Re: no sound

2008-12-30 Thread George Hozendorf
My iMac G5 has the volume turned up, but no sound. Is there a way to check the speakers without dismantling the boxes they appear to be in? George On Dec 29, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Charles Davis wrote: Wild guess!!! Click on the Speaker Icon at the top of the screen (right side), is it

Re: no sound

2008-12-30 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 30, 2008, at 2:14 AM, George Hozendorf wrote: My iMac G5 has the volume turned up, but no sound. Is there a way to check the speakers without dismantling the boxes they appear to be in? You can go into the System PreferencesSound and under the Output tab be sure the Mute box isn't

Re: FireWire 800 MDD chimes but won't start up.

2008-12-30 Thread Ted Treen
From: jonas ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, 29 December, 2008 8:16:15 PM Subject: Re: FireWire 800 MDD chimes but won't start up. This happened to me just the other day on my DP500MHZ. I unplugged it and plugged

Re: no sound

2008-12-30 Thread George Hozendorf
Configure speakers is dimmed out. On Dec 30, 2008, at 2:29 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Dec 30, 2008, at 2:14 AM, George Hozendorf wrote: My iMac G5 has the volume turned up, but no sound. Is there a way to check the speakers without dismantling the boxes they appear to be in? You can

GUID vs Apple

2008-12-30 Thread George Hozendorf
When trying to use Migration Assistant to transfer info from my Intel Mac to an iMac G5 running 10.3.9, it told me the disk couldn't be recognized. Is there a way around this? George Mac OS X 10.5.6 Mac Mini 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM Mac OS X 10.3.9 iMac 1.8

Re: Big Hard Drives in Sawtooth and Cloning

2008-12-30 Thread PeterH
On Dec 30, 2008, at 5:07 AM, Bucky wrote: The firmware hack has the advantage of being based in the hardware's firmware, and as such installers will see everything past the 128 mark. BUT will be lost anytime Open firmware is reset. It is also very free. This is probably safer, I Do not

Re: Playing music CD's?

2008-12-30 Thread John Callahan
On Dec 28, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Dan wrote: System Preferences CDs DVDs. Change the music CD setting to something appropriate, like iTunes. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth So obvious! My bad! Thanks John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com If there are no

Re: no sound

2008-12-30 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 29, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Claire Hart wrote: My Powerbook is a 1.5 GHz PowerPC G4 with 2 GB of RAM running 10.4.11, purchased July 2004. About three weeks ago, the sound quit working. I do not know what I did right before the sound quit working, because I'm not sure exactly when it

Organizing Menu Bar items?

2008-12-30 Thread Dana Collins
Greetings all, I am quoting from Kris re; another thread, but decided to start a new topic so as not to hijack the older one: (quote) An excellent Menu Extra which will enable you to control your sound input/output devices from the Menu Bar is called Sound Source 2.0 from Rogue Amoeba. (end

Re: Organizing Menu Bar items?

2008-12-30 Thread Len Gerstel
On Dec 30, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Dana Collins wrote: Here's my question: remember in OS 9 one could reorganize the Control Strip modules by pressing the Option key and sliding them around? Is there anything comparable in OSX that allows one to manage the locations of all of these Menu Bar

Re: Organizing Menu Bar items?

2008-12-30 Thread Edward O'Morrow
On Dec 30, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Dana Collins wrote: Here's my question: remember in OS 9 one could reorganize the Control Strip modules by pressing the Option key and sliding them around? Is there anything comparable in OSX that allows one to manage the locations of all of these Menu Bar

Re: Quicken no more? Need something else,... what?

2008-12-30 Thread Mike Baker
They are making an update for it, but it won't be out until next summer. http://www.macworld.com/article/137796/2008/12/quickenfinanciallife.html --- On Sat, 12/27/08, Dan A. Currie danc...@frontiernet.net wrote: From: Dan A. Currie danc...@frontiernet.net Subject: Re: Quicken no more? Need

Re: Organizing Menu Bar items?

