Re: Wireless USB dongle software installer won't open

2009-06-08 Thread Tom
Stephen, the dongle does need USB 2, according to the tech description of it, but like you I added a PCI card that provides it. By the way, here's the URL to this gadget; I notice that the one I provided above was wrong: http://tinyurl.com/66egqs Anyway, Kris led me to the solution, (thanks

ati radeon 9800 pro question

2009-06-08 Thread roger deghetto
ok i have a question about this card i know there was a 4x/8x 9800 pro with dvdi/vga ports128mb ram a g5 only card that had 256mb ram and dvi/adc ports was there any other9800 pros that only worked in a g5? or is it just the one with the adc port? and if their was more g5 only cards besides the

Re: 10.5.7

2009-06-08 Thread Fabian Fang
On Jun 8, 2009, at 7:36 AM, George R. Hozendorf wrote: On Jun 7, 2009, at 7:32 PM, insightinmind wrote: 10.5.7 seems to be running ok now with my 9 Steps outlined earlier ... sort of modeled after that 12-Steps How to Debug kp's in OS X thing someone shared awhile back ... Bill, please be

Re: 10.5.7

2009-06-08 Thread insightinmind
On Jun 8, 2009, at 10:36 AM, George R. Hozendorf wrote: Bill, please be so kind as to publish your 9 steps again. In switching computers I deleted it. Thanks, George Log onto the G3-G5 Google site ... It should be saved earlier in this thread, but on the G3-G5 Google site:

Re: 10.5.7

2009-06-08 Thread George R. Hozendorf
On Jun 7, 2009, at 7:31 PM, PeterH wrote: On Jun 7, 2009, at 4:18 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: FWIW ... manually dowloading the 10.5.7 combo update directly from Apple's site worked perfectly on every Mack or Hack which I have. Whereas, automatically downloading the model-specific update,

browser question

2009-06-08 Thread Joan Duncan
I use SeaMonkey as my browser and for some reason it has drastically slowed down. I tried rebuilding the desktop with Disk Warrior 3.o.3 which had no effect. Forgive me for my lapse but would it help to download SM again? Do I just throw the other one away once I have downloaded the new one?

It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Len Gerstel
It is officially official. Snow leopard is Intel only WAAHHH, I want it to run on my Plus. Sorry about that. Hopefully they will keep updates coming for us (10.4 and 5) for a little while. Len --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Stephen Weber
Apple does really know how to make people upset, obviously you wonder why real businesses don't use Macs. It's because Apple does stuff like this. I mean look at Microsoft and how they keep supporting older hardware. From, Stephen On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Al boone
I just got my low end G 5, I am NOT moving up to an intel Mac just to get the latest and greatest. I am not. On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Stephen Weber maryland...@gmail.com wrote: Apple does really know how to make people upset, obviously you wonder why real businesses don't use Macs.

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread roger deghetto
me either i have my mdd  very happy with it sorry apple i dont want nothing to do with x86when you stop updateing 10.5 there will allways be a ppc linux distro --- On Mon, 6/8/09, Al boone elbert...@gmail.com wrote: From: Al boone elbert...@gmail.com Subject: Re: It is official, we are orphans.

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Sam Macomber
Glad i told my uncle to just buy a new mini rather than fix his G4 mini. :) Was planning on upgrading our home computer in a year or so any how...as it is 10.5 and my QS G4 (with a 1.8GHz upgrade) is just fine for surfing the web, checking my email, serving A/V to my AppleTV and using

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread insightinmind
I love my QS 2002 Dual 1GHz under Leopard 10.5.7 I will like my new Digital Audio dual 533 (entering the FedEx system, almost) under Tiger 10.4.11 I like my Yikes! oc/d to 450 under Tiger 10.4.11 I liked my Performa I liked my Mac Plus What's an Intel ... Orphans? We're in good company

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Alexander MacLeod
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Stephen Webermaryland...@gmail.com wrote: Apple does really know how to make people upset, obviously you wonder why real businesses don't use Macs.  It's because Apple does stuff like this. And how long did you expect them to keep supporting the PPC

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread insightinmind
On Jun 8, 2009, at 2:43 PM, insightinmind wrote: I love my QS 2002 Dual 1GHz under Leopard 10.5.7 I will like my new Digital Audio dual 533 (entering the FedEx system, almost) under Tiger 10.4.11 I like my Yikes! oc/d to 450 under Tiger 10.4.11 I forgot: I liked my PPC 8500s under Panther

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Iain Thornton
Hi Not sure about you lot, but most of us faced all this a while ago! And compatibility has always been a marketing joke. Just because something is listed as compatible, it's not necessarily useful for the job. Now it just means that people can stop kidding I guess. Even if PPC was included,

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread John Musbach
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Stephen Webermaryland...@gmail.com wrote: Apple does really know how to make people upset, obviously you wonder why real businesses don't use Macs.  It's because Apple does stuff like this.  I mean look at Microsoft and how they keep supporting older hardware.

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Ted Treen
Stephen Weber wrote: Apple does really know how to make people upset, obviously you wonder why real businesses don't use Macs. It's because Apple does stuff like this. I mean look at Microsoft and how they keep supporting older hardware. From, Stephen Oh come on - you mean just like

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Stephen Weber
If you turn off all the glitter (which in a work place environment would have been done any way) it should run pretty good. Also I'm pretty sure Windows 7 will run great on a 2004 office basic computer. I'm running Windows 7 RC right now and I've noticed a huge speed increment over Vista SP1.

