On 1/3/11 9:04 PM, Dan wrote:
At 12:07 AM -0500 1/4/2011, Yersinia wrote:
On 1/3/11 10:26 PM, Dan wrote:
At 6:52 PM -0800 1/3/2011, Jeffrey Daile Engle wrote:
I want to know where the Folder is that holds the trash? is there
such thing?
And what are you plotting to do to them?
In your
On 03/01/11 8:26 PM, Dan wrote:
And what are you plotting to do to them?
In your home folder, there's ~/.Trash
and up at the root level of the volume is /.Trashes
Because the names start with a dot, they're automagically invisible to
Finder
I would like to delete them as no combination of
At 11:54 PM -0500 1/3/2011, Bill Connelly wrote:
On Jan 3, 2011, at 10:22 PM, peter wrote:
It's just the windows, text, certain icons at the top of the screen
(Growl,
Is Growl trying to tell you something is happening in the
background? Incoming call or something?
Not sure how Growl works,
On 03/01/11 11:04 PM, Dan wrote:
You spray them with anti-invisible spray!
dans-quicksilver:~ dan$ ls -al
drwx--6 dan dan 204 Jan 3 22:18 .Trash
dans-quicksilver:~ dan$ ls -al /
d-wx-wx-wt2 root admin 68 Aug 21 2008 .Trashes
You can view their contents with ls
At 8:10 AM -0700 1/4/2011, Nestamicky wrote:
On 03/01/11 8:26 PM, Dan wrote:
And what are you plotting to do to them?
I would like to delete them as no combination of commands can empty
my trash can.
Hold down the option key while selecting Empty Trash from the menu.
If that doesn't work
On 03/01/11 10:16 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Yes it DOES have to do with the video card. 10.4 offloads a bunch of processing
to the video GPU if possible (and it's not just Core Video stuff).
Was this an error on Apple's side. Was it fixed in 10.5. Why would they
do this? Could this explain
On 03/01/11 10:52 AM, John Carmonne wrote:
Streaming video is MUCH more CPU intensive than DVD playback. (This was
covered in exhaustive detail on this list a month or so back), so
anything that can be moved to the much-faster GPU really makes a difference.
John,
What Bruce is really saying
On Jan 4, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Nestamicky wrote:
On 03/01/11 8:26 PM, Dan wrote:
And what are you plotting to do to them?
In your home folder, there's ~/.Trash
and up at the root level of the volume is /.Trashes
Because the names start with a dot, they're automagically invisible
to
On Jan 4, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Nestamicky wrote:
On 03/01/11 10:16 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Yes it DOES have to do with the video card. 10.4 offloads a bunch of
processing to the video GPU if possible (and it's not just Core Video stuff).
Was this an error on Apple's side.
?? No this was a
On Jan 3, 11:16 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
Yes it DOES have to do with the video card. 10.4 offloads a bunch of
processing to the video GPU if possible (and it's not just Core Video stuff).
Streaming video is MUCH more CPU intensive than DVD playback. (This was
If you needed to reboot to clear things then *something else* is doing this.
- Dan.
OK Dan,
When I get home I will go back into console to find the errors, but
the only other things I saw were some droped frame errors from VLC
earier in the day. I did have VLC, Mail, EyeTV Light, Remote
There are two things I'd like to make booting OS 9 on my MDDs really
usable, but I'm not even sure if they exist.
The first is a utility to open and close the optical drive trays.
The second is a utility or extension to control the fan speed. This
need not be user control, automated control of
On Jan 2, 1:24 pm, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
I seem to have run into a bottle neck on my Cube 1.2GHz 1.5 GB RAM in that I
can't get aYouTubeto play smooth and iChat is out of sync on the sound along
with very jumpy video. My G4 MDD 1.25 is 100 % better than the Cube. Can
this
Thanks for all the suggestions. No smell or sign of coolant leaks.
The machine has a Sonnet SATA add on hard drive expansion bay for up
to three more drives. I had two additional drives installed. I have
copied the files and removed one of the drives and the computer has
not shut down since.
At 8:52 AM -0800 1/4/2011, imrazor wrote:
Interesting. I thought the reason that VLC handles video playback on
older Macs (this is true, right?) was that it offloaded a lot of
video processing to the video card, whereas iTunes/Quicktime did
not. Have I been misinformed?
VLC does NOT use the
At 9:21 AM -0800 1/4/2011, peter wrote:
Any other ideas about what it could be? Again, I don't see any
difference in performance. It's more of an agervation.
Very strange!
Um... Reseat the video card. Then disconnect, clean, reseat the
video cable. Also check power - make sure nothing is
To make this easier, I am going to reply to each of you in this one
email. The problem:
I have a G4 flat screen iMac (the kind with the half ball on the
bottom) that is supposed to boot into OS 9 and X. I am running
10.4.11. I tried booting into 9 and it won't do it. Classic will run
OK, though.
An update:
The hard drive noise that gave rise to this thread turned out to be
the fan after all. (Took my own advice, though rather backwardly, and
turned on the computer with no HDs connected.) The fan near the hard
drives, not the power supply fan - I think. It can be easily replaced,
looks
Dan,
I have signed up for the Mac Pro group and received the google group
email. However, I have not received any Mac Pro emails. I'm moving from
this list (g3-5) to the Mac Pro and have some questions but don't know
how to get into the group. Would love some help! or anyone else . . .
