Re: [G3-5]Re: G5 up and running, what about browsers?

2012-07-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
ware...I still have one about a half-inch thick, laboriously printed out on my "Epson FX-80 Compatible" Gemini dot matrix printer. And that sure looks like an offshoot of lynx, the original character-based web browser.: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)> -- Bruc

Re: USB to serial DB9 pin

2012-07-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
king up some GPS-related info a while back, about connecting GPS units to use as input devices for mapping programs on the Mac. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this mes

Re: Installing OS X leopard on a G4 733

2012-07-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
However it keeps saying it can't open the CD (last line of code)! > > When I continue to boot up using the "mac-boot" command the system boots up > and show the Cd and its also sets the processor to 867. > > Can anyone help? Just use leopard assist <http://

Re: iMac G5 - how to migrate data?

2012-07-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
the Leopard runs them > with out it. ANY Intel Mac needs Rosetta to run PPC programs. If he's moving to a Intel machine I say go all the way to 10.7 if the system supports it, 10.6 if not. Considerably better performance. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are"

Re: iMac G5 - how to migrate data?

2012-07-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 3, 2012, at 5:33 AM, Ben Dinger wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:33:10PM -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> Migration assistant is pretty smart and won't move things over that'll mess >> up the system and handles dissimilar system version well. > > Will it

Re: iMac G5 - how to migrate data?

2012-07-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
my data from a mounted volume' option in Migration assistant or during iinstallation of OS X. Migration assistant is pretty smart and won't move things over that'll mess up the system and handles dissimilar system version well. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you ar

Re: G4 MDD internet woes, again (sleep related?)

2012-06-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
r causing sleep issues. > The OS seems to eventually fix the problem, but it also takes 2-3 hours. I > would like to speed up or jump-start the process. Bruce Johnson mentioned > that the problem might lie in a messed-up "system network configuration > preferences" file.

Re: Clinking a link?

2012-06-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
experienced this problem. Anyone know anything about this? Dimly remembering that this is because something's been accidentally turned on in the Internet Connect prefs, like a proxy or 'a number must be dialed', etc. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B

Re: Excessive fan noise - Quicksilver 2002

2012-06-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
etimes HDs run xtra hot before the gak. Sometimes CPUs run extra > hot if their thermal paste has broken down... Applets such as iStat Menus > have menu bar display gizmos for the temps. Most computers run hotter in the middle of the summer, too. Also, if something in the room has changed to

Re: Is SCSI DRIVE SAME AS UATA DRIVE?

2012-06-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
into the airport slot of a Pismo they can't...which was my point. Those are Airport Extreme-compatible devices. > > The 4322 is immediately "AirDrop compaible", too. Neat! -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institution

Re: Is SCSI DRIVE SAME AS UATA DRIVE?

2012-06-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
inging up new devices. Back when Apple stopped making the original Airport card, there were still a LOT of Macs in use that had a slot for one but didn't have a card, the price shot up to nearly $200. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Grou

Re: Is SCSI DRIVE SAME AS UATA DRIVE? ADD ON

2012-06-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
" ATA, maybe this is a more advanced > form of SCSI or could it be ATA. The connectors on the motherboard are ATA; the connectors on the add-in card are two varieties of SCSI. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message becaus

Re: Virtual Intel Mac for G multiprocessors

2012-06-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
mple hardware model which is mainly designed > to satisfy Microsoft OSs. As a result, it is highly likely that it does not > even represent the minimum requirements for a Hackintosh. No it does not. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You rece

Re: Virtual Intel Mac for G multiprocessors

2012-06-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
le OS X experience, because it can't. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- 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 i

Re: Flash help??

2012-06-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
You can try the flash version number hack (below), but if the videos are relying on something that's actually part of the upgraded version the solution is to upgrade to an Intel Mac. <http://lowendmac.com/ed/royal/12sr/flash-11-and-powerpc.html> -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever

Re: G4 MDD won't connect to internet

2012-06-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
fter a reboot? or if you select 'Renew LEase' in the TCP/IP settings in the Network control panel? DHCP is only important at the time an address is handed out; typical home routers give out addresse setting s with very long lease times, so the mac doesn't actually ask for a new address

Re: G3 "Snow Shite" Fruit Mac now only accepting PC100?

