Re: Mighty Mouse problem

2011-08-12 Thread Jörg Duurkoop
Hi, Thanks a lot! Rolling the mouse upside down on a clean cotton hankie soaked with medical alcohol (97 %) did the trick. I hope I will never have to open up the thing. I find it quite annoying that one cannot open a relatively expensive product like that mouse anymore. The old Apple mouse

Re: Mighty Mouse problem

2011-08-12 Thread Jörg Duurkoop
Hi, Thanks a lot! Rolling the mouse upside down on a clean cotton hankie soaked with medical alcohol (97 %) did the trick. I hope I will never have to open up the thing. I find it quite annoying that one cannot open a relatively expensive product like that mouse anymore. The old Apple mouse

Boot USB?

2011-08-12 Thread Don Wakefield
I am running Leopard 10.5.8 on a trusty E-Mac and have just obtained a  LaCie 1TB hd, ostensively to become my Time Machine backup device. It was advertised as usb/firewire, but unfortunately, it is exclusively usb2. My question is: How can this be used as a Time Machine (and boot Mac should

Re: 10.5.8 G4 Won't restart

2011-08-12 Thread gifutiger
I started having the about the same problem, however my MDD boot time was about 5 minutes. Turns out resetting the PMU fixed shutdown and the slow boot. I was also having the problem that the system wouldn't wake from sleep and the main Firewire 400 stopped working. Well all is right now. 1.

Go run your backups! NOW!

2011-08-12 Thread Dan
You heard me -- GO RUN YOUR BACKUPS! NOW! DON'T WAIT! It's the beginning of the month -- GET IT DONE! Is that subtle enough? :) yea yea yea... Ok... Running backups... FWIW, this is how I do my weekly and monthly full backups: 0. Quit all applications. We're gonna do some clean

Re: Boot USB?

2011-08-12 Thread Dan
At 7:34 AM -0700 8/12/2011, Don Wakefield wrote: Leopard 10.5.8 on a trusty E-Mac LaCie 1TB hd How can this be used as a Time Machine (and boot Mac should that be necessary?) You cannot directly boot from a Time Machine volume. The path for TM is to boot from your OS DVD then restore your

Re: Boot USB?

2011-08-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 12, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Don Wakefield wrote: I am running Leopard 10.5.8 on a trusty E-Mac and have just obtained a LaCie 1TB hd, ostensively to become my Time Machine backup device. It was advertised as usb/firewire, but unfortunately, it is exclusively usb2. Well first I'd return

Re: Go run your backups! NOW!

2011-08-12 Thread Dan
At 12:09 PM -0400 8/12/2011, Dan wrote: You heard me -- GO RUN YOUR BACKUPS! NOW! Well, the sentiment is right but as you can see this email went out before it was finished... sigh. One of those days... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received

Cool hack for an old keyboard...

2011-08-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
http://hackaday.com/2011/08/12/overhaul-an-old-mechanical-keyboard/ -- Bruce Johnson Wherever you go, there you are B. Banzai, PhD -- 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 Power Macs.

Re: Cool hack for an old keyboard...

2011-08-12 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: http://hackaday.com/2011/08/12/overhaul-an-old-mechanical-keyboard/ -- Bruce Johnson Wherever you go, there you are B. Banzai,  PhD -- At first I thought it might be a review of the new show Dirty Money

Re: Cool hack for an old keyboard...

2011-08-12 Thread Joshua Juran
On Aug 12, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: http://hackaday.com/2011/08/12/overhaul-an-old-mechanical-keyboard/ I'm typing this on a Matias Tactile Pro. :-) Noisy cricket, but it feels

Re: Cool hack for an old keyboard...

2011-08-12 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 12, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: http://hackaday.com/2011/08/12/overhaul-an-old-mechanical-keyboard/ I'm

Re: Cool hack for an old keyboard...

2011-08-12 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/08/12 16:56, Joshua Juran so eloquently wrote: I'm typing this on a Matias Tactile Pro. :-) Noisy cricket, but it feels great. I'm waiting for my TP to get old enough to justify taking it apart and seeing what I can do with it. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM