Re: Alternatives to iTunes

2008-12-13 Thread Brian Durant
Songbird is unfortunately only for Intel Macs [?] On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Peter peter1...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Ralph sfrea...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Howdy, On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 13:50 -0500, Dan wrote: In the thread iTunes and duplicating songs, on

Re: Alternatives to iTunes

2008-12-13 Thread Tony Gamble
On 13-Dec-08, at 4:48 AM, Brian Durant wrote: Songbird is unfortunately only for Intel Macs Actually, it turns out there is a PPC port available here: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Builds/Contributed_Builds - Tony --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: Major Airport issues

2008-12-13 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 13, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Chris N wrote: Any input on this would be much appreciated. I've got a bunch of Macs at home, ranging from a G4 400 (wireless) through a G4 dual 1.25 (wired), G5 iMac (wired), Intel iMac (wireless) and a couple of powerbooks/macbooks. I have a Comcast

Re: Major Airport issues

2008-12-13 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 13, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Chris N wrote: I thought this might be it, but I can get IP addresses from my neighbors unencrypted networks and still can't access the internet. That sounds different. You should be able to connect. The DNS on these networks might not be correct, but I should

Re: Mac book vs PC?

2008-12-13 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 12/12/2008 11:43 ildonpepp...@yahoo.com said: Greetings: I'm new here so forgive me if I'm asking a question that has been beaten to death! I'm looking to move from a PC to a Macbook, but have no experience othr than on a PC, which I'm not really good at anyway. I'd

Re: Major Airport issues

2008-12-13 Thread John Callahan
On Dec 13, 2008, at 9:26 AM, Chris N wrote: Folks, Any input on this would be much appreciated. I've got a bunch of Macs at home, ranging from a G4 400 (wireless) through a G4 dual 1.25 (wired), G5 iMac (wired), Intel iMac (wireless) and a couple of powerbooks/macbooks. I have a

Re: Mac book vs PC?

2008-12-13 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 13, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Ken wrote: The Mac really can't do much about SPAM, My SPAM filter in Mail.app is about 99.9% efficient. I wait until the SPAM box is full to several hundred before scanning and deleting. If you mark the wrong ones as not spam it remembers and learns.

Re: Mac book vs PC?

2008-12-13 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 13/12/2008 07:27 ktilfo...@cox.net said: On Dec 13, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Ken wrote: The Mac really can't do much about SPAM, My SPAM filter in Mail.app is about 99.9% efficient. I wait until the SPAM box is full to several hundred before scanning and deleting. If

Re: Major Airport issues

2008-12-13 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 13, 2008, at 10:24 AM, John Callahan wrote: On Dec 13, 2008, at 9:26 AM, Chris N wrote: Folks, Any input on this would be much appreciated. I've got a bunch of Macs at home, ranging from a G4 400 (wireless) through a G4 dual 1.25 (wired), G5 iMac (wired), Intel iMac (wireless)

Re: Disk Utility

2008-12-13 Thread Dan
At 12:00 AM -0500 12/13/2008, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: I just brought the G4 up to 10.4.11 and realize I need some form of Disk Utility. I was going to ask about Diskwarrior et al, but every time I buy this I never use it, so this time will wait for a problem before running out. What would you

Re: Major Airport issues

2008-12-13 Thread Charles Davis
On Dec 13, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Chris N wrote: Thanks for the addresses - is there a search domain with that? I tried those and everything seems to start off being ok (i.e. for half a page), NEW INFORMATION but then slows down NEW Information. and the

Re: Alternatives to iTunes

2008-12-13 Thread Dan
At 9:53 AM -0500 12/13/2008, Tony Gamble wrote: On 13-Dec-08, at 4:48 AM, Brian Durant wrote: Songbird is unfortunately only for Intel Macs Actually, it turns out there is a PPC port available here: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Builds/Contributed_Builds Interesting.

Re: iTunes and duplicating songs

2008-12-13 Thread Dan
At 2:13 PM -0500 12/12/2008, Dan wrote: Some of my mp3 tracks are quite old; their volume levels are low etc. And I'm using a better set of speakers... Got tired of bumping the volume level of the speakers for one song, just to have the next blast my ears. Found a Sound Check setting in

Re: Alternatives to iTunes

2008-12-13 Thread Dan
(Yes, Bruce, I know. But I just couldn't resist). At 6:12 PM -0600 12/12/2008, Ralph wrote: On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 13:50 -0500, Dan wrote: In the thread iTunes and duplicating songs, on 12/3/2008, Ralph wrote: [...] I have no interest in iTunes. It just does not work well enough to

Major Airport issues - resolved

2008-12-13 Thread Chris N
Thanks to all who offered possible solutions to my airport problem. Switching to no encryption did solve the problem, but that was not a long term solution. From an Apple discussion board I was advised to switch to WPA, as WEP encryption does not play nicely with updated airport software, so

Re: Yosemite video card slot _ gone?

