List Nanny

2009-04-06 Thread Norm Rowe
I think this political Reaganomics proved what every farmer knows: The only thing that trickles down is fertilizer! Please stop this s**t! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those

Re: LCD Cleaning???

2009-04-06 Thread Wtob327
Seeing as this has gone on for days now, simply don't use it, and totally disregard whatever the manufacturers and chemists say to or not to use on camera optics.It's completely irrelevant in this case because according to other posters, it does not translate over to monitor screens.

Re: MailForge Re: What is the point of Mail.app??

2009-04-06 Thread Lawrence David Eden
I have been using Eudora for many years with OS 8, 9 and X. I have no complaints. Are other Eudora users on the List dissatisfied with the program? What are your complaints and why are you interested in replacing Eudora? Larry --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: List Nanny

2009-04-06 Thread MacGuy
what thread are we referring to? On Apr 6, 2009, at 5:54 AM, Norm Rowe wrote: I think this political Reaganomics proved what every farmer knows: The only thing that trickles down is fertilizer! Please stop this s**t! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: Partitioning

2009-04-06 Thread Eric Volker
On Apr 5, 2009, at 9:30 AM, George R.Hozendorf wrote: I'd like to split an internal HD into Mac OS Extended and NTFS, but Disk Utility only gives me the format option of Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Is there any way to do this without losing the data on the Mac partition? Firstly,

Re: List Nanny

2009-04-06 Thread DAN A CURRIE
MacGuy wrote: what thread are we referring to? On Apr 6, 2009, at 5:54 AM, Norm Rowe wrote: I think this political Reaganomics proved what every farmer knows: The only thing that trickles down is fertilizer! Please stop this s**t! Me too!?! What thread about politics?? Dan

Re: MailForge Re: What is the point of Mail.app??

2009-04-06 Thread Doug McNutt
At 09:42 -0400 4/6/09, Lawrence David Eden wrote: I have been using Eudora for many years with OS 8, 9 and X. I have no complaints. Are other Eudora users on the List dissatisfied with the program? What are your complaints and why are you interested in replacing Eudora? The problem is that

Re: List Nanny

2009-04-06 Thread Len Gerstel
Folks, This was a comment about someone's sig at the bottom of the email. There are no political threads on the G3-5 list. As long as a sig is not blatantly offensive, not hate speech and is appropriate for all genders and ages, and they stay on the shorter side (a couple of lines) we

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 4, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Steve R wrote: I thought one of the ways security minded people ensured thieves and law enforcement type people didn't gain access to their data was by creating a magnetic loop around the doorframe of their designated computer room so that the information on the

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 4, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote: I am assuming all HD cases are made of Ferrous material. They're not, they're typically made of machined aluminum; in fact the technology used to make hard drive cases lead to the technology used to make MacBook Air and now the

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 4, 2009, at 11:32 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: The magnetic signal written to a sector can be read (remnants of it) even after writing zero’s to it more than 10 times. It is just more difficult and takes more time. What they do now is layer the zero writes and follow the

QS G4 10.5

2009-04-06 Thread Sam Macomber
Ok, so as much as I wanted a new iMac the money just isn't there so for the time being I threw together a machine from parts that we were getting rid of at work.After much fiddling to get OS9 on the machine to update the firmware on the PATA card(royal PITA) it seems to be all

Re: MailForge Re: What is the point of Mail.app??

2009-04-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 6, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: I have been using Eudora for many years with OS 8, 9 and X. I have no complaints. Are other Eudora users on the List dissatisfied with the program? What are your complaints and why are you interested in replacing Eudora? On an IMAP

Re: Partitioning

2009-04-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 6, 2009, at 7:53 AM, Eric Volker wrote: you will need the command line utility diskutil with the resizeVolume parameter. Or perhaps, splitPartition would work better. At any rate, once you're done with diskutil you'll end up with your data on a shrunk HFS+ (aka OS X) partition,

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-06 Thread Sam Macomber
Really whole thing is a gigantic PITA. should see the stack of old drives I've collected from old machines we've sold or given away here at work. -sam --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a

Re: resurrecting a hard drive?

