Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-24 Thread Stephen Conrad
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Mac User #330250 macuser330...@gmx.netwrote: -- Original message -- Subject: Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs? Date:Sonntag 24 Januar 2010N From:Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com

MDD hangs on Startup

2010-01-24 Thread Gary D.
Hi all, I'm having an annoying problem with my MDD (2003) running 10.4.11 that I haven't been able to solve. It almost always hangs during the first attempt to start but nearly always starts on the second attempt. I've replaced the battery and cloned the software to another drive for startup as

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-24 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Miguel Garcia Gell maggel...@gmail.comwrote: *Every body talk about what's is inside of a PPC's family BUT!...What about OUTSIDE?...I'm a industrial designer and let me tell you... Apple's Power PC are the most beautiful, equilibrating and gorgeous design of

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-24 Thread Dan
At 3:16 AM -0500 1/24/2010, Miguel Garcia Gell wrote: Every body talk about what's is inside of a PPC's family BUT!...What about OUTSIDE?...I'm a industrial designer and let me tell you... Apple's Power PC are the most beautiful, equilibrating and gorgeous design of this century... PLUS all

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-24 Thread Dan
At 8:05 AM +0100 1/24/2010, Mac User #330250 wrote: What games are you playing? I don't game much. But in the past, I've enjoyed the ones from Ambrosia. Maelstrom, Chiral, Barrack, Bubble Trouble, Aki (Mah Jong), etc. Been a while since I perused their site, but as I recall they still

Re: MDD hangs on Startup

2010-01-24 Thread Dan
At 3:00 AM -0800 1/24/2010, Gary D. wrote: I'm having an annoying problem with my MDD (2003) running 10.4.11 that I haven't been able to solve. It almost always hangs during the first attempt to start but nearly always starts on the second attempt. Does the hang occur if you boot into Safe

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-24 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Dan wrote: At 3:16 AM -0500 1/24/2010, Miguel Garcia Gell wrote: Every body talk about what's is inside of a PPC's family BUT!...What about OUTSIDE?...I'm a industrial designer and let me tell you... Apple's Power PC are the most beautiful, equilibrating and

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-24 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Dan wrote: At 3:16 AM -0500 1/24/2010, Miguel Garcia Gell wrote: Every body talk about what's is inside of a PPC's family BUT!...What about OUTSIDE?...I'm a industrial designer and let me tell you... Apple's Power PC are the most beautiful, equilibrating and

Re: How can I import a Powerpoint/Keynote file into iDVD Make a slide show?

2010-01-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 23, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Michael B. in Cincinnati wrote: Is there a way to do this while keeping the text comments added to the slides without simply starting over with an entire new set of pictures? I can't find a way in iPhoto to add text to the pictures, and feel forced back to

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 24, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: Are there any free Mac games out there that will play nicely on my G3 BW? I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger if that matters. Glider Pro: http://homepage.mac.com/calhoun/Glider%20PRO.html A very very classic Mac game. -- Bruce

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Dan wrote: Not crazy about the iMac G4 design (too many with limp necks). But I really like the rest of the iMac designs over the years. Very cool. sigh. Now if only they were easier to repair. Good industrial design should, IMO, include easy-open / access

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-24 Thread Gorka Martinez Mezo
Every BW G3 and G4 was a breeze to work on, except for the nasty sharp bits pulling the optical drive cable and after a while you develop sufficient scar tissue across your knuckles that you don't notice. Having work in both the beige G3 desktop and G4 GE, as well as inside many

Re: Lost hd space - where did it go?

2010-01-24 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 23, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: Lost hd space - where did it go? Cleaning up no longer needed stuff, emptied 8 Gb partition - all gone - yet info shows 2.6 Gb, trash has been emptied. At a loss for where and what is still using 2.6 Gb? Any ideas will be helpful. G4 450

Re: g5 question

2010-01-24 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 24-01-2010 05:47, roger d, stink...@ptd.net, wrote: what powermacs where liquid cooled? where all late 05 powermac g5s liquid cooled? No. Only the early and the late dual 2.5 GHz and the 2.7 GHz are liquid cooled. Jo Hissel -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: Safe mode startup and Terminal commands

2010-01-24 Thread Dan
At 6:10 PM -0800 1/24/2010, Jonas Lopez wrote: Starting up in Safe mode using the Shift key and starting in command+S single user mode you can issue the command to Note please that Safe Mode and Single User Mode are VERY different. test the hd partition thusly: /sbin/fsck -fy the test will

USB/FW/other Panel Replacement

2010-01-24 Thread Bill Connelly
Anyone remember where a USB / FW / other port panel that can be used to replace a Zip drive, and give front panel access to USB / FW / other can be found? Want one for my Digital Audio Dual 533 G4 running OS X 10.5.8. Thanks -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group,