2012-06-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
e RAM and reseating it. IF the 133 sticks were recognized as 128's in both slots, the computer is good. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are

Re: G3 "Snow Shite" Fruit Mac now only accepting PC100?

2012-06-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
and they only > recognised was 128mb sticks The iMac can only accept single density PC 133 ram, not double density, this is a common issue. The PC-133 sticks probably only have 8 chips on them, not 16. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institu

Re: Weak Blacks

2012-06-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
to you! 8-P ) with some KVM's too. Glad you figured it out! -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3,

Re: PowerMac G4

2012-06-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
nce I"ve been in one, the main worry is not the missing screw, but where it went; hope it's not lurking below the Mobo waiting to short things out. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely custo

Re: iMac G3 and PowerMac G3 (B&W) - lowest MacOS version that it can run (without emulation)

2012-06-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
really looking to downgrade as far as possible. > The B&W Powermac originally came with System 8.5.1 this is the earliest OS that's supported. IN addition, this was a special version of 8.5, as I recall, so practially speaking 8.6 is the earliest retail version. -- Bruce Johnson Univer

Re: Hints and suggestions for using a Power Mac G3 B&W with Mac OS 8.6?

2012-06-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
://web.archive.org/web/19990220004525/http://www.macaddict.com/reviews/> They had all the great Power Computing ads, and the same attitude. <http://www.streamstudio.com/powercomputing/campaigns.shtml> Getting everything in German will be a little tricker. Some apps will work, because

Re: Hints and suggestions for using a Power Mac G3 B&W with Mac OS 8.6?

2012-06-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
7;print to PDF'. "Print to pdf" is the greatest! I used that for years with the classic Mac. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a me

Re: Hints and suggestions for using a Power Mac G3 B&W with Mac OS 8.6?

2012-06-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
now that Adobe Acrobat was on every one, as was stuffit expander. I do have a complete set of MacAddict disks...what I don't have is immediate recall of just which boxes they're packed away in... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group

Re: Linux Aftermath

2012-06-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
utton a couple of times, let it sit 30 minutes to overnight. Replace the battery, then press the CUDA once. Will probably work after that. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for

Re: G4 Powerbook power problems

2012-06-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
till working as of two days ago. I don't > need it to work for long, just long enough to copy a document to a > thumbdrive. > > I don't know anyone in the area with a battery that we could swap > until the job is done. > > Help! Have you done the PMU reset? <h

Re: Mailplane and Google.com kaput

2012-06-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
issues. Log in as this user and see if you can open Google. If you can, the issue is somewhere within your user prefs or caches. If the problem persists, then the issue is either systemic or the third party is no longer compatible with your stuff. I seriously doubt the latter. -- Bruce J

Re: Yosemite 400mhz rev2, AT&T rv100, apple DVD player conundrum

2012-06-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
ting steps I'm forgetting, it's been a long, Long time since I messed with the classic OS... -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Ma

Re: plug-ins update problem

2012-06-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
unning 10.5 which should get you better support (although that one is deprecated as well). You can disable ones you don't use; I'll wager shockwave is little used these days and unless you have a specific web site that uses it, very few websites use Java, either. (Remember Java is NOT J

Re: MAC Instead of Computer Name in Router Device List?

2012-05-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
orge.net/2.0/htmldocs/configuration.html#id4074161>, what I'm unsure of is getting it running under OS X... -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4

Re: G4 450 x2 Video

2012-05-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
but graphic card signals are digital, not analog, you can't switch between Black and Gray without a different digital signal. Try connecting it directly to the monitor instead of through the KVM. That would be the quickest test. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy I

Re: symbols for option, control, etcc....