2009-04-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 4, 2009, at 3:24 PM, insightinmind wrote: Still wondering about the force surrounding the spinning HD plates ... as long as the plates stay alignrd and don't crash ... everything's probably A-OK ? Hard drives are just fine runnign like this. Ive even picked them up and moved them

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-06 Thread Steve R
At 11:53 AM -0400 4/6/09, Sam Macomber posted: Really whole thing is a gigantic PITA. should see the stack of old drives I've collected from old machines we've sold or given away here at work. Are you familiar with the Instructables website? Lots of interesting ideas of what to do with

How do I partition a drive?

2009-04-06 Thread PETE
I need to partition two drives, one for my quicksilver and the other for my PowerBook. I figure the process is the same, so I'll ask the questions here. I have a 160 gig drive but my PowerBook will only see 128 gigs. How can I partition it so that I can install the OS in one sector (somebody

10.5 Stopped Auto Logging-in on Home Wireless Network

2009-04-06 Thread aussieshepsrock
Greetings - A G4 1.3ghz with 120gig/768mb running 10.5.6 (laptop) has stopped logging in automatically to our home wireless network (Linksys router distributing (properly) our cable internet to a wired PC, wirelessly to a PC laptop, and a wireless Mini running 10.4.11). I am completely lost

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-06 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: The one time Hollyweird got it right was in the Mel Gibson movie where he had thermite charges wired to the top of his drives. NASA was able to salvage and recover the data off the HDs that burned up in the Columbia shuttle accident. The

Re: 10.5 Stopped Auto Logging-in on Home Wireless Network

2009-04-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 6, 2009, at 9:55 AM, aussieshepsrock wrote: Upon returning it autologged into the home network without issue for 3 weeks, but a week ago it started not trying to auto connect upon restart or waking from sleep and when the home network is maually selectet from the menubar drop-down -

Re: Partitioning

2009-04-06 Thread Eric Volker
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Alas on the PPC version of diskutil, you can't do that. I suspect it only works with GUID partitions, not mumble mumble I forget the name of the partition scheme used on PPC macs. While that's very true, at

Re: How do I partition a drive?

2009-04-06 Thread Eric Volker
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:48 AM, PETE sabaoth...@yahoo.com wrote: I need to partition two drives, one for my quicksilver and the other for my PowerBook. I figure the process is the same, so I'll ask the questions here. I have a 160 gig drive but my PowerBook will only see 128 gigs. How can I

Re: How do I partition a drive?

2009-04-06 Thread Steve R
At 1:17 PM -0500 4/6/09, Kris Tilford posted: On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:48 AM, PETE wrote: how can I utilize the whole 160 gigs without loosing 32 gigs? My G3 iMac and BW both have the 120GB limit, and I just partitioned the drives so that both partitions were less than 100GB. Why all the

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: The one time Hollyweird got it right was in the Mel Gibson movie where he had thermite charges wired to the top of his drives. NASA was able to salvage and recover the data off the HDs

Re: How do I partition a drive?

2009-04-06 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 6, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Steve R wrote: Why all the concern of getting the 128GB so exact? The reason is that IF you're using the FULL size of the HD (i.e. a HD GREATER than the 128 GB limit), you don't want any partition SPANNING the 128 GB limitation point (spanning means having

Re: How do I partition a drive?

2009-04-06 Thread Eric Volker
On Apr 6, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Steve R wrote: My G3 iMac and BW both have the 120GB limit, and I just partitioned the drives so that both partitions were less than 100GB. Why all the concern of getting the 128GB so exact? One would think that the boundary wouldn't matter as long as you made

Re: MailForge Re: What is the point of Mail.app??

2009-04-06 Thread Dan
At 9:42 AM -0400 4/6/2009, Lawrence David Eden wrote: I have been using Eudora for many years with OS 8, 9 and X. I have no complaints. Are other Eudora users on the List dissatisfied with the program? What are your complaints and why are you interested in replacing Eudora? My only

Re: How do I partition a drive?

2009-04-06 Thread PETE
Actually I want whatever works. Thanks. Pete. --- On Mon, 4/6/09, Steve R mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com wrote: From: Steve R mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com Subject: Re: How do I partition a drive? To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 11:28 AM At 1:17 PM -0500 4/6/09, Kris

Re: 10.5 Stopped Auto Logging-in on Home Wireless Network

2009-04-06 Thread aussieshepsrock
On Apr 6, 12:55 pm, aussieshepsrock ilovaussiesh...@yahoo.com wrote: Greetings - A G4 1.3ghz with 120gig/768mb running 10.5.6 (laptop) has stopped logging in automatically to our home wireless network (Linksys router distributing (properly) our cable internet to a wired PC, wirelessly to a

Re: 10.5 Stopped Auto Logging-in on Home Wireless Network

2009-04-06 Thread aussieshepsrock
On Apr 6, 2:15 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Apr 6, 2009, at 9:55 AM, aussieshepsrock wrote: Upon returning it autologged into the home network without issue for 3 weeks, but a week ago it started not trying to auto connect upon restart or waking from sleep

Re: How do I partition a drive?

