Re: Backups? !!!

2009-11-10 Thread Baha Ata
Perfomance problems, other than that... i tried small restores... i never tried full restore... There are other people probably here might have deeper experiences... I was generally lost it, rescue it type of guy until last disaster of mine 2009/11/10 Dan dantear...@gmail.com At 12:14 AM +0200

Re: Backups? !!!

2009-11-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 9, 2009, at 8:17 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Yeah, part of my point. Little content other than a push toward favored solution sellers. I did mention my media studies, right? Had the article been thick with logic and reasoning I would have thought the intent really

Re: Backups? !!!

2009-11-10 Thread Dan
At 10:17 PM -0500 11/9/2009, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: [html removed] On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Dan wrote: huh? It's just a macworld article. That's it. Not even a very deep one. Yeah, part of my point. Little content other than a push toward favored solution sellers. The

Re: Backups? !!!

2009-11-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 9, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Dan wrote: At 12:14 AM +0200 11/10/2009, Baha Ata wrote: I use Time Machine with 24 hours backup intervals with 1.5 TB External nowadays... Have you had any problems with Time Machine? I've been running it since I updated to 10.5 and haven't hand more than

G5 won't sleep?

2009-11-10 Thread Jeffrey Engle
2.3ghz early 2005 G5 tower when I go up to the apple menu and select sleep , the monitor goes to sleep, hard drives spin down.. but the light refuses to pulse... Is there a way to return the mother/logic board back to factory defaults? I've tried PRAM reset, all the settings in energy

Re: G5 won't sleep?

2009-11-10 Thread Mike
On 10 Nov 2009, at 16:20, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote: 2.3ghz early 2005 G5 tower when I go up to the apple menu and select sleep , the monitor goes to sleep, hard drives spin down.. but the light refuses to pulse... Is there a way to return the mother/logic board back to

Re: DP 1GHZ G4 vs. Single 1.8GHZ G5

2009-11-10 Thread Geoff Black
It's not so much the processor speed as it is the bus speed. Bus on G5 is wider and will accomodate heavier jobs - otherwise much of a muchness Regards Geoff b On 10 Nov 2009, at 8:45 AM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: Just kinda lookin round and seeing i cud pick a sp1.8 g5 up pretty darn cheap...

Re: Backups? !!!

2009-11-10 Thread Baha Ata
are there any good if not better alternatives for Time Machine? 2009/11/10 Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu On Nov 9, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Dan wrote: At 12:14 AM +0200 11/10/2009, Baha Ata wrote: I use Time Machine with 24 hours backup intervals with 1.5 TB External

Re: Backups? !!!

2009-11-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 10, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Baha Ata wrote: are there any good if not better alternatives for Time Machine? better is subjective, IMO. Time Machine makes it very easy to recover accidentally deleted files and roll back changes to files. It is absolutely dead simple to set up and use.

Re: G5 won't sleep?

2009-11-10 Thread Geoff Black
Load windows and watch your mac sleep.. ... seriously though check yr frmware ver. and also reset the pmu switch on the mobo. if no response perhaps you have a Mac like my G4 - MDD which CANNOT sleep or Boot sys 9. Rgds G On 10 Nov 2009, at 6:20 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: 2.3ghz

Re: G5 won't sleep?

2009-11-10 Thread Dan
At 8:20 AM -0800 11/10/2009, Jeffrey Engle wrote: 2.3ghz early 2005 G5 tower when I go up to the apple menu and select sleep , the monitor goes to sleep, hard drives spin down.. but the light refuses to pulse... Is there a way to return the mother/logic board back to factory defaults?

Re: Backups? !!!

2009-11-10 Thread Dan
At 6:56 PM +0200 11/10/2009, Baha Ata wrote: are there any good if not better alternatives for Time Machine? So far you and Bruce are the only two folx I know that haven't had major TM fooage. By major I mean that TM farks so badly that it's necessary to erase the whole backup volume. That

Re: Backups? !!!

2009-11-10 Thread iJohn
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Carbon Copy Cloner (and the very similar Super Duper) makes it very easy to recover form a failed HDD: just boot from your backup. To create a bootable clone copy of an OS X partition I've always just used

Re: Backups? !!!

2009-11-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Dan wrote: At 6:56 PM +0200 11/10/2009, Baha Ata wrote: are there any good if not better alternatives for Time Machine? So far you and Bruce are the only two folx I know that haven't had major TM fooage. By major I mean that TM farks so badly that it's

Re: Backups? !!!

2009-11-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:52 AM, iJohn wrote: What advantage is there to using these other apps beyond what Apple's Disk Utility would provide? CCC lets you schedule copies and maintains an up-to-date version, only copying files that have changed. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona

Hacking cellphone pics from Motorola flip up cell phone to Powerbook G3 Pismo

2009-11-10 Thread Dwight Hines
I need to download pictures from my cellphone directly to my pismo. It is way too expensive to email them from the cell phone. The phone has a usb port that is used to charge the battery and a port for headphones. I own the phone so it is ok to hack it physically. Has anyone done that? Please

Re: Hacking cellphone pics from Motorola flip up cell phone to Powerbook G3 Pismo

2009-11-10 Thread Dan
At 1:18 PM -0500 11/10/2009, Dwight Hines wrote: I need to download pictures from my cellphone directly to my pismo. It is way too expensive to email them from the cell phone. Maybe BitPIM. http://www.bitpim.org/ - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.

