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

2010-09-30 Thread John Markowitz
iChat works just fine on my system (Tiger, fully updated).  It and Adium even talk at each other. You gots a hole 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? I have found that Tiger and

Re: airport card on g4 500 sawtooth agp

2010-09-30 Thread John Markowitz
On Sep 29, 2010, at 10:07 PM, G-Group wrote: my g4 500 titanium powerbook died on me so i took out the airport card and installed it on my g4 500 sawtooth desktop mac. i also added a 120gb hd as well as upgraded the cpu...sonnett??? my problem is with the airport card, it's not being

Re: Another Quicksilver Question

2010-09-30 Thread John Markowitz
I have tried: DVD-RW (4.7 GB, doesn't show up at all) CD-RW (shows up as Empty. 650 MB) CD-R (4 show they has music on them, 1 is the one with pics on it. It doesn't show up) All are 700 MB. The one that I tell it to Ignore it says cannot be read by this machine Do you get

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

2010-09-30 Thread John Markowitz
iChat works just fine on my system (Tiger, fully updated).  It and Adium even talk at each other. You gots a hole 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? I have found that Tiger and

Re: G5 coolant leak

2010-09-29 Thread John Markowitz
On Sep 28, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/09/28 13:59, Kyle Hansen wrote: I have horror story pictures of leaky G5's if you want to see them... Mixing liquid with high temperatures and electronic components just never appealed to me. I would sure try to save it unless you

Re: Cube USB 2.0 possible?

2010-09-29 Thread John Markowitz
I read on another post that the AirPort original card is a PCMCIA card if so than the Airport slot would also be a PCMCIA connection? So can I plug in one of my PIMCIA USB 2.0 cards in The Cube and have 2.0 ports? The Cube uses an Ethernet connection for the net so I have no use for the

Re: Cube USB 2.0 possible?

2010-09-29 Thread John Markowitz
I believe if you read that thread thoroughly you will find that the slot is not a true PIMCIA slot, but rather only accommodates Apple's modified PIMCIA original AirPort card. Tina Well I was drawn by this statement and I and didn't know the AirPort card is a modified PIMCIA. A

Mail address export import

2010-09-28 Thread John Markowitz
I have a problem with mail address's between computers, I want to find a way to sync the address's between 5 Macs preferably with a thumb drive or Ethernet. I don't use Apple address book so I need a method without that. John M Placentia CA dadbe...@gmail.com -- You received this message

Re: Mail address export import

2010-09-28 Thread John Markowitz
On Sep 28, 2010, at 7:00 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Sep 28, 2010, at 4:44 AM, John Markowitz dadbe...@gmail.com wrote: I have a problem with mail address's between computers, I want to find a way to sync the address's between 5 Macs preferably with a thumb drive or Ethernet. I don't

Re: Mail address export import

2010-09-28 Thread John Markowitz
but in your follow up you say:I use Apple Mail app and when I go between mail boxes the address's that are available seem to only be ones previously used on the particular box even though they're all in the same app. This is a horse of a different kettle of fish. Here you're

Re: Mail address export import

2010-09-28 Thread John Markowitz
Just to be clear, here when you say 'mail box' you mean a different email account, correct? So that you have a unified inbox, and if you click the reveal triangle next to the Inbox you see a separate Inbox for each account, correct? Yes this is correct. If you open the Previous

Re: G5 coolant leak

2010-09-28 Thread John Markowitz
On Sep 28, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Mark wrote: I think I might have a leaky G5. Haven't looked inside yet but I smelled hot electric a few hours after I heard a dripping sound in a room with nothing that should drip. The window was open however. guess I should see something inside when I open

Re: MDD 867 vs 1.0

2010-09-27 Thread John Markowitz
On Sep 26, 2010, at 9:50 PM, Bequette Jeff wrote: I have 2 machines, both MDD, 1 an 867ghzdp the other a 1ghzdp. The 1ghz machine has a dead mother board. Can I swap the processors 1.0 the 867 machine? Or should I look at swapping the motherboards? Jeff Bequette jbeque...@tconl.com

Re: I just bought a Powermac G4 dual 800

2010-09-27 Thread John Markowitz
On Sep 27, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: -- Original message -- Subject: I just bought a Powermac G4 dual 800 Date:Montag 27 September 2010N From:Alex kab...@gmail.com To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com I just bought a Powermac G4 dual 800

Re: I just bought a Powermac G4 dual 800

2010-09-27 Thread John Markowitz
And yes, it is the fastest way, if you don't count the work to make a CCC copy. For only one Power Mac the effort is propably more time consuming than to install a fresh Mac OS X – provided you don't reinstall every week! p.s. yes, I've also got CCC images laying around… waiting to be

Re: Power Macintosh G3/266 tabletop

2010-09-26 Thread John Markowitz
On Sep 26, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Paul Cefola wrote: I have some questions regarding a Power Mac G3/266 machine. Is this the correct group to ask the questions to? Paul Welcome Paul I think the PCI PowerMacs group is the one you want. But try this till some one barks. John M Anaheim OC

Re: Question about Power Mac G3/266 tabletop

2010-09-26 Thread John Markowitz
On Sep 26, 2010, at 8:44 AM, Ted Treen wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: Question about Power Mac G3/266 tabletop Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:43:36 +0100 From: Ted Treen ted.tr...@btinternet.com Reply-To: ted.tr...@btinternet.com To: Paul

Cube USB 2.0 possible?

2010-09-25 Thread John Markowitz
Is there a way to have USB 2.0 on a Cube G4 with some type of addition? John M Anaheim OC dadbe...@gmail.com -- 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

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-25 Thread John Markowitz
Not exactly, because the mouse worked perfectly in all USB ports, including the keyboard's.It is back to normal now with a different hard drive, though. It's just bizarre... I've had HHD's do strange things. it would be interesting to know if DiskWarrior could fix your problem? John M

Re: Cube USB 2.0 possible?

2010-09-25 Thread John Markowitz
On Sep 25, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Dan Palka wrote: 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? Not that I know of. You should try to stick to FireWire wherever possible. Well the USB ports are damaged

Re: VGA video card for Power Mac G3?

2010-09-25 Thread John Markowitz
On Sep 25, 2010, at 10:00 AM, Heather Cotter wrote: The problem is that it only seems to support an ADC monitor (or so the girl at the Mac store said when I described the port to her over the phone), and they don't seem to make those anymore. It sounds strange but if you do have an ADC

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-25 Thread John Markowitz
On Sep 25, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Ashgrove wrote: On Sep 25, 12:59 pm, John Markowitz dadbe...@gmail.com wrote: I've had HHD's do strange things. it would be interesting to know if DiskWarrior could fix your problem? Good that you mention that, John. I tried DiskWarrior, but it didn't do

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-25 Thread John Markowitz
On Sep 25, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Ashgrove wrote: On Sep 25, 12:59 pm, John Markowitz dadbe...@gmail.com wrote: I've had HHD's do strange things. it would be interesting to know if DiskWarrior could fix your problem? Good that you mention that, John. I tried DiskWarrior, but it didn't do