Re: Recommend USB UD for backups

2012-01-29 Thread Dan
in it. The normal oogle of vendors have a great selection. Also check locals stores like Office Despot, as they often have great sales. Lately I've been getting cheap externals, even refirbs, from sites like eCost.com. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received

Re: G4 PowerBook can't boot from Tiger Install DVD

2012-01-29 Thread Dan
the slave dangling off a cliff. Or vice versa. Either way, the bus would be a bit irked... (this is off the top of my head as I don't have the PB docs currently). - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: G4 PowerBook can't boot from Tiger Install DVD

2012-01-29 Thread Dan
.) Yea, well, sometimes it's better to help a user in need than to fret over nitpicking rules. The point of the rules is to keep the s:n up, and the noise itself to a dull roar. The LEM lists have been so quiet recently,,, ... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You

Re: ie 5.0

2012-01-14 Thread Dan
have 5.0 easy to find? Try changing the ident in Safari. Here's 5.2.3. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/610326/Internet%20Explorer%205.2.3.dmg HTH, - 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

Re: OS9

2012-01-14 Thread Dan
. The limits in the classic OS are controlled on a per app basis, in the parameters you see when you do the get-info. Those parameters are simply *limits*. They tell the memory management system that the app may have UP TO that amount. They do not require that the app be given that memory. - Dan

Re: Best MacOS x on a G3 BW?

2012-01-14 Thread Dan
Spotlight's indexing. It can chew up a lot of CPU time unnecessarily. - 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

Re: Why doesn't my little drive opening dohicky work?

2012-01-07 Thread Dan
its cables, power and data. - 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 at http://lowendmac.com/lists

Re: Firewire HD Partition is not accessible. Very strange.

2012-01-03 Thread Dan
. That way we don't have to peruse through the whole message to find that data, then go back to the top to re-read the problem description. Emails should NEVER have GOTOs. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group

Re: Flash Drive Question

2012-01-03 Thread Dan
. There could also be a number of bad blocks mapped out. And then there's the spotlight indices. 30 MB on a 7 GB drive is about right. - 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

Re: Firewire HD Partition is not accessible. Very strange.

2012-01-03 Thread Dan
the full implementation over fiber 10 Gbps per channel is sooo yesterday! - 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

Re: Happy New Year!

2012-01-02 Thread Dan
. But it is nowhere near as reliable as a solid complete ***bootable*** clone, such as one made by CCC or SuperDuper. - 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

Re: Happy New Year!

2012-01-02 Thread Dan
changed to clarify some things, and it seems to automatically pick the right settings now. - 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

Happy New Year!

2012-01-01 Thread Dan
! What's for lunch? - 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 at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml

Re: How do I block outgoing connections in Safari?

2011-12-31 Thread Dan
. Of course, if you block them then things start breaking... - 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

Re: How do I block outgoing connections in Safari?

2011-12-30 Thread Dan
sometimes redirect etc. But it's a good start, to give you a feel for what's going on behind the scenes. There are various ad blockers available for Safari. They can be programmed to block just about any domain. Again... be careful what you block. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus

Re: 23 HD Cinema display pink smudges

2011-12-26 Thread Dan
as the latter is awfully expensive still. ...Gorilla Glass is a Corning product, an alkali-aluminosilicate (aka transparent aluminium). It's used by Apple on iPhone, iPad, etc. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group

Re: 23 HD Cinema display pink smudges

2011-12-25 Thread Dan
. HTH, - 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 at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our

Re: 10.4 or 10.5 for a G4

2011-12-24 Thread Dan
, then it will not run on Tiger. You need to check each of your favs, to see what's required. - 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

Re: My subscription is screwed up.

