DNS server exploit (was Re: PayPal Fraud...?)

2008-09-13 Thread Bill Christensen
, contact your ISP and demand at least one that does. For more info, see http://support.menandmice.com/jforum/posts/list/65.page and follow the links. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable

Sawtooth P1 burnout advice

2008-10-03 Thread Bill Christensen
if the existing ps is still functional. And i'll probably swap the processor for an old 450 single and put the 1gig in a different sawtooth to test it. Any other suggestions on how to proceed? Thanks. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory

Re: Sawtooth P1 burnout advice

2008-10-04 Thread Bill Christensen
At 9:46 AM -0400 10/4/08, insightinmind wrote: On Oct 4, 2008, at 12:30 AM, Bill Christensen wrote: Update: The power supply itself checks out. Voltage is good for all pins, including the blackend ones. I'll check various other components separately on another machine (processor

Re: Disk Warrior-How?

2008-10-07 Thread Bill Christensen
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Re: Gmail Question

2008-10-08 Thread Bill Christensen
say for sure. Good luck. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Green Real Estate: http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/ Straw Bale

Re: Can Anyone Help With RAM?

2008-10-08 Thread Bill Christensen
for a new one, I would like to cram it with as much RAM and oomph as possible. So if anyone has any spare 256 or 512 (I know its pushing it) PC100/133 can you let me know. Simon Try the LEM Swap list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good luck! -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building

Re: Boot a G3 from USB pen drive?

2008-11-02 Thread Bill Christensen
believe that XPostFacto may also be able to do it using a helper disk. It's been a while since I messed with that. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com

Re: Friend needs help with collection of Macs

2008-12-10 Thread Bill Christensen
here to see what sticks. Needless to say, the operative word here is Help! ;-) Just out of curiosity, what city/state/country are we talking about. It may be possible that someone here could physically visit... -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building

Re: Invisible (application) files on storage drives

2008-12-11 Thread Bill Christensen
). Either way, if you're just using the drive/partition as a backup they should be safe to delete as the originals exist elsewhere. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http

Re: How many internal hard drives

2008-12-30 Thread Bill Christensen
on the cooling if you add that many though... and probably upgrade the power supply to handle 'em all. At some point it makes more sense to go with external firewire drives. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com

Re: New 500G Firewire HD - folders or partitions?

2009-01-04 Thread Bill Christensen
partition 50 gig if what it's backing up can't ever grow beyond 40, now does it? Unless you expect OSX to go into serious bloat mode in the near future. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable

Re: Installing PC3200 Ram into a PC2700 Dual 1Gb G4

2009-01-04 Thread Bill Christensen
will only be seen by the system as 512MB, which is still great as it's a freebie, and if you've got an open slot to fill. ... and let us know if it *does* see it as more than 512mb !! Because I'll want some too! -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals

Re: How to remove scratches?

2009-01-08 Thread Bill Christensen
of equipment with an aesthetic imperfection into a non-working but aesthetically perfect one! ...Or maybe you should just confess to your significant other that yes, it was you who scratched it and you're very sorry ;-) -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building

Re: Which html email program

2009-01-31 Thread Bill Christensen
. Those who are interested may still need to be reminded to go look) -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Green Real Estate: http

Re: Terminal tells me I have new mail

2009-02-03 Thread Bill Christensen
been buggin' me for a while, I just never thought to ask here. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Green Real Estate: http

Re: Terminal tells me I have new mail

2009-02-04 Thread Bill Christensen
if you specify MAIL=NULL. -- Ok, I'm testing it out with a full email address, after having cleared the existing stuff in the /var/mail/~user file. i'll let you know if it works. Or blows up. Thanks. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory

Monitor choices in Prefs=Displays

2009-03-09 Thread Bill Christensen
drastic and really break it. But I'm fine with doing a restart. Thanks for any pointers. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Green Real

Re: Monitor choices in Prefs=Displays

2009-03-09 Thread Bill Christensen
At 6:14 PM + 3/9/09, amanda.w...@comcast.net wrote: Bill, *Snip* It ain't *that* broke, so I don't want to do anything drastic and really break it. But I'm fine with doing a restart. Thanks for any pointers. -- Bill Christensen Try Detect Displays in the displays preferences pane. My iMac

Re: Monitor choices in Prefs=Displays

2009-03-09 Thread Bill Christensen
At 1:47 PM -0700 3/9/09, Clark Martin wrote: Bill Christensen wrote: So the big question is: what system bits do I need to copy into there to get it to show me a choice in the 1280 range? Because this is a working server I'm not prone to a system reinstall - or as you can see

Re: Monitor choices in Prefs=Displays

2009-03-09 Thread Bill Christensen
At 1:59 PM -0400 3/9/09, Tony Gamble wrote: On 9-Mar-09, at 4:28 AM, Bill Christensen wrote: So the big question is: what system bits do I need to copy into there to get it to show me a choice in the 1280 range? Because this is a working server I'm not prone to a system reinstall

Re: Monitor choices in Prefs=Displays

2009-03-10 Thread Bill Christensen
the box for System caches (normally NOT cleaned), but when you change machines, the System caches NEED to be rebuilt from scratch, hence, trashing the two files or using Onyx, etc. Son of a gun. That did it. Thanks! -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building

Re: WTB: Apple Universal Monitor Stand

2009-03-10 Thread Bill Christensen
. Nope, still working fine. I just bought something last week. lems...@googlegroups.com -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Green Real

speakers (was: Re: White MacBook Purchase?)

