Re: Disappeared HDs

2020-07-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
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. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You recei

Re: Automatic login w/o password

2020-07-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
ote: > > 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. --

Re: Cleaning computer keyboard

2020-04-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
ttps://groups.google.com/d/msgid/g3-5-list/86CEECDD-D108-4AF7-8CF1-3199683108A9%40sonic.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this

Re: Cleaning computer keyboard

2020-04-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
yboards 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. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Inst

Re: Password protection

2020-01-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
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 Lo

Re: Password protection

2020-01-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
tand 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. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- --

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

2019-03-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
he 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. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merel

Re: File sharing problem in Tiger

2018-10-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
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. ) -- Bruce Johnson Universi

Re: Migration to Intel

2018-09-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
apitan: http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hl1440_all -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Grou

Re: Migration to Intel

2018-09-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
48 macports drwxr-xr-x@ 11 927885439 1391123018 374 Aug 28 13:54 thushara -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: Migration to Intel

2018-09-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
al 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 objected.) -- Bruce Johnson Unive

Re: Kinda OT but hoping someone here knows...

2018-06-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
d 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, 2

Kinda OT but hoping someone here knows...

2018-06-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
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? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions

Re: Have to replace my dying MDD

2018-04-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
I discovered the ‘no startup keys’ issue. You’ll need to source an older USB keyboard for the times you need to apply startup keys. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received t

Re: Have to replace my dying MDD

2018-04-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
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 mailto:yaw...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi again, I got a good deal on the la

Re: G4 won't finish booting

2018-03-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
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. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have op

Re: G4 won't finish booting

2018-02-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
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? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy

Re: G4 won't finish booting

2018-02-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
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 catch what is causing an error before it restarts. -- Bruce Johnson University of

Re: Firewire 400 PCI cards - OK with a PowerMac?

2018-02-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
ten by Apple to boot). -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a

Re: Blinking

2017-10-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
in the College about three years ago, and it had been sitting in a closet for a while before that. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a

Re: Blinking

2017-10-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
like 200 in computer years 8-) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs

Re: Communicating to my iphone

2017-10-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
k. 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) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology

Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

2017-08-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
> 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 interface. -- Bruce Johnson Univer

Re: Quicksilver 2002 Optical Drive Replacement

2017-08-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
nized with all capabilities so this will work as a DL +/- burner. This has the advantage of being transportable to other systems as needed. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You receive

Re: Processor upgrade question, follow-up: LARGEST

2017-08-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
ap.com/software/tenfourfox/ -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs -

Re: Mouse Woes

2017-08-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
uch proof against any sort of interference like that. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4

Re: Mouse Woes

2017-08-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
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,

Re: My DA G4 died.

2017-07-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
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. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Infor

Re: Question

2017-03-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
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. -- Bru

Re: Cursor and PRAM Issues

2017-03-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
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. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions

Re: Freezing HDD

2017-03-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
armacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/drive_on_ice.jpg> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop

Re: Freezing HDD

2017-03-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
> 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,

Re: Freezing HDD

2017-03-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
ady to roll as soon as you plug it in. I was able to recover about 40-50mb of of a failing drive this way. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacylen says be ready to Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this m

Re: Dumping inventory

2017-03-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
hen you’re down to the stuff you just want gone, try Freecycle https://www.freecycle.org Founded right here in Tucson :-) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message

Re: Performa 5300 flashing disk with ?

2017-03-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
the kludges. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular fo

Re: Performa 5300 flashing disk with ?

2017-03-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
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 dri

Re: QS2002 shuts down when sleep selected

2017-02-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
com/news/macs-shutting-down-instead-of-going-to-sleep/> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and

Re: Slideshow software

2017-02-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
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> doesn’t work after Yosemite, sadly. -

Re: Slideshow software

2017-02-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
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…. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- Y

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

2017-02-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
of them and it was so long ago that I forgot. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5

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

2017-01-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
memory/iBooks-PowerBooks/G4-iBook/ But that starts getting into a bunch of money for not a lot of computer... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are

Re: Partitions corrupted on a drive

2016-12-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
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 issues. -- Bruce Johnson University of A

Re: Antenna for wireless

2016-08-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
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 antenna -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institut

Re: Dead MDD?

2016-08-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
roup" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology

Re: Preview app for Tiger 10.4.11

2016-07-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
isn't that root? Thanks again. 501 is typically the first user account created during system setup. Root is id 0. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message

Re: Preview app for Tiger 10.4.11

2016-07-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
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. -- Bruce Johnson Univer

Re: Mavericks install

2016-07-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
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. -- Bruce Johnson University of A

Re: G4 questions

2016-06-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
ight track, it’s flaky, scratched and/or dirty dvd’s or cd's. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those u

Re: G4 questions

2016-06-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona Colleg

Re: G4 questions

2016-06-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
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. Maybe reset the PRAM? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group

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

2016-06-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
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 older version since the latest requires osx 10.5. -- Bruce J

Re: PowerMac G4 Single 1.25 (June 2003 Mirror Drive Doors) Software Restore Discs

