Re: OT - Photos

2009-04-07 Thread Ken Daggett
On 6 Apr 2009, at 22:39:32 PDT, PETE wrote: 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 So, what's the question? If you are talking about printed photos, you will

Re: OT - Photos

2009-04-07 Thread Brian Christmas
On 07/04/2009, at 3:39 PM, PETE wrote: 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 G'day Pete. If you've got access to a reasonable digital camera, take photos of your old photos

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:48 PM, joe wrote: I still think it's the best browser I've used in a while. Agreed. I do have these problems: 1)It causes messages in Mail to be half invisible until you select a part of the text I'm not sure what you're talking about? My Mail.app behaves normally.

Re: PowerMac G4 into stable NAS?

2009-04-07 Thread Mike Baker
Get 1 GB more of RAM, two 500 GB SATA hard drives, a Super Drive and a SATA controller that plugs into a PCI slot. --- On Mon, 4/6/09, Jaime Ignacio jaiapos...@googlemail.com wrote: From: Jaime Ignacio jaiapos...@googlemail.com Subject: PowerMac G4 into stable NAS? To:

Re: OT - Photos

2009-04-07 Thread Kris Tilford
On 6 Apr 2009, at 22:39:32 PDT, PETE wrote: 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!). On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:06 AM, Ken Daggett wrote: A scanner is the only reasonable way I know of. Another

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

2009-04-07 Thread Clark Martin
aussieshepsrock 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 PC laptop, and a wireless Mini running

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

2009-04-07 Thread Clark Martin
aussieshepsrock wrote: 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'

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-07 Thread Clark Martin
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 that burned up in the

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-07 Thread Clark Martin
Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu mailto:john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 6, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:

Re: PowerMac G4 into stable NAS?

2009-04-07 Thread Clark Martin
Jaime Ignacio wrote: 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

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-07 Thread diane
Hi everyone! Wow, I never expected to spark such an interesting discussion. Yes, some of you were right in that I don't believe I have a machine I can erase them in. Unless I have a card my old Yikes! will let me use. These came out of old servers and frankly I think some of them came from a

Re: OT - Photos

2009-04-07 Thread Ken Daggett
On 6 Apr 2009, at 23:39:57 PDT, Kris Tilford wrote: On 6 Apr 2009, at 22:39:32 PDT, PETE wrote: 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!). On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:06 AM, Ken Daggett wrote: A

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-07 Thread Sam Macomber
you'd be surprised what gets left on drives I once got an 850 at a yard sale, with one drive in it. turned out to be 1/2 a RAID 1. I looked on it and found the computer was from a medical lab and was full of medical records!It was too small to be of any use to me, so I took it apart

Re: OT - Photos

2009-04-07 Thread PETE
I guess it was wishful thinking on my part! I did not want to buy another scanner -  now I may have to. Pete. --- On Mon, 4/6/09, Ken Daggett kadagg...@verizon.net wrote: From: Ken Daggett kadagg...@verizon.net Subject: Re: OT - Photos To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, April 6,

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread dc
I have encountered two specific problems with Safari 4 beta on my G5. First, it hangs every time I try to use the Rhapsody streaming music player from the VH1 website. Second, it hung when trying to open a large PDF file, a Sears parts manual I was trying to download. When I went back to my Cube

Re: OT - Photos

2009-04-07 Thread PETE
I'm curious, will I lose any quality? Pete. --- On Mon, 4/6/09, Brian Christmas b...@tpg.com.au wrote: From: Brian Christmas b...@tpg.com.au Subject: Re: OT - Photos To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 11:12 PM On 07/04/2009, at 3:39 PM, PETE wrote: I have some old

Re: OT - Photos

2009-04-07 Thread PETE
I found an  Epson Perfection® 3200 PHOTO Flatbed Scanner on ebay but, at $ 150.00, I think that is steep for something I will not put to much use. Anybody know of good scanners? I liked the description of the epson but the price kind of puts me off at the moment. Pete.    --- On

Re: OT - Photos

2009-04-07 Thread Mark
PETE wrote: I'm curious, will I lose any quality? Pete. . Basically, you lose at every step of reproduction. ok -insert sex jokes here- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 7, 2009, at 12:45 AM, Clark Martin wrote: Thermite; when you care enough to melt the very best. Personally I'd prefer a sabot round (APFSDS) We've always found the 9mm and .45 also do an adequate job. 30.06 with a proper backstop... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona

Re: OT - Photos

2009-04-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 7, 2009, at 6:23 AM, Ken Daggett wrote: I really don't believe, especially for any significant number, that I would enjoy photographing various sized photos with a digital camera. trying to hold them flat and square and getting good results would try my patience. The photos would

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-07 Thread Baha Ata
erase with 0, govermantal format... any program with that option handle situation and write everysector 0. This takes time, very long time if HD is big. I use only HD not any optical media for backup. Cause optical media need care... If you backup all data and trust them in 5 years you may lost

Re: Installing a GeForce 4MX ...

2009-04-07 Thread pdimage
On 7/4/09 19:43, insightinmind billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: The ATI Radeon 9800Pro Mac Edition, I thought, was supposed to be ready for the QS 2002 ... no taping required. I have now removed the battery for 20 minutes, and am waiting awhile after replacing for it to build the mobo back

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 7, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Dan wrote: WebKit *DOES* support plug-ins and inputmanagers *EXACTLY* like Safari does. The error dialog is *cosmetic only*. Not in my experience. The extension Acid Search worked fine for me in Safari 3, whereas it crashed Webkit nightly in any build.

