Re: OS 10.4 to Thumbdrive

2009-08-27 Thread PM7500
Or use an external drive. I recently bought a 1.5tb USB drive for my Digital Audio for $150 for holding all my media files that the internal drive was too small to handle. You also don't have to worry about the large drive limitation when you use an external drive. My internal drive is now

Re: OSX10.4 on G3

2009-08-27 Thread steveoa
Thanks for the feedback, before I do anything I think I need to run the Disk Utility, - could someone let me know where I can find it?to find any probs with the System on HD ? Then I need to run Archive and Install from the Installation disk? Steve On Aug 26, 3:53 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com

Re: OSX10.4 on G3

2009-08-27 Thread Bill Connelly
On Aug 27, 2009, at 8:54 AM, steveoa wrote: Thanks for the feedback, before I do anything I think I need to run the Disk Utility, - could someone let me know where I can find it?to find any probs with the System on HD ? You can run Disk Utility from the Installation Disk. Just Startup

Re: Online Subscription Management for Google Groups

2009-08-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 26, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Stephen E. Bodnar wrote: Interesting. I don't have a Google login. I was grandfathered in from the old non-Google list. This may be another reason that the unsubscribe may not work. I'm not ready to quit yet though! You do have a google login. You may not

Re: What OCR for Leopard?

2009-08-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 26, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:06 PM, Stephen E. Bodnar wrote: I didn't see it mentioned, but if you just happen to have access to the full version of Adobe Acrobat, there is an OCR module built-in. I haven't used it so I can't testify to it's

Re: Online Subscription Management for Google Groups

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen E. Bodnar
Bruce Johnson wrote: On Aug 26, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Stephen E. Bodnar wrote: Interesting. I don't have a Google login. I was grandfathered in from the old non-Google list. This may be another reason that the unsubscribe may not work. I'm not ready to quit yet though! You do have a

Re: Sonnet Encore upgrade for desktop beige G3

2009-08-27 Thread Gorka L Martinez Mezo
I had a similar set-up that worked fine for years. The directions that you list above are correct. IFRC, you have to take a look at the Beige's current processorthere were issues with some of them that interfered with the installation of the Sonnet card. Do you see that in your

Re: Sonnet Encore upgrade for desktop beige G3

2009-08-27 Thread Gorka L Martinez Mezo
I put the G3 back in place for the install, then installed the G4 enabler from Sonnet, and put the G4 back in the system. It ran well for another year or so before I traded the system to someone who needed a fast desktop that could run OS9 for some software he already had. So, I would

Re: G4 Question

2009-08-27 Thread Dan
At 8:24 PM -0500 8/26/2009, Stephen Conrad wrote: OK, but if thats not my problem then what freezes up my machine when I leave it un-used? sigh. You mention that you get the SPOD - typically a temporary condition, while the app waits for the resource to become available, and you asked about

Replacing power supply G4 MMD

2009-08-27 Thread mkehoe
I've been told that the power supply probably needs replacing in my G4 MMD. Symptoms are: often, when trying to start up, nothing happens, and I have to press the re-set button inside the computer. I have been just putting the computer to sleep to avoid this. Question: How hard is it to

Re: Replacing power supply G4 MMD

2009-08-27 Thread Sam Macomber
just taking parts out. takes a little time to snake the wires out and put the new ones back in. Straight forward replacement though... A thought on the MDD power supplies though, I had a second one fail Monday. Only two so far, but both were the last model MDDs made (the 2003

Re: Replacing power supply G4 MMD

2009-08-27 Thread Dan
At 11:22 AM -0700 8/27/2009, mkehoe wrote: I've been told that the power supply probably needs replacing in my G4 MMD. Symptoms are: often, when trying to start up, nothing happens, and I have to press the re-set button inside the computer. I have been just putting the computer to sleep to

Re: OSX10.4 on G3

2009-08-27 Thread ronaldo
Hi... I have a G3 blue Smurf upgraded to a 400 Mhz G4 chip... ran Tiger just fine with 512 MB RAM... even better with 768 MB... But I've been advised by a knowledgeable person (on this very list) that G3s can (sadly!) NEVER boot from, or use FireWire, in Target Disk mode (or any other?) due to

Re: OSX10.4 on G3

2009-08-27 Thread Clark Martin
ronaldo wrote: Hi... I have a G3 blue Smurf upgraded to a 400 Mhz G4 chip... ran Tiger just fine with 512 MB RAM... even better with 768 MB... But I've been advised by a knowledgeable person (on this very list) that G3s can (sadly!) NEVER boot from, or use FireWire, in Target Disk mode (or

Re: OSX10.4 on G3

2009-08-27 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 27-08-2009 23:11, ronaldo, waltg...@magma.ca, wrote: But I've been advised by a knowledgeable person (on this very list) that G3s can (sadly!) NEVER boot from, or use FireWire, in Target Disk mode (or any other?) due to their internal motherboard architecture. Wouldn't this be the real

Re: What OCR for Leopard?

2009-08-27 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 27-08-2009 16:24, Bruce Johnson, john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu, wrote: Good, yes, but decidedly TMI. Also redaction need to be 100% to be effective :-) Sorry Bruce, what does TMI stand for in this case? I'll ask because in http://www.acronymfinder.com/TMI.html I couldn't find your meaning

MacFixIt free on September 2nd

2009-08-27 Thread Kris Tilford
It's good news MacFixIt is going to be free starting Sept. 2nd, but in my experience MacFixIt is simply a conglomerator of reports without effective editing by someone who understands the issues or the problems. Much of the information is not very good, or worse, not the solution it

Re: OSX10.4 on G3

2009-08-27 Thread Dan
At 2:11 PM -0700 8/27/2009, ronaldo wrote: been advised by a knowledgeable person (on this very list) that G3s can (sadly!) NEVER boot from, or use FireWire, in Target Disk mode (or any other?) due to their internal motherboard architecture. A bit of a clarification ... This issue is

Re: OSX10.4 on G3

2009-08-27 Thread Dan
At 2:11 PM -0700 8/27/2009, ronaldo wrote: Hi... I have a G3 blue Smurf upgraded to a 400 Mhz G4 chip... ran Tiger just fine with 512 MB RAM... even better with 768 MB... But I've been advised by a knowledgeable person (on this very list) that G3s can (sadly!) NEVER boot from, or use FireWire,

Re: G4 Question

2009-08-27 Thread Stephen Conrad
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Dandantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 8:24 PM -0500 8/26/2009, Stephen Conrad wrote: OK, but if thats not my problem then what freezes up my machine when I leave it un-used? sigh.  You mention that you get the SPOD - typically a temporary condition, while the

Re: OSX10.4 on G3

2009-08-27 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 28-08-2009 00:23, Clark Martin, cm...@sonic.net, wrote: Well, he's clearly booting from the disk via Firewire. But that's okay since an iMac CAN boot from Firewire. It's G3 BW towers that cannot boot from Firewire nor use Target Disk mode. Sorry Clark but I have to disagree with

Re: MacFixIt free on September 2nd

2009-08-27 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: It's good news MacFixIt is going to be free starting Sept. 2nd, but in my experience MacFixIt is simply a conglomerator of reports without effective editing by someone who understands the issues or the problems. Much of

Re: Replacing power supply G4 MMD

2009-08-27 Thread Bill Christensen
At 11:22 AM -0700 8/27/09, mkehoe wrote: I've been told that the power supply probably needs replacing in my G4 MMD. Symptoms are: often, when trying to start up, nothing happens, and I have to press the re-set button inside the computer. I have been just putting the computer to sleep to avoid