Re: DVD, Webcam, Pix, and Images: why are they soooo different

2010-11-24 Thread Dan
. DivX is simply a flavor of MPEG-4. - 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

Re: OpenOffice vs Oracle

2010-11-24 Thread Dan
). 2. LibreOffice will get some great features and speed improvements over the next year or two. 3. NeoOffice will continue offering their Mac-interfaced builds, and grab the best-of from both the forks. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received

Re: DVD, Webcam, Pix, and Images: why are they soooo different

2010-11-24 Thread Dan
. If either of the above isn't up to par, then will get pauses, stutters, etc. Your 450-MHz G4 is simply not fast enough, I think. - 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

Re: USB stick read only

2010-11-24 Thread Dan
that there be one and only one copy of the data and that NOONE, even the uber geeko genius, has ever heard of making a backup. - 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

OpenOffice vs Oracle

2010-11-23 Thread Dan
-paper-scissors, but has come up lizard. - 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: USB stick read only

2010-11-23 Thread Dan
. Messing around with the disk arbitration can be problematic. Start here: http://tinyapps.org/blog/mac/201008170700_mount_disks_read_only_or_disable_automounting.html - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: USB stick read only

2010-11-22 Thread Dan
know to) wipe off / clean the contacts or anything. The sticks gets stashed in fairly hostile environments - pockets, purses, etc, collecting crud. Shove 'em into the socket, they short out, gersparken, poof. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received

Re: USB stick read only

2010-11-20 Thread Dan
circuitry was damaged. The resulting short was enough to destroy powered hubs and even the built-in USB interfaces in your Mac. The OS tries to protect you from this, a little - if it senses something amiss, it shuts down the interface quickly. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey

MDD ??

2010-11-20 Thread DAN A CURRIE
on the MDD ... nothing. Reset CUDA ... nothing. Suggestions ... analysis 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

Re: MDD ??

2010-11-20 Thread DAN A CURRIE
it was that but it had been YEARS since it last happened!! 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 netiquette guide

Re: USB stick read only

2010-11-19 Thread Dan
, the mouse suddenly stops working. Then I unplug the mouse and plug it into a different port (on the same hub) and it works again! Check your system.log. When USB devices suck up too much power, they often kill each other off. There should be some i/o error messages in the log. - Dan

Re: Getting there

2010-11-17 Thread Dan
won't see the discs, 4. won't see anything. Mac OS X up thru Tiger fully supports the Smurf, so XPostFacto is not needed. No clue what get no further means. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: Time Machine on Carbonite?

2010-11-17 Thread Dan
do a CCC backup over a LAN? Follow the directions in the documentation, which is available both from CCC's Help menu and online. http://bombich.com/software/docs/CCC/en.lproj/index.html - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you

Re: Time Machine on Carbonite?

2010-11-16 Thread Dan
accessible HFS+ volume. also do these services back up a bootable drive similar to CCC? No. And neither does Time Machine. CCC works quite well, over the 'net, btw... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group

Re: Bug Reporting

2010-11-16 Thread Dan
and over - just to see if it can make you go away. IMO, the worst bug reporting system I've ever used. G'luck. - 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: initializing Hard drive

2010-11-10 Thread Dan
, NOT an image. Check the delete box, so that your destination will end up being an exact copy of the source. - 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: hijacking

2010-11-10 Thread Dan
At 8:53 AM -0800 11/10/2010, ah...clem wrote: are you so STOOPID that Enough. Nannies, end this thread please. - 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: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-10 Thread Dan
At 11:48 AM -0400 11/2/2010, Dan wrote: Clam and ClamXav were just recently updated... And now Sophos is offering a free version of their anti-virus tool At 10:32 AM -0700 11/3/2010, Bruce Johnson wrote: Sophos was throwing false positives like mad on Java last month False positives

