Arnold,
When posting a new question, please remember to create a new topic
instead of posting inside another, hijacking the thread.
That said, all you need to do is right-click on them and hit Delete.
Best,
Felix
On Feb 9, 9:46 pm, Wm. Arnold w_arn...@att.net wrote:
I want to eliminate the
Why?
'Cause they rock. 'Nuff said.
Felix
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Rich,
Maxing out the memory is a good idea. I mean, 896Mb is good, but 2
gigs is great. So you are on the right track there.
SATA hard drives are bigger, cheaper and faster. Which means, if she
gets a SATA PCI card (which are about $50), she can both break the
128GB barrier and add a 1 TB hard
Rich,
If the processor is compatible with your motherboard, then by all
means, it's a pretty easy swap.
Felix
On Jul 30, 11:25 am, Richard Gerome onecoolka...@earthlink.net
wrote:
Can you swap out just the processor without changing the mother board???
Maybe after I get this up and
Hey Glen,
Check this out: http://bit.ly/6nFcHY
It hits all the sweet spots, and it's (slightly) bigger than your old
Dell. I would get myself it if I had the money right now. Oh, well.
Good luck,
Felix
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I have read complaints about repeated messages in several of the Mac
discussions, and 5 seems to be the magic number. People have been
blaming each other for this matter, but it's obviously not one or two
people playing around. My personal take on it is that it's a Google
bug.
In my case, I opted
Del,
Save Tiger for the fearless Sawtooth. Close your eyes and jump all the
way to Snow Leopard. You'll never regret it.
Tiger is still a superb OS, but Snow Leopard is not only superior,
it's breathtakingly beautiful. As an added advantage, if you know your
way around in Tiger, you won't feel
A surprising lot of people, actually. You may want to check this
statistics: http://bit.ly/b7PO6L.
Felix
On Aug 25, 8:14 pm, Illirik Smirnov illir...@gmail.com wrote:
Who uses Firefox?
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Apple has not, AFAIK, but the writing has been on the wall for the PPC
architecture since the release of Snow Leopard a little over a year
ago. So keep your fingers crossed, but it's a question of time --
months, I'd wager.
Felix
On Aug 25, 9:27 pm, M Christol chris...@fuse.net wrote:
Has
I LOVED Firefox. It was my browser of choice for a number of years,
and still is on the Windows platform. But it became very unstable a
few months back, just like Dan says, and I have ended up a reluctant
lover of Safari 5. I NEVER liked Safari --it's bland, it's not as
pliable as Firefox, it has
Nope. No hardware problems. And it wasn't crashing, either. It just
become unstable in all my Macs, G4s as well as Intel --unstable
meaning that it reloaded some pages over and over, especially Google-
related pages, like my Gmail account and Google groups. It escalated
from a minor occasional
Hello List,
I have a hand me down BW (300Mhz, I think), with 1GB of RAM, which
usually turns on to a blinking folder. I'm using a G3 PowerBook disk
that was sold to me as a generic OS 9 install by an online store (and
which really installs OS 9 to virtually every compatible machine
except for
Update:
After I let it rest for a while, it chimed. I inserted a OS 9.1
generic install that I found, and it booted to the desktop. But it's
not showing the HDD, so I guess either the ATA connection or the HDD
itself is toast. I'll check with a different drive tomorrow and will
post results.
F
Note: I left only a single 256Mhz stick, because of something I read
somewhere, and that's how it booted. Maybe it worked?
F
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. Meanwhile, all suggestions are welcome.
Thanks to all again!
F
On Aug 28, 8:28 pm, Ashgrove salum...@gmail.com wrote:
Note: I left only a single 256Mhz stick, because of something I read
somewhere, and that's how it booted. Maybe it worked?
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On Aug 30, 3:04 pm, JOHN CARMONNE carmo...@aol.com wrote:
It doesn't matter to most but I
always find fly sh-t to pick out of the pepper:-)
Be proud of it. You're a very curious person, always trying to learn
something new. I wish more people were like that.
Keep nosing around, John! ;-)
I have found that the only foolproof solution against this kind of
problem is to choose the No email option and read all posts online.
That's what I do, and it saves me time and aggravation. My mailbox(es)
and my time are unmanageable enough as it is.
