Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-11 Thread yawg
Hi, I have three external Firewire drives, one with an Oxford-controller that always boots fine, there is a Tiger clone on that disk now. My other two have Initio-controllers and used to boot my Panther clones OK but lost that ability somehow lately, I don't know why. I always use CCC for

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-11 Thread yawg
Hi, I have three external Firewire drives, one with an Oxford-controller that always boots fine, there is a Tiger clone on that disk now. My other two have Initio-controllers and used to boot my Panther clones OK but lost that ability somehow lately, I don't know why. I always use CCC for

Mac ames?

2009-01-11 Thread Dennis Myhand
What is a good FPS game that was made for the Mac PPC? I am running a G-4, 450MHz, with 640megs RAM and a 16 Meg AGP video card. Thanks, Dennis --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-11 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 11, 2009, at 4:58 AM, yawg wrote: My other two have Initio-controllers and used to boot my Panther clones OK but lost that ability somehow lately, I don't know why. I always use CCC for cloning. I've used a few Initio chipset FW enclosures and they've always booted for me. I think

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

2009-01-11 Thread jonas ulrich
Hey thanks for all your input. I went ahead and bought: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEFW911UPLOB/ Thanks -Jonas On 1/11/09, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Jan 11, 2009, at 4:58 AM, yawg wrote: My other two have Initio-controllers and used to

Re: Time Machine Failing

2009-01-11 Thread Dan
At 3:12 PM -0500 1/11/2009, Wilton Shaw wrote: I booted from OS X DVD and tried to repair all the volumes. After the computer ran awhile, I got this message-Volume Time Machine backup could not be repaired. error-File system repair failed. Ok, good - in that we now know the problem is

Re: Can't get CCC to recognize Drive

2009-01-11 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 11, 2009, at 1:40 PM, George Hozendorf wrote: I'm trying to make a move an external drive onto a Mac Mini, but CCC doesn't recognize the Mini as a target disk. Any idea why? Possibly because you're booted on the target disk? To do what you're attempting, you'd need to boot from the

Picasa?

2009-01-11 Thread starrf...@valley.net
Just when I finally decided to use IPhoto to sort through our 50,000 images (five different libraries since iPhoto gets strange when it refers to over 20,000 or so) Google releases Picasa for Mac. It is pretty cool for a lot of reasons. And it isn't bothered by the large number of images. But

Picasa Whoops!

2009-01-11 Thread starrf...@valley.net
Please forgive the extra word in the subject of my previous post. It sounds almost rude and was not supposed to be there. I should have edited the subject as well as the content before hitting send. Whoops! Rich --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: Can't get CCC to recognize Drive

2009-01-11 Thread George Hozendorf
On Jan 11, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jan 11, 2009, at 1:40 PM, George Hozendorf wrote: I'm trying to make a move an external drive onto a Mac Mini, but CCC doesn't recognize the Mini as a target disk. Any idea why? Possibly because you're booted on the target disk? To

Re: MS stuff

2009-01-11 Thread Deaner Lawless Jr.
On Jan 9, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Hunter Fuller wrote: If it is a .docx (.xlsx, .pptx) file then it is a zip file. Rename it to such and open it and you will see the files inside. -- -hackmiester Per MS .docx, .xlsx and .ppsx are XLM based files. MS offers a free converter. Deaner

Mac os 10.4 server file sharing

2009-01-11 Thread jonas ulrich
I have a powermac g4 running mac os 10.4 server. I have several hard drives in this machine, and i cannot acces them over the network through file sharing. When i was running the plain mac os 10.4 i could access all the hard drives. How can i access the other hard drives through file sharing

Re: RAM prices going up??

2009-01-11 Thread Kyle Parish
Prices on Ram are volitle. Check in a couple of weeks. Try www.tigerdirect.com They have mostly PC parts but they have RAM and some other Mac parts for a good price. On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Steve R mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com wrote: I was on some sites searching out RAM for my

Re: Picasa?

2009-01-11 Thread Steve R
At 3:56 PM -0800 1/11/09, starrf...@valley.net posted: Just when I finally decided to use IPhoto to sort through our 50,000 images (five different libraries since iPhoto gets strange when it refers to over 20,000 or so) Google releases Picasa for Mac. It is pretty cool for a lot of

Re: RAM prices going up??

2009-01-11 Thread Clark Martin
Steve R wrote: I was on some sites searching out RAM for my neighbour's iMac less than two weeks ago and we were both pleased with the Canadian prices we were able to find. Tonight I went looking for RAM for my iMac (different specs from his) and the prices have gone through the roof --

Re: RAM prices going up??

2009-01-11 Thread Kyle Parish
The one I am on is a PC but my Mac is a G3. Possibly what has happened is that DDR3 came out and the prices have gone up for DDR2 since like you say, people are changing and upgrading, but it does fluctuate. On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Kyle Hansen pi...@speakeasy.net wrote: On 1/11/09

Re: RAM prices going up??

2009-01-11 Thread Amanda Ward
On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: RAM manufacturers frequently move forward. By that I mean that if you order DDR2-3 it will be less expensive then PC-133 in most cases. There is like a RAM curve. Where cutting edge machines RAM cost a little bit more then machines