Re:

2010-04-20 Thread Charles Lenington
Jonas Ulrich wrote: Well there was a reason I got the imac for free... But it is worth fixing because it has good caps and motherboard. -Jonas Did you check the caps in the power supply? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and

Re: labs and wireless mice

2010-04-16 Thread Charles Lenington
Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 16, 2010, at 6:37 AM, flags wrote: New 20-30 iMac lab w/ wireless mice. Problem: Imac 1's mouse controls iMac 7, etc. is there a quick/simple fix? Sounds like someone moved all the wireless mice around between the computers, probably as a gag? You'll either have

Re: Basic Video card question....

2010-04-15 Thread Charles Lenington
Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 2, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: Obviously you're new to Macs. The x2 x4 AGP PowerMacs originally came with cards with ADC ports that carry 28v power for to Apple ADC monitors. http://themacelite.wikispaces.com/AGP+Graphics+Card+Compatibility

Re: Best OS for MDD

2010-04-05 Thread Charles Lenington
Peter wrote: Why not just use Leopard? It would work even better. Peter M. Maybe because we have stable systems and don't want to install the leos gathering dust on shelf. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop

Re: Best OS for MDD

2010-04-04 Thread Charles Lenington
Jonas Ulrich wrote: Hi all, looking for some advice here. I have a MDD Tower with the following specs: Hardware Overview: Machine Name: Power Mac G4 Machine Model:PowerMac3,6 CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.1) Number Of CPUs: 2 CPU Speed:1 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU):

DVD media clarifacation

2010-03-28 Thread Charles Lenington
I was making a burn and discovered I needed to use Dual Layer media. Off I went to wally's place, they don't carry. So I tried worst (best) buy and they had DL and double sided. Assumption 1 If I remember correctly: DL is printing on one side but at different layers/depth. And double sided

Re: EDIT: A good and cheap video card

2010-03-28 Thread Charles Lenington
roman...@ideal-access.com wrote: I've been looking at this 512 nVIDEA AGP card for flashing. It's $70.00 US delivered from Hong Kong. Does anyone have any info on it?

Re: A way to select order of pix load in iPhoto

2010-03-21 Thread Charles Lenington
Jonas Lopez wrote: A way to select order of pix load in iPhoto on G4, 10.4.11? I have a digital camera with a memory that I insert in a USB reader causing iPhoto to launch and load ALL 250 PIX. I only shot the last 10, so only want to load the last 10. Is there a way to select the order of

Re: Question: What Are They?

2010-02-19 Thread Charles Lenington
Kasey Smith wrote: On Jan 31, 2010, at 9:43 PM, Dana Collins wrote: more than likely, your cables were issued with an older PC right at the transition period into USB. Or the device itself, and PC still hasn't made it out of PS/2... in case you still wonder... is this it?

legit software

2010-02-07 Thread Charles Lenington
Has anyone heard of this company or done business with them? Is the software legit? I need CS4 but I'm leery. http://priorismanotes.net/ -- 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

Re: Why Won't This Fan Work in My MDD?

2010-01-06 Thread Charles Lenington
Jonas Ulrich wrote: I read this article about quieting my MDD down: http://coolstuff.wordpress.com/2007/02/19/powermac-g4-mdd-cooling-and-noise-reduction/ I bought this fan that the article suggested:

Re: G3 BW powers up, but no sound and no video

2010-01-06 Thread Charles Lenington
unplugging the machine, opening it, removing the PRAM battery, press and hold the button nearest the battery (the one not labeled :POWER:) This got my G3 BW running just fine. Mine is a 400MHz rev.2 btw... No success. I removed the PRAM battery, did hold the button for a while, released it

Re: Beige G3 suddenly won't turn on

2009-12-09 Thread Charles Lenington
Bruce Godfrey wrote: I am ready to conlcude that the power supply may have died as Jeff suggested. snip= I guess this is not a lucky time for computer PSUs around here. I have two PC's both with PSU that appear to have died in the last 2 months. Is there a good way to test a

Re: Leopard or Tiger?

2009-12-07 Thread Charles Lenington
mythmaker18 wrote: I recently purchased a 17 1.33GHz Powerbook G4 (Aluminum) and was wondering which would be the best (as far as speed/responsiveness) OS to install on this Mac: 10.4 or 10.5? I have install discs for both. I will be moving over a 5400RPM drive and will be installing between

Re: POP!

2009-11-26 Thread Charles Lenington
Tom Podnar wrote: Hello all-- Last night while running my G5 Powermac Dual 1.85, I heard a POP and it sure stopped working! Could this be a power supply issue? Any thoughts about the best suppliers for new/rebuilt power supplies? Thank you, Tom-- -- You received this message because

Re: CCC hosed t-bird update 1

2009-11-18 Thread Charles Lenington
Dan wrote: At 5:23 PM -0600 11/16/2009, Charles Lenington wrote: Some of the missing data folders seem to lock up requiring force quit. How do folder lock up? snip Pls lemme know when you do - I'm curious to see what's happening. Ran a few tests here and CCC

Re: CCC hosed t-bird update 1

2009-11-18 Thread Charles Lenington
Dan wrote: At 10:06 AM -0600 11/18/2009, Charles Lenington wrote: snip Always do your primary backup with nothing else running. With incrementals, it's a judgement call... Backing up files while other apps are running / using the HD, is always a hit'n'miss proposition. I tried

