Re: Mouse Cleaning Advice?

2010-01-29 Thread Dale Hoffman
On Jan 28, 2010, at 6:50 PM, Dale Hoffman wrote: I've got a bar of soap scroll button mouse that is beginning to get a bit scratchy. (snip) Has anyone used any of the aerosol electronic contact cleaning products to clean deep down in this device? Or maybe suggest another solution?

Re: nVidia Geforce 6200 vs Radeon 9600 Pro 64 MB

2010-01-29 Thread Klaus Marx
On Jan 28, 2010, at 3:42 PM, GLT wrote: I have a G5 2.0 GHz dual processor PCI-X tower running 10.5.8 that currently has the stock AGP 8x Radeon 9600 Pro MB video. I also have a 8x AGP nVidia 6200 (don't recall RAM size) flashed for Mac.Is there a clear-cut reason to prefer one of these

Memory for G4 iBook

2010-01-29 Thread mac-in_true_love
I have ordered 512 Mb of memory for G4 ibook, assuming that 640 is the maximum, which I found running an analysis program linked to from this forum when memory was addressed. I hope this makes it faster with browsing and running applications both OS 10 and classic 9 which I still run. I am no

Re: Do you need stuffit to install...stuffit?

2010-01-29 Thread Caleb Cupples
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:32 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Jan 28, 2010, at 11:13 AM, deadwinter wrote: Hi folks: As I mentioned before, I have a Beige G3 Desktop I've been playing with.  In order to get a couple of things installed on the OS9 partition, I apparently need

Re: nVidia Geforce 6200 vs Radeon 9600 Pro 64 MB

2010-01-29 Thread GLT
Klaus, I guess the 6200 would be a bit faster, as long it has a 128bit memory bus. Is it possible to tell how wide the memory bus is? It would, but you need to tape two pins (http://themacelite.wikidot.com/pins-3-and-1) I was aware of a similar requirement to make the geForce 6200 work

Re: nVidia Geforce 6200 vs Radeon 9600 Pro 64 MB

2010-01-29 Thread Klaus Marx
On Jan 29, 2010, at 2:08 PM, GLT wrote: Klaus, I guess the 6200 would be a bit faster, as long it has a 128bit memory bus. Is it possible to tell how wide the memory bus is? I think the easiest way is to search on google for the specs of the card or to determine it by the amount of ram

Re: nVidia Geforce 6200 vs Radeon 9600 Pro 64 MB

2010-01-29 Thread Michael B. in Cincinnati
I can't compare the two, but I upgraded my DP 533 DA from the original ATI Rage 16 MB to a flashed GeForce 6200, and it actually made the machine usable. Browsing felt three times as fast, and I could finally run Klondike Forever and watch programs on Hulu.com. Mine was delivered with the

Re: Mouse Cleaning Advice?

2010-01-29 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Dale Hoffman dh...@margnat.com wrote: On Jan 28, 2010, at 6:50 PM, Dale Hoffman wrote: I've got a bar of soap scroll button mouse that is beginning to get a bit scratchy. (snip) Has anyone used any of the aerosol electronic contact cleaning products to

Re: Memory for G4 iBook

2010-01-29 Thread brettallica
On Jan 28, 9:25 am, mac-in_true_love newri...@gmail.com wrote: I have ordered 512 Mb of memory for G4 ibook, assuming that 640 is the maximum, which I found running an analysis program linked to from this forum when memory was addressed. I hope this makes it faster with browsing and running

Re: Memory for G4 iBook

2010-01-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:25 AM, mac-in_true_love wrote: I hope this makes it faster with browsing and running applications both OS 10 and classic 9 which I still run. I am no expert --just a long time user of Macs--and some highly technical jargon will go over my head,like the type of memory,

Holy File Listing, BBatman!

2010-01-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
This may be a 'No duh!' moment to some of you, but I just found something amazing in BBEdit. If you're in terminal or TextEdit, you can drag the folder or volume icon off of a Finder window to drop the path of that folder into the terminal window. for example: /Developer/Headers If

Re: Holy File Listing, BBatman!

