Re: Better bootloader

2011-02-24 Thread Vic
On Feb 20, 10:54 pm, Nestamicky nestami...@gmail.com wrote: On 20/02/11 6:44 PM, Tina K. wrote: Is there a better way of getting the option to select which OS to boot to, in a dual boot (OS X 10.5 and Server) than holding down the Option key at startup? Perhaps a GUI bootloader that he

Re: Better bootloader

2011-02-24 Thread Nestamicky
On 24/02/11 6:31 AM, Vic wrote: On Feb 20, 10:54 pm, Nestamickynestami...@gmail.com wrote: On 20/02/11 6:44 PM, Tina K. wrote: Is there a better way of getting the option to select which OS to boot to, in a dual boot (OS X 10.5 and Server) than holding down the Option key at

Live TV on PM G5

2011-02-24 Thread John Carmonne
I have a PM G5 that I want to watch live cable TV news and market channels. CNBC, FNC, MSNBC and CNN. I'm having trouble finding an internet service for this. Does anyone out there do this and with what service, I see some but they are files not live. John Carmonne Yorba Linda CA 92886 USA

Re: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X -- free today!

2011-02-24 Thread Dan
At 4:22 PM -0500 2/23/2011, Dan wrote: At 12:54 PM -0800 2/23/2011, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I just pushed the back button and re-entered the serial info again and woohoo! it worked fine. Just tried that. No go. :\ And the plot thickens... Their official support reply to me is: \\ thank

Re: Do not understand how to send html emails on my G4 Mac

2011-02-24 Thread Dan
At 4:27 PM -0800 2/22/2011, Jonas Lopez wrote: Do not understand how to send html emails I keep getting them and now I need to send one or so. How do you do this on my G4 10.4 using yahoo etc. Just give an element of the email a non-default style -- center the lines, bold, bigger font, etc.

Re: Would you trust this ebay seller?

2011-02-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 19, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Ashgrove salum...@gmail.com wrote: The NERVE! Why haven't they been kicked out of the LEM Swap? Oh, wait, they're not on the Swap... The LEM lists owner does that for his own protection. Apple can sue for that kind of stuff. Smalldog may have an agreement in

Re: Would you trust this ebay seller?

2011-02-24 Thread t...@io.com
On Feb 23, 9:49 am, Bruce - in Orlando bhossfi...@bellsouth.net wrote: Not true.  I direct your attention to:http://lowendmac.com/musings/07/0522.html Also, I should note that the ebay auction stated: Applies to Following Computers: Power Macintosh G3 (Blue White) and Power Mac G4 (all

Re: App to Delete Unused Languages, Printers, Modems

2011-02-24 Thread Yersinia
On 2/24/11 1:35 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: Barney Guzzo wrote: Where do you get 1.3.9? Yersinia wrote: Yeah, good question. http://sourceforge.net/projects/monolingual/files/monolingual/ Thank you Kris. I just downloaded it now. :-) -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox

2011-02-24 Thread James E. Therrault
On Feb 23, 2011, at 9:26 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: On Feb 22, 12:45 am, James E. Therrault mjrtas...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: I suspect a s/w problem/conflict but that's just a guess based on years of experience with nutscrape, mozilla,

Re: App to Delete Unused Languages, Printers, Modems

2011-02-24 Thread Yersinia
On 2/24/11 2:34 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 24, 2011, at 1:16 AM, Judith Berkowitz wrote: what should I choose to clear out in the Input Menu category? You can clear out all the foreign language input methods that you don't normally write or speak. You probably should keep the Apple

Re: Do not understand how to send html emails on my G4 Mac

2011-02-24 Thread t...@io.com
On Feb 22, 6:27 pm, Jonas Lopez jonaslo...@yahoo.com wrote: Do not understand how to send html emails I keep getting them and now I need to send one or so. How do you do this on my G4 10.4 using yahoo etc. There is *NEVER* a need to send html emails. Send plain text. If you must refer

Re: Live TV on PM G5

2011-02-24 Thread Dan
At 6:05 AM -0800 2/24/2011, John Carmonne wrote: I have a PM G5 that I want to watch live cable TV news and market channels. CNBC, FNC, MSNBC and CNN. I'm having trouble finding an internet service for this. Does anyone out there do this and with what service, I see some but they are files not

Re: Worth the added cost?

