PowerMac G5 1.6 Single Processor wonky issues

2008-12-03 Thread BillBoggs
Hi All, I'm new to this list but not to the Mac world. My previously trusty first generation PowerMac G5 1.6 ghz single processor machine running 10.5.5 just up and started misbehaving yesterday. Random freeze ups, great difficulty in rebooting, hanging up at the gray-blue screen after the Apple

Re: iTunes and duplicating songs

2008-12-03 Thread MIKO's Support, Design and Development Services
I meant to get in on this ITunes discussion a while ago. As mentioned before by someone else, iTunes has a Show Duplicates option and I'm mentioning it here in case anyone wants all the advice possible (that I can offer) in one document. The Show Duplicates option is not fully trustworthy

Re: PowerMac G5 1.6 Single Processor wonky issues

2008-12-03 Thread Steve R
At 6:56 PM -0800 12/2/08, BillBoggs posted: Hi All, I'm new to this list but not to the Mac world. My previously trusty first generation PowerMac G5 1.6 ghz single processor machine running 10.5.5 just up and started misbehaving yesterday. Random freeze ups, great difficulty in

Re: PowerMac G5 1.6 Single Processor wonky issues

2008-12-03 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 3, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Steve R wrote: At 6:56 PM -0800 12/2/08, BillBoggs posted: Hi All, I'm new to this list but not to the Mac world. My previously trusty first generation PowerMac G5 1.6 ghz single processor machine running 10.5.5 just up and started misbehaving

Re: iTunes and duplicating songs

2008-12-03 Thread Deaner Lawless Jr.
On Dec 3, 2008, at 12:09 AM, insightinmind wrote: Spent a few hours tonite using iTunes on a peeeceee (XP), fixing a broken library. OMG. I love my Mac. Have I mentioned I love my Mac? Fast new pc laptop file manipulation - moving hundreds of files around etc, was slower than

Re: PowerMac G5 1.6 Single Processor wonky issues

2008-12-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 2, 2008, at 7:56 PM, BillBoggs wrote: I'm new to this list but not to the Mac world. My previously trusty first generation PowerMac G5 1.6 ghz single processor machine running 10.5.5 just up and started misbehaving yesterday. Random freeze ups, great difficulty in rebooting, hanging

Re: iTunes and duplicating songs

2008-12-03 Thread Dan
At 7:02 AM -0800 12/3/2008, MIKO's Support, Design and Development Services wrote: The Show Duplicates option is not fully trustworthy because I've tested it and known duplicates did not show up in the list of duplicates. iTunes ONLY looks for dupes by exact name. I noticed that. And it

Apple white remote control preferences? where?

2008-12-03 Thread Jeffrey Engle
Ok, how to put this question... I have an apple small white remote control... I use airtunes to send music to my front room stereo, here's the problem... when using airtunes, the volume can only be changed via the itunes slide volume in the upper left hand corner of the itunes window. The

Re: New monitor and connectors to G4

2008-12-03 Thread Hunter Fuller
2008/12/3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a G4 733 MHz, with 1.25 GB RAM, running 10.4.11, with its original graphics card. My eyes have tired of the 15 inch NEC LCD, so I bought a 19 inch LG LCD, but now have a connector quandary, since the G4 has an ADC port and a VGA port, while the LG

Dead or Alive

2008-12-03 Thread Maestro_T
I've aquired a G5 Dual 1.8Ghz from a studio clearout and it has had the hard drives and memory removed. (Didn't cost me anything) In the wonderful world of PC's, you can set things up (Bios, peripherals etc) via and 'F' key during initial start up. This usually can be done even if there are no

Re: Upgrading to 10.4 - No DVD Drive

2008-12-03 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 3, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: Okay, so I *was* all ready to upgrade, but the G4 has no DVD drive. So I'm on hold with Apple right now as there's Applecare for the new iMac, I thought I'd network the two machines together with the Airport Express and upgrade from the

Re: Dead or Alive

2008-12-03 Thread Hunter Fuller
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Re: Dead or Alive

2008-12-03 Thread jonas ulrich
You definitely have to have ram before you do anything. You can download a copy of the Apple Hardware test disc from the apple website.-Jonas On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Kris Tilford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 3, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Maestro_T wrote: In the wonderful world of PC's,

Re: LCD screen flickering and going black.

2008-12-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 3, 2008, at 11:56 AM, dorayme wrote: I looked up the model on Google but have difficulty knowing what technology it really employs re fluro or LED? If you didn't buy in in the last six months or so it's a fluorescent model. If you did, it's still likely a fluorescent model; the

Re: Upgrading to 10.4 - No DVD Drive

2008-12-03 Thread Dan
At 1:11 PM -0500 12/3/2008, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: G4 Quicksilver 733mHz Tower 896 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, OS 10.2.8 [snip] I have to BUY an optical drive compatible with OS 10.2.8. Is this what you guys would do? Put your QS in Target Disk Mode, connected to the iMac with a firewire

Re: My Power G3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is in panic mode.-new to Apple

2008-12-03 Thread xenonart
I know the Startup Manager from newer Macs and I can say that my G3 B/W doesn't have the Startup Manager function, only the standard functions like booting from CD if pressing C-key... Greets, xenonart On 3 Dez., 01:26, glen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: Bruce

