Re: PC 3200 400mhz RAM in 1ghz DP MDD. Will it work?

2011-03-27 Thread Daniel Stewart
Would that be CL 2.5 for cas latency? On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:10 PM, daniel.stewart...@gmail.com wrote: CL 2.5? Sent on the TELUS Mobility network with BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Jörg Duurkoop yaw...@gmail.com Sender: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-23 Thread Daniel Stewart
Once again this is going off topic but this seems to be the thread for it. One thing that was impressive with the G4 in it's day compared to the P4s of the same time was that you could get similar or better performance from a CPU that used only passive cooling (heatsink). P4s at the time ran

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-22 Thread Daniel Stewart
Actually you can roll your own apps for PPC. That's what Linux for PPC or if you want serious geek cred NetBSD PPC is for. lol On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011/03/22 08:42, ah...clem so eloquently wrote: On Mar 22, 7:10 am,

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-22 Thread Daniel Stewart
Not surprising that you have had hardware issues with the Intel Macs. I have been doing service work on PCs for years and that is pretty standard with intel based systems.I have to ask though with the X86 Mac what on earth was Apple thinking with Intel integrated graphics. Intel integrated

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-22 Thread Daniel Stewart
Very true. That comment was intended to only be half serious with a little humour. That certainly works too. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Daniel Stewart wrote: Actually you can roll your own apps for PPC

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-21 Thread Daniel Stewart
not a programmer so I could not really make an informed decision on that one. On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Mar 20, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Daniel Stewart wrote: I honestly don't know what everyone complains about with G4s and Flash.  It runs

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-21 Thread Daniel Stewart
I think with the comparison of the laptop G4s to current intel offerings is a like comparing apples and oranges but that is a different story. The point I am looking to make here is the Intel Mac may be faster then the older PPC offerings but I would like to point out that a friend of mine works

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-20 Thread Daniel Stewart
I honestly don't know what everyone complains about with G4s and Flash. It runs nearly flawlessly on both the Quicksilver 933mhz I had and the 733mhz Digital Audio Power macs with basically stock hardware. Maybe the imacs are not so great since they were consumer level machines but honestly

Re: Which would be the better Mac?

2011-03-17 Thread Daniel Stewart
Well I appreciate all the advice. I have a lot more to think about now. What got me started on all this was the fact that my Blueberry Apple Studio Display CRT(the one that went with the Power Mac G3 BW) is no more and I thought I might be able to get what seemed at least on the surface a faster

Re: Which would be the better Mac?

2011-03-17 Thread Daniel Stewart
Prahlad valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it wrote: Il giorno 17-03-2011 9:29, Daniel Stewart ha scritto: I thought I might be able to get what seemed at least on the surface a faster Mac Yes... in part. Because the G4 DA has more cache: - iMac 1GHz: 256KB L2 - G4 DA 733MHz: 1MB L2, 1MB L3 Besides

Re: Good time machine alternative for Tiger on a DA 733

2011-03-13 Thread Daniel Stewart
Thanks. That is basically what I need it to do so I can make backups. On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Jonas Ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote: I use Carbon Copy Cloner. (CCC). It's free, and will do a total backup. I'm not sure how similar it is to Time Machine, but you CAN schedule

Re: GeForce 6800 vs 6200

2011-02-15 Thread Daniel Stewart
I agree that you may need to check you power supply to make sure it can handle it, but gaming is not the only instance where hadware graphic acceleration is helpful. Anything graphics/video intensive will almost certainly benefit. I am not sure how that argument of the CPU being a bottleneck is

Re: GeForce 6800 vs 6200

2011-02-14 Thread Daniel Stewart
It would most definitely be an improvement unless the 6800 is PCI. lol. The new card would probably have better and/or more pipelines, pixel shaders...etc and the GPU clock speed will be faster. On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:11 PM, faithie999 faithie...@hotmail.com wrote: i'm running an XFX GeForce

Re: Power Mac G4 733mhz Digital Audio dilemma

2011-02-10 Thread Daniel Stewart
I have no idea how to use CCC. Is it something I have to buy? On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: On Feb 10, 2011, at 9:43 PM, Scotty wrote: I just recently acqired a Digital Audio 733mhz for $25 (it needed ram and a HDD which I had on hand).  So I

Re: Hardware Test CD

2011-02-08 Thread Daniel Stewart
Unfortunately the version I have is AHT 1.2.4 On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: On Feb 8, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: AHT 1.2.4, which I got for my Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1GHz, just ran successfully on my Digital Audio Dual 533. I did

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

2010-12-22 Thread Daniel Stewart
I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't dual booting being an option? Then you could just boot into whichever OS you need at the time. On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Dec 22, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Dan wrote: I've found Sheepshaver to be

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

2010-12-22 Thread Daniel Stewart
Connelly wrote: On Dec 22, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Daniel Stewart wrote: I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't dual booting being an option? Then you could just boot into whichever OS you need at the time. That has worked for me. Using Leopard 10.5.8, and having OS 9 Classic under Tiger

Re: Quick Silver issue

2010-12-14 Thread Daniel Stewart
Do you have the Quicksilver and another computer hooked up to a monitor via a KVM switch? I had this exact same issue under Tiger with my 933 mhz Quicksilver 2002 when it was hooked it up to my Blueberry Apple Studio monitor along with a PC via a KVM switch. Stranger still was when I installed

Re: Clamshell Won't boot off CD

2010-12-11 Thread Daniel Stewart
I would suggest popping a cleaning CD into the drive. It might help. I have had similar issues in the past and giving the drive a clean did the trick even when it did not really seem like it should be the problem. On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Jonas Ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-25 Thread Daniel Stewart
As an interesting aside I there was also a PPC native version of Windows NT 4.0 I guess MS was not content to just subject PC users to NT. On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Oct 24, 2010, at 7:54 PM, James Therrault wrote: AIX was in use

