A process named mds running at Root is taking 99% of the CPU on my
Dual 500 GigE.
This is my fault for not running AHT immediately after my System
Crashed a week ago.
The crash consisted of the monitor going dark and on restart the
monitor flashed briefly as the System. booted. This happened
On Dec 20, 2008, at 3:16 AM, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote:
A process named mds running at Root is taking 99% of the CPU on my
Dual 500 GigE.
I believe that is related to Spotlight.
It will stop after awhile.
Can't help you with the other ... going to bed ... good luck tomorrow?
Bill Connelly
From reading these suggestions, it sounds like if you're very low
budget, start with a Digital Audio and then wait for G5's to get
cheaper. On the other hand, if you have the money (and perhaps the
workload to justify it), the G5's are worth a serious look instead.
If you need to run Classic, I
Folks,
I have a dual 1.25 G4 attached to a TV that doubles as my Apple TV substitute.
It works great for streaming videos across a wireless network (now I have the
security issues worked out...) but it has one problem. The hard drive is
incredibly whiney, and my other half basically refuses
On Dec 20, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Chris N wrote:
Folks,
I have a dual 1.25 G4 attached to a TV that doubles as my Apple TV
substitute. It works great for streaming videos across a wireless
network (now I have the security issues worked out...) but it has
one problem. The hard drive
On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:11 PM, MIKO .. wrote:
'm using Leopard.
I'm probably spacing out but- why don't I always see an Outbox or
Drafts folder? I've seen the drafts folder come and go, but never (or
rarely) the outbox- and I know I'm sending a large zip file right now-
so whewre can I
On Dec 20, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Dec 20, 2008, at 11:01 AM, George Hozendorf wrote:
I have two monitors using a Sewell external video card for the
second monitor. On the second monitor, which is turned vertically
I lose the mouse. Mouse Locator helps some, but when
On Dec 20, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Dec 20, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Chris N wrote:
Folks,
I have a dual 1.25 G4 attached to a TV that doubles as my Apple TV
substitute. It works great for streaming videos across a wireless
network (now I have the security issues worked
Is there a way to add files to a disk that's already burned? I thought
I saw somewhere how you could do that, but not sure. Google came up
with a blank. Jeff
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Is anyone using a CO2 monitor data collecting software with their
Macs? Maybe temp also (could affect CO2 levels).
I have one of those supposedly ventless heaters. Funny thing is you
still have to provide ventilation which defeats the heat. Some concern
if I have enough venting.
I've started
On Dec 20, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Charles Lenington wrote:
Is anyone using a CO2 monitor data collecting software with their
Macs? Maybe temp also (could affect CO2 levels).
I have one of those supposedly ventless heaters. Funny thing is you
still have to provide ventilation which defeats the
On Dec 20, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Charles Lenington wrote:
Is anyone using a CO2 monitor data collecting software with their
Macs? Maybe temp also (could affect CO2 levels).
I have one of those supposedly ventless heaters. Funny thing is you
still have to provide ventilation which defeats the
Kris Tilford wrote:
I believe you're talking about CO (carbon monoxide) the molecule
that kills you, and not CO2 (carbon dioxide) a relatively harmless
greenhouse gas?
Originally wrote the message around 0100 - how did that 2 get in there?
Of course I didn't make sure I used my
Ernest L. Gunerius wrote:
A process named mds running at Root is taking 99% of the CPU on my
Dual 500 GigE.
This is my fault for not running AHT immediately after my System
Crashed a week ago.
Clip:
My immediate problem is the mds Process using all the CPU and the
curious fact
On Dec 20, 2008, at 3:16 AM, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote:
A process named mds running at Root is taking 99% of the CPU on my
Dual 500 GigE.
I believe that is related to Spotlight.
It will stop after awhile.
Can't help you with the other ... going to bed ... good luck tomorrow?
Bill
At 11:48 AM -0800 12/20/08, Jeffrey Engle posted:
Is there a way to add files to a disk that's already burned? I thought
I saw somewhere how you could do that, but not sure. Google came up
with a blank. Jeff
The app you might be thinking of used to be called Burn It Again Sam
or something
At 12:16 AM -0800 12/20/2008, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote:
Dual 500 GigE.
OS10.4.11
A process named mds running at Root is taking 99% of the CPU
That's Spotlight, running from the root account.
