Re: Disappeared HDs

[Bruce Johnson]

On Jul 27, 2020, at 7:13 AM, smac0031 
mailto:m.smurph...@gmail.com>> wrote:

I have a old Intel PowerMac with os 10.11.
It wasn't compatible with my old Brother HL-1440 printer. I got around
this problem by creating a second HD with snow leopard on it. I am able
to print with this printer from snow leopard.
I installed some updates to this drive and now it has disappeared.
When this thing is in my computer it won't boot from it, the or os 10.11 or 
from an Apple Install CD.
It is unusable. How do I get this thing zeroed out so I can get it to work as 
an HD?
Mark M

I would remove the drive, then plug it into an external USB adapter or case, 
and work on it by plugging it in after your computer is booted up.


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Re: Automatic login w/o password

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Try this first: uncheck the box to signing in w/o password, reboot, then check 
it again. Sometimes these settings get ’stuck’.

If that fails, then you might  try changing your password via Users and Groups, 
even if it’s to the same password. 

If that doesn’t work, try running keychain repair in Keychain Access (I think 
that’s what it was called back then!) 

If THAT doesn’t work delete your login keychain, reboot set the no-login 
setting. You’ll want to make sure you go theough your saved passwords and 
record them if need be, first.


> On Jul 6, 2020, at 6:54 AM, Jörg Duurkoop  wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I used to start my Mac running Tiger without password but lately I am always 
> being asked for it. In the security control panel all security options are 
> off. I have a G5 quadcore.
> 
> How can I get back to starting up without password? Thanks.

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Re: Cleaning computer keyboard

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The trick is remembering where the keys are to log onto the computer to see the 
Keyboard Viewer 8-P

On Apr 28, 2020, at 2:30 PM, Clark Martin 
mailto:cm...@sonic.net>> wrote:

I’ve always used the keyboard viewer when putting the keys back on.

System Preferences - > Keyboard -> Keyboard Tab -> check Show Keyboard, Emoji & 
Symbol Viewers in menu bar
Then menu bar -> keyboard menu -> Show Keyboard Viewer

Clark Martin
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On Apr 28, 2020, at 1:26 PM, Michael McMurtrey 
mailto:mcmurtreyja...@twc.com>> wrote:

It's a wired model. Model A1048, to be exact. I think I first called it an 
A1049.

This thing has so much accumulated grunge that it's going to have to be 
disassembled to clean it. And I will be sure to photograph it first so I get 
all the keys back where they belong!




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Re: Cleaning computer keyboard

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On Apr 27, 2020, at 8:25 PM, Jim Scott 
mailto:jesco...@gmail.com>> wrote:

CAUTION: Other Apple keyboards can be disassembled and cleaned basically the 
same way, except for the newer “Chiclet” keyboards with a flimsy metal top 
frame glued to a white plastic bottom. It’s impossible to take those apart 
without melting keys or distorting the aluminum. I know, I’ve tried and failed. 
More than once.

What I’ve done with mine is: Remove the batteries if it’s a wireless model 
dampen a paper towel with a little Formula 409 cleaner HOLD THE KEYBOARD UPSIDE 
DOWN, and gently wipe the keys clean. If you want you can follow that with a 
similar wipe of a paper towel dampened with isopropyl alcohol, then with it 
STILL upside down place it on a couple folded paper towels  to blot off any 
remaining liquid. Works pretty well, I’ve not killed one yet and I've been 
using those keyboards for years now using this method. The key is making sure 
it’s upside down the whole time so fluid doesn’t get into the keyboard.

This also works with Mac laptops as well, albeit a but more clumsily.

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Re: Password protection

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On Jan 21, 2020, at 1:49 PM, Bruce Johnson 
mailto:john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu>> wrote:


To remove your password, go to System Preferences > Users and Groups, select 
your account click on ‘Change Password’ and set it to a blank password.

Also, under Login Options, set ‘Automatic Login’ back to your account.

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Re: Password protection

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On Jan 21, 2020, at 12:16 PM, smac0031 
mailto:m.smurph...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Mac OS 10.11.4

On Sunday, January 19, 2020 at 4:17:39 AM UTC-5, smac0031 wrote:
Recently I activated the sign-in screen on my computer because I had guests 
staying at my house. Now they have left
and I don't need it, but I can't figure out how to deactivate it and it is 
causing  problem preventing me from using my
TIVO from playing YouTube videos on my 55 inch TV. Apparently, the TIVO uses 
the account on my computer to access
YouTube and because my computer is now password protected my TIVO is shut out. 
Watching YouTube videos on a
55 inch TV is much better than watching them on an itty bitty computer monitor.

Mark  M

To remove your password, go to System Preferences > Users and Groups, select 
your account click on ‘Change Password’ and set it to a blank password.

I don’t understand how that would affect watching youtube videos on the Tivo, 
though, unless it was through some sort of remote desktop-type login to your 
Mac.

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Re: How do I get control of the permissions on my Intel Mac Pro?

[Bruce Johnson]

On Mar 12, 2019, at 2:07 AM, smac0031 
mailto:m.smurph...@gmail.com>> wrote:

I bought a 2006 Intel Mac Pro that sort of works.


I'm pretty sure the Intel is running El Capitan. This allows it to communicate 
with my iPhone 8+. I think
something may have been patched the person who sold it. For instance when I try 
to pull up "About
this Mac" nothing comes up.

This is the first problem. If you’re starting with a messed up system, you’re 
not going to make it better by trying to patch in stuff from an older one.

Start Terminal. Don’t worry this one is easy!

type : sw_vers at the prompt and hit enter, it should tell you the version of 
software you have:

from mine:

dbdev2:~ johnson$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.13.6
BuildVersion: 17G5019

Now, go to Apple’s website, click on Support, (and presuming you are correct 
that it has El Capitan) enter 10.11 combo update (or the actual ProductVersion 
that you get from the above command, just the 10.nn part) which should take you 
to a page that lists a bunch of updtes. Find the highest numbered one for your 
version, download it and install it.

An example: 
https://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&type=organic&src=support_searchbox_main&locale=en_US&q=10.11+combo+update

With luck this will fix the problems like ‘it was customized’ that you’re 
seeing.

If it does not, then you’ll need to find the full installer, nuke and pave the 
Intel Mac and then migrate the files over again.

It’s a fair bit of work but you might find that this fixes all the issues 
you’re having. If it doesn’t come back and we’ll try something else.


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Re: File sharing problem in Tiger

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The user name and password to be entered are the ones for the account on the 
remote Mac; by default OS X displays the local logged-on user's long name. What 
it sends to the remote Mac is the short name (which is the name of your home 
folder on the Mac. ) 
 

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From: Gerald Cornish  on behalf of Bramcote 

Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2018 4:39 AM
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Subject: File sharing problem in Tiger

Hi all,

Powerbook 17" hires G4 and G5 2Ghz Mac OS 4.11 on both.

File sharing allowed on both, but when we try to connect via Finder
Cmmnd + k to the other mac we cannot connect as a registered user we
always get connection failed.

The user presented each time is what we expect - that is the user we
are running as in the calling mac.
The password is assumed to be our respective user password.

We have tried browsing to find the other mac rather than assuming the
presented name is correct but still no change.
We can connect as a guest but that does not give us the access we need.

 From google search we have learned that we should be able to connect
with our normal user/password combination so has anyone had/solved
this problem?
Is there a way to tell the system that our passwords are good for
file sharing?

I vaguely remember something about using Netinfo Manager or Network
Utility for something similar to this years ago but cannot find or
recall the details!

Anyone?

Ged

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Re: Migration to Intel

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On Sep 11, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Lawrence David Eden 
mailto:lde...@comcast.net>> wrote:

Mark,

Have you contacted Brother about new drivers? 
https://www.brother-usa.com/support-search#q=HL1440


Yes, actually Brother offers drivers for Yosemite which should work just fine 
in El Capitan:

http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hl1440_all

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Re: Migration to Intel

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On Sep 11, 2018, at 10:42 AM, smac0031 
mailto:m.smurph...@gmail.com>> wrote:

I got as far as cd /Users then the next thing was command not found.

Mark M

Did it look like this?

dbdev2:~ johnson$ cd /Users
dbdev2:Users johnson$ ls-l
-bash: ls-l: command not found
dbdev2:Users johnson$

There is a space between ‘ls’ and ‘-l’ this is a common typo/mistake. command 
in terminal are quite specific; they must be entered exactly.

‘ls’ is the command for listing a directory. -l is a sub-command meaning 'show 
a long listing’

dbdev2:Users johnson$ ls
Shared   helpdesk johnson  macports thushara
dbdev2:Users johnson$ ls -l
total 0
drwxrwxrwt   18 root   wheel612 Aug 28 18:03 Shared
drwxr-xr-x+  11 helpdesk   staff374 Aug 28 11:01 helpdesk
drwxr-xr-x@ 244 johnsonstaff   8296 Aug 31 07:51 johnson
drwxr-xr-x@  11 macports   staff374 Aug 28 13:48 macports
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Re: Migration to Intel

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On Sep 6, 2018, at 9:28 AM, smac0031 
mailto:m.smurph...@gmail.com>> wrote:


I still have problems with permissions. For instance the Intel won't let me 
into my music folder
telling me I don't have permission. I'm fairly sure I'm using the system 
administrator account so
I don't get it. There are other users in the user section of the system 
preferences but they are
dimmed.

I've occasionally run into this issue with migrated accounts. Fixing it takes a 
bit of Terminal-fu but it’s a quick fix.

Start terminal

You will be in your own home directory, so enter:

cd /Users

and hit return.

Then type

ls -l

And hit return (those are the letter ell not ones)

You will see something like:

dbdev2:Users johnson$ cd /Users
dbdev2:Users johnson$ ls -l
total 0
drwxrwxrwt   18 root   wheel612 Aug 28 18:03 Shared
drwxr-xr-x+  11 helpdesk   staff374 Aug 28 11:01 helpdesk
drwxr-xr-x@ 244 johnsonstaff   8296 Aug 31 07:51 johnson
drwxr-xr-x@  11 macports   staff374 Aug 28 13:48 macports
drwxr-xr-x@  11 927885439  1391123018   374 Aug 28 13:54 thushara

Depending on how many user accounts you have on the Mac. Note which one is your 
home directory; in my case it’s ‘johnson’, and note what the 3rd and 4th 
columns are, this is your short user name and primary group name, respectively. 
Mine is ‘johnson’ and ‘staff’ yours may be different.


Now enter enter:

sudo chown -R  username: group /Users/username

Substituting the user and group name noted above.

In my case the command would be:

sudo chown -R johnson:staff /Users/johnson

Here is an example of what happens when you do this. You will be prompted for 
your password. NOTHING will show on the line, if you do it wrong the command 
will fail with the error :

Password:
Sorry, try again.

If this is the first time you have ever used the ‘sudo’ command you may see 
some texts saying, essentially ‘be careful’ (1).

Like most Unix command line commands, if the command succeeds, you’ll simply be 
returned to the command prompt; you’ll only see a message is an error occurs.

dbdev2:Users johnson$ sudo chown -R helpdesk:staff /Users/helpdesk
Password:
dbdev2:Users johnson$


What this command does is:

sudo : Makes the system run this command as the root user, being an 
Administrator on the mac makes your account one that can use this command. The 
root user is all-powerful and can do anything to any user account on the system.

chown : Change ownership Almost always when you have an issue like you don’t 
have permission to access a file in your own directory after a migration, it’s 
because of some error in assigning ownership of the migrated files to the 
proper owner in the new system.

-R: apply this command recursively, ie: apply it to all files and folders in 
the targeted directory

username:group : the username and group who will be assigned the ownership

/Users/username : the directory you want to apply this command to.



Repair Permissions in Disk Utility does NOT do this; the permissions it repairs 
has to do with Applications and System software only. I have only ever twice in 
my career actually run into a problem where running Disk Permissions actually 
fixed the problem I was having. Fix Disk Permissions was really only ever a 
tool that was stuck into OS X starting with OS X 10.2 to fix a problem that 
only really existed in OS X 10.1.5.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2013/08/15/repairing-permissions-is-useless/

(1) (If you’re really lucky, you’ll see:

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System 
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things: #1) Respect the 
privacy of others. #2) Think before you type. #3) With great power comes great 
responsibility.

 but at some point Apple removed that verbiage, probably because Marvel 
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Re: Kinda OT but hoping someone here knows...

[Bruce Johnson]

Thanks for the responses, all!

On Jun 19, 2018, at 4:02 AM, John Ruschmeyer 
mailto:jrusc...@gmail.com>> wrote:

The first two generations of iPod were Firewire only (both charge and sync).
The 3rd generation iPod added the ability to sync over USB, but still needed FW 
to charge. This was the first version of the iPod to sport the 30-pin connector.
The 4th and 5th along with the iPod Mini could charge and sync from either FW 
or USB. I'm not sure about the first couple of generations of the Nano.
Subsequent iPods removed FW support.

