Re: Help! I Wanna Crack A Lacie FW CDRW Case

>Hi Ernest... > >It has no 'manufacturers data plate' as one might expect one to look >like. > >There is a tiny sticker over the firewire ports ...very tiny... with a >number string on it, but I have no idea whether it's a serial number >or not. >That number is: "890311121069C514" and there r

Re: Help! I Wanna Crack A Lacie FW CDRW Case

Hi Ernest... It has no 'manufacturers data plate' as one might expect one to look like. There is a tiny sticker over the firewire ports ...very tiny... with a number string on it, but I have no idea whether it's a serial number or not. That number is: "890311121069C514" and there really is

Re: Help! I Wanna Crack A Lacie FW CDRW Case

>Update: >The Case appears to be 100% plastic upon taking another look at it. >Someone just advised to 'check under the feet' and that didn't bear >fruit. My assessment -revised- is that the case is constructed of a 5 >sided box with openings at front and rear for firewire jacks and the >drive doo

Re: How much bandwidth is in use?

-- On Thu, 11/6/08, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: How much bandwidth is in use? > To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 9:56 AM > At 8:26 AM -0800 11/6/2008, Jonas Lopez wrote: > > > >Where is this bandwidth comming from?

Re: Help! I Wanna Crack A Lacie FW CDRW Case

Since mine is an optical drive, mischievious x-rays aren't much of a concern for me. Also Dennis is probably accurate in his observation, Metal drive housings would be pretty handy in most instances to fend off xrays. I think my best option is someone who has either done it before or can point me

Re: Cloning

On Nov 6, 2008, at 5:16 PM, insightinmind wrote: > The QS is connected by a slow USB connected Airlink wireless bar, > with an iffy Zydas driver. The 4.5.70 driver has been flawless at my site ... over both laptops and desktops. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rec

Re: How do you silence a G5's startup chime?

On Nov 6, 7:26 pm, "hackmiester / Hunter Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/6 Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hm, that's really stupid... what if the Mac was located at a loud > location... like a lot of mine are? Or what if it was never > rebooted... like ALL of mine are? Then you'll never

Re: Cloning

> > I assume that each Mac would need its own, dedicated backup partition > on that external storage, and that it would be bootable. > > Would it be feasible, or better even, to use Network-attached Storage > (NAS) with CCC? I understand that NAS can work via ethernet and Wi- > Fi. My wife pre

Re: Cloning

On Nov 6, 12:40 pm, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Forget TM.  It's not ripe yet. > > Use CCC.  The new version is very nice.  You tell it what folders to > copy and it does it.  As an incremental backup, If you check the > "archive modified and deleted items" box, then instead of deleting > t

Re: Cloning

Have to buy a bootable external hard drive, though, right? This sounds like a good plan ~ just don't have a bootable drive yet. On Wednesday, November 5, 2008, at 09:15 AM, dc wrote: > > Use a cloning utility like arbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper and you > will have a bootable system with all y

Re: Internal Bluetooth Board

On 11/6/08 10:13 AM, Simon Royal of [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent > > Dana > > I have a USB bluetooth in my other Mac and I have not noticed any speed > difference between that and the internal that was in the iMac. > > My only reason for questioning was because I have the internal card sitting > her

Re: Help! I Wanna Crack A Lacie FW CDRW Case

insightinmind wrote: > > Know anyone in the medical profession that could x-ray it for you? > might ruin the disk/data inside ... > > Bill Connelly > X-rays should not have an adverse effect on a hard drive. It is metal which will block the X-rays and shield the interior of the drive. --~

Re: How do you silence a G5's startup chime?

2008/11/6 Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > At 12:48 PM -0600 11/6/2008, hackmiester / Hunter Fuller wrote: >> >>Error bongs stop bootup. > > Certain fatal test results stop the boot. Others don't. eg: > Transient bus, cache, and memory errors. > > In fact, I've got a Lombard here that has a dying ca

Re: Help! I Wanna Crack A Lacie FW CDRW Case

On Nov 6, 2008, at 6:33 PM, aussieshepsrock wrote: > > Update: > The Case appears to be 100% plastic upon taking another look at it. > Someone just advised to 'check under the feet' and that didn't bear > fruit. My assessment -revised- is that the case is constructed of a 5 > sided box with open

Re: Another annoyance

On Nov 6, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Dan wrote: > > At 3:20 PM -0500 11/5/2008, Doug Burton wrote: >> upgraded DA to Tiger > [no further config information supplied] no further supplied because it's not relevant. >> when [networked drives] mount the drive window pops up on the >> desktop and has to be

Re: Help! I Wanna Crack A Lacie FW CDRW Case

Update: The Case appears to be 100% plastic upon taking another look at it. Someone just advised to 'check under the feet' and that didn't bear fruit. My assessment -revised- is that the case is constructed of a 5 sided box with openings at front and rear for firewire jacks and the drive door area

Help! I Wanna Crack A Lacie FW CDRW Case

This is pretty straight forward. I have a Lacie FireWire CDRW Case I'd like to Open Up, but I can't figure out how to do it without breaking parts or pieces of the housing. Shattering Shards Sliding through the Ether isn't something I'm neccessarily opposed to, but if I can avoid that I'd be happi

Re: Estate sale find, CD and HD questions

Previously, at 13:19 pm -0800 11/6/08, Paxton wrote: >Now I need to find a working CDRW or DVD to replace >the bad one. It >looks like a laptop drive in there, it is so thin. >This is the iMac >with a CDRW installed. > >Do I have to find one the same size CD or DVD or can >I put in a >thicker dr

Estate sale find, CD and HD questions

The iMac came up with OS X 10.1.2. Definitely want to upgrade it to my OS X 10.3 that I have. Now I need to find a working CDRW or DVD to replace the bad one. It looks like a laptop drive in there, it is so thin. This is the iMac with a CDRW installed. Do I have to find one the same size CD o

Re: Estate sale find, imac wi password and bad CD...How to get past

> >> My question is how to bypass the password. > > Try: > >

Re: How do you silence a G5's startup chime?

At 12:48 PM -0600 11/6/2008, hackmiester / Hunter Fuller wrote: > >Error bongs stop bootup. Certain fatal test results stop the boot. Others don't. eg: Transient bus, cache, and memory errors. In fact, I've got a Lombard here that has a dying cache. It does the error chime then boots just f

Re: UPS & Hard drive = ?

At 11:22 AM -0700 11/6/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: >On Nov 6, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> IMO it is something to be avoided if possible. >> >> Assuming you choose not to avoid this how about going to the >> electronics store and getting some copper shielding to place b

Re: Cloning problem

At 10:02 AM -0800 11/6/2008, yawg wrote: > >Every time I try to clone my Panther Partition to a partition on >another disk I get the same error and CCC is telling me: > >System/Library/CoreServices/BootX:Input/Output error One or more files in that directory or the directory itself, on your sour

Re: iDVD refuses to run

20 inch Ali iMac On Nov 06, 2008, at 05:49 pm, Kris Tilford wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Christopher Icha wrote: > >> iDVD and iMovie refuse to run on my iMac. They just crash and throw >> up an error message. This has happened ever since I tried to >> reinstall >> iMovie 6 after

Re: UPS & Hard drive = ?

2008/11/6 Wallace Adrian D'Alessio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Jeffrey Engle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Question: I have a need to put an external hard drive next to a UPS? >> could there be adverse effects on the HD? Thanks in advance, Jeff >> >> > > -- -hac

Re: Estate sale find, imac wi password and bad CD...How to get past

On Nov 6, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2008, at 3:42 AM, Paxton wrote: > >> My question is how to bypass the password. > > Try: > >

Re: Input requested re: a $10 G3 Powerbook

Update: Apple.com info tells me this is a Wallstreet and further, LEM and Wikipedia Info tells me it's a Wallstreet ii model. Good to know. I do like this puppy. I'm a large fellow at 225 and almost 6' tall so it's upscale proportions aren't especially drawbacks in my opinion. The hinges look cl

Re: Estate sale find, imac wi password and bad CD...How to get past

On Nov 6, 2008, at 3:42 AM, Paxton wrote: > My question is how to bypass the password. Try:

Re: How do you silence a G5's startup chime?