2009-03-21 Thread Bill Christensen
shouldn't connect regular speakers, but they do not say it will hurt the computer or the speakers... has anyone tried it ? Yep. No problem here. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building

Re: xserve question

2009-03-24 Thread Bill Christensen
cables for Xserve G4s or Intel Xserves as they rely on their backplanes for other functions. - Paypal strongly preferred. Ypsilanti, MI 48198 Ebay: the_grim_ninja (950+, 100% positive) -Donald Hall -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green

Re: Worms in clear plastic keyboard

2009-03-27 Thread Bill Christensen
it well and throw it in the freezer. At least they'll be dead when you go to open and clean it. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Green

Re: OS X Server 10.4 v's OS X Client 10.5 for home server

2009-03-27 Thread Bill Christensen
server, if that's your goal. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Green Real Estate: http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/ Straw Bale

Re: OS X Server 10.4 v's OS X Client 10.5 for home server

2009-03-28 Thread Bill Christensen
At 8:30 AM -0700 3/27/09, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 27, 2009, at 2:18 AM, Bill Christensen wrote: And in the most recent MAMP server I built, i discovered that you can go into the instruction file and change the ./configure directives. This is important if, for instance, the apache

Re: Okay, once I've built my iWeb site, how do I post it?

2009-04-03 Thread Bill Christensen
; /span/span/span/span (in other words, you had some text there, and you changed the font size three or four times, then deleted all but a space. Now you have a big pile of contradictory code which basically does nothing but slow down your load time. ) -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com

Re: sata controller in my MDD?

2009-04-09 Thread Bill Christensen
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Re: CCC and Backups

2009-04-26 Thread Bill Christensen
, and one more recent version. Just in case one of your backups isn't good. (in commercial environments it's not uncommon to save backups nightly, weekly, monthly, and yearly, but that might be overkill for you. I do it on my servers.) -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green

running a startup script in 10.5

2009-04-27 Thread Bill Christensen
tried to do the launchd thing, and keep getting user mismatches and such. I tried startup items in earlier versions of OSX. Any pointers? Thanks in advance. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com

Re: Which OS for 2 Handme down Machines - which one(s)? and are they worth it?

2009-05-11 Thread Bill Christensen
and such that a student should be doing, and fairly slow for things like photoshop and probably lousy for gaming. Which is a good thing IMO. It's old enough that it doesn't scream steal me the way a new 'book would. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals

Re: Swapping one default app for another?

2009-05-25 Thread Bill Christensen
to open that file under Open with click on [change All...] to apply this globally -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Green Real

Re: Lightening Season

2009-06-13 Thread Bill Christensen
. You'll rest a little easier if a storm comes up while you're at the grocery store or wherever. Or, plug everything into a power strip (they make 'em with built-in phone surge surpression too) and unplug it. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals

Re: Listers take Notice ==Important notice: GeoCities is closing

2009-07-10 Thread Bill Christensen
(non-blocking is fine, just as long as you have one), more incoming links, etc. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Green Real Estate: http

BW won't boot off firewire?

2009-07-30 Thread Bill Christensen
, thinking it may be a processor or motherboard issue. Thanks for suggestions. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://Calendar.SustainableSources.com Green Real Estate: http

Re: BW won't boot off firewire?

2009-08-01 Thread Bill Christensen
Thanks all for the reminder of XPostFacto's helper drive trick. That's doing the trick. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://Calendar.SustainableSources.com Green

Re: Replacing power supply G4 MMD

2009-08-27 Thread Bill Christensen
itself. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://Calendar.SustainableSources.com Green Real Estate: http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/ Straw Bale Registry: http

Re: Insecure MacIntosh Powerline Networks: ATT Liable?

2009-10-11 Thread Bill Christensen
to do this. That way, even if someone can see that you have a network they are pretty much locked out (of course given the right tools, enough time, and someone with the right skills nothing is secure). Good luck in pinning liability on anyone. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact

Re: WAS; HELP!!! Beige PowerMac G3 now: freecycle

2009-10-25 Thread Bill Christensen
- but this is a pretty tech-proud city. By that I mean people tend to put higher prices on their stuff than is usually warranted - I have never seen a Mac on Craigslist here for a really good price, for instance. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals

Single boop on startup

2009-11-14 Thread Bill Christensen
to any of my machines. I've swapped processors, ram, PRAM battery and powersupply (the previous one would start and immediately shut off) with known working versions (except the processor, which goes in the assumed working category). Am I looking at a fubar'd mobo? -- Bill Christensen http

Re: Single boop on startup

2009-11-14 Thread Bill Christensen
. Perhaps I'm using RAM that works in my other machines but not this one. I'll see what I can do about finding an exact match - I've got four others of the same type, but they're all busy all the time. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory

Re: Single boop on startup

2009-11-15 Thread Bill Christensen
At 12:36 AM + 11/15/09, Andy wrote: Hi folks, I've got a G4 that's giving me startup problems. Problem solved. It was the RAM after all. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable

Sawtooth needs cuda press to start?