FYI, a FW charger is a great thing to have if you are ever trying to revive an 
older iPod which has sat for a *really* long time and has a totally flat 
battery.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 9:38 PM Stan Earl 
mailto:stane...@gmail.com>> wrote:
The original iPod had FW at the power block and FW on the top of the unit. The 
iPod mini had FW at the power block and 30 pin at the base of the unit. It will 
charge the next generation slim small iPod and should charge others with the 30 
pin connector. My iPad 3 says "This accessory may not be supported", and does 
not show charging.
Hope this helps...

> On Jun 18, 2018, at 8:11 PM, Bruce Johnson 
> mailto:john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu>> wrote:
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> Hit a yard sale yesterday, and saw what I thought was a charger for an iPad, 
> in a box with a whole bunch of random hardware (of the nuts and bolts and odd 
> mechanical bits type) was told “$10 but you have to take that whole box”
>
> So I brought the box home, found a couple of tools, a variety of useful bits 
> and the charger, which turned out turned out to be for an original iPod, 
> since it has a FW port. It has a 30-pin cable. Is it the same as the 30-pin 
> one used in more recent devices?
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Kinda OT but hoping someone here knows...

[Bruce Johnson]

Hit a yard sale yesterday, and saw what I thought was a charger for an iPad, in 
a box with a whole bunch of random hardware (of the nuts and bolts and odd 
mechanical bits type) was told “$10 but you have to take that whole box”

So I brought the box home, found a couple of tools, a variety of useful bits 
and the charger, which turned out turned out to be for an original iPod, since 
it has a FW port. It has a 30-pin cable. Is it the same as the 30-pin one used 
in more recent devices?


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Re: Have to replace my dying MDD

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On Apr 18, 2018, at 2:39 PM, Jörg Duurkoop 
mailto:yaw...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi Kris & everybody,

I actually use an original Apple aluminum keyboard that was sold together with 
the later G5s I assume. On the "Option" key it says "alt" and on the Dutch 
"wis" key it says "delete". So which is it? English, Aussie, Canadian? Not US I 
assume …

That’s the keyboard thing I was talking about. Kris is right, this keyboard 
post-dates the G5’s, I’m pretty sure; in fact it postdates the very first Intel 
iMacs, as that was the machine on which I discovered the ‘no startup keys’ 
issue.

You’ll need to source an older USB keyboard for the times you need to apply 
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Re: Have to replace my dying MDD

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If, by chance, you’re using a flat modern USB keyboard, that might be it. I had 
to keep an old style USB keyboard around to use with older Macs when I had to 
use the startup keys.

On Apr 17, 2018, at 2:24 PM, Jörg Duurkoop 
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Hi again,

I got a good deal on the last edition of the G5 quadcore and it seems solid. 
The only thing I'm puzzled about is lately it won't react to the Alt command 
when starting up. Normally you get the choice of startup disks available but 
now the G5 just ignores the Alt key and starts from the disk chosen in the 
system prefs. Can be a major PITA under certain circumstances.

Anybody any idea what causes this? I replaced the PRAM battery although 
Everymac.com says "doesn't apply".

TIA for your valuable comments.

Jörg from the Netherlands.



Op maandag 12 maart 2018 15:50:56 UTC+1 schreef Jörg Duurkoop:
Hi,

My fourth MDD is having power supply problems and I'm tired of buying just 
another one and transfer 4 HDs, all my PCI cards, RAM and my 1.25 Ghz DP card 
again and waiting for another failing power supply.

I decided to go for a G5 instead and can get the top model for a good price. So 
what changes do I have to make? I can throw away my M-Audio Revolution card as 
the G5 has optical audio in and out. I can keep on using my Samsung digital TV 
as my monitor, it's already perfectly calibrated and I'll get a Mac Pro monitor 
extra.

I already use two Sata HDs with Tiger in my MDD with adapters so I can simply 
transplant them. But I want to keep my legacy SCSI devices like a nice old 
Microtec scanner and an old MOD drive so I'll need a PCI-e SCSI-card. Do you 
have any suggestions which cards will work with Tiger in the G5 2.5 Ghz DP 
quadcore?

The G5 should be the latest edition so I don't expect any woes with the liquid 
cooling system. Any other suggestions anybody? I hope for a smooth transition. 
Thank you.

Best regards, Jörg.

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Re: G4 won't finish booting

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> On Feb 24, 2018, at 3:44 PM, Mac User #330250  wrote:
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>> 
>> Even if the HDD was toast, the Mac would not shutdown: it would say "I can't
>> find any boot disk" - or something like that.
>> And if the HDD was corrupted, the Mac would show the folder icon with a
>> flashing question mark (meaning "Cannot find a valid system to boot").
> 
> HDD failures don't have to be total. Sometimes only some sectors are
> corrupted and that's what makes it act up, including the possibility to
> have it shut down on its own afer a certain timeout.

I’ve dealt with failing disks a number of times on both Classic and OS X over 
the years and this will not cause the system to shut down like this. 

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Re: G4 won't finish booting

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> On Feb 25, 2018, at 1:39 PM, diane  wrote:
> 
> ps - I have a new battery on order as well
> 
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 3:32 PM, diane  wrote:
> Thanks for all the suggestions! I am stuck on a couple of things as I can't 
> get the BT mouse to work with it at the moment and won't have a USB mouse 
> until tonight.
> 
> I was able to boot it off my external Panther drive. If I could navigate more 
> items via keyboard I'd be better off. It's indexing at the moment.
> 
> I took a video of the boot process. It's a little fuzzy but these are the 
> things that stand out to me:
> 
> CLOCK RESET! PMU WAS PROBABLY RESET SOMEHOW!!

This means the internal clock is set to the wrong date/time; and is just 
informational

> 
> disk2s3, major 14, minor 23
> disk2s3: I/O error
> disk2s3: I/O error
> syncing disks... Killing all processes
> continuing
> done
> CPU halted
> AFT_ATA_Sii3112:FT_handleBusReset - ATA bus reset was called, overriding it

This might mean an issue with the internal ATA controller, or it might be a bad 
disk. 

> 
> Then I get screens of :
> 
> USBF: 77.563 OHCI driver: OHCIRootHubPortPower bit not sticking (0). Retrying 
> (the .563 number differs on each line)
> 
> One line says this (then more of the above and it shuts down)
> 
> USBF: 87.612 AppleUSBHubPort: Port 1 of Hub at 0x3b10 about to terminate 
> a busy device (Macally iKey)

Hmmm, this might be the root of your problems; I’ve had similarly strange 
behavior from flaky USB devices. Is the keyboard pligged into the 4-port card 
or a mb one? try switching it to the other, and see if the error follows it?

> 
> 
> When I boot off the external FW drive, the USB keyboard is working fine.
> I do have a 4-port USB card in the machine if that seems to be the problem 
> BUT it is working on the Panther drive.

What does Disk Utility on the Panther drive say about the internal drive?



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Re: G4 won't finish booting

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On Feb 21, 2018, at 2:20 PM, diane 
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I have a 2003 G4 1.42DP (FW800)

With the exception of a couple of hard drive replacements and a power supply 
back in 2011, it's been bomb proof.

The other day though, it started to shutdown on boot (it had been running for 
weeks prior to this). I googled and found many references to this but mostly 
with a display with a proximity sensor, which I do not have.

I pulled it out of it's cubby and will clean it out, but I'd also like to 
replace the battery while it's open.

What's the best place to buy them these days? I used to get them at Radio Shack 
but they are no longer around.

Worse case I have a couple of older machines that I suppose I can fire up and 
put my drive in to get my data off, but ideally I'd like to get this going 
again.

Any thoughts? It just spins on the grey screen for a couple of minutes and then 
shuts down. I usually screen share into it so I'm not sure if it was doing 
something else prior. It did sound like it booted fully the fist time. Earlier 
this week I had it up and running for awhile but it wasn't connected to the 
network so that's when I shut it down and this happened.

If you’re running OS X try holding down the command and V key while booting; 
that will display what’s going on while it’s trying to boot; you may be able to 
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Re: Firewire 400 PCI cards - OK with a PowerMac?

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On Feb 23, 2018, at 8:22 AM, Neil Hughes 
mailto:neil.hugh...@tesco.net>> wrote:

To cut a long story short, I'd like to try to get my Dazzle* Hollywood DV 
bridge working and the only Mac likely to work with it is my old B&W G3 
Powermac.

Unfortunately the built-in Firewire ports no longer work (a common issue on 
this model I believe). Even after replacing the FW module no external devices 
are recognized in OSX Tiger or MacOS 9.2.2/8.6 so I suspect the TI chip on the 
motherboard has gone.

Does anybody know if the generic PCI FW cards work with PowerPC Macs? There 
seem to be quite a lot of different models available on Amazon but I can only 
see one that says it works with Macs and it doesn't mention OS compatibility. 
The reviews are all from Windows users.

Yes, any PCI FW 400 card will work on a PCI Mac; it’s a very standardized 
standard (and partly written by Apple to boot).

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Re: Blinking

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> On Oct 9, 2017, at 9:10 AM, Jörg  wrote:
> 
> BTW which would be your favorite (most reliable) G5? I would like to get one 
> eventually. Could I keep using my HDs, cards and RAM?
> 

I don’t really have a ‘favorite'; we never got more than one or two here, and I 
never personally used one...I went from Windows PC’s to a second-hand G4 to a 
first gen Intel iMac for a few years, and then later to the 27” Quad i7 
mid-2010 I have now. 

(We in the IT department are the cobblers children of computers. I keep getting 
to set up everyone’s newer macs, but never use them. )

I know they used SATA HD’s and different RAM than G4’s. ISTR the card slots 
were different as well; they were pretty much completely different 
architectures from what went before.

Intel macs came along and pretty much replaced all PowerPC macs here within a 
few years. I surplussed the last G4 in the College about three years ago, and 
it had been sitting in a closet for a while before that. 

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Re: Blinking

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> On Oct 8, 2017, at 7:31 AM, Jörg Duurkoop  wrote:
> 
> I just posted my problem on MacRumors. Apparently the monitor is still OK:
> 
> https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mdd-starting-ok-but-power-button-on-monitor-flashing.2076165/

I've learned through experience that problems with a MDD are always the power 
supply :-(

ISTR seeing mods for installing ATX power supplies that utilize a separate wall 
wart for providing power to the ADC bus. This might be a more economical 
solution than buying recapped PS’es.

Also keeping 14 yo computers running is tough. That’s like 200 in computer 
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Re: Communicating to my iphone

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> On Oct 1, 2017, at 3:19 PM, smac0031  wrote:
> 
> I have an iphone 6s. I was able to download photos from my phone using my DA 
> G4 and a cable until I upgraded to 
> iOS 10.3, I think. Now I am using a Dual G5 with iphoto 9. It doesn't matter, 
> it doesn't work. My iphone is a brink
> to either of these computers. 

Try Image Capture. It won’t sync or let you add or remove programs but it works 
for getting photos off of iPhones and iPads (at least on modern systems)

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Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

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> On Aug 21, 2017, at 11:04 AM, Roger Hodge  wrote:
> 
> I bought this one for my G5 and It works Great!
> 
> LG internal / Gh22 Super Multi DVD rewriter 22x 8.5GB DVD+R

G5’s use SATA drives and optical drives. QS systems use ATA. Different 
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Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

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> On Aug 21, 2017, at 6:27 AM, William Tomcanin  wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> My 15-year old original Pioneer optical drive has failed completely.  I 
> removed it took it apart, cleaned it which brought it back to life for about 
> one day.  Today it refuses to read anything!
> 
> Time to replace it and I am wondering what folks are using these days.
> 
> I've been to the OWC site and see some options for newer drives, but they 
> only function as CD/DVD-rom when connected internally with appropriate 
> adapters.  I can live with that, but would appreciate any recommendations 
> from the group.

Yeah, finding an ATA optical drive is kinda hard nowadays. 

Honestly the simplest and cheapest solution would be to go with an external USB 
one:

https://www.google.com/search?q=external+optical+disk+drive&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=shop&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiB4NH_1ujVAhVG2WMKHT15DIwQ_AUICigB&biw=1801&bih=1381
 


Like this one: 
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-8x-external-usb-double-layer-dvdrw-cd-rw-drive/5852919.p

If you’re running 10.5.8 (iirc) any functional optical drive should be 
recognized with all capabilities so this will work as a DL +/- burner.

This has the advantage of being transportable to other systems as needed.

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Re: Processor upgrade question, follow-up: LARGEST

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On Aug 14, 2017, at 10:06 AM, Milton King 
mailto:crabs...@cox.net>> wrote:

Thank You.  I probably asked the wrong question an I was thinking largest 
single processor on a 100 bus.  This old G4 will not do much past email and a 
few web sites.  As you know, all of the browsers are not supported.  My last 
hopeful was Roccat  and not I cannot get it to run on Tiger.  At Any rate,  I 
see some reasonably priced 500 to 733 single core mhz units on some websites.  
Thank you for your informative response.

