Re: PowerMac G5 power consumption

[Kris Tilford]

On Oct 2, 2012, at 9:26 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote:


But you are measuring
Alternating Current so you have to multiply the Volt-Amps by .707  
to get

the actual power developed.


Oh! I didn't know that!


The power is RMS, so you multiply by 1/√2 for sine wave AC current.

See:

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Swapping out a G5 Motherboard

[DLC]

Greetings all.
I while back I had a troublesome G5 tower (June 04 model Dual 1.8GHz CPUs 
w/PCI slots, 8x AGP) that was giving me boot-up issues. With help from the 
list, I pretty much determined that I needed to replace the motherboard. 
I've located a reasonably priced replacement, so I would like to execute 
the swap-out. Here is my question:
once I plug in the known-good CPUs into the motherboard, am I going to have 
to execute the CU provisioning that requires the special boot CD and 
service code to initialize it/them?
I'd hate to expend resources and time just to find out the hard way.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Regards,
Dana

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Re: PowerMac G5 power consumption

[Valter Prahlad]

Il giorno 3-10-2012 1:20, Rock ha scritto:

> But you are measuring
> Alternating Current so you have to multiply the Volt-Amps by .707 to get
> the actual power developed.

Oh! I didn't know that!


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Re: PowerMac G5 power consumption

[Rock]

On 10/1/2012 7:44 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote:

Using either the Kill-a-watt VA setting or multiplying the volts times the
amps results in Volt-Amps (VA).

I was taught that A multiplied by V equals W. Is it right?
If you are measuring Direct Current, yes. But you are measuring 
Alternating Current so you have to multiply the Volt-Amps by .707 to get 
the actual power developed. Volt-Amps are useful in determining circuit 
breaker ratings.


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Re: external wireless device not working

[Bruce Johnson]

On Oct 2, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:

> On Oct 2, 2012, at 3:56 PM, cheryl wrote:
> 
>> i am on a friend's dell mini laptop. annoying little thing but it's the only 
>> way i can get online right now.
> 
> Download the file, transfer it onto a USB flash drive, or burn it to CD, or 
> ANYTHING you can use with the Mac and you're set. It's possible to install OS 
> X onto that Dell Mini also.

I suspect the friend would not be pleased...8-P but Kris is right, downloading 
it on the Dell will work just fine.

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Re: external wireless device not working

[Kris Tilford]

On Oct 2, 2012, at 3:56 PM, cheryl wrote:

i am on a friend's dell mini laptop. annoying little thing but it's  
the only way i can get online right now.


Download the file, transfer it onto a USB flash drive, or burn it to  
CD, or ANYTHING you can use with the Mac and you're set. It's possible  
to install OS X onto that Dell Mini also.


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Re: external wireless device not working

[cheryl]

i am on a friend's dell mini laptop. annoying little thing but it's the 
only way i can get online right now.
On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 1:38:35 PM UTC-4, cheryl wrote: 
>
> I bought this device 
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166055&Tpk=RNX-N150UBE
>  on 
> the advice of someone here or on the swap list. I got it because my Mac 
> Mini does not have a wireless device installed. Not only does it not seem 
> to work, the computer does not recognize it. the CD that came with it is 
> for Windows. Any advice?

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Re: external wireless device not working

[Bruce Johnson]

What computer are you using to send this email? Can you temporarily connect the 
Mini via Ethernet to the network?

All else fails, I could write it to a CD and snailmail it to you...


On Oct 2, 2012, at 1:36 PM, cheryl wrote:

> thanks, but i don't see how that will help because the computer i need the 
> driver for is the one i can't get online with.maybe they can mail me a disk. 
> but thanks!
> On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 1:38:35 PM UTC-4, cheryl wrote:
> I bought this device 
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166055&Tpk=RNX-N150UBE
>  on the advice of someone here or on the swap list. I got it because my Mac 
> Mini does not have a wireless device installed. Not only does it not seem to 
> work, the compute r does not recognize it. the CD that came with it is for 
> Windows. Any advice?

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Re: external wireless device not working

[cheryl]

thanks, but i don't see how that will help because the computer i need the 
driver for is the one i can't get online with.maybe they can mail me a 
disk. but thanks!
On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 1:38:35 PM UTC-4, cheryl wrote: 
>
> I bought this device 
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166055&Tpk=RNX-N150UBE
>  on 
> the advice of someone here or on the swap list. I got it because my Mac 
> Mini does not have a wireless device installed. Not only does it not seem 
> to work, the compute r does not recognize it. the CD that came with it is 
> for Windows. Any advice?

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Re: external wireless device not working

[Bruce Johnson]

On Oct 2, 2012, at 10:38 AM, cheryl wrote:

> I bought this device 
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166055&Tpk=RNX-N150UBE
>  on the advice of someone here or on the swap list. I got it because my Mac 
> Mini does not have a wireless device installed. Not only does it not seem to 
> work, the computer does not recognize it. the CD that came with it is for 
> Windows. Any advice?

First place to look always, always, always is the manufacturers website.

Rosewill has the Mac drivers for download:




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external wireless device not working

[cheryl]

I bought this device 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166055&Tpk=RNX-N150UBE 
on 
the advice of someone here or on the swap list. I got it because my Mac 
Mini does not have a wireless device installed. Not only does it not seem 
to work, the computer does not recognize it. the CD that came with it is 
for Windows. Any advice?

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Re: NTFS native Read/Write support Snow Leopard+

[Guy Plunkett III]

Read the comments! I wish I had -- I tried this and ended up corrupting a large 
data set on the volume in question, such that neither Mac 10.6 nor Win 7 could 
read the files. Fortunately I had a backup. Went with Paragon NTFS -- only cost 
about $20.00, and works like a charm.


On 10/1/12, Kris Tilford wrote:
>I know this doesn't apply to our PPC Macs, and that this is also "old news", 
>but it was something I was unaware of until today. I knew that modern Macs can 
>read-only Windows NTFS volumes, but I thought that to write NTFS you needed 
>3rd-party software such a NTFS-3G, Tuxera, Paragon NTFS, etc. The post below 
>from over 3 years ago shows how to toggle a native OS X preference to enable 
>native OS X NTFS read/write. It looks like it's a little bit of a hassle, done 
>by individual volume rather than just a global system-wide enabling, but it's 
>native, and free, for Snow Leopard onward:
>
>
>
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Re: NTFS native Read/Write support Snow Leopard

[Brian Harding]

> As 100% of the NTFS work I do is with hard drives removed from client 
> systems, I think I'll play it safe with NTFS-3G :-)

'nother vote for NTFS-3G - one of those nice things that 'just works'.

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