RE: New SD camera card reader

2009-11-26 Thread Stewie de Young
Well I have a USB2.0 hub on my desk and when I want to download photos from my camera I just take the SD card out , insert it into one end of this little reader and then plug the USB end of the reader into any spare slot of the hub. My hub has vertical slots so the width is not a problem. Like

Re: G4 getting wonky with cpu hungry widgets.

2009-11-26 Thread carter foreman
On Nov 25, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Dan wrote: At 6:48 PM -0500 11/24/2009, carter foreman wrote: G4 dual 1ghz 1.5 GB RAM, OS 10.4.11. Fully updated, Safari 4.0.4 also? yep Spotlight indexing enabled? yep Lately i have been having an issue with the widgets taking way too much cpu time. So

Re: New Disks in G5

2009-11-26 Thread Ted Treen
iJohn wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Kasey Smithkasm...@gmail.com wrote: I would go with the 7200RPM, going from a 5400 to a 7200 even with an IDE drive is a big difference. It used to make a bigger difference than it does now with the newer, higher bit density

Re: New SD camera card reader

2009-11-26 Thread Stanton Mitrany
I also have one of these Converter Drive units of the Digital Concepts brand, which reads and writes both SD and MMC cards. It's double the width of a USB slot (when there are several in series) but it's offset to one side in order to take up only one slot's utility if it's placed at the

POP!

2009-11-26 Thread Tom Podnar
Hello all-- Last night while running my G5 Powermac Dual 1.85, I heard a POP and it sure stopped working! Could this be a power supply issue? Any thoughts about the best suppliers for new/rebuilt power supplies? Thank you, Tom-- -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: installing old software

2009-11-26 Thread Dale Hoffman
Use Disk Utility on the computer that will mount the low density floppies and create disk images of them. These can be copied to whichever removable medium that will work on both computers and transferred to your G4. Drag them to your desk top and mount them in sequence. Dale On Nov 26,

Re: Video upgrade options for a Gigabit Ethernet G4

2009-11-26 Thread Michael B. in Cincinnati
I have a DP 533 DA, and I also installed a flashed GeForce 6200 AGP card. It made a significant difference; between that and an Acard SATA card, my machine is pretty useful. My test application was Klondyke Forever; the animation with the Rage 128 card was unusable, but with the 6200, it runs

Re: New SD camera card reader

2009-11-26 Thread Stanton Mitrany
Addendum: The model number of the Digital Concepts USB interface SD card reader/writer I described below is CR-35TD-R. Printed on its top side is this: Converter Drive Digital Concepts SD/MMC Reader/Writer. All the best, stanton *** On Nov 26, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Stanton Mitrany wrote:

RE: New SD camera card reader

2009-11-26 Thread Bequette Jeff
Bequette Jeff jbeque...@tconl.com Subject: Re: New SD camera card reader i bought a Promaster Digital 4 in one when I discovered the limitation of the camera (about 600 pics on the sd card) and the HP photosmart printer (about 1000 pics). I took it to my local camera shop where

Re: New SD camera card reader

2009-11-26 Thread Michael G.M.
On Nov 26, 6:18 am, Stewie de Young stewies...@hotmail.com wrote: Well I have a USB2.0 hub on my desk and when I want to download photos from my camera I just take the SD card out , insert it into one end of this little reader and then plug the USB end of the reader into any spare slot of

Re: Video upgrade options for a Gigabit Ethernet G4

2009-11-26 Thread Bill Connelly
On Nov 26, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Michael B. in Cincinnati wrote: I have a DP 533 DA, and I also installed a flashed GeForce 6200 AGP card. It made a significant difference; between that and an Acard SATA card, my machine is pretty useful. My test application was Klondyke Forever; the animation

Re: installing old software

2009-11-26 Thread Kasey Smith
On Nov 26, 2009, at 8:01 AM, Dale Hoffman wrote: Use Disk Utility on the computer that will mount the low density floppies and create disk images of them. These can be copied to whichever removable medium that will work on both computers and transferred to your G4. Drag them to your desk top

Re: Video upgrade options for a Gigabit Ethernet G4

2009-11-26 Thread Kasey Smith
On Nov 26, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Nov 26, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Michael B. in Cincinnati wrote: The one limitation I find with this machine is YouTube. I'm a career college instructor, and there's a lot of video resources on YouTube that I can't use with this machine. It

Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Stamsen
Previously, referring to Twitter, the new cpu pig,at 3:19 pm -0500 11/26/09, Dan wrote: After beating Flash into submission with ClickToFlash, and blocking various animated ads with SafariBlock, my browsing speed was pretty durn quick! But now sites have begun including globs of Twitter***t,

Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread John Musbach
On 11/26/09, Paul Stamsen pjs...@bresnan.net wrote: And I'm getting a **ed pop-ups from NetFlicks or a pop-in from CNet TechTracker. What would you folks suggest to combat them? Disconnect from the Internet. Seriously, disk space, bandwidth, and computing power, even today, is very

Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Dan
At 3:53 PM -0500 11/26/2009, John Musbach wrote: On 11/26/09, Paul Stamsen pjs...@bresnan.net wrote: And I'm getting a **ed pop-ups from NetFlicks or a pop-in from CNet TechTracker. What would you folks suggest to combat them? Disconnect from the Internet. Seriously, disk space, bandwidth,

Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Dan
At 1:46 PM -0700 11/26/2009, Paul Stamsen wrote: And I'm getting a **ed pop-ups from NetFlicks or a pop-in from CNet TechTracker. What would you folks suggest to combat them? Specific URLs, so we can look at 'em? What ad blocker are you using? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South

Re: Twitter, the new cpu pig

2009-11-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 26, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Dan wrote: But now sites have begun including globs of Twitter***t, which makes Safari drink most of my CPU and eat more memory, especially if I've opened two or more tabs of these pages! Any ideas on how to block those, or at least stone (freeze) them? ...I'm

Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Stamsen
Previously, at 3:53 pm -0500 11/26/09, John Musbach wrote: Disconnect from the Internet. Seriously, disk space, bandwidth, and computing power, even today, is very expensive--if you can't financially support the websites you use then you shouldn't be expecting the service they provide you in

Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Stamsen
Previously, at 4:15 pm -0500 11/26/09, Dan wrote: Specific URLs, so we can look at 'em? You know, I have no idea. Maybe CNET.com, but I have no idea where the NetFlix came from. What ad blocker are you using? Same as you ClickToFlash, and blocking various animated ads with SafariBlock.

Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Michael G.M.
I use SeaMonkey 2.0 with Adblock plus and NoScript. Both Add-ons do really, really well. NoScript has been doing most of the blocking and so on for me. On a side note, Lowend Mac seems to be the site I have the most problems with lately. ie. getting it to display properly. This is an issue with

Re: Twitter, the new cpu pig

2009-11-26 Thread Dan
At 3:00 PM -0700 11/26/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Nov 26, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Dan wrote: But now sites have begun including globs of Twitter***t, which makes Safari drink most of my CPU and eat more memory, especially if I've opened two or more tabs of these pages! Any ideas on how to

Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Stamsen
I found this: com.trolltech.plist, in the prefs and moved it to Preferences (Corrupt) and that seems to have stopped the pop-in from CNet TechTracker. Interesting name, huh? p. -- Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- You received this message because you

Re: Twitter, the new cpu pig

2009-11-26 Thread Lyle Syverson
On Nov 26, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Dan wrote: At 3:00 PM -0700 11/26/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Nov 26, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Dan wrote: But now sites have begun including globs of Twitter***t, which makes Safari drink most of my CPU and eat more memory, especially if I've opened two or more

Re: Twitter, the new cpu pig

2009-11-26 Thread Dan
At 8:19 PM -0600 11/26/2009, Lyle Syverson wrote: Here's one with a twitter that's not very active: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141473/ Psystar_promised_investors_huge_clone_sales Well... it loaded fast... and the twitter links were optional. Loading isn't a problem. The

Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Michael G.M.
On Nov 26, 6:48 pm, Paul Stamsen pjs...@bresnan.net wrote: I found this: com.trolltech.plist, in the prefs and moved it to Preferences (Corrupt) and that seems to have stopped the pop-in from CNet TechTracker.  Interesting name, huh? Yes, very interesting and appropriately named I must say.

Mouse Question

2009-11-26 Thread Stephen Conrad
I got my hands on a Logitech Cordless Optical mouse (FCC ID: JNZ201759) Can it be used with my Quicksilver (G4 running OS X 10.4.11) -- Steve Conrad Henrietta, MO 64036 The time has come for mankind to grow up and leave its cradle behind; to go forth and claim our place in outer space.

USB Backward compatibility

2009-11-26 Thread Gus
I have a G3 BW with USB 1.0. When they say that USB is backwards compatible, does that mean a USB 2.0 device will work on a 1.0 interface, or does that only mean a USB 1.0 Device will work on a USB 2.0 Interface. I was thinking of getting one of those SD card readers for my BW and swap it

Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Michael G.M.
On Nov 26, 10:42 pm, Paul Stamsen pjs...@bresnan.net wrote: Previously, at 7:31  pm -0800 11/26/09, Michael G.M. wrote: Yes, very interesting and appropriately named I must say. Sounds like a no-brainer of what to do with that .plist file. I'm sure someone or maybe even I could figure out

Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-26 Thread Caleb S. Cupples
On Thursday 26 November 2009 17:48:57 Paul Stamsen wrote: I found this: com.trolltech.plist, in the prefs and moved it to Preferences (Corrupt) and that seems to have stopped the pop-in from CNet TechTracker. Interesting name, huh? p. I did some research, and the Trolltech plist is

Re: Mouse Question

2009-11-26 Thread Kasey Smith
Do you have the USB dongle? If so, yes. (No harm in plugging it in and trying ;) On Nov 26, 2009, at 9:01 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: I got my hands on a Logitech Cordless Optical mouse (FCC ID: JNZ201759) Can it be used with my Quicksilver (G4 running OS X 10.4.11) -- Steve Conrad

Re: USB Backward compatibility

2009-11-26 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Gus gusr...@comcast.net wrote: I have a G3 BW with USB 1.0. When they say that USB is backwards compatible, does that mean a USB 2.0 device will work on a 1.0 interface, or does that only mean a USB 1.0 Device will work on a USB 2.0 Interface. I was

Re: POP!

2009-11-26 Thread Charles Lenington
Tom Podnar wrote: Hello all-- Last night while running my G5 Powermac Dual 1.85, I heard a POP and it sure stopped working! Could this be a power supply issue? Any thoughts about the best suppliers for new/rebuilt power supplies? Thank you, Tom-- -- You received this message because

Re: USB Backward compatibility

2009-11-26 Thread Kasey Smith
On Nov 26, 2009, at 11:07 PM, Gus wrote: I have a G3 BW with USB 1.0. When they say that USB is backwards compatible, does that mean a USB 2.0 device will work on a 1.0 interface, or does that only mean a USB 1.0 Device will work on a USB 2.0 Interface. Both, USB 2.0 will work just fine on

Re: USB Backward compatibility

2009-11-26 Thread Clark Martin
Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Gus gusr...@comcast.net mailto:gusr...@comcast.net wrote: I have a G3 BW with USB 1.0. When they say that USB is backwards compatible, does that mean a USB 2.0 device will work on a 1.0 interface, or does