Re: Excluding from Quick Look

2011-11-28 Thread imrazor
On Nov 28, 12:18 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: This is driving me a bit nutz... Quick Look is perusing too much.  Eventually it runs into files that make it, or QTKit, etc, crash.  Then launchd restarts it, and the crash cycle continues. How does one tell Quick Look to NOT peruse

Re: ------ adding a pci-e video card to a g5 mac

2011-08-03 Thread imrazor
On Aug 3, 10:55 am, rumble rum...@metrocast.net wrote: hello i'd like to add an additional video card to my g5 mac, but it is pci- e. i see used pci-e video cards on ebay, but i don't know if they are pc/ windows specific or not or if they can be run in a mac. can anyone suggest a

Re: OS 10.5

2011-07-27 Thread imrazor
On Jul 26, 8:14 pm, irrational John zjboyguard-ggro...@yahoo.com wrote: Yes, there's that. But it is also because Apple has always charged ~$30 for Snow Leopard. Why? Who knows? In any case, the asking price is not going to be (much) more than what Apple is selling it for. (I believe Apple

Re: OS 10.5

2011-07-27 Thread imrazor
On Jul 27, 11:50 am, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: This is incorrect. All $29 retail Snow Leopard disks are full versions, capable of being installed on any machine, even one which has no OS of any kind at all. THERE WERE NO retail UPGRADE DISKS! -snip- You are absolutely correct that

Re: Orinoco Wavelan card - install in a G4 tower?

2011-06-21 Thread imrazor
On Jun 18, 2:32 pm, johnwd5 john...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I seem to recall an article a few years back where someone managed to somehow literally hack into an Orinoco Wavelan card and cut it to a 90 degree angle in order for their G4 tower door to close. If anyone has it bookmarked

Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

2011-05-10 Thread imrazor
On May 10, 1:46 pm, Doug McNutt dougl...@macnauchtan.com wrote: Give some serious consideration to using ubuntu Linux on a used or otherwise cheap Intel machine. If the OP wants Flash, Linux PPC is not the way to go. Last time I tried Ubuntu on a G5, Flash support was horrible. Had a lot of

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-23 Thread imrazor
Ok, I'll ask - I am well aware of how AltiVec functioned. And no argument that an Intel-written SW may not properly run on a PPC to take advantage. Honest question though - Doesn't Intel have a similar functioning SIMD unit? Also 128bit wide? If that's the case, I'd expect that a 4x2.8GHz

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-23 Thread imrazor
On Mar 23, 9:34 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 7:15 AM -0700 3/23/2011, imrazor wrote: This is good too: http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers/ve/summary.html - Dan. Thanks Dan, that's a very good summary for a non-coder like myself. Apple claims that Altivec is twice as fast

Re: M-Audio Revolution 7.1 and Power Mac G4

2011-03-14 Thread imrazor
Thanks, Bill. Though I'm not looking to M-Audio for anything I'd   record my own music with (I wouldn't dare, after what I've read),   your experience echoes the overall tenor of what I've read elsewhere.   Frustration. So the hardware is good and the drivers suck and support does not  

Re: M-Audio Revolution 7.1 and Power Mac G4

2011-03-13 Thread imrazor
Well, it's an old sound card for an old machine. I'm not really   counting on any support. Just looking for digital sound (music, not   movies) that's a cut above and more control over it (no real   complaint about the stock card), future speaker options, and also   headphone volume that

Re: 2009 MacPro + Blu-Ray

2011-02-07 Thread imrazor
On Feb 6, 2:09 pm, Ted Treen ted.tr...@btinternet.com wrote: Does anyone on the list know in the LiteOn is fairly happy with Macs? I can't speak to Blu-Ray, but years ago I used a PowerMac with LiteOn DVD/CD-RW combo drive with absolutely no issues. But that was years ago, and times can and

Re: Help Me Please

2011-02-02 Thread imrazor
On Feb 2, 1:30 am, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote: Feb  2 01:13:31 localhost kernel[0]: ApplePMU::PMU forced shutdown, cause = -122 I was experiencing this error on my PowerMac G5. Going thru this post resolved the issue for me:

Re: G5 powermac 1.8 single issues

2011-02-02 Thread imrazor
On Feb 2, 3:56 pm, Clmtyne mamahay...@yahoo.com wrote: i just purchased a g5, 1.8 as well and my problem is simualar to a past post but different. The machine came with no hard drive, so I'm booting from a external 60 gig FireWire drive. The system and the monitor are communicating because

Re: G5 powermac 1.8 single issues

2011-02-02 Thread imrazor
On Feb 2, 5:06 pm, Mama Haymes mamahay...@yahoo.com wrote: Ok I will try to reseat the video card. I believe this is on a DVI Connector because I'm using a 15 flat panel display. Yea and there is no grey screen at all. The monitor is powered on automatically by the CPU.  Do you mean the

Re: Dual G5 Dilemma

2011-01-31 Thread imrazor
On Jan 31, 7:03 am, Ross olfec...@digizip.com wrote: What's your so-called dilemma? Get the BIG-ASS electrical load off the DP G5 circuit. Try running the Intel and !!!heater!!! off of separate circuits. HEATER! Damn, with a DP G5, you should be looking for AC, not heat. Whole thing is

Re: Mac Mini Max Resolution?

2011-01-30 Thread imrazor
On Jan 27, 7:39 pm, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote: The best that I can get with my 22 Samsung Synchmaster 22 wide   screen is 1680x1050. Do I have to utilize both video ports to achieve higher resolution?   Seems I was doing better than this when hooked up to my old G4   Gigabit

Re: Dual G5 Dilemma

2011-01-30 Thread imrazor
On Jan 27, 6:24 am, dc dbc...@verizon.net wrote: On Jan 26, 3:50 pm, imrazor evol...@gmail.com wrote: I'm facing a dilemma about what to do with my (formerly) trusty dual G5. When I first got it used about two or three years ago, the package was damaged in shipping and warped the chassis

Re: Hard drive failing!

2011-01-30 Thread imrazor
On Jan 30, 2:16 am, Jason Brown jason_brown1...@att.net wrote: It is a WD though. Couldn't pay me to use one. YMMV but MM has been very very bad with them. I've had bad luck with WD AND Seagate drives. The only brands I've not had fail on me are Fujitsu and Samsung, but I use those pretty

Dual G5 Dilemma

2011-01-26 Thread imrazor
Dual G5 Dilemma... I'm facing a dilemma about what to do with my (formerly) trusty dual G5. When I first got it used about two or three years ago, the package was damaged in shipping and warped the chassis, such that the G5 tilts to one side. Up until recently, the G5 worked fine in spite of

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-04 Thread imrazor
On Jan 3, 11:16 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Yes it DOES have to do with the video card. 10.4 offloads a bunch of processing to the video GPU if possible (and it's not just Core Video stuff). Streaming video is MUCH more CPU intensive than DVD playback. (This was

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

2011-01-04 Thread imrazor
On Jan 2, 1:24 pm, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: I seem to have run into a bottle neck on my Cube 1.2GHz  1.5 GB RAM in that I can't get aYouTubeto play smooth and iChat is out of sync on the sound along with very jumpy video. My G4 MDD 1.25 is 100 % better than the Cube.  Can this

Re: Suggested upgrades for a Power Mac G4 PCI Graphics

2010-12-29 Thread imrazor
On Dec 29, 6:18 am, Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhun...@gmail.com wrote: I just received a Yikes! G4 Mac, with 768MB RAM and a 433MHz processor. I would like some feedback on some recommended upgrades. I am planning on converting this system into a Linux server of some kind, preferably Yellow