Re: What Anti Virus?

2008-12-09 Thread Mark
Amanda Ward wrote: Lol On 12/8/08 4:17 , Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What we have to sell is a bracket to hold the lighter in front of the stream from the can. That, at least is how my crazy ex-room-mate used to kill cockroachesLysol makes a nice flamethrower. 8-)

Re: DA 533 reporting as 466?

2008-12-09 Thread Peter
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Larry Stotler [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I have a Digital Audio with a 533Mgz proc. It says rx533pd on it, so it should be a 533Mhz chip. However, both OS X 10.4 and Linux report it as a 467Mhz chip. I don't see any jumpers to mess with like a G3/ G4 Yikes,

Re: Apple Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Ralph wrote: There are Intel documents describing the architecture, but they are pdfs and I dislike pointing to proprietary format files. So what problem do you have with PDF's, they're an open, public format. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of

CL2 CL3 RAM Mix?

2008-12-09 Thread insightinmind
I'm sure this has been asked before ... but ... since others are talking about upgrades to their G4s ... Curious if CL2 will mix ok with CL3 with regards SDRAM (under OS X 10.5). I need to buy 2 replacement sticks of 512MB RAM for my QS Dual 1GHz. The good remaining one (as was the bad 2)

Re: CL2 CL3 RAM Mix?

2008-12-09 Thread PeterH
On Dec 9, 2008, at 7:36 AM, insightinmind wrote: I'm sure this has been asked before ... but ... since others are talking about upgrades to their G4s ... Curious if CL2 will mix ok with CL3 with regards SDRAM (under OS X 10.5). I need to buy 2 replacement sticks of 512MB RAM for my QS

Re: Time Machine/Capsule with G4 and Intel Macs

2008-12-09 Thread Dan
At 8:52 PM -0500 12/8/2008, Al Poulin wrote: Apple tech article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1550?viewlocale=en_US tells me that to use Time Machine to an external hard drive from a PowerPC-based Mac, the drive must be initialized with Apple Partition Map partition scheme. From an Intel

Re: iMac Problem

2008-12-09 Thread Dan
At 2:03 PM -0600 12/8/2008, Michael McMurtrey wrote: iMac running Tiger (10.4.11) Which model iMac? My beloved computer is having some problems. If I shut down and leave it all night, it doesn't want to boot the next day. I have to restart it several times before it will come up. Depending

Re: Time Machine/Capsule with G4 and Intel Macs

2008-12-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 9, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Dan wrote: tells me that to use Time Machine to an external hard drive from a PowerPC-based Mac, the drive must be initialized with Apple Partition Map partition scheme. From an Intel Mac, it must be initialized with GUID partition scheme. So I would need two

Re: Changing video files from .flv to .mov

2008-12-09 Thread Tom
Thanks for the advice and help, everybody. I also found websites where you type in the URL of the .flv video that you want to convert, and it does so right on the website and e-mails the converted file to you, so you don't even have to download the original video to convert it. But that seems a

Re: Time Machine/Capsule with G4 and Intel Macs

2008-12-09 Thread Dan
At 9:56 AM -0700 12/9/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 9, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Dan wrote: tells me that to use Time Machine to an external hard drive from a PowerPC-based Mac, the drive must be initialized with Apple Partition Map partition scheme. From an Intel Mac, it must be initialized

Re: Changing video files from .flv to .mov

2008-12-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 9, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Tom wrote: But that seems a little awkward and time-consuming. While checking out the various other options and possibilities above, I downloaded the free Perian plug-in for QuickTime, and found that it works very well, and seems to be the best and most

Re: DA 533 reporting as 466?

2008-12-09 Thread Larry Stotler
On Dec 9, 11:19 am, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You just put this in? No, I got it that way. I took the heatsink off and it says it is a 533, but when I run it it shows as a 466. Did you reboot the power manager?  (aka, press the CUDA button ONCE). Tried that with no luck. I don't know

Re: Changing video files from .flv to .mov

2008-12-09 Thread Doug McNutt
At 10:20 -0700 12/9/08, Bruce Johnson wrote: Ah, but you specified free, and Perian doesn't let QT save converted files unless you have QTPro, which is a very-well-spent $30 imo. With the addition of Perian and Flip4Mac, QTPro is a very fine 'swiss army knife' of video conversion. But be

Re: Changing video files from .flv to .mov

2008-12-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 9, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Doug McNutt wrote: At 10:20 -0700 12/9/08, Bruce Johnson wrote: Ah, but you specified free, and Perian doesn't let QT save converted files unless you have QTPro, which is a very-well-spent $30 imo. With the addition of Perian and Flip4Mac, QTPro is a very

