Re: background noise

2009-03-06 Thread k l
I have a similair noise from my da g4 headphone socket, it comes from bended not fitting headphone miniplugs or damaged socket (??) that makes a tiney groundloop, changed plug or socket and the noise went away, griffin sucks, in my opinion though. k 2009/3/5 bob b adel...@charter.net The

Re: G3 Beige MT with Two IDE Hard Drives

2009-03-06 Thread ron
On Mar 4, 9:19 pm, rtows...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 3/4/09 8:31:11 PM, wmhatch...@gmail.com writes: I have inherited a Beige G3 Minitower with 2 IDE hard drives, The issue is that boot ups are very slow almost like the machine is searching for a startup disk.  The thing that

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-06 Thread Nikki Wraith
Breaking Federal law? Err. IANAL, but I don't get it. You violate the EULA, which would maybe violate contract laws, but what federal law do you speak of? I know some have mentioned the DMCA - but it doesn't apply here because there is no copyright protection circumvention. On Mar

Re: G3 Beige MT with Two IDE Hard Drives

2009-03-06 Thread PeterH
On Mar 6, 2009, at 1:02 AM, ron wrote: I have inherited a Beige G3 Minitower with 2 IDE hard drives, The issue is that boot ups are very slow almost like the machine is searching for a startup disk. The thing that you are not paying attention to is the fact that a Beige G3 normally

Re: G3 Beige MT with Two IDE Hard Drives

2009-03-06 Thread Dan A. Currie
ron wrote: On Mar 4, 9:19 pm, rtows...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 3/4/09 8:31:11 PM, wmhatch...@gmail.com writes: I have inherited a Beige G3 Minitower with 2 IDE hard drives, The issue is that boot ups are very slow almost like the machine is searching for a startup

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-06 Thread Dan
At 4:53 AM -0500 3/6/2009, Nikki Wraith wrote: Breaking Federal law? Err. IANAL, but I don't get it. You violate the EULA, which would maybe violate contract laws, but what federal law do you speak of? I know some have mentioned the DMCA - but it doesn't apply here because there is no

Re: Tiger can write to NTFS drives?

2009-03-06 Thread Charles Davis
On Mar 6, 2009, at 2:37 AM, Paul wrote: I just tried this very quickly, and then went on to do other more urgent things, but I was pleasantly surprised by the results. I connected an external SATA hard drive that came out of a dead PC. I was about to change it to standard Mac format, and

Re: Safari 4 Public Beta available today

2009-03-06 Thread Ken Daggett
On 6 Mar 2009, at 06:48:51 PST, Dan wrote: At 12:42 PM -0600 2/24/2009, Kris Tilford wrote: Safari 4 Public Beta is available today: http://www.apple.com/safari/ It requires 10.5.6 or 10.4.11 and comes in separate versions for Leopard Tiger. So how goes everyone's Safari 4

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-06 Thread PeterH
On Mar 6, 2009, at 6:09 AM, Dan wrote: As for its application here... hacking OS X is an act of creating a derivative work, done by decoding part of the copyrighted OS. Not true of the so-called vanilla installs, which utilize a retail DVD with absolutely NO changes to the MacOS modules

Re: Flat Screen Monitor

2009-03-06 Thread dc
You might want to look for a better video card. There are a lot of cards available that have DVI connectors and can be made to work in your DA. I have a GeForce 6200/256MB in my DA and it made a big improvement over the OEM card. On Mar 6, 1:03 am, smac0031 m.smurph...@gmail.com wrote: Hello,

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-06 Thread George R. Hozendorf
On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:59 AM, PeterH wrote: On Mar 6, 2009, at 6:09 AM, Dan wrote: As for its application here... hacking OS X is an act of creating a derivative work, done by decoding part of the copyrighted OS. Not true of the so-called vanilla installs, which utilize a retail DVD