2012-05-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
x27;s eluding me now. Here is a reference showing all the easily typeable characters. <http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/Mac_Character_Mapping.pdf> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

Re: MAC Instead of Computer Name in Router Device List?

2012-05-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
y dropped support. > Or spend $10,000 > and code up an extension to 9 that does Rendevour or Bonjour or > whatever its called. Oh, well. Sigh. Because Apple does not and will not ever support the kind of 'long tail' OS support that Microsoft does (they're only now dropp

Re: G4 450 x2 Video

2012-05-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
it simply could have had the video calibration get corrupted (or someone accidentally chose the wrong calibration) . My first try would be re-calibrate the monitors...unless the obkject is really 'I want a new video card and this is my excuse' :-) -- Bruce Johnson University of A

Re: Optical Drive

2012-05-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
Go inside and examine the mechanism. I think I had to re-attach a small wire or plastic arm... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: MAC Instead of Computer Name in Router Device List?

2012-05-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
tart with a digit or with a hyphen, and must not end with a hyphen. However, a subsequent specification (RFC 1123) permitted hostname labels to start with digits. No other symbols, punctuation characters, or white space are permitted." Per Wikipedia's 'Hostname' entry. --

Re: MAC Instead of Computer Name in Router Device List?

2012-05-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
question using the correct terminology. This is good to know. Maybe I could get my Linksys router to show names instead of MAC addresses. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You recei

Re: Vimeo vid not working on MDD

2012-05-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
embedded Vimeo player > nothing happens. Is there any workaround? No. The 'Flash hack' only works in cases where a site requires a higher version, but doesn't actually require the newer features. Vimeo is not one of those. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are&q

Re: User files on second drive

2012-05-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
the G4 for use > by my wife. > Can anyone direct me to the information about this? It used to be on the same site as Carbon Copy Cloner, but you have to use the wayback machine: <http://tinyurl.com/79jbknt> The instructions are for Jaguar, but are valid up to system 4. -- Bruce

Re: Mail 2.1.3 vs iPhone 4s problem

2012-05-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
them without the budget to have one to know how they work. That, in fact, is how we all got iPads here...there was talk about the students all getting them and such and we put our feet down and said "We can not support these unless we get some!" -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona Co

Re: Mail 2.1.3 vs iPhone 4s problem

2012-05-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
is...) tap on the photos you want to send, then tap share. Much easier than sending multiple emails! -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a

Re: Mail 2.1.3 vs iPhone 4s problem

2012-05-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
; the iPhone will glom onto any available wifi to do any data related stuff if it can. > > Bruce, I will take you up on a couple of iPad photos to my gmail address, let > me know if you need it. On their way! Hope it works, my iPad is a Wifi only model. -- Bruce Johnson University o

Re: Mail 2.1.3 vs iPhone 4s problem

2012-05-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
Rebooting the Mac in safe mode to clear caches, or running Applejack? I can send you some pics from my iPad if you want, test whether it's something weird with his phone? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opi

Re: reliable, robust USB hub...

2012-05-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
ly dropping off, or I'd plug something in and everything on the hub would just fall off giving me lots of 'The disk was not ejected properly' errors. Not a good thing when I'm using it to pull data from a possibly failing drive... (and these are powered drives, not bus-powered) --

Re: NOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

2012-05-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
ign program that allows a QT movie to be imported for a background, can use any format supported by quicktime automagically, or export any format supported by quicktime. Perian put the 'magic' in that 'automagically'. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Inf

NOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

2012-05-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
<http://perian.org/> Horrible horrible news... =8-O -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using

Re: 35 pass erase

2012-05-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
ticle to find this helpful suggestion: "The US government recommends complete physical destruction of hard disk data surfaces to guarantee secure data erasure. Presumably, this can be accomplished by abrasion, or by a small amount of thermite ignited over a large, well-ventilated pot cont

Re: 35 pass erase

2012-05-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
ountain lion, > they are starting to turn into LEMs, is this where we should discuss issues > with them? The macintel list seems to be the one intel-based LEM list with decent traffic. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do

Re: 35 pass erase

2012-05-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
through this it's probably a good drive...at this it's better than my first PowerPC mac, an old G3 that was decommissioned from Motorola back in the 90's...they simply removed the drive (sled and all, dammit!) and tossed it in a big shredder. -- Bruce Johnson University of

Re: Can someone reccomend a decent, reliable, robust USB hub...