From your description, most likely the Spotlight index on one or more
of your disk volumes has been
Have you maxed out the RAM? Do you have a video card that has at least 128 MB
of RAM? They could help reduce the demand on the hard drive and thus cut down
on the hard drive noise.
--- On Sat, 12/20/08, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com
Subject: Re:
Yep, both of those.
- Original Message
From: Mike Baker psufa...@yahoo.com
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 5:40:24 PM
Subject: Re: Quiet Hard Drive recommendations?
Have you maxed out the RAM? Do you have a video card that has at least 128 MB
of
Using iTunes 8.0.2 under OSX 10.5.6 I can't get a playable CD to
burn. The files come out MP4 not aiff. Toast Titanium will only burn
four of 14 selected songs from my iTunes playlist. What am I doing
wrong?
George
Mac OS X 10.5.5
Mac Mini 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 2GB 667MHz DDR2
Can anyone recommend an DVD/CD burner/player for a G4 Sawtooth running Mac OS X
10.2 and that has a non-working DVD/CD burner (it's not a Super Drive)? I would
like to take the non-working player out and replace it with a Super Drive or
something that does the same work as a Super Drive. If I
Aloo, this week I happily left behind my 30 gig HD ( with the Dark Matter
10.3.9 OS) and transferred every thing to my new Seagate 160 and upped to
Tiger. ( 30 gig is still hooked up in our Sawtooth)
We run our sizeable family biz website with the friendly old Pagemill3 -
The App came along
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Mike Baker psufa...@yahoo.com wrote:
Can anyone recommend an DVD/CD burner/player for a G4 Sawtooth running Mac
OS X 10.2 and that has a non-working DVD/CD burner (it's not a Super Drive)?
I would like to take the non-working player out and replace it with a
On the CD-R and DVD-R I believe if you are writing a multisession CD
or DVD you can add files later... Typically they come up as an
additional CD or DVD on the desktop... depending on how many sessions
you have you will have an additional CD or DVD on the desktop. Once
you close the CD or DVD
I have been using a PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D on my G3 BW.. it reads/
writes/burns CD-R +R and RW as well DVD-R +R and RW... its been a
good little drive for the money.
Hope this helps.
On Dec 20, 5:45 pm, Mike Baker psufa...@yahoo.com wrote:
Can anyone recommend an DVD/CD burner/player for a
On Dec 20, 2008, at 6:14 PM, George Hozendorf wrote:
Using iTunes 8.0.2 under OSX 10.5.6 I can't get a playable CD to
burn. The files come out MP4 not aiff. Toast Titanium will only
burn four of 14 selected songs from my iTunes playlist. What am I
doing wrong?
George
Mac OS X
On Dec 20, 2008, at 5:14 PM, George Hozendorf wrote:
Using iTunes 8.0.2 under OSX 10.5.6 I can't get a playable CD to
burn. The files come out MP4 not aiff. Toast Titanium will only
burn four of 14 selected songs from my iTunes playlist. What am I
doing wrong?
Choose Burn Playlist
As far as I know, in iTunes when you select a playlist and click on
Burn Disc it opens up a dialog that asks you if you want to make an
Audio CD, an MP3 CD, or a Data Disc. Simply Chose Audio CD to make a
disc that will play in a any CD player. iTunes will convert any non
Red Book audio files to
Del writes,
The App came along fine, and files are in a new partition, but of
course,
the original program still points to a different HD and partition. I am
grossly ignorant of such goings on, but hope some of the great minds on
this
forum know some sensible workaround that I can do, or way
Getting to OS 9 from OS X.
When you go to System Pref / Classic for the first time after install, you will
get a request asking to make some changes to OS 9. What is going on here is
that an ENABLER is installed and if you now look at the OS 9 system folder you
will see a very faint big X on
What email program are you using?
--- On Sat, 12/20/08, MIKO .. miko.supp...@gmail.com wrote:
From: MIKO .. miko.supp...@gmail.com
Subject: MAIL program- Drafts and Outbox?
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 12:11 AM
I'm using Leopard.
I'm probably
At 12:16 AM -0800 12/20/2008, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote:
Dual 500 GigE.
OS10.4.11
A process named mds running at Root is taking 99% of the CPU
That's Spotlight, running from the root account.
