Re: G5 not taking keyboard input

2010-10-26 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: G5 not taking keyboard input Date:Montag 25 Oktober 2010N From:Nestamicky nestami...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com I changed it and it booted but this time without anything on screen. So I messed things up, apparently, as

Re: G5 not taking keyboard input

2010-10-26 Thread Nestamicky
On 26/10/10 7:24 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: Murphy's law. It could be that the monitor is at fault. And that this fault has nothing to do with the keyboard/password issue of yours. It is rare, but such things happen – sometimes when you expect it least. Have you checked the monitor with

Re: G5 not taking keyboard input

2010-10-26 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: G5 not taking keyboard input Date:Dienstag 26 Oktober 2010N From:Nestamicky nestami...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com The original post notes it used to boot to the login screen until I plugged the HD in a SATA

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: IS the world about to change ? Date:Freitag 22 Oktober 2010N From:Dan dantear...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com […] The world economy is in an awfully deep hole right now. Yet, Apple's sales are booming, while the

Re: G5 not taking keyboard input

2010-10-26 Thread John Carmonne
On Oct 26, 2010, at 6:27 AM, Nestamicky wrote: On 26/10/10 7:24 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: Murphy's law. It could be that the monitor is at fault. And that this fault has nothing to do with the keyboard/password issue of yours. It is rare, but such things happen – sometimes when you expect

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-26 Thread Doug McNutt
At 07:08 -0700 10/26/10, Gary D. wrote: The big cats are pretty much played out. How about something more agressive: Alligator or Crocodile. And then on to the dinosaurs - lots to choose from. Sorry, couldn't resist. Lists can be fun. With the Lion King one thinks of Disney - o wait,

Re: Flash only? WAS:Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Dan
At 4:55 PM +0200 10/26/2010, Mac User #330250 wrote: interface - cache - big flash cache organized as a SSD - HD. So, the performance of the SSD is mainly to make valued files, like startup files or files which are accessed very often, faster available through the SSD. Yea, sortof.

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Mac User #330250 macuser330...@gmx.netwrote: -- Original message -- Subject: Re: IS the world about to change ? Date:Freitag 22 Oktober 2010N From:Dan dantear...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com […] The world economy

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-26 Thread Bill Christensen
At 8:22 PM + 10/25/10, Charles Davis wrote: On Oct 26, 2010, at 12:15 AM, Amanda Ward wrote: We have lots of cats left on the list: Asian Golden Cat Fishing Cat Wildcat (many varieties) ... Lion (used) Tiger (used) -- Steve Conrad Henrietta, MO 64036 Let's not forget Tabby and Calico!

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-26 Thread Stephen Conrad
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Doug McNutt dougl...@macnauchtan.comwrote: At 07:08 -0700 10/26/10, Gary D. wrote: The big cats are pretty much played out. How about something more agressive: Alligator or Crocodile. And then on to the dinosaurs - lots to choose from. Sorry, couldn't

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 26, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: Sales of desktop computers in general are dropping in favour of portable units, like classic laptops or the “newly invented” smaller version of it: netbooks. Netbook sales have crashed since the introduction of the iPad. Laptop sales

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 26, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Mac User #330250 macuser330...@gmx.netwrote: -- Original message -- Subject: Re: IS the world about to change ? Date:Freitag 22 Oktober 2010N From:Dan

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-26 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/26 10:19, Bill Christensen so eloquently wrote: Just as long as we don't have to deal with Schroedinger's Cat... Every time you try to use it, it's either dead or not dead. Wouldn't it be simultaneously dead and alive? And if so, what would you feed it??? Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2,

Re: G4 hd problem

2010-10-26 Thread Dan
At 6:33 PM -0400 10/25/2010, Baldassare Guzzo wrote: quicksilver g4 two 128 gb hard drives arranged in a raid 0 array. There is only 15gb or so used but when I tried to copy some files onto the g4 it said there was not enough hard drive space. But there is 200gb available. Could be the

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 26, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/10/26 10:19, Bill Christensen so eloquently wrote: Just as long as we don't have to deal with Schroedinger's Cat... Every time you try to use it, it's either dead or not dead. Wouldn't it be simultaneously dead and alive? And if so, what

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-26 Thread John Callahan
MAINE COON! On Oct 26, 2010, at 12:35 AM, Joshua Juran wrote: On Oct 25, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: We have lots of cats left on the list: [snip] Cheetah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.0 Josh -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group,

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread JoeTaxpayer
From http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=107357p=irol-faq#corpinfo2 Q: What is Apple's mission statement? A: Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and

Re: Flash only? WAS:Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Flash only? WAS:Re: IS the world about to change ? Date:Dienstag 26 Oktober 2010N From:Dan dantear...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Not the OS. The cache hit tracking in the device's firmware. It doesn't know files,

