Re: What's the latest on Leopard's Treatment of USB2, Wireless ethernet, Combo NIC(10/100/1000)/USB2/FW400 PCI connectors?

2008-11-17 Thread insightinmind
On Nov 16, 2008, at 2:24 PM, George Hozendorf wrote: On Nov 16, 2008, at 12:16 PM, PeterH wrote: On Nov 16, 2008, at 9:18 AM, insightinmind wrote: Here's the Airlink/Zydas link for drivers: http://www.airlink101.com/support/index.php?cmd=filesid=58 The 4.6.70 driver is the latest,

Re: How do I run an old monitor on sawtooth.

2008-11-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 17, 2008, at 12:57 AM, Brian Christmas wrote: G'day listers A while ago I posted a question about whether or not a monitor or radeon 7000 card would be defunct on my neighbors Sawtooth. I've just managed to get an old 21 monitor off a G3 tower to try, but the plugs are different.

Is Apple's tech support that bad now?

2008-11-17 Thread Tom
Years ago when I needed help with a Mac, I called Apple and they actually sent a technician out to my house to replace a CD drive. But an AP article on the Web today makes it sound like things have changed a lot. Seems, to hear them tell it, you can hardly get any help from Apple now. Check out

Re: Is Apple's tech support that bad now?

2008-11-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 17, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Tom wrote: Years ago when I needed help with a Mac, I called Apple and they actually sent a technician out to my house to replace a CD drive. But an AP article on the Web today makes it sound like things have changed a lot. Seems, to hear them tell it, you can

Re: Is Apple's tech support that bad now?

2008-11-17 Thread Dan
At 9:44 AM -0800 11/17/2008, Tom wrote: Check out this article that, at the end, makes Apple sound indifferent when somebody needs help with a Mac. http://tinyurl.com/6jozpf. Already covered earlier today in the G3-5-List thread Interesting article for your perusal and comment - Dan. -- -

How to Repair Log Files ...

2008-11-17 Thread insightinmind
My hardware setup, as displayed by Apple System Profiler: Model: PowerMac3,5, BootROM 4.3.3f2, 2 processors, PowerPC G4 (2.1), 1 GHz, 1.5 GB Graphics: kHW_ATIr350Item, ATY,R350, spdisplays_agp_device, 128 MB Memory Module: DIMM0/J21, 512 MB, SDRAM, PC133-333 Memory Module: DIMM1/J22, 512 MB,

Re: What's the latest on Leopard's Treatment of USB2, Wireless ethernet, Combo NIC(10/100/1000)/USB2/FW400 PCI connectors?

2008-11-17 Thread PeterH
On Nov 17, 2008, at 7:00 AM, insightinmind wrote: Trusting the shared knowledge of xlr8yourmac folks, the Rosewill's Realtek 8169 chipset should function under 10.5.5. A generic RTL8169 card will run on any 10.3, 10.4 or 10.5 as the 8169 driver is Apple's. It doesn't have to be Rosewill's.

Re: How to Repair Log Files ...

2008-11-17 Thread Dan
At 2:55 PM -0500 11/17/2008, insightinmind wrote: How might I repair the logs so i can see what was making all the racket? Use my Leopard DVD and run Disk Utility to repair the disk? yes. Repair that disk. That so many apps are imploding when you touch that directory - very bad. - Dan. --

Restricting CPU Usage?

2008-11-17 Thread insightinmind
Any way to restrict cpu usage by an application like Firefox? Running Tiger 10.4.11. Nicer? myspace.com login page downloads a hog of a movie trailer and ads, causes an 85% gobbling up of cpu ... on my poor little G4/400 Yikes! ... well, Yikes! Cannot even move away from it for awhile at

Re: How to Repair Log Files ...

2008-11-17 Thread insightinmind
On Nov 17, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Dan wrote: At 2:55 PM -0500 11/17/2008, insightinmind wrote: How might I repair the logs so i can see what was making all the racket? Use my Leopard DVD and run Disk Utility to repair the disk? yes. Repair that disk. That so many apps are imploding when you

Re: Is Apple's tech support that bad now?

2008-11-17 Thread MIKO's Support, Design and Development Services
On 11/17/08 9:44 AM, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Years ago when I needed help with a Mac, I called Apple and they actually sent a technician out to my house to replace a CD drive. But an AP article on the Web today makes it sound like things have changed a lot. Seems, to hear them tell it,