Re: iMac G5 iSight, freezes, kernal Panics, mouse/keyboard goes dead at times

2010-02-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 16, 2010, at 12:35 AM, Mullin9 wrote: What causes my iMac G5 iSight to freezes, have kernal Panics, and have my mouse/keyboard goes dead at times? I ve tried resetting PRAM, reinstalling Mac OS 10.4.2, updating to 10.4.11, I still have these problems. Here's a long discussion of an

Re: HP 870 Cse on iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread dc
On Feb 15, 9:54 am, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: Any one know how to make an HP 870Cse printer work on a iMac G3? 10.4.11  and  9.2.2. The HP website has a driver and a patch for OS 9. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=13lc=endlc=encc=uslang=enproduct=61012 Loks like

Re: installing older software

2010-02-16 Thread Lawrence David Eden
I have a working Quadra 950 (33MHz 68040 !!!) equipped with the standard internal floppy drive and with a SCSI cd burner I installed in it. It runs OS 7.6.1 and is just the sort of thing you'll need. Email me and I'll do it for you :-) Are you sure you can run that old s/w on a G4? Thank

Re: HP 870 Cse on iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 15, 9:54 am, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: Any one know how to make an HP 870Cse printer work on a iMac G3? HP made a special Parallel-to-USB adapter cable specifically for the G3 iMac called HP Printer Cable Kit for iMac™ P/N C4033-60003. This cable came with special

Re: HP 870 Cse on iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 16, 2010, at 5:09 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 15, 9:54 am, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: Any one know how to make an HP 870Cse printer work on a iMac G3? HP made a special Parallel-to-USB adapter cable specifically for the G3 iMac called HP Printer Cable Kit for iMac™

Re: HP 870 Cse on iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 16, 2010, at 5:27 AM, John Carmonne wrote: On Feb 16, 2010, at 5:09 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 15, 9:54 am, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: Any one know how to make an HP 870Cse printer work on a iMac G3? HP made a special Parallel-to-USB adapter cable specifically

Re: iMac G5 iSight, freezes, kernal Panics, mouse/keyboard goes dead at times

2010-02-16 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 15, 2010, at 11:35 PM, Mullin9 wrote: What causes my iMac G5 iSight to freezes, have kernal Panics, and have my mouse/keyboard goes dead at times? I ve tried resetting PRAM, reinstalling Mac OS 10.4.2, updating to 10.4.11, I still have these problems. I'm assuming wired keyboard and

Slow iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread John Carmonne
Hi All I have 3 Imac G3s one 700MHz and two 600MHz. One of the iMac 600s is very slow compared to the other two. All machines have the same systems via CCC. The profiler specs are the same between the two 600s. I'm kinda stumped as to what could be problem. Anyone else have this trouble? John

Re: Slow iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread Caleb S. Cupples
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 06:34 -0800, John Carmonne wrote: Hi All I have 3 Imac G3s one 700MHz and two 600MHz. One of the iMac 600s is very slow compared to the other two. All machines have the same systems via CCC. The profiler specs are the same between the two 600s. I'm kinda stumped as to

G5 Xserve shuts down.

2010-02-16 Thread John Niven
OK long shot. I'm using a G5 2.3GHz Xserve, running 10.4.11 (server) as my work desktop. Unusual I know, but actually quite practical (and cheap) since I don't do graphics, or sound (though I have a usb iMic for that). Just recently I have come into work and found it shutdown. I got paranoid

Re: G5 Xserve shuts down.

