Permissions fix not fixing.

2011-01-27 Thread Bill Christensen
Hi folks, I've run into a rather strange problem. I was having trouble with my hard drive, so decided it was time to migrate to one of my faster machines - a dual 867 G4 MDD which I'd recently taken out of serverhood. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to rescue the contents of the original 128gig

Re: wireless for powermac g4

2011-01-27 Thread skinnie
Great info about those adapters. I have a SMC USB 54G Wifi pen that works on OSX but sometimes it fails.. Any tip on an N mini pci card airport compatible? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular

Re: Dual G5 Dilemma

2011-01-27 Thread dc
On Jan 26, 3:50 pm, imrazor evol...@gmail.com wrote: I'm facing a dilemma about what to do with my (formerly) trusty dual G5. When I first got it used about two or three years ago, the package was damaged in shipping and warped the chassis, such that the G5 tilts to one side. Up until

Re: Permissions fix not fixing.

2011-01-27 Thread Dan
At 2:03 AM -0600 1/27/2011, Bill Christensen wrote: Somewhere along the way I started seeing permissions issues - many if not all folders that I should have access to are listed as System: read write unknown: read only everyone: read only Somewhere along the way your migrated files but not

Re: wireless for powermac g4

2011-01-27 Thread peterhaas
Any tip on an N mini pci card airport compatible? I believe you'd have to go with a Mini-PCI-e card and adapter, and that will cost a lot more money. Plus, you have to have a 1x PCI-e slot available. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using

Re: Permissions fix not fixing.

2011-01-27 Thread Bill Christensen
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Any ideas as to how to get out of this endless loop? Yea. Give the owners and permissions a wack from Terminal. First, reset the directory and file ownerships with a chown command in Terminal, from your admin account:

Re: graphics update for power mac g4 (2001)

2011-01-27 Thread Baldassare Guzzo
I have a GeForce4 MX 64MB with ADC if you want to talk to me off list? Its in great shape, I just upgraded to a newer card. On Jan 26, 2011, at 7:14 PM, akhoff18 wrote: i am looking to get a new graphics card for my mdd. i currently have what came with the machine (NVIDIA GeForce2 MX ). i

Mac Mini Max Resolution?

2011-01-27 Thread James Therrault
The best that I can get with my 22 Samsung Synchmaster 22 wide screen is 1680x1050. Do I have to utilize both video ports to achieve higher resolution? Seems I was doing better than this when hooked up to my old G4 Gigabit with a measly 16MB Vram. JT (Late 2009 Core duo Mini with

Re: Mac Mini Max Resolution?

2011-01-27 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 27, 2011, at 7:39 PM, James Therrault wrote: The best that I can get with my 22 Samsung Synchmaster 22 wide screen is 1680x1050. This may be the maximum resolution of the display? My 22 display has a 1680x1050 maximum. Do I have to utilize both video ports to achieve higher

Re: Mac Mini Max Resolution?

2011-01-27 Thread peterhaas
The best that I can get with my 22 Samsung Synchmaster 22 wide screen is 1680x1050. My first generation G4 Mini gives me 1900 x 1200 at 60 Hz. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on

Re: Mac Mini Max Resolution?

2011-01-27 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 27, 2011, at 7:39 PM, James Therrault wrote: The best that I can get with my 22 Samsung SyncMaster 22 wide screen is 1680x1050. Most of the 22 Samsung SyncMaster I see are limited to 1680x1050 native resolution. You'll probably need to buy a newer, higher resolution monitor to