Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

Just because you have an issue with a store doesn't mean everyone else does. My CompUSA is 1 mile from my house. On May 12, 2011, at 8:20 PM, Charles Lenington wrote: > On 5/10/11 1:51 PM, Alex Barnes wrote: >> You can also go with Linux Mint 10. I prefer it to Ubuntu. You can build a >> cheap q

Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 20:03 -0600, Alex Barnes wrote: > The reason why the battery can't be replaced is because it is so large, lasts > 10, > 7 or 8 hours depending on your model and can take up to 1000 cycles. How does > Steve Jobs decide what runs on Mac OS X??? An iMac with a Radeon 6970 >

Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 20:33 -0600, Alex Barnes wrote: > Just because you have an issue with a store doesn't mean everyone else does. > My CompUSA is 1 mile from my house. > On May 12, 2011, at 8:20 PM, Charles Lenington wrote: > > > On 5/10/11 1:51 PM, Alex Barnes wrote: > >> You can also go with

Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

On 5/10/11 1:51 PM, Alex Barnes wrote: You can also go with Linux Mint 10. I prefer it to Ubuntu. You can build a cheap quad core system for under $500. Just get your parts form CompUSA. Oh sure, drive from OKC to where ever there is a CompUSA to buy parts from a store that laid me off in 20

Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

The reason why the battery can't be replaced is because it is so large, lasts 10, 7 or 8 hours depending on your model and can take up to 1000 cycles. How does Steve Jobs decide what runs on Mac OS X??? An iMac with a Radeon 6970 coupled to a Sandy Bridge Core i7 is a bad hardware decision???

Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 15:14 -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote: > On May 12, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Ralph Green wrote: > > > Apple's hardware is worthless to me, since I won't buy treacherous > > hardware. > > Whaaa??? Apple's x86 hardware uses Intel TPM. There are some at Apple who deny this, but the fa

Re: G4 MDD copper heatsink question

I bought one that had this silicone material on it I took an exacto knife and carefully removed it due to the fact that I thought it looked like someone had put it on there after the fact. The heat sink came with it from apple, albeit I can't figure out why? The new altered heatsink worked j

Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

On May 12, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Ralph Green wrote: > Apple's hardware is worthless to me, since I won't buy treacherous > hardware. Whaaa??? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You recei

Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

On May 12, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Ralph Green wrote: I used an Ubuntu box, since Firefox 4 doesn't run on any of my macs. The 1.2 GHz G4 I am eying should be fast enough, if FF4 gets recompiled for PPC. Already been done, FF4 for PPC: -- You re

Re: login failing

On May 12, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Geke wrote: > I wonder what's going on: Yesterday, this G4 Mystic still worked > normally, logging into one user account automatically at startup. > Today, startup takes a lot longer, and at the end I'm asked to enter > user name and password. Step 1: hold down Comm

Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 11:17 -0700, Brian Kemp wrote: > I've been Flash- > free for years and with the rise in popularity of IOS, I suddenly have > peers. > I have never installed Flash. I could not get past their license agreement. So, you have always had peers. > HTML5 will never include s

Re: login failing

On May 12, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Geke wrote: The big question: what else can it be? A corrupted cache or preferences file. Boot in Safe mode by holding the Shift key, this will trash the cache files and rebuild them. Reboot normally, if the same login persists, go to Accounts>Login Options an

login failing

I wonder what's going on: Yesterday, this G4 Mystic still worked normally, logging into one user account automatically at startup. Today, startup takes a lot longer, and at the end I'm asked to enter user name and password. I'm the admin for this Mac, but none of the user names/passwords work. Also

Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

> Linux with it's open-source concepts can't make changes to the proprietary > code that is Flash. If Adobe doesn't compile it for Power PC there's really > nothing the open-source world can do about it. There are a few Free Software tools to play Flash files but all are lacking in some way - wh

Re: G4 MDD copper heatsink question

That looks like glue to hold the heatpipes in (?). I guess in earlier heatsinks Apple used glue to hold the heatpipes and then in later models they used soldering. On May 12, 2011, at 11:16 AM, rogerd095 wrote: > Alex, > > Thanks for the reply. > > Take a look at the picture below : > > http:

Re: G4 MDD copper heatsink question

Alex, Thanks for the reply. Take a look at the picture below : http://tinyurl.com/6yn8hfx On May 11, 11:26 pm, Alex Barnes wrote: > That is thermal paste. It transfers heat to from the processor to the > heatsink (I think you knew that). Do you have a URL where I could see the > picture wit

Re: Help with Mac OS9 Drivers, running in OS-X/Classic

On May 11, 2011, at 9:49 PM, jsmanson wrote: > Never heard of a wedge extension, but it makes sense what you're > saying - is it possoible to find one or write one for GPIB? You have to write an OS 9 driver that hands off communications to the OS X driver. At this point, just get another Mac,

Re: G4 Mini: Wifi Slot?; IR Receiver?; Choice of DVDRW?; Max Memory?

On May 12, 12:07 am, Wayne Stewart wrote: > What about one of those SCSI to USB adapters? I know they also made > SCSI to firewire adapters though I've never owned one of those I looked at those. The SCSI to USB adapter has a reputation for lack of reliability.The Firewire/SCSI adapter has

Re: G4 Mini: Wifi Slot?; IR Receiver?; Choice of DVDRW?; Max Memory?

On May 11, 3:24 pm, Kris Tilford wrote: > On May 11, 2011, at 10:54 AM, t...@io.com wrote: > > > 1)   Does anyone know what the Wifi slot is? > > It's proprietary. The kit is expensive and rare. The part you need is   > Apple part # M9870Z/A. It's 802.11g. I'd skip this and use a USB 2.0   > 802

Re: Help with Mac OS9 Drivers, running in OS-X/Classic

And just to add to this - A National Instrument Knowlegebase acticle confirms that the GPIB card cannot be accessed from within a Classic Window in OS-X, so I know this isn't going to be striaghtforward of it can be done. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group f

Re: Help with Mac OS9 Drivers, running in OS-X/Classic

The color right 2.0 software runs just fine under os 9.2.2. It will not run under classic in os x10.4.? Because the application cannot communicate with the GPIB card. There are three configurations I can try here - turn off the os9 GPIB drivers, and leave the OSX drivers on, the opposite, or the

Re: Help with Mac OS9 Drivers, running in OS-X/Classic

On May 11, 2011, at 11:49 PM, jsmanson wrote: The mac is a G4 Digital Audio, I have both 9.2.2 and OS-X 10.4.11. The scanner is an Optronics Colorgetter 3 plus, using a program called Colorright Pro 2.0. I have no experience with this, but a quick web search seems to indicate the Optronics C

Re: G5 monitor fails to fire

On May 12, 2011, at 2:22 AM, pdimage wrote: Sounds like a bad dvi/vga adapter - have you checked for bent pins on it? - try a different adapter. Cable pins can be bent too causing intermittent contact. I agree, the adapter (or cable) seems a likely culprit. It seems like a DVI/DVI cable onto

Re: G5 monitor fails to fire

On 11/05/2011 21:59, "blindspot-smi...@yahoo.co.uk" wrote: > The monitor will eventually fire up - might take two, three, four G5 > power-ups, > might have to leave it for hours and just sometimes it might come on > immediately. > > > Haven't successfully powered up in safe mode because y