Re: USB stick read only

2010-11-24 Thread Geke
Dan wrote: Messing around with the disk arbitration can be problematic. Start here: http://tinyapps.org/blog/mac/201008170700_mount_disks_read_only_or_disable_automounting.html Thanks, Dan, looks great! What problems can come up? In the docs I only found that DiskUtil doesn't work when that

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

2010-11-24 Thread Dan
At 11:32 AM -0700 11/23/2010, Tina K. wrote: Was Blue Ray designed asymmetrically as well? To clarify Bruce's post... This has NOTHING to do with the media format. CD, DVD, Blu-Ray... those are just media, plastic discs that basically emulate random-access r/o hard drives. It's the codec

Re: OpenOffice vs Oracle

2010-11-24 Thread Al Poulin
On Nov 23, 2:22 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: I expect that if OpenOffice is useful or profitable for Oracle, they'll continue to develop and market it. I welcome any competition for Microsoft.   It will be the Safe, Bean counter-approved version with per-seat

Re: OpenOffice vs Oracle

2010-11-24 Thread Dan
At 7:31 AM -0800 11/24/2010, Al Poulin wrote: So where would that leave NeoOffice for individual users? Good question. For now, no change as LibreOffice is too new. Both LibreOffice and NeoOffice are valid forks of OOo. Recall that NeoOffice was basically created because the OOo developers

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

2010-11-24 Thread Jonas Lopez
Still asking the question: Since DVD plays so nice yet downloaded video items do not and Dan told us that this was because the downloaded file had to be worked on a lot prior to showing on the screen, we ask this question: Could a good server operator have done this processing for us and

Re: OpenOffice vs Oracle

2010-11-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 24, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Al Poulin wrote: On Nov 23, 2:22 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: I expect that if OpenOffice is useful or profitable for Oracle, they'll continue to develop and market it. I welcome any competition for Microsoft. It will be the Safe,

Re: USB stick read only

2010-11-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 24, 2010, at 5:07 AM, Geke wrote: I would typically start it before mounting a (Fat32) USB stick or HD that I only need to read from, and quit it right after. That seems better for the file system than the Clean up non-Mac disks util I am using so far, just before unmounting them.

How much do you think this Quicksilver is worth?

2010-11-24 Thread Alex
I have a Quicksilver that has a dual 1.27 Sonnet Encore ST/G4 Duet (originally a dual 800), an ATI Radeon 9800 (128 MB) GPU, a 5 port USB 2.0 card (4 on the outside 1 on the inside) and a eSATA, SATA, and IDE card (all in one card). It runs Leopard very well and it is in good condition. It cost me

Re: How much do you think this Quicksilver is worth?

2010-11-24 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Nov 24, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Alex wrote: I have a Quicksilver that has a dual 1.27 Sonnet Encore ST/G4 Duet (originally a dual 800), an ATI Radeon 9800 (128 MB) GPU, a 5 port USB 2.0 card (4 on the outside 1 on the inside) and a eSATA, SATA, and IDE card (all in one card). It runs Leopard

Re: How much do you think this Quicksilver is worth?

2010-11-24 Thread Illirik Smirnov
I'd say $200, for people who want fastest OS9 support. Mainly for the SATA. Sent from a computer running either the SPARC, Itanium, or PowerPC architecture. On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 24, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Alex wrote: I have a

Giga Designs G-Celerator G4/1.0 AGP jumper settings – please help

2010-11-24 Thread Mac User #330250
Hi! I've acquired a Giga Designs G-Celerator G4/1.0 AGP (5-9310U) CPU unit that was running in a Power Mac G4 AGP (originally 350 MHz) *overclocked* at 1.2 GHz. It was running flawlessly at this speed, so I guess this greater than 20% overclocking is no problem for this very G4 CPU. The

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

2010-11-24 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/24 07:55, Dan so eloquently wrote: This has NOTHING to do with the media format. CD, DVD, Blu-Ray... those are just media, plastic discs that basically emulate random-access r/o hard drives. It's the codec used to encode/decode the video and audio data ON the media that's

Re: Giga Designs G-Celerator G4/1.0 AGP jumper settings – please help

2010-11-24 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Giga Designs G-Celerator G4/1.0 AGP jumper settings – please help Date:Mittwoch 24 November 2010N From:Mac User #330250 macuser330...@gmx.net To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Does anyone here possess a document that describes the

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

2010-11-24 Thread Dan
At 7:26 AM -0800 11/24/2010, Jonas Lopez wrote: Could a good server operator have done this processing for us and then downloaded the worked on file, so that the video would play just as good as a local DVD does? Yes, but... Keep in mind that these new $9 per month movie services may have

Re: USB stick read only

2010-11-24 Thread Dan
At 9:50 AM -0700 11/24/2010, Bruce Johnson wrote: Flash drives should be viewed as temporary or convenience storage ONLY. NEVER have the only copy of a file on one, because they do fail and fail unpredictably. Unless you're doing a hollywood thing and your last-century lamo plot requires