2011-02-24 Thread peterhaas
I think a good quality SATA control is worth it. The performance is sweet. And you'll save a bit down the road as SATA HD prices get lower and lower and lower. The capacity of IDE/PATA drives have already topped-out, and there is no more market for, or interest in improved capacity IDE/PATA

Re: Do not understand how to send html emails on my G4 Mac

2011-02-24 Thread M Christol
On 2/22/11 7:27 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: Do not understand how to send html emails I keep getting them and now I need to send one or so. How do you do this on my G4 10.4 using yahoo etc. Thanks for your help. JML I am not sure what your problem is. What are you using to compose the

Re: MDD problem

2011-02-24 Thread Jörg Duurkoop
Hi, I had my PSU repaired (and upgraded as the guy that does it claims that he replaces all the failure-prone parts too and gives a 3-year warranty). Today I put it in my MDD, connected the big black connector to the mainboard, connected two of my startup-disks, monitor, kb and mouse. When I

Re: My DA G4 is Deceased

2011-02-24 Thread Dan
At 4:44 PM -0800 2/23/2011, smac0031 wrote: SW Michigan got hit by a snow and freezing rainstorm Sunday. My power went out and the next afternoon when it came back on my DA G4 would do nothing when you press the power button. First of all both HDs both Seagate Barracuda 7200 ATA Ultra's are

Re: App to Delete Unused Languages, Printers, Modems

2011-02-24 Thread Baldassare Guzzo
Thanks On Feb 24, 2011, at 1:35 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: Barney Guzzo wrote: Where do you get 1.3.9? Yersinia wrote: Yeah, good question. http://sourceforge.net/projects/monolingual/files/monolingual/ -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Apple laptop advice

2011-02-24 Thread Fluxstringer
New MacBook Pro Laptops are out which is a problem in itself. So we have seen some concern here for mac laptop users who have concerns about staying wiht Mac this week The question is exactly how much can one expect from a $ 5 - 600 Low end Mac laptop? What shounld one look for? What OS will

Re: Do not understand how to send html emails on my G4 Mac

2011-02-24 Thread Doug McNutt
At 12:28 -0500 2/24/11, M Christol wrote, and I snipped: It's easy in Thunderbird. Pretty easy in Outlook. Not so easy in Mail as it prefers RTF. My main problem is trying to get my wife to send plain text email from Apple's OS X mail application. All I ever get is three lines of text in a 300

Re: Live TV on PM G5

2011-02-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:05 AM, John Carmonne wrote: I have a PM G5 that I want to watch live cable TV news and market channels. CNBC, FNC, MSNBC and CNN. I'm having trouble finding an internet service for this. Yes, that's the way they want it. Now everyone pays for cable TV AND internet,

Re: Better bootloader

2011-02-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Nestamicky wrote: Thanks for your input. But I was looking for an application that won't require that sort of interation. Something that we could see with Chameleon, for example. I use Chameleon every day, and it requires at least as much interaction as

Re: Apple laptop advice

2011-02-24 Thread Dan
At 11:43 AM -0800 2/24/2011, Fluxstringer wrote: New MacBook Pro Laptops are out which is a problem in itself. Yea. Transition machines -- rev 0 -- mostly new motherboards, wholly new processors (Sandy Bridge), wholly new interface (Thunderbolt, aka Light Peak), and those pesky recalled i/o

Re: App to Delete Unused Languages, Printers, Modems

2011-02-24 Thread Judith Berkowitz
On Feb 23, 8:48 pm, Barney Guzzo guz...@gmail.com wrote: Where do you get 1.3.9? I went to my usual places and all I see is the new version for 10.5 http://sourceforge.net/projects/monolingual/files/monolingual/1.3.9/ Monolingual-1.3.9.dmg/download available via

Re: Apple laptop advice

2011-02-24 Thread iJohn
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: Apple has just plain abandoned users who cannot afford 13-14 k as a base price for a laptop. I'm confused. Did you mean to include a decimal point in that ball park base price estimate? The (Apple) prices I saw quoted

Re: App to Delete Unused Languages, Printers, Modems

2011-02-24 Thread Judith Berkowitz
On Feb 24, 2011, at 1:16 AM, Judith Berkowitz wrote: what should I choose to clear out in the Input Menu category of Monolingual? On Feb 23, 11:34 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: You can clear out all the foreign language input methods that you   don't normally write or speak.

Re: Apple laptop advice

2011-02-24 Thread Mike Linnett
I'm not sure what the question is, really, but Apple has never made a (RRP) $600 laptop. If I was shopping for a new mac laptop today, I'd be after the 2010 13 inch MBP (they look to be about $800 refurb right now, so I might leave it a while, or shop around). Failing that, I'd go back a bit

GeForce FX 5200 causing kernel panics on Sawtooth running Tiger

2011-02-24 Thread Sean Carroll
I've been unable to get this new graphics card to work properly. It's the only failure of an otherwise successful upgrade project (Sonnet ST/ G4 1.0 GHz CPU, SATA card and HD, and USB 2.0 card were the other items). I finally spoke with Bob at OHS, and he says the kernel panics are due to the

Re: Better bootloader

2011-02-24 Thread nestamicky
On 2/24/2011 1:09 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: I use Chameleon every day, and it requires at least as much interaction as pressing the Option key. The Chameleon GUI looks nicer, but that's esthetics rather than functionality. Thanks, Kris. Are you able to point me in the right direction to get the

Re: Better bootloader

2011-02-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 24, 2011, at 4:50 PM, nestamicky wrote: Thanks, Kris. Are you able to point me in the right direction to get the right version for Chameleon that will work on a PPC machine? There's no such thing as Chameleon for a PPC Mac. It's open source, but I think it's much more complicated

Re: Apple laptop advice

2011-02-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 24, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Mike Linnett wrote: I'm not sure what the question is, really, but Apple has never made a (RRP) $600 laptop. iPad is the $500 portable Mac. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs -

Re: GeForce FX 5200 causing kernel panics on Sawtooth running Tiger

2011-02-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 24, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: I finally spoke with Bob at OHS, and he says the kernel panics are due to the power supply being inadequate for the new card. I may swap it back for something else. But a question has occurred that didn't have time to during that conversation.

