Re: Any tricks for PCI video card in a Beige G3 MT?

2010-11-23 Thread Kris Tilford
I'm an expert on the Beige, which is about as hard as they come for Macs. It has a lot of little quirks and just plain voodoo behavior, but problems with PCI video cards isn't one of them. I'm assuming the card is an ATI card, hopefully a Radeon, but perhaps a Rage? I'm guessing you didn't

Re: USB stick read only

2010-11-23 Thread Geke
Yes, that's a good point in this context. Remember what everyone told you about floppies?: Don't carry them in your shirt pocket! Always put them into their sleeve! Fortunately, my stick is not gone yet: I used a standing-around PC laptop to copy the data (3 GB or more, that would have taken ages

Re: How should a family of five share one computer?

2010-11-23 Thread Geke
set a single user account for all Simple initially but in the long run it could become far more trouble I agree; also you'd want to give each kid their own desktop, picture folder, etc. The extra Admin account for yourself is a good idea, especially as their mom might change the password, then

OpenOffice vs Oracle

2010-11-23 Thread Dan
hum. Things are getting messy. An interesting read... http://www.infoworld.com/t/desktop-productivity/openofficeorg-under-oracle-still-viable-746 http://www.mail-archive.com/d...@native-lang.openoffice.org/msg04865.html Anyone using the 3.3 beta builds? Feels like Oracle wanted to play

Re: USB stick read only

2010-11-23 Thread Dan
At 6:01 AM -0800 11/23/2010, Geke wrote: Is there some way to make the Mac ask permission for writing on a volume when you mount it? I mean like this: I insert a stick or connect a HD and a dialog comes up asking: How to mount volume Backup? with options Readwrite (default) and Read only.

Re: OpenOffice vs Oracle

2010-11-23 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/23 08:32, Dan so eloquently wrote: hum. Things are getting messy. Corporate America has peed in the pool yet again. Feels like Oracle wanted to play rock-paper-scissors, but has come up lizard. Couldn't have said it better myself. Not sure that I could say it at all without

Re: DVD, Webcam, Pix, and Images: why are they soooo different

2010-11-23 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/16 09:18, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: DVD's are encoded via MPEG2, which is an asymmetric codec: it's significantly less computationally intensive to decode versus encode. (this is how it was developed to be, to allow cheap DVD players. Also why it takes iDVD all night to

Re: OpenOffice vs Oracle

2010-11-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 23, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Dan wrote: hum. Things are getting messy. Maybe or just another fork in the road. An interesting read... http://www.infoworld.com/t/desktop-productivity/openofficeorg-under-oracle-still-viable-746

Re: G4 Sawtooth problem

2010-11-23 Thread JoeTaxpayer
I'd bet OP meant encode and burn. I still love my MDD G4 (so 1.25Ghz) and saw 2 hours encode time per hour of DV. On Nov 21, 3:13 pm, hecowan heco...@islandnet.com wrote: Did you mean burns DVDs in 5 minutes? 5 hours seems a little slow. I put a 22x DVD burner in my Quicksilver, it burns DVDs

Re: How should a family of five share one computer?

2010-11-23 Thread Al Poulin
On Nov 22, 10:42 pm, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote: And set a firmware password. Tina Setting a firmware password introduces some admin complexity. A Google search shows that people can have problems doing it correctly. Here is Apple's article on how to proceed.