Re: 10.5.6 Desktop Icons can't be moved

2009-02-22 Thread Eric Volker
I had a similar issue with my Intel iMac. A autoclean with AppleJack fixed the problem. The only drawback to AppleJack is that you have to run it in single user mode (hold down cmd-s after the startup chime.) See here for more info: http://applejack.sourceforge.net/ HTH, Eric On Feb 21,

transferring a hard disk

2009-02-22 Thread ldeden
Dear List Members: I have a Beige G3 and a Blue and White G3. I want to install the Beige's hard drive into the Blue and White, but the Blue and White will not mount the Beige drive. I suspect that there are some driver issues involved, but do not know how to remedy the situation. I want to

Re: Install glitch with Fedora

2009-02-22 Thread jfMac
OS x can't read the linux file system straight off. I think you must start up with the Fedora cd. Do not use the alt/ option key, but rather use the Fedora disk as you would an OS x install disk. Put the linux disk in the drive, restart your computer, and press the c key so your mac will start

Re: 2 OS Xs - Tiger Leopard; but, Only 1 Fully Utilizing the PCI Cards Installed

2009-02-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 21, 2009, at 8:47 PM, insightinmind wrote: So far, after a required Manual Uninstall of Drivers (another indication M-Audio folks aren't up to par with Leopard), it seems to be running kp-blue-screen-free. The Tiger installation seems the same kp-blue-screen-free. I am back to

Re: transferring a hard disk

2009-02-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 22, 2009, at 5:02 AM, lde...@comcast.net wrote: Dear List Members: I have a Beige G3 and a Blue and White G3. I want to install the Beige's hard drive into the Blue and White, but the Blue and White will not mount the Beige drive. I suspect that there are some driver issues

160 GB hard drive in a G3 Beige

2009-02-22 Thread James Brown
Hello all, I need to call on your collective wisdom. I am a long time Mac user, but a newbie at looking under the hood. My question is about my Power Macintosh G3 Beige. A couple of months ago, I pulled it out of storage with the goal of upgrading it to have a second computer around the house

Re: 2 OS Xs - Tiger Leopard; but, Only 1 Fully Utilizing the PCI Cards Installed

2009-02-22 Thread insightinmind
On Feb 22, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Well, you've solved the problem for the moment...sub-optimal to be sure. Here's hoping M-Audio's programmers can fix their drivers for 10.5. When I was looking something else up yesterday I did come across a mention that the audio system

Re: Do I really need a new processor?

2009-02-22 Thread lorensmedberg
I've got the same machine, I maxed out the memory a long time ago that made a big difference, later I installed a new faster hard drive made that the start up drive, again that bumped up the speed quite a bit. But the thing that made my 733 quicksilver run like a new computer was installing

Re: 160 GB hard drive in a G3 Beige

2009-02-22 Thread PeterH
On Feb 22, 2009, at 7:34 AM, James Brown wrote: It is a ROM revision A machine, so I'm aware of the 8 GB limitation and know about the 128 GB limit on hard drive accessing. ROM Rev A only limits you to Master IDEs, only, no Slave IDEs. ROM Rev A has nothing to do with 8 GB limitation,

Problem with Applejack instructions

2009-02-22 Thread Jonas Lopez
Problem with Applejack instructions I want to use this and can read and understand, but as is the case here, the writer assumes you know more than we do and then tells us of a danger, so here is the problem: QUIT 1: I am a user and am logged in, when I am done with the computer, I use the

Re: 2 OS Xs - Tiger Leopard; but, Only 1 Fully Utilizing the PCI Cards Installed

2009-02-22 Thread Eric Volker
On Feb 22, 2009, at 10:18 AM, insightinmind wrote: And 10.6 will be leaving us PPC folks in the dust ... Could you pass along the 10.4/10.5 audio change reference to me (us)? Would like to read up on it, maybe pass if along to the M-Audio folks ... I've been transferring some comments of

Re: Problem with Applejack instructions

2009-02-22 Thread Dan
At 9:56 AM -0800 2/22/2009, Jonas Lopez wrote: Problem with Applejack instructions I want to use this and can read and understand, but as is the case here, the writer assumes you know more than we do and then tells us of a danger, so here is the problem: QUIT 1: I am a user and am logged in,

