Re: Scribus vs. Quark

2009-08-13 Thread Mike
Hi Fred, I haven't tried scribus, but did see something (mostly positive too!) about it on lowendmac.com, have you read that? Sorry I can't be of more help! Mike On 13 Aug 2009, at 03:18, Fred Thiel fth...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I have been looking for a less expensive alternative to Quark

Re: Migrating from Eudora ?

2009-08-13 Thread Lawrence David Eden
I have been using Eudora for years and have no complaints. Why do you want to migrate? What, if any, are the advantages of migration to a different mail program? Larry --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5

NewerTech v2.5 1.5TB SATA Seagates

2009-08-13 Thread Bill Connelly
Anyone have experience with NewerTech v2.5 SATA External Enclosure (with FW/USB Hub) 1.5TB Seagates of the 7200.11 generation? These Seagates (or similar ones) are on Sale at BestBuy this week. The NewerTech is Oxford 934, and reportedly has issues with the larger drive, offering a

Re: Migrating from Eudora ?

2009-08-13 Thread Nestamicky
On 8/13/09 5:59 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: What, if any, are the advantages of migration to a different mail program? Try Thunderbird and you'll never go back. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5

Re: Migrating from Eudora ?

2009-08-13 Thread Gorka L Martinez Mezo
, are the advantages of migration to a different mail program? Try Thunderbird and you'll never go back. __ InformaciĆ³n de ESET NOD32 Antivirus, versiĆ³n de la base de firmas de virus 4331 (20090813) __ ESET NOD32 Antivirus ha comprobado este mensaje. http://www.eset.com

Re: NewerTech v2.5 1.5TB SATA Seagates

2009-08-13 Thread Fabian Fang
On Aug 13, 2009, at 6:33 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: Anyone have experience with NewerTech v2.5 SATA External Enclosure (with FW/USB Hub) 1.5TB Seagates of the 7200.11 generation? These Seagates (or similar ones) are on Sale at BestBuy this week. The NewerTech is Oxford 934, and reportedly

Re: G4 TOWER

2009-08-13 Thread Mike Baker
It's attached to a sled. Remove the small screw that keeps the sled attached to the tower, then slide the sled and attached hard drive out of the tower. Put in in the other tower and screw the sled into the case. Sent from my cell phone Mike On Aug 10, 2009, at 8:53 PM, Bryan Roth

Re: Migrating from Eudora ?

2009-08-13 Thread Cliff Rediger
Well this turns out to be a lively thread. Great. First, why do I want to migrate: To get more modern, but mostly there are a few small, picky things that annoy me about Eudroa 6.0 (some may just be due to my ignorance or misuse). 1. I don't like that it distinguishes mailboxes from Folders and

Re: Scribus vs. Quark

2009-08-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 12, 2009, at 7:18 PM, Fred Thiel wrote: Does anybody have any experience with Scribus and could give me an evaluation on it with respect to Quark? Or, maybe suggest some other apps, preferably inexpensive or free. Appleworks won't work for what she does. I would like to

Re: Scribus vs. Quark

2009-08-13 Thread M. T. (Mike) MacPhee
On 2009Aug12, at 20:18 , Fred Thiel wrote: I have been looking for a less expensive alternative to Quark xPress. Big alternatives shoot-out just released here: http://jonwhipple.com/blog/2009/08/08/laying-it-all-out/ I'll let you assess the prices. Mike

Re: NewerTech v2.5 1.5TB SATA Seagates

2009-08-13 Thread Bill Connelly
On Aug 13, 2009, at 11:30 AM, Fabian Fang wrote: On Aug 13, 2009, at 6:33 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: Anyone have experience with NewerTech v2.5 SATA External Enclosure (with FW/USB Hub) 1.5TB Seagates of the 7200.11 generation? These Seagates (or similar ones) are on Sale at BestBuy this

Re: NewerTech v2.5 1.5TB SATA Seagates

2009-08-13 Thread Fabian Fang
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Aug 13, 2009, at 11:30 AM, Fabian Fang wrote: e not done so already, a quick Google search about Seagate Barracuda 702.11 drives will provide interesting reading. I meant of course Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives, and apologize for

Re: Migrating from Eudora ?

2009-08-13 Thread Lawrence David Eden
Well this turns out to be a lively thread. Great. First, why do I want to migrate: To get more modern, but mostly there are a few small, picky things that annoy me about Eudroa 6.0 (some may just be due to my ignorance or misuse). I trust that you are aware that Eudora is up to Version 6.2.4.

G4 MDD 887 Graphics

2009-08-13 Thread Wayne Garrett
Does anyone know what the best graphics card for the above machine. Also where to get one for reasonable? -- Sent from my mobile device --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using

Re: 750GB Seagate PATA is Dropping Out Again (Solved?)

2009-08-13 Thread Dan
At 10:30 PM -0400 8/12/2009, Bill Connelly wrote: On Aug 12, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Dan wrote: At 8:09 PM -0400 8/11/2009, Bill Connelly wrote: After an electrical storm today, I plugged everything back in, and I get the old behavior of several kps on Startup, and after a Safeboot, things

Re: 750GB Seagate PATA is Dropping Out Again (Solved?)