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Richard,
You got a PC video card, which won't work at all in a Mac. It's that
simple. (Maybe it could work, but it would need to be flashed
beforehand using a PC, so that's out for now.) You need to put back
the old video card for the computer to work.
Your G4 is a Digital Audio, if I'm not
On Sep 8, 3:11 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
You're going to need to enable LBA48 support so that the full 250GB is
recognized.
Kris,
Kudos for the great detailed info. I didn't know anything about the
firmware fix or Overdrive.
Thanks!
Felix
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FWIW, the exact same thing happened to me with a G3 iBook. Everything
was right (formatting, the CDs), yet I couldn't install the software.
I finally gave up, cloned my Pismo HDD to it using CCC (both the
10.4.11 and the 9.2.2 partitions), and it worked.
I still don't know what happened...
Felix
Hi all,
I have a dual 800Mhz Quicksilver with 640Mb of RAM running Leopard. It
was working flawlessly until I tried a stick of RAM that didn't work --
meaning it was ignored by the system. From that point on, I lost all
keyboard input. I took the RAM out, but still don't have keyboard
input. I
Hi Matevž,
Thanks for the good advice! The keyboard actually worked for all
purposes like selecting the startup drive, getting into firmware,
booting into safe mode, and so forth. It's when the OS is loaded that
I would lose all keyboard input.
Tried all of the above. No cigar. Then I switched
On Sep 24, 2:59 pm, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote:
Like someone said earlier, sounds like the system USB apps got messed
up with the bad RAM. Wonder if a Combo update to the old system would
replenish the apps. Don't know here, just guessing ...
Not exactly, because the
On Sep 25, 12:59 pm, John Markowitz dadbe...@gmail.com wrote:
I've had HHD's do strange things. it would be interesting to know if
DiskWarrior could fix your problem?
Good that you mention that, John. I tried DiskWarrior, but it didn't
do a thing. I solved the problem switching to another HDD,
Hi Matevž,
I solved the problem by popping in another HDD with Leopard already
installed. The other drive is already erased, and I got rid of the
incompatible RAM, so I guess I'll never know what happened. Too bad,
because I'm still curious as to what exactly happened. It was a first
for me.
Alex,
If you don't want to bother with a hack, just stick in it a HDD with
Leopard already installed. It'll work perfect.
As for graphic cards, I'd go with a flashed Nvidia Geforce 6200, the
fanless, 256MB version. They are inexpensive and work great.
Best,
Felix
On Sep 27, 3:05 pm, Alex
On Sep 27, 10:46 pm, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote:
Coming in late here but I/O problems always lead me to check hardware
connections first. Dirty connectors are very common. And this is in keeping
with the kiss principle.
Adrian,
That's very sound advice, but
On Sep 29, 1:07 am, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote:
What can go into the PC slot in this thing? Is it PC cards, as in cards from
a PC?
If so what cards can I use (I can pull one from my many PCs)
Uh, they're actually called PCI slots, and they may take some PCI
cards from your PCs, if
A simple fix is just taking it out and putting it back, trying to go
all the way in until it clicks. Also, make sure the antenna is all the
way in. Airport cards are tricky that way.
Good luck,
Felix
On Sep 30, 1:07 am, G-Group junman...@gmail.com wrote:
my g4 500 titanium powerbook died on me
On Sep 28, 3:46 pm, Alex kab...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, it is a Quicksilver model. And I'm getting an ATI Radeon 9600 card
from ebay.
Whatever you do, don't get a graphics card from somebody in China. I
checked the prices and surprisingly the flashed Geforce 6200 have
basically disappeared. If I
Steve,
Camino used to be my favorite browser, but at some point it became
this humongous RAM hog. So it switched to Firefox, which recently
became very unstable dealing with Google sites. So I switched to
Safari, which hasn't let me down yet...
Felix
On Oct 5, 1:31 am, Stephen Conrad
On Oct 5, 7:57 am, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll answer you both.
This is Camino 2.0.4 (the most recent update I have seen)
Safari acts much the same way if you leave it open for a while. That was why
I wanted to see if Camino was any better.
