On Dec 3, 2010, at 9:04 PM, Justin The Cynical wrote:
Looking around on google, I'm only finding old and apparently
abandoned
web sites, if they even exist any longer and not much in the way of
archives on archive.org
So, does anyone know of an active site, IRC channel, or even still
have
On Dec 4, 2010, at 11:40 AM, rtows...@aol.com wrote:
No power-up light
Non fans
No chimes
No HD spin
The FIRST thing to check is the input power switch.
It has a 115 position and a 230 position.
If placed on the 230 position, but operated on 115 volts, the PSU's
converter section is
On Nov 22, 2010, at 5:49 AM, Geke wrote:
In the other thread: I goofed about partitioning making bigger-
than-128 GB drives work; fortunately the others corrected me.
I think when you install the OS on the (internal) 160 GB, it will see
only a 128 GB drive; on formatting, you can choose to
On Nov 21, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Chance Reecher wrote:
150GB drives do not exist.
160 GB drives certainly exist, as do 320 and 640 GBs.
At the time 160 GB drives were quite popular, 300 and 400 GB drives
also were popular.
500 GB drives and 250 GB drives which were derived from the 500 GB
On Nov 16, 2010, at 7:06 AM, Bill Connelly wrote:
A 450MHz BW is shown there along with the 300 and up ...
Yosemite, Yosemite 1.5 and Silk names
The BW was made in three different variations, using two different
cases and two different motherboards.
1) First version (possibly
On Nov 16, 2010, at 8:18 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
DVD's are encoded via MPEG2, which is an asymmetric codec: it's
significantly less computationally intensive to decode versus
encode. (this is how it was developed to be, to allow cheap DVD
players. Also why it takes iDVD all night to encode a
On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Jim Scott wrote:
Nope, it's the sound (and soon to be the smell) of the flyback
transformer's death throes.
Indeed so.
The AIO needs a new analog board, which is essentially the heart and
soul of the Trinitron monitor.
Which is perhaps one reason NOT to get
On Nov 9, 2010, at 7:31 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
No it's the flyback transformer, a common issue in the AIO's
especially at their age.
True enough, but tripler type flybacks are commonly enough
available from the usual suspect TV and monitor repair parts dealers.
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On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Chuck wrote:
you''ll get knocked across the room and a 20,000kV+ shock will pass
through your heart.
when you try to monkey around with this.
Its generally about 25 kV, but it is very seldom through one's heart.
All modern flybacks are of the bleeder type, and
On Nov 4, 2010, at 8:13 AM, Geke wrote:
To improve conductance, you can use the type of paste containing metal
(like Arctic silver), but then you have to be more careful than with
the white ceramic type of paste, because metal also conducts
electricity.
The white pastes are a nuisance to
On Nov 3, 2010, at 8:13 AM, John Carmonne wrote:
I really don't understand diamond being a thermal conductor
Diamond is an excellent conductor of heat, a property which is
utilized by jewelers ad gemologists everywhere to detect fake
diamonds from real ones.
The testing device measures
On Nov 3, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Bill Connelly wrote:
I believe its probably a PC only card.
If it is a Mac card, then it will say so on the ROM's label.
In general, the Adaptec (and perhaps other) SCSI cards which have 25-
pin D-Subminiature connectors are hard-pressed to be Mac-compatible.
On Nov 3, 2010, at 7:42 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
What is an HD50 connector?
It is the single-byte (SCSI-N) version of the two-byte (SCSI-W)
HD68 connector.
Both were codified in the SCSI-2 standard.
The large Amphenol 50-pin (incorrectly called Centronics) and the
smaller MIL-Spec
On Oct 31, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Tina K. wrote:
Nice fandom article with no real facts. *shrug*
Sorry, no OS is a must have for me. Unless it's going to make me
breakfast in the morning and then go to work for me while I shop,
and clean my house while I sleep I can do just fine without it.
On Oct 30, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Cadeon wrote:
The big thing lacking here is USB 2. There are a lot of cheap (I mean
really cheap) USB 2 PCI cards out there, but I'm worried that it's
going to be hit-or-miss for one off the shelf working in my G4, with
leopard.