2011-12-24 Thread Dan
membership. If it shows you're supposed to be receiving the digest, then change it to individual messages, save that, wait a day, then change it back. The group's archive url is in the header and footer of every email... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You

Re: 10.4 or 10.5 for a G4

2011-12-23 Thread Dan
. There have been a number of threads on this list discussing the issues, in detail, with commands etc. Money is an important consideration. A Leopard disc may cost a bit more but it's worth it... The final vers of many ppc apps require it. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey

Re: Why I hate html mail reason #3455, and like Mail

2011-12-23 Thread Dan
instead of chase.com. - 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 at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g

Re: USB 3 Devices on USB 2 Ports

2011-12-20 Thread Dan
* swoosh. - 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 at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-12-20 Thread Dan
to the backup after banking hours, that's a bad problem. - 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

Re: USB 3 Devices on USB 2 Ports

2011-12-20 Thread Dan
as competition for, not a replacement. The systems have usb3 because the chips are cheaper than fw. And Mac will have USB 3 next year, because Intel is putting out their first implementation, as part of the Ivy Bridge chip set. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth

Re: keyboard shortcut

2011-12-16 Thread Dan
icons too. http://getdockables.com/ HTH, - 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 at http

Re: Question re failing HD

2011-12-13 Thread Dan
At 7:45 AM -0500 12/12/2011, Bill Connelly wrote: On Dec 12, 2011, at 1:40 AM, Dan wrote: Of course, there are all sorts of other carnage scenarios. Shrapnel flying around, etc... and then there's Norton ... The OP said he has an 8 GB SCSI drive, so I made the leap of faith that he's

Re: Flash work-around

2011-12-11 Thread Dan
-5-list - 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 at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our

Re: Question re failing HD

2011-12-11 Thread Dan
force throws the particle off the platter, to the wall the HDA where it (hopefully) sticks. Of course, there are all sorts of other carnage scenarios. Shrapnel flying around, etc... HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you

Re: [G3-5]Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-09 Thread Dan
vulnerabilities. Oh yeah! All Hail Adobe! Adobe is to the security market as Herman Cain was to the late nite comedy writers. ok, back to playing Tap Fish. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group

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

2011-12-01 Thread Dan
for your data in any way. They even consider their internal infrastructure to be confidential -- so you, the customer, have no way of knowing what breed of gerbils they use to keep their wheels running! Unless you know of some service that's different? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South

Re: Converting video to HTML5

2011-12-01 Thread Dan
. FFmpegX is one of my fav - it's shareware, a very nice GUI with presets, and it contains pre-built versions of ffmpeg and some other handy tools (so you don't have to go thru the pain of building them yourself). HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You

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: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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

2011-12-01 Thread Dan
of wax! Many services (eg: Dropbox, iCloud) are backed by the likes of Amazon's S3 cloud, and MS' cloud - which have data centers all over the world. Donno if you can specify where your data is bucketed. Have to look at that! :\ - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-11-29 Thread Dan
plate, to get access to the screws. Donno about the Porche line, tho - never had my paws on one. They are also more expensive than the competition mostly. Yes, LaCie units can be more expensive. Quality. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-11-29 Thread Dan
At 10:24 PM -0800 11/28/2011, David W. Morris wrote: On Nov 28, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Dan wrote: the Passport does not get recognized by the G4 PowerBook at all when plugged in to either of the USB ports. Explain please does not get recognized. Exactly what happens or doesn't happen

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-11-29 Thread Dan
and then I burn off some user data to DVD+RW, in duplicate. Rotated, etc. And now I have some stuff stashed in Amazon's S3 cloud, in encrypted dmgs (done with Dropbox). - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-11-29 Thread Dan
At 12:38 PM -0600 11/29/2011, Kris Tilford wrote: On Nov 29, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Dan wrote: I don't trust burned optical media much. Me either. I had a commercial CD that I kept pristine. When it wouldn't read correctly, I held it up to the light and could see pinpoint holes large enough

Re: So much data, so little organisation...