Firefox can be just as bad. Many
Dan,
I have seen very reasonably priced ATI Radeon 9800s on eBay --the only
caveat being that they are flashed and you would need an ADC to DVI
adapter. Equally flashed Nvidia 6200s used to be readily available for
a song, but apparently supplies have run low.
There are several 8x cards made for
On Oct 9, 7:43 pm, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote:
Eric, that's the NVIDIA 9800 pro (that's a Mac card right? I don't
want to do the PC card flash dance:-) Jeff
Eric is actually talking about the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro card. The Mac
version is kinda hard to get. Well-flashed PC versions
On Oct 18, 6:21 pm, Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't even have an iTunes account. Periodically I buy and rip CDs.
Well, that's the reason why, when I buy digital music, I do it mostly
at Amazon. But that may change in the future, if they do with music
the same thing they're already
On Oct 20, 2:55 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
I went to the Apple site to watch the streaming video of the
presentation and was rudely greeted with this:
Streaming video requires Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard or
Safari on iOS 3 or later.
I'm on a PPC G5 with 10.5.8
On Oct 20, 7:03 pm, Eric Herbert goo...@hillcotechnology.com wrote:
I saw the responses to this thread and decided to check out what all the fuss
was about. I have to say, I think Apple's finally lost it. Trying to turn
the operating system into an iPad? Someone save us. I like their OS
On Oct 20, 9:08 pm, Chance Reecher cha...@reecher.net wrote:
End semi-comprehensible rant
A very articulate and fully comprehensible rant, Chance. I fully
relate. I love iOS --on my iPod Touch. It makes it a nice toy AND a
useful tool, and it looks plain cool. (Even there, the whole App Store
On Oct 21, 12:21 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
Someone on this list who hasn't bought a new Mac in a decade has no grounds
to bitch and moan...you're literally looking for a free ride. This is the
very thing that's made Microsoft the lumbering dinosaur it is, having
On Oct 21, 3:16 pm, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote:
Having the latest 'n greatest is fine and justifiable if your in the
business that requires it.
Macs don't fall into this category as the PC world owns that domain.
That said, a very substantial number of Mac owners own older
On Oct 21, 2:27 pm, Kyle Hansen pi...@speakeasy.net wrote:
Listen, I feel your pain, I have an SE-30 sitting right here. I know this
is Lowendmac, but the Sawtooth G4 should be considered vintage at this
point. Back when I was nannying the PM 8500 list machines that were a three
or so years
On Oct 24, 3:34 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
(in my case: one of each...I never use Dashboard, couldn't live
without Spaces).
That makes two of us. I started using Desktop Manager in Tiger before
Leopard even reared its spotted head, and was very grateful when Apple
On Oct 25, 2:13 am, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote:
That department has hundreds of Macs of all ages form the early Aught's to
present. This department was put into a refurbed historic building and is
state of the art for 3 years ago when it was completed. It replaces
On Oct 26, 4:34 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
The only concrete example I can think of is at the Intel introduction where
Jobs stated that the PowerPC was definitely going to be supported through the
next OS version, which it was. 10.4 to 10.5 also took a lot longer
On Oct 26, 3:03 pm, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote:
Is this thread ever going to end?
I have been wondering the same thing... :-)
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I keep a tiger's eye paperweight on my desk. It did cost me money, but
it works just as well --plus it does not uses any RAM, which is a nice
bonus. Looks cool, too...;-)
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On Nov 7, 10:18 pm, Dennis Myhand dmyh...@suddenlink.net wrote:
This doesn't really tell how to determine if it is a Rev A, B, C, or D.
Well, it does, but it does not really give you a way to determine
which hardware you have. I have checked About this computer but that
does not give the
Nov 3, 7:41 pm, Yersinia yersi...@myfairpoint.net wrote:
Geeesh, is this what Windoze users have to do all the time?!?!?
Yes, siree, Bob. That's life on the other side.
I did the same thing out of curiosity, and downloaded Clamxav Beta 2
to my Intel iMac. It took 20 minutes to diagnose that
On Nov 8, 6:14 pm, Dennis Myhand dmyh...@suddenlink.net wrote:
Okay, I do have a Revision D 333MHz G-3, and I guess it is Purple. I
depends on the light.
