Re: USB Question

2010-05-14 Thread Clark Martin
On 5/13/10 10:45 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net mailto:cm...@sonic.net wrote: On 5/13/10 1:34 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On May 13, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: What could have changed?

Re: USB Question

2010-05-14 Thread Stephen Conrad
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: *BIG SNIP* OK, here is what Apple System Profiler says The Second USB Hub is powered off a power cord while the first is powered by the USB Bus There's your problem. You have the keyboard running off the bus powered

Re: Allowing a Windoze 7 Laptop to Access my Wireless Network

2010-05-14 Thread Bill Connelly
On May 14, 2010, at 1:55 AM, iJohn wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: May be this would be better asked on a router forum? You could try the General Wireless Discussion section of http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com You'd find limited

Re: They're dead, Jim...

2010-05-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 13, 2010, at 7:32 PM, ===( )8 wrote: Well...apparently they're not dead after all. Thank goodness! Question though: why would you get rid of the KVM? Would a different make/model of KVM switch be better somehow? (The one I have is an Iogear Miniview 4-port.) Maybe next time I

Re: USB Question

2010-05-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 14, 2010, at 1:26 AM, Clark Martin wrote: There's your problem. You have the keyboard running off the bus powered hub. You should have the keyboard plugged into a either an externally powered hub or the computer. Best bet is to be connected directly to the computer. That's

All program word/character count question

2010-05-14 Thread Len Gerstel
This search primarily involves Mail (running 2.1.3 on 10.4.11), but I could use this in other applications. Absolute best case scenario, I am looking for something that would do the following. Highlight a block of text in a program. Right (or control) click on it and in the contextual

Re: All program word/character count question

2010-05-14 Thread Fabian Fang
On May 14, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: This search primarily involves Mail (running 2.1.3 on 10.4.11), but I could use this in other applications. Absolute best case scenario, I am looking for something that would do the following. Highlight a block of text in a program. Right

Re: All program word/character count question

2010-05-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 14, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: Background, FWIW. I send my brother a LOT of texts relating to business. I find it infinitely easier to send an email from my computer than to use my cell. Many cell carriers offer this option, for example 3015551...@vtext.com is for

Re: They're dead, Jim...

2010-05-14 Thread Doug McNutt
At 00:58 -0400 5/14/10, Richard Gerome wrote, and I snipped: but do not fold up the display screen cord for this may cause a inductive voltage problem and mess up the picture (this happens when guys with the hot rods get engines and the computer and wire harness out of junk yards and the

Re: Allowing a Windoze 7 Laptop to Access my Wireless Network

2010-05-14 Thread iJohn
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: It also allows something called WPA, a preshared key for home network and Wireless MAC Address Authorization. When it comes to security my understanding is that WPA2 is better than WPA is better than WEP. As I've

Re: All program word/character count question

2010-05-14 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 14, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Fabian Fang wrote: On May 14, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: This search primarily involves Mail (running 2.1.3 on 10.4.11), but I could use this in other applications. Absolute best case scenario, I am looking for something that would do the

Re: All program word/character count question

2010-05-14 Thread Doug McNutt
It works great for what it does. Much easier than firing up Word. Now, for lazy ol' me, if I could find the same thing that pops up when I right click instead of mousing ALL THE WAY to the menu bar life would be wonderful. I typically use pbpaste | wc as a command in Terminal.app to

Re: All program word/character count question

2010-05-14 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 14, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: It works great for what it does. Much easier than firing up Word. Now, for lazy ol' me, if I could find the same thing that pops up when I right click instead of mousing ALL THE WAY to the menu bar life would be wonderful. I typically

Re: What was the last Mac to natively run OS 9?

2010-05-14 Thread coolrays
I want to know which was the last Mac to be able to boot into OS9 regardless of what it shipped with. I think someone answered that though. Rick On May 14, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Richard Gerome wrote: Are you asking when the last computer came out with ONLY OS 9 without OS 10??? Or

Re: What was the last Mac to natively run OS 9?

2010-05-14 Thread Richard Gerome
Natively through me off??? Then I'm not sure but I think it won't run with Leopard or Snow Leopard but it will with Tiger so I would say any computer that will run Tiger??? I think it's the OS that matters not the computer??? Any help here with this because I'm just guessing???

Re: What was the last Mac to natively run OS 9?

2010-05-14 Thread Jason Brown
I think he means natively BOOT OS 9. There are a couple of machines, and correct me if I am wrong on this. But the newest machine that will BOOT OS 9 would be the MDD based G4 powermac with standard Airport. The Airport Extreme model will not booth OS 9 and even on the one with the standard

Re: 17 Apple LCD problem

2010-05-14 Thread Eric Volker
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote: I built a G4 1.25 MDD for my wife and the monitor that she's been using with it has suddenly developed some problems. I went to turn it on the other day (her MDD Monitor) and the whole thing was dead as a doornail until

Re: Flashing PCI cards if you do NOT have a PC

2010-05-14 Thread dc
On May 12, 10:17 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: The best possible PCI card for a PCI Mac is the nVidia GeForce FX6200 that are the only PCI cards that can enable Core Graphics. Again, you'll only be able to enable   Quartz Extreme up to OS 10.4.11 because PCI Extreme doesn't work

RE: What was the last Mac to natively run OS 9?

2010-05-14 Thread Stewie de Young
I think he means natively BOOT OS 9. There are a couple of machines, and correct me if I am wrong on this. But the newest machine that will BOOT OS 9 would be the MDD based G4 powermac with standard Airport. The Airport Extreme model will not booth OS 9 and even on the one with the

Question

2010-05-14 Thread Stephen Conrad
Sometimes my USB mouse acts up. I cannot move the mouse cursor until I hit the CAPS Lock key (on then off) Does this mean the USB port on the KB might be dying? Or is the KB dying? Or the USB port on the back of the tower is dying? A clue that might helpI see the light on the CAPS Lock key