There’s a version of Firefox kept up-to-date for 10.4 here: 
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Re: Mouse Woes

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On Aug 4, 2017, at 8:00 AM, Michael McMurtrey 
mailto:mcmurtreyja...@twc.com>> wrote:

The problem, as it turns out, may simply be due to interference with the 
wireless mice from either my iPhone or our home wi-fi network. I usually have 
the iPhone (6S+) close by, and our Spectrum cable monitor (Ubee) is close by 
the computer as well. I plugged in a generic "made in China" wired USB optical 
mouse, and the problems went away, although I was certain I had experienced the 
same issues with it earlier as with the wireless mice. Also, the wireless mice 
worked fine until just recently, when it developed issues all at once across a 
broad range of applications and games. I live in an apartment complex, and my 
iPhone indicates the presence of several home wi-fi networks among the 
neighbors, so perhaps the interference is coming from one or more of them.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll file them for future reference. I did try 
deleting the mouse prefs plist earlier while working the problem, but that did 
not resolve the issues with the wireless mice.

The 2,4Ghz band that generic wireless mice use is pretty crowded. It could be 
that a neighbor has put in a particularly noisy wireless device of some sort. 
It’s unlikely to be your devices unless you’ve changed them recently.

You might be better off getting a Bluetooth mouse, since the spec for that 
(IIRC) includes measures to manage interference from competing devices; but a 
wired one is pretyt much proof against any sort of interference like that.

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Re: Mouse Woes

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On Aug 3, 2017, at 5:32 PM, Michael McMurtrey 
mailto:mcmurtreyja...@twc.com>> wrote:

All of a sudden my mouse refuses to work properly. I can't click and drag text 
in Word (or any other application); sometimes the mouse initially selects 
nothing but then highlights a completely different block of text when I attempt 
to drag. If I am successful in selecting a block of text, the block is 
deselected once I release the mouse button I can't create a rectangular marquee 
in Photoshop. I can't resize browser windows. When I try to move a Finder 
window by clicking and dragging, the window closes. I can't resize columns in 
column view in the Finder. These issues (and others) persist whether I'm using 
a wired mouse or a wireless one (Logitech or Microsoft).

Computer is a dual-processor MDD running OS 10.5.8. I have run Disk First Aid 
and even reinstalled the OS, all to no avail.

Have you tried making changes to your mouse prefs and then changing them back? 
Sometimes that fixes weird issues.

Make sure no weird things have been turned on in Accessibility prefs, this can 
cause issues like this.

Create another account and see if you have the same problem.

If not (and I suspect so, since you did the equivalent of checking the air in 
your tires and rebuilding your engine because the window in your car won’t roll 
up 8-) find the mouse prefs plist files in your user ~/Library folder (I don’t 
remember where it is in 10.5.8) and delete it.

In 10.12 it's in ~/Library/.GlobalPreferences.plist (note the leading dot, 
meaning it’s a hidden file. ) You can open a terminal window and do rm 
Library/Prefereneces/.GlobalPreferences.plist , log off and log back in and see 
if your mouse behaves.

This will wipe out a lot of preferences, though.

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Re: My DA G4 died.

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> On Jul 29, 2017, at 5:55 PM, smac0031  wrote:
> 
> Out of curiosity I was looking at microsoft usb keyboards for cheap at office 
> max/depot whatever it is. I would
> think this would work on a mac but it doesn't say on the box. Is this a 
> possibility?

They  work out of the box, but the command and option keys are swapped around. 

There are utilities to switch this.

 Windows mice are much more functional, they work oob with no issues: 
left/right, scroll wheel just work when you plug one in.

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Re: Question

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On Mar 23, 2017, at 10:16 AM, NODEraser 
mailto:nodera...@gmail.com>> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:12 AM, paulcefo 
mailto:paulc...@buffalo.edu>> wrote:

My question: does anyone have a path to get my data from these ORB 2.2GB
disks to one or more DVDROM that could be mounted on the Linux machine.

I appreciate that there may be differences between the file formats from the
ORB disks and those readable on the Linux machine.


The hardest part would probably be finding someone with a drive to
read them; the rest is fairly easy.


Amazingly drives seem relatively cheap and plentiful on fleabay.

<http://www.ebay.com/itm/Castlewood-ORB-2-2-GB-External-Drive-ORB2SE00/232277466497?_trksid=p2385738.c100677.m4598&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908110712%26meid%3Dd0392cb3d19b4d45a8e71b4bc5d4d982%26pid%3D100677%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D201841279514<http://www.ebay.com/itm/Castlewood-ORB-2-2-GB-External-Drive-ORB2SE00/232277466497?_trksid=p2385738.c100677.m4598&_trkparms=aid=222007&algo=SIC.MBE&ao=1&asc=20160908110712&meid=d0392cb3d19b4d45a8e71b4bc5d4d982&pid=100677&rk=4&rkt=6&sd=201841279514>>

You’ll need an appropriate device with a SCSI interface; an old PowerPC mac 
would work just fine, then copy it over the network to the Linux box as files, 
burn to DVD on linux box.  Easy.

“Easy”, he says, mockingly, because he’s gone down badger holes like this 
before and has the scars to prove it… :-)

But that would be my approach if I had to do this. I have a bunch of old 
Syquest 135 mb disks laying about. I think my old drives work, just don’t have 
a Mac with SCSI running right now to read them.

About once every couple of months we get a plea on our campus-wide IT list:

“Does anyone have any [insert name of long obsolete storage device] we have 
some [insert name of media for the long obsolete storage device]’s that we need 
to recover data from.”

More broadly this kind of issue is an ongoing slow motion catastrophe in the 
world; we’re losing old data at a vastly accelerated rate compared to the rest 
of human history. We have stuff from the dawn of the invention of writing, 5000 
years ago, that we can read…we have data tapes from 1975 that we cannot.

Nothing we’ve ever created with computers come close to even the longevity of a 
well made book.

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Re: Cursor and PRAM Issues

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On Mar 21, 2017, at 9:49 AM, Sky King 
mailto:mcmurtreyja...@twc.com>> wrote:

My MDD G4 has two hard drives, one with Leopard (10.5.8) and one with Tiger 
(10.4.11). I run Leopard 99% of the time.

1. After archiving and reinstalling Leopard and all updates, the cursor now 
exhibits aberrant behavior. It frequently flickers on and off, especially when 
using Photoshop, and also displays as an 'empty' square or string of squares 
through which the background can be seen. I've researched this problem 
thoroughly, but none of the solutions I have found have worked.


I agree with Kris, this is most likely a video card issue, and may well be 
merely coincidental to the re-install.


2. One of the solutions suggested was to reset the PRAM/NVRAM. When doing this 
in the typical manner (holding down the Command, Option, P, and R keys at 
start-up) from Leopard, the computer starts up in Tiger from the other hard 
drive

Entirely expected if the Tiger volume is the first one on the bus. Clearing the 
NVRAM deletes the value holding the preferred startup volume.

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Re: Freezing HDD

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> On Mar 13, 2017, at 7:53 AM, turnkit  wrote:
> 
> If you are going to do this you might consider putting the drive in a ziplock 
> bag before freezing it. It might keep moisture out. -?
> 
> On Saturday, March 11, 2017 at 12:42:45 PM UTC-6, Alex Ander wrote:
> The hard drive on my PM 5300 looks like it has failed. Is there any truth 
> that freezing the drive might restore it or is it one of those myths?

Yes definitely a good idea. I didn’t use a freezer, but a small styrofoam 
container of ice. I’d forgotten I had a picture of it!

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Re: Freezing HDD

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> On Mar 11, 2017, at 6:29 PM, Kris Tilford  wrote:
> 
> Failing HDs need to be copied ASAP and trashed, they can’t be saved, only the 
> data on them can be saved.
> 
> 

Well you can save some cool and useful magnets, shiny disks and various chunks 
of aluminum from them, too 8-P

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Re: Freezing HDD

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On Mar 11, 2017, at 11:42 AM, Alex Ander 
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The hard drive on my PM 5300 looks like it has failed. Is there any truth that 
freezing the drive might restore it or is it one of those myths?

Not a myth, but it’s not a cure-all. As Len says have everything ready to roll 
as soon as you plug it in. I was able to recover about 40-50mb of of a failing 
drive this way.

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Re: Dumping inventory

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> On Mar 6, 2017, at 10:53 AM, Dan Cottler  wrote:
> 
> Time to dump my Macs (mostly G3 and G4 machines), parts, etc.
> 
> Besides LEM Swap and Craigslist, can you recommend good places to sell this 
> stuff?

Other than Fleabay, not really.

It’s not so much for selling, but when you’re down to the stuff you just want 
gone, try Freecycle https://www.freecycle.org 

Founded right here in Tucson :-)

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Re: Performa 5300 flashing disk with ?

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> On Mar 6, 2017, at 9:31 AM, James E. Therrault  wrote:
> 
> IIRC, sometime a system folder can be re-blessed by simply removing he System 
> then putting in back into the Sys folder..

The System Suitcase. 

Yes, that’s actually the official means of re-blessing the System folder, now I 
recall. I only ever had that happen once or twice though; more often than not 
the issue was a corrupted System or boot volume.

It was SO much nicer when OSX came along with a much more solid OS base; the 
old OS had pretty much reached the point of total collapse under the weight of 
all the kludges. 

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Re: Performa 5300 flashing disk with ?

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> On Mar 4, 2017, at 3:20 PM, Valter Prahlad  
> wrote:
> 
> Il giorno 04/03/17 19.30, "Alex Ander" ha scritto:
> 
>> I decided to give an old Performa 5300 a go.
>> the built in monitor comes up and a disk with a question mark that keeps
>> flashing.
> That means it cannot find a bootable System.
> It's either the hard disk is dead, or there's no bootable System on it.

Disk with question mark is ‘I cannot find a bootable volume’ Either dead drive, 
or boot sectors are messed up.

Folder with a question mark is ‘I found a bootable volume, but no blessed 
system Folder’

If you can scrounge up one of these 
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1HE0JE6610> (or just buy 
that one :-) you can pull the drive from the performa to check it out.

Those are very hand little tools to have around to diagnose drive issues.

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Re: QS2002 shuts down when sleep selected

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> On Feb 13, 2017, at 10:27 AM, geraldcornish  wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Quicksilver 2002 800 single cpu
> Mac os 10.4.11 Tiger
> 172GB startup drive
> 280GB additional data drive (not part of startup user but includes another 
> user also on Tiger)
> 
> Recently this G4 has decided to shutdown when requested to sleep.
> 
> Occasionally it shuts down when not requested (while not working/active).
> 
> I have replaced the battery, tried different startup drives, and…

First step: try resetting the PRAM : start up while holding down 
command-option-P-R and wait for the third startup bong before releasing it. 
ISTR fixing one of mine that was shutting down like this by clearing the PRAM.

There are also some system prefs files to delete listed here, but I'm not sure 
whether all of them exist in 10.4 or not…

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Re: Slideshow software

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On Feb 7, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Len Gerstel 
mailto:lgers...@gmail.com>> wrote:

You can use the slide-show screen saver on them and unplug the keyboard & 
mouse….

DOH, didn’t think about that. Thanks.

Last screensaver I had running had a toaster with wings (and for you young 
un’s, it wasn’t on Red Bull). Now get off my lawn

ROFL! Mine was the venerable fireworks one, which was pre-"After Dark"… Someone 
ressurected the AD Toasters for a little while 
<http://www.wurst-wasser.net/wiki/index.php/Flying_Toasters_Screen_Saver> 
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Re: Slideshow software

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On Feb 7, 2017, at 9:04 AM, NODEraser 
mailto:nodera...@gmail.com>> wrote:

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Len Gerstel 
mailto:lgers...@gmail.com>> wrote:

I would like to set them up in my stores with a constantly running slide show. 
I know Graphic converter can do it, but anyone know a free app from that era 
that can? Preview doesn’t.

You can use the slide-show screen saver on them and unplug the keyboard & 
mouse….

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Re: New (to me, of course) iBook G4. A few questions.

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On Feb 1, 2017, at 3:50 PM, Mike K. 
mailto:li...@koralatov.com>> wrote:


Didn't the G5s use SATA?  Or did I imagine that?  I know more about the G4s 
than the G5s by quite a long shot, so I'm possibly mistaken.

Yes, upon some googling they did.  I've worked on so few of them and it was so 
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Re: New (to me, of course) iBook G4. A few questions.

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On Jan 31, 2017, at 8:35 AM, Michael Moreau 
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5. This little laptop will mostly be for me when I'm writing, or for my 
daughter to do some basic web browsing for school as we've already got tons of 
other computers, phones, tablets, etc... Any other suggestions though to make 
this thing as speedy and enjoyable as possible?


