LogMeIN question

2011-03-25 Thread Jane, (Portland, OR)
I have installed LogMeIn on my G4 PowerBook and MacBook Pro and Intel iMac. In the past few days, I have received a message box that says a computer wants to connect to the iMac thru LogMeIn. The computer has a number, though, but no name. 1. Is this a suspicious computer or does LogmeIn give numb

Re: TenFourFox: A fork of Mozilla Firefox 4 for the Power Macintosh and Mac OS X Tiger PowerPC

2011-03-25 Thread Mike
Sorry for the double-email, but I completely forgot about Safari. PowerMac G4 Graphite AGP (1GHz Sonnet Encore/ST Upgrade Processor, 1.5GB PC100 SDRAM, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, 40GB IDE): (Higher is better) Safari 4.1.3: *763* TenFourFox 4.0: *597* Camino 2.0.7: *256* Camino errored on an un

Re: TenFourFox: A fork of Mozilla Firefox 4 for the Power Macintosh and Mac OS X Tiger PowerPC

2011-03-25 Thread Mike
Thank you for reminding me about TenFourFox! I just did some browser benchmarking, and here are my results (Disclaimer: I am by no means a professional benchmarker!): I decided to give it a try on these machines and see what happens. I found a browser benchmark called Peacekeeper from Futuremark t

Re: TenFourFox: A fork of Mozilla Firefox 4 for the Power Macintosh and Mac OS X Tiger PowerPC

2011-03-25 Thread Fabian Fang
On Mar 25, 2011, at 9:11 PM, Nestamicky wrote: On 25/03/11 9:54 PM, Vic Mabus wrote: Remember how you tried to update Firefox in Tiger and it didn't work? http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ This is from the Clasilla guys; it's optimized for each of the G processors. The devs promise

Re: TenFourFox: A fork of Mozilla Firefox 4 for the Power Macintosh and Mac OS X Tiger PowerPC

2011-03-25 Thread Nestamicky
On 25/03/11 9:54 PM, Vic Mabus wrote: Remember how you tried to update Firefox in Tiger and it didn't work? http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ This is from the Clasilla guys; it's optimized for each of the G processors. The devs promise "dramatically faster JavaScript, WebM video, comp

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-25 Thread Nestamicky
On 25/03/11 8:03 AM, Jonathan Smith wrote: Might this help? QC 2.66 mac pro (as example) BTU info.. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2836 G5 Power Mac BTU info... http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=32486 Thanks for this. It will be interesting to see if someone has comparatively cra

TenFourFox: A fork of Mozilla Firefox 4 for the Power Macintosh and Mac OS X Tiger PowerPC

2011-03-25 Thread Vic Mabus
Remember how you tried to update Firefox in Tiger and it didn't work? http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ This is from the Clasilla guys; it's optimized for each of the G processors.  The devs promise "dramatically faster _javascript_, WebM video, compat

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-25 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/03/25 07:08, Nestamicky so eloquently wrote: On 24/03/11 11:31 AM, Tina K. wrote: Look, I'm no Intel fan. Point of fact I hate Intel and always buy AMD when building a computer. But the bottom line is that I can do more in less time, and use half the electricity in the process, with my

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-25 Thread Yersinia
On 3/25/11 3:48 PM, Dan wrote: At 2:49 PM -0400 3/25/2011, Yersinia wrote: And."Show Top Sites" STILL works and has Top Sites to show. :-( :sigh: Yea. Regardless of the preferences and what you've done to the bookmarks window, if you select "Show Top Sites" from the History menu

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-25 Thread Dan
At 2:49 PM -0400 3/25/2011, Yersinia wrote: And."Show Top Sites" STILL works and has Top Sites to show. :-( :sigh: Yea. Regardless of the preferences and what you've done to the bookmarks window, if you select "Show Top Sites" from the History menu then it will always take you th

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-25 Thread Yersinia
On 3/25/11 2:08 PM, Dan wrote: At 1:30 PM -0400 3/25/2011, Yersinia wrote: this is all happening on my G4 Quicksilver 867 -- is an 867 MHz processor too slow?! Um, not sure. I think 800-MHz or so is the cut. Someone else will have to verify; I'm at 933-MHz. My iBook is 800 MHz. But I want