2008/11/6 Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > At 10:14 AM -0800 11/5/2008, Tom wrote: >> >>This is a sudden sound that wakes up people sleeping in nearby >>bedrooms and irritates me as well. > > 1) You're booting that often? > > 2) Suppressing the BONG is, IMO, just NOT a good idea. That bong > indicate

Re: Cloning problem

You could try a different program: http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html Make sure to download the version that matches your OS. The question marks in the dock may simply mean that the alias is looking for the source program you cloned from. Try to right-click on the ?

Re: UPS & Hard drive = ?

On Nov 6, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > IMO it is something to be avoided if possible. > > Assuming you choose not to avoid this how about going to the > electronics store and getting some copper shielding to place between > them? Or the same from a local metals dealer? Wh

Re: UPS & Hard drive = ?

Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Jeffrey Engle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Question: I have a need to put an external hard drive next to a UPS? >> could there be adverse effects on the HD? Thanks in advance, Jeff >> >> --~--~-~--~~~---

Re: Administrator account name and password?

On Nov 6, 2008, at 9:16 AM, norm46 wrote: > Never used anything other then Mac OS X. Please stop with the linux > OK? > Just wand to kwon how to fix this problem. Did you try the suggestions in my first response: "If this is happening even AFTER you've reset the password, then what's happened

Re: UPS & Hard drive = ?

At 5:49 PM -0700 11/5/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: >On Nov 5, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > > Question: I have a need to put an external hard drive next to a UPS? >> could there be adverse effects on the HD? Thanks in advance, Jeff > >ONly if the UPS truck runs over it :-) > >Seriously,

Re: How do you silence a G5's startup chime?

At 10:14 AM -0800 11/5/2008, Tom wrote: > >This is a sudden sound that wakes up people sleeping in nearby >bedrooms and irritates me as well. 1) You're booting that often? 2) Suppressing the BONG is, IMO, just NOT a good idea. That bong indicates that the hardware self-test passed. If you su

Cloning problem

Hi, Every time I try to clone my Panther Partition to a partition on another disk I get the same error and CCC is telling me: System/Library/CoreServices/BootX:Input/Output error Can I just ignore the error or can it cause problems when I'm using the "error"-clone? What gives? I have a Tiger p

Re: Input requested re: a $10 G3 Powerbook

Hi All, I currently have zero cash assetts to make any acquisitions or I'd have already been out in the market. I might have some things coming to hand which will let me spend a few bucks on this powerbook. Further Info on the Powerbook: The Name Plate Says - "14.1 TFT / 300mhz - 1mb/64mb/8gb H

Re: How much bandwidth is in use?

At 8:26 AM -0800 11/6/2008, Jonas Lopez wrote: > >Where is this bandwidth comming from? The video streams are compressed and/or one or more of them might not be full color (8 or 16 bit instead of 24 or 32 bit) or something. >All 4 webcams have normal people moving and talking on live screen. >

Re: iDVD refuses to run

On Nov 6, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Christopher Icha wrote: > iDVD and iMovie refuse to run on my iMac. They just crash and throw > up an error message. This has happened ever since I tried to reinstall > iMovie 6 after upgrading to Leopard and realising that it was no > longer continued. I have just b

Re: Another annoyance

At 3:20 PM -0500 11/5/2008, Doug Burton wrote: >upgraded DA to Tiger [no further config information supplied] >when [networked drives] mount the drive window pops up on the >desktop and has to be closed each time I start up the computer. Is >there any way to have them not do this? Not sure ex

Re: How much bandwidth is in use?