Re: Can't purchase from iTunes Store

2009-11-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 10, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: minG4 Tiger iTunes 9.0.2 Try to purchase a tune and get Error 1008 Google search on problem reveals others with same problem Seeming only fix is revert to vs 8. Surely there s a fix in the making. Did you try this :

Can't purchase from iTunes Store

2009-11-10 Thread Cliff Rediger
minG4 Tiger iTunes 9.0.2 Try to purchase a tune and get Error 1008 Google search on problem reveals others with same problem Seeming only fix is revert to vs 8. Surely there s a fix in the making. So, wondering if others here have experienced similar issues and/or have inside scoop on

Re: Hacking cellphone pics from Motorola flip up cell phone to Powerbook G3 Pismo

2009-11-10 Thread Michael J. Amato
I have a motorola flip phone. It has Bluetooth which I use for that purpose. Can you set up Pismo for bluetooth? On Nov 10, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Dwight Hines wrote: I need to download pictures from my cellphone directly to my pismo. It is way too expensive to email them from the cell

RE: SATA card for DVD burner in a MDD

2009-11-10 Thread Stewie de Young
As chance would have it, this is the same Firmtek card that I have in my DA running a 36Gb Raptor and OS10.4.11 and doing it well. I think what he is after though is whether these cards can have a DVD drive plugged into them that you can boot off. I don't have a SATA optical drive that I can

Re: Can't purchase from iTunes Store

2009-11-10 Thread William Boggs
Make sure you have Safari upgraded and installed...that sneaky iTunes store uses Safari. Bill Sent from my iPhone. Bill Boggs 219-781-6628 On Nov 10, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Cliff Rediger redicl...@yahoo.com wrote: minG4 Tiger iTunes 9.0.2 Try to purchase a tune and get Error 1008 Google

Re: Hacking cellphone pics from Motorola flip up cell phone to Powerbook G3 Pismo

2009-11-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 10, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Michael J. Amato wrote: I have a motorola flip phone. It has Bluetooth which I use for that purpose. Can you set up Pismo for bluetooth? I'm not Dwight, but yeah, any USB Bluetooth dongle will work in OS X. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of

Re: Backups? !!!

2009-11-10 Thread Baha Ata
thanks bruce and others... i am a noivice in Apple world, just seriously using this machines for a year (even i smiliar with them since 1988). Any PC software that can backup Apple's from PC? For networks... it will be my last question. 2009/11/10 Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu

Re: Backups? !!!

2009-11-10 Thread Baha Ata
hmmm... i might try it... if i can... i will report it 2009/11/11 Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu On Nov 10, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Baha Ata wrote: Any PC software that can backup Apple's from PC? For networks... it will be my last question. Big enterprise solutions like

Classic on Ruby Red iMac

2009-11-10 Thread janesprando
I have a Ruby Red iMac that i am setting up for a 6 year old. It is G3, 400mhz. I installed a new hard drive and formatted it to 10.4, that's the OS her school runs on their iMacs.) I have also installed several learning games that need Classic. However, whenever I try to open one of these, I

Re: Classic on Ruby Red iMac

2009-11-10 Thread Jim Scott
On Nov 10, 2009, at 4:59 PM, janespra...@comcast.net wrote: I have a Ruby Red iMac that i am setting up for a 6 year old. It is G3, 400mhz. I installed a new hard drive and formatted it to 10.4, that's the OS her school runs on their iMacs.) I have also installed several learning games

Re: Classic on Ruby Red iMac

2009-11-10 Thread Clark Martin
janespra...@comcast.net wrote: I have a Ruby Red iMac that i am setting up for a 6 year old. It is G3, 400mhz. I installed a new hard drive and formatted it to 10.4, that's the OS her school runs on their iMacs.) I have also installed several learning games that need Classic. However,

Re: SATA card for DVD burner in a MDD

2009-11-10 Thread Ross
On Nov 10, 11:27 am, Stewie de Young stewies...@hotmail.com wrote: ... I think what he is after though is whether these cards can have a DVD drive plugged into them that you can boot off... Stewie Correct! I just searched for Mac compatible SATA controller cards, then for cheap Mac

Re: SATA card for DVD burner in a MDD

2009-11-10 Thread Ross
On Nov 10, 6:35 pm, Ross olfec...@digizip.com wrote: On Nov 10, 11:27 am, Stewie de Young stewies...@hotmail.com wrote: ... I think what he is after though is whether these cards can have a DVD drive plugged into them that you can boot off... Stewie Correct! I just searched for Mac