2009-08-13 Thread Bill Connelly
On Aug 13, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Dan wrote: At 10:30 PM -0400 8/12/2009, Bill Connelly wrote: On Aug 12, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Dan wrote: At 8:09 PM -0400 8/11/2009, Bill Connelly wrote: After an electrical storm today, I plugged everything back in, and I get the old behavior of several kps on

Rumor: Snow Leopard to support PPC !!

2009-08-13 Thread Will S
There has been word with in some circles that Apple would support PPC chips with Snow Leopard since day one. They have always been shouted down by the unbelieving masses. The rumor is back and perhaps it's even true. Don't shoot the messenger ;-) No longer really matters to me as my main machine

Re: Rumor: Snow Leopard to support PPC !!

2009-08-13 Thread Alexander MacLeod
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Will Swillsc...@gmail.com wrote: There has been word with in some circles that Apple would support PPC chips with Snow Leopard since day one. They have always been shouted down by the unbelieving masses. The rumor is back and perhaps it's even true. Don't

Adobe - PPC support

2009-08-13 Thread Mark
Adobe has announced their authoring software will no longer support PPC in future versions. no biggie. Anybody know about Flash, Acrobat Reader, etc - the plug in/players future PPC support ? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: Rumor: Snow Leopard to support PPC !!

2009-08-13 Thread Fabian Fang
On Aug 13, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Will S wrote: There has been word with in some circles that Apple would support PPC chips with Snow Leopard since day one. They have always been shouted down by the unbelieving masses. The rumor is back and perhaps it's even true. Don't shoot the messenger ;-) No

Re: Migrating from Eudora ?

2009-08-13 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 13, 11:51 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: It all leaves me in the hard-core you'll pry Eudora from my cold dead hands camp... I love the speed. The regular expression filtering. The standard mailbox format. The ability to organize things folder/mailbox, *and* use aliases to

Re: Rumor: Snow Leopard to support PPC !!

2009-08-13 Thread Nikki Wraith
Don't hold your breath. PowerPC is dead, as far as Apple is concerned. The day after that article was posted - June 8th - at wwdc it was announced 10.6 is intel o ly. On Aug 13, 2009, at 6:08 PM, Will S willsc...@gmail.com wrote: There has been word with in some circles that Apple would

Re: Adobe - PPC support

2009-08-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 13, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Mark wrote: Adobe has announced their authoring software will no longer support PPC in future versions. no biggie. Anybody know about Flash, Acrobat Reader, etc - the plug in/players future PPC support ? Player and reader have a longer support 'tail' than

Re: Rumor: Snow Leopard to support PPC !!

2009-08-13 Thread MacGuy
On Aug 13, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Nikki Wraith wrote: Don't hold your breath. PowerPC is dead, as far as Apple is concerned. The day after that article was posted - June 8th - at wwdc it was announced 10.6 is intel o ly. Yes, power PC is dead BUT, the powermac G5 that I JUST bought is

Re: Adobe - PPC support

2009-08-13 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Mark chris...@fuse.net wrote: Adobe has announced their authoring software will no longer support PPC in future versions. no biggie. Anybody know about Flash, Acrobat Reader, etc - the plug in/players future PPC support ?

Re: Adobe - PPC support

2009-08-13 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 13, 2009, at 9:53 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: So the rumor is that OSX 10.6 WILL support PPC but Adobe apps will NOT? 10.6 is Intel only. Future versions of Adobe Creative Suite will be Intel only. This is exactly like the switch away from 68k CPUs in the past. PPC

Re: Migrating from Eudora ?

2009-08-13 Thread Dan
At 3:55 PM -0700 8/13/2009, Cliff Rediger wrote: Dan, could you elaborate on how to make and how you use aliases? Put a mailbox anywhere. Double-click on it. It opens in Eudora, and Eudora automatically makes an alias of that mailbox in your Eudora Mail folder. You can then use it as-is, or

The need for (browser) speed.

2009-08-13 Thread Dan
And the race is on Chrome whopped Safari in this round. http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49303325,00.htm When benchmarking Chrome 4.0's rendering speed on a PC last week, it obliterated its previous record and scored 100/100 on the Acid3 standards-compliancy tests. On the Mac,

Re: 2 More Questions

2009-08-13 Thread Stephen Conrad
On 8/12/09, ron ronstei...@mac.com wrote: On Aug 11, 8:11 pm, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote: So, using this site I am going to say my two RAM boards are 512M Would they work in a G4? Also, I have a board with 16 chips per side. Each chip has this on it: Siemens HYB39S16400T-10

Re: The need for (browser) speed.

2009-08-13 Thread RTOWSLEY
In a message dated 8/13/09 11:36:13 PM, dantear...@gmail.com writes: And the race is on Chrome whopped Safari in this round. http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49303325,00.htm When benchmarking Chrome 4.0's rendering speed on a PC last week, it obliterated its previous

New HDD for iMac G5 iSight 1.9 GHz, fall of 2005 model

2009-08-13 Thread Mullin9
I bought a new Seagate SATA 500G HDD, in place of Maxter SATA 160 G HDD, the 160 GB Maxter HDD have the SATA ribbon, the Power Ribbon, and a tiny 4 pin ribbon on the bottom of the HDD toward the other end. the 500 GB Seagate HDD have the SATA ribbon, the Power Ribbon, but not the 4 pin ribbon

Re: The need for (browser) speed.

2009-08-13 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:33 PM, Dan wrote: Guess I should try Chrome...! No PPC version of Chrome. May never be one? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5