Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-17 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 16, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Tina K. wrote: He said that YouTube is like a slide show. (His opinion!) Is there a way to speed up the processor? YouTube is available in several formats, and there are ways to avoid Flash and force the use of the WebM HTML5 format instead. It may be faster

Re: Which would be the better Mac?

2011-03-17 Thread Daniel Stewart
Well I appreciate all the advice. I have a lot more to think about now. What got me started on all this was the fact that my Blueberry Apple Studio Display CRT(the one that went with the Power Mac G3 BW) is no more and I thought I might be able to get what seemed at least on the surface a faster

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-17 Thread Geke
YouTube is heavy on the computer, unfortunately it's as simple as that. You can improve the display by not using full-screen mode, and by using a low-resolution alternative stream as pointed out by the other posters. Or see if you can increase the computer's RAM, and maybe install a clean OS. Re.

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-17 Thread Mike
I would be interested if MacTubes works on your Mac. That is the only way they play reliably on my G4 with a 1ghz Sonnet card (dual 450's before). http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/28608/mactubes Note on MacTubes: Change the video player to Quicktime (Player menu, Player sub-menu), and as

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-17 Thread Alex Barnes
You should use TenFourFox. It is designed for G4 processors and will run better than Safari. It can also use all the FireFox add-ons. He would probably have better luck using YouTube's HTML 5 option, perhaps even uninstalling Flash and using Safari with the browser ID set to Safari iPad.

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-17 Thread John Carmonne
On Mar 17, 2011, at 7:27 AM, Alex Barnes wrote: You can't replace the processor but you can replace the motherboard with a faster one. The best thing you can do is to sell it and get a PowerMac G4 with dual processors (preferably a MDD) my Quicksilver with a dual 1.3 processor upgrade,

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-17 Thread Jonas Lopez
We are not all as smart as a few of you, so what the heck is a TOP SITE? I reread all the posts and still do not understand. === --- On Wed, 3/16/11, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dan dantear...@gmail.com Subject:

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 16, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: We are not all as smart as a few of you, so what the heck is a TOP SITE? I reread all the posts and still do not understand. This is a feature of Safari 4 and above. http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/safari-4-top-sites-first-look/ It

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Alex Barnes
Why does anyone care about rich text/plain text. This isn't the 90's anymore! If your computer can't read rich text then you need to do some serious updates! My PowerBook 1400 can read rich text on Gmail's website! Why can't the list managers make some kind of a rich text block on the lists

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Alex Barnes wrote: Why does anyone care about rich text/plain text. This isn't the 90's anymore! If your computer can't read rich text then you need to do some serious updates! My PowerBook 1400 can read rich text on Gmail's website!

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Alex Barnes
Oh. So is that why the nannies say no to rich text? http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/ihatehtmlmail.pdf If you can't state your problem with your words, all the ransom-note typography and hopping smileys will not help your case. -- You received this message because you are a

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Alex Barnes wrote: Oh. So is that why the nannies say no to rich text? You'll have to ask them. It's a long-standing rule on the LEM lists, and frankly, I've rarely seen any instance where rich text adds any useful information, and when you have a mashed up

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Dan
At 12:31 PM -0500 3/17/2011, Alex Barnes wrote: [top posting, yadda yadda yadda] http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/ihatehtmlmail.pdf If you can't state your problem with your words, all the ransom-note typography and hopping smileys will not help your case. Oh. So is that why the

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Alex Barnes
I use Mail in 10.6 but I have it set to display rich text. Now I see why it's hated. On Mar 17, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Alex Barnes wrote: Oh. So is that why the nannies say no to rich text? You'll have to ask them. It's a long-standing

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Alex Barnes wrote: I use Mail in 10.6 but I have it set to display rich text. Now I see why it's hated. Do this: Quit Mail. Open terminal, and enter the following: defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool TRUE Start Mail again. Now your eyes, in

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-17 Thread JoeTaxpayer
On Mar 16, 7:11 pm, Jonas Lopez jonaslo...@yahoo.com wrote: We are not all as smart as a few of you, so what the heck is a TOP SITE? I reread all the posts and still do not understand. It's not even that. I use firefox, really prefer it. I was aware of the iTune-like window thing, but never

Re: RAID Backup

2011-03-17 Thread Dan
Another tidbit about raid: http://www.ghen.be/raid.jpg - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 17, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Alex Barnes wrote: Why does anyone care about rich text/plain text. People that care use correct grammar and punctuation. They also tend to bottom post or interleave their replies because they believe top posting is rude. Bruce has posted a good example of

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Alex Barnes
Ok... I won't use read I'll use display. Sounds like you've done some serious updating if your PowerBook 1400 has a consciousness and can read. My computers lack consciousness and are limited to dumb tricks like being able to display rich text, or synthesize speech from text. I'd love to

Re: extra connector on AGP card with ADC output

2011-03-17 Thread Brian Kemp
On Mar 16, 9:41 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Mar 16, 2011, at 2:04 PM, faithie999 wrote: thanks for the answer. followup question, then: is it a reasonable assumption that the vga output of such a card (or the dvi, if a card has that as the second output

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-17 Thread Jane, (Portland, OR)
On Mar 17, 8:21 am, Alex Barnes kab...@gmail.com wrote: You should use TenFourFox. It is designed for G4 processors and will run better than Safari. It can also use all the FireFox add-ons. He would probably have better luck using YouTube's HTML 5 option, perhaps even uninstalling Flash

