Re: Anyone update to 10.5.7 yet?

2009-05-14 Thread Dan
At 3:21 PM -0500 5/13/2009, Kris Tilford wrote: On May 13, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Dan wrote: At 1:48 AM -0500 5/13/09, Kris Tilford wrote: After installing, I ran Repair Permissions again. Took nearly 1 hour! Really slow! Many wrong permissions! That's not normal at all. Do a repair disk

Re: Anyone update to 10.5.7 yet?

2009-05-14 Thread insightinmind
QS 2002 Dual 1GHz w/ replacement mobo. Update from 10.5.6 went well after manual download of non-Combo package ... ~6-7 minutes installation time, and 2 auto Restarts. Xbench 1.3 may have dropped ~1% overall score. Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace:

Re: Anyone update to 10.5.7 yet?

2009-05-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
1st Gen Intel iMac, hung on the reboot, then rebooted a second time after I booted it in safe mode, but it's looking ok now. Weird. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

Re: Anyone update to 10.5.7 yet?

2009-05-14 Thread Nikki Wraith
iBook G4, 1.33ghz, 1.25gb ram. No extras, except for Menu Meters. Initial reboot took about 10 minutes, followed by a bootloader kernal panic. Crossed my fingers, powered down, booted again and all has been well since. Did see a lot of failed updates at work yesterday though. m On May

Benchmarking Apps?

2009-05-14 Thread Dale Hoffman
Billy Carmacs mentioned benchmarking in the update 10.5.7 thread. What benchmark apps are folks using? Thanks, Dale Hoffman --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and

Re: Internet Connection Sharing Help

2009-05-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 13, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Mac G4 wrote: My problem is when I go to system pref's on the Mac and click sharing, share from USB to Ethernet it seems to be setting my ethernet port IP to 169.254.246.111 and a subnet to 255.255.0.0 based on what the profiler says. I think this is my

RE: Internet Connection Sharing Help

2009-05-14 Thread Mac G4
Yeah - Ethernet to WAN on the router didn't work. The router didn't seem to auto configure as it normally does. I even did a restart on everything. I thought of manually configuring the router but wasn't really sure what to enter for the subnet IP's and the DNS. Thinking that may fix it.

Re: Benchmarking Apps?

2009-05-14 Thread J Beaver
The most widely used app from what ive seen is xbench. On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Dale Hoffman dh...@margnat.com wrote: Billy Carmacs mentioned benchmarking in the update 10.5.7 thread. What benchmark apps are folks using? Thanks, Dale Hoffman

Re: Internet Connection Sharing Help

2009-05-14 Thread Eric Volker
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Mac G4 g4mac...@hotmail.com wrote: Yeah - Ethernet to WAN on the router didn't work. The router didn't seem to auto configure as it normally does. I even did a restart on everything. I thought of manually configuring the router but wasn't really sure what

Re: Internet Connection Sharing Help

2009-05-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 14, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Mac G4 wrote: Yeah - Ethernet to WAN on the router didn't work. The router didn't seem to auto configure as it normally does. I even did a restart on everything. I just set up Internet Sharing on my iMac, using the Airport. The Airport reports a

Best Browser for iBook G4

2009-05-14 Thread Patrick Moore
I'm new to this list and know only enough about computers to get myself into trouble by trying to improve things. Here is question #1. 1.33 mhz, 1.25 G, OX 10.4.11. Camino was fast but beta-like (superimposed text, eg); Firefox is slow and does things like extend the text I am typing in gmail

Re: Which OS for 2 Handme down Machines - which one(s)? and are they worth it?

2009-05-14 Thread Eric Volker
I know I'm a day late and a dollar short, but I'll second Mike's opinion on all fronts. Stick with Tiger for an OS that will run comfortably on the iBook, yet remain familiar to the principal user on the iMac. However, I think even Tiger will run slowly in 256MB of RAM. I'd upgrade the iBook to at

Re: Anyone update to 10.5.7 yet?

2009-05-14 Thread Steve R
At 9:01 AM -0700 5/14/09, Bruce Johnson posted: 1st Gen Intel iMac, hung on the reboot, then rebooted a second time after I booted it in safe mode, but it's looking ok now. Weird. My neighbour updated the same machine last night via Software Update and experienced the exact same thing.

Re: Anyone update to 10.5.7 yet?

2009-05-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 14, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Steve R wrote: At 9:01 AM -0700 5/14/09, Bruce Johnson posted: 1st Gen Intel iMac, hung on the reboot, then rebooted a second time after I booted it in safe mode, but it's looking ok now. Weird. My neighbour updated the same machine last night via Software

Re: Benchmarking Apps?

2009-05-14 Thread Po-en Tsai
I use geekbench. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at

Re: Internet Connection Sharing Help

2009-05-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 14, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Mac G4 wrote: Yeah - Ethernet to WAN on the router didn't work. This is because you can only have one router, and when you use Internet Sharing, the Mac is acting as the router. I once had an Airport Extreme 802.11 G base station that blew out the WAN port due

RE: Internet Connection Sharing Help

2009-05-14 Thread Mac G4
Thanks Bruce I will give this a try tonight. From: john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Internet Connection Sharing Help Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:54:04 -0700 On May 14, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Mac G4 wrote: Yeah - Ethernet to WAN on the router

RE: Internet Connection Sharing Help

2009-05-14 Thread Mac G4
Kris, I am not sure I understand. How is the mac going to assign different IP's to a wireless router if it is plugged into one of the LAN ports? The router is not expecting data to be flowing 'into' one of these ports. From: ktilfo...@cox.net To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re:

Re: Internet Connection Sharing Help

2009-05-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 14, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On May 14, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Mac G4 wrote: Yeah - Ethernet to WAN on the router didn't work. This is because you can only have one router, and when you use Internet Sharing, the Mac is acting as the router. Nope, you can have any number

Re: Benchmarking Apps?

2009-05-14 Thread insightinmind
On May 14, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Dale Hoffman wrote: Billy Carmacs mentioned benchmarking in the update 10.5.7 thread. What benchmark apps are folks using? Thanks, Dale Hoffman I've used Xbench 1.3 to check overall response of different OS Xs on different machines. I can compare it to

RE: Internet Connection Sharing Help

2009-05-14 Thread Mac G4
well I got it to work...I couldn't get it to work using the exact numbers below however. What I did is plug the ehternet directly to my pc...then run ipconfig on the pc to get ip addresses. Then I unpluged the ethernet from the mac and put it in the WAN on the router. The router for

G4 (PCI Graphics) and power Supplies

2009-05-14 Thread Dsolushnd
Does anyone know off hand what kind of power supply is in a G4 (PCI graphics)? I'm doing a little experimenting and need to put in a pws that's more than the (I think) ~280Watt Apple max. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: G4 (PCI Graphics) and power Supplies

2009-05-14 Thread dc
You can easily rewire an ATX pc power supply for the PCI mac. You can buy 400-600 W ATX PSUs cheaper than Apple OEM. These pages have pinouts and directions. I used them to put 400 W Ps into several BWs and those smurfs are still running strong. But before you go to all that trouble try stuffing

Re: Best Browser for iBook G4

2009-05-14 Thread Dan
At 11:33 AM -0700 5/14/2009, Patrick Moore wrote: 1.33 mhz, 1.25 G, OX 10.4.11. Camino was fast but beta-like (superimposed text, eg); Firefox is slow and does things like extend the text I am typing in gmail out of sight to the east on my screen; and loading attachments in gmail is very