Re: Update OSX 10.4.7 to 10.4.11 but Software Update is crashing

2011-12-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
ll of the OS. But I'll wager the system log will tell you what's happening at the time it crashes. -- 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: General Hardware Q

2011-12-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
er supports any standard drive that physically fits. -- 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: G4 IBM Deskstar clicking

2011-12-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
y once, myself, and I ended up keeping the thing on ice while I pulled the data off... <http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/drive_on_ice.jpg> Worked, though, I got about 500 mb of stuff off of it... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technol

Re: how to disassemble an apple puck mouse?

2011-12-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 12, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Andy wrote: > > On 12 Dec 2011, at 21:03PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> I find myself in need of completely disassembling an old Apple puck mouse > > If you remove the coloured plastic (fingernail work) it should, fairly easily > pop off

how to disassemble an apple puck mouse?

2011-12-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
shell..non-destructively (or at least re-assemblable), and just to be clear, I'm talking about this: <http://www.applegazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/puckmouse.jpg> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not

Re:

2011-12-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
ders what looks like Arial or Helvetica > headlines. > > Neither Font book or Font Agent Pro show a problem with any of my fonts. > > Does anybody have a suggestion as to how to remedy this problem? Try clearing Firefox's cache. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College

Re: SCSI for a slimmer World hack

2011-12-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
this mainly means is that XBench is significantly non-precise, that it is designed for systems much faster than the MDD you tested it on, or that your system is seriously memory-bound. Disk speed should have no bearing whatsoever on memory or system test values, as these tests shouldn't be to

Re: G4 Quicksilver sleep

2011-12-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
the NEC chipset; go through the archives of this list it's been discussed many times. there are two solutions: use partial sleep: put the monitor and HDD"s to sleep but leave the mobo awake get a USB card with a working chipset; I forget the manufacturer right now. -- Bruce John

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
certainly don't recall doing any sort of special > install of Flash. Never underestimate the ability of Yahoo or Flash to 'just not work' :-/ -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely cu

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
el-based macs than they ever did PowerPC macs, probably more than than they ever sold previously, period. <http://regmedia.co.uk/2010/07/21/mac_sales.jpg> Second, those PowerPC macs we're talking about were, in the main, made over five years ago, and struggle even to run the content th

Re: Flash on Walgreens & JC Penneys

2011-12-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
ersion? what web browser are you using? Without more detailed information, we can only offer very generic advice: Clear your browser cache Make sure Flash is updated to latest that will run on that system. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group I

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

2011-12-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
/news/Graham_Bensinger_InDepth/25954415> Well this will happen as you run into sites that actually use the features of the later versions -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You

Re: G4 Cube and Quicksilver

2011-12-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
ould be from a bad hd, a corrupted System folder or non-installed system entirely. That's it. The solution to this problm is that Roger needs to get an OS system disk to boot from, then further diagnostics or system re-install can be done. For the Cube, 10.4 is probably the most pai

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-12-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
for a fact that you can indeed negotiate this, if you're big enough to negotiate with them. This was a concern when the UA went to a cloud for their email systems. (not our pharmacy email we still run that, but the central systems) Also, Google has contracts with government agencies. -- Bru

Re: G4 powerbook

2011-11-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Wayne Garrett wrote: > What adress do I use to post a wanted add? Thanks Bruce > > <http://lowendmac.com/lists/swap.html> has all the info. > On 11/30/11, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> >> On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Wayne Garrett wro

Re: G4 powerbook

2011-11-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Wayne Garrett wrote: > I am looking for a G4 powerbook for my daughter 12-17 inch fine. Watch the LEM swaplist they show up there with regularity. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not h

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-11-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
es. Now, they, like Apple, may have put their own label on the drive..I've seen Dell and Compaq do the same, long ago. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message bec

Re: Old PPC mac turns into an ethernet storage device.