2011-11-29 Thread Dan
insulation. - 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 at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-11-28 Thread Dan
boxes are great. Love 'em. But like all VARs, they use standard mechanisms. The boxes I have contained Seagate mechanisms originally. - 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

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-11-28 Thread Dan
be too bad. Restorations will only happen at your downstream speed, +/- your ISP's downstream caps. If you lose a whole drive, can you afford the days that will take? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group

Excluding from Quick Look

2011-11-28 Thread Dan
? Thx, - 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 at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-11-28 Thread Dan
in an Apple case. I may have it kicking around here somewhere still too. LaCie sold some branded drive mechanisms. Like Apple branded drives that were actually made by Quantum. And at one point, LaCie was owned by Quantum. An interesting read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaCie - Dan

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-11-28 Thread Dan
that lets you plug into two separate USB buses simultaneously, to leech the xtra power. - 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

Re: Monitor Madness

2011-11-23 Thread Dan
if the video issues persist there... - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - 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

Re: Monitor Madness

2011-11-23 Thread Dan
At 12:54 PM -0500 11/23/2011, JohnV wrote: though how do I reseat EVERYTHING inside teh tower? Keep it simple. One thing at a time. Just reseat the video card. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group

Re: hacking for a slimmer world

2011-11-15 Thread Dan
or faster SATA drives. That way the drives are inexpensive *and* usable in future machines! fwiw, - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group

Re: G4 Server Idea

2011-11-14 Thread Dan
. Could they add another step perhaps? Apple is channeling Microsloth, burrying simple options under subsequent dialogs. I really hate that Apple is going to such efforts to dumb down the GUI with each release of the OS. Intentionally creating OS X Vista is *unacceptable*! - Dan. -- - Be Prepared

Re: Can't load youtube with certain browsers, others ok

2011-11-13 Thread Dan
. Inspecting the Chromium process(es), via Activity Monitor or an lsof command, while it's playing should show you the details. This link should suffice as a demo: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/610326/Handwriting%20Clock.swf - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp

Re: Will Snow Leopard run on a PPC Mac? And question about Firefox

2011-11-12 Thread Dan
there that will run on Leopard? Camino, SeaMonkey, Firefox, TenFourFox, iCab, etc... I'm still partial to Safari tho. - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you

Re: hacking for a slimmer world

2011-11-11 Thread Dan
Dashboard. a big memory pig, if you don't use it. - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - 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

Re: STORAGE SHUFFLE AND NAS

2011-11-07 Thread Dan
that on your Mac. If you'll provide further details as to what apps are involved and what types of files you're trying to recover, we might be able to make better suggestions. - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA

Re: AlBook with a power issue

2011-11-07 Thread Dan
up. That way you can inspect for other damage. - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - 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

Re: Dashboard

2011-11-07 Thread Dan
the indexing is off, most apps will automatically revert to the old search mechanisms. - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: Password protect?

2011-11-05 Thread Dan
way. The public link method is far superior, IMO. HTH, - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - 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

Re: G5 (June 2003): Firmware Update 5.1.4 – worth the risk?

2011-11-05 Thread Dan
At 9:42 PM +0100 11/2/2011, Mac User #330250 wrote: Well, since there is no more warrenty of any kind from Apple, I don't know where I should risk it or not. FWIW, I've done a couple of G5's over the years. Never had a problemo with the firmware update. YMMV. - Dan. -- - Be Prepared

Re: custom setting F keys

2011-11-05 Thread Dan
or do I need to buy a new keyboard? Some settings can be done within the keyboard shortcuts tab on the Keyboard system prefs. For others, try Spark. http://www.shadowlab.org/Software/spark.php - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - Psychoceramic

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-27 Thread Dan
to them. Really irks me that the externals that spin fine on a cheap ($600) HP laptop just sit there and keep trying to spin on a MBP. - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-27 Thread Dan
the slideshow in GraphicConverter. - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - 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

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-26 Thread Dan
/610326/Jobs-iCloud.jpg - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - 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

Re: easy over-the-web access??

2011-10-26 Thread Dan
- Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - 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

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-26 Thread Dan
emulate card reader/punches, er a, make RAM emulate HDs. For the next n years, however, NAND (flash) memory is NOT going to be cheap or reliable enough to really replace real HDs. The ONLY reason to use a SSD is if there is some sort of overriding speed or power savings requirement. - Dan

Re: USB Drive Issues

2011-10-24 Thread Dan
plugged in directly? Anything else plugged into that hub? Try different cable(s). Is the hub's p/s making any sort of humming or crackling sound? (both sounds are an indication of transformer degridation). Check the system.log for error messages. - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov

Ralink RT3072 802.11 b/g/n driver

2011-10-22 Thread Dan
for 10.5/6/7 http://www.ralinktech.com/en/04_support/support.php?sn=502 Anyone have a valid link for the 10.4 version of this driver? Thanks! - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received

Re: Dropbox on a Mac

2011-10-22 Thread Dan
ask you for your password again. It is a well-written secure app. It is NOT doing anything nefarious etc. - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G

Re: GMail phasing out basic view?