2008-12-30 Thread insightinmind
command seems to allow moving some (ones added by user on right) ... but what about the System ones? Finder File Edit ... etc? Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio

Downloading Question

2008-12-30 Thread Jasiu
I have a G4 Sawtooth running OS 10.4.11. I have two hard drives, A B. When I download something it automatically goes to drive A. Now I want to download something to B how do I accomplish that? Thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Re: Big Hard Drives in Sawtooth and Cloning

2008-12-30 Thread Charles Davis
On Dec 30, 2008, at 7:33 AM, JIM RAPER wrote: Hello, Y'all, I have a 450 Sawtooth AGP with 2 HDs, a 5400 60 gb and a 7200 10 gb. Memory is one gig. When I upgraded from OS 9.2.2, I went up to a very stable OS 10.2.8. I put the OS X on the 60 gb. I upgraded to OS 10.2.8 about a year

Re: Organizing Menu Bar items?

2008-12-30 Thread Len Gerstel
On Dec 30, 2008, at 12:10 PM, technophobic_...@comcast.net wrote: On 12/30, Len Gerstel wrote: On Dec 30, Dana Collins wrote: Is there anything...in OSX that allows one to manage the locations of...Menu Bar elements? Hold down the Command key, at least in 10.4.11 and you can

Wanted: Generic icons in Leopard

2008-12-30 Thread Steve R
How do I get Finder to give me back the generic icons, ie a Quicktime icon on a video file instead of the current 'mini preview' of the first frame of the file, etc? Steve R --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End

Re: Downloading Question

2008-12-30 Thread Charles Davis
This is a Browser function --- For Safari, the control is on the first page of general preferences (for Safari) HTH Chuck D. On Dec 30, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Jasiu wrote: I have a G4 Sawtooth running OS 10.4.11. I have two hard drives, A B. When I download something it automatically goes

Re: GUID vs Apple

2008-12-30 Thread Dan
At 9:12 AM -0600 12/30/2008, George Hozendorf wrote: When trying to use Migration Assistant to transfer info from my Intel Mac to an iMac G5 running 10.3.9, it told me the disk couldn't be recognized. Is there a way around this? Try it the other way around - run MA on the G5 to pull the data

Re: Wanted: Generic icons in Leopard

2008-12-30 Thread Tony Gamble
On 30-Dec-08, at 12:33 PM, Steve R wrote: How do I get Finder to give me back the generic icons, ie a Quicktime icon on a video file instead of the current 'mini preview' of the first frame of the file, etc? Steve R Open the affected folder, select View - Show View Options, uncheck Show

Re: Wanted: Generic icons in Leopard

2008-12-30 Thread Steve R
At 1:00 PM -0500 12/30/08, Tony Gamble posted: On 30-Dec-08, at 12:33 PM, Steve R wrote: How do I get Finder to give me back the generic icons, ie a Quicktime icon on a video file instead of the current 'mini preview' of the first frame of the file, etc? Steve R Open the affected

Facebook G3/10.4.11

2008-12-30 Thread Steve R
I sold an iMac/500mHz with a fresh 10.4.11 to a PC user who swore he'd used the Mac OS before and now he's certain I've sold him a doorstop because he can't get into the 'new' facebook site. The guy is an IM junkie with at minimum five different services. Before he took the computer a month

Re: GUID vs Apple

2008-12-30 Thread George Hozendorf
On Dec 30, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Dan wrote: At 9:12 AM -0600 12/30/2008, George Hozendorf wrote: When trying to use Migration Assistant to transfer info from my Intel Mac to an iMac G5 running 10.3.9, it told me the disk couldn't be recognized. Is there a way around this? Try it the other

Re: Wanted: Generic icons in Leopard

2008-12-30 Thread Dan
At 1:51 PM -0500 12/30/2008, Steve R wrote: Do you know if there is a way to make this the overall default for all Finder windows without needing to go into every window to make the change? Finder preferences doesn't have that option, only the individual windows (that I've been able to see.)

