Re: Crashes and keyboard freeze on MMD

2012-04-26 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Crashes and keyboard freeze on MMD Date:Wednesday, 25. April 2012 From:tsaec...@att.net tsaec...@att.net To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com This morning 12 hours later I cannot get this computer to boot. I get the normal start up

Re: Bob's G5 odyssey

2012-04-26 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Bob's G5 odyssey Date:Thursday, 26. April 2012 From:Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com I would not get the LCS 2.7 or 2.3. I may be wrong, but is there a liquid cooled 2.3 GHz? Sorry, I

Re: HD remounts

2012-04-26 Thread Charles Lenington
On 4/26/12 12:50 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 25, 2012, at 6:33 PM, JohnV wrote: When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going to sleep) how does one get it to re-mount? You've got a USB issue here. First your iPod Touch isn't recognized, now you're saying your HDs are

Re: Bob's G5 odyssey

2012-04-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser
I may be wrong, but is there a liquid cooled 2.3 GHz? Sorry, I should have clarified. Yes, neither 2.3 is LCS, but the later 2.3 of that same generation seems to be inferior to the previous 2.3. Sorry for my misunderstanding. If I may ask: what's the problem with the Early 2005 2.3

Re: Low Power G5

2012-04-26 Thread Douglas Mencken
My G5 Dual 2.7 idles at 310 Watts plus the AC required to keep the room inhabitable Are you the one who bought x86 mac and realized it is just another PC, isn't you? My G5 Quad (2xDual core) 2.5 G5 eats less than 10 watts on idle. And I measured it via UPS it is plugged into. How you did your

Re: Tiger/Classic on dual G4/5

2012-04-26 Thread Dan
On Apr 22, 2012, at 3:39 PM, geraldcornish wrote: Current setup is Pismo 500MHz/1GB Ram/100GB HDD Tiger 10.4.11 OS 9.2.2 Intention is to upgrade to Dual G4/G5 but keeping Tiger/Classic. My better half needs to use Pagemaker in classic while using OSX simultaneously. Pagemaker uses up all the

Re: Tiger/Classic on dual G4/5

2012-04-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Will it assign classic/pagemaker to one cpu only, leaving the other cpu to do any OSX work needed? No. Under OS X, scheduling is done preemptively, as resources are available. That means a process is given a quantum time slice on a CPU/core, and the CPU is taken away when the slice

Re: Low Power G5

2012-04-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser
My G5 Dual 2.7 idles at 310 Watts plus the AC required to keep the room inhabitable Are you the one who bought x86 mac and realized it is just another PC, isn't you? My G5 Quad (2xDual core) 2.5 G5 eats less than 10 watts on idle. And I measured it via UPS it is plugged into. Is that

Re: HD remounts

2012-04-26 Thread mark ray
Had a similar problem with an iMac at work and it also would go to sleep at very spontaneous moments, typing, drawing, whatever it didn't matter just went to sleep, hit any key and it would come back. When the HD icon disappeared off the desktop, it would cause the drive to disappear from Disk

Mac OS X Version Distribution

2012-04-26 Thread Jonas Lopez
This usage of 20% tells us why we are no longer important to Apple. Mac OS X Version Distribution OSX  %USE  NOTE 10.4   03.8     PPC 10.5   16.4     PPC LAST OS FOR G5s 10.6   47.4     INTEL ONLY 10.7   30.4 10.8 I'm a designated FREE SPIRIT HITCHHIKING on the Information Super Highway

Re: Low Power G5

2012-04-26 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Apr 26, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Douglas Mencken wrote: My G5 Dual 2.7 idles at 310 Watts plus the AC required to keep the room inhabitable Are you the one who bought x86 mac and realized it is just another PC, isn't you? My G5 Quad (2xDual core) 2.5 G5 eats less than 10 watts on idle. And I

Re: Low Power G5

2012-04-26 Thread John Carmonne
On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:10 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: My G5 Dual 2.7 idles at 310 Watts plus the AC required to keep the room inhabitable Are you the one who bought x86 mac and realized it is just another PC, isn't you? My G5 Quad (2xDual core) 2.5 G5 eats less than 10 watts on idle. And I

Re: Mac OS X Version Distribution

2012-04-26 Thread peterhaas
This usage of 20% tells us why we are no longer important to Apple. Mac OS X Version Distribution OSX  %USE  NOTE 10.4   03.8     PPC --- 10.4.8 was first practical OS for Hackintoshes 10.5   16.4     PPC LAST OS FOR G5s 10.6   47.4     INTEL ONLY --- Some Hacks are still 10.6.x 10.7  

Re: Mac OS X Version Distribution

2012-04-26 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 26-04-2012 19:37, Jonas Lopez ha scritto: This usage of 20% tells us why we are no longer important to Apple. Mac OS X Version Distribution OSX  %USE  NOTE 10.4   03.8     PPC 10.5   16.4     PPC LAST OS FOR G5s 10.6   47.4     INTEL ONLY 10.7   30.4 10.8 Although numbers

Re: Mac OS X Version Distribution

2012-04-26 Thread Dan
At 2:53 AM +0200 4/27/2012, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 26-04-2012 19:37, Jonas Lopez ha scritto: This usage of 20% tells us why we are no longer important to Apple. Mac OS X Version Distribution OSX %USE NOTE 10.4 03.8 PPC 10.5 16.4 PPC LAST OS FOR G5s 10.6 47.4

Re: Mac OS X Version Distribution

2012-04-26 Thread David W. Morris
On Apr 26, 2012, at 5:42 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: This usage of 20% tells us why we are no longer important to Apple. Mac OS X Version Distribution OSX %USE NOTE 10.4 03.8 PPC --- 10.4.8 was first practical OS for Hackintoshes 10.5 16.4 PPC LAST OS FOR G5s 10.6 47.4

Re: Mac OS X Version Distribution

2012-04-26 Thread Dan
At 6:46 PM -0700 4/26/2012, David W. Morris wrote: One out of every 5 Mac computers is still a huge number of computers and users. Too many to ignore, IMHO, but apparently Apple is so confident that they can force their users into upgrading to Intel powered computers, they do not care about

Re: Tiger/Classic on dual G4/5

2012-04-26 Thread Clark Martin
On Apr 26, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Dan wrote: On Apr 22, 2012, at 3:39 PM, geraldcornish wrote: Current setup is Pismo 500MHz/1GB Ram/100GB HDD Tiger 10.4.11 OS 9.2.2 Intention is to upgrade to Dual G4/G5 but keeping Tiger/Classic. My better half needs to use Pagemaker in classic while using

Re: Mac OS X Version Distribution

2012-04-26 Thread Wayne Stewart
Actually if someone says they're running 10.4 or 10.5, it doesn't mean that OS is necessarily running on a PPC Mac. The first Intel machines came with 10.4. I know a number of people still using 10.4 or 10.5 on Intel machines for a variety of reasons. You could purchase10.5 to run on a PPC Mac but