On 12/21/08, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
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
Previously, at 16:35 pm +1100 12/22/08, Brian Christmas wrote:
G'day listers
The following makes for an interesting read..
http://tinyurl.com/8ewukohttp://tinyurl.com/8ewuko
Reads just like the sites that advocate vegetarianism and home-brew medicines
X;{
Paul
--
To invent, you need
Previously, at 16:35 pm +1100 12/22/08, Brian Christmas wrote:
G'day listers
The following makes for an interesting read..
http://tinyurl.com/8ewukohttp://tinyurl.com/8ewuko
Previously, at 16:35 pm +1100 12/22/08, Brian Christmas wrote:
G'day listers
The following makes for an
On Dec 21, 2008, at 8:11 PM, Arthur Dirks wrote:
For printing I use a Zonet ZPS2102 print server to an old HP4 and a
new HP1600.
Well, I've never used a Zonet device, and google's search for that
site does not bode well:
Welcome to Zonet
This site may harm your computer.
The Zonet
On Dec 22, 2008, at 12:06 AM, Paul wrote:
What's much more painful is dealing with a similar but worse version
of this problem on my Pismo. It's fussy about brands, and probably
about DVD-R vs. DVD+R, and probably just plain fussy about homemade
DVD's as opposed to DVD's whose data was
At 2:19 AM -0600 12/22/2008, Stephen Conrad wrote:
I see this like this whole Compact Florescent effort that we've
bought into. The mercury in them makes them one of the worst
technologies we've ever used. If you break one at home, technically,
you're supposed to report it to your
At 12:21 PM -0500 12/22/08, Dan wrote:
yea. I've seen that the new ones are brighter, but their light is
still blueish and flickers. Just plain nasty to read by.
I tried them years ago and swore off them. Last year I tried again
and they are much better than before. My office now glows, I
I want to set up a separate desktop for my kids so they will only use certain
files and have their own internet sites.
I know you need to create an account. But then what?
Jane
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janespra...@comcast.net wrote:
I want
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
On Dec 22, 2008, at 10:55 AM, janespra...@comcast.net wrote:
I want to set up a separate desktop for my kids so they will only
use certain files and have their own internet sites.
I know you need to create an account. But then what?
What's next depends on the version of OS you're
When I need to read a IDE/ATA PC-formatted hard drive I plug it to the
DVD IDE connector of my Intel Mac Pro and I can access all its files.
I was wondering if this feature is accessible from a BW G3 or if it
is only Leopard related or Intel related.
Presently my Yosemite running os X
At 11:50 AM -0700 12/22/2008, Doug McNutt wrote:
Apple's hardware is pretty good but it seems to be mostly the result
of quality supervision of low-wage contract manufacturing.
Lowest repair rate in the industry for desktops.
HIGHEST repair rate in the industry for laptops. (23%).
And yet
Title: Re: A take on Apple Inc
At 4:35 PM +1100 12/22/2008, Brian Christmas wrote:
G'day listers
The following makes for an interesting
read..
http://tinyurl.com/8ewuko
Nice article. In general, from the
point of view of the small slice of the market Apple's targeting, he's
spot on. And
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Beniamino Cenci Goga ben...@gmail.com wrote:
When I need to read a IDE/ATA PC-formatted hard drive I plug it to the
DVD IDE connector of my Intel Mac Pro and I can access all its files.
I was wondering if this feature is accessible from a BW G3 or if it
is
On Dec 22, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote:
When I need to read a IDE/ATA PC-formatted hard drive I plug it to the
DVD IDE connector of my Intel Mac Pro and I can access all its files.
I was wondering if this feature is accessible from a BW G3 or if it
is only Leopard related
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Brian Christmas b...@tpg.com.au wrote:
G'day listers
The following makes for an interesting read..
http://tinyurl.com/8ewuko
the article states;
I understand why consumers aren't paying-up for Windows PCs. How are
HP, Dell, Acer, Toshiba, etc different
Thanks a lot for the link to Dan's write-up, it's more like what I've
been looking for. I'm also happy to know that I'm not the only who's
crazed about these machines. I have Blue and White, ver. 1 and 2. And
I'm still learning about the G4s. My Sawtooth is great, but I know there
are others
On Dec 22, 2008, at 12:46 PM, nestamicky wrote:
But if getting the G5 is better compared to upgrade price, I just
may take the leap.
yes it is.
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University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
jonas ulrich wrote:
There are some simple tests that you can perform. Get a firewire cable
and connect to another mac. Then from the other mac boot into the
powerbooks hard drive. If you still just get the grey screen than
it's probably just the hard drive cable.
-Jonas
I've done this,
I have a HP 1210xi all in one that has quit on me. I don't think it's
really compatible with Leopard. Anyway, I really like Epson printers
but I thought it would be a good idea to ask what you like. I'm on a
Quicksilver 2002 933mhz with 896mb ram. Thanks!
Cheryl
On Dec 18, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Will S wrote:
Quote
VLC is a nice media player, for the specific small subset of codecs
it handles, but it can also be VERY crashy and is often much more CPU
intensive than QuickTime.
As for not needing QuickTime... Um... So you're saying that you NEVER
EVER
On 12/22/08 12:17 PM, cheryl chelyh...@gmail.com Broadcast into the
ether:
I have a HP 1210xi all in one that has quit on me. I don't think it's
really compatible with Leopard. Anyway, I really like Epson printers
but I thought it would be a good idea to ask what you like. I'm on a
On Dec 22, 2008, at 3:22 PM, insightinmind wrote:
On my Tiger 10.4.11 Yikes!, I recently lost Quicktime playback in
Firefox looking at myspace. Tried turning it off and back on in Prefs.
Clarification: They're actually links to youtube, which happen to be
Quicktime clips. QT is showing up
On Dec 22, 2008, at 12:17 PM, cheryl wrote:
I have a HP 1210xi all in one that has quit on me. I don't think it's
really compatible with Leopard. Anyway, I really like Epson printers
but I thought it would be a good idea to ask what you like. I'm on a
Quicksilver 2002 933mhz with 896mb
On Dec 22, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
Brother Laser printer HL 1440 It's a monochrome, but hey, it just
works and it's fast.
Brother lasers, HL-5250DN (30 ppm, duplexing) and MFC-8460N (30 ppm,
non-duplexing, scan/copy/print), both of which I purchased as so-
called factory
Ok, will install 10.3 and see, many thanks!
Ben
OS X 10.3 and higher can read NTFS, but you need to hack things around
to write to them. (using MacFUSE and NTFS3G)
However with 10.2.8, you're ool, I think. I don't remember ever being
able to get NTFS working on the Mac back then.
At 3:22 PM -0500 12/22/2008, insightinmind wrote:
On my Tiger 10.4.11 Yikes!, I recently lost Quicktime playback in
Firefox looking at myspace. Tried turning it off and back on in Prefs.
QT Requests shows up ok in Safari, so its not myspace ...
Relative to this thread, I recently did several
At 7:21 PM -0800 12/20/2008, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote:
Snip:
Does the:
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/*
sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/*
sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/*
fix the Un-mountable Volumes?
No. Those commands only deal with the Spotlight indices on
functioning mounted volumes.
Snip:
Sometimes
Epson is really good at supporting open source, so their printers will work
out of the box with Linux. Right now I have a Canon that is connected by
ethernet to my router so that my whole family can print to it. Very cool,
but no dice with printing when I am using Linux.
Canon has cool features,
On Dec 22, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote:
Ok, will install 10.3 and see, many thanks!
Ben
OS X 10.3 and higher can read NTFS, but you need to hack things
around
to write to them. (using MacFUSE and NTFS3G)
However with 10.2.8, you're ool, I think. I don't remember
On 23/12/2008, at 8:01 AM, Isaac Smith wrote:
I have a HP 1210xi all in one that has quit on me. I don't think it's
really compatible with Leopard. Anyway, I really like Epson printers
but I thought it would be a good idea to ask what you like. I'm on a
Quicksilver 2002 933mhz with 896mb
Canon Pixma iP4500 rocks! It has duplex printing, although it does work better
when the paper is coming from the rear paper slot instead of the cassette. I
had an Epson C84 and a HP, and the Epson sucked.
--- On Mon, 12/22/08, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Jeffrey Engle
My dual 2.3 GHz G5 w/10.5.6 froze strangely with the cursor mouse
still moving with the spinning beachball icon, and no other
functionality. The clock was frozen also. I waited 5 minutes and
nothing changed. No commands for Force Quit worked, so I rebooted by
holding the power button on
So I spent all Sunday replacing the hinges on this powerbook (400Mhz,
Titanium). Now I'm done and it won't give a beep. It did before I
started the work, but I'm uncertain as to whether I'm using the right
PSU. Someone said I can use the 45W PSU and it should work. I have a few
of those that
A question for the hardware experts.
I have a rev.1 BW G3 which I am happy with, but would really like to move
to a G4, preferably something later than a Yikes.
