Re: Current HD costs update

2008-11-12 Thread Len Gerstel
A couple of weeks ago we were talking about upgrade SATA drives and that the many drives have hit the 10 cents/GB (US) point. Now that the Seagate 1.5TB 7200.11 SATA has hit $150 (latest deal includes a 4GB usb stick and free shipping), I thought I would warn people that Seagate is having

Re: See You Later...

2008-11-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 11, 2008, at 6:54 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: That being said I was not in any way trying to drive someone away. It was just that this is not the iMac list, and it seems like all the people that should be on the iMac list were just posting here. Either because they didn't

Re: See You Later...

2008-11-12 Thread Ted Treen
Dan wrote: At 3:21 PM -0800 11/11/2008, Simon Royal wrote: Well after being told this is a PowerMac list, I have joined the iMac list for my eMacs. See you later, it has been good while I was here. Stay subscribed to all the LEM lists. Most of the knowledge and activity is on

Re: Cloning

2008-11-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 11, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Dan wrote: Im waiting for 'em to support segmenting for burning. The idea being to to divide the backup into DVD-sided chunks, to facilitate easy burning. Kindof the way DiskFit did, back in the early 1990s, with floppies. There's an old unix command-line

Re: Current HD costs update

2008-11-12 Thread Dan
At 9:24 AM -0500 11/12/2008, Len Gerstel wrote: A couple of weeks ago we were talking about upgrade SATA drives and that the many drives have hit the 10 cents/GB (US) point. Seagate is investigating an issue where a small number of Barracuda 7200.11 (1.5TB SATA) hard drives randomly pause or

Re: Background speed test alert?

2008-11-12 Thread Dan
At 9:35 PM -0800 11/11/2008, Jonas Lopez wrote: Background speed test alert? It would be nice to have a background speed test to alert us when the network is below a min speed. I got DSL 384/47 should be 1400/368. Could a speed test be done using a ping test running in the background just

Re: See You Later...

2008-11-12 Thread Al
On Nov 11, 8:54 pm, Kyle Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here btw.  I was just pointing out that this was not the iMac list. In the meantime I will contact the list owner and see what he wants to do about possible merging a couple lists or making an iMac exception of some sort. Thanks for

Re: Cloning

2008-11-12 Thread Dan
At 9:27 AM -0700 11/12/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Nov 11, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Dan wrote: Im waiting for 'em to support segmenting for burning. The idea being to to divide the backup into DVD-sided chunks, to facilitate easy burning. Kindof the way DiskFit did, back in the early 1990s,

Re: USB external HD unmount on it's own?

2008-11-12 Thread Dan
At 9:03 AM -0800 11/12/2008, Jeffrey Engle wrote: two external drives after minutes of being connected via USB2.0 unmount themselves? Volumes do not spontaneously unmount. Check the system log. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth

Background speed test alert?

2008-11-12 Thread Jonas Lopez
Background speed test alert? It would be nice to have a background speed test to alert us when the network is below a min speed. I got DSL 384/47 should be 1400/368. Could a speed test be done using a ping test running in the background just like the clock checker does? jml

Re: Current HD costs update

2008-11-12 Thread Sam Macomber
At 9:24 AM -0500 11/12/2008, Len Gerstel wrote: A couple of weeks ago we were talking about upgrade SATA drives and that the many drives have hit the 10 cents/GB (US) point. Seagate is investigating an issue where a small number of Barracuda 7200.11 (1.5TB SATA) hard drives randomly pause

Re: Current HD costs update

2008-11-12 Thread Len Gerstel
On Nov 12, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Dan wrote: On another note... There are a lot of 1 TB drives going for $99 or less right now. Careful, folx! Many of them are LP size (normal 3.5 drives) but then they're 5400rpm instead of 7200 rpm! So they cannot keep up with their fast SATA or USB 2 or

Re: Current HD costs update

2008-11-12 Thread Donald Hall
On Nov 12, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Dan wrote: On another note... There are a lot of 1 TB drives going for $99 or less right now. Careful, folx! Many of them are LP size (normal 3.5 drives) but then they're 5400rpm instead of 7200 rpm! So they cannot keep up with their fast SATA or USB 2 or FW

Re: Current HD costs update

2008-11-12 Thread Dan
At 12:44 PM -0500 11/12/2008, Len Gerstel wrote: On Nov 12, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Dan wrote: On another note... There are a lot of 1 TB drives going for $99 or less right now. Careful, folx! Many of them are LP size (normal 3.5 drives) but then they're 5400rpm instead of 7200 rpm! So they

Re: Have I waited long enough to move up to Leopard?

2008-11-12 Thread Digital Bill
Well, it sure looks like I stirred up a hornet's nest! Thanks to all for the input. I have the dual 867 G4 MDD maxed out at 2GB RAM and added a Radeon 9600 Pro some time back which greatly improved video performance. And I keep an eye on internal and external HD performance, so I guess I've done

Re: OS X and OS X Server differences?

2008-11-12 Thread Clark Martin
Dennis Myhand wrote: What is the difference between 10.4 and 10.4 server? Are they basically the same OS with Server being able to provide network resources to clients who log on? Or is there more to it than that? Thanks, Dennis The OS is basically the same but Server includes several

Re: OS X and OS X Server differences?

2008-11-12 Thread Doug Burton
On Nov 12, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Clark Martin wrote: Dennis Myhand wrote: What is the difference between 10.4 and 10.4 server? Are they basically the same OS with Server being able to provide network resources to clients who log on? Or is there more to it than that? Thanks, Dennis

Re: OS X and OS X Server differences?

2008-11-12 Thread Dennis Myhand
Clark Martin wrote: Dennis Myhand wrote: What is the difference between 10.4 and 10.4 server? Are they basically the same OS with Server being able to provide network resources to clients who log on? Or is there more to it than that? Thanks, Dennis The OS is basically the same but

Backing up users without backing up the whole OS X Boot volume

2008-11-12 Thread Mullin9
I would to make a Mac OS X volume, but just enough of it to back up my setting, and my user name to log on, not a whole Boot disk, and have it on my USB jump disk, and have just enough of System and Finder for the Migration Assistant to see it as an OS X to migrate my User from. So if l buy a