2012-05-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
hash=item3cbfd5872e > This is good to know, these are one of the ones I can get via our purchasing dept...good to know it's a reliable one, because one is going to be purchased for work, as that's the one that's currently failing. (3rd Belkin in this spot.) -- Bruce Joh

Can someone reccomend a decent, reliable, robust USB hub...

2012-05-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
I'm getting tired of these Belkin pieces of trash crapping out on me. Definitely needs to be a powered one. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because yo

Re: Regarding a g5 wireless

2012-05-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
ethernet port or as a wifi bridge. You could also get an Airport module for the g5; it's also possible all you need is the little T antenna for it., check system profiler to see if there is an airport device... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Informat

Re: On PPCs, HTML5 is a markup language for structuring and presenting content

2012-05-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
a work in progress and many things like WebGL are in flux as the various parties involved work out how to do this stuff. Also, until a standard gets mostly nailed down it's not a good idea to put too much effort into implementing it in production code. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go

Re: On PPCs, HTML5 is a markup language for structuring and presenting content

2012-05-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 12, 2012, at 8:01 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: > > On May 12, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> >> On May 12, 2012, at 5:01 AM, skinnie wrote: >> >>> I used demeter, I don't know if supports html5, but if I go to >>> http://html

Re: On PPCs, HTML5 is a markup language for structuring and presenting content

2012-05-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
p://html5test.com/> It will tell you directly what features are supported and which are not. I did not see TenFourFox in the test list, be interesting to see how it fares. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you ar

Re: mail

2012-05-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
indows or Mac. I've never had the misfortune to have to use OutPuke, only pat user's hands sympathetically when it puked and lost all their email or mysteriously corrupted their profile database irretrievably. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technolo

Re: mail

2012-05-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
our email system spends about 1/10th of his time doing that. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3,

Re: mail

2012-05-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
own to the next message the marker for 'Unread' doesn't change. Didn't know that, although it's not surprising since I use my email client to, you know, READ my email, and so never have it set not to display the message pane. -- Bruce Johnson University of Ariz

Re: mail

2012-05-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
e > (and it is now "read"). Can I stop it from selecting the next message? I don't think I've EVER seen a mail client that didn't do this...and no I don't think there's a way around it. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Informa

Re: Installation laptop setup

2012-05-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
ter > un-accessible? Set a good password, and set 'require password immediately after s;eep or screen saver begins' in the Security pane of System Preferences. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions,

Re: iMate battery life?

2012-05-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 9, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Koralatov wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 19:31, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> The imate has a battery?? >> >> >> >> Well dayum! > > How long have you been using your iMate? You might be just the chap to get > us to

Re: iMate battery life?

2012-05-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
The imate has a battery?? Well dayum! These batteries are pretty straightforward to find here as well: <http://www.medicbatteries.com/battery-cross-reference-guide> <http://tinyurl.com/6m9cazp> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Tech

Re: Internet on Mac Mini- wireless device?

2012-05-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
; if these devices would work on a hub they would be a viable solution > to my internet dilemma. > > On May 8, 2:32 pm, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> On May 8, 2012, at 2:00 PM, cheryl wrote: >> >>> I am living in a place with no internet service, and I'm wondering

Re: Internet on Mac Mini- wireless device?