Here's a current PPC port of firefox: 
http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ if you have at least OS X 10.4 on 
it. Classilla for earlier versions http://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/

All PowerPC macs used IDE drives, IIRC. OWC sells SSDs for them 
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/SSDMLP120/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=shoppingengine&utm_campaign=googlebase&gclid=CLvjkv-I7dECFQYOaQodhb0BBw
 OWC has RAM, too 
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/iBooks-PowerBooks/G4-iBook/

But that starts getting into a bunch of money for not a lot of computer...

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Re: Partitions corrupted on a drive

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On Dec 29, 2016, at 4:55 PM, W. Neal Lewis 
mailto:wnle...@southwind.net>> wrote:

A partition or partitions are corrupted on one of the drives on my G4.

The drive is a Hitachi HDP725050GLAT80.

When I boot off the system CD, it can see two partitions, but not the other 
three.

I have an older version of DiskWarrior (3.0.2) which also can see two of the 
partitions, but cannot fix the problem.

Would a newer version of DiskWarrior (4.0) be able to fix the problem?

Disk warrior fixes volume catalog and index issues, not disk and partition 
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Re: Antenna for wireless

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On Aug 25, 2016, at 1:59 PM, TVirkkala 
mailto:multi...@wirkman.com>> wrote:

A few years ago a friend's cat chewed up the antenna on my old G5, 1.8.

Now I need it! Finding a replacement seems rather expensive though. Look at 
this price!

https://www.macpartsdepot.com/922-6043-airport-external-antenna-mac-pro-g5-powermac.html?gclid=CKWWsaHl284CFcSCfgodRqwK2w

$55! That's just the antenna.

Are there any workarounds? Could one screw something into the card (there is a 
place to screw in the antenna) and then use a piece of wire to get the antenna? 
Or can I take the little antennae I have on some old wireless cards hanging 
around here and attach it to the wireless card on the G5?

You could probably get an appropriate wireless pigtail and attach a regular 
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Re: Dead MDD?

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Unplug it, press the CUDA switch a couple times, then plug it back in.

I’ve had issues like this with computers subject to power line issues like 
brownouts and such…basically the startup circuitry gets confused and the 
computer won’t start.

With a MDD this could also be the flaky power supply as well. Every MDD we ever 
had eventually needed a PS replacement, and this was the symptom.



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> Hi,
> 
> I just returned from a 5-week vacation and my MDD won't start anymore. No 
> sound no light, nothing.
> 
> I left it plugged in as I found that it helps prolonging the life of the PRAM 
> battery.
> 
> Any ideas what it could be? The Mac worked perfectly when I left for my 
> holidays. I'm flummoxed, I love that machine.
> 
> Thank you for any comments.
> 
> Jörg.
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Re: Preview app for Tiger 10.4.11

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> On Jul 10, 2016, at 4:09 AM, Jörg Duurkoop  wrote:
> 
> 
> I could print from Jaguar. Then I checked permissions on the Tiger volume and 
> there were lots of wrong permissions with the owner 501 instead of 0. After 
> fixing that I could print again.
> 
> Owner 501, isn't that root? Thanks again.

501 is typically the first user account created during system setup. Root is id 
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Re: Preview app for Tiger 10.4.11

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On Jul 8, 2016, at 1:32 PM, Jörg Duurkoop  wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> I can't print from Preview any more, every time I click on Print the app 
> crashes. Which is the best Preview version working in Tiger? Where can I d/l 
> it? Thank you.

Have you tried doing so as a different user on the computer to confirm it’s the 
program and not user settings of some sort? I’d first look at deleting Preview 
prefs file and a safe-boot cycle to clear caches.  If it needs replacing I’d 
re-apply the 10.4.11 combo update; since preview is a part of the system.


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Re: Mavericks install

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On Jul 5, 2016, at 8:26 AM, Jörg Duurkoop 
mailto:yaw...@gmail.com>> wrote:

BTW I saw loads of defective newer MacBooks Air for sale. The RAM of these 
babies is soldered to the motherboard! How stupid is that?

Not uncommon at all for the ultrabook category. It’s part of how you make it so 
thin and Apple’s not the only one doing that. This seems unusual though, in my 
experience the MBA’s have been quite reliable; the ONLY failures I’ve seen here 
have been user-instigated, mostly dumping liquids on the kb. They seem to 
attract coffee spills.

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Re: G4 questions

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On Jun 30, 2016, at 12:43 PM, W.Adrian D'Alessio 
mailto:fluxstrin...@gmail.com>> wrote:

I was thinking in terms of hardware config non volatile system settings. Maybe 
preventing the drive changes/OS changes


Since he was able to install Server 10.4, I think Kris might be on the right 
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Re: G4 questions

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Power management is entirely different in laptops versus desktops, which have 
the CUDA switch.

Power Management issues tend to be on the order of ‘Won’t start up at all’; 
which may be the issue here, so it’s a good thought!

<https://discussions.apple.com/thread/757129?start=0&tstart=0>



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This may sound dumb. I will risk it.

Do these machines have a CUDA switch?

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On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Kris Tilford 
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On Jun 29, 2016, at 9:08 AM, LochDhueDude 
mailto:cmichaell...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Have an iBook G4 with a corrupted Leopard install.

It won’t Safe Boot by holding the Shift key at startup? If you can Safe Boot, 
simply download and reinstall the 10.5.8 Combo Update, then you should be 
good…remember, if you’re short on HD space, you might want to use something 
like an older version of Monolingual to strip out the Intel code from Leopard 
since Leopard is bloated with both Intel & PPC code and is twice as big as 
necessary.

I wanted to install Tiger and Classic Mode, or OS9 if possible. My 4 CD set 
Tiger intaller wouldn't boot. A number of other DVD Tiger installers wouldn't 
boot.

The 4 CD set often fails because of scratched CDs, but you don’t need all the 
CDs, you ONLY need CD #1, the first CD to boot. If you can get CD #1 to boot, 
then DESELECT all the OPTIONS so that it’s only installing the base system 
software, then you can later navigate to any additional software you need on 
the other CDs and install that by double-clicking the installer packages, or 
better yet, just download the current versions from the internet. IF you get 
CD#1 to boot and install Tiger, you will have access to Software Update via 
internet, but I don’t think Safari is installed, so you’ll need to manually 
install either Safari from CD#2, or download any other browser beforehand and 
transfer it manually with a USB or local network connection.

Tried every OS9 installer I could find including last year's patched 'OS9.2.2 
for G4s including unsupported machines'. Nothing would boot except OS X Server 
10.4...so I ran the intaller, which worked but I can't find the product key...
Any suggestions Bruce, et. al.?

Did you try the Netboot 9.2.2 free OS X installer package that you can download 
from Apple?
<https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1192?locale=en_US>



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Re: G4 questions

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> On Jun 29, 2016, at 7:08 AM, LochDhueDude  wrote:
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>  Nothing would boot except OS X Server 10.4...so I ran the intaller, which 
> worked but I can't find the product key...
> Any suggestions Bruce, et. al.?

Well Server worked so the drive isn’t bad. If the data on the system isn’t 
important I’d boot from the server installer disk again, nuke and pave the hard 
drive (drop the partition, re-add it), and try using one of the other 
installers again.

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Re: get live dv cam video from old Powerbook to newer MacBook Pro and stream online

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On Jun 28, 2016, at 8:53 AM, lip...@gmail.com<mailto:lip...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I have a 15-inch PowerBook (Double layer SD, 1.67GHz running OS 10.4.11).  I 
can connect my DV cam to it and get live video using any number of apps (iMovie 
HD, Gawker, probably others). I can connect the DV cam to my MacBook Pro (2.3 
ghz, Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013, OSX 10.11.5) using a Thunderbolt adapter and 
use the UStream Producer or Wirecast Producer and get live video and stream it 
online that way. My question is, how can I get live video to my MacBook Pro 
from the Powerbook, so that I can either just watch it on the MBP or stream it 
online?

You want the PB to serve live video? This might work: 
http://dss.macosforge.org/releases.html

This is the Open source parts of Apple’s Quicktime Streaming Server. It’s an 
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Re: PowerMac G4 Single 1.25 (June 2003 Mirror Drive Doors) Software Restore Discs

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> On Jun 10, 2016, at 1:13 AM, 'Gary Brown' via G-Group 
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>> I don't suppose anyone's got the original software restore discs for one of 
>> these G4's have they?
> 
> I have the opposite problem... I managed to aquire a sealed doc pack but 
> don't know what Mac it is for. However, I *think* it is for the 1.25 SP MDD 
> 2003 model based on the evidence.
> 
> The Setup Guide specs mention 1MB L3 Cache, PC2700 RAM, an ADC/DVI AGP4* 
> card, and 2 FW400 ports, and is dated 2003.
> 
> DVD 1 is Z691-4872-A entitled 'Power Mac G4 Software Install and Restore 1 of 
> 2' and includes OS 10.3.2 & AHT 2.0.2 according to the label.
> 
> DVD 2 is 2Z691-4873-A entitled 'Power Mac G4 Software Install and Restore 2 
> of 2'
> 
> These disks are dated 2004. I can't tell much about the contents from OS9. 
> Disk 1 appears to be the OS X installer, but all I can see on disk 2 is a 
> bunch of PDFs.

I found this thread in Apple’s forums that references the part number 
<https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2725875?start=15&tstart=0> and has a 
picture of one disk. The specs say it’s  one of the following MDD models 
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Re: Seagate hybrid HD crashes in a MDD

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> On Apr 30, 2016, at 10:11 AM, Jörg Duurkoop  wrote:
> 
> ut I experienced three crashes in three days after the purchase. The crash 
> happened always with three apps running, TenFourFox with about twelve 
> windows/tabs open, Vuze downloading a movie and watching a low-res video in 
> QuickTime.
> 
> I always keep two recent CCC-clones so I always can boot my Mac but I wonder 
> what causes these crashes - the only thing that moves is the beachball. One 
> time I could still open the force quit window but it wouldn't work anyway. 
> Could it be there are some issues Tiger has with hybrid disks or SSD? I like 
> the drive, it's fast, not expensive (97 €) and comes with a five year 
> warranty.

I don’t think that the Mac sees the ‘hybrid’ part of those disks; it just sees 
it as a SATA drive, the ssd part is managed by the on-board electronics. 

Does Disk utility show any SMART errors? I suspect it may be a flaky drive. You 
can also get a utility like this 
<https://www.volitans-software.com/apps/smart-utility/> which will give you 
better info than Disk Utility which simply tells you ‘errors have occured'

That said I don’t have any experience with those drives on Macs, let alone PPC 
macs…We’ve gotten them in a number of newer PC’s at work and haven’t had issues.

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Re: Backup and ransomware Was: alg5 accidentently deleted a folder and emptied trash

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> On Mar 8, 2016, at 12:16 AM, 'TRGPN WebMaster' via G-Group 
>  wrote:
> 
> On Mar 7, 2016, at 3:12 PM, Bruce Johnson  
> wrote:
> 
> "In the light of the advent of Mac ransomware, however, I’m starting to think 
> that maybe keeping backups disconnected might be a good thing; if you get a 
> ransomware infection, all mounted volumes are going to be affected, which 
> would include a Time Machine volume. "
> 
> 
> If I use CCC to update a clone backup more frequently than every 72 hours, 
> when I discover I’ve been "ransomwared” won’t it be too late, i.e., the clone 
> will have been contaminated too, right?

Well, IF this is your only backup, it would require taking more steps to 
restore the data:

Nuke and pave the Mac with a clean install of the os. Download something like 
MalwareBytes for Mac <https://www.malwarebytes.org>, clean up the backup disks 
and then restore the old data.

Pretty much what we did (only with Windows) for the prof here who got hit with 
Locky; fortunately Locky didn’t encrypt the system restore points that 
"Previous Versions” creates.

I’ve also read more about the Mac ransomware since and it appears that it 
tried, but was unable to encrypt Time Machine volumes; I’m not sure this was 
because of any special things apple’s done (only the process backupd can write 
to a Time Machine volume, I’m not sure how hard or easy it would be to replace 
or override backupd to use it to corrupt a backup.) or simply because it was 
poorly written, and relies mainly on a user’s panic at losing everything to 
extort them.

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Re: alg5 accidentently deleted a folder and emptied trash

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> On Mar 7, 2016, at 10:47 AM, mkehoe  wrote:
> 
> "Get an external HDD, plug it in and let Time Machine do it’s thing. It has 
> saved my butt numerous times, and once it’s set up and running you can just 
> ignore it until you need it. "
> 
> I use Time Machine, but have been reluctant to leave the external drive on 
> 24/7.  I usually plug it in and run periodic backups.  In your opinion, does 
> leaving the external drive on and connected all the time wear out the drive 
> much faster than leaving it on?  I don't make that many daily changes to 
> critical data, and when I do, I do an immediate backup.  