From your description, most likely the Spotlight index on one or more
of your disk volumes has been
I had 3 OS 9 systems and only the first one that the system found was changed
and the faint big X added to its folder.
This folder MUST be kept or you will not be able to get to OS 9 from OS X.
Not exactly true
You must have at least 1 OS 9 System Folder in your Mac, for it to
have
I have OS X 10.2 on a G4 Sawtooth but no OS 9 on it. Can I install OS 9 on it?
I have OS 9 discs from my iMac that I moved many documents and programs from to
the G4. I also have an external hard drive hooked up to the G$ that has OS 9 on
it, and so far the G$ has been using that to run OS 9
Ways to clean up old Macs, environmentally.
1 way to clean up an old Mac is to recycle a CRT monitor, and buy an
LCD, especially a LED backed LCD.
another way to do it is to upgrade to new/newer environmentally clean
Macs.
or at replace components with environmentally cleaner ones.
for those who
Hi. I just bought a DVD card for my PowerBook G3 Lombard 333MHZ. I can play
DVDs great in OS9, but I would like to find a way to play them in OS10. Does
anyone know of any programs that will do that? Thanks!-Jonas
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Ways to clean up old Macs, environmentally.
1 way to clean up an old Mac is to recycle a CRT monitor, and buy an
LCD, especially a LED backed LCD.
another way to do it is to upgrade to new/newer environmentally clean
Macs.
or at replace components with environmentally cleaner ones.
for
Mullin9 wrote:
Ways to clean up old Macs, environmentally.
1 way to clean up an old Mac is to recycle a CRT monitor, and buy an
LCD, especially a LED backed LCD.
another way to do it is to upgrade to new/newer environmentally clean
Macs.
or at replace components with environmentally cleaner
You can install OS 9 on the Sawtooth. It's best to use a separate
partition from OS X or a separate drive
There's a good chance the iMac OS 9 disks won't work, though,
especially if the iMac is older than your G4.
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Booting old Macs, using just an ethernet.
I have a Beige G3 Powermac, without a working CDROM,
no FW 400, but a freshly installed HDD,
and a G4 running OS 9, can I boot (net boot) a beige G3 off an OS 9
running on a G4, using just the ethernet.?
Target mode is fine for 2 Macs, only if you have
There are some simple tests that you can perform. Get a firewire cable
and connect to another mac. Then from the other mac boot into the powerbooks
hard drive. If you still just get the grey screen than it's probably just
the hard drive cable.-Jonas
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:57 AM, nestamicky
On Dec 20, 2008, at 11:14 PM, jonas ulrich wrote:
Hi. I just bought a DVD card for my PowerBook G3 Lombard 333MHZ. I
can play DVDs great in OS9, but I would like to find a way to play
them in OS10. Does anyone know of any programs that will do that?
Thanks!
VLC should play them in OS
The Matsushita SR-8585F is labeled Apple and came with some G4's and
possibly other Macs. I've tried a few rewritable DVD's without luck
reading them, even though they're known to be good, since other DVD
readers on other machines can read them.
Is there a firmware upgrade that will allow the
Booting old Macs, using just an ethernet.
I have a Beige G3 Powermac, without a working CDROM,
no FW 400, but a freshly installed HDD,
Is there's an external 2.5 Hard Drive that is Bus-Powered, using the
Ethernet, not the FW400?
or at least a 3.5 version that powers off a power cord?
I like
Mullin9 wrote:
Booting old Macs, using just an ethernet.
I have a Beige G3 Powermac, without a working CDROM,
no FW 400, but a freshly installed HDD,
and a G4 running OS 9, can I boot (net boot) a beige G3 off an OS 9
running on a G4, using just the ethernet.?
Nope. AFAIK the only way to
On Dec 21, 2008, at 12:14 AM, Paul wrote:
Is there a firmware upgrade that will allow the drive to read more
discs, or at least some documentation that explains what it will and
won't read?
I don't know, the older DVD units had trouble with some types of
discs, and I think your model may
Get a new optical drive. The old ones suck anyways. I have two powermac g4's
both with stock apple DVD drives. Both of these drives will read DVDs, just
not cd's very well.-Jonas
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
On Dec 21, 2008, at 12:14 AM, Paul wrote:
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