Re: Very Stubborn Quicksilver

2009-06-03 Thread tortoise
On Jun 3, 6:09 pm, Brian Rule wrote: > Well, I hate to say you told me so, but you told me so. I downloaded > memtest and ran it with each of the 133 sticks I have booted in to > tiger on my older HD. Turns out the one 512 meg chip I have failed > pretty much every test, so I guess I'm limite

Re: Very Stubborn Quicksilver

2009-06-03 Thread Brian Rule
Well, I hate to say you told me so, but you told me so. I downloaded memtest and ran it with each of the 133 sticks I have booted in to tiger on my older HD. Turns out the one 512 meg chip I have failed pretty much every test, so I guess I'm limited to 768 megs of RAM for now. I'm tryin

Re: Dual Monitor - spanning behavior

2009-06-03 Thread Stephen E. Bodnar
Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Jun 3, 2009, at 6:06 AM, Paul Kemner wrote: > >> My question: If the VGA monitor is switched off (and it would >> probably look >> like it's unplugged due to the KVM switch), will my G4 boot in >> single screen >> mode, or will I just see half my desktop? Will I h

Re: Dual Monitor - spanning behavior

2009-06-03 Thread Clark Martin
Paul Kemner wrote: > Hi > I recently got a g4 FW800. I'm currently using a VGA monitor on the DVI > port, and I'm thinking of getting a 17" Studio LCD to plug into the ADC > port. > I'm planning on using the LCD monitor alone most of the time, but using > the VGA monitor in spanning mode occas

Re: OS 9.2.2

2009-06-03 Thread Clark Martin
Lawrence David Eden wrote: > I have a B&W that is running 10.4.11 > The B&W is upgraded to G4 @ 500mhz. > > I would like to be able to boot the Mac using an external SCSI hard > drive, but when I tried it yesterday, the Mac booted into OS X. I > used System Preferences Start-up Disk to set the

Re: Speakers for a G5

2009-06-03 Thread James E. Therrault
Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Dennis Myhand wrote: > > >>Why would you pay 18.5K for a set of B & Os when you can spend a mere >>$500.00 for a pair of Klipsch bookself speakers which is more than >>anyone will ever need? > > > The same people who buy $500 wooden volum

Re: Speakers for a G5

2009-06-03 Thread James E. Therrault
PETE wrote: > Three reasons why I can't get these: > 1)I live in California, not Texas > 2) They are for pick up only and finally and importantly > 3) I really don't have *US $18,500.00* just lying around my apartment! > Besides, I think the price is kind of steep. That's a down payment on a > h

Re: Dual Monitor - spanning behavior

2009-06-03 Thread Eric Volker
On Jun 3, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Paul Kemner wrote: > Hi > I recently got a g4 FW800. I'm currently using a VGA monitor on the > DVI port, and I'm thinking of getting a 17" Studio LCD to plug into > the ADC port. > I'm planning on using the LCD monitor alone most of the time, but > using the VGA

Re: Speakers for a G5

2009-06-03 Thread Dennis Myhand
Len Gerstel wrote: > >> The same people who buy $500 wooden volume control knobs, $1300 >> speaker cables and $2500 tube amps for their iPods. > > I have to partially disagree here. In my youth (early 80's), when I > had hair and good hearing, I could tell the difference between $200 > pr KM

Re: Speakers for a G5

2009-06-03 Thread PETE
Definitely out of my price range! Pete. --- On Wed, 6/3/09, Bruce Johnson wrote: From: Bruce Johnson Subject: Re: Speakers for a G5 To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 10:01 AM On Jun 3, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Denn

Re: Speakers for a G5

2009-06-03 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 3, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Dennis Myhand wrote: > >> >> Why would you pay 18.5K for a set of B & Os when you can spend a mere >> $500.00 for a pair of Klipsch bookself speakers which is more than >> anyone will ever need? > > The same peo

Re: Speakers for a G5

2009-06-03 Thread Sam Macomber
On Jun 3, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Dennis Myhand wrote: > >> >> Why would you pay 18.5K for a set of B & Os when you can spend a mere >> $500.00 for a pair of Klipsch bookself speakers which is more than >> anyone will ever need? > > The same peo

Re: Speakers for a G5

2009-06-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Dennis Myhand wrote: > > Why would you pay 18.5K for a set of B & Os when you can spend a mere > $500.00 for a pair of Klipsch bookself speakers which is more than > anyone will ever need? The same people who buy $500 wooden volume control knobs, $1300 speaker cab

Re: Speakers for a G5

2009-06-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 3, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Dennis Myhand wrote: > >> >> Why would you pay 18.5K for a set of B & Os when you can spend a mere >> $500.00 for a pair of Klipsch bookself speakers which is more than >> anyone will ever need? > > The same peop

Re: Speakers for a G5

2009-06-03 Thread Dennis Myhand
Why would you pay 18.5K for a set of B & Os when you can spend a mere $500.00 for a pair of Klipsch bookself speakers which is more than anyone will ever need? PETE wrote: > Three reasons why I can't get these: > 1)I live in California, not Texas > 2) They are for pick up only and finally and i