As a rule, for desktop macs, I tend to say ‘leave it on’ (but see below). The 
Seagate HDD I use will go to sleep when the computer does or is turned off. 
I’ve had a couple of disk failures over the years, but fortunately the backup 
disks never failed at the same time as the computer ones :-)

For laptops, I do the same thing that you do, mainly for convenience. So long 
as you are disciplined about the ‘regular’ part :-) this is a good backup 
strategy.

A PROPER backup strategy would involve multiple disks, rotating them on and off 
site, unfortunately Time Machine isn’t well suited for that;I’d use Carbon Copy 
Cloner or SuperDuper if I was going to go that route.

Cloud-based solutions are also an option, if you have a fast enough network 
connection.

In the light of the advent of Mac ransomware, 
<http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2016/03/new-os-x-ransomware-keranger-infected-transmission-bittorrent-client-installer/>
 however, I’m starting to think that  maybe keeping backups disconnected might 
be a good thing; if you get a ransomware infection, all mounted volumes are 
going to be affected, which would include a Time Machine volume. 

KeRanger is a particularly scary case; it was properly signed, so gatekeeper 
would let you just download it and run it, if you had set your security 
settings appropriately (or, *in*appropriately in this case!). 

I would go to the System Preferences, and make sure that the Security And 
Privacy general settings were set to only allow apps from the Mac App Store 
(ideally) or ‘Mac App Store and Identified developers’ (which would have let 
you run the infected application without a problem :-(. 

This isn’t as onerous as you might think; if you download a program from 
someplace that isn’t signed (like lots of perfectly safe Open Source stuff) you 
can run it by right-clicking on the program icon and selecting ‘Open’. You will 
get a windows saying this is from an ‘unidentified developer’ are you sure?. If 
you click on Yes, the program will run and be entered into your Gatekeeper 
‘allowed apps’ database so you can run it again after that by just 
double-clicking on it.

This ransomware stuff is insidous, we had one Windows system on our network get 
infected last week by Locky, and it managed to encrypt several terabytes of 
mounted network volumes before we disconnected it. We were easily able to 
restore from the previous backups, but it takes about a day to restore 
everything from tape.

This *sounds* expensive, after all, we’re talking about a couple $70-$120 
drives and a fair bit of work, but consider the cost of recreating everything 
on your hard drive…if it’s even possible, you can’t go back in time and re-take 
baby pictures. 

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Re: alg5 accidentently deleted a folder and emptied trash

[Bruce Johnson]

What James said. Stop using that computer.

I recommend Prosoft Data Rescue https://www.prosofteng.com

Actually what I REALLY recommend is maintaining regular backups and restoring 
the deleted stuff from backup :-), but I try not to rub it in too much in these 
cases.

Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner make this very simple to do, and Time 
Machine is free. Restoring with a utility like Data Rescue is tedious, 
expensive and time-intensive. 

Get an external HDD, plug it in and let Time Machine do it’s thing. It has 
saved my butt numerous times, and once it’s set up and running you can just 
ignore it until you need it.


> On Mar 6, 2016, at 4:36 PM, James Knight  wrote:
> 
> Stop using the hard drive immediately.
> 
> There are commercial utilities available. You will have to look for one that 
> still supports 10.5 or has an older version available that will support 10.5. 
> It's also possible that you could mount the disk from a more modern operating 
> system and use such a utility from there.
> 
> Sent from my mobile device.
> 
>> On Mar 6, 2016, at 18:32, Charles Lenington  wrote:
>> 
>> Bruce oh wise and wonderful
>> 
>> My daughter accidententally deleted a 100+/- gig folder and emptied trash. 
>> Is there a way to get it back? I can't remember how or if possible.
>> 
>> G5  10.5.8
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Re: I want to set up my G5 to run Linux

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> On Feb 17, 2016, at 1:46 PM, Diederick Magré  wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You can have a look at Yellow Dog Linux: 
> http://www.fixstars.com/en/technologies/linux/what/overview/
> 
> Cheers,
> Diederick

That’s pretty cool, I didn’t know YDL was still kicking around. 

Hmm, might drag the old Powerbook G4 off the shelf and give it a shot, if I can 
find the power brick. 

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Re: Need help installing and booting OS9 on G4 Quicksilver 2002

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> On Jan 17, 2016, at 8:36 PM, Brad Wait  wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I just bought a used G4 quicksilver 2002 power mac (this one:  
> http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/specs/powermac_g4_1ghz_dp_qs.html).
>   
> 
> I want it to boot from OS9, and I don't really need to run OSX.  I thought 
> this would be simple to set up, but apparently not. 
> 
> Unfortunately, I bought this used without any install CDs. For the seller's 
> privacy, I wiped the hard disk by connecting the G4 via firewire to my OSX 
> laptop, and using the latest disk utility.  This wiped any OS9 drivers from 
> the disk. The newer OSX disk utility would not let me install the OS9 drivers 
> on the reformatted drives. There is no 'install OS9 drivers' checkbox. 
> 
> Two questions:
> 
>   • IF I can find a bootable OS9 installer CD, will it install the OS9 
> drivers automatically to the reformatted hard drive?  Or, will it not be able 
> to see the drive at all when it boots up?  

OS X and OS 9 used the same disk format, so there is no issue there. The 
installer CD will set the proper boot sector stuff to boot into OS 9 as part if 
the installation.

>   • I need help getting a bootable OS9 CD.  I found several ISOs online 
> that I burned to a CD using my OSX laptop. But none of ISOs appear to be 
> bootable on the G4.  I am stumped as to why this doesn't work. Here are the 
> ones I have tried:  
>   • 
> http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/power-mac-g4-quicksilver-2002-restore-discs 
>   • http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=2109.0
> Anyone have suggestions?

I think you may need to use the Restore disks, not the 9.2 disk. The QS2002 
requires 9.2.2, as it was the last Mac to boot into OS 9.

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Re: (1st post) Can a G4 be upgraded to handle current DAWs?

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> On Jan 1, 2016, at 9:14 PM, James Cordano  wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to find the most cost effective path to a Mac that can run one of 
> the current DAW's (Digital Audio Workstation) for a home recording studio.

Make sure your 'current DAW' will work with a PowerPC. That’ll likely be the 
deal breaker.

> I have my old G4, and I just assumed it's too limited in terms of max RAM 
> capacity, motherboard etc., so that no matter what I jam in there, it could 
> never run at the level these applications demand- esp. for editing etc.
> Then I came across a couple videos of guys using beefed up G5's, and thought 
> I'd at least ask.
> According to 'common wisdom', if I were to put together an '06-'11 Mac Pro, 
> they'd need to have something like this onboard:
> Apple Mac Pro 2x2.8GHz Quad-Core Xeon 16GB 240GB SSD 640GB to compete with 
> the newer systems the software is optimized for.

No G4 ever, EVER came close to that, performance-wise. Adrian is correct: you 
can do it slow, and with great limitations on your G4 using tools it supports, 
or you can get a cheap PC or a used Mac Pro (or build out a hackintosh 
equivalent) and do it with modern software.

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Re: New problem with gmail with 10.11.2 version of Mail

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> On Dec 9, 2015, at 2:24 PM, Dan A  wrote:
> 
> Hi, this question may be too soon to ask. I was having smtp problems
> with Mail in 10.11.1 where I could not correct smtp garbles (which
> didn't exist in 10.10.9)

What do you mean by ‘smtp garbles’?

> even if I deleted and re constructed certain
> email addresses, no problem with any of my gmail accounts. Today I've
> upgraded to 10.11.2 hoping that Apple fixed the bugs in Mail... and it
> actually did. I was able to get all my accounts to send mail... but a
> new problem arose with the 5 individual gmail accounts my wife and I
> have. Now when I test the outgoing gmail out of the new Mail app, the
> mail goes but each email from the individual account has the same
> header on top using one of my wifes gmail account addresses, the same
> one of her accounts in each message no matter which address was the
> sender.

Do you mean the ‘From’ portion? Or some other headers?

Can you post the header(s) you’re talking about? (You can obscure the addresses 
if you want)

Just wondering: are these set up as Google accounts, or as IMAP Accounts? 

I’ve never had issues sending from gmail, but I’ve got only a single account. 
Maybe setting each one as an IMAP account will fix the issues?

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Re: Problems trying to use an iTunes folder (library) from Mac OS 10.5.8 (Leopard) in OS 10.10.5 (Yosemite)

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On Nov 21, 2015, at 10:45 AM, mkehoe 
mailto:mirake...@gmail.com>> wrote:

We have a G4 iBook running Tiger, and and a late 2009 iMac running Snow 
Leopard.  One thought is (with the help of Apple Care) to incrementally upgrade 
the iMac one OS at a time, and upgrading the external iTunes along with it.  
When the iTunes is finally upgraded to Yosemite on the iMac, it should 
(conceivably) work when attached to te Mac Mini running Yosemite.


I think that is the best idea.

The G4 iBook can be upgraded to Leopard.  I have the discs, so I might try to 
upgrade that computer and try running the external iTunes drive from that.


That might also get the iTunes library migrated up to a sufficient level to 
move it to the iMac.

Some quick googling also brings up some potentially very useful information:

<https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201610> I don’t know if your older version 
of iTunes has this information, but xml is parseable text.

<http://www.brainbell.com/tutorials/XML/Digging_Into_The_ITunes_Library_File.htm>

If nothing else you can preserve a readable copy of your playlists this way;

Have you tried ‘export playlist’? 
<http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to-a-new-hard-drive>
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Re: G5 Tower Won't Start

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> On Sep 16, 2015, at 2:53 PM, g3-5-list@googlegroups.com wrote:
> 
> 
> My only guess is power supply failure. It there anything else to try. Right 
> now it sits unplugged with PRAM battery removed. I will try again Thursday 
> morning.

Does your G5 have an Apple Cinema Display attached? try disconnecting it and 
plugging in a regular VGA monitor.

This happened to a prof here when the power supply for his 24” Cinema Display 
died. Really weird.

(He ended up going through 2 of the power supplies before he made Apple give 
him one from a 30”..no more dead power supplies after that. The 30” ps is 
noticeably beefier than the 24”)

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Re: PowerMac G5 Kernel Panics after being on for several hours to a day or two.

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> On Sep 6, 2015, at 11:09 PM, Matthew S. Carpenter 
>  wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> So I've got a DualCore 2.3Ghz G5 PowerMac, which I've had for a few months 
> now. It seems to have kernel panics when it's left on for several hours to a 
> couple days. I was wondering if anyone here could glean anything from the 
> error report that comes up after the computer is rebooted.
> 
> Interval Since Last Panic Report:  450614 sec
> Panics Since Last Report:  1

Have you tried the usual pull and reseat RAM, blow off the logic board with 
canned air, reseat all the cables kind of stuff? Something may be getting warm 
enough to disconnect after a while.

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Re: Network Troubles

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> On Sep 5, 2015, at 2:33 PM, smac0031  wrote:
> 
> 
> When I run my DA G4 with contemporaneous software, from the early 2000s it 
> does well. If I run newer stuff it gags.

Yep, I think this right here is the biggest clue to your performance issues, 
sadly…modern software presumes a certain amount of computing horsepower, in 
terms of CPU and IO.

Thus it has always been; Applewriter ran well in 64K with 360K floppy disks on 
my Apple ][+; TextEdit takes 6.1 mb on disk and that doesn’t count that 
probably 50% of TextEdit’s code resides in standard OSX libraries elsewhere on 
disk. After opening a 2K text file, it takes 14 mb of RAM.

MS Word 2016 preview weighs in at 1.49 GB on disk...

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Re: Network Troubles

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> On Aug 31, 2015, at 6:03 PM, Cameron Kaiser  wrote:
> 
>> Software that's not compatible. TenFourFox is a great product, but it's
>> still not completely compatible with modern standards.
> 
> With respect, I'm going to call crap on this remark. Please elucidate as
> to which standard it doesn't measure up on. With the exception of WebGL
> and OpenGL, which aren't supported on every system anyway, it supports
> everything Firefox 38 ESR does.

Cameron, I’m sorry; I spoke from a position of ignorance; you are correct, it 
is standards compliant.

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Re: Network Troubles

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> On Sep 1, 2015, at 8:04 PM, smac0031  wrote:
> 
> 
> You guys have been telling me that DA G4 is probably the slowest thing on my 
> network. I looked up the specs and the ethernet port is 10T, 100T, 1000T. I 
> am pretty sure that means gigabyte.

The slowness of your G4 has nothing to do with the ethernet speed; rather it’s 
the rest of the system that is likely slowing the computer down.

Yes, it has gigabit ethernet. 

It also has 133MHz RAM versus modern Ram which operates at nearly 10x the 
speed; a CPU that has one core, versus 2 or 4 in modern CPU’s (and this 
discounts hyper threading which lets the CPU behave as though it has twice as 
many cores), CPU’s that themselves are running 2-3X faster than the G4.