2010-02-16 Thread Dan
At 7:27 AM -0800 2/16/2010, John Niven wrote: G5 2.3GHz Xserve, running 10.4.11 (server) as my work desktop. found it shutdown. I got paranoid until it happened last week while I was sat next to it. I don't know if it's the incoming power supply or something up with the system. Did it seem

Re: Slow iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread Dan
At 6:34 AM -0800 2/16/2010, John Carmonne wrote: I have 3 Imac G3s one 700MHz and two 600MHz. One of the iMac 600s is very slow compared to the other two. All machines have the same systems via CCC. The profiler specs are the same between the two 600s. I'm kinda stumped as to what could be

Re: Slow iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread Carmonne
In a message dated 2/16/10 7:44:20 AM, dantear...@gmail.com writes: I have 3 Imac G3s one 700MHz and two 600MHz. One of the iMac 600s is very slow compared to the other two. All machines have the same systems via CCC. The profiler specs are the same between the two 600s. I'm kinda stumped

Re: G5 Xserve shuts down.

2010-02-16 Thread John Niven
--- On Tue, 2/16/10, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Did it seem to go thru a shutdown sequence, or just drop suddenly? Look in the system log for error messages... The time I witnessed it shutdown I wasn't actually using it but it seemed to happen suddenly. I looked at the system logs

Re: Slow iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread Len Gerstel
On Feb 16, 2010, at 11:05 AM, carmo...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 2/16/10 7:44:20 AM, dantear...@gmail.com writes: I have 3 Imac G3s one 700MHz and two 600MHz. One of the iMac 600s is very slow compared to the other two. All machines have the same systems via CCC. The profiler specs

Re: Slow iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread Carmonne
In a message dated 2/16/10 8:22:28 AM, lgers...@gmail.com writes: On Feb 16, 2010, at 11:05 AM, carmo...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 2/16/10 7:44:20 AM, dantear...@gmail.com writes: I have 3 Imac G3s one 700MHz and two 600MHz. One of the iMac 600s is very slow

Re: Slow iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread Len Gerstel
On Feb 16, 2010, at 11:50 AM, carmo...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 2/16/10 8:22:28 AM, lgers...@gmail.com writes: The slow is a beach ball for a while before opening and closing files. All three machines have the exact same HDD contents via CCC. All machines have the same exact

Re: Slow iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Scott
On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:34 AM, John Carmonne wrote: I have 3 Imac G3s one 700MHz and two 600MHz. One of the iMac 600s is very slow compared to the other two. All machines have the same systems via CCC. The profiler specs are the same between the two 600s. I'm kinda stumped as to what could

Re: G5 Xserve shuts down.

2010-02-16 Thread John Musbach
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:17 AM, John Niven sense...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 2/16/10, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Did it seem to go thru a shutdown sequence, or just drop suddenly? Look in the system log for error messages... The time I witnessed it shutdown I wasn't actually

Re: Slow iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread Carmonne
In a message dated 2/16/10 10:36:22 AM, jesco...@gmail.com writes: On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:34 AM, John Carmonne wrote: I have 3 Imac G3s one 700MHz and two 600MHz. One of the iMac 600s is very slow compared to the other two. All machines have the same systems via CCC. The profiler

New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread Jeffrey Engle
I have a wired aluminum apple keyboard. This one is the short one without the number keys. Apple say's that it's not compatible with Tiger (10.4.11 in my case)... I plugged it in and everything works accept the top row of keys (F keys) Question, is there a way to make these works by

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread Nicholas Fantuzzi
2010/2/16 Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com I have a wired aluminum apple keyboard. This one is the short one without the number keys. Apple say's that it's not compatible with Tiger (10.4.11 in my case)... I plugged it in and everything works accept the top row of keys (F keys) Question, is

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Feb 16, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Nicholas Fantuzzi wrote: 2010/2/16 Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com I have a wired aluminum apple keyboard. This one is the short one without the number keys. Apple say's that it's not compatible with Tiger (10.4.11 in my case)... I plugged it in and everything

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread John Niven
I concur. I have both the short one and the longer one and only the longer one works with Tiger. I still use the short one on my server but you don't get the full functionality. Such a shame. I can't imagine there is a REAL reason for Apple doing this. --- On Tue, 2/16/10, Jeffrey Engle

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 16, 2010, at 3:22 PM, John Niven wrote: I concur. I have both the short one and the longer one and only the longer one works with Tiger. I still use the short one on my server but you don't get the full functionality. Such a shame. I can't imagine there is a REAL reason for Apple

Re: G5 Xserve shuts down.