Re: Trying to bring a partition back to life

2010-11-10 Thread Dan
an option. But it requires a semi-intact file system whereas Data Rescue does not - it scans the damaged file system and augments it with the actual file structures it finds on the disk. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-10 Thread Dan
At 7:12 PM -0700 11/10/2010, Tina K. wrote: Today on the Price Is Wright they had a MacPro in the showcase showdown, it came equipped with a 1TB hard driveŠ Š and anti-virus software. I almost choked on my soda. ROFL! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You

Re: hijacking

2010-11-10 Thread Dan
strip these out. So they end up subject-threading anyway. - 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

Strange Behavior w/G5 and iMovie

2010-11-08 Thread DAN A CURRIE
and each time it quits. I have NO IDEA as to what is wrong. Is there some incompatibility issue with 10.5.8 and 7.1.4 that I am unaware of? Surely I have enough power and ram to handle this program?? Thank you, Dan -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: Horrible news for the troops in the field. IS the world about to change continued badly

2010-11-08 Thread Dan
go POWER. I donno; haven't really started looking yet. - 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

Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-02 Thread Dan
Clam and ClamXav were just recently updated... (get the version 2 beta - it's stable, not java, works well) http://www.clamxav.com/ And now Sophos is offering a free version of their anti-virus tool http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2010/11/free-mac-anti-virus.html - Dan

Re: Mac OS X Lion Is a Must-Have: 10 Reasons Why

2010-11-01 Thread Dan
At 10:32 PM -0400 10/31/2010, Chance Reecher wrote: At 10:15 PM 10/31/2010, Dan wrote: Mass-republishing without the ads has ripped them off I see it a different way. Exactly how many list members do you think would have seen the article had it not been re-posted to the list? Thousands

Re: Mac OS X Lion Is a Must-Have: 10 Reasons Why

2010-11-01 Thread Dan
cannot republish the whole work (without permission)... - 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: Mac OS X Lion Is a Must-Have: 10 Reasons Why

2010-11-01 Thread Dan
and the average consumer hasn't got the means, legal or financial, to do so. - 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

Yet-another boring viral FUD panic.

2010-10-31 Thread Dan
Koobface. heh. A good read. See also the links at the end of their page. http://rixstep.com/2/20101029,00.shtml - 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

Re: Mac OS X Lion Is a Must-Have: 10 Reasons Why

2010-10-31 Thread Dan
data should be deleted from our archive. - 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: Mac OS X Lion Is a Must-Have: 10 Reasons Why

2010-10-31 Thread Dan
At 4:59 PM -0700 10/31/2010, Al Poulin wrote: On Oct 31, 2:03 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: But more importantly -- it is, um, inappropriate to re-post complete copyrighted works without the author's permission. Was such permission obtained? Nannies -- If permission

Being Steve Jobs' Boss (BusinessWeek article)

2010-10-30 Thread Dan
An interesting read... Being Steve Jobs' Boss http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_44/b4201096309840.htm - Dan. (quietly eating a mango caterpillar snow cone). -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs

Re: Daisy-chain-ing

2010-10-29 Thread Dan
At 1:51 PM -0700 10/29/2010, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Can I daisy chain fw400 fw800 devices together? Technically, yes. But I've had some mixed results because of speed issues (device response time-outs etc). Best to put the slower devices at the end of the chain, IMO. - Dan

Re: Flash only? WAS:Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Dan
find a new hard drive that was 40 GB or so, which I needed since I have a Rev.1 G3 BW with the buggy IDE controller. Cool. It will be interesting to see how long the CF card lasts. Be sure to keep good backups. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received

Re: G4 hd problem

2010-10-26 Thread Dan
be the raid is corrupted. Boot on your OS X DVD and use Disk Utility to repair the volume. If that doesn't work, make a backup, re-initialize the drives - preferrably as two normal HFS+Journal disks, then reload. CarbonCopyCloner is our fav app for such backups. But Disk Utility works too. - Dan

Re: Flash only? WAS:Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Dan
to the flash memory by quite a bit. This gives the brick a longer life. ... Remember, the goal is to make this thing work at least one day beyond the warranty period. (Seagate is doing a 5 yr warranty on them, btw). - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Dan
of 'puter sales: http://c.bizjournals.com/ct/c/31738601 Yea. 3.8% growth is not a boom. A few more quarters of that and those companies will have reorganizations. Oh, but Americans love honking big ugly SUVs! Lets keep makin 'em! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA

Re: Flash only? WAS:Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Dan
the tech evolves a bit more... - 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: Apple inside?