The hard drive is also slower at transferring data to the system, even if it is 
a 7200RPM drive, because the IO bus runs at 133 MHz.

Network throughput can be measured, but ‘how slowly XYZ web page loads' is not 
one of the metrics; this is dependent on the entire computer, not just how fast 
the bits come through the pipe. It’s unlikely (especially if you’re not seeing 
this kind of slowness with other systems on the same network) that it’s just 
the network. 

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Re: Network Troubles

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> On Aug 30, 2015, at 6:50 PM, Mark Murphy  wrote:
> 
> I got an ap called net gear genie. I turns out I have eps enabled.
> When I got this router it was the latest and greatest gigabit. I have two 
> gigabit switches, also netgear I thought my da G4 was also gigabit.

Network performance is a multi-factored thing. The ‘gigabit’ specification is 
for the wired ethernet portion of your router only. That doesn’t apply to 
wireless, which is what WEP applies to.

Moreover, the network interface is only part of the performance puzzle. 
Apparent network speed (unless you’re taking care to measure it properly) is 
affected by System I/O, and whatever programs you’re using. 

At work I was working with a professor who was claiming that n way was his 
network port working right; his download speeds were too low. Gigabit ethernet 
all the way through; it turned out that his bottleneck was poor disk 
perfomrance on the Mac Mini’s he was using in the lab. The stock hard drive in 
the Mini at the time was a horribly slow 5400 rpm SATA drive; when we replaced 
the drives with SSD’s his download speeds went up by 45%.

(he was downloading huge data sets from a NIH server, 100-200 GB)

If you’re judging your ‘network’ speed by ‘how well I can browse the internet’ 
you’re missing a bunch of potential bottlenecks:

the originating site may be slow
your local cable environment may be congested
your router may be misbehaving
Your computer may be suffering slow throughput for any number of reasons:
slow Disk IO
slow memory
slow CPU (You mention this is a G4…compared to modern processors it’s 
an antique)
Something else going on on the computers that are causing it to be slow.

Software that’s not compatible. TenFourFox is a great product, but it’s still 
not completely compatible with modern standards. Try a different browser; see 
if you an borrow someone’s newer Mac for testing.

I’d start with the suggestions I mentioned in my first email:

Reset your router to use WPA and use a good hard password and limit your router 
to only the devices you own. This will eliminate people leeching off of your 
bandwidth.

Reboot your G4 in safe mode (which clears a number of caches that can cause 
system performance issues), then restart it normally.

Ensure that your web browser is the only thing running on the G4.

turn everything off but the G4, then use a non-flash network speed test, as 
noted in the earlier email.

Do the same tests, but with the G5 and/or your iPhone (and with the G4 turned 
off) This will eliminate/point to hardware issues with the G4.

Do this at different times of day, too. Depending on their topology, Charter’s 
network could well get really slow in the evening, when everyone queues up a 
netflix show or something.

THIS will be the best test you can do, imo, of your actual network speed to 
your door. If that isn’t up to speed it’s either your cable modem or it’s 
Charter. 

If those tests show a good speed, then the issue lies elsewhere in your 
systems; and it’s less likely to be the network than the computer software and 
hardware, or it’s the sites you’re using (even the fact that those have slowed 
down over time is not an indication that it isn’t their fault…)

It’s a slow process; you need to test one thing at a time.

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Re: Network Troubles

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> On Aug 30, 2015, at 5:21 PM, Bruce Johnson  
> wrote:
> 
> WEP/WPA also only applies to devices connecting to the router manually, 


Huh? My brain meant ‘connecting to the router wirelessly’ I have no idea why mu 
fingers typed ‘manually’…Sorry!

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Re: Network Troubles

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> On Aug 30, 2015, at 2:21 PM, smac0031  wrote:
> 
> I have been having trouble with my network. It runs really slow.
> I have the wep enabled on my router which it a Netgear WNDR 3700v4.
> 

WEP is a very poor protocol to use nowadays, it can be cracked quite simply; 
you should instead use WPA, which all your devices should handle. WEP/WPA also 
only applies to devices connecting to the router manually, and really won’t 
affect the speed of the internet.

> I know mostly nothing about this. I did find the network logs and noticed 
> my system is routinely under land attack, whatever that is.
> 

Pretty much anything with an outward-facing IP address is hit all the time, and 
unless there’s an enormous number of them in the log (as in nothing but ‘land 
attack’ entries for hundreds and hundreds of entries, coinciding with your 
network slowness) they’re nothing to be worried about.

> Considering I have Charter as my ISP and it is supposed to be the fastest
> internet in these parts according to their ads.

Yeah, welcome to the wonderful world of lying, I mean advertising.

> They have a network tool
> that runs flash and I have a DA G4 which won't run flash I have no network
> tool.

Try DSLReports.com they have tools that do not require flash.

> 
> This is my log from today.
> 
> [DHCP IP: 192.168.1.4] to MAC address 68:ae:20:16:ab:e7, Sunday, August 30, 
> 2015 12:46:03
> [DHCP IP: 192.168.1.4] to MAC address 68:ae:20:16:ab:e7, Sunday, August 30, 
> 2015 12:43:27
> [Access Control] Device MARKS-IPHONE with MAC address 68:AE:20:16:AB:E7 is 
> allowed to access the network, Sunday, August 30, 201
> [DoS Attack: ACK Scan] from source: 208.73.181.192, port 5223, Sunday, August 
> 30, 2015 12:43:02
> [UPnP set event: add_nat_rule] from source 192.168.1.9, Sunday, August 30, 
> 2015 12:42:38
> [DoS Attack: Land Attack] from source: 255.255.255.255, port 67, Sunday, 
> August 30, 2015 12:42:14
> [admin login] from source 192.168.1.5, Sunday, August 30, 2015 12:41:58
> [DoS Attack: ACK Scan] from source: 208.73.181.192, port 5223, Sunday, August 
> 30, 2015 12:41:58
> [Access Control] Device Unknown with MAC address 00:03:93:48:04:B2 is allowed 
> to access the network, Sunday, August 30, 2015 12:

Does the MAC address here correspond to any of your devices? If not, someone’s 
gotten on, likely via cracking WEP.

I would connect a computer to a wired port on the router, turn off the wifi, 
reset the security to WPA and set a new password. To be doubly sure (and this 
is only a non-annoying option if you only have a handful of devices) is to 
specifically allow only your devices to connect to the wifi via MAC Address 
restrictions. 

To be absoluetly sure, I would consult the documentation for the router and 
reset it entirely to factory settings; then disable WEP, enable WPA, with a 
strong password, and restrict local network access by MAC address.

You can see a bunch of your devices identified in the logs so they’ll be easy 
to add. 

> 
> It is usually hopelessly slow.

All websites, some websites? Between devices on your local network? Computer to 
computer? Computer to NAS?

> Does anybody have any ideas. This would be greatly appreciated.

Ok, the first thing to do is to identify your bottleneck.

The VERY first thing I’d do is restart both your cable modem and your router 
(if they’re separate devices.) Consumer level routers are generally poor 
performers over long periods of time. If a reset speeds up your internet, it’s 
probably time to start looking for a new router.

Shut off everything but one device (either your iPhone or the Mac, either the 
G4 or the G5.Personlly I’d use the G5 to eliminate system performance issues.

Then go to http://www.dslreports.com or http://speedof.me to test your speed 
without using Flash. This will tell you if your slowness is your network.

If those tests tell you your network speed is ok, then the issue is your 
browsers/systems or the sites your visiting, most likely.

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Re: Best browser Power Mac G-4 OS 10.5.8?

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> On Jul 21, 2015, at 9:18 AM, Ben Cheever  wrote:
> 
> I agree that flash player should be up to date.  Unfortunately plenty of 
> gamed my kids play online require it.  It's a double edged sword.  Its really 
> sad that apple decided to stop maintaining the PowerPC platform.  The 
> Open-source community and BSD communities are proof its not impossible to 
> port things over to this platform still…

Flash Player has nothing to do with Apple supporting or not supporting the PPC 
platform, as it’s an Adobe product.  

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Re: Need Larger Internal HDD for G5 1.8 X 2

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> On Jul 16, 2015, at 4:34 AM, P.M. Stefan  wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I've got a G5 1.8 DP PCI-X computer which needs are larger internal HDD.
> 
> Currently, it has the original 160 GB HDD | 5400RPM, that's 2/3rd full, and a 
> boot drive, 60 GB | 7200 RPM which isn't used for files only for booting the 
> computer.
> 
> I thought of replacing the original HDD with this internal HDD from WD:
> Western Digital
> 1.0 TB Blue HDD
> 3.5-Inch  
> SATA 6.0Gb/s backwards compatible to 1.5Gb/s
> 7200RPM
> 64MB Cache

Yes it will work. You will probably have to re-partition it as it will likely 
either come completely unformatted, or formatted as NTFS.

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Re: 16:9 displays possible on MacOS 8.6

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> On Jul 8, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Neil Hughes  wrote:
> 
> Having just introduced my B&W G3 PowerMac to its first non-CRT display, I've 
> hit a problem. It's an AOC 2050 20" monitor with a native resolution of 
> 1600x900.
> 
> In OSX 10.4 (via a drive moved from my now deceased G3 iMac) and MacOS 9.2.2 
> it works fine in this resolution (looks great), but in MacOS 8.6 I can't get 
> anything higher than 1024x768 and nothing in 16:9 format, just 4:3.
> 
> Can 8.6 handle widescreen monitors? Has anybody got one running at 1600x900, 
> etc. The display control panel shows "2050" in 8.6, so it should be getting 
> the native resolution back from the monitor.

There’s an extension, iirc it’s called ‘switchres’? That allows you to select 
‘unsupported’ resolutions; I used it back in the 8.6 daysto support a larger 
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Re: MDD Dual G4 Startup woes

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On Jun 8, 2015, at 4:26 PM, Digital Bill 
mailto:wlwdes...@gmail.com>> wrote:

 picked up a new PRAM battery and a MDD chassis from OWC. My plan is to try the 
PRAM/CUDA trick first, then explore swapping the power switch itself since the 
one on the empty chassis seems WAY lighter to the touch than mine ever was. (I 
never really could understand why it took so much pressure on that switch in 
the first place. Perhaps that’s been the cause all along?)

ANYWAY, I recall a discussion from last August or so about similar problems one 
of you was having, so I wonder if you can shed any light on what might work for 
me based on what ultimately proved to be the solution for you.

Can you help? Or, as a “vintage” or “obsolete” machine (in Apple’s eyes) am I 
just out of luck? If worse comes to worst and it comes down to an eBay 
scavenger hunt and some serious DIY time, so be it. But, hopefully not.

You’re on the right track. The PRAM/Cuda trick costs nothing, the battery can 
be eliminated by removing it and trying to start it up. They’ll boot without a 
battery, and with a good battery, but not with a failing battery.

Given the power switch has always required a lot of pressure, that’s the next 
place I’d look(and honestly, given your description, I’d consider replacing it 
first if you have a replacement to hand). The next obvious candidate is what 
the power switch is attached to, which is the PS. The logic board is actually 
the last thing I’d suspect.

It is a way-old machine, and there are a host of issues it could be. Fixing it 
is dependent entirely on your willingness to hunt down old parts and spend $ 
and time fixing it, compared to the costs of getting a newer system.

Picking up a machine that can run the current version of software and OS is not 
insanely expensive, and probably within the time/money envelope of fixing the 
old one with used parts (which will still have increasing issues dealing with 
the ‘modern’ world).

If you have old software you need to keep running that’s another thing, but as 
a general use system I’d not spend a ton of time or money on it myself.

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Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

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> On Jun 4, 2015, at 4:39 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote:
> 
> 
> 10.9.5 is exceptionally reliable, with almost all function provided on-chip.

Unless you need access to Windows server de-duplicated smb:// storage. 
<http://www.macwindows.com/More-on-OS-X-conflicts-with-Windows-Server-Deduplication.html>
 

That one drove us mad for a while because the problem comes and goes and we 
didn’t initially connect it to the dedup process.

Apple introduced the bug in 10.9.3 and did not fix it through 10.9.5. 10.10 DID 
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Re: Strange Blue & White G3 issues with booting 10.4 Install or 10.3.9.

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> On Apr 16, 2015, at 4:59 PM, Scott Holder  wrote:
> 
> At the moment, I'd just rather like it to work. My Beige G3 was pretty decent 
> in 10.4 with its built-in graphics, so I'm sure it'd work decently in this. I 
> may look into a Radeon if I can't get this GeForce card working. We'll see 
> how it turns out with the Rage. I don't really understand what cause the 
> video card could have either, especially since it works in 10.3 fully, and 
> 10.3.3 in safe mode (but not regular mode). All I can figure if this is the 
> problem is 10.3 has some kind of older driver that works while newer ones 
> trip over something in the card. We'll see.