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2009-03-06 Thread PeterH
On Mar 6, 2009, at 7:13 AM, George R. Hozendorf wrote: Of all the various OSX86 installers, what's the group's consensus as to which is best? This is controversial, but has a happy ending. First, there are motherboard considerations. Only two main classes of which are absolutely,

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 5, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Dan wrote: ic. So the official party line is that if you don't like something about the product offerings, shut up. No it isn't...but if you're going to compare things compare apples to oranges, not apples to bicycle seats. Again...pretty much, the only

Hackintoshes and PCs

2009-03-06 Thread Len Gerstel
Folks, Talking about Hackintoshs are completely off topic on this list. There are many places on the web where you can get that information, but PLEASE folks, keep it off of the G3-5 List. Thanks, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com List Nanny

Re: Safari 4 Public Beta available today

2009-03-06 Thread Dan
At 6:56 AM -0800 3/6/2009, Ken Daggett wrote: I had to uninstall. Screwed up message display in Mail. (10.4.11, MDD/dual 1.25) Mail uses WebKit, not all of Safari. What in particular did it screw up? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-06 Thread Dan
At 6:59 AM -0800 3/6/2009, PeterH wrote: On Mar 6, 2009, at 6:09 AM, Dan wrote: That there decoding is illegal. However, an open source decrypter, one which in NO WAY uses any prior knowledge of Apple's decrypter code has been developed, and this decrypter is now part of many OSX86

Latest on SATA PCI for a Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1GHz

2009-03-06 Thread insightinmind
I xlr8yourmac'ed ... and Googled ... but I admit, its a bit Garbled ... SATA, eSATA, SATA I, II ??? Huh? What's the latest info on SATA PCI cards for a QS Dual 1GHz? Don't know that I need RAID capability ... I need to move my IDE drives around, replacing an ATA/100 80GB on my Yikes! (its

Re: Tiger can write to NTFS drives?

2009-03-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 6, 2009, at 12:37 AM, Paul wrote: I just tried this very quickly, and then went on to do other more urgent things, but I was pleasantly surprised by the results. I connected an external SATA hard drive that came out of a dead PC. I was about to change it to standard Mac format, and

Re: Safari 4 Public Beta available today

2009-03-06 Thread Ken Daggett
On 6 Mar 2009, at 08:13:06 PST, Dan wrote: At 6:56 AM -0800 3/6/2009, Ken Daggett wrote: I had to uninstall. Screwed up message display in Mail. (10.4.11, MDD/dual 1.25) Mail uses WebKit, not all of Safari. What in particular did it screw up? - Dan. -- Opening a message in

Re: Latest on SATA PCI for a Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1GHz

2009-03-06 Thread PeterH
On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:24 AM, insightinmind wrote: What's the latest info on SATA PCI cards for a QS Dual 1GHz? I use both the LaCie and the Other World Initio-based SATA controllers in my PPC Macs. I believe these are 1.5 MB/sec, whereas the drives themselves are 1.5/3.0 MB/sec. I leave

Re: background noise

2009-03-06 Thread Steve R
At 9:12 AM +0100 3/6/09, k l posted: I have a similair noise from my da g4 headphone socket, it comes from bended not fitting headphone miniplugs or damaged socket (??) that makes a tiney groundloop, changed plug or socket and the noise went away, griffin sucks, in my opinion though.

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-06 Thread Dan
At 9:12 AM -0700 3/6/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: That ZDnet 'comparison' was horribly biased, and nonsensical to boot. They didn't even compare the Acer with the same CPU, they got one with a Pentium D, not a core duo. Why bother? The Pentium D was faster. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-06 Thread Steve R
At 9:09 AM -0500 3/6/09, Dan posted: At 4:53 AM -0500 3/6/2009, Nikki Wraith wrote: Breaking Federal law? Err. IANAL, but I don't get it. You violate the EULA, which would maybe violate contract laws, but what federal law do you speak of? I know some have mentioned the DMCA - but it doesn't