I was thinking that it might be cheaper (at least on shipping) if I could
somehow swap an AGP motherboard into the BW case and
I can't help, but have to say that I've never seen a DoS on a mac
before. Wow! This is nuts. I guess I'd be off line with my mac for a
little while yet...checking for an updated fix. Sorry.
Kris Tilford wrote:
My dual 2.3 GHz G5 w/10.5.6 froze strangely with the cursor mouse
still moving
I just upgraded from a 1560 Cannon printer to a refurbished MP530 when
the old printer needed a new print head ($42.00 + shipping) for $47.00
+ Shipping and a CLI... a great deal to say the least and it's
performance is simply great!
By the way, Cannon has had a long, close and fruitful
On Dec 22, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Richard Ramsowr wrote:
By the way, Cannon has had a long, close and fruitful relation ship
with Apple dating back to the very beginning... good enough reason to
stick with them... besides their ink and paper supplies are
reasonable.
Wasn't the last Canon
On Dec 22, 2008, at 4:36 PM, nestamicky wrote:
Someone said I can use the 45W PSU and it should work. I have a few
of those that I used, including a 2002 flying-saucer looking PSU. None
worked. I know the adapters work.
There are two types of plugs on the PSUs, they look identical, but the
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 02:19 -0600, Stephen Conrad wrote:
I see this like this whole Compact Florescent effort that we've
bought into. The mercury in them makes them one of the worst
technologies we've ever used. If you break one at home, technically,
But you are right on the whole
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:17 PM, cheryl chelyh...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a HP 1210xi all in one that has quit on me. I don't think it's
really compatible with Leopard. Anyway, I really like Epson printers
but I thought it would be a good idea to ask what you like. I'm on a
Quicksilver 2002
Hi Folks,
Somewhere in all the upgrading I have been doing I got a glitch in my iPod
that no forum archinves I can find ( including the not-active LEM iPod
forum, and Apples tech pages) has really tackled. It's unusable till I solve
it.
The most obvious malady is that the iPod screen shows the
On Dec 22, 2008, at 6:34 PM, insightinmind wrote:
On Dec 22, 2008, at 4:23 PM, technophobic_...@comcast.net wrote:
On 12/22/08, insightinmind wrote:
On my Tiger 10.4.11 Yikes!, I recently lost Quicktime
playback in Firefox looking at myspace. Tried turning
it off and back on in
On my Tiger 10.4.11 Yikes!, I recently lost Quicktime
playback in Firefox looking at MySpace.
This isn't a QuickTime issue, or a Perian issue.
MySpace uses a different player called FIM Media Player (FIM=FOX
Interactive Media) which is related to the player that FOX Network
uses on the
I've got a dual G5 that came with an Apple SuperDrive that was branded
as a Sony DW-Q28A with firmware KAS7. I became aware that this Sony
drive was actually a rebranded LiteOn SOHW-1693S. The LiteOn drive had
many firmware updates after the Apple drive was issued that added
support for
On Dec 22, 2008, at 10:33 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On my Tiger 10.4.11 Yikes!, I recently lost Quicktime
playback in Firefox looking at MySpace.
This isn't a QuickTime issue, or a Perian issue.
Apologies for hijacking this thread. I solved the problem.
I had placed some Adblocks on a
On Dec 22, 1:31 pm, Kyle Hansen pi...@speakeasy.net wrote:
On 12/22/08 12:17 PM, cheryl chelyh...@gmail.com Broadcast into the
ether:
I have a HP 1210xi all in one that has quit on me. I don't think it's
really compatible with Leopard. Anyway, I really like Epson printers
but I
On Dec 22, 2008, at 9:08 PM, Vic wrote:
Ditto on Epson - I've thrown away two of them that each worked for a
little while, but my 10-year-old HP still works as well as it ever
did...
Parts for all Canon lasers are widely available.
The mechanical design is so good most can achieve
Well if you can't access the hard drive through firewire from another mac,
then I think it is the hard drive cable. I have the exact same laptop and I
think it is worth fixing. How much does it cost?-Jonas
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:00 PM, nestamicky nestami...@gmail.com wrote:
jonas ulrich
I had a tibook 2002 for about a week before I returned it with a bad mother
board. When you say it doesn't give a beep are you talking about the apple
chime? Does it even get power? These laptops were very inconsistent. Some of
them will overheat and melt as shown in the five links.
My Epson Stylus Photo R1800 makes beautiful prints from digital photos
or scans. Occasionally a print head will clog and need cleaning, and
that wastes ink, but the prints are so good that I put up with it.
There are six separate ink cartridges so you can use each one up
completely, unlike my
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