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Christensen
need to CUDA it every time? Thanks. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://Calendar.SustainableSources.com Green Real Estate: http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/ Straw

Re: Sawtooth needs cuda press to start?

2009-12-11 Thread Bill Christensen
: And the 2nd most likely is the different processor - it's changed the system's timing. Hmmm. Ok, well everything else is working now so I guess it's time to put the dually back in. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http

Re: keychain be gone!

2010-01-04 Thread Bill Christensen
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Re: Double HDD stacking in G3 and G4

2010-01-10 Thread Bill Christensen
it down. Since my desktops don't move around much and I'm a bit of a cowboy when it comes to things like hard drive swaps I don't much mind that it's loose in there. I still wish the standard cable had just a smidge more space between the connectors. Your milage may vary... -- Bill Christensen

Re: Upgrade question for my Dual 533 G4

2010-01-23 Thread Bill Christensen
even be faster then an 876MHz...) Tiger will likely run faster for you than Panther on that machine. I have a near identical DA. Leopard should work as well, but it may be a little slower than Tiger. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory

Re: MDD bad RAM 3 beeps: I'm feeling even dumber than usual

2010-01-24 Thread Bill Christensen
worth testing. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://Calendar.SustainableSources.com Green Real Estate: http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/ Straw Bale Registry

Re: Hidden Remote Webcam activation is it in Firmware, HD, or PRAM?

2010-02-21 Thread Bill Christensen
enough that it was probably less than 5 years old. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://Calendar.SustainableSources.com Green Real Estate: http://www.greenbuilder.com

Re: Pros Cons of Stacking HDs

2010-03-12 Thread Bill Christensen
for a single drive in the top slot of a dual slot type, to increase the potential airflow around it. It would be nice if they just made the cables with a little more space betwween those two connectors! -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-09 Thread Bill Christensen
is: Am I reading that right - do you have 4 gigs of RAM in that machine or are you talking about video RAM or something like that? If you can get 4gigs of RAM in a sawtooth (which officially has a max capacity of 2 gigs), I want to know how! -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact

early version of Apple Mail still works

2010-08-24 Thread Bill Christensen
I thought y'all might enjoy this. Those old LEMs just keep on working for you! http://thereifixedit.com/2010/08/20/white-trash-repairs-carltons-mac-mail/ -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable

Re: G4 Disk Capacity Limit - Real or Logical?

2010-08-28 Thread Bill Christensen
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- -- Bill Christensen http

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-26 Thread Bill Christensen
. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://Calendar.SustainableSources.com Green Real Estate: http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/ Straw Bale Registry: http

Re: Quicksilver HD backup problem

2011-01-13 Thread Bill Christensen
the external drive back to me overnight and then load it in locally. I've done some test restoration, and so far everything looks good. I've yet to try a full restore from the remote over the internet, but that'll happen soon. -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building

Permissions fix not fixing.

2011-01-27 Thread Bill Christensen
Hi folks, I've run into a rather strange problem. I was having trouble with my hard drive, so decided it was time to migrate to one of my faster machines - a dual 867 G4 MDD which I'd recently taken out of serverhood. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to rescue the contents of the original 128gig

Re: Permissions fix not fixing.

2011-01-27 Thread Bill Christensen
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Any ideas as to how to get out of this endless loop? Yea. Give the owners and permissions a wack from Terminal. First, reset the directory and file ownerships with a chown command in Terminal, from your admin account:

Re: Permissions fix not fixing.

2011-01-28 Thread Bill Christensen
On 1/28/11 9:59 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 27, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Bill Christensen wrote: Apps are still all over the place. The applications folder itself seems to make sense: System read/write admin read/write everyone read only but most of the applications are showing (unknown

Re: New Member to this list

2011-11-01 Thread Bill Christensen
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:32 PM, AmigaDave bbh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello one and all of the G-Group. I currently have too many G3, G4 and G5 Mac computers, but I am trying to sell some of them. In case you're not aware, LEM has a separate Swap list on Google Groups too. Buy, sell, trade,

Re: Digest for g3-5...@googlegroups.com - 4 updates in 1 topic

2014-05-19 Thread Bill Christensen
On 5/19/14 11:34 AM, Click wrote: Legacy in this case means a version of the program that will also work on the machines of those of us who still run a 9.2.2 machine or two, due to hardware/driver compatibility issues with a critical legacy function. Is there a version of the program