2010-10-25 Thread Dan
, what do you do with the extra real estate You make ASICs and SoC and, oh, just put more Stuff on it... More cache, memory controllers, and all sorts of auxiliary processors! Cores! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you

Re: Flash only? WAS:Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-25 Thread Dan
(thousands of writes, not millions). Yea. Let's take a high-quality data retention and high re-write life device, and strap a lower-quality brick to its forehead. Sure the brick is faster. But it's still a brick. heh. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-24 Thread Dan
laptop chips are garbage. I'm thinking by next summer/fall, Apple will be offering A4 portables and Core i7 and i9 desktops. OS X and iOS merged (Lion being the first step), and able to run on either ARM or x86. yum. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-24 Thread Dan
of course brings us back the old argument of wanting that robust build of OS X, that runs on Intel x86, AMD x86, ARM, and 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

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-23 Thread Dan
is the computer indistry doesn't care what you want, they need to make money. True, to a point. In this economy Macs are doing well while PCs are floundering -- so there must be something more to it. Selling only poorly made SUVs, in this decade, is perhaps not a great idea. - Dan

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-23 Thread Dan
Cicero, statesman/orator/writer, (106-43 B.C.) - 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: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Dan
' POV. But that won't protect our user data at all! - 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: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Dan
it. - 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: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-21 Thread Dan
great things that can be done! Air gestures, optic (eye) targeting for heads-up displays, etc. Great potential, once you have the primitive support built-in! FWIW, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-21 Thread Dan
At 10:54 AM -0600 10/21/2010, Doug McNutt wrote: If we lose the optical disk what will we have for archiving? External burners, hard drives, tape drives, and The Cloud -- just like we do now. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because

Re: Flash only? WAS:Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-21 Thread Dan
At 11:16 AM -0700 10/21/2010, JoeTaxpayer wrote: until and unless SSD cost drops to a lower X of HD, both will be there side by side *nod* A $1/GB price point, for *reliable* devices, is fairly critical to get past. Big HDs really boomed when they hit 25c/GB. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-21 Thread Dan
those low-end and mid-range machines are watching their sales fall in to the toilet! WHY would you want Apple to get their feet wet in that? - 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

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-21 Thread Dan
At 5:48 PM -0600 10/21/2010, James Therrault wrote: Exactly my sentiments and Apple may pay a price for the arrogance... Yea, all the way to the bank. AAPL is still trading over $300. Have you taken your profits yet? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You

Re: How to burn VIDEO_TS

2010-10-10 Thread Dan
://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070612161317338 Not positive, but I think Burn will handle Video_TS folders also. http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G

Re: MDD G4 Power Supply variations

2010-10-07 Thread Dan
is very simple and inexpensive, I'd just replace 'em. FWIW, - 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: Video card advice for MDD and/or Digital Audio

2010-10-07 Thread Dan Knight, LowEndMac.com
with a Quicksilver 867 MHz for $175 through Craigslist, then sold the Quicksilver for $100. I love this display!) Thanks again! Dan On Oct 7, 8:27 am, Geke gevangaste...@googlemail.com wrote: And just one more viewpoint: Why not buy another Radeon 9000 and spend the savings on maxing out

Video card advice for MDD and/or Digital Audio

2010-10-06 Thread Dan Knight, LowEndMac.com
picked up a 22 Apple Cinema Display for a song. It's an ADC monitor, so I'm limited to Apple AGP video cards with ADC support. I'm looking for suggestions for a better video card that's also very affordable. This would also let me swap the Radeon 9000 back to the MDD. Thanks in advance! Dan

Mac OS X: Why your Mac might not sleep or stay in sleep mode

2010-10-03 Thread Dan
A recently updated tech article from Apple: Mac OS X: Why your Mac might not sleep or stay in sleep mode http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1776 Do androids dream of electric sheep? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you

Re: Emails

2010-10-02 Thread Dan
are workin on it. - 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: Always weird problems!!!