2011-10-18 Thread Dan
-to-day email operations. - 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 at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g

Re: Pesky hardware problem

2011-10-18 Thread Dan
playing poorly on Macs... well, that's 100% Apple craptastic codec. Try VLC. It contains much better codecs. - 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

Re: Pesky hardware problem

2011-10-17 Thread Dan
all external devices, except keyboard and mouse. Then redo. - 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

Re: GMail phasing out basic view?

2011-10-17 Thread Dan
/support/bin/answer.py?answer=15049 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6557 You can probably tweak your browser's User Agent to make GMail kick you to the basic vers if you really need... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message

Re: Can I talk about software on my G4?

2011-10-17 Thread Dan
: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=45949replies=35 - 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

Re: Image Scaling Software Needed

2011-10-15 Thread Dan
At 4:51 PM -0500 10/15/2011, Michael McMurtrey wrote: I'm looking for a good image scaling program GraphicConverter. It even has a great batch mode... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-15 Thread Dan
. Had to design my own MacOS 9 folder icon, and I noticed that the folder icons are slightly lighter in Lion than they were in (Snow)Leopard. Ah. ok. In the context, I thought you meant a graphics *driver*. Instead you're talking about moving some of the imagery over. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic

Re: No Startup, just an endlessly repeating chime

2011-10-14 Thread Dan
disconnecting the internal boot volume/drive, and try booting on an external? - 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

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-14 Thread Dan
At 7:48 AM -0700 10/14/2011, Andrew Owen wrote: hacking 10.3.9 on my G4 Mac mini to be a little more current. So far I've dropped in the graphics from Lion. Explain please dropped in the graphics from Lion. Lion is an x86 build and your Mini is a G4. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus

Re: codemeter

2011-10-11 Thread Dan
disk, mounted from a dmg file? The info pane will tell you it's path. - 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

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-10 Thread Dan
to switch to an A4 or A5 -- Apple's implementation of an ARM Cortex, as used in iPad/iPhone. - 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

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-09 Thread Dan
cry from SATA speeds (up to 6 Gbps). Shouldn't really matter tho -- backups are usually a background operation. Who cares how fast they run?! :) FWIW, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-09 Thread Dan
At 3:14 PM -0700 10/9/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 9, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Dan wrote: Locking was done at the record, block, and file level. Very cool. Very disappointing that this type of high reliability file system went the way of the dodo, except for enterprise Unix solutions. It's

Re: Poor Airport reception

2011-09-29 Thread Dan
to a gigaswitch. - 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 at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml

Re: PPC G5 tower CD burner

2011-09-29 Thread Dan
? - 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 at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette

Re: OSX: cloning or ex-novo?

2011-09-20 Thread Dan
? Or will there be something missing? I've never managed to get Migration Assistant to get -everything- on Panther, Tiger, or Leopard. It's crashy and there's always something missing. The vers from SL and Lion seem to be better - and more stable. *shrug* - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus

Re: OSX: cloning or ex-novo?

2011-09-20 Thread Dan
if you grab the G5 builds. - 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 at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g

Re: I just got 774 emails from the various groups

2011-08-31 Thread Dan
://groups.google.com/groups/mysubs Use the set all line at the top to change your subscription type on all your lists. I'm thinking set it to no email, leave it that way for a day or so, then set it to what you want. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message

Re: Video issues after G5 gets dropped by movers

2011-08-31 Thread Dan
, like AHT, to make sure the rest of your G5 (a Power Mac?) is fully operational. - 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

Re: Firewire Yes, Firewire Not?

