Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-05 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 4/4/09 3:57 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com Broadcast into the ether: Kyle, it was my opinion that a strong enough mag field would erase all formatting and make it unusable. Another lister was of the opinion that since these are SCSI they could still be reformatted. What

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-05 Thread PeterH
On Apr 4, 2009, at 11:32 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: It was my job for about 3 months at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories (science and weapons development). We literally had to securely destroy hundreds of Mac’s and PC’s during their upgrade ... In a former job at a large mainframe

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-05 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Kyle Hansen pi...@speakeasy.net wrote: On 4/4/09 3:57 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com Broadcast into the ether: Kyle, it was my opinion that a strong enough mag field would erase all formatting and make it unusable. Another lister was of

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-05 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Kyle Hansen pi...@speakeasy.net wrote: On 4/4/09 3:57 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com Broadcast into the ether: Kyle, it was my opinion that a strong enough mag field would erase all formatting and make it unusable. Another lister was of

Re: MailForge Re: What is the point of Mail.app??

2009-04-05 Thread Paul Stamsen
Previously, at 2:38 pm -0400 4/4/09, diane wrote: At 6:13 AM -0700 4/4/09, Goody2 wrote: Infinity Data Systems is developing an updated version of Eudora. Was originally called Odysseus, now MailForge. Still in beta (free), almost ready for prime time ($40). The latest version is 1.0 Beta 18.

Re: MailForge Re: What is the point of Mail.app??

2009-04-05 Thread Steve R
At 9:41 AM -0600 4/5/09, Paul Stamsen posted: Previously, at 2:38 pm -0400 4/4/09, diane wrote: At 6:13 AM -0700 4/4/09, Goody2 wrote: Infinity Data Systems is developing an updated version of Eudora. Was originally called Odysseus, now MailForge. Still in beta (free), almost ready for prime

Partitioning

2009-04-05 Thread George R . Hozendorf
I'd like to split an internal HD into Mac OS Extended and NTFS, but Disk Utility only gives me the format option of Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Is there any way to do this without losing the data on the Mac partition? Hozey Mac OS X 10.5.6 Mac Mini 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory 2GB

DA 533 gets stuck at boot

2009-04-05 Thread diane
Friend has a DA 533 he got in the fall. He's running Tiger. All of the sudden when he boots the machine he says it gets stuck at the apple logo and then it pixelates, then nothing. He's trying a new battery. He's tried a new hard drive as well but it won't install (same issue I think), and an

Re: Partitioning

2009-04-05 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:30 PM, George R. Hozendorf ghoze...@gmail.comwrote: I'd like to split an internal HD into Mac OS Extended and NTFS, but Disk Utility only gives me the format option of Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Is there any way to do this without losing the data on the Mac

Re: DA 533 gets stuck at boot

2009-04-05 Thread insightinmind
On Apr 5, 2009, at 1:15 PM, diane wrote: Friend has a DA 533 he got in the fall. He's running Tiger. All of the sudden when he boots the machine he says it gets stuck at the apple logo and then it pixelates, then nothing. He's trying a new battery. He's tried a new hard drive as well but

Re: DA 533 gets stuck at boot

2009-04-05 Thread diane
At 1:25 PM -0400 4/5/09, insightinmind wrote: Tried booting from the Installation CD/DVD? How about another video card? maybe re-seating the old one, after blowing out the dust? I think he has tried the boot as he first thought it was the HD and went to install on a new one. I'll ask him

Re: DA 533 gets stuck at boot

2009-04-05 Thread pdimage
On 5/4/09 18:42, diane di...@mathermotorsports.com wrote: At 1:25 PM -0400 4/5/09, insightinmind wrote: Tried booting from the Installation CD/DVD? How about another video card? maybe re-seating the old one, after blowing out the dust? I think he has tried the boot as he first

Re: DA 533 gets stuck at boot

2009-04-05 Thread diane
At 8:51 PM +0100 4/5/09, pdimage wrote: Pressing the cuda button may help though it sounds like a video card problem so try another - I believe you can reset the pram and the nvram by holding down the usual keys - command/option/p/r - immediately following the chime (for the nvram) and

Re: Okay, once I've built my iWeb site, how do I post it?

