Re: Ungrateful Apple abandons older Mac service

2010-12-03 Thread Ted Treen
From: James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, 3 December, 2010 2:19:22 Subject: Re: Ungrateful Apple abandons older Mac service On Dec 2, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Yersinia wrote: On 12/2/10 7:54 PM, James Therrault

Re: Word list Generator???

2010-12-03 Thread Geke
I need a generator that could give me a txt file of, for example, every possible combination of the numbers 1234567890, or letters abcdefg. I might be dreaming here. (One Jonas ate up the other’s topic, but it all comes back:) This thing may be doing what you want, but you need to have Python

Re: Ungrateful Apple abandons older Mac service

2010-12-03 Thread James Therrault
On Dec 3, 2010, at 3:05 AM, Ted Treen wrote: On Dec 2, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Yersinia wrote: On 12/2/10 7:54 PM, James Therrault wrote: Yesh. Personally, I think I'll just stay indoors during a thunder-and-lightning storm! :-O Hiding under the bed might offer even more

Re: Question about Quicksilver

2010-12-03 Thread Charles Lenington
On 11/30/10 4:42 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Twice in one day my G4 Quicksilver shut down snip--- Also, any ideas where I can get a DC5V power cord for a USB 4-Port Hub? It is a Belkin Model F5U014-OE So far Radio (Rat) Shack and Walmart are a bust for a power cord with changeable tips

Re: Quicksilver Freezes during software update

2010-12-03 Thread Bill Connelly
On Dec 2, 2010, at 9:29 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: Ok. So I ran disk utility, and left the machine unattended. It fell asleep after the verification came back OK. When I woke it up, it froze the same way it did before. I'm realizing that every time I ran the software update, the computer

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-03 Thread Al Poulin
One possible trick to retrieve data, place unit in freezer overnight and try again. Also, look at this thread in the leopardlist: http://groups.google.com/group/leopardlist/browse_thread/thread/38989eeb976f41fa Disk Warrior or Drive Genius? Al Poulin -- You received this message because you

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-03 Thread Tom
Yes, John, the drive was a fairly new one and OWC may well replace it if I can find the receipt and warranty among my mounds of paperwork. But replacing the drive is a minor issue to me compared to retrieving the data on the dead one. I don't blame OWC for the current state of computer technology;

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-03 Thread John Martz
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote: Yes, John, the drive was a fairly new one and OWC may well replace it if I can find the receipt and warranty among my mounds of paperwork. Your receipt should be available online as part of your ordering information for your account

Re: Ungrateful Apple abandons older Mac service

2010-12-03 Thread Dan
At 4:28 PM -0800 12/2/2010, Clark Martin wrote: The tires are not made of pure rubber. They are made from a blend of rubber, synthetics, metallics, etc. Then there are those pesky steel belts. IOW, your tires are *great* conductors. They are (luckily!) NOT insulators. Incorrect, tires are

Re: Quicksilver Freezes during software update

2010-12-03 Thread Jonas Ulrich
Thanks for all the replies so far! Just to be clear, it didn't go to sleep DURING the software update, only after the updates were finished and the computer was idle. There aren't any extra PCI devices, and I'm pretty sure the video card is stock. It's an NVidia Geforce 2MX. I just checked to

Re: Changing the subject: WAS: Ungrateful Apple abandons older Mac service

2010-12-03 Thread Geke
OK then, to finish it off my 2¢ worth :-) If your car got hit by lightning, it will probably hold a charge. But you can drive it close to a lamppost or something, and open the door a bit to just touch that thing. That should discharge the car, and you have saved Sparky’s life!!! -- You received

Re: how do i stop these emails its been a year now!!

2010-12-03 Thread Doug McNutt
An unsubscribe request will likely require a confirmation in the form of a reply to an email which will be sent from the list owner. After doing a proper request be sure to watch for a confirmation message that might not make it through your spam filters because it won't match the list address

G4 933 quicksilver

2010-12-03 Thread Barney Guzzo
Im following some threads because my quicksilver 933 is acting up. It hangs when I try to run any kind of maintenance program (TTP, Onyx, Disk utility, etc etc). It just goes blank when I try to switch a user or shut down and have to restart constantly. My question is when I open activity

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-03 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 03-12-2010 01:30, Tom, tba...@nmia.com, wrote: With that established, what to do now, if anything? Bash the drive with a hammer, freeze it in the freezer--anything at all--to somehow make it show on the desktop, at least long enough to get the data off it? Ask Drew Janssen