2009-04-06 Thread PeterH
On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:44 AM, PETE wrote: My G3 iMac and BW both have the 120GB limit, and I just partitioned the drives so that both partitions were less than 100GB. Why all the concern of getting the 128GB so exact? Because the firmware in the QS 2001 and earlier models do not support

Re: How do I partition a drive?

2009-04-06 Thread Steve R
At 1:48 PM -0500 4/6/09, Kris Tilford posted: On Apr 6, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Steve R wrote: Why all the concern of getting the 128GB so exact? The reason is that IF you're using the FULL size of the HD (i.e. a HD GREATER than the 128 GB limit), you don't want any partition SPANNING the

Re: How do I partition a drive?

2009-04-06 Thread Steve R
At 11:44 AM -0700 4/6/09, PETE posted: Actually I want whatever works. Thanks. Pete. So do I ;-) Since my current partitioning scheme is wrong (both replies explained it rather well so I finally 'get' it), and I'm not prepared to fork out $$, I'm interested in other ways of correct

Re: How do I partition a drive?

2009-04-06 Thread PeterH
On Apr 6, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Steve R wrote: I guess I've been lucky. So, without using InTech tools, and say having a 250GB hard drive, I could conceivably create a first partition of 125GB, a second partition of 5GB that would remain unused so nothing writes to it, and a third partition of

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-06 Thread Ernest L. Gunerius
On Apr 4, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote: I am assuming all HD cases are made of Ferrous material. They're not, they're typically made of machined aluminum; in fact the technology used to make hard drive cases lead to the technology used to make MacBook Air and now the MacBook

Appleworks vs a truetype font

2009-04-06 Thread Dan
Gotta be something obvious I'm missing. I want to use a new font in Appleworks 6.2.9. (on my Smurf, OS X 10.4.11). I download this font: http://www.fontspace.com/gaut-fonts/gearbox And used FontBook to install the ttf file. It works fine in newer apps, like TextEdit. But I can't seem to

Transporting an HP LaserJet

2009-04-06 Thread Dan
How sturdy is an HP LaserJet 4100n? Would one survive bouncing around in an RV? Any special care needed? Thx, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's

Re: LCD Cleaning???

2009-04-06 Thread mythmaker18
Bruce S.: Are you talking 90 PROOF (i.e. drinking) alcohol, or did you mean to say 90 PERCENT (i.e. isopropyl) alcohol? Andy On Apr 4, 2:49 am, Bruce bsugarb...@core.com wrote: James E. Therrault wrote: I love my 22 Samsung but I need to clean the screen without destroying anything.

Re: Transporting an HP LaserJet

2009-04-06 Thread Steve R
At 3:46 PM -0400 4/6/09, Dan posted: How sturdy is an HP LaserJet 4100n? Would one survive bouncing around in an RV? Any special care needed? I've shipped my HP LaserJet via UPS from west coast to east coast, then travelled with it in a VW van on the floor over hundreds of miles of

Invisible drive

2009-04-06 Thread George R . Hozendorf
I don't think this is off topic, but if someone does, my apologies. I ran Boot Camp to make a windows partition and used rEFit to provide a boot screen at start up. The drive the window os is on is not visible in the finder. When I open Disk Utility it is visible, but dimmed and named

Re: MailForge Re: What is the point of Mail.app??

2009-04-06 Thread Ernest L. Gunerius
I have been using Eudora for many years with OS 8, 9 and X. I have no complaints. Are other Eudora users on the List dissatisfied with the program? What are your complaints and why are you interested in replacing Eudora? Larry I have been using Eudora from Eudora 1.3.1 to 6.2.4 (all of which

Re: 10.5 Stopped Auto Logging-in on Home Wireless Network

2009-04-06 Thread aussieshepsrock
SOLVED_SOLVED_SOLVED The problem is fixed now! There was a compound issue of mis-labeled notes as to what the router access password was and the encryption key password was. My lack of routine use of these kind of items meant I didn't catch the 'obvious' difference between the two based on size

Invisible Drive partition

2009-04-06 Thread George R. Hozendorf
I installed Windows using Boot Camp and rEFit. The partition formed doesn't show up in the Finder. It is dimmed in Disk Utility. I cannot find the Windows OS with Spotlight or Easy Find. Would someone please explain what's going on? Booting into Windows via rEFit works flawlessly.

