Listers,
I recently got a message from Xfinity (my internet provider) that
there may be a BOT on one or more of my computers.
IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED
Dear XFINITY Customer, Constant Guard from XFINITY identified that
one or more of your computers may be infected with a bot. A bot is
On Dec 23, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
Macs don't get infected easily, so I am not sure if I need to take
action or not.
Xfinity is offering Norton Security Suite to Mac using customers for
free. Is there any harm in installing this software? I have been
avoiding
On Dec 23, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
Listers,
I recently got a message from Xfinity (my internet provider) that there may
be a BOT on one or more of my computers.
IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED
Dear XFINITY Customer, Constant Guard from XFINITY identified that one
I need to go to 10.4 or 10.5 on the G4 I am using. It runs at 350 MHz
and has 1 Gb of SDRAM.
Money is an important consideration.
Thanks,
Neal
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On Dec 23, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Neal wrote:
I need to go to 10.4 or 10.5 on the G4 I am using. It runs at 350 MHz
and has 1 Gb of SDRAM.
Money is an important consideration.
Whenever possible it's usually best (in terms of ongoing compatiblity) to run
the latest supported version of an OS
http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/whyihatehtmlmailno3455.png
This was an email I got. The yellow box appeared when I hovered over the link.
No Apple hasn't outsourced their customer support to some unknown domain.
Bad phishers, bad!
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University of Arizona
College of
I'd go 10.4. It will perform much better on your G4. I have a 1 ghz cpu
upgrade, and even so, 10.5 is much more sluggish. I'm running 10.4 - Macs of
this vintage need any performance improvement you can give them in this modern
world.
Besides, I don't think 10.5 will run on a 350mhz cpu...
Il giorno 23-12-2011 17:32, Neal ha scritto:
I need to go to 10.4 or 10.5 on the G4 I am using. It runs at 350 MHz
and has 1 Gb of SDRAM.
AFAIK, 10.4 can be slightly faster than 10.5.
SInce your G4 is a mere 350MHz, unless you have good reasons to favour 10.5,
I'd go for 10.4 (it still has
No Apple hasn't outsourced their customer support to some unknown domain.
I can confirm that as I used to be married to the Director of that
specific area within Apple.
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At 8:32 AM -0800 12/23/2011, Neal wrote:
I need to go to 10.4 or 10.5 on the G4 I am using. It runs at 350 MHz
and has 1 Gb of SDRAM.
What Bruce said.
Plus, once you've got either OS running, disable Spotlight's
indexing. It slows things down greatly, which will be an issue at
350 MHz.
At 11:34 AM -0700 12/23/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote:
No Apple hasn't outsourced their customer support to some unknown domain.
LOL
The geniuses at Chase Bank have hired a company to handle their
email, that has in turn hired an ex-spammer to do the actual SMTP
work. So now all the phishes
On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Dan wrote:
At 11:34 AM -0700 12/23/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote:
No Apple hasn't outsourced their customer support to some unknown
domain.
LOL
The geniuses at Chase Bank have hired a company to handle their
email, that has in turn hired an ex-spammer to do the
Do you like Sophos too? Think I read here on the list that Sophos was
pretty good for us. Is clamxav better?
On Dec 23, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
Listers,
I recently got a message from Xfinity (my internet provider) that
there may be a BOT on one or more of my
Neal wrote:
It runs at 350 MHz
Bruce replied:
10.5 should run ok on that system.
You'd need Leopard Assist or some way to overcome the 866 MHz
limitation of Leopard.
Bruce's keep an eye out for cheap upgrades was sage advice. The
sweet spot has long passed this old Mac and you
On Dec 23, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Baldassare Guzzo wrote:
Do you like Sophos too? Think I read here on the list that Sophos was pretty
good for us. Is clamxav better?
Sophos was good, years ago, but they haven't kept up. The Windows version is at
9.something and is now called Sophos Endpoint
On Dec 23, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
I've been quite happy using ClamXAv on the UA systems (which by
official policy MUST have AV software running on them, which is
akin to requiring all employees to get a pap smear and prostate
exam every year, no exceptions...;-) but my
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Neal wnle...@southwind.net wrote:
I need to go to 10.4 or 10.5 on the G4 I am using. It runs at 350 MHz
and has 1 Gb of SDRAM.
Since 350mhz is the absolute bottom of the G4 line, I have to ask. Is this
a G4 with AGP graphics (Sawtooth) or one with PCI
On Dec 23, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
Yep, had that one. Given to me on a floppy from an Egghead computer store
with other freeware and shareware for my Plus.
Somewhere at home I have that very first box of Egghead disks I bought when we
house-sat for a co-worker whose spouse,
Can't resist any longer...
(clipping those resistor leads were literally more nerve-wracking than
anything I've done since, including my wedding day.)
but that's because you don't clip resistor leads to your new spouse - or even
to a spouse of many years, I hope.
Bruce
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On Dec 23, 2011, at 4:06 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Dec 23, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
I was such a complete rank newb that I didn't know how to eject
disks, and resorted to Norton Disk Tools eject function, leaving
ghost images of all these floppies up on the desktop.
On 23 Dec 2011, at 16:16, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Dec 23, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
Listers,
I recently got a message from Xfinity (my internet provider) that there may
be a BOT on one or more of my computers.
IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED
Dear XFINITY Customer,
Also, I enjoy throttling down my network bandwidth to kill everything
that uses the network that you launched, and throttle the bandwidth
down to something tiny (say 20kbits/s) and checking how the background
CPU usage changes. If it falls severely, then you may have a bot.
Illirik Smirnov
if
On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Edward Treen wrote:
Bruce,
Yet again you've educated me. Was unaware of Private Eye - it's now installed
and I love it.
So was I until I went looking for it...Little Snitch was the only one I knew
off the top of my head.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of
From: Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
See EVERYONE starts out as a newbie at some point...:-)
It was about 6 months later that I got my own first Mac, proudly paying $850
for a demo model Mac Plus at a computer store closeout sale, incidentally
racking up my very first bit of
Dan,
A Leopard disc may cost a bit more but it's worth it... The final
vers of many ppc apps require it.
I was not aware of that. Will they not install under 10.4?
Let me know.
Thanks,
Neal Lewis
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Eric,
I'd go 10.4. It will perform much better on your G4. I have a 1 GHz CPU
upgrade, and even so, 10.5 is much more sluggish. I'm running 10.4 -
Macs of this vintage need any performance improvement you can give them
in this modern world.
I'm all for a bit more speed. I think 10.5.11 is
Valter,
Valter Prahlad wrote:
AFAIK, 10.4 can be slightly faster than 10.5.
A good point.
. . . 10.4 (it still has Classic support also, that was dropped in
10.5).
Is Sheep Shaver the answer to that?
Honestly, though, I'm afraid you would find OSX painfully slow on your G4.
It came
Bruce,
Whenever possible it's usually best (in terms of ongoing compatiblity) to run the
latest supported version of an OS for your system.
I'd also keep an eye out for cheap CPU upgrades, or even a newer system...in fact
it's probably cheaper to buy a newer system that comes with 10.5 than
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