I just purchased the latest version of Quicktime Pro and it does a beautiful
job of converting files. I use it all the time.
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Eric Volker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, I've always found Quicktime Pro to be extremely slow at
converting videos. MPEG
2008/12/9 Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Doug Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone know of a clipboard utility by this name? I found it and
downloaded it and it's just what I was looking for. Unfortunately it
cannot be registered as the author's site doesn't exist anymore.
I can provide several
On Dec 9, 2008, at 10:15 PM, Paul wrote:
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
I have the manual, I just wanted to see if there were particular
settings I should know about. I don't have a lot of experience with
hardware firewalls.
It sounds as though I don't need to worry about it. The router does
have several ethernet ports. Because DSL is unpopular, it's easy to
get a
On Dec 10, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Paul wrote:
I have the manual, I just wanted to see if there were particular
settings I should know about. I don't have a lot of experience with
hardware firewalls.
It sounds as though I don't need to worry about it. The router does
have several ethernet
On Dec 10, 2008, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote:
(I'm
not using the 678; I'm using a 2Wire 1800HG, since I'm using the
wireless feature to connect other computers in the house. I'm running
that with WPA, with a key, so I think I'm already safe there, too.)
Well if it supports multiple systems
Thanks for all the good thoughts about upgrading from G4 to either G5
or Intel iMac. It was very helpful.
Another option I am toying with is replacing my G4 tower with a
Macbook laptop, We already have one as a family computer and it is
great. I also have one at work. I could integrate one
A friend has come into possession of a huge collection of machines
all hooked together, mainly Macs after the death of the owner, the
father of a co-worker. He knows nothing about them and wants to see
if they run and if so, if we can recover any data from them for his
friend.
The machines are
On Dec 10, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Digital Bill wrote:
The machines are being removed piecemeal and he's trying to clean them
up and get them running. Currently he has either an Indigo Blue or
Blueberry iMac, a Power Mac G3 desktop with a Powered by Sonnet
sticker on it and a G4 GigE with dual
Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Dec 10, 2008, at 10:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So that's the upside. What am I overlooking as the downside to using
a laptop as the center of a destop system?
Typically laptops have slower hard drives, and less capable video than
desktop systems
On Dec 10, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Clark Martin wrote:
Looking at Apple's specs the Macbook has a 5400 RPM 2.5 160gb drive,
and an nVidia geForce 9400 chipset with 256 megs shared RAM, and
supports up to 2 gigs total ram.
The last two generations (at least) can take up to 4Gb. I know I've
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for all the good thoughts about upgrading from G4 to either G5
or Intel iMac. It was very helpful.
Another option I am toying with is replacing my G4 tower with a
Macbook laptop, We already have one as a family computer and it is
great. I also have one
On Dec 10, 1:00 pm, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Dec 10, 2008, at 10:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So that's the upside. What am I overlooking as the downside to using
a laptop as the center of a destop system?
Typically laptops have slower hard drives, and less
Hi Bill;
Comments interspersed below.
On Dec 10, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Digital Bill wrote:
A friend has come into possession of a huge collection of machines
all hooked together, mainly Macs after the death of the owner, the
father of a co-worker.
Hopefully, the former owner wasn't paranoid.
On Dec 10, 2008, at 12:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for this Bruce. I was thinking of replacing the 80 gig drive
in our family MacBook with a much bigger one for my wifes' photos and
was wondering whether to go 7200 or 5400 rpm.
A higher speed drive gives you a performance boost
Hello all, I wonder if anyone has encountered this problem: When I
attempt to upgrade from 10.3.9 to 10.4, the auto-check program tells
me System 10.4 cannot be installed on this computer. No further
reason given.
I own a Power PC G4 which started life as a G4/400. I've installed a
Sonnet
On Dec 10, 2008, at 5:03 PM, JimInStuttgart wrote:
Hello all, I wonder if anyone has encountered this problem: When I
attempt to upgrade from 10.3.9 to 10.4, the auto-check program tells
me System 10.4 cannot be installed on this computer. No further
reason given.
I own a Power PC G4
On Dec 10, 2008, at 7:52 AM, John Musbach wrote:
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Doug Burton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone know of a clipboard utility by this name? I found it and
downloaded it and it's just what I was looking for. Unfortunately it
cannot be registered as the
On Dec 10, 2008, at 5:03 PM, JimInStuttgart wrote:
Hello all, I wonder if anyone has encountered this problem: When I
attempt to upgrade from 10.3.9 to 10.4, the auto-check program tells
me System 10.4 cannot be installed on this computer. No further
reason given.
I own a Power PC G4
At 9:49 AM -0800 12/10/08, Digital Bill wrote:
A friend has come into possession of a huge collection of machines
all hooked together, mainly Macs after the death of the owner, the
father of a co-worker. He knows nothing about them and wants to see
if they run and if so, if we can recover any
If I were to replace the existing hard drive in my mac mini with a
larger drive, would that void my warranty? Is a hard drive a user
replaceable part, Thank you, Jeff
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