Re: g5 question

2010-01-24 Thread Jack Countryman
I've seen dual 1.8 and dual 2.3 that were also liquid cooled...don't know if that was typical or not. Single 1.6, single 1.8, dual 2.0 seem to have been air cooled. On 1/24/10 4:20 PM, J.M.P.Hissel jo...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 24-01-2010 05:47, roger d, stink...@ptd.net, wrote: what powermacs

Re: USB/FW/other Panel Replacement

2010-01-24 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: Anyone remember where a USB / FW / other port panel that can be used to replace a Zip drive, and give front panel access to USB / FW / other can be found? Want one for my Digital Audio Dual 533 G4 running OS X 10.5.8. Thanks I have seen

Re: USB/FW/other Panel Replacement

2010-01-24 Thread Chance Reecher
Halfway down the page: http://stn2.headgap.com/resale/FMPro?-token=13531991-db=ProductsC.fp3-lay=WEB-format=items.htm-sortfield=SortID-Max=40category=acces-find On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote: I have seen thing like this over at theheadgapstore.com , I

Re: USB/FW/other Panel Replacement

2010-01-24 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jan 24, 2010, at 10:52 PM, Chance Reecher wrote: Halfway down the page: http://stn2.headgap.com/resale/FMPro?-token=13531991-db=ProductsC.fp3-lay=WEB-format=items.htm-sortfield=SortID-Max=40category=acces-find Thats what I remember. Don't seem to be many around (out of stock), and I

Re: MDD bad RAM 3 beeps: I'm feeling even dumber than usual

2010-01-24 Thread Bill Christensen
At 1:19 PM -0800 1/24/10, tonycd wrote: I loaded all the 512s from the two 867 machines into one of them, chosen pretty much at random, since I needed one machine more urgently than two. Eventually, after some stumbling around, this turned out to be a sweet-running (if somewhat noisy) Mac that's

G4 dual 500 Panther to Leopard upgrade

2010-01-24 Thread Peterafterthought
I'm reading alot here and elsewhere about upgrading my G4 dual 500 from Panther to Leopard and looking for more info. From what I read it's doable. A couple of stupid questions. I have a Macbook Pro with Leopard. Can I use that installation dvd to install Leopard on my G4 ? My Panther on the G4

Re: USB/FW/other Panel Replacement

2010-01-24 Thread Fabian Fang
On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:17 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Jan 24, 2010, at 10:52 PM, Chance Reecher wrote: Halfway down the page: http://stn2.headgap.com/resale/FMPro?-token=13531991-db=ProductsC.fp3-lay=WEB-format=items.htm-sortfield=SortID-Max=40category=acces-find Thats what I remember.

Re: G4 dual 500 Panther to Leopard upgrade

2010-01-24 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 24, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Peterafterthought wrote: I'm reading alot here and elsewhere about upgrading my G4 dual 500 from Panther to Leopard and looking for more info. From what I read it's doable. A couple of stupid questions. I have a Macbook Pro with Leopard. Can I use that installation

Re: G4 dual 500 Panther to Leopard upgrade

2010-01-24 Thread Chance Reecher
Yes, you can use the MacBook's installer just fine. It's only locked as to the Mac it will install from, not the drive it will install to. Start the G4 up in Target Disk Mode, boot the MacBook from the installer, and choose the G4's HD to install to. I've done it before, it works fine. No need for

Re: Thinking about a new CPU for a Sawtooth 500 MHz G4

2010-01-24 Thread Dana Collins
On 1/24/10 1:45 AM, Mac User #330250 of macuser330...@gmx.net sent -- Original message -- Subject: Re: Thinking about a new CPU for a Sawtooth 500 MHz G4 Date:Sonntag 24 Januar 2010N From:Dana Collins dlcatft...@verizon.net To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com On

Re: G4 dual 500 Panther to Leopard upgrade

2010-01-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 24, 2010, at 10:52 PM, Chance Reecher wrote: Yes, you can use the MacBook's installer just fine. It's only locked as to the Mac it will install from, not the drive it will install to. Start the G4 up in Target Disk Mode, boot the MacBook from the installer, and choose the G4's HD to

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-24 Thread Michael G.M.
Ah, the iMac. I remember the time I was disassembling one, and upon struggling to pull the belly plate off (It must have been jammed) It popped off and I punched myself in the nose! I was in pain for a month or more. I've been wondering what will be the next 'Pro' case too. It is getting quite

Re: Cache Failure?

2010-01-24 Thread Kasey Smith
So, did you try at all to figure out why the DA logic board won't turn on? On Jan 24, 2010, at 11:35 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: SOLVED: The computer refused to turn on at all. It occurred to me then, that the people who gave it to me never mentioned if it worked or not. So, I swapped in a