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-25 Thread Dan
At 1:30 PM -0400 3/25/2011, Yersinia wrote: this is all happening on my G4 Quicksilver 867 -- is an 867 MHz processor too slow?! Um, not sure. I think 800-MHz or so is the cut. Someone else will have to verify; I'm at 933-MHz. At 1:20 PM -0400 3/25/2011, Yersinia wrote: On 3/25/11 12:35 P

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-25 Thread Yersinia
Forgot to add/ask -- this is all happening on my G4 Quicksilver 867 -- is an 867 MHz processor too slow?! On 3/25/11 12:35 PM, Dan wrote: At 12:13 PM -0400 3/25/2011, Yersinia wrote: Goshdarn, I'm getting even more swiss-cheese-for-brain than I thought! :-( No, yer just up against a really

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-25 Thread Yersinia
On 3/25/11 12:35 PM, Dan wrote:"Show All Bookmarks". Top Sites is sortof / seems to be related to Cover Flow. The setting in the Bookmarks tab of Safari's preferences removes the Top Sites icon from the bookmarks bar and seems to mostly turn off the function. Then, in the regular Bookmarks

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-25 Thread Dan
At 12:13 PM -0400 3/25/2011, Yersinia wrote: Goshdarn, I'm getting even more swiss-cheese-for-brain than I thought! :-( No, yer just up against a really bad interface. Apple bungled this one. 2. Safari's preferences, Bookmarks tab. Uncheck "Include Top Sites". Unchecked -- already was,

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-25 Thread Yersinia
Goshdarn, I'm getting even more swiss-cheese-for-brain than I thought! :-( OK...On 3/16/11 2:45 PM, Dan wrote: At 12:53 PM -0400 3/16/2011, Yersinia wrote: G4s and a G3 iBook running OS X Tiger How do you disable Top Sites entirely? It is annoying that Apple didn't provide a clear interface

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-25 Thread peterhaas
> Which SMC do you use? I build my own DSDTs, by hand. The device within the DSDT is a usual one. Device (BUS0) { Name (_CID, "smbus") Name (_ADR, Zero) Device (DVL0) {

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-25 Thread ah...clem
On Mar 24, 3:39 pm, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > forget it. ah clem has a set belief system and mere facts will not dislodge > it. I'm done feeding the troll. > bruce, i respect your knowledge and i respect that you volunteer help and advice to all who post to this list and others. i am not blowing

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-25 Thread Jonathan Smith
Peter Which SMC do you use? -- 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 netiquette guide is at http://www.lowen

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-25 Thread Jonathan Smith
Might this help? QC 2.66 mac pro (as example) BTU info.. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2836 G5 Power Mac BTU info... http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=32486 On Mar 25, 1:08 pm, Nestamicky wrote: > On 24/03/11 11:31 AM, Tina K. wrote: > Tina, what proof have you for power consu

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-25 Thread peterhaas
> The OS is what you use; the nuts and bolts don't > matter... > My $.02 ... And, the kernel of that OS is copyright by The Regents of The University of California, before there ever was a 68K Mac, much less a PPC Mac or an Intel Mac. One of the reasons Hackintoshing is so easy, now, is the kern

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-25 Thread Vic
Yes, yes, I know what you're saying, and I feel your pain. I loved the Gs (all of them), and from experience, know that my G4 Sawtooth easily outperformed my Celeron of the same speed. But Motorola/IBM couldn't keep up. They were unable to deliver processors that could be kept cool in the increa

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-25 Thread Nestamicky
On 24/03/11 11:31 AM, Tina K. wrote: Look, I'm no Intel fan. Point of fact I hate Intel and always buy AMD when building a computer. But the bottom line is that I can do more in less time, and use half the electricity in the process, with my QC Mac Pro than I could with my DP G5 Power Mac. Tina

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-25 Thread Nestamicky
On 21/03/11 1:37 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: Do I own true Macintoshes? Yes. Do I use said Macintoses? No, their performance is too low to meet my needed and expected performance requirements. Do I own and use Hackintoshes? Yes, their performance meets, or exceeds, my needed and expected pe