2016-06-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
as a picture of one disk. The specs say it’s one of the following MDD models <http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=PowerMac3%2C6> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely custo

Re: Seagate hybrid HD crashes in a MDD

2016-04-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
d 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. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --

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

2016-03-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
> 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 disconnec

Re: alg5 accidentently deleted a folder and emptied trash

2016-03-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
recreating everything on your hard drive…if it’s even possible, you can’t go back in time and re-take baby pictures. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because yo

Re: alg5 accidentently deleted a folder and emptied trash

2016-03-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "G-Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

Re: I want to set up my G5 to run Linux

2016-02-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
. Hmm, might drag the old Powerbook G4 off the shelf and give it a shot, if I can find the power brick. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a mem

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

2016-01-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
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 QS

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

2016-01-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
ore 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

Re: New problem with gmail with 10.11.2 version of Mail

2015-12-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
from gmail, but I’ve got only a single account. Maybe setting each one as an IMAP account will fix the issues? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you a

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

2015-11-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
om/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to-a-new-hard-drive> This may or may not apply to the versions of iTunes you’re messing with. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- Y

Re: G5 Tower Won't Start

2015-09-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
es after that. The 30” ps is noticeably beefier than the 24”) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those us

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

2015-09-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
air, reseat all the cables kind of stuff? Something may be getting warm enough to disconnect after a while. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you a

Re: Network Troubles

2015-09-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
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... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message be

Re: Network Troubles

2015-09-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
ase 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 sta

Re: Network Troubles

2015-09-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
it’s just the network. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a pa

Re: Network Troubles

2015-08-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
ou need to test one thing at a time. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 deskto

Re: Network Troubles

2015-08-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
> 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! -- Bruce Johnson University of Ari

Re: Network Troubles

2015-08-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
out 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. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institu

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

2015-07-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
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. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona Colle

Re: Need Larger Internal HDD for G5 1.8 X 2

2015-07-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
will probably have to re-partition it as it will likely either come completely unformatted, or formatted as NTFS. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you a

Re: 16:9 displays possible on MacOS 8.6

2015-07-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
t; 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 large

Re: MDD Dual G4 Startup woes

2015-06-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
f time or money on it myself. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group attery. Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 deskto

Re: Giant Sata HD bolluxes up my DA G4

2015-06-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
s it came out…sigh. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular f

Re: Strange Blue & White G3 issues with booting 10.4 Install or 10.3.9.

2015-04-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
em 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 changed. ‘Worked in 10.3’ is not a reliable guide to hardware issues in 10.4/ -- Bruce Johnson Un

Re: Strange Blue & White G3 issues with booting 10.4 Install or 10.3.9.

2015-04-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
d down command-V and see what is running at the console where it stalls out. This may give you a clue as to what’s happening. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message b

Re: Replacement for Quicksilver G4 Superdrive

2015-04-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
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> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Tech

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

2015-04-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
lt 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. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Te

Re: Mysterious Files/Folders in OS 10.5.8

2015-03-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
> 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

Re: Mail start-up issue

2015-03-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
o 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.. -- Bruce Johnson "Wher

Re: Apple Mail questions

2014-12-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
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... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy

Re: Apple Mail questions

2014-12-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
'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 mailbo

Re: UDMA mode 5

2014-12-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
e motherboard, which, iirc is ATA-100 not 133, which is what the UDMA spec is talking about: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDMA> What do you mean 'acting crazy'? -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are." B. Banzai, PhD -- -- You received this message becaus

Re: Apple Mail questions

2014-12-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
on 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

Re: Deleted WebKit Framework!

2014-10-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
t this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "G-Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to g3-5-list+

Re: NSA FBI warning Your browser had been locked

2014-10-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
: <http://malwaretips.com/blogs/fbi-mac-os-x-virus/> Clearing your browser cache and history should get rid of it. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are." B. Banzai, PhD -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, an

Re: Cellphone and my G4

2014-09-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
(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. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are." B. Banzai, PhD -- -- You

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

2014-08-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
at > 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. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are." B. Banzai, PhD -- -- You r

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

2014-08-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
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

Re: WMV files on G4 Tiger

2014-08-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
t 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 :-) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions,

Re: Encrypted File

2014-07-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
ct your files in case your Mac is stolen or lost. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are." B. Banzai, PhD -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The lis

Re: Quicksilver Leopard unable to connect WPA

2014-06-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
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 w

Re: Hard Drives

2014-06-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
, 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

Re: Hard Drives

2014-06-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
(get on their email list you can sometimes score awesome deals). -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those usin

Re: Hard Drives

2014-06-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
olid state fabrication techniques, they'll be a lot more reliable...when was the last time you had RAM go bad? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message b

Re: Hard Drives

2014-06-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
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. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona Col

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

2014-05-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
oft.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. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, mer

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

2014-05-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
> what do you mean 'legacy version'? The current version works on OS X 10.3.9 through 10.9. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are." B. Banzai, PhD -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 des

Re: PowerBook Batteries

2014-04-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
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> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information T

Re: Black Stripe in Video

2014-04-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
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 do you see it if you make the video full screen? Can you give us an example URL?

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