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread John Musbach
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Stephen Webermaryland...@gmail.com wrote: If you turn off all the glitter (which in a work place environment would have been done any way) it should run pretty good.  Also I'm pretty sure Windows 7 will run great on a 2004 office basic computer.  I'm running

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread dc
You should download Monolingual, go to the Architectures tab and remove PPC code. You can also remove languages you don't need. I did that for my Intel-based Mac and it trimmed off over 2 GB, speeding things up a bit. On Jun 8, 1:43 pm, Alexander MacLeod twocor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun

Apple airport cards frequency band(s)

2009-06-08 Thread psufan79
I have the older Airport Express Base station (802.1b) I am thinking of buying a dual band Airport Extreme Base Station. It transmit on the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz frequency bands. I have been unable to find any info on whether an Airport or Airport Extreme wireless card can operate on the 5Ghz

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Steve R
At 1:53 PM -0400 6/8/09, Len Gerstel posted: It is officially official. Snow leopard is Intel only WAAHHH, I want it to run on my Plus. W! I can't run System 7 on my Intel iMac! Damn Apple! Get over it! Steve R --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Tim Gochnour
LMAO! Thanks for the laugh. Sarcasm usually works to cheer me up Thanks again! Tim On Jun 8, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Stephen Weber wrote: Apple does really know how to make people upset, obviously you wonder why real businesses don't use Macs. It's because Apple does stuff like

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 8, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Steve R wrote: W! I can't run System 7 on my Intel iMac! Damn Apple! Whaa? looks at Windows 7 Fusion VM to make sure it's not a hallucination I can do that! And when Windows 7 comes out officially Apple will update their boot camp install so that

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread James E. Therrault
Alexander MacLeod wrote: On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Stephen Webermaryland...@gmail.com wrote: Apple does really know how to make people upset, obviously you wonder why real businesses don't use Macs. It's because Apple does stuff like this. And how long did you expect them to

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread insightinmind
On Jun 8, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jun 8, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Steve R wrote: W! I can't run System 7 on my Intel iMac! Damn Apple! Whaa? looks at Windows 7 Fusion VM to make sure it's not a hallucination I can do that! I think it was sarcasm ... and OS 7 ...

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Josh Keady
Um, I think by System 7, he was referring to the REAL System 7... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_System_7 And as for the whole compatibility thing, Apple announced Intel-only way back when they announced Snow Leopard. It's not a surprise. I actually just finally upgraded my MDD dual 867

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 8, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Arnel Tuazon wrote: And when Windows 7 comes out officially Apple will update their boot camp install so that you can indeed run Windows 7 on it . I know more than one person who bought a Mac pro *because* it's such a stable, good-performing Windows workstation.

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 8, 2009, at 2:55 PM, insightinmind wrote: Sounds like someone had their oatmeal cookies today ... (I'll stop after this one ... I think) I did, as a matter of fact...made a batch of oatmeal+raisin+chocolate chip+pecans yesterday. Yummy! -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Stephen Weber
On the laptop that I had Vista on it took only around 10 seconds to shutdown from the time I pressed the shutdown button. Stephen On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:34 PM, John Musbach johnmusba...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Stephen Webermaryland...@gmail.com wrote: If you turn

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Steve R
At 3:30 PM -0700 6/8/09, Bruce Johnson posted: On Jun 8, 2009, at 2:55 PM, insightinmind wrote: Sounds like someone had their oatmeal cookies today ... (I'll stop after this one ... I think) I did, as a matter of fact...made a batch of oatmeal+raisin+chocolate chip+pecans

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Stephen Conrad
On 6/8/09, Arnel Tuazon a.tua...@gmail.com wrote: On a side note, what cat will be after Snow Leopard and what happens once Apple starts using Lion do they turn towards canines? Oooh look the new OS XI Jack Russell or Rotweiler or Huskey. Just a thought. Believe me, the cat family is huge

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Vic
W! I can't run System 7 on my Intel iMac! Damn Apple! Sure you can -- try Basilisk... V Mabus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with

Re: [G3-5]Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread MaGioZal
On 6/8/09 9:45 PM, Vic at vma...@gmail.com wrote: W! I can't run System 7 on my Intel iMac! Damn Apple! Sure you can -- try Basilisk... Well, I've just got the brand-new Safari 4 running on my old Beige G3 Mac. I felt a little less orphan...;-D -- MaGioZal.

Re: Apple airport cards frequency band(s)

2009-06-08 Thread Mike Baker
Neither tells me whether the Apple Airport Express or Apple Airport Extreme cards inside Mac computers run on the 5Ghz frequency band. I know the cards run on the 2.4Ghz frequency band and I am aware the latest base stations can run at both frequency bands. It's the cards in Mac computers that

Re: Apple airport cards frequency band(s)

2009-06-08 Thread Dark_Mac
Mike, Mactracker is you friend. Based on it ( the cards are listed in the device section under Wi-Fi Cards/Base Stations) states that both of these devices run on the 2.4 GHz bands. Regards, Mike On Jun 8, 2009, at 8:54 PM, Mike Baker wrote: Neither tells me whether the Apple Airport

Re: Apple airport cards frequency band(s)

2009-06-08 Thread Mike Baker
I did find out that the Apple Airport Extreme wireless cards in recent Mac computers can run at both frequencies. --- On Mon, 6/8/09, Dark_Mac darkwall...@fightfor.org wrote: From: Dark_Mac darkwall...@fightfor.org Subject: Re: Apple airport cards frequency band(s) To:

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 6/8/09 11:17 AM, Stephen Weber maryland...@gmail.com Broadcast into the ether: Apple does really know how to make people upset, obviously you wonder why real businesses don't use Macs.  It's because Apple does stuff like this.  I mean look at Microsoft and how they keep supporting older

Re: It is official, we are orphans.

2009-06-08 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote: It is officially official. Snow leopard is Intel only WAAHHH, I want it to run on my Plus. Sorry about that. Hopefully they will keep updates coming for us (10.4 and 5) for a little while.