2011-11-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
/how-do-i-build-a-diy-nas> -- 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 particu

Re: UPS

2011-11-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
the old one in to the store to be sure you get the right one -- 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, G

Re: PCI Cards under OS X 10.5.8 vrs 10.4.11

2011-11-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
not work (very well) under 10.5.8, but supposedly will be > fine under 10.4.11 ... it just doesn't show up under System Profiler in Tiger. My first step would be to install the drivers. Second would be to try a different PCI slot.. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College

Re: connectivity question

2011-11-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
it be as easily forged, and faxes, unlike emails, support legal signature requirements. Of course we could have a system whereby we did have unfalsifiable emails with valid signatures, but only drug dealers, terrorists and dirty f***ing hippies use email encryption, right? -- Bruce Johnson

Re: Daylight Savings Time and OS X?

2011-11-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
selecting the right city in your time zone, in the Date and Time prefs. -- 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: hacking for a slimmer world

2011-11-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
4 is faster. -- 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 focus on Powe

Re: Weather Widget fix 10.5.8

2011-11-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
f this be done by putting the 10.6 Install DVD into a G4 PowerBook, > or do I need to do these steps on my Intel MacMini and transfer the files > with a USB stick to the G4 PowerBook? Do it on the Mini with the USB stick. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Infor

Re: PCI question

2011-11-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
ckwards compatible with regular PCI, but can operate at > 64bit and 66mhz or higher depending on chipset capabilities. More common in > servers then desktop machines. No. The long slots in a G4 are NOT PCI-X. The original PCI slot spec allows for a long version that requires the extra

Re: PCI question

2011-11-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
he PC ones don't. -- 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 part

Re: Fed up with Google changes on browsers in Tiger

2011-11-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
ashington.edu/alpine/acquire/> There are OS X binaries of all UW products there, although you don't need to install pico, it's already present. I know lots of folks who like to use pine. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group

Re: Fed up with Google changes on browsers in Tiger

2011-11-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
s well; I've used Gmail with OS X since 10.2 with never an issue. -- 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 thos

Re: iPad on New Laptop

2011-11-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
oks) will transfer just fine, photos,non-iTunes store movies, synched addresses, and non-iTunes store music will be lost. Some non-itunes music from sources like Amazon will let you re-download your purchases. (although Senuti will work for that stuff, iirc, certainly the music.) -- Bruce Johnson

Re: G4 Server Idea

2011-11-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
rator controlled. Also, SFTP is vastly superior to FTzP: <http://www.macworld.com/article/132002/2008/02/mobilemac2503.html> I'd set up an account allowed to use FTP that is NOT an administrator account. Enabling anonymous FTP is more work. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College

Re: G4 Server Idea

2011-11-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
trolled. Google is your friend: <http://www.ehow.com/how_4674062_set-server-mac-os-leopard.html> -- 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

Re: Can't load youtube with certain browsers, others ok

2011-11-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
Subtitles: • (Advanced) SubStation Alpha • SRT • SAMI • VobSub • liba52, via A52Codec: • AC3 audio -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this

Re: Which G5 or older Mac

2011-11-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
you never actually notice it working. It;s along the lines of the old 68k emulation environment for PowerPC macs back in the day…very fast. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received thi

Re: G4 Server Idea

2011-11-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
need to leave it running 24/7? Oh yeah, that would work just fine; the G4's are pretty rugged systems. -- 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: Can't load youtube with certain browsers, others ok

2011-11-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
hing that drew me to ClickToFlash in the first place...it's the Web, not the Safari Web and the Firefox Web and the Chrome Web and the %%@$#^ Internet %%!@$#$% Explorer Web...as much as it tries to be all those things sometimes... I'd much rather use one program for that task. --

Re: Can't load youtube with certain browsers, others ok

2011-11-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
;Page(s) Unresponsive" window pops up. It COULD be that Youtube is changing things on the back end, based on your browser's ID string. Turn on Safari's Developer menu and change your User Agent string and see what happens. A larger point is: you have browsers that work, why are y

Re: new ibook battery bad?