Re: Problem with Applejack instructions

2009-02-22 Thread Eric Volker
On Feb 22, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Jonas Lopez wrote: Problem with Applejack instructions I want to use this and can read and understand, but as is the case here, the writer assumes you know more than we do and then tells us of a danger, so here is the problem: QUIT 1: I am a user and am

Re: 10.5.6 Desktop Icons can't be moved

2009-02-22 Thread Pleasant Grove Vineyard
I dumped the preferences without any change, I had already fixed the permissions. I noticed that I can move windows around but I can't move items in the windows. Later today I'll try some of the other suggestions. Thanks Leo On Feb 21, 9:11 pm, Cyrus callmemrp...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes

rsync question

2009-02-22 Thread Eric Volker
I hope folks don't mind if I ask a Unix-y question. I've grown fond of using rsync to keep my iTunes collection synced across various Macs. I just point rsync at my Linux server, and push or pull the iTunes material depending on which I need. The problem I've noticed is that rsync insists

Re: Problem with Applejack instructions

2009-02-22 Thread Dan
At 1:37 PM -0600 2/22/2009, Eric Volker wrote: I'm not sure about those instructions, but the way I've always used AppleJack is to do a complete Shutdown from the Apple Menu. You would then start your Mac back up. After the startup chime, hold down CMD-S until a black screen comes up. Once the

Re: Problem with Applejack instructions

2009-02-22 Thread Paul
Earlier, at 1:37 pm -0600 2/22/09, Eric Volker wrote: I'm not sure about those instructions, but the way I've always used AppleJack is to do a complete Shutdown from the Apple Menu. You would then start your Mac back up. After the startup chime, hold down CMD-S until a black screen comes up. Once

Re: transferring a hard disk

2009-02-22 Thread Lawrence David Eden
On Feb 22, 2009, at 5:02 AM, lde...@comcast.net wrote: Dear List Members: I have a Beige G3 and a Blue and White G3. I want to install the Beige's hard drive into the Blue and White, but the Blue and White will not mount the Beige drive. I suspect that there are some driver issues

Re: 10.5.6 Desktop Icons can't be moved

2009-02-22 Thread Clark Martin
Pleasant Grove Vineyard wrote: I dumped the preferences without any change, I had already fixed the permissions. I noticed that I can move windows around but I can't move items in the windows. Later today I'll try some of the other suggestions. I haven't been following this but it sounds

Fool'em

2009-02-22 Thread R. A. Cantrell
Wayback machine, I know I did this in the past, but I can't remember how. I want to set up children's programs that ordinarily require that the cd be in the cd player for the program to run to be able to run from a copy somewhere on the HD. It saves the wear, tear, and breakage (inevitable) that

Re: Fool'em

2009-02-22 Thread Steve R
At 4:06 PM -0600 2/22/09, R. A. Cantrell posted: Wayback machine, I know I did this in the past, but I can't remember how. I want to set up children's programs that ordinarily require that the cd be in the cd player for the program to run to be able to run from a copy somewhere on the HD. It

Re: Broken screw

2009-02-22 Thread norm46
Bruce, I removed the card but the nut is what is broken off.Could not even drill it out. Norm On Feb 19, 11:10 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Feb 18, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Norm Rowe wrote: I know I can just leave it alone but when I installed my ATI 9800 card one of

Re: Applejack instructions violate log out

2009-02-22 Thread Len Gerstel
On Feb 22, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: Yes there is a Readme with Applejack and in it is the following: Running this script while logged in as a user can crash your system So the question still is; HOW TO LOG OUT? The last item on the Apple menu is LOG OUT. Question is: Are

Re: Problem with Applejack instructions

2009-02-22 Thread gifutiger
Greetings ( + )!( + ) If the instruction that come with the applejack application are not understandable then I would recommend that you trash the program and not attempt to run it under any circumstance. Best regards, - Harry - On Feb 22, 9:56 am, Jonas Lopez jonaslo...@yahoo.com wrote:

Applejack instructions

2009-02-22 Thread Dan A. Currie
gifutiger wrote: Greetings ( + )!( + ) If the instruction that come with the applejack application are not understandable then I would recommend that you trash the program and not attempt to run it under any circumstance. Best regards, - Harry - On Feb 22, 9:56 am, Jonas Lopez

Selecting Startup Disk in Beige G3

2009-02-22 Thread Mullin9
In the new-world mac, I press option at startup to select the startup disk, But on the Old-World Beige Mac, what key do I push to select the startup disk,? Thank You --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5

Re: Do I really need a new processor?