2011-08-30 Thread Dan
was not resent, then there is probably corrupted data. If the app involved hasn't complained, then it's possible that it's happily been writing corrupted data to the destination! HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member

Re: Firewire Yes, Firewire Not?

2011-08-29 Thread Dan
(like 10 minutes for a 200 MB file). :-( - I tried the reverse, using the PB as main and the G5 in Target mode, and everything went fine, copying 2GB in like 2-3 minutes. odd. The PowerBook was plugged in? No problems with its HD? Check the system.log for errors. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic

Re: Firewire Yes, Firewire Not?

2011-08-29 Thread Dan
At 5:40 PM +0100 8/29/2011, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 29-08-2011 17:12, Dan ha scritto: odd. The PowerBook was plugged in? Yes. It has no battery and the internal backup (PRAM) battery is dead, but it works fine when plugged in. All bets are off - the nvram settings are inconsistent

Re: Jobs II is over...

2011-08-24 Thread Dan
At 5:02 PM -0700 8/24/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: The CEO is resigned, long live the CEO He can still do a lot of damage as The Chairman. 10:20pm, AAPL is down 19 points in after hours trading. About as expected. http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus

Firewire 400 not working in G5 PowerMac

2011-08-19 Thread Dan Stobbs
showing on the desktop, . Hoping y'all can cast a little inSight on this Dan. -- 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

Go run your backups! NOW!

2011-08-12 Thread Dan
You heard me -- GO RUN YOUR BACKUPS! NOW! DON'T WAIT! It's the beginning of the month -- GET IT DONE! Is that subtle enough? :) yea yea yea... Ok... Running backups... FWIW, this is how I do my weekly and monthly full backups: 0. Quit all applications. We're gonna do some clean

Re: Boot USB?

2011-08-12 Thread Dan
? Many powerpc based Macs will boot from USB. Try googling on emac usb boot - 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

Re: Go run your backups! NOW!

2011-08-12 Thread Dan
At 12:09 PM -0400 8/12/2011, Dan wrote: You heard me -- GO RUN YOUR BACKUPS! NOW! Well, the sentiment is right but as you can see this email went out before it was finished... sigh. One of those days... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received

Re: I cloned OSX 10.4 from a G4 to a G5, and G5 doesn't boot

2011-08-08 Thread Dan
Firewire target mode. You cannot make a complete clone via file sharing. - 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

Re: G5 1.8 won't boot

2011-08-08 Thread Dan
the pram. Does the machine bong properly, or beep repeatedly (how many?)? Perhaps pull some of the memory... - 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

QuickTime 7.7, and Apple's horrible support for Mac OS X

2011-08-04 Thread Dan
this, make excuses for Apple... - 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 at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g

Re: Maybe off topic?

2011-08-04 Thread Dan
then they try for the most secure. In practice,,, you often end up with less secure connections! IMO it is better to simply disable the protocols that are known to be insecure. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member

Re: Maybe off topic?

2011-08-04 Thread Dan
. Thinking you're secure because you're hiding under a bush is dumb. Although I do enjoy the whole schtick from Monty Python - the not being seen sketches. sigh. Yes, I have several ceramic penguins. Security through obscurity just doesn't work. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South

Re: Upgrading to Lion

2011-08-04 Thread Dan
-bit Cocoa, but is missing quite a few codecs, as well as support for things like QTVR, interactive QT movies, and MIDI. To do any of those missing things, QTKit spawns off a helper process that runs QuickTime 7, in 32-bit mode Nice kludge, eh? HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South

Re: Upgrading to Lion

2011-08-04 Thread Dan
At 10:12 PM -0400 8/4/2011, Dan wrote: As distributed, there's a file missing that tells Lion it can boot on 32-bit hardware -- hence Apple's claim that you need a Core 2 or better processor. Add that file back and it works... this was discovered by the hackintosh crowd during the seeding

Re: Upgrading to Lion

2011-08-04 Thread Dan
dumped Rosetta, there is no reason to keep the transition API for much longer -- Carbon is doomed. Soon. - 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

Maybe off topic?

2011-08-03 Thread DAN A CURRIE
not seem to find the staring point to begin the process. Thanks!! Dan -- 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

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