Odd spam emails

2013-02-27 Thread JohnV
I've been getting spam emails (that make it through Verizon;s otherwise pretty brutal filters) that have the NAMES of people I have email and facebook contact with, but the EMAIL ADDRESS is -not- from them. these are typical one-line come-on messages like hey! you need to look at this!

NAS try again

2013-02-27 Thread JohnV
a couple years back I bought a typical 4-bay NAS box adn found out quickly that Macs don;t play-nice with them. I read an article this morning about using a NAS box as a direct one-wire LAN on a single Mac adn wondered if this indeed might actually work. Other than this, I figure the NAS

Re: Odd spam emails

2013-02-27 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I've been getting spam emails (that make it through Verizon;s otherwise pretty brutal filters) that have the NAMES of people I have email and facebook contact with, but the EMAIL ADDRESS is -not- from them. these are typical one-line come-on messages like hey! you need to look at

Re: Odd spam emails

2013-02-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 27, 2013, at 7:42 AM, JohnV vengbj...@verizon.net wrote: I've been getting spam emails (that make it through Verizon;s otherwise pretty brutal filters) that have the NAMES of people I have email and facebook contact with, but the EMAIL ADDRESS is -not- from them. these are typical

Re: NAS try again

2013-02-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 27, 2013, at 7:52 AM, JohnV vengbj...@verizon.net wrote: a couple years back I bought a typical 4-bay NAS box adn found out quickly that Macs don;t play-nice with them. I read an article this morning about using a NAS box as a direct one-wire LAN on a single Mac adn wondered if this

VM figures

2013-02-27 Thread geraldcornish
Hi Just looking for clarification about virtual memory. Mac OS 10.4.11, Pismo with 1GB memory Right now I have Activity monitor saying VM size is 8.11 GB but Terminal ls command shows only two 1GB vm swapfiles. Why is there this discrepancy? It seems odd to me and I wonder if I'm missing

Re: VM figures

2013-02-27 Thread Dan
At 8:28 PM + 02/27/2013, geraldcornish wrote: Just looking for clarification about virtual memory. Mac OS 10.4.11, Pismo with 1GB memory Right now I have Activity monitor saying VM size is 8.11 GB but Terminal ls command shows only two 1GB vm swapfiles. Why is there this discrepancy?

Re: Molasses response

2013-02-27 Thread JohnV
REMINDER of what this machine is: Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Machine Model:PowerMac7,3 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (2.2) Number Of CPUs: 2 CPU Speed:1.8 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 2 GB Bus Speed:900 MHz Boot ROM Version: 5.1.8f7 Just

Re: Molasses response

2013-02-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:43 PM, JohnV wrote: MAIL will run OK, but APPLEWORKS can;t get but 1/2 started and hang, SAFARI works at first but then takes MINUTES to get the home URL up and on screen. Any function makes the HD seem to work itself a LOT. And in SAFARI it gets worse until there are