Re: Flash Drive Question

2009-01-14 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, If you can read files from the flash drive, there are two reasons I have seen why writing fails. The most common is that you have too many files in the root directory. Flash drives typically are formatted with a FAT filesystem of some kind. When you format a FAT drive(FAT16 or FAT32 or

Re: Get rid of account

2009-01-14 Thread Jonas Lopez
I had this problem too and finally got to users and trashed the one no longer needed - this did fix the problem, so I see they still have not made a fix for this problem, like an uninstall should work. JML --- On Tue, 1/13/09, George Hozendorf ghoze...@gmail.com wrote: From: George Hozendorf

Re: Flash Drive Question

2009-01-14 Thread Tim Gochnour
??? On Jan 14, 2009, at 2:37 AM, Kyle Parish wrote: You may be able to go to the companys web-site that makes the flash-drive and reinstall the driver for it. It sounds like a driver problem to me. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote: Mac OS X

Re: Flash Drive Question

2009-01-14 Thread Charles Davis
Or, there is always the ole 'Brute Force' method; Download to 'Desktop', drag to 'Flash Drive'. ;-) Chuck D. On Jan 14, 2009, at 2:37 AM, Kyle Parish wrote: You may be able to go to the companys web-site that makes the flash-drive and reinstall the driver for it. It sounds like a

Re: Flash Drive Question

2009-01-14 Thread Amanda Ward
Hi Steve... On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Mac OS X (10.2.9) Recently I tried to save a photo from a website to a Flash Drive and it won't let me I can see the Flash Drives on my Desktop but when I click Save Image As it only show this for options for where to put

Re: Get rid of account

2009-01-14 Thread George Hozendorf
That didn't work for me. The account keeps showing up. On Jan 13, 2009, at 10:10 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: I had this problem too and finally got to users and trashed the one no longer needed - this did fix the problem, so I see they still have not made a fix for this problem, like an

Re: Get rid of account

2009-01-14 Thread George Hozendorf
On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:30 PM, Clark Martin wrote: George Hozendorf wrote: I need to get rid of an account that was setup on the initial install of OS. It is a standard account, but Account Preferences won't let me delete it even though I'm going in under an administrator account.

Re: Duplicate User Account

2009-01-14 Thread George Hozendorf
On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:32 PM, Clark Martin wrote: George Hozendorf wrote: On Jan 9, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Clark Martin wrote: George Hozendorf wrote: Is there a way to duplicate a User Account? I'm setting up a machine for my girlfriend. Instead of reinventing the wheel, it would be

Re: Get rid of account

2009-01-14 Thread Clark Martin
George Hozendorf wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:30 PM, Clark Martin wrote: George Hozendorf wrote: I need to get rid of an account that was setup on the initial install of OS. It is a standard account, but Account Preferences won't let me delete it even though I'm going in under an

Re: Get rid of account

2009-01-14 Thread George Hozendorf
Yes, to clicking on the lock and adding the appropriate user and no to fast switching. On Jan 14, 2009, at 8:29 AM, Clark Martin wrote: George Hozendorf wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:30 PM, Clark Martin wrote: George Hozendorf wrote: I need to get rid of an account that was setup on

Re: Flash Drive Question

2009-01-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:15 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Mac OS X (10.2.9) Recently I tried to save a photo from a website to a Flash Drive and it won't let me I can see the Flash Drives on my Desktop but when I click Save Image As it only show this for options for where to put it: Home,

Re: Flash Drive Question

2009-01-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 14, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:15 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Mac OS X (10.2.9) Recently I tried to save a photo from a website to a Flash Drive and it won't let me I can see the Flash Drives on my Desktop but when I click Save Image As it only

Re: Safari RSS vulnerability: pay heed!

2009-01-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 13, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Kyle Parish wrote: Does that include Safari for PC? I am guessing that Safari for PC is more vulnerable. It said in that link that Safari on Windows is affected, but only if its the web browser being used. I'm unsure whether that simply means it's running,

Re: Another Question

2009-01-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:54 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: I wonder, what chews up HD space if you leave Aps open a long time. I do delete the cache on my browser from time to time but after awhile it doesn't seem to help Flash has long been a memory hog, and some versions of Safari have had

Re: RAM prices going up??

2009-01-14 Thread hillhippy
I was wondering if name brand RAM (crucial/micron) Memory Size: 1024MB Memory Speed: 400MHz PC3200 Memory CAS Latency: 3 Memory Type: DDR Pins: 184, will work in PM G5 2.7ghz running OS 10.4.11 if it is not specifically listed for Mac. Price difference for 1gb sticks seems to be about 2 X

Re: Flash Drive Question

2009-01-14 Thread Charles Davis
On Jan 14, 2009, at 7:30 AM, Amanda Ward wrote: Hi Steve... On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Mac OS X (10.2.9) Recently I tried to save a photo from a website to a Flash Drive and it won't let me I can see the Flash Drives on my Desktop but when I click Save Image

Re: Get rid of account

2009-01-14 Thread Steve R
George Hozendorf wrote: I need to get rid of an account that was setup on the initial install of OS. It is a standard account, but Account Preferences won't let me delete it even though I'm going in under an administrator account. Help. If you've ever cloned the drive or if you

Re: RAM prices going up??