2010-02-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 16, 2010, at 9:27 AM, John Niven wrote: Anybody got any bright ideas? The only thing I could think of was to get a small ups. I've got a regular G5 that does the same thing, but not too often. It's been a topic on this list before, brought up by someone else who described an

Re: installing older software

2010-02-16 Thread yawg
Yes, and still see old hardware too, like my old SCSI-chain with my trusty Microtek scanner ... I never got that Adaptec PCI SCSI-card to work under OSX although I installed the driver following the instructions. But in OS9 it still works like a charm. I have the latest G4 MDD which Apple brought

Re: G5 Xserve shuts down.

2010-02-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 16, 2010, at 10:17 AM, John Niven wrote: The time I witnessed it shutdown I wasn't actually using it but it seemed to happen suddenly. I looked at the system logs before and there is nothing strange except that it typically seems to shutdown a little after midnight. This is

Re: G5 Xserve shuts down.

2010-02-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 16, 2010, at 3:44 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: My G5 is attached to a UPS and still does it. Did you attach the battery when you unpacked the UPS? I did this myself once, set up someone's UPS and left their office. A couple months later she ran into me and asked How are these UPS

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:33 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: There's been firmware updates for these keyboards, which implies that they're NOT just dumb collection of switches. Shouldn't we suspect the NSA has something to do with this? A keystroke logger in every keyboard perhaps? They say during

Re: Slow iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 16, 2010, at 11:12 AM, carmo...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 2/16/10 10:36:22 AM, jesco...@gmail.com writes: On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:34 AM, John Carmonne wrote: I have 3 Imac G3s one 700MHz and two 600MHz. One of the iMac 600s is very slow compared to the other two.

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: They say during the first Gulf War the Iranians were using a computer printer with hacked firmware that sent all of Saddam Hussein's orders directly to us over the internet. This was based on an old Infoworld April Fools joke, it never

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: They say during the first Gulf War the Iranians were using a computer printer with hacked firmware that sent all of Saddam Hussein's orders directly to us over the internet. This was

Re: Slow iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Scott
On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:18 PM, John Carmonne wrote: Well I Checked the ram and it's 2 of the 6 sticks I bought from OWC. But I'll check as you said when I get to the AHT step. Yes Dan the Garage door is open I did the open

Re: Slow iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:18 PM, John Carmonne wrote: I did the open firmware reset, then booted 9.2.2 but disk first aid crashes after about 8 mins. Don't run OS 9 Disk First Aid on a HD that has OS X installed. Use the appropriate version of Disk Utility for the version of OS X you have

Translate an Appleworks file .cwk to iWork on an iMac

2010-02-16 Thread janesprando
I am helping a friend to set up a new iMac from a G4 iBook. She has been using Appleworks to create databases. The most important ones she needs are the database files ending in .cwk. She bought iWorks 09 and I installed it on the iMac. iWorks will NOT open the files! I had her email a file to

Re: Slow iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 16, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Jim Scott wrote: On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:18 PM, John Carmonne wrote: Well I Checked the ram and it's 2 of the 6 sticks I bought from OWC. But I'll check as you said when I get to the AHT step. Yes Dan

Re: Translate an Appleworks file .cwk to iWork on an iMac

2010-02-16 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 16, 2010, at 5:33 PM, janespra...@comcast.net wrote: I am helping a friend to set up a new iMac from a G4 iBook. She has been using Appleworks to create databases. The most important ones she needs are the database files ending in .cwk. She bought iWorks 09 and I installed it on

RE: Translate an Appleworks file .cwk to iWork on an iMac

2010-02-16 Thread Stewie de Young
I am helping a friend to set up a new iMac from a G4 iBook. She has been using Appleworks to create databases. The most important ones she needs are the database files ending in .cwk. She bought iWorks 09 and I installed it on the iMac. iWorks will NOT open the files! I had her email a