That's my problem, too. It looks kinda indigo blue sometimes, and
sometimes it's more like violet. I'm a tad color blind, too: dark blue
and
On Nov 8, 6:14 pm, Dennis Myhand dmyh...@suddenlink.net wrote:
Okay, I do have a Revision D 333MHz G-3, and I guess it is Purple. I
depends on the light.
Going back to the upgrading part, this model can take up to 512MB of
RAM, and a hard drive up to 128GB. It does not require any special
Tom,
An easy rule of thumb is: if you do not do intensive video work, you
can make do with PPC. Which is obviously not your case. Go Intel, my
friend, and see those rendering times come down A LOT.
As far as I can see, a used Core 2 Duo iMac won't cost much more than
a tricked out G5, and it
On Nov 13, 11:56 pm, Charles Lenington macso...@brightok.net wrote:
On 11/13/10 4:57 PM, Tom wrote: Thanks much, everybody. Well, you've
convinced me that I need to move
up into the Intel world for the sort of work I do, but I think I'll
have to get a tower rather than an iMac or Mini,
Michael,
The simplest, less convolute way to do this would be to set a single
user account for all with administrative rights but to set a password
that only the mom knows, and then scare her silly with horror stories
about people who delete stuff on their computers. It may sound
somewhat cruel,
:18 pm, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2010/11/21 10:37, Ashgrove so eloquently wrote:
The simplest, less convolute way to do this would be to set a single
user account for all
Simple initially but in the long run it could become far more trouble as
one user sets something
On Nov 23, 10:32 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
hum. Things are getting messy.
An interesting read...
http://www.infoworld.com/t/desktop-productivity/openofficeorg-under-o...
What a can of worms! I personally favor the NeoOffice offshoot, and
now I wonder what consequences Oracle's
Jonas,
Sorry to disappoint you, but Google TV is exactly the contrary: a
service that integrates Internet browsing to your cable TV service. So
it's not about watching TV on your computer, but instead perusing the
Internet on a Google TV enabled device, which can be either:
a) A Sony Internet
On Dec 7, 12:00 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
I watched a couple of shows via Hulu on a 2.66 GHz iMac connected to a 1.5
mbit el-cheapo Cox cable account and was actually quite surprised at how well
it went.
Hulu's selection is spotty, but surprisingly deep in places,
On Dec 7, 12:08 pm, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote:
Unfortunately on my PM Hulu's Flash implementation is not as good as
YouTube's. The audio is usually out of synch with the video, sometimes
the picture freezes while the audio goes on for a couple minutes, and
the picture is not very
On Dec 7, 1:47 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
On Dec 7, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Dan wrote:
Just be careful, the Pie-rate hunters are active...we get passed RIAA and
MPAA takedown notices from the UA Copyright office for our subnet every
couple of months or so, and
Joan,
I bought a monitor just like this one from this eBay vendor a few
months ago, and have nothing but good things to say about it:
http://tinyurl.com/29ny9wj
I have not been able to find such a big, great quality monitor at this
kind of price anywhere else. You may also want to check Buy.com
On Jan 5, 1:12 am, Kevin Barth godai@gmail.com wrote:
M$-hatred aside, it's really all about who delivers the
DVDs I want to watch. Netflix does. Redbox doesn't.
Amen to that. Netflix's movie selection is second only to Facets', and
they're just too pricy. (By the way, I've just watched
Jane,
I would give LogMeIn a try. The lite version IS free, and it seems to
do all you need --slapping your hubbie's hand every time he does the
triple click dance will have to be postponed till you are home… :-)
I checked on TeamViewer, out of curiosity, and couldn't find a free
option at all.
On Jan 21, 6:34 am, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote:
I just tried to remote access my Tiger iMac from my SL MP and I'm
getting the same problem with my name password not being accepted. I
don't remember running into this problem before but I'll let you know
if
I get it to work.
Tina,
Check
On Jan 21, 11:50 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
On Jan 20, 2011, at 7:04 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote:
Both new macs will let you use Screen Sharing to connect to his computer;
he'll have to install a vnc server VINE server is free and easy.