Just be sure to get an
On Oct 28, 2010, at 4:32 PM, admin wrote:
I like this model a lot. The Zip drive, if still there, and Zip
CAGE can both be removed, creating more open space inside for
running cables, SCSI, ATA or SATA. It seems to run cooler and
quieter than a MDD I had for a short time.
The QS 2002
On Oct 24, 2010, at 7:06 AM, Richard Gerome wrote:
I have followed them on ebay for yrs and never have seen one with
higher then 120G...
120 GB was the largest physical drive made, although the software
supports a drive up to 131,072 MB (128 GB).
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On Oct 24, 2010, at 9:56 AM, James Therrault wrote:
IBM was supposed to adapt PS2 to run on the PPC chips
There WERE versions of that Microchannel machine which supported PPC.
Usually sold as part of IBM's AIX products.
Much as Apple's Network Server products supported AIX.
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On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote:
I know, witch third party CPU upgrades 2 GHz is possible
without overclocking – altough I'm not sure if they aren't
overclocked by
default?
1.42 was the fastest chip which Freescale (successor to Motorola) was
making in the end.
On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:56 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
There are some open firmware commands that are supposed to it it
but I was never able to make that method work for me :-)
The so-called LBA48 property may be added persistently (meaning it
is available at boot-time) on some desktops
On Oct 23, 2010, at 9:41 AM, smac0031 wrote:
I've seen references to smurphs before. I have no idea what they are.
Smurfs, NOT smurphs, the cartoon character, are blue and white.
Smurfs, the G3 PowerMac, are also blue and white.
For quite a while Smurfs were among the most affordable
On Oct 19, 2010, at 11:29 AM, James Morgan wrote:
... After considering several options I decided to take the power
supply out of both computers and send them to National Ram
Electronics at Alpine New York for repair. They charge $89.00 for
repair. Cost me about $14.00 to ship the 2
On Oct 16, 2010, at 9:01 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote:
You will need at least the dual 1.0 G4 …
Why is that? Won't the Dual-800 MHz from the QS2001 also work in the
Single-800 MHz QS2002?
Sure, a dual 0.8 GHz would be fine, but the dual 1.0 GHz are easier
to find.
The raw (i.e.
On Oct 16, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote:
I don't get this.
Is the board the same or is it not?
The raw board is the same.
The stuffed board is quite different.
There are places for two voltage regulator systems. The 800 MHz uses
one regulator system, the 1000 MHz uses
On Sep 19, 2010, at 8:40 AM, John Carmonne wrote:
1. set the jumper settings (Seagate hard drives) to master ie
( |: : : : ) and slave ( : : : : )
Or,
2. set the jumpers to ‘cable select’ ( : |: : : ) on both?
Sorry but a lot of conflicting info around.
I would try cable select on both, all
On Aug 22, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Chance Reecher wrote:
Your CD set is not compatible with any intel Mac. It only has PPC
code on it and won't even boot let alone install. The only 10.4
disc with Intel code (I think) is a later release of 10.4 Server.
10.4.8 was made as Intel. Possibly also as
On Aug 22, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Dan Palka wrote:
... and especially not from a PowerPC Mac mini restore set.
Well, that is definitely a given (a PPC-only install DVD).
But there exist 10.4.x universal installers. I am pretty sure I have
one, somewhere.
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On Aug 22, 2010, at 8:27 AM, John Carmonne wrote:
Where can I find a copy of 10.4 server?
LEM is the best place.
ePay is always a possibility.
Even with 10.5 Server, the installation DVDs were Universal. At least
the one I bought is Universal.
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On Aug 15, 2010, at 9:07 PM, Robert Long wrote:
I observed that the connection from the HD to the MB are female and
there is one spare connection. Can I connect another HD and what
type of cable or connection do I need? I have been given sever
HDs, 20 gb and 40 gb. I don't know at this
On Aug 6, 2010, at 7:12 AM, Geke wrote:
1. How tricky is it to put the DA's CPU into the Gigabit? The CPU is
the same, but I read that the location of the CPU card on machines
previous to the digital audio would require some modifications to the
motherboard/case.
(The other way I can manage; I
On Aug 4, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
He was tuning the frequency of the horizontal oscillator. It has to
match the rate at which the transmission is sent, about 15 kHz was
standard NTSC television. There is also a vertical oscillator which
was once 30 Hz.
