Re: [G3-5]Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-12-01 Thread MaGioZal
On 10/26/11 5:24 PM, JoeTaxpayer at joetaxpaye...@gmail.com wrote: I think Bruce feels n is far lower than you or I do. I understand the technologies are different, but the cost curve for dollars per GB looks a lot like those for semiconductor density/ Moore's Law. So will the ratio drop from

Re: [G3-5]Re: USB 2.0 Card for MDD G4

2011-12-01 Thread MaGioZal
On 10/27/11 12:12 PM, Bill Connelly at billycarmac...@verizon.net wrote: I would actually go with the cheaper one. They could be the same card, with a different name stamped on them. Although I like Sonnet Tech ... Rule of the thumb: any USB 2.0 card with a non-VIA chipset will work fine. The

Re: Fwd: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-12-01 Thread Aravind T
There are lot of discussions on backup to external hard disk and not much in online storage. Yes, backup to external hard disk is easy, faster and simple. You can store as much data as you wish in your external disk. But, what if the external storage disk is corrupted/missing/? Or, what if

Re: Upgrade question

2011-12-01 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 30, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Martin N wrote: Lo, At 02:15 30/11/2011, you wrote: In a message dated 11/29/11 7:21:07 PM, marti...@bluebottle.com writes: Do you know how reliable the water cooled g5s are? I seem to remember it being mentioned that the cooling system was not very well

Converting video to HTML5

2011-12-01 Thread Cliff Rediger
I have a familiar routine for creating relatively small .mov files in iMovie and then converting the to .swf (Video2SWF) for posting on a web site using Dreamweaver. I convert to .swf because they are smaller files easier to make play on click and more universally viewable However, now,

Re: Upgrade question

2011-12-01 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 30-11-2011 0:57, Martin N ha scritto: Do you know how reliable the water cooled g5s are? I seem to remember it being mentioned that the cooling system was not very well built. As stated before, looking on Google or this List archives will get you plenty of info. I got a G5 2.7 DP

Re: Problem G5, can;t print

2011-12-01 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 30, 2011, at 4:11 PM, JohnV wrote: 2005 G5 PPC just reinstalled 10.4.11 and still have to boot in SAFE mode. Sysem can't see any audio devices, but it's working for most things. With this in mind, anyone know why having installed HP drivers for a C3100 printer, that the system

Re: [G3-5]Re: USB 2.0 Card for MDD G4

2011-12-01 Thread Bill Connelly
On Dec 1, 2011, at 5:34 AM, MaGioZal wrote: On 10/27/11 12:12 PM, Bill Connelly at billycarmac...@verizon.net wrote: I would actually go with the cheaper one. They could be the same card, with a different name stamped on them. Although I like Sonnet Tech ... I heard ... Rule of the

Re: Fwd: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-12-01 Thread Dan
At 7:09 AM -0800 11/30/2011, Aravind T wrote: In this case, you can choose online backup service. You need not to bother about maintaining your backup data and storage. The backup service provider will take care of all worries. Instead of uploading all your system data, you can wisely choose

Re: Converting video to HTML5

2011-12-01 Thread Dan
At 1:39 PM -0800 11/30/2011, Cliff Rediger wrote: I have a familiar routine for creating relatively small .mov files in iMovie and then converting the to .swf (Video2SWF) for posting on a web site using Dreamweaver. I convert to .swf because they are smaller files easier to make play on

Re: Converting video to HTML5

2011-12-01 Thread Dan
At 11:16 AM -0500 12/1/2011, Dan wrote: HTML5 supports a video element, that provides certain built-in codecs. The idea being that the end-user won't have to obtain a 3rd party codec - the browser takes care of it. LOL Found this headache. Good read:

Re: Fwd: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-12-01 Thread Martin N
Lo, At 15:56 01/12/2011, you wrote: At 7:09 AM -0800 11/30/2011, Aravind T wrote: In this case, you can choose online backup service. You need not to bother about maintaining your backup data and storage. The backup service provider will take care of all worries. Instead of uploading all your

Re: Fwd: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-12-01 Thread Dan
At 5:32 PM + 12/1/2011, Martin N wrote: As I pointed out in the other fork of this thread... You CANNOT expect the cloud service provider to take care of all worries. In fact, all the providers are quite careful in their Terms of Service to NOT accept any responsibility for your data in

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-12-01 Thread JohnV
Privacy / Convenience the balance has never been any different. Just cuz you think it's Remarkably Hip to be ABLE to post crap all over a globally-viewable grocery store bulletin board, does not change the fact that you are indeed knowingly posting your stuff all over a