2011-11-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
y a bad battery? probably; even new ones from reputable vendors sometimes show up DOA. Try exchanging it with the seller. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because

Re: Cisco 675 log

2011-11-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
ystem: <http://earthnet.net/support/dsl/dsl_mod_conf_cisco675_static.htm> ANd here is a list of commands: <ftp://ftp.swcp.com/pub/cisco/03chap02.pdf> It appears you can set syslogging, which requires a syslog server (which you can do with OS X) But I'll bet that it's just old and

Re: Can't load youtube with certain browsers, others ok

2011-11-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
at I am missing? Safari is missing from that list, which will preferentially load HTML5 content if it exists... -- 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 me

Re: start up items

2011-11-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
equence. After all you can tell when it's not printing by the distinct lack of printing activity, and those printers do everything but hop around like Luxo Jr. when they're out of ink, all on their own. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technolog

Re: looking to upgrade router at home

2011-11-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
re I picked it up... -- 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 particul

Re: STORAGE SHUFFLE AND NAS

2011-11-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
connect (and there >> really isn't any other option per their docs) SMB under 10.4 suxrox bigtime. >> If you can update that G5 to 10.5 it will be a lot better. > > is there a down-side to this OS upgrade? > THe few applications that were the rasons I had held this ma

Re: STORAGE SHUFFLE AND NAS

2011-11-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
sing. What Dan said plus this: if you're using SMB on the G5 to connect (and there really isn't any other option per their docs) SMB under 10.4 suxrox bigtime. If you can update that G5 to 10.5 it will be a lot better. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Infor

Re: STORAGE SHUFFLE AND NAS

2011-11-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
ing to the NAS? What brand is it? What version Mac OS? What do you mean 'File nameing issues'? There shouldn't be any. The mac OS does play just fine with NAS storage, unless the NAS itself is foo. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Gro

Re: looking to upgrade router at home

2011-11-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
router at home; picked up from Woot on sale for $19, works fine to stream HBO to my iPad, and I've only got a 1.5 MB/sec connection to the internet. Just about any one you go buy will work. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Instituti

Re: G5 Mistery

2011-11-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
ells my G5 has 5.2.4f1 Boot Rom version (hence, newer than > June 2004). > > I wonder if MacTracker has some wrong info, or what… Well, who are you going to believe…MacTracker or your lying eyes? :-) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technolog

Re: hdiutil help

2011-11-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
em to be > as intuitive as it should be for users that are not as smart as you are (or I > am now). ;-) I agree, the Finder should be smart enough to recognize a burnable image like that and just do the right thing. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology

Re: hdiutil help

2011-11-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
hdiutil to try and make the needed files. If I burn the .iso file to a disk it opens, and is fine in windows. This is baffling to me. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this

Re: hdiutil help

2011-11-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
stion is a disk image and should be treated as such, hence the successful burning. -- 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

Re: hdiutil help

2011-11-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
so. You may be thinking NTFS which is Windows' current file system and Macs can read that natively, just not write it….and the problem isn't that the Mac can't read it it's that Windows can't. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Tec

hdiutil help

2011-11-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
r is using Disk Utility, this has to be managed on a regular basis by a user who just wants to stick some stuff in his windows Access database (yes, I'm writing a Mac utility to create an ISO so Access can use it in his Windows VM) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of

Re: Java 1.6

2011-11-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
d greatest on my ppc mac >> derp apparently not. > > So bottom line is, there is no Java on new macs? Yes there is, but not old macs. Apple is no longer maintaining an Apple port of Java, but Oracle is now including OS X as a standard platform: <http://jdk7.java.

Re: APC ES-500 now APC ES-750 what do you all use?

2011-11-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
hing that's not saved, of course). HDD's for decades have been 'fail safe' on power failure, no more head crashes. So don't fear testing it with the computer running. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do

Re: APC ES-500 now APC ES-750 what do you all use?

2011-11-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 2, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: > > no, it didn't beep and is in fact still green. but the battery is prolly dead. Well the acid test is unplug the UPS and see if the attached computer keeps running... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College

Re: APC ES-500 now APC ES-750 what do you all use?

