Re: Terminal tells me I have new mail

2009-02-03 Thread Bill Christensen
At 7:30 PM -0500 2/2/09, Steve R wrote: At 3:44 PM -0600 2/2/09, Dennis Myhand posted: Steve R wrote: When I open Terminal, it tells me I have new mail. To read the mail, open a terminal, if you haven't already done so, and type mail, and hit enter. Okay... thanks. Mail seems

Re: Terminal tells me I have new mail

2009-02-03 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 3, 2009, at 2:35 AM, Bill Christensen wrote: Mystery not completely solved Other than opening the file at /var/mail/myusername with a text editor, is there any way I can download that mail to an actual mail client (preferably one on a *different* machine, as I have several

Re: reverting iTunes

2009-02-03 Thread D Stubbs
( I have a 4th Gen iPod with the 'no card inserted' error problem, it came after an iTunes upgrade, defies any pattern and no internal diagnostics, reinstalling etc has helped) What does it say in system.log when you hook up the iPod? I am new to Tiger, so I put [system.log] into

Re: which video card??

2009-02-03 Thread dc
I put a GeForce 7800 GS 256 MG AGP card in my MDD last week. It's running between 50 - 60 degrees C, shows Front Row movie previews full screen with a great picture. I got a used PC card for $50 and converted it to run in the MDD. GeForce 7800 GS: Chipset Model:GeForce 7800 GS Type:

Re: Unstable upgraded BW G3...

2009-02-03 Thread dc
Try the simplest thing first- put a newer, larger hard drive in. The hanging you describe could be your drive locking up. Sometimes they do that for quite a while before seizing all the way. The Rev 1 ATA bus is often a PIA If the BW doesn't have a SCSI card you can get one cheap and put a

Re: Which SATA PCI adapter will work in a MDD?

2009-02-03 Thread dc
I am using a SeriTek SATA card in my MDD. It is bootable. It runs in PCI slots as well as PCI-X. http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1ve2plus2/ On Jan 30, 2:42 pm, yawg yaw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have loads of ripped DVDs and a big music archive and the four disks in my MDD are almost

Re: Terminal tells me I have new mail

2009-02-03 Thread Dennis Myhand
Bill Christensen wrote: At 7:30 PM -0500 2/2/09, Steve R wrote: At 3:44 PM -0600 2/2/09, Dennis Myhand posted: Mystery not completely solved Other than opening the file at /var/mail/myusername with a text editor, is there any way I can download that mail to an actual mail client

Re: Terminal tells me I have new mail

2009-02-03 Thread Hunter Fuller
Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 3, 2009, at 2:35 AM, Bill Christensen wrote: I still don't understand. My OS X System has been continuously upgraded and/or transferred and has a lineage going back many years. My Terminal NEVER has any mail messages, and my var/mail/~user file is empty.

Re: Unstable upgraded BW G3...

2009-02-03 Thread Sandy Mitchell
Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions... I tried a bunch of them - too tired to enumerate them now; stuff like using AppleJack, etc., and then decided to put the BW's original 300 mHz CPU back in, and reset the jumpers accordingly... And to my great relief, it's now running Tiger 10.4.11

Re: Terminal tells me I have new mail

2009-02-03 Thread Peter
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Hunter Fuller hackmies...@gmail.com wrote: Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 3, 2009, at 2:35 AM, Bill Christensen wrote: I still don't understand. My OS X System has been continuously upgraded and/or transferred and has a lineage going back many years. My

Re: Terminal tells me I have new mail

2009-02-03 Thread Peter
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Peter peter1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Hunter Fuller hackmies...@gmail.comwrote: Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 3, 2009, at 2:35 AM, Bill Christensen wrote: I still don't understand. My OS X System has been continuously

Re: Logitech DiNovo Keyboard MediaPad

2009-02-03 Thread Dan
At 6:21 PM -0800 2/2/2009, Clark Martin wrote: George Hozendorf wrote: A friend gave me a brand new Logitech DiNovo Keyboard and MediaPad. Unfortunately, according to Logitech support, there is no way to get it to work on a Mac. Would anyone on the list know of a stable workaround to

Re: reverting iTunes

2009-02-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 2, 2009, at 6:42 PM, D Stubbs wrote: I am new to Tiger, so I put [system.log] into Spotlight to see if I could learn where it is , but no luck.where do I look? In Applications Utilities is a program called Console. Start it up and you;ll be looking, I think at the console

Re: reverting iTunes

2009-02-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 3, 2009, at 6:24 AM, D Stubbs wrote: ( I have a 4th Gen iPod with the 'no card inserted' error problem, it came after an iTunes upgrade, defies any pattern and no internal diagnostics, reinstalling etc has helped) What does it say in system.log when you hook up the iPod? I

Re: Terminal tells me I have new mail

2009-02-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 3, 2009, at 1:46 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: I still don't understand. My OS X System has been continuously upgraded and/or transferred and has a lineage going back many years. My Terminal NEVER has any mail messages, and my var/mail/~user file is empty. You haven't installed anything

Re: Terminal tells me I have new mail

2009-02-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 3, 2009, at 1:35 AM, Bill Christensen wrote: Mystery not completely solved Other than opening the file at /var/mail/myusername with a text editor, is there any way I can download that mail to an actual mail client (preferably one on a *different* machine, as I have several

Re: Terminal tells me I have new mail

2009-02-03 Thread Doug McNutt
At 09:33 -0700 2/3/09, Bruce Johnson wrote: Mystery not completely solved man 5 crontab and check out the MAIL= option. You can specify a place to send messages that might be generated by scheduled processes. It's part of a wider ability to specify environment variables like PATH for

Re: Terminal tells me I have new mail

2009-02-03 Thread Jerry Bryant
On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:07 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: I still don't understand. My OS X System has been continuously upgraded and/or transferred and has a lineage going back many years. My Terminal NEVER has any mail messages, and my var/mail/~user file is empty. I don't know why a program

Disk Inventory X 1.0 pretty neat!