Re: Changing video files from .flv to .mov

2008-12-09 Thread Tom
But be aware that the fee for QuickTime Pro is only a license that expires with the next release of an update to Quicktime. That's true, Apple always wants another $25 (or is it now up to $30?) to unlock the advanced features of QuickTime, every time they make a major update to it. If you use

Leopard on a G5

2008-12-09 Thread Liam Proven
I know, it's not an unsupported machine... but I have a question for the assembled. This this just me? Here's the deal... I've just got my iMac G5 back from repair, thanks to Apple generously arranging a small warranty extension for me, as my machine has a known PSU problem. Just before it

Re: Leopard on a G5

2008-12-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Liam Proven wrote: I don't know what to do. I don't think there's anything wrong with my installation. My CPU usage goes up and down but the machine is often only doing 50-75%. Only 50-75% is a pretty hefty load, but I don't think this is your problem. I

Re: CL2 CL3 RAM Mix?

2008-12-09 Thread Len Gerstel
On Dec 9, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Larry Stotler wrote: On Dec 9, 10:36 am, insightinmind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curious if CL2 will mix ok with CL3 with regards SDRAM (under OS X 10.5). CAS Latency. If you mix 2 speeds, they will run as fast as the slowest chip. Careful, I have some PC133

Re: Time Machine/Capsule with G4 and Intel Macs

2008-12-09 Thread Al
On Dec 9, 11:56 am, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 9, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Dan wrote: Neither Time Machine or Time Capsule drives are BOOTABLE, so the   partition scheme does not matter. Restoration is done via booting from the System DVD, then choosing   restore from Time

Re: Changing video files from .flv to .mov

2008-12-09 Thread Mark
Tom wrote: But be aware that the fee for QuickTime Pro is only a license that expires with the next release of an update to Quicktime. That's true, Apple always wants another $25 (or is it now up to $30?) to unlock the advanced features of QuickTime, every time they make a major

Re: Changing video files from .flv to .mov

2008-12-09 Thread Tom
You do NOT need to pay to export from iMovie or other video editing   tools. The QT libraries are available for any programmer to use all   the time. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Since I have always used the pro version of QT,

Re: Changing video files from .flv to .mov

2008-12-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Tom wrote: But at least in my case, since I use the pro features of QT Do you mean Quicktime, or the Quicktime player application? all the time in video editing, it would be a considerable handicap not to have them (which no doubt is why Final Cut activates

Re: Apple Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-09 Thread James E. Therrault
Ralph wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 08:39 -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Ralph wrote: There are Intel documents describing the architecture, but they are pdfs and I dislike pointing to proprietary format files. So what problem do you have with PDF's, they're an open,

Strange icon

2008-12-09 Thread B
Hi everybody I have a G5, DP 2.7 ghz with 2 drives, one with Tiger and the other one with Leopard. I was on tiger and I switch to leopard as I do sometimes, then there's a strange icon appear on the screen: the earth in a square??? The icon is flashing and then after 30 seconds the fan begin to

Re: Changing video files from .flv to .mov

2008-12-09 Thread Eric Volker
Personally, I've always found Quicktime Pro to be extremely slow at converting videos. MPEG Streamclip always seem to trounce it in terms of transcoding speed. Has Quicktime Pro been properly optimized in recent months, or is it as dog-slow as ever? I don't have a copy of Quicktime Pro

Re: Strange icon

2008-12-09 Thread B
On 9 déc, 21:17, Isaac Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pretty sure this means that it's looking for a network drive to   start up from. If it is, the following should work: Hold down the option key on startup, and select your boot drive.   When it's finally booted up, you may need to

how to make or edit install tomes?

2008-12-09 Thread Mullin9
I have a Mac OS 9 install CD ROM, in it there's the install files, in the install files there's the install tomes, how do I edit the tomes, or even make them.? thank You --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5

Re: how to make or edit install tomes?

2008-12-09 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 9, 2008, at 11:30 PM, Mullin9 wrote: I have a Mac OS 9 install CD ROM, in it there's the install files, in the install files there's the install tomes, how do I edit the tomes, or even make them.? thank You Maybe this will lead in right direction:

Re: how to make or edit install tomes?

2008-12-09 Thread Mullin9
I have a Mac OS 9 install CD ROM, in it there's the install files, in the install files there's the install tomes, how do I edit the tomes, or even  make them.? thank You What is a program, that allows me to edit the tome, or build me a new tome.? Thank you I have an OS 9 Mac

Re: What Anti Virus?

2008-12-09 Thread Paul
I usually run my G4 on the Internet by connecting it with an Ethernet cable to a DSL router with a built-in firewall. Is there any particular setting I should use? I'm pretty sure I set it to use stealth mode as much as possible, but there were a lot of things to check off ins the set-up screen,