2009-04-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 4, 2009, at 4:10 PM, J.M.P.Hissel wrote: On 03-04-2009 17:44, Bruce Johnson, john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu, wrote: http://tinyurl.com/cn9dv9 Hey Bruce, I'm very curious about how you produced this walking URL. Jo Hissel Go to http://www.lmgtfy.com Paste in the URL and click

Re: Partitioning

2009-04-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 5, 2009, at 9:30 AM, George R.Hozendorf wrote: I'd like to split an internal HD into Mac OS Extended and NTFS, but Disk Utility only gives me the format option of Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Is there any way to do this without losing the data on the Mac partition? I think this

Re: LCD Cleaning???

2009-04-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 4, 2009, at 9:43 AM, wtob...@aol.com wrote: .To be more specific about the alcohol.I was told to never use rubbing (Isopropyl) alcohol on any of my camera lenses to remove smudges from the front element by Nikon or its coating may be damaged...and that only a mix

Re: LCD Cleaning???

2009-04-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 4, 2009, at 9:43 AM, James E. Therrault wrote: H, interesting since my G4 laptop is pristine except for some keyboard marks. go slow, be gentle and expect it to take some time. Just lightly scrub the surface, if you press too hard you can damage the screen mechanically. On a

Re: LCD Cleaning???

2009-04-05 Thread Wtob327
If Nikon's advise on how to clean extremely sensitive coatings is going to cost me a lens, please let me know. **Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 or less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood0001)

Re: Partitioning

2009-04-05 Thread George R. Hozendorf
On Apr 5, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 5, 2009, at 9:30 AM, George R.Hozendorf wrote: I'd like to split an internal HD into Mac OS Extended and NTFS, but Disk Utility only gives me the format option of Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Is there any way to do this without

Re: Okay, once I've built my iWeb site, how do I post it?

2009-04-05 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 05-04-2009 22:08, Bruce Johnson, john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu, wrote: Go to http://www.lmgtfy.com Paste in the URL and click either 'Search' or 'I'm Feeling Lucky', which produces an lmgtfy link for the search. Then I used TinyURL service

Re: LCD Cleaning???

2009-04-05 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 05-04-2009 22:17, Bruce Johnson, john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu, wrote: On Apr 4, 2009, at 9:43 AM, wtob...@aol.com wrote: The way I see it, what's good for $2k lenses must be OK for a monitor. Sorry, but IMHO your mixing up something: The surface and coating of an optical lens are a

Re: Partitioning

2009-04-05 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.eduwrote: On Apr 5, 2009, at 9:30 AM, George R.Hozendorf wrote: I'd like to split an internal HD into Mac OS Extended and NTFS, but Disk Utility only gives me the format option of Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Is

Re: LCD Cleaning???

2009-04-05 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 12:43 PM, wtob...@aol.com wrote: .To be more specific about the alcohol.I was told to *never* use rubbing (Isopropyl) alcohol on any of my camera lenses to remove smudges from the front element by Nikon or its coating may be damaged...and that only a mix of

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-05 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 4/5/09 12:23 AM, PeterH peterh5...@rattlebrain.com Broadcast into the ether: Even on mandatory engineering changes, sometimes the agencies elected to shred the PCBs even though the subject boards did not contain any memory elements. Sounds exactly like my experience. Kyle Hansen -- This

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-05 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 4/5/09 12:52 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com Broadcast into the ether: Kyle, it was my opinion that a strong enough mag field would erase all formatting and make it unusable. Another lister was of the opinion that since these are SCSI they could still be reformatted.

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-05 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Kyle Hansen pi...@speakeasy.net wrote: On 4/5/09 12:52 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com Broadcast into the ether: Kyle, it was my opinion that a strong enough mag field would erase all formatting and make it unusable. Another lister was of