2011-11-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
s low end equipment is any better. I've seen Belkin's stuff die quite quickly, and have no experience with Tripp-Light (only ever used some of their line conditioners on scientific instruments in the past. Those were really good, but IIRC quite pricey at the time. Again, higher end s

Re: APC ES-500 now APC ES-750

2011-11-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
eller-Smith > TWITTER downtoearthweb > > -- > 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 list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and

Re: APC ES-500 now APC ES-750

2011-11-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
Batteries Plusthat's where we get our replacements, and the ones in those ES models are a standard size sealed lead-acid used in a lot of different equipment. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely cu

Re: Optical Audio Port continuously lit up on PowerMac G5 = NO internal speaker output = NO chime

2011-11-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
t; Yes, this is not an indicator, it's the laser that generated the modulated audio OPTICAL signal :-) You see the same red on a fiber data port if you're incautious enough to look directly into it when it's on (a bad idea because it's a pretty powerful laser and will fr

Re: New Member to this list

2011-11-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
d resource forks. It should work without a hassle on any other volume that OS X can mount and read. -- 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: APC ES-500 Yelling Right Out of the Box

2011-11-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
500 and noticed when instructed to connect > battery cables they already were. Hm. When I plug in the unit it has one > steady alarm. > > Something wrong? Take it back? It's brand new, was clearly already used, I'd take it right back. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona

Re: Old Machine bests New Machine?

2011-10-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
can ONLY run te applications you need it to run. Additionally strip the MAX and LOGIC apps are as far as possible, no extraneous plug ins, etc, and streamline your audio presentation as much as possible as well. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group I

Re: Old Machine bests New Machine?

2011-10-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
halt for 5 minutes at a time bringing up a Windows VM if ANYTHING else was running, and most of it was due to the skimpy RAM. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this mess

Re: Old Machine bests New Machine?

2011-10-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
r MP3? What 'CPU Overload' box? Is there a version mismatch between what the newer system expects versus the files form the older system? Does your old G5 system use any hardware elements in the Logic toolchain? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Informatio

Re: USB Modems any good?

2011-10-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
don't think. Don't know what to call these apps > webcam usage … Theye officially called videoconferencing calls, and everything going through one of these adapters is counted as data, since they're not cellphones. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Inform

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 27, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > But, I tried to use Slideshow option from Preview, and Preview crashed. I > don't think USB 2 was fast enough to keep up with the show. No, that's not why Preview crashed, unless you were running the slideshow at 20 fps or s

Re: Leopard/G4: Unwanted "captions" and duplication in menus

2011-10-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
on't recognize this particular issue, but this is the sort of weird thing that happens when you accidentally turn on some of the Universal access stuff. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely cust

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
Apple's USB ports do adhere to the standard, no more, no less. -- 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: USB Modems any good?

2011-10-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 27, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> >> On Oct 26, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: >> >>> Are USB modems any good for Macs (or PCs for that matter)? Yahoo Messenger >&g

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
the past, and I suspect it;'s going to accelerate greatly in the face of increased hard drive costs. -- 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: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
ote this may force Apple's hand, supply-wise, to accelerate it's adoption of solid-state drives across the line. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because

Re: easy over-the-web access??

2011-10-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
imate the ability of naive users to monkey-click their way to mass destruction of computing systems. -- 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 membe

Re: easy over-the-web access??

2011-10-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > Hey Bruce, is there a step by step out there for this "free" site, all I'm > seeing is a pro service that they're asking money for? > On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> Well it's

Re: easy over-the-web access??

2011-10-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
t;http://dyn.com/dns/dyndns-free/> Then turn on file sharing and give them your user name and password. Of course this means they can literally take anything, delete everything and completely mess up the system whether they meant to or not. Not entirely sure if this is really what you wa

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
> Thanks a lot. Well, I've been speccing Seagate FreeAgent drives for folks' local backups here, and have had very good luck with 'em, not one failure yet. <http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/freeagent/freeagent_desk/> -- Bruce Johnson University of A

Re: multiple iPhoto "Versions" on the same startup volume?

2011-10-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
to define a limited user, and restrict what programs (even system-wide ones) a user could use. -- 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-

Re: multiple iPhoto "Versions" on the same startup volume?

2011-10-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
s SHOULD offer this option, but in practice very few do. The multi-user nature of OS X is very rarely taken advantage of, imo. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message

Re: multiple iPhoto "Versions" on the same startup volume?