Pre-NTSC, the
On Jul 28, 2010, at 8:14 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote:
I believe the 500GB drive can be partitioned to look like 4 125GB
drives if the 128GB limit is an issue.
If on a pre-QS 2002 model up to and including a QS 2001, you are
stuck with the 128 GB line.
All partitions below the 131,072 MB line
On Jul 28, 2010, at 8:23 AM, Peter Haas wrote:
Below that line, you may include as many partitions as you wish.
All may be bootable
Above that line, you may also include as many partitions as you
wish. None may be bootable.
On a QS 2002, or all later, every partition may be bootable
On Jul 26, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Jason Brown wrote:
It depends on what you want to do. Simplest is to buy a 500GB PATA
drive.
750 GB PATA drives were available for a while at many retailers.
However, for most practical purposes, 500 GB was the largest capacity
PATA drive which was
On Jul 17, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Amanda Ward wrote:
Any recommendations for an external disc burner for an iMac G5
(maybe Intel iMac) to do DVD/DL and lightscribe?
Buffalo, which has a Sony Optiarc super multi-burner inside a well
designed case.
NewEgg no longer carries it, but it has a
On Jul 9, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Gus wrote:
I saw a few Apple 10/100 cards on ebay. I would think they would work
without any problem in OS 9.2.2 but I am not sure about OS Tiger.
Probably the best, most MacOS-compatible NIC out there is one based
upon the R8169 gigabit E-net chip.
Realtek
On Jul 7, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Dan wrote:
First - No cable modem will be useful unless the ISP has
provisioning data for it. Iffa they don't support it, it won't
talk - period. So make sure whatever you get is on their
approved list.
In the case of my ISP, they have a walk-in center less
On Jul 7, 2010, at 9:27 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
How do I know if I have a warranty? Mine was made in 2002. I really
haven't used it much but nothing's forever:-)
The manufacturing year and week is always printed on the drive's label.
The warranty usually starts several weeks after that
On Jul 4, 2010, at 6:23 AM, Norm Rowe wrote:
I'm trying to watch movies Netflick on my G4 Mac but am told I need
an Intel Mac. As I do not have that kind of money is there away
around this?
Silverlight's installation check program, contained within the
Silverlight installation package,
On Jul 2, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Justin The Cynical wrote:
anybody ever did this?
While still on PPC platforms, I have flashed nearly every one of my
Pioneer DVD burners using DVRFlash. Usually to add new media
compatibility, or for other reasons.
Some Pioneer drives are OEM to Sony and
On Jun 25, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote:
try MTR's rip main feature only option.
That works.
Thank you
You're most welcome.
I don't know why other ripping tools have not also implemented this
very helpful feature.
Possibly because some DVDs are authored with: 1) several main
On Jun 22, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
Ok, throw blu-ray out the door... question: can I use an esata
optical drive enclosure with a sata optical drive (non blu-ray)
inside? or is esata only good for external storage.
You're better off using Firewire, if available, or USB 2.0,
On Jun 18, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
Go do the research yourself and you'll find that i'm correct.
Sure, 128-bit data was accommodated, as an extended word of
floating-point data, but integer data was still 32-bits per word (but
which could be extended in 32-bit increments
On Jun 19, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Dan wrote:
Mainframe vs Microprocessor.
IBM's CMOS product line is based upon an S/390 microprocessor.
One processor per chip, with six such processors on a single CPU card
in the G1 family of CMOS machines. Perhaps more in later machines.
With the G1, and
On Jun 18, 2010, at 6:35 PM, iJohn wrote:
Perhaps his complaint is related to the fact that many of the Intel
Macs are currently still booting the 32-bit kernel rather than the
64-bit kernel.
Most likely.
My Product Hs boot Snow in 64-bit mode, and they work fine that way.
The only time I
On Jun 17, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote:
The Ken Burns discs stand out as Not Being Rippable.
Well, have you tried every available ripping tool?
At one point there was a special DVD ripper which a number of PBS
affiliates were using to air movies, usually on Saturday nights,
On Jun 15, 2010, at 8:06 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
All in all continuing to make the H word we cannot use here more
and more attractive.