Re: Best USB 2.0 PCI card for Quicksilver?

2008-12-30 Thread dorayme
From: tonycd I thought of Belkin; I know from experience their quality is usually good. Have you run into any of the sleep mode problems, etc? On Dec 29, 12:19 am, dorayme dora...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Date: Sun, Dec 28 2008 5:15 pm From: tonycd I know there are a million of 'em. I'm

Re: Facebook G3/10.4.11

2008-12-30 Thread Tony Gamble
Sorry I cannot help you with your friend's Facebook issue, but I do have a solution for remote access to his Mac: TeamViewer. Works great for me when I cannot connect via VNC or Remote Desktop. - Tony On 30-Dec-08, at 2:15 PM, Steve R wrote: He's behind an ISP firewall so I can't

Quitting Safari

2008-12-30 Thread Wilton Shaw
Hello, Safari started quitting on my eMac, using OS 10.5.6. Every time I try to bring it up, the picture shows up on the screen and then disappears. A note coms up saying it unexpectedly quit. Any suggestions? Thanks Wilton Wilton Shaw whs...@verizon.net

Re: Facebook G3/10.4.11

2008-12-30 Thread dan frederiksen
this lil mac of mine its on line this lil g3 safari 3.0.4. 350mgz on new facebook don't care about the messanger it starts but crashes. e machine monitor flat screen 780mb oh the time is off and won't let me change it seems theres the stock and the mac fix for the sending and reciving. adobe

Tattle tale????

2008-12-30 Thread Jasiu
I once heard of a program similar to Belarc for a PC that tells you everything that is going on in your PPC Mac. I can't seem to remember its name. Anybody have a clue? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5

How many internal hard drives

2008-12-30 Thread Mike Baker
can be installed in a G$ Sawtooth? Do they have to be slaved together? It appears they do have to slaved together, since I only see one ATA slot on the motherboard. I do have an external Firewire hard drive attached to the G4 now, but I want to dedicate that to an iBook I have.

Re: Wanted: Generic icons in Leopard

2008-12-30 Thread Steve R
At 2:48 PM -0500 12/30/08, Dan posted: At 1:51 PM -0500 12/30/2008, Steve R wrote: Do you know if there is a way to make this the overall default for all Finder windows without needing to go into every window to make the change? Finder preferences doesn't have that option, only the individual

Re: Facebook G3/10.4.11

2008-12-30 Thread Steve R
At 4:53 PM -0500 12/30/08, Tony Gamble posted: Sorry I cannot help you with your friend's Facebook issue, but I do have a solution for remote access to his Mac: TeamViewer. Works great for me when I cannot connect via VNC or Remote Desktop. Thanks. The site I was thinking of is LogMeIn

Re: Tattle tale????

2008-12-30 Thread bob b
Jasiu wrote: I once heard of a program similar to Belarc for a PC that tells you everything that is going on in your PPC Mac. I can't seem to remember its name. Anybody have a clue? Twas a handy dandy little program called TattleTech, still available and free:

Re: Facebook G3/10.4.11

2008-12-30 Thread Mark
dan frederiksen wrote: this lil mac of mine its on line this lil g3 safari 3.0.4. 350mgz on new facebook don't care about the messanger it starts but crashes. e machine monitor flat screen 780mb oh the time is off and won't let me change it seems theres the stock and the mac fix for the

Re: Facebook G3/10.4.11

2008-12-30 Thread Mike Baker
He should be able to access Facebook since I have a similar setup and I can. I use Mac OS X 10.3.9. I'm thinking his firewall setup has to be the problem. --- On Tue, 12/30/08, Steve R mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com wrote: From: Steve R mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com Subject: Facebook

Re: Facebook G3/10.4.11

2008-12-30 Thread Steve R
At 2:56 PM -0800 12/30/08, Mike Baker posted: He should be able to access Facebook since I have a similar setup and I can. I use Mac OS X 10.3.9. I'm thinking his firewall setup has to be the problem. Are you able to use the 'new' Facebook that has the IM built in via the web browser?

