Re: Why doesn't my little drive opening dohicky work?

2012-01-08 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 7-01-2012 20:29, JIM RAPER ha scritto: Hi, Y'all, I just today put a new PS in my PM MDD 800 G4/142 DP. [...] Right now I can't get my super drive to open. I know it sounds silly... but are you sure the drive is powered? And with the correct power? (since you changed the PS, power

Re: Firefox

2012-01-08 Thread Mel
I don't see any address bar in TFF.   Where is it? --- On Fri, 1/6/12, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote: From: Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Firefox To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, January 6, 2012, 11:18 PM On 2012/01/06 19:00, Mel so eloquently wrote: How does one

Re: Target drive not showing

2012-01-08 Thread Edward Treen
On 8 Jan 2012, at 04:36, Roger Faulkner wrote: Thanks for all the helpful hints. Thing that threw me was the same result on both firewire cables, seems they were both old, worn out and defective. A new cable solved the issue. The kid is reverse engineering his understanding of Mac OS history.

Re: Firefox

2012-01-08 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jan 7, 2012, at 11:08 PM, Mel wrote: I don't see any address bar in TFF. Where is it? - its the open space, below the tabs, that has the Gray Star, Triangle, and Reload symbols at the end ... the URL address window -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group,

OS9

2012-01-08 Thread JohnV
I want to play with QTVR and the older authoring program wants OS9. To run Classic on a PPC G5 it seems I need OS9 installed as well... Was Os9 truly released as free by Apple around 2005? If so where can it be gotten? If not... where can it be gotten? JV -- You received this message because

Re: OS9

2012-01-08 Thread schaffpa
My G5 PM came with Classic. Check under System Prefs/System/Classic. If no joy, and you still have your system disks, you should be able to install what you need, but that's above my pay grade. ;^) Bruce? - Peter - Original Message - From: JohnV vengbj...@verizon.net To: G-Group

Re: OS9

2012-01-08 Thread JohnV
tried that, it searches for an OS9 folder that it doesn;t find. On Jan 8, 2012, at 1:58 PM, schaf...@comcast.net wrote: My G5 PM came with Classic. Check under System Prefs/System/ Classic. If no joy, and you still have your system disks, you should be able to install what you need, but

Re: OS9

2012-01-08 Thread JohnV
Is it indeed on the original install discs for OS 10? On Jan 8, 2012, at 1:58 PM, schaf...@comcast.net wrote: My G5 PM came with Classic. Check under System Prefs/System/ Classic. If no joy, and you still have your system disks, you should be able to install what you need, but that's above

Re: OS9

2012-01-08 Thread schaffpa
My G5 is sick and my G4 can't read CDs so can't verify. I've never used Classic on the G5 (out with the old) but whenever I tried to launch a Classic app, it dutifully asked if was OK to launch Classic (I had set it to in System Prefs). Bruce Johnson has the answers you need, and several

Re: OS9

2012-01-08 Thread Jack Countryman
OS 9.1, or 9.2.1 would have come as a separate cd in the set of disks you got with the machine. It has to be installed separately from the OSX stuff...for best results, I's suggest installing the OS 9 stuff first...then OSX if you want it. As far as I know, other versions of the OS are

Re: OS9

2012-01-08 Thread JohnV
On Jan 8, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Jack Countryman wrote: OS 9.1, or 9.2.1 would have come as a separate cd in the set of disks you got with the machine. It has to be installed separately from the OSX stuff...for best results, I's suggest installing the OS 9 stuff first...then OSX if you want

Re: OS9

2012-01-08 Thread Jack Countryman
If you got it with the OSX package, you got a separate 9.1 or 9.2.1 (which you get depends on which version of OSX...earlier ones had 9.1, 10.2 or 10.3 through 10.4 or so had 9.2.1). The 9 disk was usually white with a large numeral 9 on its face. JohnV mailto:vengbj...@verizon.net January

Re: OS9

2012-01-08 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: OS9 Date:Sunday, 08. January 2012 From:JohnV vengbj...@verizon.net To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com I want to play with QTVR and the older authoring program wants OS9. To run Classic on a PPC G5 it seems I need OS9 installed

Re: Firefox/TenFourFox

2012-01-08 Thread Paul Stamsen
Previously, at 1:00 AM -0600 1/8/12, as Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: On older PPC Macs I believe the final PPC version of Safari 5.0.6(5533.22.3) currently offers the most HTML5 video compatibility. Firefox TenFourFox only support Ogg Theora WebM and don't support mpeg4 or H.264. That

Re: OS9

2012-01-08 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 8, 2012, at 12:47 PM, JohnV wrote: Was Os9 truly released as free by Apple around 2005? If so where can it be gotten? http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1192 Double-click the OS X installer package to install 9.2.2. Remove the two netboot extensions from the System folderExtensions

Apple provides backdoor?

