App to Delete Unused Languages, Printers, Modems

2011-02-22 Thread Judith Berkowitz
I spent the weekend without internet access, so did a bit of housekeeping on my iBook G4 12 1.33 GHz 1GB SDRAM 80 GB Hard Drive I ran Onyx in all its modes, zapped PRam. Stowed all my 2010 mail in folders in the Mail client. I noticed that I have other apps on the HD that do more or less the

Re: App to Delete Unused Languages, Printers, Modems

2011-02-22 Thread Mike Linnett
Keep applejack, it's tiny, and lets you try and fix things if the actual OS won't boot. Monolingual will do most of the removing for you, and clear out unused architectures (you don't need the intel code from any universal apps, for example). Printers you can do on your own, all the drivers are

Sufficient power from Sawtooth PSU for Radeon 9800?

2011-02-22 Thread faithie999
i'm planning on installing a Radeon 9800 pro card in my sawtooth. should i replace the power supply with a 300W (or larger) ATX power supply? i have done some googling and have found the pinouts for the sawtooth and ATX power connectors and it is an easy mod. if i try the radeon with the stock

Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox

2011-02-22 Thread James E. Therrault
On Feb 21, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 21, 2011, at 7:02 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am running the latest Snow Leopard and Firefox. All of a sudden, I keep getting the spinning beach ball of death! And it won't quit! I have to force quit over and over again. It

Re: Sufficient power from Sawtooth PSU for Radeon 9800?

2011-02-22 Thread dc
On Feb 22, 8:09 am, faithie999 faithie...@hotmail.com wrote: i'm planning on installing a Radeon 9800 pro card in my sawtooth. should i replace the power supply with a 300W (or larger) ATX power supply? I once loaded up a Sawtooth with several extra hard drives and a better video card, I was

Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox

2011-02-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 21, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am running the latest Snow Leopard and Firefox. All of a sudden, I keep getting the spinning beach ball of death! And it won't quit! I have to force quit over and over again. It doesn't matter if I select an email, try to delete, use

Re: Would you trust this ebay seller?

2011-02-22 Thread t...@io.com
On Feb 19, 5:47 pm, Bruce - in Orlando bhossfi...@bellsouth.net wrote:  So the idea of tricking out my MDD before I give up on it just seems like more fun than tossing the old gal and moving on to an Intel Mac.  There will be plenty of time for that. NOT that I'm necessarily ready to pay

Re: G4 MDD ATX mods

2011-02-22 Thread t...@io.com
On Feb 19, 8:53 pm, Brielle br...@2mbit.com wrote:  If I could find a source for the proper molex connectors to plug into the G4 mobo, it would be even easier to build the kits. Which connectors does the G4 Logic Board use? Are the Mini-Fit Jr. connectors as they've used on earlier

Re: Would you trust this ebay seller?

2011-02-22 Thread peterhaas
I believe that the upgrade which the original poster linked to does not support the MDD. At least, the item description seemed to list all the G4s except the MDD. That board is specifically for 133 MHz bus machines ... DAs or QSes. Giga-Designs had a board which was specifically designed

Re: App to Delete Unused Languages, Printers, Modems

2011-02-22 Thread Dan
At 12:58 AM -0800 2/22/2011, Judith Berkowitz wrote: I noticed that I have other apps on the HD that do more or less the same thing that Onyx does: Applejack, Cocktail, MacJanitor No reason to keep them around, right? Keep OnyX and AppleJack. Make sure AppleJack is properly installed. OnyX

Re: App to Delete Unused Languages, Printers, Modems

2011-02-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 22, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Dan wrote: AppleJack is *the* emergency repair tool, to be used when the OS is broken. From Single User Mode (boot holding down cmd-s), it does a deep cleaning of the OS. It can even run fsck (Disk Utility) to repair your HD -- without needing to boot on

Re: App to Delete Unused Languages, Printers, Modems

2011-02-22 Thread Judith Berkowitz
Mike Linnett wrote: Keep applejack, it's tiny, and lets you try and fix things if the actual OS won't boot. Monolingual will do most of the removing for you, and clear out unused architectures (you don't need the intel code from any universal apps, for example). Printers you can do on