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-12-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 1, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Dan wrote: Microsofts cloud service does not specify where the data resides and so there is concern that the American government can have access to your data under the patriot act oOo. yea. That's a whole other ball of wax! Many services (eg: Dropbox,

Strange fan issue with G5 + Leopard

2011-12-01 Thread Mac User #330250
Hello! I've a strange issue when I use my Power Mac G5 (original PowerMac7,2 from 2003, Dual 2.0 GHz): http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/stats/powermac_g5_2.0_dp.html When I use Mac OS X 10.3.9 on it, everything is fine. When I use Mac OS X 10.4.11 on it, just like with

Re: Strange fan issue with G5 + Leopard

2011-12-01 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 1-12-2011 21:41, Mac User #330250 ha scritto: But, when I use Mac OS X 10.5.8, the fans will just start to slowly increase I was doing some installation of verious applications, so the processor must have done a lot of work I think this invalid your comparison. Try using 10.5 with

Re: Strange fan issue with G5 + Leopard

2011-12-01 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Strange fan issue with G5 + Leopard Date:Thursday, 01. December 2011 From:Valter Prahlad valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Il giorno 1-12-2011 21:41, Mac User #330250 ha scritto: But, when I use Mac OS

Re: Strange fan issue with G5 + Leopard

2011-12-01 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/12/01 14:41, Dan so eloquently wrote: At 9:41 PM +0100 12/1/2011, Mac User #330250 wrote: Might the issue be fixed if I clean out the dust, which I presume must be there after all these years (I didn't look too deep into it yet)? Yea. Crud is one of the biggest causes of heat

Re: Strange fan issue with G5 + Leopard

2011-12-01 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Dec 1, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: Hello! I've a strange issue when I use my Power Mac G5 (original PowerMac7,2 from 2003, Dual 2.0 GHz): http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/stats/powermac_g5_2.0_dp.html When I use Mac OS X 10.3.9 on it, everything is

Re: Strange fan issue with G5 + Leopard

2011-12-01 Thread David W. Morris
On Dec 1, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: So, how is it with a G5 and Leopard? Are there any known issues that I just didn't find yet? Are you using your G5 Power Macs with Tiger or with Leopard? Might the issue be fixed if I clean out the dust, which I presume must be there

Re: Upgrade question

2011-12-01 Thread Martin N
Lo, At 00:09 01/12/2011, you wrote: Il giorno 30-11-2011 0:57, Martin N ha scritto: snip Below is part of the msgs I got when talking about this: Apple had two different LCS's in the G5 PM 2.7 the Delphi (single pump) it was pretty sure to leak and need to be rebuilt the other LCS was

Re: Upgrade question

2011-12-01 Thread Martin N
Lo, At 20:58 30/11/2011, you wrote: On Nov 30, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Martin N wrote: Lo, At 02:15 30/11/2011, you wrote: snip This was recently addressed here by someone who has rebuilt leaky cooling units. IIRC there were two venders (Adelphi for early units Panasonic for later

Re: Strange fan issue with G5 + Leopard

2011-12-01 Thread Steve Schmidt
I have similar issue with my g5 dual 2.7. I just got received the computer last night and is my first g5 so figured it was normal fan operation. The fan speed goes up with something as simple as opening a web browser with nothing else running. I'm running the same leopard version. The insides

Bad Ethernet Port?

2011-12-01 Thread John Callahan
My airport base station seems to have lost the connection at the (wan) port. The wireless connection with my computer shows up OK and the ethernet line from the cable modem to the computer ethernet port works fine. Apparently there is a loss of connection between the cable modem and the

Re: Bad Ethernet Port?

2011-12-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 1, 2011, at 9:24 PM, John Callahan wrote: My airport base station seems to have lost the connection at the (wan) port. The wireless connection with my computer shows up OK and the ethernet line from the cable modem to the computer ethernet port works fine. Apparently there is a loss

Re: Upgrade question

2011-12-01 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 1-12-2011 23:19, Martin N ha scritto: Thanks for the archive information, it looks like i will have to ask a seller on ebay to take a photo of the inside to determine if it is the more reliable Panasonic. He will have to do some disassembly, I think, to get to the cooling unit. On

Re: Strange fan issue with G5 + Leopard

2011-12-01 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Strange fan issue with G5 + Leopard Date:Thursday, 01. December 2011 From:David W. Morris bbh...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com It does not sound like strange behavior to me that a later OS release might use more