2010-09-26 Thread Dan
, to launch Dashboard, then keep it running forever thereafter. Not one of Apple's best ideas. FWIW, - 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: Always weird problems!!!

2010-09-25 Thread Dan
enabled. All the time. If the widgets are good, they sit idle, simply sucking up memory but not cpu. If they're evil, they poll for data or input, sucking up both memory and cpu. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member

Re: Cube USB 2.0 possible?

2010-09-25 Thread Dan Palka
Not that I know of. You should try to stick to FireWire wherever possible. On Sep 25, 2010, at 11:41 AM, John Markowitz wrote: Is there a way to have USB 2.0 on a Cube G4 with some type of addition? Regards, Dan Palka Info-Mac Moderator http://www.info-mac.org d...@info-mac.org -- You

Calendar sync'ing, Mac-PC-Droid

2010-09-25 Thread Dan
create a dependancy on her dealing with him updating every day or so. ... It would be ok if the solution required the internet, but it would be better if it didn't - as they're often on the road in their RV without 'net access. So what's the right way to do all this? Thanks, - Dan

Re: VGA video card for Power Mac G3?

2010-09-25 Thread Dan Palka
not too expensive that the G3 beige can support? (It doesn't have to be fancy- my dad really only needs the computer to check his e-mail and browse YouTube.) Super easy. Just search for Mac Radeon 7000 PCI on eBay. There's many to choose from, priced between $20 and $40. Regards, Dan Palka

Re: VGA video card for Power Mac G3?

2010-09-25 Thread Dan Palka
On Sep 25, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Heather Cotter wrote: It doesn't have to be fancy- my dad really only needs the computer to check his e-mail and browse YouTube BTW, you can pretty much rule out browsing YouTube entirely. Beige G3s are just about useless in 2010. Regards, Dan Palka Info-Mac

Re: VGA video card for Power Mac G3?

2010-09-25 Thread Dan Palka
would hardly call it *far* cheaper than a Radeon card or a real alternative. Regards, Dan Palka Info-Mac Moderator http://www.info-mac.org d...@info-mac.org -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs

Re: VGA video card for Power Mac G3?

2010-09-25 Thread Dan Palka
Yup, that's the later upgrade from the 7000. Go for it. On Sep 25, 2010, at 1:26 PM, Heather Cotter wrote: Thanks for the suggestions! Think this one'll do the job? It says PCI and mentions G3 and OS9.2.2 as supported models (which is exactly what I'm working with): Regards, Dan Palka Info

Re: Always weird problems!!!

2010-09-24 Thread Dan
you have explicitly disabled Dashboard, with a tool such as OnyX, Dashboard is running - sucking up cpu and oddles memory. The widgets are javascript applets. Each one that is enabled is run as its own process... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received

Re: Tiger won't ichat on G4 or G5 PPC's?

2010-09-23 Thread Dan
in your firewall enabled for iChat Bonjour? You gots separate AIM or .Mac accounts for each login session? Have you tried trashing prefs and such? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: VersionTracker folds

2010-09-20 Thread Dan
to load and more difficult to read - especially after you bump the font size up a bit. For that added bonus, when I clicked on the full specifications link it took me to a page not found error. Great job, CNET. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received

Re: late 05 g5 question

2010-09-20 Thread Dan Palka
doing it since i got it back in jan of 2010 i read about a red light of death is that what it is cause my machine seems to run fine. Regards, Dan Palka Info-Mac Moderator http://www.info-mac.org d...@info-mac.org -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: VersionTracker folds

2010-09-19 Thread Dan Palka
Tonnnsss of ads yucky yuck. On Sep 19, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: Did you notice where VersionTracker has been folded into CNET download.com ? Now the noise of all those advertisements and the general feel isn't as simple. so it goes Regards, Dan Palka Info-Mac Moderator

Re: installing a printer

2010-09-08 Thread Dan
or ? What do you mean by stalls? Are you saying that the system freezes or something else? - 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

Re: Computer Name: (2) ??? in Sharing folder changes for no reason?