2009-02-03 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
Hi Guys ~ Just d/l this and it's pretty neat! Let's you know where all your hd space went. It took me a minute to interpret the picture. You click on the largest color spaces and it tells you what file is so large and where it resides on your HD. I wanted to install an app that needs

Re: reverting iTunes

2009-02-03 Thread D Stubbs
Sadly from the log above, and your description of the problem you have a failing drive or flash in the iPod, or a dying iPod entirely. The logs indicate that it finds the iPod, trys to format it, then the iPod doesn't come back afterwards: 2008-12-04 08:36:26 -0600 ERROR

Re: reverting iTunes

2009-02-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 3, 2009, at 12:48 PM, D Stubbs wrote: Sadly from the log above, and your description of the problem you have a failing drive or flash in the iPod, or a dying iPod entirely. The logs indicate that it finds the iPod, trys to format it, then the iPod doesn't come back afterwards:

Re: OS9 Image Viewer/Slideshow App Suggestions?

2009-02-03 Thread Ken Daggett
On 3 Feb 2009, at 15:37:25 PST, aussieshepsrock wrote: HiYa, I'm setting up a Wallstreet running OS9 and I'm looking for a 'Preview.app' type program I can use to look at jpegs and run full screen slideshows with. It's been forever since I've been in 9 and can't think of what to use to get

Ibook Optical drive???

2009-02-03 Thread jonas ulrich
I am looking for a manual that will tell me how to replace the cd drive in my G3 iBook 800MHZ 12 thanks!!!-Jonas --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs

Re: OS9 Image Viewer/Slideshow App Suggestions?

2009-02-03 Thread Yersinia
Richard writes, HiYa, I'm setting up a Wallstreet running OS9 and I'm looking for a 'Preview.app' type program I can use to look at jpegs and run full screen slideshows with. It's been forever since I've been in 9 and can't think of what to use to get Preview like tools. Not that I like

Re: Ibook Optical drive???

2009-02-03 Thread Jim Scott
On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:45 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: I am looking for a manual that will tell me how to replace the cd drive in my G3 iBook 800MHZ 12 thanks!!! -Jonas Go here: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/iBook-G3-12-Inch/Optical-Drive/50/15/Page-1 Enjoy! -- Jim Scott

Re: reverting iTunes

2009-02-03 Thread D Stubbs
For that matter, it may be cheaper to just buy another iPod. 4th and 5th gen ones go pretty cheaply these days. (for that matter, look for a 1st Gen mini, you can put in a CF card (which you can get up to 64 gigs nowadays) and go all solid-state.) -- Bruce Johnson Now that's an

Re: Unstable upgraded BW G3...

2009-02-03 Thread Dan
At 12:35 PM -0500 2/3/2009, Charles Davis wrote: On Feb 3, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Sandy Mitchell wrote: put the BW's original 300 mHz CPU back in, and reset the jumpers accordingly... And to my great relief, it's now running Tiger 10.4.11 flawlessly, Ok. Good. Now you know that some component not

OS9 Image Viewer/Slideshow App Suggestions?

2009-02-03 Thread aussieshepsrock
HiYa, I'm setting up a Wallstreet running OS9 and I'm looking for a 'Preview.app' type program I can use to look at jpegs and run full screen slideshows with. It's been forever since I've been in 9 and can't think of what to use to get Preview like tools. Not that I like Preview!, but it does

Re: Firewire module in a BW G3

2009-02-03 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 03-02-2009 20:14, Dan, dantear...@gmail.com, wrote: I know the difference between a rev 1 and rev 2 SmurfTower involves the on-board IDE and Firewire chips. But does it also involve the Firewire daughter card? I have a rev 2 Smurf with dead Firewire. And a rev 1 that works. To

Re: reverting iTunes

2009-02-03 Thread Dan
At 1:48 PM -0600 2/3/2009, D Stubbs wrote: Sadly from the log above, and your description of the problem you have a failing drive or flash in the iPod, or a dying iPod entirely. 2008-12-04 08:36:26 -0600 ERROR UpdaterLibFindQ98:761 Could not find iPod This is typical behavior with failing

Re: Sawtooth vs DA/QuickSilver

2009-02-03 Thread tortoise
On Feb 2, 2:14 pm, PeterH peterh5...@rattlebrain.com wrote: On Feb 2, 2009, at 1:51 PM, PeterH wrote: The dual 800 MHz G4 (QS 2001) and the dual 1.0 GHz G4 (QS 2002) use the same raw board, but these are otherwise quite different, with different regulator components, etcetera, between

Re: Sawtooth vs DA/QuickSilver

2009-02-03 Thread PeterH
On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:53 PM, tortoise wrote: Do you know the mod to make QS cpu work in sawtooth ? Can't be done for two reasons: 1) Sawtooth is a 100 MHz bus machine, and those require a different location for its CPU socket and a different cooling system location, and 2) QS requires an

Re: Sawtooth vs DA/QuickSilver

2009-02-03 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, This is the article I saved on how to upgrade a gigabit. I plan to upgrade a G4 gigabit motherboard when I find the right CPU. http://homepage.mac.com/josephk/G4_mod.html The sawtooth is similar. Here is a page talking about upgrading processors on a sawtooth. I included the