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-17 Thread Jane, (Portland, OR)
On Mar 16, 1:09 pm, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Mar 16, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: G4 17 Flat Screen iMac 10.4.11 800 MHz I gave this computer to a teenager. He said that You Tube is like a slide show. (His opinion!) Is there a way to speed up the

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-17 Thread Alex Barnes
Here's the URL http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ If you want there is another browser by the same group called Classilla (http://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/). Classilla is for Mac OS 9 to Mac OS 10.3. It runs well on my RAM challenged iMac 333. And it should run like the

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-17 Thread Mama Haymes
I have issues adding a airport extreme card in a Mac Emac 1.25ghz system. I join a network and everything is fine until I restart the system and I have to go through and add again. This is frustrating. I know the keychain has something to do with it, but stil having trouble. Please give me

Airport Card wont stay joined to network

2011-03-17 Thread Clmtyne
I have issues adding a airport extreme card in a Mac Emac 1.25ghz system. I join a network and everything is fine until I restart the system and I have to go through and add again. This is frustrating. I know the keychain has something to do with it, but stil having trouble. Please give me ideas

Re: Airport Card wont stay joined to network

2011-03-17 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 17, 2011, at 6:51 PM, Clmtyne wrote: I have issues adding a airport extreme card in a Mac Emac 1.25ghz system. I join a network and everything is fine until I restart the system and I have to go through and add again. This is frustrating. I know the keychain has something to do with it,

Re: Which would be the better Mac?

2011-03-17 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 17-03-2011 9:29, Daniel Stewart ha scritto: I thought I might be able to get what seemed at least on the surface a faster Mac Yes... in part. Because the G4 DA has more cache: - iMac 1GHz: 256KB L2 - G4 DA 733MHz: 1MB L2, 1MB L3 Besides, you could have (or get) a faster video card in

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-17 Thread Judith Berkowitz
On Mar 17, 4:46 pm, Mama Haymes mamahay...@yahoo.com wrote: I have issues adding a airport extreme card in a Mac Emac 1.25ghz system. I join a network and everything is fine until I restart the system and I have to go through and add again. This is frustrating. I know the keychain has

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Sean Carroll
In response to the OP's comment about slipping up and getting reprimanded, what I do: In MailPreferencesComposing, I set the message format to Plain Text. I do this specifically for the G-list (although I could certainly set up a special account with this preference only for LEM list mail

Emac issues and OSX 10.5.8 and Airport Extreme Card

2011-03-17 Thread Clmtyne
This adds on to my last post- Not only am I not able to keep the Airport Extreme card active once I reboot the system, but I'm having to reset the date and time every time I reboot the system as well. I do believe it has something to do with the keychain, but I need to know how to get the computer

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Dan
At 9:31 PM -0500 3/17/2011, Sean Carroll wrote: A long time ago, I thought the problem with rich text/HTML mail (synonymous terms?) Rich text is text marked up with HTML. was how mail servers handled it. Never had anything to do with the mail servers. Mail servers simply pass along

Re: Emac issues and OSX 10.5.8 and Airport Extreme Card

2011-03-17 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 17, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Clmtyne wrote: I'm having to reset the date and time every time I reboot the system as well. This is a dead PRAM battery. Get a new one and report back if your problems aren't solved. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: Emac issues and OSX 10.5.8 and Airport Extreme Card

2011-03-17 Thread bryan adkins
I would delete any networks/locations under network preferences and create a new location reboot and that should have you set. Having to reset date and time I would hit the go drop down menu in finder and click go to folder should bring up a text box and type private/etc/ this will bring up a

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Sean Carroll
The original idea of rich text was that it would support only simple markup, a limited number of tags. Then, as I understand it, MS got involved and suddenly it was full-on HTML with all sorts of MS specific malformations and such. Aha. (Thanks for the other clarifications as well.) Now

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Doug McNutt
At 22:53 -0400 3/17/11, Dan wrote: At 9:31 PM -0500 3/17/2011, Sean Carroll wrote: A long time ago, I thought the problem with rich text/HTML mail (synonymous terms?) Rich text is text marked up with HTML. Practically true so long as the discussion is limited to mail; Two possible

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Alex Barnes
At least there's not flash emails going around (although I can see us headed there)! -- 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: Emac issues and OSX 10.5.8 and Airport Extreme Card

2011-03-17 Thread Mama Haymes
when I try to add a new network, it says connection timeout.  --- On Thu, 3/17/11, bryan adkins bryancor...@gmail.com wrote: From: bryan adkins bryancor...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Emac issues and OSX 10.5.8 and Airport Extreme Card To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Cc: Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net

Re: Airport Card wont stay joined to network

2011-03-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 17, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Clmtyne wrote: I have issues adding a airport extreme card in a Mac Emac 1.25ghz system. I join a network and everything is fine until I restart the system and I have to go through and add again. Delete any keychain references to the network in KEychain Access.

Re: Airport Card wont stay joined to network

2011-03-17 Thread Eric Volker
On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 16:51 -0700, Clmtyne wrote: I have issues adding a airport extreme card in a Mac Emac 1.25ghz system. I join a network and everything is fine until I restart the system and I have to go through and add again. This is frustrating. I know the keychain has something to do

Re: Which would be the better Mac?

2011-03-17 Thread Daniel Stewart
Thanks everyone for your input and wonderful advice. So I have decided to keep my DA 733mhz Power Mac which I got for a steal btw. I got it used for $25 because it had no HDD and had only 256MBs of RAM. I got it to it's current state with spare parts around home. I will save up for a 512 MB