There's a place for both.
Where absolute compatibility is required, over a great many
applications, irrespective of performance, I use
On Jun 16, 2010, at 7:58 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote:
Plays the if you copy you'll be punished warning then nothing
no menu
Some DVDs, particularly those which are released through Sony/
Columbia/TriStar, but occasionally through others, but almost never
through Warners (they are the good
On Jun 15, 2010, at 11:27 AM, James Therrault wrote:
...and probably a slow 5,400 rpm drive...
Undoubtedly true.
One way to conserve unit power is to dumb-down the HD from 7200 to
5400 rpm, and from 16 MB cache to 4 MB cache.
Also, special firmware can be installed, and which further
On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
Is it any wonder that the OSx86 crowd is operating Snow machines
which cost one-fourth, yet deliver four-times the performance?
In the same form factor as the mini?
Of course not.
But who, in reality, really cares about form factor.
One
On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
But who, in reality, really cares about form factor.
A famous quote
In my MANY years as a Mac user (since at least the Apple IIcx days,
with NO Gates/Windows machines, of ANY TYPE, whether a true Mac or
a Mack, I have had three Mac
On Jun 5, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Len Gerstel wrote:
I just grabbed from OWC's Garage sale a Mercury Elite Pro AL
Firewire 800/400/USB 2.0 dual drive enclosure. It has the Oxford
924 chipset. The specs say it supports drives up to 1TB.
This just means the chip set has no practical maximum, and
On Jun 3, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Stewie de Young wrote:
The MDDs PSU have fuses in as well. Replacing the fuse sometimes
works but usually points to something else amiss like capacitors as
Deaner says.
One caveat though if you are going to attempt to fix these
yourselves is to take care inside
On Jun 2, 2010, at 7:21 PM, mlsimmons wrote:
OTOH I've read
conflicting reports of this quicksilver version being able to
recognize anything over 128GB.
A dual 800 MHz Quicksilver is a QS 2001. It does not have large drive
support built into the ROM, but this support can easily be added,
On May 31, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Albert Carter wrote:
There are many many motherboards out that support and have USB 3.0
and SATA6 on them. All you need to do is a search on NewEgg to find
that out.
Have for quite a few months now.
Gigabyte is using a new suffix to indicate the presence of
On May 30, 2010, at 7:41 PM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote:
I was in Fry's today and happened to notice external HDD 3.5
enclosures that stated USB 3.0. I never saw these before.
Is that something that needs special support from my computers?
Gigabyte, and others, have had USB 3.0 mobos on the
On May 30, 2010, at 9:29 PM, iJohn wrote:
My understanding is that USB is and always has been one of Intel's
babies. Microsoft has no skin in that game other than they have to at
least not get in the way of supporting USB 3.0.
Apple actually has a lot more latitude than Microsoft since they
On May 26, 2010, at 10:30 AM, tsaec...@att.net wrote:
Which is can you flash a PC video card for use on a MAC if you
don't have access to a PC?
There is (or was) a FLASHing application under OS9 which could be
used to FLASH Radeon 7000 cards (PC Edition) to Mac Edition firmware,
On May 24, 2010, at 10:40 PM, David Gardner wrote:
Sure, go to Otherworld Computing and select your version of
Quicksilver to upgrade.
A dual 1.0 GHz QS 2002 (or the processor from one in a DA) takes
about 1 hour to encode a DVD5.
A relatively fast Intel can do the same job in less than
On May 25, 2010, at 8:12 AM, Larry Stotler wrote:
The 1Ghz chips are still available new evidently. Not a bad upgrade
if you don't need Altivec.
The G3s are still being used in very large quantities in non-Apple
systems, such as routers, etcetera.
Often, a G3 core will simply be
On May 22, 2010, at 9:23 AM, John Ruschmeyer wrote:
The patch from any Vendor should work... Personally I prefer the
NewerTech
one (found it off a link from OWC's support page) which worked well
for me
when I did the same upgrade.
I also used the patch from OWC in order to transplant
On May 21, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote:
A friend of mine has a good source for capacitors and will help me
with this.
PSUs generally use low-ESR capacitors which are designed specifically
for switching PSUs.
Also, these are usually 105ºC and not the usual 80ºC.
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