Re: Wanted: Generic icons in Leopard = solution

2008-12-30 Thread Steve R
At 5:21 PM -0500 12/30/08, Steve R posted: At 2:48 PM -0500 12/30/08, Dan posted: At 1:51 PM -0500 12/30/2008, Steve R wrote: Do you know if there is a way to make this the overall default for all Finder windows without needing to go into every window to make the change? Finder preferences

Re: Quitting Safari

2008-12-30 Thread joe
On Dec 30, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Wilton Shaw wrote: Safari started quitting on my eMac, using OS 10.5.6. Every time I try to bring it up, the picture shows up on the screen and then disappears. A note coms up saying it unexpectedly quit. Any suggestions? I would try trashing the Safari

Re: How many internal hard drives

2008-12-30 Thread Bill Christensen
At 2:18 PM -0800 12/30/08, Mike Baker wrote: can be installed in a G$ Sawtooth? Do they have to be slaved together? It appears they do have to slaved together, since I only see one ATA slot on the motherboard. I do have an external Firewire hard drive attached to the G4 now, but I want to

Re: Wanted: Generic icons in Leopard

2008-12-30 Thread Charles Davis
Finder/View/ Show View Options/uncheck box for 'Show Icon Preview' HTH Chuck D. On Dec 30, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Steve R wrote: How do I get Finder to give me back the generic icons, ie a Quicktime icon on a video file instead of the current 'mini preview' of the first frame of the file, etc?

Re: Tattle tale????

2008-12-30 Thread insightinmind
Snitch? Or was that OS 9 ... Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group

Re: Tattle tale????

2008-12-30 Thread insightinmind
I was thinking about Little Snitch Little Snitch informs you whenever a program attempts to establish an outgoing Internet connection. You can then choose to allow or deny this connection, or define a rule how to handle similar, future connection attempts. This reliably prevents private

Re: Tattle tale????

2008-12-30 Thread James E. Therrault
insightinmind wrote: Snitch? Or was that OS 9 ... Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio Little Snitch is for OS X JT --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: How many internal hard drives

2008-12-30 Thread Hunter Fuller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2008/12/30 PeterH : Using every possible combination, you can install six HDs: four IDEs and two SCSIs. But, you give up the optical do do that, and some versions of MacOS will not react politely if the expected, and required optical drive is

Re: How many internal hard drives

2008-12-30 Thread Charles Davis
On Dec 30, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Hunter Fuller wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2008/12/30 PeterH : Using every possible combination, you can install six HDs: four IDEs and two SCSIs. But, you give up the optical do do that, and some versions of MacOS will not react

Re: How many internal hard drives

2008-12-30 Thread Hunter Fuller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2008/12/30 Charles Davis : Since when has an optical drive been required? What OS are we talking -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org

Re: Tattle tale????

2008-12-30 Thread Yersinia
Jasiu wrote: I once heard of a program similar to Belarc for a PC that tells you everything that is going on in your PPC Mac. I can't seem to remember its name. Anybody have a clue? U...just curious, but can't you get this information from Activity Monitor? If one observes

Re: My computer

2008-12-30 Thread Isaac Smith
Although I have been using Mac for years, I am not expert enough to know what kind of g4 (I think) I now have. The :About this Mac specs are as follows: Hardware Overview: Machine Name:Power Mac G4 Machine Model: PowerMac3,3 CPU Type:PowerPC G4 (2.8) Number Of

Re: My computer

2008-12-30 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 30, 2008, at 9:03 PM, insightinmind wrote: It might be a Gigabit Ethernet ... Or more likely AGP Graphics since a single cpu at 450 ... Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio

Re: Organizing Menu Bar items?