2012-01-08 Thread Kris Tilford
This article says Apple provides backdoors for governments to intercept data from iOS devices: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/01/08/069204/leaked-memo-says-apple-provides-backdoor-to-governments -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using

Re: OS9

2012-01-08 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 8-01-2012 21:04, JohnV ha scritto: I have something on a disc labeled ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE when I fire up the installer, it wants to install OS9 but it doesn't say whether it's the non-bootable CLASSIC-enabling os9, or if it might want to just install OS9 over the

Re: OS9

2012-01-08 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 8, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Jack Countryman wrote: OS 9.1, or 9.2.1 would have come as a separate cd in the set of disks you got with the machine. It has to be installed separately from the OSX stuff...for best results, I's suggest installing the OS 9 stuff first...then OSX if you want

Re: OS9

2012-01-08 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 8, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: AFAIK, there's no such thing as Classic version of OS9. I believe if you originally formatted the HD in OS X with Disk Utility, and IF you did NOT check the box Install OS 9 drivers then you probably get an OS 9 installation that will only

TiBook queries

2012-01-08 Thread Bruce Ryan
Hi Arizona Bruce et al (a follow-up to the 'repairing DVD-drive' thread I started) Pismo is now behaving after a complete nuke and pave. (I had erased and reinstalled only the Tiger partition but updating from 10·4 to 10·4·11 and some other updates failed so I booted from the Tiger installer

Re: OS9

2012-01-08 Thread JohnV
Done and good... so far. Seems to work fine (just saw the NEBOOT warning... haven;t dealt with that yet) installed OS9 and then installed QVR authoring. repaired permissions and then fired QVR up. seems ok until I try to sitch photos at which time it spous a warning box claiming I ned to

Re: TiBook queries

2012-01-08 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:34 PM, Bruce Ryan wrote: - TiBook won't connect to my network at all by ethernet under MacOS 9·2·2 I don't have the specific OS9 installer disks for TiBook. You may have answered your own question. During the OS 9 period, Apple was very sneaky about specific

Re: OS9

2012-01-08 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: OS9 Date:Sunday, 08. January 2012 From:JohnV vengbj...@verizon.net To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com I have something on a disc labeled ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE when I fire up the installer, it wants to install OS9 but it doesn't

Re: OS9

2012-01-08 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: OS9 Date:Sunday, 08. January 2012 From:Valter Prahlad valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com AFAIK, there's no such thing as Classic version of OS9. It's just MacOS 9, and you can use it both for Classic and

Re: Apple provides backdoor?

2012-01-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 8, 2012, at 2:07 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: This article says Apple provides backdoors for governments to intercept data from iOS devices: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/01/08/069204/leaked-memo-says-apple-provides-backdoor-to-governments This article is dubious for a several

Re: going to an Intel iMac

2012-01-08 Thread Tina K.
On 2012/01/07 09:54, Stephen E. Bodnar so eloquently wrote: Very well said. Having done this very same migration numerous times, there is one gotcha - let Migration Assistant create the new user on the new (target) machine and not update an existing account. Otherwise, weird things happen with

Re: going to an Intel iMac

2012-01-08 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 8, 2012, at 5:52 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2012/01/07 09:54, Stephen E. Bodnar so eloquently wrote: Very well said. Having done this very same migration numerous times, there is one gotcha - let Migration Assistant create the new user on the new (target) machine and not update an

Re: Apple provides backdoor?

2012-01-08 Thread W.Adrian D'Alessio
not the device level. Android users wish this were so for them. On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Jan 8, 2012, at 2:07 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: This article says Apple provides backdoors for governments to intercept data from iOS