Re: GeForce FX 5200 causing kernel panics on Sawtooth running Tiger

2011-02-24 Thread ricardo ferreira
i dont no if someone ask you this the geforce is mac original hardware or pc flash card? -- 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

Re: Browsers

2011-02-24 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/02/23 21:41, Richard Gerome so eloquently wrote: Have you tried Flock ? It works pretty good on my G3 466 Clamshell with 576mb and a 7200rpm HD!!! It really works great on my Tibook A1025 too!!! It runs faster then Camino did... Being a WebKit browser Flock will use just as much RAM

Re: Browsers

2011-02-24 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/02/23 15:12, Dan Palka so eloquently wrote: No sense worrying one's self over a few MB when it really isn't going to make that much of a difference. Thank you Dan, but in this case the difference between the memory usage of WebKit and Gecko is enough to force my system to write a lot

Re: GeForce FX 5200 causing kernel panics on Sawtooth running Tiger

2011-02-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 24, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: I've been unable to get this new graphics card to work properly. It's the only failure of an otherwise successful upgrade project (Sonnet ST/ G4 1.0 GHz CPU, SATA card and HD, and USB 2.0 card were the other items). I finally spoke with Bob at

Re: GeForce FX 5200 causing kernel panics on Sawtooth running Tiger

2011-02-24 Thread Sean Carroll
No display issues at all. The card works in that sense. Bruce, I'd appreciate it if you could look into the thread Sawtooth/ Tiger boot problems (I was unfortunately unaware of the precise nature of the problem at the time of the original post) for some background on my problem. Kris has been

Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox

2011-02-24 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/02/23 20:22, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: On Feb 21, 8:54 pm, Tina K.penguir...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011/02/21 18:02, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: I am running the latest Snow Leopard and Firefox. All of a sudden, I keep getting the spinning beach ball of

Re: Apple laptop advice

2011-02-24 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Feb 24, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Mike Linnett wrote: I'm not sure what the question is, really, but Apple has never made a (RRP) $600 laptop. This is Low End Mac. Used computers sell for less than new. Amd the point is MS OS

Re: GeForce FX 5200 causing kernel panics on Sawtooth running Tiger

2011-02-24 Thread Sean Carroll
i dont no if someone ask you this the geforce is mac original hardware or pc flash card? I have been told by a G-Groups person that it is definitely a flashed PC card manufactured by Zogis, something that was not mentioned on the OHS website, perhaps because it's common knowledge that many or

Re: App to Delete Unused Languages, Printers, Modems

2011-02-24 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/02/24 15:16, Judith Berkowitz so eloquently wrote: But here's something odd: I ran Monolingual on the Languages again, and lo and behold, it cleared 422MB of space! It appears that the first go-round of running it yesterday on Languages didn't take. Did you install or update any

Re: Video Card/Monitor Question

2011-02-24 Thread Stephen Conrad
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Barney Guzzo guz...@gmail.com wrote: The 9000 doesn't support core image. I think 9600 9700 and 9800 do. Thanks for the info Barney. Is it vital to have Core Image? On Feb 23, 2011 11:33 PM, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote: Does this mean the

Re: Apple laptop advice

2011-02-24 Thread Kris Tilford
iPad is the $500 portable Mac. And a wonderful little netpad it is. One that is too weak for much graphic work or standard app. Yes, but with web 2.0, cloud computing, and web applications emerging, you can use this web-based power to leverage iPad from within a browser window. -- You

Re: GeForce FX 5200 causing kernel panics on Sawtooth running Tiger

2011-02-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 24, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: according to the OHS website. ??? -- 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

Re: GeForce FX 5200 causing kernel panics on Sawtooth running Tiger

2011-02-24 Thread Sean Carroll
according to the OHS website. ??? http://stn2.headgap.com/resale/FMPro?-token=13633003- db=ProductsC.fp3-lay=WEB-format=items.htm-sortfield=SortID- Max=40category=monitors-find Scroll down to the 5th item, or if this link doesn't work the way I think it should, Click to Enter Store

Re: Better bootloader

2011-02-24 Thread iJohn
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:50 PM, nestamicky nestami...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Kris. Are you able to point me in the right direction to get the right version for Chameleon that will work on a PPC machine? As you already pointed out, Chameleon is written to work for Hackintoshes. In other