2012-05-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
any new one today is at least that speed, but I've got a couple of 'old reliables' laying about that are only 1.1), but they do work just fine. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely cust

Re: Mail error log

2012-05-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
explicitly create their own logs, like apache and cups. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5

Re: G4 and OS 10.5

2012-05-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
u're pounding it *that* hard, what the heck are you using such an underpowered machine for? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-

Re: G4 and OS 10.5

2012-05-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
eMachine and maybe other services that lay hard work on a slow processor > and/or use up valuable system memory. > > - > Yet people say Time Machine is a good thing :) It is, as is Spotlight. Both are vastly better under 10.5, too. (Spotlight, in particular, is actually usable!) --

Re: G5 and ADC

2012-05-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
ecided to get out of the nonsensical 'making up our own connectors' stuff. They're still on the 'lets use standard connectors that nobody else in the world uses', but that's at least something that can change in time.) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College

Re: G4 and OS 10.5

2012-05-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 2, 2012, at 9:52 AM, James Morgan wrote: > I have two MDD G4's running OS 10.4.11. Does anyone know if these > computers will successfully run OS 10.5? Unless they're RAM-starved (< 1G, and pretty cheap to fix) yes they'll run 10.5 just fine. -- Bru

Re: B&W G3 as music server

2012-05-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
use the old girl. If you install OSX 10.4 on it you will a) be able to run a more current version of iTunes, and b) use VNC to control it from your iMac if it's connected to your network, eliminating the need for a monitor. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Infor

Re: Home movies won't import

2012-04-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 30, 2012, at 2:44 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > The one thing that drives me absolutely nucking futz as a IT support person > is : > > " got an error message (can't remember exact words)." (or my favorite: "I got > an error, I didn't write it down

Re: Home movies won't import

2012-04-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
all computer gobbldeygook") followed by the clear expectation that I am clairvoyant and can magically know what went wrong.. At this point my only possible advice is this: <http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Final+Cut+Pro+won't+import+M4V#seen> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona Co

Re: Getting OS9.1 onto MDD

2012-04-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
ops! we forgot to include something in these specific versions!" variety. However, this merely means that that particular raw format is supported, the "driver" is installed; you still need to have an application (like LightRoom, Photoshop, Aperture, etc) that actually manipulates t

Re: Games for G3's?

2012-04-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
l> The OS 9 version has the house editor so you can make your own. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for tho

Re: HD remounts and Ipod Touch issues

2012-04-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
MacBook Pro won't boot up immediately if the battery's drained too much...sure gave me a scare the first time I ran into that one! -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You rece

Re: HD remounts

2012-04-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
bar. You can also just unplug it and plug it back in if that's handy. Sometimes using powered USB hubs keeps sleepy disks awake. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this m

Re: Crashes and keyboard freeze on MMD

2012-04-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
Test each stick separately in the slot you tested the first one. If you get a panic, it'sthe RAM. If not, it's likely to be the ram slot. -- Bruce Johnson UA College of Pharmacy On Apr 25, 2012, at 12:02 AM, "tsaec...@att.net" wrote: > Downloaded Applejack, ran Me

Re: USB-Parallel cable: Driver for a G5?

2012-04-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
d > anything related (mostly is Linux stuff). You might try LSI, who owns Agere now: <http://www.lsi.com/support/products/Pages/default.aspx> I don't find the USS720 thing listed there, but they might call it something else... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharma

Re: Crashes and keyboard freeze on MMD

2012-04-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
ating most third-arty extensions and drivers. 3) Logged in as a different user, to eliminate userspace issues like corrupted caches and preferences. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- Y

Re: SMART status

2012-04-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
parison_of_S.M.A.R.T._tools> -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- 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:/

Re: iCloud vs. G4

2012-04-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 17, 2012, at 1:25 PM, Douglas Mencken wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Bruce Johnson > wrote: >> >> On Apr 17, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Douglas Mencken wrote: >> >>>>> Since they killed ppc and put profit above quality, >>>> >

Re: iCloud vs. G4

2012-04-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
top-end Powerbooks, let along the iBooks they allegedly replaced. I was there, I've used both, extensively, even running that bodged version of 10.4 the Macbooks were head and shoulders above the performance of the Powerbooks, and with the advent of 10.5 and later 10.6 they were even b