10.3 -> 10.4 was a huge update; tons of stuff both above and under the hood 
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Re: Strange Blue & White G3 issues with booting 10.4 Install or 10.3.9.

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> On Apr 16, 2015, at 4:43 AM, Scott Holder  wrote:
> 
> On a regular boot, it spins for a bit and shows a black rectangle. Safe mode 
> boot sits at the gray apple and spins forever. I can only assume at this 
> point that there's something it really doesn't like with the hardware. Since 
> it does seem to boot Single User Mode, I'm thinking something with the hacked 
> video card. I found a source online for the original ATI Rage 128 Pro PCI 
> video card that it should have come with. Soon as it arrives I'll give that a 
> shot.


Hold down command-V and see what is running at the console where it stalls out. 
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Re: Replacement for Quicksilver G4 Superdrive

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On Apr 12, 2015, at 8:55 AM, William Tomcanin 
mailto:wt8091...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Hello all,

As the subject line implies, the Superdrive in my trusty Quicksilver will no 
longer read DVDs.  CDs appear to read ok, although burning is becoming 
problematic (50-50 chance of success).

Can anyone suggest a replacement?

Thanks in advance,
Bill

Pretty much any ATA DVD +/- R/RW drive will work, if you’re using 10.5. For 
previous versions of OS X you need to get Patchburn: <http://www.patchburn.de>

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Re: Digest for g3-5-list@googlegroups.com - 1 update in 1 topic

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> On Apr 9, 2015, at 1:37 PM, David Sutherland  wrote:
> 
> It might be easier just to buy a PCI USB 2.0 card if you can get them still. 
> The one's I had success with in the G4 Quicksilver's had "NEC" chipsets.  
> That is important as the OS had drivers built in for that.


Any PCI USB2 card that offers OHCI will work out of the box; since this was 
also the requirement for Windows 7, pretty much any USB2.0 card on the market 
will work.

USB1.1 cards were a different story.

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Re: Mysterious Files/Folders in OS 10.5.8

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> On Mar 4, 2015, at 8:02 PM, Michael McMurtrey  wrote:
> 
> I originally posted this on the G-4 Powerbook forum, but as it appears not to 
> have been updated in some time, I'm reposting it here in case it is an OS or 
> G4 issue not specific to PowerBooks.
> 
> One of my PowerBooks (a PowerBook5,7) has a mysterious folder labeled 
> "BaseSystem.pkg.159vQvGqc" containing a bunch of files with a ".plan" suffix. 
> What are these files? Can they be deleted?
> 

This looks like the remnants of an installation and can probably be safely 
deleted.

> The other PowerBook (PowerBook 5,9) has two folders, labeled "Var" and "Tmp," 
>  but no "BaseSystem" folder. What is their purpose? 
> 

Capitalized like that? or are they var and tmp? 

The latter are important parts of the underlying unix structure. 

Here's a listing of the root of my drive, all of these are folders:

Start Terminal, and enter:

cd /

and hit return.

now enter

ls

and hit return:

bruces-Mac-Mini:~ johnson$ cd /
bruces-Mac-Mini:/ johnson$ ls
Applicationsdev
Backup Extensions   en
Developer   etc
Incompatible Software   home
Library installer.failurerequests
Network net
Old Extra   opt
Old stuff Our files oracle
System  private
Users   recipes
Volumes sbin
bin tmp
bootusr
cores   var

Only some of those directories are visible in the finder.

bin, boot, cores, dev,etc,home,net, opt, private, sbin, tmp, usr and var are 
all normally hidden from view and are imortant parts of part of the unix file 
system. Apple makes these invisible for a reason...

> Both computers are running OS 10.5.8. All these folders are visible at the 
> root level in the hard drive menu on each computer. Why are some folders 
> visible on one but not the other?

You can make normally invsible folders visible on the desktop. 

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Re: Mail start-up issue

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> On Mar 1, 2015, at 8:57 PM, Michael McMurtrey  wrote:
> 
> At one time I had selected Mail to open automatically at start-up by checking 
> it in System Preferences/Accounts/Login Items. But now I don't want it to, so 
> have unchecked it. However, it insists on continuing to open automatically at 
> start-up/restart. What's going on here?

The checkbox merely determines whether or not it opens visibly. Select the Mail 
item in the list and click on the small '-' icon below that removes it from the 
startup items..


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Re: Apple Mail questions

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On Dec 3, 2014, at 1:03 PM, Robert H. Baucom 
mailto:rbt...@owc.net>> wrote:

I’ve had a problem with Apple Mail not being consistent as to Applying the 
RULES that you have formulated..
And that’s been from day one that  they included it in Apple’s MAIL
BTW, I  go back to 1986 and Mac OS (they didn’t call it OS back then) System 
ver. 6.8
RHB

That’s why I bought Spam Sieve for my OS10.10.1 w/Mail ver 5.5.1 Unit …  and no 
longer use the Quicksilver w/Leopard for eMail an web access.
One thing I liked about Eudora was the ability to bounce back to the sender,  
unwanted eMails.

Mail used to have that option; but it no longer does, mainly because it just 
increases the total spam load on the system because the ‘from’ address is 
rarely the real place it came from.

To be honest, I’ve never really like client-side mail rules; I always had the 
luxury of being able to set up server-side ones. Note: if you use your iCloud 
email address you can set the rules on the iCloud server, which will filter 
email before it goes to your devices:

<http://www.macworld.com/article/2046147/five-icloud-email-tricks-you-probably-missed.html>

One thing I now notice that Dan did not mention was what kind of email server 
he’s dealing with: POP or IMAP? I think Mail does things differently between 
those two. I’ve NEVER used POP mail for more than a few months. Just too many 
devices I need to get my email on...

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Re: Apple Mail questions

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On Dec 3, 2014, at 12:28 PM, Dan C  wrote:
> 
>>> How do I tell Apple Mail to throw a message to my default browser?  Now and 
>>> then, "friends" (peecee users) send me poorly formatted html messages that 
>>> get mangled by WebKit.  I know by previous experience that if I throw them 
>>> at a non-webkit browser (eg: TenFourFox), they display just fine.  In 
>>> Eudora, I did this by selecting the message then hitting an "open in 
>>> browser" button.  What is the equivalent for Apple Mail?
>> 
>> There really isn't one; because Mail is using (theoretically) the same 
>> engine as the default web browser. Of course, since your system Webkit 
>> version is ancient, you'll run into issues.
> 
> My default web browser, as selected in Safari's preferences, is either a 
> newer WebKit app, or TenFourFox.  So Mail is *not* using the same engine.

My bad, I meant the *default* default browser, which is Safari :-/

> 
> I think I'll try Cam's suggestion of relinking Mail.  That will fix the slow 
> rendering issues.
> 
> Still need a way to outright throw the email...
> 
>>> How do I quickly grab in-line photos?  Some people send me messages that 
>>> contain dozens of photos.  They're in-line - dragged into the message body, 
>>> not "regular" attachments.  In Eudora, they appeared as files in Eudora's 
>>> "Parts" folder - easy to grab from Finder.  Where does Apple Mail stash 
>>> them?
>> 
>> I know that in current versions of mail there's a kind of pop-up menu that 
>> will let me select any or all attachments to save.
> 
> Yea, it's there if the files are attachments.  If they're in-line, then it's 
> AWOL.
> 

That’s odd, because I picked one with a whole bunch of inline attachments. I 
don’t have a 10.5 system handy to check though. Wish I could get PearPC to 
compile  because the tun/tap network adapter flat does not work in VirtualBox 
:-( OS X with no network is useless for my needs, and no one’s been able to get 
the jit stuff working <http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5757>

Of course, PearPC is more or less dead, no updates in years; everyone went to 
MacHacks instead :-/


> I've discovered that I can drag individual images to a fold in Finder, if I'm 
> patient (Finder has to "see" each drag before you let go of the mouse).  I 
> guess that will work on messages that contain only a few files.
> 
> Any idea where Mail is stashing these?

I suspect it’s not ‘stashing’ them anywhere, but decoding them out of the mail 
message source at runtime.  IAC I cannot find any place attachments are saved 
separately in my mail stores, just .emlx files, which contain the raw email 
source with a .plist appended to the end for book-keeping purposes. Mail 
doesn’t work like Eudora splitting attachments away from messages like that. 

> 
>>> How do I create a rule to move sent messages to their appropriate mailbox?  
>>> I'm accumulating mailing list replies and such in the Sent mailbox.  I'd 
>>> like them to automagically move to the right mailbox, to keep the threads 
>>> intact.
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure if you add a rule to the Sent mailbox you should be able to 
>> do what you want.
> 
> How do I add a rule to the Sent mailbox?  I'm not seeing that the rules are 
> being applied to anything when sending.

I could have sworn I saw that the other day when I looked :-( Guess I’m wrong. 
I found a $30 application that says they can do this.

You might try using ‘smart' mailboxes. 

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Re: UDMA mode 5

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On Dec 1, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Robert H. Baucom  wrote:

> The HDD’s in my Quicksilver G4 are acting crazy. I have two new 
> MAXTOR  ATA HDD
> 160GB PATA 133 HDD 
> MODEL: 6L 160PS 
> SER# L30H7CVH
> 
> But reading a Hard Drive installation Paper it says: For your drive to run in 
> this mode, you need the following:
> • A computer that supports UDMA mode 5
> 
> Will my G4 with an Apple 933GHz board and running Leopard 10.5.8 run UDMA 
> MODE 5?

The drives should work just fine, although they'll be limited to the throughput 
of the ATA adapter on the motherboard, which, iirc is ATA-100 not 133, which is 
what the UDMA spec is talking about: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDMA>

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Re: Apple Mail questions

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On Dec 1, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Dan C  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Sooo... I switched from Eudora to Apple Mail and am having a few growing 
> pains.
> (QuickSilver 2002, Leopard)
> 
> I used EudoraMailboxCleaner, rebuilt the resulting mailboxes in Apple Mail, 
> and got most of my filters er a rules working.
> 
> My first impression of Apple Mail was that it's a POS because it was 
> abysmally slow.  Turns out that to rebuild a mailbox, Mail opens each and 
> every message for *writing*, not just reading - so when they're closed, 
> fseventer throws them at ClamXav and Splotchlight for that unnecessary 2nd 
> and 3rd rescan.  Splotchlight, of course, goes into convulsions from being 
> given so much work to do, mangles its indexing, and throws thousands and 
> thousands of errors at the console, which then requires several cpu hours of 
> the logger process futzing around.  sigh.  So I beat it all with a stick, 
> disabled Clam and Splotch, let the rebuilds finish (21 years worth of mail!) 
> then let Splotchlight spend the night reindexing from scratch.

Well, to be honest, moving to a modern version of the OS will help a great 
deal...the computer is 12 years old, the os is what, 7? 

With Snow Leopard (iirc) Apple moved from monolithic .mbox mail files to .eml 
files in directories, which speeds up message management by a gazillion times. 
Spotlight was vastly improved over the years. I have users with tens of 
thousands of emails in their mailboxes and normal performance. 

Spotlight actually works now :-) It's quite useful, and I haven't seen a 
machine bog down with indexing in a dogs age. Apple's made a lot of 
improvements over the years.

> 
> Ok - the questions:
> 
> Other than installing a newer WebKit system-wide (which has stability 
> issues), is there an "easy" way to point Mail to using a newer build?  The 
> newer builds are much faster at displaying image heavy messages.
> 

No really, because Mail is calling the system Webkit libs; again 'getting a 
newer version of the OS' and, hence, moving to an Intel system is a surefire 
way to improve performance.



> How do I tell Apple Mail to throw a message to my default browser?  Now and 
> then, "friends" (peecee users) send me poorly formatted html messages that 
> get mangled by WebKit.  I know by previous experience that if I throw them at 
> a non-webkit browser (eg: TenFourFox), they display just fine.  In Eudora, I 
> did this by selecting the message then hitting an "open in browser" button.  
> What is the equivalent for Apple Mail?

There really isn't one; because Mail is using (theoretically) the same engine 
as the default web browser. Of course, since your system Webkit version is 
ancient, you'll run into issues.

> 
> How do I quickly grab in-line photos?  Some people send me messages that 
> contain dozens of photos.  They're in-line - dragged into the message body, 
> not "regular" attachments.  In Eudora, they appeared as files in Eudora's 
> "Parts" folder - easy to grab from Finder.  Where does Apple Mail stash them?
> 

I know that in current versions of mail there's a kind of pop-up menu that will 
let me select any or all attachments to save. 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/4pojrv6fatugfvu/mail%20attachments%20menu.png?dl=0> 
IIRC there were attachments buttons in the tool bars that did the same thing.

Explore the toolbar customization menu, there's a bunch of useful tools that 
aren't in the standard set.


> How do I create a rule to move sent messages to their appropriate mailbox?  
> I'm accumulating mailing list replies and such in the Sent mailbox.  I'd like 
> them to automagically move to the right mailbox, to keep the threads intact.

