Re: Flashing PCI video cards for G4's - tape pins?

2009-07-05 Thread Will S
On Jul 4, 10:32 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Jul 4, 2009, at 5:48 PM, joplinfan wrote: I'm getting ready to flash a BFG / Geforce 6200 and a Radeon 9250... both standard PCI cards... to use in my MDD G4 1ghz towers. Been studying up on the process at The Mac Elite

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread Clark Martin
Stephen Conrad wrote: On 7/4/09, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: 50% would be an absurd amount. A percentage value isn't relevant, the amount is principally tied to virtual memory which depends on what programs are open. A better figure is to not let free space drop below about 5Gb.

Re: Flashing PCI video cards for G4's - tape pins?

2009-07-05 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 5, 2009, at 2:10 AM, Will S wrote: It is possible to flash some PCI cards and have both Quartz Extreme Core Image. No need for PCI extreme or special hacks. I'm running a BW machine upgraded to G4 600 Mhz. It's got a flashed Nvidia 5500 PCI card. I'm running Tiger and the Mac OS sees

Re: Flashing PCI video cards for G4's - tape pins?

2009-07-05 Thread pdimage
On 4/7/09 23:48, joplinfan kawni...@cableone.net wrote: Hi all, I'm getting ready to flash a BFG / Geforce 6200 and a Radeon 9250... both standard PCI cards... to use in my MDD G4 1ghz towers. Been studying up on the process at The Mac Elite website where it mentions that AGP cards

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Stephen Conradkhel...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I am on a BW G3 (Smurf) and it had 1.53 GB left on the HD OS X 10.2.8 (new computer is going to be here soon) I only have the following open: Opera, Safari, Terminal and TextEdit Suddenly I get a message saying I have

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread Peter
On Jul 5, 2009, at 7:32 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Stephen Conradkhel...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I am on a BW G3 (Smurf) and it had 1.53 GB left on the HD OS X 10.2.8 (new computer is going to be here soon) I only have the following open: Opera,

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread John Martz
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Peterpeter1...@gmail.com wrote: 6GB pretty much is the low end for running OSX. Get a bigger HD and copy the content from the 6GB with CCC to the new HD. My sentiments exactly! Although ... before leaping into getting a bigger drive it might be wise to walk

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread Stephen Conrad
On 7/5/09, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: Stephen Conrad wrote: On 7/4/09, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: 50% would be an absurd amount. A percentage value isn't relevant, the amount is principally tied to virtual memory which depends on what programs are open. A better figure

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread Dan
At 5:37 PM -0600 7/4/2009, Stephen Conrad wrote: BW G3 (Smurf) and it had 1.53 GB left on the HD OS X 10.2.8 I only have the following open: Opera, Safari, Terminal and TextEdit Suddenly I get a message saying I have no more HD space free (it is down to 40.8 MB) Perhaps pages you visited were

Re: HD Question

2009-07-05 Thread A.McCullough
Look at the rear of the drives. Then look here: http://www.ufsexplorer.com/inf_connect_hdd.php Given the apparent age of the drives in question (a fast Google lookup shows none of 'em as currently available, hence they're older drives and not currently in production) I'd say it's dang near a

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread iJohn
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Po-en Tsaipoen.t...@gmail.com wrote: Download the utility called 'Disk Inventory X' and run it on your OSX HDD. It will tell you what is taking up space on your computer, and where it is. Then you can delete whatever you dont need. Disk Inventory X:

Return to PowerPC?

2009-07-05 Thread Mullin9
Will Apple return to PPC processors? I experienced smoother Game Graphics on a 2 GHz G5 Mac with 256 MB of VRAM, than I had on a 2 GHz Intel Mac, with 256 MB of VRAM, both my Macs have 2 GB of RAM. thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: Return to PowerPC?

2009-07-05 Thread iJohn
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Mullin9ddavidmul...@inbox.com wrote: Will Apple return to PPC processors? I experienced smoother Game Graphics on a 2 GHz G5 Mac with 256 MB of VRAM, than I had on a 2 GHz Intel Mac,  with 256 MB of VRAM, both my Macs have 2 GB of RAM. Could you provide a

Re: Return to PowerPC?

2009-07-05 Thread PeterH
On Jul 5, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Mullin9 wrote: Will Apple return to PPC processors? A year or so ago, Apple purchased a fab-less designer and manufacturer of multi-core PPC processors. It is conceivable that Apple may use PPC processors in some future products, but the investment in

Re: Return to PowerPC?

2009-07-05 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Mullin9ddavidmul...@inbox.com wrote: Will Apple return to PPC processors? I experienced smoother Game Graphics on a 2 GHz G5 Mac with 256 MB of VRAM, than I had on a 2 GHz Intel Mac,  with 256 MB of VRAM, both my Macs have 2 GB of RAM.

Re: Return to PowerPC?

2009-07-05 Thread MaGioZal
On 7/6/09 2:19 AM, PeterH at peterh5...@rattlebrain.com wrote: However another product which is based upon PPC, or another processor which can make effective use of the power-saving technology which was acquired in that Apple purchase of a PPC company seems likely. And we must admit now:

Re: Return to PowerPC?

2009-07-05 Thread PeterH
On Jul 5, 2009, at 10:27 PM, MaGioZal wrote: The RISC had a lot of promises, but many times hadn't delivered them. It's not the processor, it's the implementation. IBM is making huge quantities of PPC RISCs. Sun is still making its RISCs. Intel's CISCs are doing well. And, perhaps the