Re: Safari 4 Public Beta available today

2009-03-06 Thread Dan
At 9:46 AM -0700 3/6/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 6, 2009, at 7:48 AM, Dan wrote: So how goes everyone's Safari 4 experiences? I've had a few crashes of PubSub agent...not sure if that's related, but they only started when I started using the 4 beta. I'm not using Safari as my RSS

Re: Safari 4 Public Beta available today

2009-03-06 Thread Dan
Title: Re: Safari 4 Public Beta available today At 11:38 AM -0700 3/6/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 6, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Dan wrote: One thing I've DEFINITELY gotten used to is the major appearance of 'teh snappy'. WOW it's fast. A few sites seem very snappy. But some, like MacDailyNews

Re: Safari 4 Public Beta available today

2009-03-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 6, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Dan wrote: hum. Ok. Chalk that one up to bad site. Next - hotmail.com Most of the links in hotmail don't work in Safari 4, until you change the agent to report that it's not Safari on a Mac. Then they work fine. Someone smart should make an

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-06 Thread Doug Burton
On Mar 6, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Steve R wrote: At 9:09 AM -0500 3/6/09, Dan posted: At 4:53 AM -0500 3/6/2009, Nikki Wraith wrote: Breaking Federal law? Err. IANAL, but I don't get it. You violate the EULA, which would maybe violate contract laws, but what federal law do you speak of?

Re: Safari 4 Public Beta available today

2009-03-06 Thread Dan
At 2:22 PM -0700 3/6/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 6, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Dan wrote: Most of the links in hotmail don't work in Safari 4, until you change the agent to report that it's not Safari on a Mac. Then they work fine. Someone smart should make an intelligent user-agent

Re: Hackintoshes and PCs

2009-03-06 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, Talking about Hackintoshs are completely off topic on this list. There are many places on the web where you can get that information, but PLEASE folks, keep it off of the G3-5 List. Thanks, Len Gerstel

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-06 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Mar 5, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Dan wrote: ic. So the official party line is that if you don't like something about the product offerings, shut up. No it isn't...but if you're going to compare things

Re: Hackintoshes and PCs

2009-03-06 Thread Ted Treen
Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com mailto:lgers...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, Talking about Hackintoshs are completely off topic on this list. There are many places on the web where you can get that information,

Re: Hackintoshes and PCs

2009-03-06 Thread PeterH
On Mar 6, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Ted Treen wrote: Don't see quite how Windows is relevant to G3-G5 systems, but maybe my horizons are limited... Apple's very own Windows cards run perfectly on a G3. Perhaps even a G4. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: Safari 4 Public Beta available today

2009-03-06 Thread Ken Daggett
On 6 Mar 2009, at 14:48:40 PST, Dan wrote: At 2:22 PM -0700 3/6/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 6, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Dan wrote: Most of the links in hotmail don't work in Safari 4, until you change the agent to report that it's not Safari on a Mac. Then they work fine. Someone

Re: Hackintoshes and PCs

2009-03-06 Thread Ted Treen
PeterH wrote: On Mar 6, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Ted Treen wrote: Don't see quite how Windows is relevant to G3-G5 systems, but maybe my horizons are limited... Apple's very own Windows cards run perfectly on a G3. Perhaps even a G4. Why buy a Ferrari and install a truck engine? My

Re: Hackintoshes and PCs

2009-03-06 Thread Dan
At 11:17 AM -0500 3/6/2009, Len Gerstel wrote: Folks, Talking about Hackintoshs are completely off topic on this list. There are many places on the web where you can get that information, but PLEASE folks, keep it off of the G3-5 List. There needs to be a compromise here. We aren't talking

Re: Safari 4 Public Beta available today

2009-03-06 Thread Dan
At 4:45 PM -0800 3/6/2009, Ken Daggett wrote: Hmmm. How does one go about causing a browser to report that it is IE6 for Windows? Safari's preferences, Advanced tab, check the box to enable the Develop menu. Then in that Develop menu, select an appropriate User Agent item. See also:

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-06 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
On Mar 6, 2009, at 12:50 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: If you have to worry about the cost you can't afford a Mac right? Mebbe. But my bud who can't afford a Mac has full cable with all the bells and whistles and shops retail, also has maxed out her credit cards. I have basic cable

Re: Safari 4 Public Beta available today

2009-03-06 Thread Ken Daggett
On 6 Mar 2009, at 17:14:39 PST, Dan wrote: At 4:45 PM -0800 3/6/2009, Ken Daggett wrote: Hmmm. How does one go about causing a browser to report that it is IE6 for Windows? Safari's preferences, Advanced tab, check the box to enable the Develop menu. Then in that Develop menu, select an

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-06 Thread Donald Watson
On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:33 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: I have basic cable only, shop at thrift stores, no credit card balance and this is all so I can afford my Mac. A Honda and a Mac, I gotta have 'em at the expense of other things. I so totally agree with this line of thinking! Been doing

Re: Safari 4 Public Beta available today

2009-03-06 Thread Vic
On Mar 6, 2:22 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: I once spent a half-hour on the phone arguing with an IT tech at the   hospital who was absolutely convinced beyond any reason that their   Citrix app ...would NEVER EVER run on a Mac, no nope just not   possible Macs are

Re: Hackintoshes and PCs

2009-03-06 Thread Vic
Ok.  Time to pull the pizza from the oven. - Dan. You've got pizza!! All I have is a stale grilled ham and cheese sandwich ... at least I think it is cheese ... maybe a bit more penicillin than cheese. Dan II You've got cheese?!? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: Word Mac Virus - Really curious

2009-03-06 Thread Vic
 anyone have more clues i could offer her (being a PC person   myself)? good anti-virus programs for a Mac? Anne Keller Smith Down to Earth Web Design ClamXAV http://www.clamxav.com/ iAntiVirus http://www.iantivirus.com/ V Mabus --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: Hackintoshes and PCs

2009-03-06 Thread Len Gerstel
On Mar 6, 2009, at 7:21 PM, PeterH wrote: On Mar 6, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Ted Treen wrote: Don't see quite how Windows is relevant to G3-G5 systems, but maybe my horizons are limited... Apple's very own Windows cards run perfectly on a G3. Perhaps even a G4. If the problem is with a

Re: G4 CPU swap into Blue White G3

2009-03-06 Thread tortoise
On Mar 5, 5:46 am, PeterH peterh5...@rattlebrain.com wrote: On Mar 5, 2009, at 5:33 AM, tonycd wrote: What's the newest variety of G4 whose swapped-out CPU will drop into a Blue White G3? I traded a megahertz for megahertz G4s for the G3s in two of my BWs,   and I was disappointed.

Re: Power Mac G3 Blue And White Upgrade info

2009-03-06 Thread tortoise
On Mar 4, 7:33 pm, Stephen Weber maryland...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I finally got a replacement motherboard for my G3 Blue and White (Rev1). I need to know so some stuff about doing some upgrades to it: What is the best video card I can get for it?

Re: Tiger can write to NTFS drives?

2009-03-06 Thread Dana Collins
On 3/6/09 9:43 AM, Charles Davis of c...@gamewood.net sent On Mar 6, 2009, at 2:37 AM, Paul wrote: I just tried this very quickly, and then went on to do other more urgent things, but I was pleasantly surprised by the results. I connected an external SATA hard drive that came

Re: Tiger can write to NTFS drives?

2009-03-06 Thread Charles Davis
On Mar 6, 2009, at 11:20 PM, Dana Collins wrote: On 3/6/09 9:43 AM, Charles Davis of c...@gamewood.net sent On Mar 6, 2009, at 2:37 AM, Paul wrote: I just tried this very quickly, and then went on to do other more urgent things, but I was pleasantly surprised by the results. I

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-06 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Anne Keller-Smith earth...@ptd.net wrote: On Mar 6, 2009, at 12:50 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: If you have to worry about the cost you can't afford a Mac right? Mebbe. But my bud who can't afford a Mac has full cable with all the bells and