Tom wrote:
I was given a 500-gig FireWire 800 external drive (generic, I guess;
no logo on the metal case) as part of the deal when I bought my G5 on
eBay, but when I plug the drive into the FW 800 port of my G5, it does
not show up on the desktop, even with restarts. I tried a different FW
Jeffrey Engle wrote:
Is there a way to add files to a disk that's already burned? I thought
I saw somewhere how you could do that, but not sure. Google came up
with a blank. Jeff
Requires third party software that allows multisessions. Apples software
doesn't (the last time I tried).
D Stubbs wrote:
Aloo, this week I happily left behind my 30 gig HD ( with the Dark
Matter 10.3.9 OS) and transferred every thing to my new Seagate 160
and upped to Tiger. ( 30 gig is still hooked up in our Sawtooth)
We run our sizeable family biz website with the friendly old
Pagemill3
On Dec 21, 4:14 am, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote:
Tom wrote:
I was given a 500-gig FireWire 800 external drive (generic, I guess;
Even if the drive wasn't mounted Disk Utility would show it. If it
doesn't show the drive at all it means the OS isn't seeing it as a drive.
What do
On Dec 20, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Paul wrote:
The Matsushita SR-8585F is labeled Apple and came with some G4's and
possibly other Macs. I've tried a few rewritable DVD's without luck
reading them, even though they're known to be good, since other DVD
readers on other machines can read them.
Hi All,
Ihave been considering one of these to go with my new (to me) G5.
I use one occasionally at work on a MacPro and rather like them.
However, I have heard (can't recall where) that if they're used with
systems that they were not the original equipment for, the modifiers at
bootup don't
Here's the deal
I have a 160gb hard drive external that I needed to partition then do
a secure erase not even 15 minutes into the erase, the warning
window comes up saying that I disconnected the drive! aAAAH! I'm using
a new (unibody) macbook with fresh install of 10.5.5 on
At 8:37 PM -0800 12/20/2008, Mullin9 wrote:
Ways to clean up old Macs, environmentally.
1 way to clean up an old Mac is to recycle a CRT monitor, and buy an
LCD, especially a LED backed LCD.
another way to do it is to upgrade to new/newer environmentally clean Macs.
This makes sense IFF the
On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
Here's the deal
I have a 160gb hard drive external that I needed to partition then do
a secure erase not even 15 minutes into the erase, the warning
window comes up saying that I disconnected the drive! aAAAH! I
Something caused
On Dec 21, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
Here's the deal
I have a 160gb hard drive external that I needed to partition then do
a secure erase not even 15 minutes into the erase, the warning
window comes up saying that
On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Ted Treen wrote:
However, I have heard (can't recall where) that if they're used with
systems that they were not the original equipment for, the modifiers
at
bootup don't work, and there were other problems.
Maybe here, I mentioned it a while back.
Anyone
On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
Something caused the drive to drop off the bus. Flaky USB interface
in
the drive?
Just curious, the drive enclosure has a Y-usb cable for power from the
usb ports on the macbook, if the power side was not plugged in,
would that have
I have experienced this on my G5 as well, but there was a firmware update a
while ago that took care of this issue. It only crops up these days if I
need to reinstall the system.
Go for it :-)
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
On Dec 21, 2008,
At 8:45 AM -0800 12/21/2008, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
On Dec 21, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
Here's the deal
I have a 160gb hard drive external that I needed to partition then do
a secure erase not even 15 minutes into
Can anybody recommend a generic (doesn't have to be Apple) USB keyboard that
features backlit keys?
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Brian Durant wrote:
I have experienced this on my G5 as well, but there was a firmware
update a while ago that took care of this issue. It only crops up
these days if I need to reinstall the system.
Go for it :-)
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Bruce Johnson
On Dec 21, 12:14 am, jonas ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi. I just bought a DVD card for my PowerBook G3 Lombard 333MHZ. I can play
DVDs great in OS9, but I would like to find a way to play them in OS10. Does
anyone know of any programs that will do that? Thanks!-Jonas
IIRC, I
I've carried over several partitions that I have changed OS X use of
several times: other partitions originally used by Panther 10.3.9 and
now used by Leopard ...10.5.5, 10.5.6, back to 10.5.4. All on a
Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1GHz Native G4.
I have used different computer user names ...
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/keyboards/keyboard/devices/4740cl=US,EN
- Original Message -
From: R. A. Cantrell
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 12:31 PM
Subject: Backlit Keyboard
Can anybody recommend a generic (doesn't have to be
I have a 400 mhz G3 BW with 640 mb of memory running 10.3.9. I'm a long-term
PC gearhead but new to the Mac, and struggling with networking for printing. I
have 2 PCs - and now this G3 - on a home network through a Linksys router fed
by Verizon broadband. This is functional out of the box -
This is a small but annoying thing. I'm new to Macs, using a G3 with OS 10.3.
I'm accustomed to working with a half-dozen open windows, none full screen, but
on this machine if the cursor wanders off the app window all of them suddenly
pop up tiled. I'm wading through Mac OSX Bible and the
On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Arthur Dirks wrote:
On the HP site for the HP4 I find all the MS drivers and OS/2 and
Unix, and for the Color Laserjet 1600 I find all the MS drivers and
Linux.
You'll want to download the GutenPrint drivers and use them:
On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:17 PM, Arthur Dirks wrote:
if the cursor wanders off the app window all of them suddenly pop up
tiled.
This sounds like the OS X feature Exposé. You can change this
behavior in System PreferencesExposé. Likely you've got a hot
corner as a default and the cursor
On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:35 PM, Brian Christmas wrote:
G'day listers
The following makes for an interesting read..
http://tinyurl.com/8ewuko
Regards
Santa
Interesting article. Funny how they assume that if Mac was to go out
of business, That I myself would even recognize the
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