2008-12-13 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 13, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote: I recently bought off eBay a 350 MhZ rev. 2 Yosemite for parts. I repaired it (case with epoxidic glue, new PSU - a modified PC ATX, processor, etc...) just to realize that the video card only works if inserted in one of the three

Re: Major Airport issues - resolved

2008-12-13 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 13, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Chris N wrote: Thanks to all who offered possible solutions to my airport problem. Switching to no encryption did solve the problem, but that was not a long term solution. From an Apple discussion board I was advised to switch to WPA, as WEP encryption

Re: Yosemite video card slot _ gone?

2008-12-13 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 13, 2008, at 3:32 PM, insightinmind wrote: On Dec 13, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote: I recently bought off eBay a 350 MhZ rev. 2 Yosemite for parts. I repaired it (case with epoxidic glue, new PSU - a modified PC ATX, processor, etc...) just to realize that the

Re: Yosemite video card slot _ gone?

2008-12-13 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
Which video card is it? According to Mactracker, for the Yosemite, I believe the slot 1, although 66MHz, is still a PCI slot versus an AGP one. Only a 66MHz PCI video card would work in that one (PCI and 66 being limiting factors)? not a 33MHz video card? Just asking / thinking out

Re: Yosemite video card slot _ gone?

2008-12-13 Thread Paul
According to the service manual, the video card always goes in PCI Slot 1, which is the short slot. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a

Re: Yosemite video card slot _ gone?

2008-12-13 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
On Dec 13, 2008, at 10:42 PM, Paul wrote: According to the service manual, the video card always goes in PCI Slot 1, which is the short slot. this afternoon I tried a known good voodoo 3dfx 3000, same thing: no video out if inserted in slot 1, ok if in one of the other 3. If cleaning

Re: Yosemite video card slot _ gone?

2008-12-13 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 13, 2008, at 10:42 PM, Paul wrote: According to the service manual, the video card always goes in PCI Slot 1, which is the short slot. this afternoon I tried a known good voodoo 3dfx 3000, same thing: no video out if inserted in slot 1, ok if in one of the other 3. If cleaning

Re: Mac book vs PC?

2008-12-13 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:43 PM, HDGoose ildonpepp...@yahoo.com wrote: Greetings: The Mac may not be entirely trouble free ( is any thing?) But the Mac will save you time and and leave you smiling and confident at the end of the day. Especially so, if you are not tempted to put Windows on it

Problem after reassembling a Pismo; er, two Pismos...

2008-12-13 Thread Paul
I have two Pismos sitting around here, one with 512 MB and one with 128. I wanted to move 256 MB from one to the other in order to be able to install OS 10.4 on it. When I finished putting them both back together, neither one would start up at all. Is there anything relatively simple that could

Re: Yosemite video card slot _ gone?

2008-12-13 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 13, 2008, at 8:52 PM, Paul wrote: I'm sorry; I got the original question backwards. (I had thought that you wanted to use another slot besides Slot 1 for video.) I hope this answer is more relevant: according to the service manual, Slot 1 only takes 66 MHz PCI cards. So check your

Re: Major Airport issues - resolved

2008-12-13 Thread Dan
At 12:30 PM -0800 12/13/2008, Chris N wrote: From an Apple discussion board I was advised to switch to WPA, as WEP encryption does not play nicely with updated airport software, so now my security is WPA2-Personal. Just as well, as WEP has been cracked. Ditto for WPA. Current recommendation

Re: Disk Utility

2008-12-13 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
On Dec 13, 2008, at 12:13 AM, insightinmind wrote: Disk Utility app is on the Install Disk. After restarting from the Install DVD, go past the Language Window, and in lieu of Installing, go up to the Menu bar and find Disk Utility in one of the drop down menus ... can't remember which one

Re: Disk Utility

2008-12-13 Thread Doug Burton
On Dec 13, 2008, at 10:41 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: On Dec 13, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Dan wrote: Just use Apple's Disk Utility. As Bill points out in his reply - it's available on the OS DVD, so you can use it to repair your boot volume. Or you can boot on your external clone/backup and

Re: Disk Utility

2008-12-13 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 13, 2008, at 10:41 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: Disk Utility handles most problems quite well. If it can't, then you can purchase DiskWarrior or Data Rescue ... but really, at that point, the only time you'd be reaching for those particular utilities is if you totally failed to make

Network Camera Report

2008-12-13 Thread Clark Martin
I thought I'd report on a new acquisition of mine, a Linksys WVC54GCA network camera. I bought it from NewEgg.com for $82.49. Linksys is a company known for it's disinterest in the Mac Market. From what I know few of their products provide software or support for Macs. But this camera for

Re: Disk Utility

2008-12-13 Thread Dan
At 10:41 PM -0500 12/13/2008, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: On Dec 13, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Dan wrote: the only time you'd be reaching for those particular utilities is if you totally failed to make backups. (hint hint) :) I always backup my data. But I never made an external clone of

Re: Problem after reassembling a Pismo; er, two Pismos...

2008-12-13 Thread Paul
Well, I was just informed by email - in an extremely friendly and helpful way - that there's another group to discuss G3-5 laptops. I dislike the Balkanization, but that's life... So if anyone had something to add to this discussion, they'd better get themselves down to the laptop group, or risk