Re: Dead or Alive

2008-12-03 Thread Clark Martin
Maestro_T wrote: I've aquired a G5 Dual 1.8Ghz from a studio clearout and it has had the hard drives and memory removed. (Didn't cost me anything) In the wonderful world of PC's, you can set things up (Bios, peripherals etc) via and 'F' key during initial start up. This usually can be

Re: Upgrading to 10.4 - No DVD Drive

2008-12-03 Thread Dan
At 12:30 PM -0800 12/3/2008, Clark Martin wrote: Dan wrote: Put your QS in Target Disk Mode, connected to the iMac with a firewire cable. Run the OS X installer on the iMac, targetting the QS's drive. I don't know if this will work or not but it's better to do the installation on the

Re: Upgrading to 10.4 - No DVD Drive

2008-12-03 Thread Clark Martin
Dan wrote: At 12:30 PM -0800 12/3/2008, Clark Martin wrote: Dan wrote: Put your QS in Target Disk Mode, connected to the iMac with a firewire cable. Run the OS X installer on the iMac, targetting the QS's drive. I don't know if this will work or not but it's better to do the

Re: Apple Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-03 Thread Dan
A bit of an update... http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081202230318899 here's the big news. Apple alleges that it believes there are corporations and/or individuals behind Psystar, who may be added as defendants once Apple in discovery finds out who they are. oOo. LoL. LOL.

Re: Apple Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 3, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Dan wrote: A bit of an update... http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081202230318899 here's the big news. Apple alleges that it believes there are corporations and/or individuals behind Psystar, who may be added as defendants once Apple in discovery

Re: Apple Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-03 Thread PeterH
On Dec 3, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: here's the big news. Apple alleges that it believes there are corporations and/or individuals behind Psystar, who may be added as defendants once Apple in discovery finds out who they are. I've sort of taken this to mean that Psystar's

Re: iTunes and duplicating songs

2008-12-03 Thread MIKO's Support, Design and Development Services
Did anyone even see my post about iTunes and avoiding duplication? I thought I was doing something helpful but I never saw it make the list and never saw any comments... I guess I should just be humorous and political and give up trying to be helpful... On 12/3/08 1:00 PM, Clark Martin

Re: My Power G3 b...@w is in panic mode.-new to Apple

2008-12-03 Thread mlitwin
My computer is now out of panic mode. The article I read did not tell me to push c if I wanted to install by cd. It said push h to reset pram if I got that panic error. I have now reinstalled 10.3. The first time I pushed install 9 drivers but still couldn't get 9 0n.

Re: My Power G3 b...@w is in panic mode.-new to Apple

2008-12-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 3, 2008, at 4:17 PM, mlitwin wrote: My computer is now out of panic mode. The article I read did not tell me to push c if I wanted to install by cd. It said push h to reset pram if I got that panic error. That was a bad, bad article. pressing 'h' does nothing; to rest the

Re: Apple Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-03 Thread Richard Ramsowr
WOW Just yesterday, I again ask this very question on MacDailyNews... how could a small start up pay for such legal support when there out of business? Maybe I'm better at law that I through... Anyway, good for Apple and there legal department... Yours Rick Rick Houston

Re: iTunes and duplicating songs

2008-12-03 Thread Ralph
Howdy, I saw it, but I have no interest in iTunes. It just does not work well enough to merit use. I am responding so you know your message got through. Good day, Ralph On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 15:01 -0800, MIKO's Support, Design and Development Services wrote: Did anyone even see my post

Re: Reading this group

2008-12-03 Thread nestamicky
I have T-bird set up now. But still have a problem. This is what I want. I want to follow the conversation in T-Bird just as they will appear on the web-page of Google. Can I do that? Please! At the very top would be the original poster, and at the very end, the last response. This way I can

Re: iTunes and duplicating songs

2008-12-03 Thread Dan
At 3:01 PM -0800 12/3/2008, MIKO's Support, Design and Development Services wrote: Did anyone even see my post about iTunes and avoiding duplication? I thought I was doing something helpful but I never saw it make the list and never saw any comments... I guess I should just be humorous and

Re: Apple Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-03 Thread Peter
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Richard Ramsowr [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: WOW Just yesterday, I again ask this very question on MacDailyNews... how could a small start up pay for such legal support when there out of business? Maybe I'm better at law that I through... Anyway, good for

Re: My Power G3 b...@w is in panic mode.-new to Apple

2008-12-03 Thread Lana Litwin
It wasn't easy. I had to push restart and quickly place my fingers on three keys simultaneously. Luckily I have long fingers. On Dec 3, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 3, 2008, at 4:17 PM, mlitwin wrote: My computer is now out of panic mode. The article I read did not

Re: Dead or Alive

2008-12-03 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Maestro_T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've aquired a G5 Dual 1.8Ghz from a studio clearout and it has had the hard drives and memory removed. (Didn't cost me anything) In the wonderful world of PC's, you can set things up (Bios, peripherals etc) via and 'F' key

Re: Apple Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-03 Thread AIM Mail
I have too many thoughts on this subject to list right now, but I have a feeling that Apple actually is behind this in a way...I will post more later, but who else has noticed that since they've hit the scene, the Mac mini has been all but forgotten?. And BTW, I have a feeling that Apple

Re: My Power G3 b...@w is in panic mode.-new to Apple

2008-12-03 Thread Charles Davis
On Dec 3, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Lana Litwin wrote: It wasn't easy. I had to push restart and quickly place my fingers on three keys simultaneously. Luckily I have long fingers. Actually, you do have a 'Window of opportunity'. As long as the initial 'Chime' has not completed before you get the