Re: USB Backward compatibility

2009-11-27 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: 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

Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-27 Thread tina
in my router, there's an option called dns forwarder when ads bother me too much, I go in there and forward their domain to IP 127.0.0.1 I guess this can also be done in your local hosts file somewhere in macos /tina -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

USB backward compatibility

2009-11-27 Thread Ben Kernan
As I recently found out, iPhones USB 1.1 do not play well together. I made the sad mistake of doing the initial setup of my iPhone 3g on my wife's pc due to speed issues, then Sent from my iPhone Mac user since '90 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a

Re: USB Backward compatibility

2009-11-27 Thread Lawrence David Eden
Anyways. Has anyone tried a USB 2.0 device on a BW G3 1.0 Interface and gotten it to work? Yes. I connected a USB 2.0 hob to my BW's USB 1.0 port and it worked fine. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs -

Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-27 Thread Nestamicky
On 11/27/09 3:57 AM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote: in my router, there's an option called dns forwarder when ads bother me too much, I go in there and forward their domain to IP 127.0.0.1 I guess this can also be done in your local hosts file somewhere in macos What a brilliant idea, though I

Re: Twitter, the new cpu pig

2009-11-27 Thread Dan
Here's one that's bogging me now. It's loading up twits one at a time, continuously... http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/11/does-iran-have-a-secret-nuke-weapons-network-experts-think-so/ - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because

Re: Mouse Question

2009-11-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
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) Yes. Out of the box it will work as a basic mouse. Logitech has software for the Mac, too. -- Bruce

Re: Mouse Question

2009-11-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
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) An addendum to my previous answer. More generally, ANY USB pointing device will function in OS X, at

Re: USB Backward compatibility

2009-11-27 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: Anyways. Has anyone tried a USB 2.0 device on a BW G3 1.0 Interface and gotten it to work? ___ Various USB 2 thumbdrives.scanners and printers.

Re: Twitter, the new cpu pig

2009-11-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 27, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Dan wrote: Here's one that's bogging me now. It's loading up twits one at a time, continuously... http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/11/does-iran-have-a-secret-nuke-weapons-network-experts-think-so/ Turn on the developer menu is Safari and you can use

Re: USB Backward compatibility

2009-11-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
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. Most of the time a USB 2.0 device

Re: Mouse Question

2009-11-27 Thread Ted Treen
Bruce Johnson wrote: snip That is a joystick. Yes. A joystick ON a mouse. Even Dr. Moreau would declare this an experiment too far. ROFLMAO Thanks Bruce, your last sentence really brightened a dull day... (I'm stuck at home getting over swine flu but still tele-working...) Keep the

Re: Mouse Question

2009-11-27 Thread Dan
At 10:01 PM -0600 11/26/2009, 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) I love Logitech mice! Just hook it up. It should work immediately. For the rest of the features, you'll need

Re: Twitter, the new cpu pig

2009-11-27 Thread Dan
At 10:48 AM -0700 11/27/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: IN this case it's the section that begins at: div id=text-553827321 class=widget_widget_text And is loading stuff from: http://widgets.twimg.com/j/1/widget.js So if you block widgets.twimg.com either with SafariBlock or in hosts, that should stop

Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-27 Thread Dan
At 10:09 PM -0600 11/26/2009, Caleb S. Cupples wrote: 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. I did some research, and

SATA for G4MDD

2009-11-27 Thread Geoff Black
Is there a pci card that will supply sata drive capabilities on a G4 MDD 867 dual. If so whats a reliable purchase - In south africa IDE drives are no longer available. Rgds Gb -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop

Re: Mouse Question

2009-11-27 Thread Kasey Smith
On Nov 27, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Any typical USB two-button+scrollwheel PC mouse will also work with full functionality out of the box on OS X, the left button clicks, the right control-clicks and the scroll wheel scrolls. I've also never run into a wireless mouse that

Re: SATA for G4MDD

2009-11-27 Thread Jeffrey Engle
this is what I found... http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=11160 On Nov 27, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Geoff Black wrote: Is there a pci card that will supply sata drive capabilities on a G4 MDD 867 dual. If so whats a reliable purchase - In south africa IDE drives are no longer

All NON Boot Drives are 'Locked' ???

2009-11-27 Thread aussieshepsrock
Hello, I've encountered a weird issue. There are little paddlelocks on most of my drives. I think it's a permissions issue of some sort I've never encountered before. My boot partition on the internal drive is fine, but the other boot partition and the user data partition won't let me access

Re: All NON Boot Drives are 'Locked' ???

2009-11-27 Thread Bill Bunny Kuhlman
Richard, We had the same problem with the same symptoms and the same inability to make the appropriate changes - four drives were affected. After a relatively lengthy search, we found this thread on the Apple forums: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1961253start=0tstart=0. The

Re: USB Backward compatibility

2009-11-27 Thread Gus
I just want to thank all of you who responded. I should have checked the archive before posting my question. I read about it on the wikipedia, but I just wanted to know of some one who actually TRIED it. again, thanks to all!!! Gus. -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: USB Backward compatibility

2009-11-27 Thread John Callahan
I have and it's pretty jerky! On Nov 27, 2009, at 8:13 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: Anyways. Has anyone tried a USB 2.0 device on a BW G3 1.0 Interface and gotten it to work? Yes. I connected a USB 2.0 hob to my BW's USB 1.0 port and it worked fine. -- You received this message

RE: SATA for G4MDD

2009-11-27 Thread Stewie de Young
I have had a Seritek 1S2 running in my dual DA ( 10.4.11 ) for over a year now with a 10,000RPM WD Raptor running off it just fine. The HD is bootable from this SATA card too - not all SATA cards can have a Mac bootable drive running off them I believe. If I wanted to I could plug another HD

RE: SATA for G4MDD

2009-11-27 Thread Stewie de Young
By coincidence I just happened to be trawling the Apple Discussions forum on another matter and saw this thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2239302tstart=0 linked to this product http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812119257Tpk=rc-a-sata-ide My Seritek

Re: Mouse Question

2009-11-27 Thread Vic
On Nov 27, 1:22 pm, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 27, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Any typical USB two-button+scrollwheel PC mouse will also work with full functionality out of the box on OS X, the left button clicks, the right control-clicks and the scroll wheel

Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-27 Thread tina
On 11/27/09 3:57 AM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote: in my router, there's an option called dns forwarder when ads bother me too much, I go in there and forward their domain to IP 127.0.0.1 I guess this can also be done in your local hosts file somewhere in macos What a brilliant idea, though I

Re: Other, unwanted intruders

2009-11-27 Thread Dan
At 3:24 AM +0100 11/28/2009, t...@nehaia.dk wrote: oh, and the nice thing about doing it in the router of course is that all the puters on the network benefits from it Doable IFF you have admin type access to said routers. And if you swap out the router, all those filters vanish. And if you

Script

2009-11-27 Thread Stephen Conrad
Machine: Quicksilver OS: 10.4.11 Browser: Firefox 3..5 AddOn: NoScript 1.9.9.18 So, why am I told a script is, for lack of a better term, acting up and do I want to continue or cancel it? It was a script from Google ( it was from *something*.google.com ) and it was on a site where I block scripts