Re: Translate an Appleworks file .cwk to iWork on an iMac

2010-02-16 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 16, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Stewie de Young wrote: I am helping a friend to set up a new iMac from a G4 iBook. She has been using Appleworks to create databases. The most important ones she needs are the database files ending in .cwk. She bought iWorks 09 and I installed it on

Re: Translate an Appleworks file .cwk to iWork on an iMac

2010-02-16 Thread Richard Smallwood
Drag the .cwk file and drop it on the (unopened) Numbers.app. Richard On 16 Feb 2010, at 7:33 PM, janespra...@comcast.net wrote: I am helping a friend to set up a new iMac from a G4 iBook. She has been using Appleworks to create databases. The most important ones she needs are the database

Re: Translate an Appleworks file .cwk to iWork on an iMac

2010-02-16 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:14 PM, Richard Smallwood wrote: Drag the .cwk file and drop it on the (unopened) Numbers.app. Richard On 16 Feb 2010, at 7:33 PM, janespra...@comcast.net wrote: I am helping a friend to set up a new iMac from a G4 iBook. She has been using Appleworks to create

Re: Slow iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 16, 2010, at 7:43 PM, John Carmonne wrote: I can't seem to find Disk Utility on my OS9 startup disk? That's why I ran FirstAid. You need to boot your OS X startup disk to run Disk Utility. Yes I booted an external Tiger drive to repair permissions and repair disk. And . . . was

Re: G5 Xserve shuts down.

2010-02-16 Thread John Niven
Thanks John but I've never set that and it doesn't show anything now. I've been using this machine for about a year in this location and it hadn't happened before. I suspect something is going bad. I guess I can wait for it to go belly up. --- On Tue, 2/16/10, John Musbach

Re: Slow iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 16, 2010, at 7:43 PM, John Carmonne wrote: I can't seem to find Disk Utility on my OS9 startup disk? That's why I ran FirstAid. You need to boot your OS X startup disk to run Disk Utility. Yes I booted an external Tiger drive to

Re: Pic question

2010-02-16 Thread geno.y
On Feb 15, 1:47 pm, John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com wrote: On Feb 15, 2010, at 6:09 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: No condemnations please I just want to save the pics from this site and so far Safari and   Firefox don't seem to be able to do so You can also use save page as, just make a

Re: Slow iMac G3

2010-02-16 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 16, 2010, at 7:19 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 16, 2010, at 7:43 PM, John Carmonne wrote: I can't seem to find Disk Utility on my OS9 startup disk? That's why I ran FirstAid. You need to boot your OS X startup disk to run

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread iJohn
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: Shouldn't we suspect the NSA has something to do with this? If you want to fear that the government might invade your privacy, I'm right there with you ... except I think you've got the wrong government. Remember that when

password reset

2010-02-16 Thread James D. Pritchett
I have a g3 wallstreet i need to change startup password. I have not used it for a few years and cant remember what it was. -- - James D. Pritchett Portland OR, 97006 Email: jpritche...@gmail.com

Re: password reset

2010-02-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 17, 2010, at 1:09 AM, James D. Pritchett wrote: I have a g3 wallstreet i need to change startup password. I have not used it for a few years and cant remember what it was. If it's OS X, boot an install CD by holding the C key at startup, and then select Reset Password from the

Re: New keyboard verses Old Tiger

2010-02-16 Thread Nicholas Fantuzzi
2010/2/16 Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com Nicholas, this is the one I have.. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB869LL/A?fnode=MTY1NDA1Mgmco=MTA4Mzc5NDY . it clearly states, Minimum System Requirements - Mac computer with available USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 port - Mac OS X v10.5.6 or

Re: password reset

2010-02-16 Thread James D. Pritchett
It was OS 9.1, I forgot to put that in my message. On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Feb 17, 2010, at 1:09 AM, James D. Pritchett wrote: I have a g3 wallstreet i need to change startup password. I have not used it for a few years and cant remember