Re: QS G4 10.5

2009-04-06 Thread Sam Macomber
On Apr 6, 2009, at 5:03 PM, insightinmind wrote: On Apr 6, 2009, at 5:01 PM, insightinmind wrote: On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Sam Macomber wrote: Ok, so as much as I wanted a new iMac the money just isn't there so for the time being I threw together a machine from parts that we

Re: Invisible drive

2009-04-06 Thread John Musbach
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:23 PM, George R. Hozendorf ghoze...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think this is off topic, but if someone does, my apologies.  I ran Boot Camp to make a windows partition and used rEFit to provide a boot screen at start up.  The drive the window os is on is not visible in

Re: QS G4 10.5

2009-04-06 Thread Sam Macomber
On Apr 6, 2009, at 5:30 PM, insightinmind wrote: On Apr 6, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Sam Macomber wrote: I'll try pulling the USB card tonight... Also have to deal with my AppleTV, gone all wonky on us... Recent experience with 10.5.6, says turn off all types of file sharing, and in

Re: Appleworks vs a truetype font

2009-04-06 Thread Dan
At 1:48 PM -0700 4/6/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 6, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Dan wrote: How do you tell AppleWorks to see the new font? Do you have tons of fonts installed? istvr some strange limit on the number of fonts in AW Yes, lot of fonts. But ripping 'em out, leaving only a

Re: Appleworks vs a truetype font

2009-04-06 Thread Bequette Jeff
On Apr 6, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: and second DAMNYOU FOR LINKING THAT SITE!!! I took just one look and fell all the way off the wagon into craven fontaholic behavior again...:-P Gonna be wandering the streets at 3 AM, clothes reeking of toner and silkscreen ink, jonesing

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-06 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.eduwrote: On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: The one time Hollyweird got it right was in the Mel Gibson movie where he had thermite charges wired

Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-06 Thread MacGuy
been waiting to download the Safari 4 beta till all the bugs are out (or most of them) anything I need to know before download/install? Thanks, Jeff --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group

PowerMac G4 into stable NAS?

2009-04-06 Thread Jaime Ignacio
Hi guys, I've seen a couple of articles around the web about turning a PowerMacg4 into a servicable NAS but I have a particular problem where I live in Hong Kong and getting parts that are compatible with older macs is a real headache (especially if you don't speak Cantonese). I was just

Re: question about our Group

2009-04-06 Thread tortoise
On Apr 4, 5:32 am, Lawrence David Eden lde...@comcast.net wrote: I have a Sonnet upgrade card that I no longer use.  Is it OK on this list to offer items like this for sale to members of our Group? They say you are allowed one item per year (per group I think) Personally, I would like to

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-06 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 6, 2009, at 9:46 PM, MacGuy wrote: Safari 4 beta Problems still? What problems? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 - with a particular

Re: PowerMac G4 into stable NAS?

2009-04-06 Thread Steve R
At 11:04 AM +0800 4/7/09, Jaime Ignacio posted: Hi guys, I've seen a couple of articles around the web about turning a PowerMacg4 into a servicable NAS but I have a particular problem where I live in Hong Kong and getting parts that are compatible with older macs is a real headache (especially

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-06 Thread MacGuy
On Apr 6, 2009, at 8:19 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 6, 2009, at 9:46 PM, MacGuy wrote: Safari 4 beta Problems still? What problems? Kris, I asked a question... so I'm assuming by your answer, that you're not having problems with Safari 4 beta. This is good. Jeff

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-06 Thread joe
I still think it's the best browser I've used in a while. I do have these problems: 1)It causes messages in Mail to be half invisible until you select a part of the text 2)With Webkit, it always reports problems on startup (which I've figured out is the ClickToFlash plug-in that I like a lot,

OT - Photos

2009-04-06 Thread PETE
I have some old photos without negatives. I want to transfer them to my mac without losing quality. (I sold my scanner several years ago!). TIA. Pete --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a