On Nov 6, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Jonas Lopez wrote: > Questions: Where is this bandwidth comming from? Little Snitch can show each individual source and how much it's using. It also allows you to control which processes can connect or not. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Yo

Re: Cloning

At 10:00 PM -0500 11/4/2008, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: > >if I just dragged files to the hard drive am I going to have >permissions problems? No, because Finder won't work with things you don't own or already have access to. However... If you're dragging around some apps, or things outside of

iDVD refuses to run

iDVD and iMovie refuse to run on my iMac. They just crash and throw up an error message. This has happened ever since I tried to reinstall iMovie 6 after upgrading to Leopard and realising that it was no longer continued. I have just bought iLife 08 and the two programs still refuse to lo

Re: Input requested re: a $10 G3 Powerbook

Pismo has firewire, the others don't. On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Larry Stotler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On Nov 5, 6:17 pm, aussieshepsrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I picked up a G3 Powerbook at my local computer recycler for 10 > > bucks last sping and I have some questions ab

Re: UPS & Hard drive = ?

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Jeffrey Engle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Question: I have a need to put an external hard drive next to a UPS? > could there be adverse effects on the HD? Thanks in advance, Jeff > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ IMO it is something to be

How much bandwidth is in use?

How much bandwidth is in use? >From Speakeasy Speed Test: Download Speed: 1262 kbps (157.8 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 289 kbps ( 36.1 KB/sec transfer rate) NOW using Menu Meters: with 1, 2, 3, or 4 webcam pix on screen Action.. .still Px.1 live Px...2 live Px Tx KB/s...0

Re: Input requested re: a $10 G3 Powerbook

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:17 PM, aussieshepsrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > I picked up a G3 Powerbook at my local computer recycler for 10 > bucks last sping and I have some questions about whether my plans for > it > are reasonable. It boots to the blinking question mark just fine

Re: Input requested re: a $10 G3 Powerbook

On Nov 5, 6:17 pm, aussieshepsrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >    I picked up a G3 Powerbook at my local computer recycler for 10 > bucks last sping and I have some questions about whether my plans for it > are reasonable. It boots to the blinking question mark just fine and > the screen looks gr

Re: Administrator account name and password?

Never used anything other then Mac OS X. Please stop with the linux OK? Just wand to kwon how to fix this problem. On Nov 5, 3:28 pm, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 5, 2008, at 1:17 PM, hackmiester / Hunter Fuller wrote: > > >> This can mess up OS X really badly if handled wron

Re: Macworld with my New Mac?

On Nov 6, 2008, at 7:56 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > On Nov 5, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > >> With a bit of searching, I found that if you go to Apple's website >> and >> register your mac, they give you the option on Macworld or some other >> Mac magazine... > > If that other M

Re: Macworld with my New Mac?

On Nov 5, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > With a bit of searching, I found that if you go to Apple's website and > register your mac, they give you the option on Macworld or some other > Mac magazine... If that other Mac Magazine is Mac*Life, get it instead, that's the old MacAddict

Re: Internal Bluetooth Board

Dana I have a USB bluetooth in my other Mac and I have not noticed any speed difference between that and the internal that was in the iMac. My only reason for questioning was because I have the internal card sitting here and it would save a USB port. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and

Re: Internal Bluetooth Board

On 11/6/08 4:19 AM, Simon Royal of [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent > > Hi > > Would the internal bluetooth board from my Intel iMac work in a 1.25Ghz > eMac. > > This eMac came with a BTO option for internal bluetooth, so I know it is > capable, just wondered if the boards were the same and how difficul

Re: Estate sale find, imac wi password and bad CD...How to get past

On Nov 6, 2008, at 4:42 AM, Paxton wrote: > > Last weekend I got a nice iMac 600 MHz G3 slot loader with what > appears to be a bad CD drive. It won't grab the CD and pull it in and > if pushed in won't work (probably not getting it in all the way). > > And it is running a password protected OS

Estate sale find, imac wi password and bad CD...How to get past

Last weekend I got a nice iMac 600 MHz G3 slot loader with what appears to be a bad CD drive. It won't grab the CD and pull it in and if pushed in won't work (probably not getting it in all the way). And it is running a password protected OS X, not sure what version. The owner is gone, it was an

Internal Bluetooth Board

Hi Would the internal bluetooth board from my Intel iMac work in a 1.25Ghz eMac. This eMac came with a BTO option for internal bluetooth, so I know it is capable, just wondered if the boards were the same and how difficult it would be to fit. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news