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-03 Thread Clark Martin
On Dec 3, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Tom wrote: Yes, John, the drive was a fairly new one and OWC may well replace it if I can find the receipt and warranty among my mounds of paperwork. But replacing the drive is a minor issue to me compared to retrieving the data on the dead one. I don't blame OWC

Fwd: pic

2010-12-03 Thread John Callahan
Somehow I have gotten a picture on my e-mails, I do not know how it got there and I do not know how to get it off. Can anyone help? Thanks -- 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

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 3, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Tom wrote: Thanks for the freezer suggestion, Al. I've heard of that treatment, too. Freezing things shrinks them and frees up stuck parts temporarily. It also causes broken electronics to not overheat as fast. My drive isn't stuck, though; it spins up freely,

Re: Fwd: pic

2010-12-03 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/12/03 14:29, John Callahan so eloquently wrote: Somehow I have gotten a picture on my e-mails, I do not know how it got there and I do not know how to get it off. Can anyone help? That's not really enough information to be of help. What application are you using? Is this picture on

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-03 Thread iJohn
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: What CAN be done is sending it off to a drive recovery place like DriveSavers. It's quite pricey, though: last time I checked, Drive Savers starts at $750 for recovery, and goes on up to about $2500 for normal

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 3, 2010, at 3:57 PM, iJohn wrote: I wonder, does the $2500 cover the cost of one of their techs disassembling the drive in a clean room and trying to tease bits off the bare platters? (Do they even still use that approach or has the retrieval technology moved on to other approaches?)

Re: pic

2010-12-03 Thread John Callahan
On Dec 3, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Tina K. wrote: That's not really enough information to be of help. What application are you using? Is this picture on inbound or outbound messages? Is the picture of you or someone you know? Is it at the very top of the message with the headers, or is it in

Re: pic

2010-12-03 Thread Jeffrey Engle
John, simply remove the picture from your address book. done. Jeff -- 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

Re: pic

2010-12-03 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/12/03 16:11, John Callahan so eloquently wrote: I'm using Mail Version 2.1.3 The pictures appear on my copy of outbound , my Cc: The picture is of a very good friend of mine, myself. The picture is at the top right of the text portion of the message. Thanks for remarking on my eloquence,

Re: pic

2010-12-03 Thread John Callahan
On Dec 3, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: John, simply remove the picture from your address book. done. Jeff That's great, wonder how it got there? Thank you I'm not as young as I used to be But I'm not as old as I'm going to be! SO WATCH IT!!! -- You received this message because

Re: pic

2010-12-03 Thread John Callahan
On Dec 3, 2010, at 6:52 PM, Tina K. wrote: Thanks Tina, got it. I'm not as young as I used to be But I'm not as old as I'm going to be! SO WATCH IT!!! -- 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

Re: G4 933 quicksilver

2010-12-03 Thread Dan
At 10:57 AM -0800 12/3/2010, Barney Guzzo wrote: G4 933 1 gig ram, 250 gb Seagate 7200 .8 hard drive (ata), WD 128 drive (ata), internal 500 Gb Seagate 7200.12 sata drive with pci sata card, Gigabit ethernet card, Sonnet 4 port pci usb 2.0 card. OS? hangs when I try to run any kind of

Re: pic

2010-12-03 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 3, 2010, at 8:05 PM, John Callahan wrote: That's great, wonder how it got there? When you install OS X on any Mac that has a built-in webcam it takes a photo of the person sitting at the computer and uses that photo as the ~user login icon, which is also copied into Address Book

Beating a dead horse? - Flashing PC video cards for a Power Mac

2010-12-03 Thread Justin The Cynical
It's been a while since I looked into this, and I'm not finding much now. I recently brought my old 733 Digital Audio back to life. Currently it's sporting a modified 5200 from a G5, but after digging in my parts pile, I've found a 9600XT from Sapphire. Looking around on google, I'm only

Re: G4 933 quicksilver

2010-12-03 Thread Baldassare Guzzo
OS is 10.4.11 User log in items shows HP scan jet manager, iTunes helper, palm desktop background, and iCalAlarmScheduler. I have not used palm desktop in a very long time I will try booting in safe mode tonight and let you know. Console log shows lots of stuff but Im not sure what to

Re: Beating a dead horse? - Flashing PC video cards for a Power Mac

2010-12-03 Thread Bill Connelly
On Dec 4, 2010, at 12:04 AM, Justin The Cynical wrote: It's been a while since I looked into this, and I'm not finding much now. . So, does anyone know of an active site, IRC channel, or even still have the info for doing this? I'd be interested in what folks have to offer,