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-24 Thread Daniel Stewart
Well you are right that AMD does not do PPC CPUs you could not be more wrong about the switch to Intel being a smart move. They only did it to boost lagging laptop sales because they were stuck with the G4 because the G5 ran too hot to stick it in a laptop and they were loosing clock speed

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-24 Thread Daniel Stewart
the last Powermac G5. On Oct 24, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Daniel Stewart wrote: Well you are right that AMD does not do PPC CPUs you could not be more wrong about the switch to Intel being a smart move.  They only did it to boost lagging laptop sales because they were stuck with the G4 because

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-24 Thread Daniel Stewart
entirely by sales of the many incarnations of the ipod not computers. On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Oct 24, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Daniel Stewart wrote: Ultimately Apple ended up looking like impatient dummies and paid the price. yeah, record

Re: will DA processor fit in Gigabit?

2010-08-06 Thread Daniel Stewart
I can't agree with that. A P4 is the definition of hype verses performance. My G4 933 mhz Quicksilver is more responsive then a P4 at twice the clock speed and the ram is PC133 on my QS and it is still the better machine. P4s were not even that great with windows. Plus a P4 is basically a

Re: IBM HDD clicking

2010-07-08 Thread Daniel Stewart
IBM deskstars are known for hardware failure and used to be nicknamed deathstars because of it. I am surprised you have not had trouble sooner with them. On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:08 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: Hi All I have an IBM Deskstar 3.5 Apple logo HDD 82 Gig  that decided

Re: IBM HDD clicking

2010-07-08 Thread Daniel Stewart
not know that those issues where mostly limited to the 40-60GB drives. On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Jul 8, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Daniel Stewart wrote: IBM deskstars are known for hardware failure and used to be nicknamed deathstars because

Re: i need help building this mac

2010-07-06 Thread Daniel Stewart
Something that might be worth looking up online is a custom gaming rig someone build a few years back with a Socket A AMD mobo in a Quicksilver case. That might give you some ideas on how to get the power supply to fit. I believe he called it the Poison Apple. Try googling it. On Tue, Jul 6,

Re: CPU Temp?

2010-06-30 Thread Daniel Stewart
I tried this. This app and every other one I have tried do not give CPU temp for my Quicksilver, only HDD temp. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Steve Thompson macg4.st...@googlemail.com wrote: On 20/06/2010 03:01, Ricardo Sevilla wrote: Hello all. I have a quick question. Does any one know

Re: CPU Temp?

2010-06-30 Thread Daniel Stewart
I must have missed that. Good to know. On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Ted Treen ted.tr...@btinternet.com wrote: From: Daniel Stewart daniel.stewart...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, 30 June, 2010 7:45:02 Subject: Re: CPU Temp

Re: iLife 08 on 933mhz PM QS

2010-06-21 Thread Daniel Stewart
Well it is amazing what saving the install file to the HDD and a hex editor will do. It is installing as we speak without complaint. I will let you know if iMovie actually loads after it is installed. :-) On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:58 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Jun 21, 2010,

Re: iLife 08 on 933mhz PM QS

2010-06-21 Thread Daniel Stewart
Thanks everyone. After trying several different things I have decided to throw in the towel. My old iMovie 1.0 from the original Quicksilver install disks works fine for what I use it for and actually runs under Leopard. It was the other applications especially iPhoto that I needed which is

Re: OSX is a 32-bit operating system?? is this true??

2010-06-18 Thread Daniel Stewart
I don't know for sure, but up until recently there has been so few 64 bit applications out there to make it largely irrelevant until fairly recently. On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:47 PM, ah...clem boneheads...@gmail.com wrote: i've just been informed by a reliable source that OSX is a 32-bit

Re: OS X upgrade question

2010-06-18 Thread Daniel Stewart
I should probably mention that it says on the Software Restore disks that it is compatible with OS 10.1.2 and OS 9.22. Should that give me problems with 104.11? On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:59 PM, JOHN CARMONNE carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Jun 18, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Scotty wrote: This may fit

Re: MDD or Quicksilver?

2010-06-13 Thread Daniel Stewart
Well the biggest difference off the top of my head will be the RAM. The Quicksilver uses older PC 133 SDRAM and the MDD uses newer DDR RAM which also explains the difference in price for the RAM. PC 133 is quite expensive these days. There is also the bus speed of the mainboard too which is

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel Stewart
Whether a computer is obselete really depends on what you want to do with the computer. I mean the space shuttle runs of a i386. I use mine primarily as my digital darkroom for photography and it works perfectly for what I use it for. Furthermore various open source software will likely extend

Re: 10.5 install issues. PM G4 Quicksilver 933mhz w/1.25 GB RAM

2010-06-09 Thread Daniel Stewart
Yeah it is a universal install disk. When I try and get it to boot with the C key I get the white screen with the grey Apple logo, but it does not seem to be doing anything. Is there some way to bring up a verbose mode that would tell me if the computer is doing anything? Furthermore if for

Re: 933 mhz G4 Quicksilver Powermac OS Linux or OS X?

2010-05-30 Thread Daniel Stewart
Well yeah that is kind of what defines open source, but you could say the same thing about Windows and with the exception on Windows 7 I have found nothing more reliable then the open source stuff on the PC side. I am wondering if I would be better going with an out of date, and unsupported

Re: [G3-5]Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-02-14 Thread Daniel Stewart
I use a Power Mac G4 because I can afford it, it is very attractive and it is very stable. In fact a friend of mine who works with them in a professional capacity at a print shop and she said in their experience in the art room their old G4 Power Macs are more consistently reliable then their