In
On Jan 4, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Joan Duncan wrote:
my lovely 22 Mac Cinemas screen needs a ADC to div connector for the Mac
Pro. I'm thinking that I might can get a monitor for under $200 instead of
paying $100 for the connector. But I'm very nervous about buying some other
22 monitor. Any
On Jan 4, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Sean Carroll wrote:
Evidently, there were G4s (such as certain Sawtooths) infamous as
Windtunnel G4s (source: Wikipedia) because of noisy fans. I didn't
know. The question is, noisy how?
The 'Wind Tunnel' G4's were very early Mirror Drive Door models, and the
On Jan 3, 2011, at 10:55 AM, Leo Hoyt wrote:
I have a dual 2.7 Ghz PPC G5 w/ 4.5 GB ram. The machine recently
started powering off without warning. Is this signs of a power supply
failing? If so how hard are the power supplies to replace in these
towers?
Thanks for the help.
Leo
The
On Jan 3, 2011, at 6:28 AM, Dan wrote:
At 1:48 PM -0800 1/2/2011, John Carmonne wrote:
3 GB's per second Time Warner RoadRunner turbo Talladega Fast
Run some traceroutes to the destination, to make sure there isn't a
problem between you.
This is not happening when using the G4 MDD, G5
On Jan 3, 2011, at 10:04 PM, Dan wrote:
At 12:07 AM -0500 1/4/2011, Yersinia wrote:
On 1/3/11 10:26 PM, Dan wrote:
At 6:52 PM -0800 1/3/2011, Jeffrey Daile Engle wrote:
I want to know where the Folder is that holds the trash? is there such
thing?
If you have Time Machine just open the
has anyone tried one of these upgrades? the 7447A or 7448?
i have a Sawtooth G4 that i'd like to use for Photoshop CS5. i know
it won't be blazing fast with either of these upgrades.
does anyone have experience with either of these? the company's web
site shows comparative speed data between
* The DVD burner drive I installed, an IBM-branded Hitachi HL_DT_ST G10N, is
recognized only as a CD reader. It won't burn DVDs and blank DVDs are simply
ejected. I don't know anything about locating Mac drivers or if that is even
necessary. I want to burn some DMGs or audio CDs from
Assuming you've already installed the 4.4.8 firmware update?
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1179?viewlocale=en_US
It says it offers The Power Mac G4 Firmware Update 4.4.8 improves fan
control behavior and reduces high speed fan cycling when running in
Mac OS 9.
You can apparently also get it
On Jan 4, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Leo Hoyt wrote:
Thanks for all the suggestions. No smell or sign of coolant leaks.
The machine has a Sonnet SATA add on hard drive expansion bay for up
to three more drives. I had two additional drives installed. I have
copied the files and removed one of the
On Jan 4, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Dan wrote:
To elaborate a bit... DVD-Video is low-compression MPEG-2. Easy
to play, even on a very slow machine. Streamed video is highly
compressed Flash or MPEG-4 H.264. Very CPU intensive to decompress
and decode -- and that's before the GPU
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 3:31 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
On Jan 2, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Greg Kennedy wrote:
After some more time of thinking about it, I'm considering going with a
really crazy solution and using 9.2.3 on the machine + Logic 6.4.3 + Pro
Tools Free (if I can find
On Jan 4, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jan 4, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Joan Duncan wrote:
my lovely 22 Mac Cinemas screen needs a ADC to div connector for the Mac
Pro. I'm thinking that I might can get a monitor for under $200 instead of
paying $100 for the connector. But I'm
hey all, - after some HD craziness, i purged all safari files from the
library and did a clean install of safari 4.1.3 (under X.4.11), and i
was able to import all of my bookmarks from the old library files.
but i can't find a way to import the old browsing history. anyone
know of a way to do
On Jan 4, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
VueScan makes good monitors;
I meant Viewsonic...
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I love my adc 23 apple cinema display. Keep the adc.
On Jan 4, 2011, at 6:45 PM, Joan Duncan jn...@q.com wrote:
my lovely 22 Mac Cinemas screen needs a ADC to div connector for the Mac Pro.
I'm thinking that I might can get a monitor for under $200 instead of paying
$100 for the connector.
On Jan 4, 2011, at 8:03 AM, faithie999 wrote:
has anyone tried one of these upgrades? the 7447A or 7448?
i have a Sawtooth G4 that i'd like to use for Photoshop CS5. i know
it won't be blazing fast with either of these upgrades.
does anyone have experience with either of these? the company's
Adobe says that you need a Mac with an intel processor to run
Photoshop CS5.
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Greg Kennedy wrote:
Assuming you've already installed the 4.4.8 firmware update?
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1179?viewlocale=en_US
It says it offers The Power Mac G4 Firmware Update 4.4.8 improves fan
control behavior and reduces high speed fan cycling when running in
Mac OS 9.
You can
These are tough to find in stock any more, except at OWC where the
7448 dual 1.8 is $779.99. I sometimes wonder if their claims about
the speed can be true ...
Right, and particularly so as Freescale has NOT been making any PPC chips
for Macs which are faster than 1.4 GHz for years.
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