Re: iCloud vs. G4

2012-04-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
focusing particularly on making high-perfomance CPUS for the laptop market. Apple teamed up with a company whose main line of business was aligned with Apple's for a change. I am confident that Apple would be nowhere near where they are today, if they existed AT ALL, without their s

Re: iCloud vs. G4

2012-04-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
onths, since I got my 17" MacBook Pro, and when I do use it, boy howdy does it show it's age. Most of the time you can get a lot of years out of your purchase, but sometimes change bites you in the ass. Welcome to the ongoing wave of change, hang on to your surfboard. There's a

Re: Free memory vs Disc burning

2012-04-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
have a spare drive you could toss 10.5 on and test it on that machine...maybe it's something Apple's fixed since 10.4... -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those us

Re: Free memory vs Disc burning

2012-04-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
t run 10.4 in a long time. What happens if you do it the geeky way: <http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20011028102805151> <http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070612161317338> Maybe some bug in the GUI version... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pha

Re: Flashback Malware Hits 600,000 Macs???

2012-04-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
click on "OK" like that I'd be a wealthy man, with a Scrooge McDuck-style vault/swimming pool full of nickels. Also, Apple's solution is coming in Mountain Lion, and you all are going to howl like stuck pigs about it, because it's "Application Signing", the App s

Re: Time Machine backups in wrong folders

2012-04-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
certain that it is the answer, but I do know that it will work just fine with one volume per machine. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member

Re: Time Machine backups in wrong folders

2012-04-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
move folders to correct this problem. The correct solution is erase and partition, so you have one volume per backup. Just moving the folders won't alter the internal DB structure Time MAchine uses to keep track of things. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Ba

Re: News: half a million Macs now infected with malware?

2012-04-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
that older versions of Java aren't as vulnerable, but again, this has nothing to do with the underlying architecture. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message b

Re: Flashback Malware Hits 600,000 Macs???

2012-04-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
of existence. This is a large number, granted, but also, as I said, highly suspect. Also, too: <http://infosecisland.com/blogview/11619-Report-Half-of-All-Computers-Infected-with-Malware.html> I agree, btw, with Dan's comment about Apple's glacial slowness in releasing pat

Re: VERY useful list of 'defaults' commands

2012-04-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 4, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > Seen at MacOSX hints today > > <https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx> And lo and behold, down near the bottom: # Disable the “reopen windows when logging back in” option # This works, although the chec

VERY useful list of 'defaults' commands

2012-04-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
Seen at MacOSX hints today <https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G

Re: mozzilla demanding user to upgrade to tbird 11.1

2012-04-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
iolent X-Box games with the attention span of a gnat on meth. "You are in a twisty maze of Firefox versions, each slightly different" -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You rece

Re: mozzilla demanding user to upgrade to tbird 11.1

2012-04-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
//en.sourceforge.jp/projects/tenfourbird/releases/?package_id=12932> So, I don't know what happened to your mail, but updating to 11 wasn't the cause of it. For any changes to be made to your actual mail stores on the computer it would have to have been changed by the running program (and the

Re: DVD won't play.

2012-03-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
y use VLC to play the ripped files proicuced by Mac the Ripper, and not bother with the whole burning process at all. IN fact VLC may be able to play the disks too. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely

Re: File Handling

2012-03-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 19, 2012, at 3:08 PM, JohnV wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> >> On Mar 19, 2012, at 2:56 PM, JohnV wrote: >> >>> Where are the settings (if they;re even in one comprehensive place...) for >>> how fil

Re: File Handling

2012-03-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
of where the current file was opened. Still others will do save as where you last opened a file. And all of them will get confused if the volume you last saved to is no longer accessible. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institution

Re: Carbon Copy got strange?

2012-03-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
ou restore, it should just get created the next time it's needed. I'm kind of surprised that CCC doesn't already exclude these. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You rec

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

2012-03-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 19, 2012, at 10:35 AM, JohnV wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> It sounds as though your spotlight indexes are corrupt. >> Turning off Spotlight can be done, but then it disables the Finder's Find >> command as well. &

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