2010-09-04 Thread Dan
it again, check your system log - there will be information there about the name change. - 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

Twitter OAuth @#$% on Tiger

2010-09-02 Thread Dan
stuff, that support OAuth and run on Tiger? 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

Re: SeaMonkey/SMTP

2010-09-02 Thread Dan
into the service and look up the current settings requirements. They have changed the authorization or port requirements. Ultimately, a better solution, would be to throw your email thru a reliable provider, not Microsoft. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You

Re: Change computer icon

2010-08-30 Thread Dan Palka
Whoa thanks for sharing this... this is like a treasure trove of cool stuff. On Aug 30, 2010, at 8:23 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: The OS X System icons for Leopard 10.5 are located in SystemLibraryCoreServicesCoreTypes.bundle(control-click) Show Package ContentsContentsResources. Regards, Dan

Re: Writing on the wall...

2010-08-27 Thread Dan
a few posts late, and seen a few of my own delayed some hours. But that doesn't affect Google Groups reliability at all. - 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

Re: Writing on the wall...

2010-08-27 Thread Dan
. We've discussed this before. Pls check the list archives. Google's issues will be fixed. This isn't a big 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

Re: CCC entire HDD including partitions

2010-08-27 Thread Dan
. If the issue is that you're trying to stuff them all onto one target volume,,, then back up the volumes into sparse disk images. - 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

Re: CCC image bootable?

2010-08-27 Thread Dan
to restore the image. - 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: desperate help

2010-08-26 Thread Dan
imaged onto a different medium like that (I've never tried it). How 'bout using CCC to clone the dmg into the personal data partition, instead of Disk Utility? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: seeking reviews of SmithMicro's Spring Cleaning

2010-08-26 Thread Dan
At 7:19 PM -0700 8/25/2010, ah...clem wrote: what i want is an app that will help me find multiple copies of the same file scattered in many folders and several HD. File Buddy is rather nice, but a bit pricey. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received

Re: Need help with a disk problem

2010-08-26 Thread Dan
a good backup, just in case - 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: QS DP 1.0 w OS X 10.4 Server

2010-08-25 Thread Dan Palka
have it just have mis-placed it. Is there anywhere inside the OS that gives you the License Key for this product? Regards, Dan Palka Info-Mac Moderator http://www.info-mac.org d...@info-mac.org -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-24 Thread Dan Palka
On Aug 24, 2010, at 1:14 AM, Illirik Smirnov wrote: So, all of the G5-optimized 64-bit code was never used? I sure do use it. There's exponentially more on Intels running Snow Leopard, and more every day. On Aug 24, 2010, at 1:14 AM, Illirik Smirnov wrote: And if I'm not running multi-core,

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread Dan Palka
designed to run properly on them, something neither Pagemill nor AppleWorks were ever intended to do. Regards, Dan Palka Info-Mac Moderator http://www.info-mac.org d...@info-mac.org -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread Dan Palka
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Aug 23, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Dan Palka wrote: it really is time to move on. Snow Leopard on an Intel Mac is an amazing, highly-refined, ultra-powerful combination. I wouldn't downgrade for anything. Great, I think we

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread Dan Palka
On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Illirik Smirnov wrote: I like my G5 tower more than my computer lab's Mac Minis. That exact G5 is far slower than even the base-model Mac Mini of today in Geekbench scores, and you're not even considering that only with Snow Leopard has 64-bit software been