2009-02-22 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
On Feb 21, 2009, at 10:11 PM, Clark Martin wrote: Just as a hint for the next time. You can run a G4 case with the cover open. Thanks, Clark! Actually I'm a little embarassed to say most of the opens/closes I did under my desk without unplugging anything. Just rotated the computer a

Re: Do I really need a new processor?

2009-02-22 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
On Feb 22, 2009, at 12:02 PM, lorensmedb...@hotmail.com wrote: I've got the same machine, the thing that made my 733 quicksilver run like a new computer was installing OWC's 1500ghz 2 mb - L3 processor . The one I got is the NewerTEch MaxPower 7447 Single G4/1.6GHz. Very funny about the

Re: Selecting Startup Disk in Beige G3

2009-02-22 Thread Clark Martin
Mullin9 wrote: In the new-world mac, I press option at startup to select the startup disk, But on the Old-World Beige Mac, what key do I push to select the startup disk,? There is no direct equivalent to the option key. You can hold down the c key to start up from the optical drive. You

Re: Problem with Applejack instructions

2009-02-22 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
On Feb 22, 9:56 am, Jonas Lopez jonaslo...@yahoo.com wrote: Problem with Applejack instructions I used Applejack to test my RAM. I never log in either, I am the only user on my machine. All I did was Shut Down, then Start up using Cmd-S. The rest was pretty automatic. No problems. Good

Re: Fool'em

2009-02-22 Thread Tom
I second making disk images of the CDs, with Disk Utility. The Mac thinks the disk images are the actual disks, except they're always available on the hard drive. You can put the original disks away for safekeeping. Look up how to make a disk image of a CD if you don't know how to do it. Tom

Re: Selecting Startup Disk in Beige G3

2009-02-22 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 22, 2009, at 7:40 PM, Mullin9 wrote: In the new-world mac, I press option at startup to select the startup disk, But on the Old-World Beige Mac, what key do I push to select the startup disk, If you're using an unsupported version of OS X (10.3 or 10.4) requiring XPostFacto you

Re: Applejack instructions violate log out

2009-02-22 Thread Dan
At 3:16 PM -0800 2/22/2009, Jonas Lopez wrote: Yes there is a Readme with Applejack and in it is the following: Running this script while logged in as a user can crash your system So the question still is; HOW TO LOG OUT? You are mis-interpreting it. You cannot run AppleJack while OS X is

Re: upgrading firmware on blue and white??

2009-02-22 Thread Dana Collins
On 2/22/09 10:45 PM, jonas ulrich of jonasulrich3...@gmail.com sent How do you upgrade firmware on a blue and whiter powermac? I heard that there is a firmware update to get it to except g4 upgrade cards. -Jonas Hi Jonas, Yes you are right, the G3 needs a hack that removes the instruction

Re: upgrading firmware on blue and white??

2009-02-22 Thread jonas ulrich
the link isn't working. how do i get it off the mac update? On 2/22/09, Steve R mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com wrote: At 11:32 PM -0500 2/22/09, Dana Collins posted: On 2/22/09 10:45 PM, jonas ulrich of jonasulrich3...@gmail.com sent How do you upgrade firmware on a blue and whiter

Re: upgrading firmware on blue and white??

2009-02-22 Thread jonas ulrich
every single bloody download link doesn't work!!! at 94k through it says the decompression failed On 2/22/09, Steve R mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com wrote: At 10:26 PM -0800 2/22/09, jonas ulrich posted: the link isn't working. how do i get it off the mac update? On