USB modem speed

2008-11-18 Thread Carl M. Alexander
Recently when having trouble with a G4 Mac Mini, I set up a PM7500 with a serial modem. It ran at 49333 bps. Using either of 2 Apple branded USB modems with the Mini, the speed is 28800 or 31200 bps. This is all with the same phone line. Anyone out there had a similar experience? Any

Re: Restricting CPU Usage?

2008-11-18 Thread Dan
At 4:57 PM -0500 11/17/2008, insightinmind wrote: Tiger 10.4.11. Any way to restrict cpu usage by an application like Firefox? yes. Change their niceness. 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!

Re: USB modem speed

2008-11-18 Thread Dan
At 10:31 AM -0700 11/18/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Nov 18, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Dan wrote: At 8:15 AM -0500 11/18/2008, Carl M. Alexander wrote: Recently when having trouble with a G4 Mac Mini, I set up a PM7500 with a serial modem. It ran at 49333 bps. Using either of 2 Apple branded

Re: USB modem speed

2008-11-18 Thread Deaner Lawless Jr.
On Nov 18, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Dan wrote: spoke voodoo . . . . now your talking SCSI!!! Deaner --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a

Re: Restricting CPU Usage?

2008-11-18 Thread insightinmind
On Nov 18, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Dan wrote: At 4:57 PM -0500 11/17/2008, insightinmind wrote: Tiger 10.4.11. Any way to restrict cpu usage by an application like Firefox? yes. Change their niceness. myspace.com login page downloads a hog of a movie trailer and ads, causes an 85%

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

2008-11-18 Thread Gus
try http://www.dougintosh.com/ware/vga_adapter/_d_VGA_adapter1.html On Nov 17, 1:57 am, Brian Christmas [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

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

2008-11-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 18, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Gus wrote: try http://www.dougintosh.com/ware/vga_adapter/_d_VGA_adapter1.html That is the exact opposite of what he needs. That's for connecting a VGA monitor to a Mac video-out port. He needs an adapter to connect a Mac Monitor to a VGA video-out port.

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

2008-11-18 Thread Brian Christmas
On 19/11/2008, at 11:06 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Nov 18, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Gus wrote: try http://www.dougintosh.com/ware/vga_adapter/_d_VGA_adapter1.html That is the exact opposite of what he needs. That's for connecting a VGA monitor to a Mac video-out port. He needs an