Re: Enabling 48 bit LBA on a Sawtooth

2011-01-09 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Enabling 48 bit LBA on a Sawtooth Date:Thursday, 06. January 2011 From:Mac User #330250 macuser330...@gmx.net To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com I've made a very small (10 GB, or was it 5??? I have to check) first partiton that has a

Re: Netflix

2011-01-09 Thread Mr. Oxmall
I recently quit Netflix due to their practice of throttling. It would take weeks (7-12) to get discs that were available at Blockbuster a month prior and at Redbox later on. The turn-around time was getting slower slower for delivery and the attitude of customer service was getting testier. I

Re: Enabling 48 bit LBA on a Sawtooth

2011-01-09 Thread Sean Carroll
To make a long story long... When I posed my questions, I had a 160 GB HD (recognized as 128 GB) and one of my old 40 GB HDs installed (no external HD). After seeing the answers, I sought an easy way to start over with the 160 GB HD that didn't involve *too* much starting over (building a fresh

Re: Enabling 48 bit LBA on a Sawtooth

2011-01-09 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Enabling 48 bit LBA on a Sawtooth Date:Sunday, 09. January 2011 From:Sean Carroll cedarwaxw...@att.net To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To make a long story long... Oh man. Sorry for this ill-fated adventure you went though

Re: Enabling 48 bit LBA on a Sawtooth

2011-01-09 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Enabling 48 bit LBA on a Sawtooth Date:Monday, 10. January 2011 From:Mac User #330250 macuser330...@gmx.net To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com BTW, from my understanding of things I'd go with the smaller partition / OS first, i.e.

Child Mac user advice needed

2011-01-09 Thread Jonas Lopez
Child Mac user advice needed PLEASE REPLY OFF LIST: Grandchild's parents asked me for Mac computer for kid 6, grade kindergarden, is this too young? I have NO EXPERIENCE with programs for children. Would a G3 work to start? Are there children programs for G3? Where, who, etc. --

Re: Child Mac user advice needed

2011-01-09 Thread Dana Collins
On 1/9/11 7:53 PM, Jonas Lopez of jonaslo...@yahoo.com sent Child Mac user advice needed PLEASE REPLY OFF LIST: Grandchild's parents asked me for Mac computer for kid 6, grade kindergarden, is this too young? I have NO EXPERIENCE with programs for children. Would a G3 work to start?

Re: Enabling 48 bit LBA on a Sawtooth

2011-01-09 Thread Sean Carroll
The boot files need to be below the 128 GB barrier, so this first partition should be below this limit anyhow. Andreas - no need to apologize. The above statement of yours was the clue that enabled me to put things together at last just after my last post. Having repartitioned the 160 GB HD

Re: G4 dual boot flat screen iMac won't boot into OS 9

2011-01-09 Thread Jane, (Portland, OR)
On Jan 6, 6:42 am, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Jan 6, 2011, at 6:34 AM, Geke wrote: Jane, do you have a backup image of your system? What you write sounds like it's damaged: 1. the OS 9 drivers are there and I have started up in 9 before. But it will NOT start up in 9

Re: Child Mac user advice needed

2011-01-09 Thread Albert Carter
Hi, If people can respond to this on list it would be great. For Christmas I gave my middle school son a G4 iBook 1.0 Ghz with 756MB of RAM and OS X 10.5.x. I was also wondering what software is available for a child of his age on a G4 Mac. Thank You, Albert From: John Carmonne

Re: Child Mac user advice needed

2011-01-09 Thread Jeff Bequette
Ohio Distinctive Software-many math, geography and games kids will play (and learn) I started my kids out when we were running OS 9. On Jan 9, 2011, at 7:32 PM, Dana Collins wrote: On 1/9/11 7:53 PM, Jonas Lopez of jonaslo...@yahoo.com sent Child Mac user advice needed PLEASE REPLY OFF

Re: Child Mac user advice needed

2011-01-09 Thread Dan
At 7:01 PM -0800 1/9/2011, Albert Carter wrote: For Christmas I gave my middle school son a G4 iBook 1.0 Ghz with 756MB of RAM and OS X 10.5.x. Great! wondering what software is available for a child of his age on a G4 Mac. XCode - a free download from Apple. And a text book to go with