Re: Where is Flash 10.1

2010-10-26 Thread Al Poulin
On Oct 20, 7:22 pm, Cliff Rediger redicl...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm running 10.4.11 on G4 Mini Every time Firefox updates it tells me I must update Flash Player NOW. So I download and install Flash Player 10.1 but where does it go? It lives in your Macintosh HDLibraryInternet Plug-Ins. Al

RE: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Swigart, Kurt A [NTK]
A friend of mine responded the below and I get the point. I think Bruce Johnson missed the point on that last poster. You're not exercising a sense of entitlement by pointing out that a corporation has abandoned their original core beliefs. If I offer to deliver a superior product while

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Bill Connelly
Is this thread ever going to end? -- 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 our netiquette guide is at

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread James Therrault
On Oct 26, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Mac User #330250 macuser330...@gmx.net wrote: -- Original message -- Subject: Re: IS the world about to change ? Date:Freitag 22 Oktober 2010N From:Dan

Re: G4 hd problem

2010-10-26 Thread Baldassare Guzzo
Thank you. Ill give it a try. On Oct 26, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Dan wrote: At 6:33 PM -0400 10/25/2010, Baldassare Guzzo wrote: quicksilver g4 two 128 gb hard drives arranged in a raid 0 array. There is only 15gb or so used but when I tried to copy some files onto the g4 it said there was

Re: Flash only? WAS:Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Dan
At 8:46 PM +0200 10/26/2010, Mac User #330250 wrote: Not the OS. The cache hit tracking in the device's firmware. It doesn't know files, just block addresses. Well, I read differently. This was discussed when Windows 7 was introduced. Apparently it can make use of this functionality and

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Dan
At 2:02 PM -0600 10/26/2010, James Therrault wrote: On Oct 26, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Is that so? I heard that the computer segment in general is booming right now, not as much as Apple of course, but still, the market advances and the profits too. Here's a view

Re: Flash only? WAS:Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread iJohn
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: In fact, many of the hybrid drives are even more limited than I've represented in this thread. WHAT other hybrid drives?? I'd appreciate a pointer towards them because the only hybrid I'm am aware of at the moment is Seagate's

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-26 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/26 12:07, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Oct 26, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/10/26 10:19, Bill Christensen so eloquently wrote: Just as long as we don't have to deal with Schroedinger's Cat... Every time you try to use it, it's either dead or not dead.

Re: Flash only? WAS:Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/26 13:14, Dan so eloquently wrote: Why do it that way? Well, it reduces the number of writes to the flash memory by quite a bit. This gives the brick a longer life. ... Remember, the goal is to make this thing work at least one day beyond the warranty period. (Seagate is doing a 5

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 26, 2010, at 11:19 AM, Swigart, Kurt A [NTK] wrote: I think Bruce Johnson missed the point on that last poster. You're not exercising a sense of entitlement by pointing out that a corporation has abandoned their original core beliefs. From where are you getting Apple's original

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 26, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Dan wrote: At 2:02 PM -0600 10/26/2010, James Therrault wrote: On Oct 26, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Is that so? I heard that the computer segment in general is booming right now, not as much as Apple of course, but still, the market

Re: Flash only? WAS:Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Dan
At 2:17 PM -0600 10/26/2010, Tina K. wrote: Regardless of the warranty, it will probably be a long time before I purchase any sort of aftermarket SSD. I love my thumb drives, but I consider them more or less disposable. I expect much more out of a long term data storage/retrieval system. The

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread James Therrault
On Oct 26, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Dan wrote: At 2:02 PM -0600 10/26/2010, James Therrault wrote: On Oct 26, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Is that so? I heard that the computer segment in general is booming right now, not as much as Apple of course, but still, the market

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Ashgrove
On Oct 26, 4:34 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: The only concrete example I can think of is at the Intel introduction where Jobs stated that the PowerPC was definitely going to be supported through the next OS version, which it was. 10.4 to 10.5 also took a lot longer

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Ashgrove
On Oct 26, 3:03 pm, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: Is this thread ever going to end? I have been wondering the same thing... :-) -- 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

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Jeff Bequette
On Oct 26, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 26, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: Sales of desktop computers in general are dropping in favour of portable units, like classic laptops or the “newly invented” smaller version of it: netbooks. Netbook sales have

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread admin
But are the operating system (reaching 64-bit) and computers really changing much any more? They both seem to have matured to me. On Oct 26, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Apple has built and deliberately demolished their business several times: Apple II to Mac, Mac OS to OS X (and

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 26, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Ashgrove wrote: On Oct 26, 3:03 pm, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: Is this thread ever going to end? I have been wondering the same thing... :-) This is the thread that never ends It goes on and on and on, my friends... Someone started writing

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 26, 2010, at 6:52 PM, Ashgrove wrote: On Oct 26, 4:34 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: The only concrete example I can think of is at the Intel introduction where Jobs stated that the PowerPC was definitely going to be supported through the next OS version, which