2011-10-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
u have to maintain two sets of prefs, two sets of application support , etc. Why do you want to do this? -- 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 good Emulator for windows games

2011-10-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
ndows box to play these games. It's about all those ancient winboxen are good for anyway (even when new) -- 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: Dropbox on a Mac

2011-10-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 22, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: > On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> (well, presuming Dropbox doesn't screw up again, and given this interview >> with the founder, I suspect it won't do that again. >> <http://www.forbe

Re: Disk image from SD card

2011-10-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:48 PM, John Carmonne wrote: >> >> On Oct 18, 2011, at 8:11 PM, John Carmonne wrote: >> >>> What's the fastest method to create a 8GB video image from an SDHC card >>> from a video camera using a G4 1.25 machine? Toast or disk Utility? Does >>> processor speed matter? Doe

Re: Image Scaling Software needed

2011-10-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
; He offers versions that run all the way back to 7. System 7, that is…. -- 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

Re: Dropbox on a Mac

2011-10-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
given this interview with the founder, I suspect it won't do that again. <http://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbox-the-inside-story-of-techs-hottest-startup/> The kid does seem to have a head on his shoulders.) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of

Re: Disk image from SD card

2011-10-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
likely to be fast under any circumstances, since it'll involve transcoding the video to DVD format. I think Toast offers some rudimentary features for that purpose, otherwise I'd use iDVD or Sizzle, if you can find a copy. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pha

Re: System x.5.8 issues.

2011-10-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
company it is just receiving, but not sending. Check the SMTP server settings for that account. Make sure the username/password ius there if it wants it (and conversely, is unchecked if they don't) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Instit

Re: Highest OSX a G4 sawtooth can run?

2011-10-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
e? Definitely. -- 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 focus

Re: Is Yahoo Messenger Beta 3 Safe to Use?

2011-10-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
the cases of 'people's webcams getting hacked' are because the hacker either had physical access to the system or people installed the malware themselves. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions,

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
d do is move up to at least 10.5.8; that will get you much more up-to-date almost immediately. -- 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-

Re: No Startup, just an endlessly repeating chime

2011-10-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
gh, I've seen it happen more than once. The SmartUPS are higher end AVR systems with battery cutover, hence the greater expense. SO yeah a lot of the criticism is justified,but it's also painted on with a broad brush,. and frankly, having tried others, even Tripp-lite, I'll

Re: G4 4s

2011-10-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
in the cloud. Synching down to a Mac that old may not work, although I suspect a lot can be done through the iCloud web interface. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this m

Re: Safari

2011-10-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
ok game open, plus whatever those other 15 tabs might be doing that you don't know about. It's not really rocket science here: close a tab, watch the CPU for a bit, rinse and repeat. When the CPU usage goes down and stays there, you found the culprit. (this time, at least.) -- Bruce

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
y file systems built in since 10.1: NFS. NFS is high speed, high reliablity and only a moderate pain in the ass to manage. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message bec

Retr0Brite?

2011-10-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
the wiki that I don't have to; this system isn't that badly discolored, meaning a shorter treatment 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

Re: Sad day...

2011-10-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 6, 2011, at 11:14 AM, gifutiger wrote: > > Apple Lives forever. Randall has a nice memorial on xkcd :<http://xkcd.com/961/> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --

Re: Sad day...

2011-10-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 5, 2011, at 8:31 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: > Il giorno 6-10-2011 3:44, Len Gerstel ha scritto: > >> Reading the slashdot thread showed me a little easter egg I had never seen. >> The text of which applied to Steve Jobs as much as anyone in the ads. >> >> Zoom the Text Edit icon to as lar

Re: Sad day...

2011-10-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
ad, bar none, better than any they ever did. -- 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: Sad day...

2011-10-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
rect, and the International Business Times article from September 10th is wrong :-/ -- 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

Sad day...

2011-10-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
<http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/> -- 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: Mapping Out Bad Sectors

2011-10-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
a higher level than re-mapping bad sectors. I'll also add my voice to the chorus about "new bad sectors == failing drive"; in my experience, new bad sectors invariably mean 'time to get a new drive'. The moment SMART starts telling you things are going wrong, you should

Re: TenFourFox

2011-10-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
utward. All very remote, yes, but more than enough reason to not support known vulnerabilities in your software. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you ar

Re: Poor Airport reception

2011-09-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
her computer 4 foot to one side or the other made for much better reception. -- 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 tho

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