2010-01-29 Thread Doug McNutt
At 11:41 -0700 1/29/10, Bruce Johnson wrote: This may be a 'No duh!' moment to some of you, but I just found something amazing in BBEdit. If you're in terminal or TextEdit, you can drag the folder or volume icon off of a Finder window to drop the path of that folder into the terminal window.

Video Card G4 450 MHZ YIKES!

2010-01-29 Thread Jasiu
Whats the fastest video card I can put in the above mentioned computer? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and

Virus virus virus FUD

2010-01-29 Thread Dan
I do enjoy reading this guy's stuff... Looking forward to part 2. http://mac-security.blogspot.com/2010/01/intego-virusbarrier-version-106-review.html - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for

Re: Video Card G4 450 MHZ YIKES!

2010-01-29 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 29, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Jasiu wrote: Whats the fastest video card I can put in the above mentioned computer? I'd guess it's likely a flashed PC nVidia GeForce FX 5200 that will support Core Image Quartz Extreme. You might be able to get an FX 6200 to work, but I don't think it

Re: nVidia Geforce 6200 vs Radeon 9600 Pro 64 MB

2010-01-29 Thread Dana Collins
On 1/28/10 12:23 PM, Klaus Marx of nox...@gmail.com sent On Jan 28, 2010, at 3:42 PM, GLT wrote: I have a G5 2.0 GHz dual processor PCI-X tower running 10.5.8 that currently has the stock AGP 8x Radeon 9600 Pro MB video. I also have a 8x AGP nVidia 6200 (don't recall RAM size) flashed

Re: SSD

2010-01-29 Thread Dan
At 10:24 AM -0800 1/27/2010, Paul wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations for moderately priced SSD's (Solid State Drives)? I'm looking for IDE and probably 2.5, since then I could use it in a laptop or a desktop machine (with an adapter). 8 GB would probably be too small, but I think I can

Re: NANNY ! Re:

2010-01-29 Thread Dan
At 1:07 PM -0500 1/28/2010, John Musbach wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Paul pper...@gmail.com wrote: The offending thread containing the spam (entitled [no subject]) is still there. This gives the appearance that the main purpose of Group Managers is to spew scolding flames at

Re: Do you need stuffit to install...stuffit?

2010-01-29 Thread Tim [G4 Sawtooth, 350MHz CPU / AGP / 320 MB]
The hqx extension indicates a binhex file, which you could unencode in a separate pass. It is tricky, since any mac app that's prepared to be handled by the arbitrary filesystem, will be encoded. If you can already open a .bin, get BinHex (below) it'll decode your .hqx to an .sea, which then will

Re: Video Card G4 450 MHZ YIKES!

2010-01-29 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jan 29, 2010, at 2:43 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jan 29, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Jasiu wrote: Whats the fastest video card I can put in the above mentioned computer? If you don't need Core Image (which is slow over PCI), any of the Radeon PCI cards are a big step up from the OEM Rage. I

Re: NANNY ! Re:

2010-01-29 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 29, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Dan wrote: At 1:07 PM -0500 1/28/2010, John Musbach wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Paul pper...@gmail.com wrote: The offending thread containing the spam (entitled [no subject]) is still there. This gives the appearance that the main purpose of Group

Re: NANNY ! Re:

2010-01-29 Thread Sam Macomber
I had ours cut way down, but I keep it a little more open now, got to watch it, don't want to miss any potential clients. only downside to spam is sifting through all the crap in the SMTP logs when we encounter an issue with the server. Thankfully that's rare. On Jan 29, 2010, at 2:14 PM,

Re: Do you need stuffit to install...stuffit?

2010-01-29 Thread deadwinter
Thanks for all the advice. I did try to unstuff it in the OS X folder, and copied it over to the System folder on OS9, but no dice. In the end I found a friend who had a 9.0 CD and just installed Stuffit from the CD. Odd. -carlos On Jan 29, 4:38 pm, Tim [G4 Sawtooth, 350MHz CPU / AGP / 320