Bruce,
Are you talking
On Jan 22, 3:36 pm, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
If I use an external 3.5 7200 RPM via Firewire 400 will I gain speed over the
internal HDD 4200 RPM in my Mac Mini?
In my personal experience, my friend, the speed and size of the
external drive more than make up for the slower bus (FW
On Jan 25, 3:17 pm, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote:
For, say, QS 2002 or earlier Macks, a Mini-PCI Broadcom card in a
Mini-PCI-to-PCI adapter will more than do the job, and for about US$10,
too.
There are also a few PCI wifi adapters that are Broadcom based and
will be read as an Airport Extreme
Bruce,
My personal experience with Chinese eBay sellers has been mixed. Most
of the time, they are perfectly kosher, but if anything goes wrong,
you have to ship the item back... to China...
The fact that I barely speak English and they tend to barely speak
Mandarin or Cantonese has never been a
On Feb 19, 3:43 pm, Alex Barnes kab...@gmail.com wrote:
A dual 1.8 G4 in 9.2? I can't even imagine how fast that would be.
Very fast... except it wouldn't be dual. OS 9 lacks dual processor
support, IIRC.
Felix
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Not really. TenFour refers to the OS, which is 10.4, or 10.4.11 when
fully updated. Flash has got nothing to do with it.
And yes, plugins are supposed to be enabled manually, in the newest
TenFourFox version at least.
Felix
On Oct 1, 1:35 pm, QuoVadis eelcovanv...@home.nl wrote:
Does that
On Oct 17, 11:09 pm, cheryl chelyh...@gmail.com wrote:
I got this computer used from someone on the LEM swap list and it has
served me well for several years, but maybe it's time to replace it
with something a bit newer.
If you are a tinkerer, it can be fun to keep old hardware that's going
On Oct 18, 12:44 pm, cheryl chelyh...@gmail.com wrote:
thanks to all for your input and advice! I'm buying a used Mac Mini
from someone on the swap list, but I may hold onto this computer or
give it to my friend who loves to tinker with Macs. I was wanting to
get a machine with a faster
On Oct 22, 3:27 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
According to the specs, it uses an Ralink RT3072 chip.
This is Ralink's page, that has the (useless to me) driver for
10.5/6/7http://www.ralinktech.com/en/04_support/support.php?sn=502
Anyone have a valid link for the 10.4 version of this
John,
In the technical sense, this could be an answer:
http://www.barefeats.com/rad9650.html.
In real life, you might not see a huge difference. But it actually
makes some kind of difference. A couple years ago I had a 450Mhz dual
Mystic, 2 gigs of RAM, running Leopard with an ATI Radeon 9000
Len,
As a rule of thumb, if it has two ports, it supports two displays. The
only limitation would be VRAM size, but it's highly improbable you'd
have that problem with the 9650.
As for mirroring, the only Macs stuck in mirror mode were some of the
ones with built-in displays, like the iBook and
Roger,
There is the possibility that everything is OK but there is no
operating system installed. Try booting it from an OS X DVD.
Cubes are delicate creatures, and events such as shipping can mess up
their internal connections. I had the same experience with a Cube I
got from a fellow swapper
On Jan 2, 12:40 pm, gira93 diskce...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone!
Hi would like to know if someone here still uses his Powermac g4,
I have a g4 quicksilver (733mhz, 630mb ram) that i still use (and
love) today for web browsing, web administration and youtube, it works
very well with
Kevin,
Have you tried switching interfaces? Say, using a USB cable or a FW400
instead of the FW800? It could be so many things --a breaking/
defective cable, the interface board in the enclosure, the HDD itself,
a software problem... It would do some good to start ruling them out
one by one.
On Jan 10, 2:36 am, arichic...@gmail.com arichic...@gmail.com
wrote:
After several sudden mac failures, all around the time of the demise
of Steve Jobs, I have been trying to get by the past few months on a
G4 466, entirely stock, original 30gig hard drive with only Panther on
it, no dvd drive
On Feb 21, 4:19 pm, Darryl Jones antique...@comcast.net wrote:
As long as this Mac will do what I want it
to do - iTunes, DVD, download from the web, surf the web, email,
USENET, AIM, YIM and Skype, I don't see any reason to go out and spend
another $3000 on a new Mac right now, although I am
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