2008-12-30 Thread Dana Collins
On 12/30/08 11:03 AM, Edward O'Morrow of redpe...@gmail.com sent On Dec 30, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Dana Collins wrote: Here's my question: remember in OS 9 one could reorganize the Control Strip modules by pressing the Option key and sliding them around? Is there anything comparable in

Re: Organizing Menu Bar items?

2008-12-30 Thread Dana Collins
On 12/30/08 11:38 AM, insightinmind of billycarm...@verizon.net sent command seems to allow moving some (ones added by user on right) ... but what about the System ones? Finder File Edit ... etc? Bill Connelly Yep, they move as well, Bill. -Dana

Re: Organizing Menu Bar items?

2008-12-30 Thread Dana Collins
On 12/30, Len Gerstel wrote: In Dana's original post he mentions (I trimmed out for brevity) the following: I use MenuMeters, Stuffit Deluxe, iLok keys, along with the myriad of OS- related menu additions (Time Machine, iSync, Bluetooth, Monitors, Spotlight, time, volume, modem,

Re: Organizing Menu Bar items?

2008-12-30 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 30, 2008, at 9:15 PM, Dana Collins wrote: On 12/30/08 11:38 AM, insightinmind of billycarm...@verizon.net sent command seems to allow moving some (ones added by user on right) ... but what about the System ones? Finder File Edit ... etc? Bill Connelly Yep, they move as

Re: Wanted: Generic icons in Leopard

2008-12-30 Thread Dana Collins
On 12/30/08 1:51 PM, Steve R of mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com sent At 1:00 PM -0500 12/30/08, Tony Gamble posted: On 30-Dec-08, at 12:33 PM, Steve R wrote: How do I get Finder to give me back the generic icons, ie a Quicktime icon on a video file instead of the current 'mini

Re: HP Printers not compatible?-was which printer do you like?

2008-12-30 Thread cheryl
Mine is a HP 1210xi all-in-one. It's probably 5 years old. I already knew that scanning isn't supported in Leopard. But then the printer just quit with error messages whenever I try to use it. At this rate I feel it's best to just buy a new printer. It was only about a week ago that they told me

Re: Power failure-computer won't start

2008-12-30 Thread Charles Lenington
cheryl wrote: Home Depot has the Monster Power surge protectors, which is what I've been using for the last 7 years or so. I'll probably go get one of those to replace this one once they plow the roads so I can drive! I don't have any way to test the pram battery When you go out take the

Re: My computer

2008-12-30 Thread Fabian Fang
On Dec 30, 2008, at 5:57 PM, rmwoods wrote: Although I have been using Mac for years, I am not expert enough to know what kind of g4 (I think) I now have. The :About this Mac specs are as follows: Hardware Overview: Machine Name:Power Mac G4 Machine Model: PowerMac3,3

Re: Wanted: Generic icons in Leopard

2008-12-30 Thread Steve R
At 9:24 PM -0500 12/30/08, Dana Collins posted: On 12/30/08 1:51 PM, Steve R of mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com sent Thank you!!! Do you know if there is a way to make this the overall default for all Finder windows without needing to go into every window to make the change? Finder

Re: How many internal hard drives

2008-12-30 Thread Mike Baker
OS X 10.2.8 and OS 9.1 --- On Tue, 12/30/08, Hunter Fuller hackmies...@gmail.com wrote: From: Hunter Fuller hackmies...@gmail.com Subject: Re: How many internal hard drives To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 8:01 PM -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash:

NetDisk booting on G3 powermac

2008-12-30 Thread Mullin9
I have a Beige G3 powerMac, and a NetDisk ( an external Harddrive, with an ethernet port) can I boot from my ethernet based NetDisk?. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3,

Re: My computer

2008-12-30 Thread jonas ulrich
Definitely don't upgrade to 10.5. It will run like crap. On 12/30/08, Fabian Fang f...@mac.com wrote: On Dec 30, 2008, at 5:57 PM, rmwoods wrote: Although I have been using Mac for years, I am not expert enough to know what kind of g4 (I think) I now have. The :About this Mac specs