2009-01-14 Thread Steve R
At 8:43 AM -0800 1/14/09, hillhippy posted: I was wondering if name brand RAM (crucial/micron) Memory Size: 1024MB Memory Speed: 400MHz PC3200 Memory CAS Latency: 3 Memory Type: DDR Pins: 184, will work in PM G5 2.7ghz running OS 10.4.11 if it is not specifically listed for Mac. Price

Re: Up from an eMac 700

2009-01-14 Thread jonas ulrich
Oh my bad. Are you getting rid of the emac?-Jonas On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Sam Macomber s...@macomber.com wrote: Hey if you end up getting rid of that G4 tower I might buy it from you... I have a 700MHz eMac, I was just considering getting a G4 tower. Decided to go with a new

Re: Safari RSS vulnerability: pay heed!

2009-01-14 Thread Kyle Parish
Ok, thanks. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Kyle Parish wrote: Does that include Safari for PC? I am guessing that Safari for PC is more vulnerable. It said in that link that Safari on Windows is

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

2009-01-14 Thread Dan
At 10:18 AM -0800 1/14/2009, PETE wrote: I'm using the above mentioned software on my Quicksilver. Of late I've noticed a very annoying development. While browsing, the cursor turns into a multi-colored circle that keeps turning round and round and...,infact during one of these episodes I got

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

2009-01-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 14, 2009, at 11:18 AM, PETE wrote: I'm using the above mentioned software on my Quicksilver. Of late I've noticed a very annoying development. While browsing, the cursor turns into a multi-colored circle that keeps turning round and round and...,infact during one of these

Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-14 Thread Dan
Many radio stations are dropping mp3 and aac format streams, in favor of AAC+ (HE-AAC) - a five year old standard that provides better fidelity over lower bandwidth. iTunes doesn't support AAC+ ! VLC plays it, but crashes or hangs after about 5 mins on both my Smurf and PB G4 (OS X

Can't Download iWork '09

2009-01-14 Thread Wilton Shaw
Hello, I've tried four times to download the trial version of iWork '09. Each time the downloading process works fine, except instead of showing me the downloaded results I get the following note. The following disk image failed to mount. Reason-Invalid checksum. What does this mean? I

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Dan wrote: Are there other players for Macs that can handle AAC+? This article implies that iTunes for PC handles AAC+ differently that iTunes for OS X: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t56050.html Perhaps Windows iTunes can play AAC+?

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-14 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Many radio stations are dropping mp3 and aac format streams, in favor of AAC+ (HE-AAC) - a five year old standard that provides better fidelity over lower bandwidth. iTunes doesn't support AAC+ ! VLC plays it, but

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-14 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Many radio stations are dropping mp3 and aac format streams, in favor of AAC+ (HE-AAC) - a five year old standard that provides better fidelity over lower bandwidth. iTunes doesn't support AAC+ ! VLC plays it, but

Re: Can't Download iWork '09

2009-01-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Wilton Shaw wrote: Hello, I've tried four times to download the trial version of iWork '09. Each time the downloading process works fine, except instead of showing me the downloaded results I get the following note. The following disk image failed to

Re: Can't Download iWork '09

2009-01-14 Thread joe
On Jan 14, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Wilton Shaw wrote: Hello, I've tried four times to download the trial version of iWork '09. Each time the downloading process works fine, except instead of showing me the downloaded results I get the following note. The following disk image failed to

Re: Can't Download iWork '09

2009-01-14 Thread Steve R
At 3:23 PM -0500 1/14/09, Wilton Shaw posted: Hello, I've tried four times to download the trial version of iWork '09. Each time the downloading process works fine, except instead of showing me the downloaded results I get the following note. The following disk image failed to mount.

Re: RAM prices going up??

2009-01-14 Thread hillhippy
(And as an aside, I've also had to turn the heat on in the computer room for the first time this winter now that my blast furnace isn't keeping me warm.) Steve, I upgraded to the G5 suddenly last year when my Quicksilver G4 had some sort of board failure and roached the system drive. The

HP 940d Drive Door won't open without a disc in the tray

2009-01-14 Thread hillhippy
I bought a HP 940d CD/DVD burner to replace the dead optical drive when I got my 2.7ghz G5 PowerMac. I installed it and it worked fine for a year or so. When I installed the drive I removed the bezel from the end of the tray, which allows the tray to push the door on the case of the G5 open