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 7, 2009, at 11:12 AM, joe wrote: clicking a link from Mail causes a second instance of the browser to start. This is incorrect. You can never run a second instance of the browser. You can only run a second instance of a second browser. This means you must have TWO versions of the

Re: Clicking hard drive?

2009-04-07 Thread Dan
At 12:37 PM -0400 4/7/2009, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: I have hearing loss so I'm not really sure, but as the G4 Mac started up this morning I might have heard some clicking. Either that or crickets in the house, LOL. Made me think I should get a utility that can warn of incipient HD failure. I

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread Dan
At 11:12 AM -0500 4/7/2009, joe wrote: It causes messages in Mail to be half invisible until you select a part of the text I'm not sure what you're talking about? My Mail.app behaves normally. Several other people have reported it on this list. Most of them said it was the reason they

Re: Installing a GeForce 4MX ...

2009-04-07 Thread pdimage
On 7/4/09 17:05, insightinmind billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: I tried the trashing of the Extensions.mkext, so far no help there. Is the wire with the square shaped head in the airport slot area, just the airport wire? Does it have to be touching anything? I moved it away from the metal

Re: Installing a GeForce 4MX ...

2009-04-07 Thread insightinmind
On Apr 7, 2009, at 3:50 PM, pdimage wrote: On 7/4/09 19:43, insightinmind billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: The ATI Radeon 9800Pro Mac Edition, I thought, was supposed to be ready for the QS 2002 ... no taping required. I have now removed the battery for 20 minutes, and am waiting awhile

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread Dan
At 11:16 AM -0500 4/7/2009, joe wrote: On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:13 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: 2)With Webkit, it always reports problems on startup (which I've figured out is the ClickToFlash plug-in that I like a lot, so I don't mind just clicking continue whenever I start up). Webkit nightly builds

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread Dan
At 3:32 PM -0400 4/7/2009, Dan wrote: At 11:12 AM -0500 4/7/2009, joe wrote: 3) When I open a link from a Mail message and I already have Webkit/ Safari opened, it opens a second instance of the application. This occurs when you have both Safari and Webkit. The problem is a preferences issue.

Wacom now what?

2009-04-07 Thread MacGuy
I just got a new wacom tablet and I'm looking for a very simple program (free would be nice) for drawing line drawings. any ideas? Jeff Jeff Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread joe
On Apr 7, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Dan wrote: WebKit *DOES* support plug-ins and inputmanagers *EXACTLY* like Safari does. The error dialog is *cosmetic only*. It is provided to drive the user nutz, er a alert the user that they're running a developer nightly build that MAY have problems with

Re: Wacom now what?

2009-04-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:53 PM, MacGuy wrote: I just got a new wacom tablet and I'm looking for a very simple program (free would be nice) for drawing line drawings. any ideas? Jeff Graphic converter will do that. Some free apps to use with your new Wacom tablet: Beautiful Dorena

Re: OT - Photos

2009-04-07 Thread Charles Lenington
Steve R wrote: At 7:09 AM -0700 4/7/09, PETE posted: I found an

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread joe
On Apr 7, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 7, 2009, at 11:12 AM, joe wrote: clicking a link from Mail causes a second instance of the browser to start. This is incorrect. You can never run a second instance of the browser. You can only run a second instance of a second

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread joe
On Apr 7, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Dan wrote: Odd. I cannot seem to reproduce that. Please trash WebKit.app. Empty the trash. Launch Safari. Select Safari as the default browser. Quit Safari. Use RCDefault to verify that Safari is actually now the default. Launch Mail, hit some links to

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread joe
On Apr 7, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Dan wrote: Odd. I cannot seem to reproduce that. Please trash WebKit.app. Empty the trash. Launch Safari. Select Safari as the default browser. Quit Safari. Use RCDefault to verify that Safari is actually now the default. Launch Mail, hit some links to

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread joe
On Apr 7, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Dan wrote: Actually, it kindof is a big deal. Each of those is WRITING to the same data files, ~/Library/Caches/ and more importantly ~/Library/Safari/. In the event of a collision, you're going to be left with things like corrupted bookmarks, etc. We need to

Re: OT - Photos

2009-04-07 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:39 AM, PETE sabaoth...@yahoo.com wrote: 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!). ___ How ever you digitize them

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-07 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Stephen Weber maryland...@gmail.com wrote: My father paid around $400 to get his data recovered off of a dead HD, this was around 4 years ago. I back up my photo's to Google Picasa web albums which also does videos under 100mb and I've signed up for 10gb for

Re: Clicking hard drive?

2009-04-07 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 12:37 PM -0400 4/7/2009, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: I have hearing loss so I'm not really sure, but as the G4 Mac started up this morning I might have heard some clicking. Either that or crickets in the house, LOL. Made me

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

2009-04-07 Thread aussieshepsrock
On Apr 7, 3:38 am, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: aussieshepsrock wrote: 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

Re: Wacom now what?

2009-04-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 7, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Open source OK? Free OK ? GIMP http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/ Seashore is a native Cocoa port http://seashore.sourceforge.net/ of GIMP. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group

Re: Installing a GeForce 4MX ...

2009-04-07 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 7, 2009, at 9:08 PM, insightinmind wrote: Its starting up, going to Desktop (I assume ... I can see the internet connection for it is up), but no video. To shut down blindly, I discovered, control/eject plus return. This sounds right. It would seem to be starting up and shutting down

Re: Installing a GeForce 4MX ...

2009-04-07 Thread insightinmind
On Apr 7, 2009, at 11:19 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 7, 2009, at 9:08 PM, insightinmind wrote: Its starting up, going to Desktop (I assume ... I can see the internet connection for it is up), but no video. To shut down blindly, I discovered, control/eject plus return. This sounds