: Cloning

2008-11-04 Thread Fabian Fang
On Nov 4, 2008, at 7:00 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: Was considering Time Machine but my brain balked at the $300 price tag. You do not have to spend $300 to take advantage of Time Machine back- up under Leopard. Any appropriate external drive can be used. You may be thinking of