I'm pretty sure if you add a rule to the Sent mailbox you should be able to do 
what you want.

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Re: Deleted WebKit Framework!

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You may be able to get it back by re-installing the 10.5.8 combo updater:

<http://support.apple.com/kb/dl866>.

Even if the clone didn’t boot, you should be able to mount it and go into 
/System/Library/GFramewroks and drag the webkit directory over to the booted 
disk. Then re-run the combo updater.


On Oct 31, 2014, at 8:42 AM, Evan Thomas  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been foolish and whilst fiddling around with my G5 I have deleted the 
> webkit framework thus disabling Safari, iTunes, Pages etc. I don't have 
> system discs or a back-up. Yes, I know, that stupid. I did make an attempt to 
> clone my system disc a while back but could never get it to boot when I 
> tested it. Then I gave up.
> 
> Can anyone help me out with the files I need, please?
> 
> Dyld Error Message:
> 
> Library not loaded: 
> /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/PLBlocks.framework/Versions/A/PLBlocks
>   
> Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit
>   
> Reason: image not found
> 
> Dual 2GHZ PPC G5
> 2GB DDR SDRAM
> OSX Leopard 10.5.8
> 
> Hoping to upgrade to an older Mac Pro as soon as possible. It would be good 
> to use a mainstream browser again and the eBay prices are great. Cheers, 
> Evan..
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Re: NSA FBI warning Your browser had been locked

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On Oct 26, 2014, at 6:39 PM, smac0031  wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Somehow I got redirected to some website with this header, I think its 
> ransomware.
> 
> As soon as it opened I went to force quit and quit TenFourFox 31.2.0 and then 
> shut down my DA G4.
> 
> A couple of hours later I restarted everything and launched Ten4 and this 
> site came up immediately. I opened another tab and
> closed the "NSA FBI" thing that claims to monitoring all of my illegal 
> activities whatever those might be.

This is probably what you've run into:

<http://malwaretips.com/blogs/fbi-mac-os-x-virus/>

Clearing your browser cache and history should get rid of it.


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Re: Cellphone and my G4

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On Sep 3, 2014, at 9:15 PM, smac0031  wrote:

> I had cause to attempt  to connect my cellphone to my G4 and attempt to 
> download data like pictures and  contacts 
> to my DA running 10.4.11
> 
> I got a message on the phone about connecting and nothing happened on the G4.
> 
> Can this be done? I bought a mini to usb cable which connects OK, but then 
> nothing
> happens.

It depends on the phone and possibly te carrier. First place I'd start is with 
the manual and see what it says about connecting to a computer. 

Also,  "System Information" (in the Utilities folder) is a useful tool here. 
Look through the USB section with the phone connected; sometimes the Product 
and Vendor ID's can lead you to a driver for the USB interface in the phone.

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Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 in 2012 Mac Mini, using VirtualBos as G5 emulator

[Bruce Johnson]

On Aug 17, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Fabian Fang  wrote:

> On Aug 17, 2014, at 10:50 AM, Kris Tilford wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 8, 2014, at 11:36 PM, Mullin9  wrote:
>> 
>>> How to run Mac OS 10.4.11 in 2012 Mac Mini, 
>>> using VirtualBos as a PPC G5 emulator
>> 
>> Why would anyone want to emulate a PPC G5 when the real Intel build of 
>> 10.4.11 is available?
>> 
>> <http://support.apple.com/kb/DL172> Mac OS X 10.4.11 Combo Update (Intel)
> 
> 
> The 2012 Mac mini came with OS 10.8.1 pre-installed.  I do not believe that 
> it will run 10.4.11 directly, which may be why the OP asked about emulation.

I think he was referring to running the intel version of 10.4 in a VM via 
VirtualBox, which is a pita in and of itself.

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Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 in 2012 Mac Mini, using VirtualBos as G5 emulator

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On Aug 8, 2014, at 9:36 PM, Mullin9  wrote:

> How to run Mac OS 10.4.11 in 2012 Mac Mini, 
> using VirtualBos as a PPC G5 emulator

You cannot. You can get it running in PearPC on a Windows VM in Virtualbox, but 
it's very limited in functionality, since you cannot (or at least I could not) 
ever get the virtual networking to work. 

Far better and simpler to find a used G5 to run it on...

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Re: WMV files on G4 Tiger

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On Aug 6, 2014, at 9:24 AM, geraldcornish  wrote:

> Hello all
> 
> Power Mac G4 Quicksilver (2002) 800mhz, OS10.4.11 (Tiger).
> 
> I used to play windows media files (.wmv) before I had to do a complete 
> reinstall after a disk crash.
> 
> I thought it was via Real Player but that just gives me error -2048.
> 
> My Quicktime is version 7.6.4
> 
> Can someone advise what I should be using, please?

You need Quicktime and an OLD version of Flip4Mac, I think. I have a collection 
of MacAddict disks at home (sadly none here, or I could search the index) but I 
think they may have had version from back then.

I was able to play some old, old WMV files with Quicktime 5, iirc (another 
thing I got from the MacAddict disks :-)

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Re: Encrypted File

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On Jul 18, 2014, at 6:28 PM, smac0031  wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have an extremely important file that I need to send to someone. I've never 
> bothered with encryption because I've never had to send anything this
> important before. This is not financial stuff, it is a PDF that will probably 
> be read on a Kindle or a PC or possibly a smart phone. In case you are
> wondering it is a novel.

Use the Macs built-in print to PDF functionality to encrypt the pdf with a 
password, see here:

<http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/how-to-use-apples-built-in-features-to-encrypt-files-and-folders/>

You will need to use a password the recipient would know or share it somehow. 
(not in the same email as the document, of course!

There are open-source encryption tools like this:

<https://gpgtools.org/>

But both recipients need to generate key pairs for this to work, but this is a 
pretty secure way to share documents.

If the recipient also uses a Mac, you can create an encrypted disk image file, 
and email it to them.

<http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1578>

FileVault is not what you want; that encrypts your local disk to protect your 
files in case your Mac is stolen or lost.

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Re: Quicksilver Leopard unable to connect WPA

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On Jun 14, 2014, at 6:52 AM, Gene Henley  wrote:

> 
> I have left Verizon FIOS and WEP,and entered Optimum and WPA. My Snow Leopard 
> and Lion computers work well. I`m unable to connect my
> Quicksilver Leopard using WPA. It worked well using WEP. Optimum is stumped. 
> :-)   So, I `m checking with those that know much more than I.

Well I know that computers much older than your QS will do WPA, so it's not a 
question of hardware.

I'd delete any and all preferences to do with networking and try then.

What version of WPA are they using (there are several) Also what errors are you 
getting in the logs?

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Re: Hard Drives

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On Jun 3, 2014, at 7:57 AM, Nestamicky  wrote:

> Why for example, do manufacturers still offer five years warranty on 
> so-called enterprise HDs, and a year or two for "prosumers" as Peter tells 
> us? 

Because they charge 2-4X for those drives. Remember the cardinal rule of 
engineering: 

"Fast, Good, Cheap. Choose any two."

Also, the Ubuntu folks don't write or maintain Samba. The people to complain to 
would be Samba.org 

You REALLY don't want companies to go off and write their own SMB stacks. We 
had the misfortune of buying a cheap SAN (Nexenta - based) just as Apple 
released 10.7 (with, yes, their completely re-written SMB stack. At least it 
adheres to standards, unlike Nexenta's rewritten version of Samba..to the point 
that for three months Macs were unable to connect to our servers if they were 
running 10.7. Even now, Macs cannot connect to this system via DFS.)

Thankfully we just replaced the old one with a new one (that cost a LOT more 
money...remember 'Good, Fast, Cheap') that actually works as expected.

And I have become vastly more aware and versed in Apple's AD command-line tools 
than I ever wanted to be...

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Re: Hard Drives

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On Jun 2, 2014, at 12:23 PM, Nestamicky  wrote:

> Most people simply go for size these days, but as Bruce and others have 
> pointed, that could indeed be the curse. So, what tech specs must one keep in 
> mind, folks?

Sadly, for the majority of the models under discussion here the answer is 'See 
if you can find a 7200 rpm drive'. These systems are cursed with obsolete 
technology.

IDE-based SSD's are tiny and hugely expensive, 7200 RPM drives are getting 
scarce, particularly for laptops, but even in 3.5" models.

You can put good, fast SSD's in a G5 tower, and for a boot volume this probably 
make sense, since you can keep the older, slower drives for data.

Making sure you have a good, current backup is probably the very best strategy; 
this makes it much less of an issue when a drive dies.

But basically, the best possible speed-up strategy for a G3-G5 system is to 
move to an Intel Mac :-/

There you have a host of solutions: for instance a modern Mini with an SSD is 
like a different critter than the stock ones with their dog-slow 5400 RPM 
HDD's. Boot times go to seconds, from minutes, and Disk IO can finally keep up 
with the CPU and network IO, especially if they're on a gigabit network.

Also these drives are vastly cheaper:
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=20-721-108&nm_mc=EMC-GD051914&cm_mmc=EMC-GD051914-_-index-_-Item-_-20-721-108>
 These were on sale for $104 a couple weeks ago. (get on their email list you 
can sometimes score awesome deals).


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Re: Hard Drives

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On Jun 2, 2014, at 10:02 AM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote:

>> 
>> It's a consequence of the bottom falling out of HDD prices, and the
>> staggeringly high rate of HDD size increase, I expect.
> 
> AND, dropping the size (thickness) from 12.5mm (although a few of those
> are still around) to 9.5mm, or less.

This is directly related to reducing the number of platters and the thickness 
of platters as well. In the end it's futile race, because solid state drives 
are also plummeting in price and leaping up in size, and since they're only 
limited by solid state fabrication techniques, they'll be a lot more 
reliable...when was the last time you had RAM go bad?


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Re: Hard Drives

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On Jun 2, 2014, at 4:05 AM, Alex Sciortino  wrote:

> Hello! Today I made an interesting observation and was wondering if anybody 
> else has had the same experience. Today the 6mo old HDD in my MBP failed, but 
> I have the original 320gb in a PM G5 and even an original 13gb HDD in a iMac 
> G3 still running with out issues. I have had quite a few HDDs that were 
> newish fail in the past few years. Thanks!

It's a consequence of the bottom falling out of HDD prices, and the 
staggeringly high rate of HDD size increase, I expect. 

Engineering corners are being cut to keep prices low, and hardware is pushed to 
the limit to do things like put 1TB on one drive platter.

I'd wager that 320GB one has two platters, and that 13 GB one may even have 4. 
This means larger, more mechanically rugged read heads, and beefier mechanicals 
to move all that mass around.

The controllers will have more discrete, physically larger components. More 
mass == more thermal mass to deal with heat and power.

In the days when you could charge $400 for a HDD, QC could be much more 
thorough than when you can charge < $100.

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

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On May 19, 2014, at 9:34 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 available that will work with these 
> 'legacy" OS machines?

I would contact the manufacturer, rather than ask random people on a mailing 
list :-)

They do offer updates for their older versions, so they may be willing to sell 
a copy 

<http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/supportdw21.html>

The more common term used for Mac OS 6-9 is 'Classic OS' or just specifying 
'Mac OS' 7,8 or 9, no X involved.

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

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On May 17, 2014, at 6:18 AM, Tom Singleton  wrote:

> Disk Warrior.  Yes I have heard of it.
> 
> What is the "best" version (most trustworthy) of Disk Warrior? 

The current one.

> 
> What types of operational needs are most common to use with DW?

Disk warrior does one thing, and does it superbly: it fixes broken disk 
directory structures. That's all it does. It's not a 'daily use' tool. 

If disk utility cannot repair a disk I reach for disk warrior. 

> 
>  Is the legacy version still available through the vendor or other channel?
> 

what do you mean 'legacy version'? The current version works on OS X 10.3.9 
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Re: PowerBook Batteries

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On Apr 23, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Michael McMurtrey  wrote:

> As my posts to the PowerBook list do not seem to be getting through, I'm 
> posting here.
> 
> I'm looking for a reputable source of batteries for a 17-inch PowerBook G4 
> (PowerBook 5.7/Model A1107).

I've used the NuPower batteries OWC sells in my systems and recommended them 
for others...only one dud in the lot (which was promptly replaced by OWC.)

<http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple_laptop/batteries/PowerBook_G4_17>


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Re: Black Stripe in Video

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On Apr 3, 2014, at 12:59 PM, 12345 67890  wrote:

> I am having an annoying issue.
> When viewing news articles at my at&t yahoo site the videos play with a black 
> stripe vertically covering the center 3rd or quarter of the video.
> I have found nothing similar Googling this issue.
> It does not affect the advertisements only the news video clips.
> Utube and other video are not affected only the news videos.
> 
> Any one have any ideas?
> 
> MDD dual 1.25, 1.75 GB RAM

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