Safari

2010-05-10 Thread Stephen Conrad
I have decided that next to Opera Safari is the biggest piece of crap out there. I quit it earlier and in only a few hours I was getting Application Not Responding Now I don't have many tabs open, in fact in the past I have had more and not had this problem Tabs I have open --

Re: Safari

2010-05-10 Thread Peter
I think you are barking at the wrong tree. Mostly this kind of issues come from scripts running on websites. MySpace and Facebook both are using lots of scripts on their websites that can make a web browser unresponsive. Peter M. Sent from my BlackBerry® -Original Message- From:

Is a powerPC G4 really powerful?

2010-05-10 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Hello Guys ans Gals who use PowerPC Macs. this is about that commercial that when Apple claimed that the PowerPC G4 processor is 2x more powerful than the G3 processor, and 3x as powerful as a pentium 3 at the same clock speed. Well, I did some testing, and It turns out that the PowerPC G4

Re: G5 Red Light on startup

2010-05-10 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Now that you mention it It is quite normal with the screeching fans, but it can be annoying from time to time. And yes, mine is also a A1117 too.  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5

Re: Is a powerPC G4 really powerful?

2010-05-10 Thread Baha Ata
hmmm... G5 Dual Dual @2.7Ghz (7.83) Intel i7 Quad core @2.6Ghz.(7.79) Those software is optimized for G5 and but not optimized for i7 i guess... 2010/5/10 Mark

Re: Is a powerPC G4 really powerful?

2010-05-10 Thread PM7500
Try using Geekbench. I did the test using my laptop with a 1.6ghz Athlon64 TF-20 vs my Powerbook G4 1.67ghz and the Athlon system smoked it. Most of the benchmarking programs and software Apple uses in their demonstrations are optimized for Altivec and don't use Intel and AMD's extensions very

Re: But Mini, I don't HAVE a Bluetooth Mouse!

2010-05-10 Thread ===( )8
Kris Tilford writes, And why haven't you updated to 10.4.11? My Quicksilver 867 DOES run 10.4.11. I bought the Mini SPECIFICALLY because it had 10.4.2 on it and included 10.4.2 system CDs, ON PURPOSE BECAUSE I WANTED IT to be my Sims Mac! 10.4.3 and up FRICKIN BOLLOXES The Sims Create-a-Sim,

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 10, 2010, at 8:34 AM, icanswing wrote: Hi, What brand of LCD monitors will work on my Mac g4? It has 2 hookups one is VGA and the other is ADC. They never specify the hookups on the description on the monitors. But I'm thinking that viewsonic may be the ones that are

Re: But Mini, I don't HAVE a Bluetooth Mouse!

2010-05-10 Thread Richard Gerome
Hey Yersinia, I'm wondering if you ran a software update right before this happened??? If so they always bring up those blue tooth updates and I always delete them and what ever I do not use or need... If something does slip through I open up the HD and go to applications folder and delete

Re: Is a powerPC G4 really powerful?

2010-05-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 9, 2010, at 10:20 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: Believe it or not only the most powerful and most decked out of the PowerPC G5 series actually beat today's powerful i7 processors. No the i7 is actually very slightly faster, Ghz for Ghz. A 2.7 GHZ system is clocked about 8% faster

Re: But Mini, I don't HAVE a Bluetooth Mouse!

2010-05-10 Thread ===( )8
Okay update -- all seems to be good now. Was having problems with safe booting (three times total, holding shift and power to boot up gave me that same Bluetooth nonsense with the stuck cursor), and I had forgotten about OPTION-restart. I should also mention, on account of the stuck cursor, I

Re: Beige G3 not booting from CD!

2010-05-10 Thread Manuel Marques
Oh, right! Yes, I've noticed that the space between the PSU fan and the motherboard is really small in the desktop G3, so I might need those low-profile modules. Thanks for the info! MM On May 9, 7:29 pm, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote: On May 9, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Manuel Marques wrote:

Re: But Mini, I don't HAVE a Bluetooth Mouse!

2010-05-10 Thread ===( )8
Richard Gerome writes, I'm wondering if you ran a software update right before this happened??? [snip] Nope, I'm keeping this machine totally UN-updated! ;-) LOL Thank goodness it's fixed now. But thank you for writing. ~Yersinia. -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: But Mini, I don't HAVE a Bluetooth Mouse!

2010-05-10 Thread ===( )8
Richard Gerome writes, I'm wondering if you ran a software update right before this happened??? [snip] Nope, I'm keeping this machine totally UN-updated! ;-) LOL Thank goodness it's fixed now. But thank you for writing. ~Yersinia. -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: But Mini, I don't HAVE a Bluetooth Mouse!

2010-05-10 Thread Clark Martin
On 5/10/10 10:04 AM, ===( )8 wrote: Okay update -- all seems to be good now. Was having problems with safe booting (three times total, holding shift and power to boot up gave me that same Bluetooth nonsense with the stuck cursor), and I had forgotten about OPTION-restart. I should also mention,

Re: Is a powerPC G4 really powerful?

2010-05-10 Thread Frank J . R . Hanstick
Hello, Which PowerPC G4? There are several flavors. MPC-7450, MPC-7441/7451, MPC-7445/7455, MPC-7447/7457, and MPC-7448. Motorola no long manufactures µP's. Freescale has now taken over the µP production of G4's. G5's were and still are manufactured by IBM. I would like to see

Re: But Mini, I don't HAVE a Bluetooth Mouse!