Re: Speakers for a G5

2009-06-03 Thread PETE
Three reasons why I can't get these: 1)I live in California, not Texas 2) They are for pick up only and finally and importantly 3) I really don't have US $18,500.00 just lying around my apartment! Besides, I think the price is kind of steep. That's a down payment on a house! Pete. --- On Tue, 6/2

We're not abandoned......YET!! Quicktime and iTunes updates available

2009-06-03 Thread Len Gerstel
Well, we are not abandoned by Apple, YET. We will see officially next week. My WAG is that we will be semi supported with updates to 10.4 and 10.5 until 10.7 comes out. I am including 10.4 since it is fairly close to 10.5 under the hood. Quicktime and iTunes updates just released for 10.4 a

Re: Dual Monitor - spanning behavior

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Kemner
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Re: Speakers for a G5

2009-06-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 2, 2009, at 7:28 PM, PETE wrote: > I want to buy external speakers for my G5. Does anyone have > suggestions? Barring audiophile quality needed, any old pair of 'computer speakers' will do. Places like 'Big Lots' usually have a selection to choose from; Computer Geeks has 'em from

Data / File Corruption Detector

2009-06-03 Thread insightinmind
My G4s are experiencing data corruption issues: the QS 2002 Dual is (not always) spinning its rainbow beach ball while I try to Finder copy a particular file across my network, and the target machine, my Yikes! tries to DVD Player the copied VIDEO_TS file (which is evidently corrupt at a re

Re: Dual Monitor - spanning behavior

2009-06-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 3, 2009, at 6:06 AM, Paul Kemner wrote: > My question: If the VGA monitor is switched off (and it would > probably look > like it's unplugged due to the KVM switch), will my G4 boot in > single screen > mode, or will I just see half my desktop? Will I have to change the > configuratio

Re: Dual Monitor - spanning behavior

2009-06-03 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Stephen E. Bodnar wrote: > > Paul Kemner wrote: >> My question: If the VGA monitor is switched off (and it would >> probably look >> like it's unplugged due to the KVM switch), will my G4 boot in >> single screen >> mode, or will I just see half my desktop? Will

Re: Speakers for a G5

2009-06-03 Thread Al Poulin
On Jun 2, 10:28 pm, PETE wrote: > I want to buy external speakers for my G5. Does anyone have suggestions? > TIA. > Pete. Check out the Bose - Companion 2 Series II Multimedia Speaker system. Best Buy has them online and in the store. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7933686&type=

Re: Dual Monitor - spanning behavior

2009-06-03 Thread Stephen E. Bodnar
Paul Kemner wrote: > HiI recently got a g4 FW800. I'm currently using a VGA monitor on the DVI > port, and I'm thinking of getting a 17" Studio LCD to plug into the ADC > port. > I'm planning on using the LCD monitor alone most of the time, but using the > VGA monitor in spanning mode occasionally

Dual Monitor - spanning behavior

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Kemner
HiI recently got a g4 FW800. I'm currently using a VGA monitor on the DVI port, and I'm thinking of getting a 17" Studio LCD to plug into the ADC port. I'm planning on using the LCD monitor alone most of the time, but using the VGA monitor in spanning mode occasionally for graphics/drafting. If I d

Re: Thermal grease?

2009-06-03 Thread John Callahan
I realize this is old news but I recently saw a 1947 Cadillac with the exhaust manifolds exiting from the vee block over the intake manifolds and down over the rear of the engine. Thought I knew engines but I guess I have much more to learn!! On Mar 16, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Al

Re: Speakers for a G5

2009-06-03 Thread Mark
PETE wrote: > I want to buy external speakers for my G5. Does anyone have suggestions? > TIA. > Pete. > > > I have a pair of Edirol speakers I would recommend avoiding. Apple seems to have taken them off their site. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: VHS to DVD

2009-06-03 Thread starrfarr
On Jun 2, 8:00 pm, Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Jun 2, 2009, at 4:50 PM, glen wrote: > > > > > This idea has got my attention. I remember such a device from   > > Computer Geeks a year or so  ago. Checking their site I see none   > > available. What combo deck do you or anyone else recommend? > >

Re: Speakers for a G5

2009-06-03 Thread DAN A CURRIE
Dana Collins wrote: > On 6/2/09 11:05 PM, Kris Tilford of ktilfo...@cox.net sent > > >> On Jun 2, 2009, at 9:28 PM, PETE wrote: >> >> >>> I want to buy external speakers for my G5. Does anyone have >>> suggestions? >>> >>

Re: OS 9.2.2

2009-06-03 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 3, 2009, at 5:12 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: > I have a B&W that is running 10.4.11 > The B&W is upgraded to G4 @ 500mhz. > > I would like to be able to boot the Mac using an external SCSI hard > drive, but when I tried it yesterday, the Mac booted into OS X. I > used System Preference

OS 9.2.2

2009-06-03 Thread Lawrence David Eden
I have a B&W that is running 10.4.11 The B&W is upgraded to G4 @ 500mhz. I would like to be able to boot the Mac using an external SCSI hard drive, but when I tried it yesterday, the Mac booted into OS X. I used System Preferences Start-up Disk to set the external drive as my boot drive. Did