Re: eSATA transfer speed

2010-08-22 Thread Dan
At 10:27 PM -0500 8/21/2010, Kris Tilford wrote: On Aug 21, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Dan wrote: SeriTek 1V4 is SATA I, 1.5 Gbps burst, 150 MB/sec (1.2 Gbps) nominal on a good day. This isn't exactly right. Copied below [snip] SeriTek/1VE2+2 The card in question is a 1V4 not a 1VE2+2

Re: USB Question

2010-08-22 Thread Dan
problem, then yes - a reboot should restore it, IF it managed to shut it down before the port fried. If the OS did that then there will be a message in the system log. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-22 Thread Dan Palka
On Aug 22, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Peter Haas wrote: 10.4.8 was made as Intel. Possibly also as Universal. My understanding is that Intel Macs are not installable from any retail Mac OS X Tiger install set, and especially not from a PowerPC Mac mini restore set. Regards, Dan Palka Info-Mac

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-22 Thread Dan Palka
Intel came with at least Tiger, there was no need to make universal Tiger retail installs. Why would anybody need to buy a retail copy of Tiger to install on their Intel. Regards, Dan Palka Info-Mac Moderator http://www.info-mac.org d...@info-mac.org -- You received this message because you

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-22 Thread Dan
. 10.4.8 was made as Intel. Possibly also as Universal. No. The Tiger retail kit is ppc only. PowerPC based Macs came with ppc-only Tiger. x86 based Macs came with a special build, x86 only, of Tiger. There were NO universal Tiger builds. Leopard's retail kit is Universal (ppc x86). - Dan

Re: PCI graphics card for Yikes G$

2010-08-22 Thread Dan
Macs. See Eric's reply. - 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: eSATA transfer speed

2010-08-21 Thread Dan
or a merge into an existing volume? Recall that CCC isn't just copying data - it's also comparing and building file system on the target... - 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

Gigabit G4 Tower + Leopard = Not working?

2010-08-20 Thread Dan Palka
I tried multiple ways to get Leopard to install onto my Gigabit G4 tower, including putting it into FireWire disk mode and installing from a Mac mini G4, as well as modifying the reported clock frequency in Open Firmware and booting from the Leopard installer. Every time I'm getting the unable

Re: Gigabit G4 Tower + Leopard = Not working?

2010-08-20 Thread Dan Palka
On Aug 20, 2010, at 8:27 AM, John Carmonne wrote: The OP stated a Mini G4 in the mix I sometimes feel that the Mini system can be problematic I would do an install on a FW drive from any G4 867 up except a Mini and see if I could boot the FW drive on the Gigabit. Then you may have to reset

Re: Recommended bootable external Firewire drives for G4 MDD Dual-1Gb

2010-08-17 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

Re: Recommended bootable external Firewire drives for G4 MDD Dual-1Gb

2010-08-17 Thread Dan
of the much lower access time, plus the fact that they usually have larger buffers, so you can read or write a whole track at once. YMMV. - 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

Re: Chronosync PROBLEM

2010-08-14 Thread Dan
contents of the ~/Music folder. So sync'ing the music between two Macs is only the first step. You still have to rebuild libraries or whatever, to make iTunes notice the new additions. Here's a blert to get things started: http://www.econtechnologies.com/pages/cs/chrono_tips25.html HTH, - Dan

Re: Chronosync PROBLEM

2010-08-14 Thread Dan
At 9:07 AM -0400 8/14/2010, Dan wrote: At 10:53 PM -0700 8/13/2010, John Carmonne wrote: i'm having a problem with Chronosync when syncing two iTunes libraries. What's happening is any new songs that are added back and forth between the libraries only show up in the music folder in the iTunes

Re: Sawtooth freeze

2010-08-13 Thread Dan
in a card that is less than 32MB, because you won't like the performance at all, and it might freeze. Baloney. A bogged GPU does not a freeze cause. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

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