2010-05-10 Thread ===( )8
Clark Martin writes, It might well have been a problem with the KVM switch. That would account for the stuck cursor (no mouse connection), the failure to safe boot (no keyboard connection) and possibly the bogus bluetooth mouse (maybe, because it didn't see a wired mouse and figured you had

RE: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Stewie de Young
'any'. VGA is VGA is VGA, so any VGA compatible one is ok. Viewsonic does make quite good monitors, so that's an excellent choice. -- Bruce Johnson The only thing you have to watch is that your video card can output what the monitor requires. If you have something like a radeon

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread TVirkkala
My ViewSonic is a great monitor . . . 'any'. VGA is VGA is VGA, so any VGA compatible one is ok. Viewsonic does make quite good monitors, so that's an excellent choice. . . . but when I'd hooked it up to the VGA adapter off my iMac, its visual quality was NOT great. Only when hooked up

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 10, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Stewie de Young wrote: The only thing you have to watch is that your video card can output what the monitor requires. If you have something like a radeon 7500 32mb which can handle 1024 x 768 and then buy a 24 LCD that needs 1920 x 1080 then the card will not

Re: Is a powerPC G4 really powerful?

2010-05-10 Thread JoeTaxpayer
The G4 added AltiVec a SIMD (single instruction multiple data) as a coprocessor within the chip. It could execute 16 8 bit instructions at once. An excellent leap at the time. I fell in love with the G4 MDD, bought one new, and have been buying more systems on eBay. I maintain that if you created

Re: But Mini, I don't HAVE a Bluetooth Mouse!

2010-05-10 Thread Clark Martin
On 5/10/10 11:47 AM, ===( )8 wrote: Clark Martin writes, It might well have been a problem with the KVM switch. That would account for the stuck cursor (no mouse connection), the failure to safe boot (no keyboard connection) and possibly the bogus bluetooth mouse (maybe, because it didn't see a

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Clark Martin
On 5/10/10 2:17 PM, TVirkkala wrote: My ViewSonic is a great monitor . . . 'any'. VGA is VGA is VGA, so any VGA compatible one is ok. Viewsonic does make quite good monitors, so that's an excellent choice. . . . but when I'd hooked it up to the VGA adapter off my iMac, its visual quality

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 10, 2010, at 2:17 PM, TVirkkala wrote: . . . but when I'd hooked it up to the VGA adapter off my iMac, its visual quality was NOT great. Only when hooked up to DVI on my G5 tower or off my MacBook Pro (where it is now) does it look OK. make sure you were driving it at the right

Re: Safari

2010-05-10 Thread Stephen Conrad
Is there a NoScript version for Safari? I have it for Firefox (and even then I get Script Not Responding warnings from time to time) I have Click to Flash installed so Flash leaves me alone On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Peter peter1...@gmail.com wrote: I think you are barking at the wrong

Re: Safari

2010-05-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 10, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Is there a NoScript version for Safari? I have it for Firefox (and even then I get Script Not Responding warnings from time to time) I have Click to Flash installed so Flash leaves me alone Enable the Develop menu and select 'Disable

Re: Is a powerPC G4 really powerful?

2010-05-10 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I am still sticking with my Dual Dual 2.7Ghz PM G5 A1117 Late '05 and my Reliable Sawtooth. I do have an intel Mac however, It has the quad-core 2.6Ghz i7. The G5 PM only beats it by 0.5%. Other than that, I always use my sawtooth to write my email. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. --

RE: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Stewie de Young
On May 10, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Stewie de Young wrote: The only thing you have to watch is that your video card can output what the monitor requires. If you have something like a radeon 7500 32mb which can handle 1024 x 768 and then buy a 24 LCD that needs 1920 x 1080 then the card

RE: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread icanswing
How do I find out about my video card?  I don't see anything under the system prefs.   I have 2 hookups on the back of my mac.  I'm guessing one is VGA. On May 10, 2010, at 8:25:24 PM, Stewie de Young stewies...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Stewie de Young stewies...@hotmail.com Subject:RE: I

Re: Safari

2010-05-10 Thread Stephen Conrad
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On May 10, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Is there a NoScript version for Safari? I have it for Firefox (and even then I get Script Not Responding warnings from time to time) I have Click to

Re: Safari

2010-05-10 Thread Stephen Conrad
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On May 10, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Is there a NoScript version for Safari? I have it for Firefox (and even then I

Re: WebKit Nightly

2010-05-10 Thread Dan
At 10:00 PM -0600 5/9/2010, paterfamilas wrote: Previously, at 12:08 am -0400 5/7/10, Dan wrote: WebKit Nightly warns about plug-ins by default - just in case the plug-in interfaces get changed. It's a general warning to make you aware of the fact that there could be problems, so you need to

RE: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Stewie de Young
Subject: RE: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4 From: icansw...@aol.com How do I find out about my video card? I don't see anything under the system prefs. I have 2 hookups on the back of my mac. I'm guessing one is VGA. If you drop the door down on your ( I presume G4 ) Mac and

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Justin The Cynical
icanswing wrote: Hi, What brand of LCD monitors will work on my Mac g4? It has 2 hookups one is VGA and the other is ADC. They never specify the hookups on the description on the monitors. But I'm thinking that viewsonic may be the ones that are compatible with macs. Any suggestions?