Re: CCC hosed t-bird update 1

2009-11-16 Thread Charles Lenington
Dan wrote: At 11:09 PM -0600 11/14/2009, Charles Lenington wrote: latest attempt. Still missing some messages although folders are showing empty sub folders. Is Thunderbird running when you're making the backup? I've got a thunderbird set-up here - and it backs up fine, fwiw

receipt reply required for each message

2009-11-15 Thread Charles Lenington
Is anyone else getting the acknowledgement message for all messages that nestami...@gmail.com sends to the list? It's starting to get a little annoying. I have been ignoring them but I think I'll start replying. Maybe the hint will cause him change his email settings. -- You received this

Re: receipt reply required for each message

2009-11-15 Thread Charles Lenington
Nestamicky wrote: On 11/15/09 8:50 AM, Charles Lenington wrote: Is anyone else getting the acknowledgement message for all messages that nestami...@gmail.com sends to the list? It's starting to get a little annoying. I have been ignoring them but I think I'll start replying. Maybe

Re: CCC hosed t-bird update 1

2009-11-14 Thread Charles Lenington
Dan wrote: At 7:55 PM -0600 11/13/2009, Charles Lenington wrote: 23:47:52Verifying exclusive access to source volume... 23:47:52Aborting block-level clone, starting over with file-level clone. You don't want a block-level clone - block for block, *error for error

CCC hosed t-bird

2009-11-13 Thread Charles Lenington
My 4th time to use CCC. MDD 1 gig, 2 gig ram 80 gig to 180 gig clone, OS X.4.11 T-bird version 2.0.0.23 (20090812) CCC Version 3.3 (3.3) Not all the folders and sub folders in T-bird mail cloned properly. Lost some folders but other folders no contents.Used defaults in CCC. Any tips/hints? I'll

Re: CCC hosed t-bird

2009-11-13 Thread Charles Lenington
Dan wrote: At 10:15 AM -0500 11/13/2009, Bill Connelly wrote: On the latest version of CCC, under 10.5.8, I started getting could not copy some files because they were of the same name but different type. (Mainly concerned a new version of VLC). A solution was to allow CCC to delete

Re: HELP! newbie G3 user

2009-11-13 Thread Charles Lenington
Gary Conrad wrote: On the back: Family number: M5183 Serial # XB92718RGSM What would I look for on the motherboard? Thanks, Gary Gary There is a Knowledge Base article that tells how to tell the difference between G4 towers. Unfortunaly I don't have it bookmarked on

Re: HELP! newbie G3 user

2009-11-13 Thread Charles Lenington
Stewie de Young wrote: Your machine is a G4 AGP Graphics G4. This model also carried model numbers of M5183, M6921, M7232, M7629, M7824/5/7. Yours being the first it is probably a 350MHz processor. Go to the top of this page, click on 'Apple' and then select 'Power Macintosh G4'

Re: HELP! newbie G3 user

2009-11-13 Thread Charles Lenington
Stewie de Young wrote: Your machine is a G4 AGP Graphics G4. This model also carried model numbers of M5183, M6921, M7232, M7629, M7824/5/7. Yours being the first it is probably a 350MHz processor. Go to the top of this page, click on 'Apple' and then select 'Power Macintosh G4'

Re: TAN: browser question

2009-11-03 Thread Charles Lenington
Lawrence David Eden wrote: I am using Camino on my G4 running OS 10.4.11. How do I add a divider between bookmark categories? I don't see this option when I try to manage bookmarks. Thanks. Larry Eden I use folders in firefox --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: Internet activity unstoppable

2009-11-03 Thread Charles Lenington
Kris Tilford wrote: On Nov 2, 2009, at 12:30 AM, Geoff Black wrote: I have three macs and 2 pcs on the network and only the G5 - PPC Quad is the culprit. snip Out setup is very different from yours. We connect wirelessly thru an Apple 802.11n Time Capsule router. I

Re: Broadband (sort of) --- Laptop vs Desktop

2009-11-01 Thread Charles Lenington
James Therrault wrote: On Oct 28, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 28, 2009, at 12:03 PM, James Therrault wrote: IIRC, USB 1 is rated at a maximum of 12 Mb/s, while your broadband speeds will be well under 1Mb/s (I generally get 0.4 to 0.8 from my provider), so I

Re: Mac Mini stuck after it was working

2009-10-22 Thread Charles Lenington
cheryl wrote: We disconnected the ethernet and started up the computer, then shut it down, plugged the ethernet back in and it's fine. We have a new problem though. We need to run the software update but the previous owner (her uncle) has a password on it and we don't know it, can't get it

Re: No Script

2009-10-19 Thread Charles Lenington
Richard Gerome wrote: Hey Ralph, Right click??? Are you using a PC??? How do you right click on an Apple computer??? What you are talking about here sounds really great!!! But I can't right click... CoolKat -Ori I right click all the time either w/ my logitech 2 button usb

Re: No Script

2009-10-19 Thread Charles Lenington
Charles Lenington wrote: Richard Gerome wrote: Hey Ralph, Right click??? Are you using a PC??? How do you right click on an Apple computer??? What you are talking about here sounds really great!!! But I can't right click... CoolKat -Ori I right click all the time

Re: need schematics

2009-10-19 Thread Charles Lenington
Kris Tilford wrote: On Oct 19, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Wm. Arnold wrote: 1st Monitor Manufactured July 1984 The 2nd is: Manufactured Nov. 1986 Scrap (recycle) these and get any new or used LCD monitor(s). There are advantages to both your health, and your electric bill that will

Re: Mouse Question

2009-10-04 Thread Charles Lenington
Stephen Conrad wrote: On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Richard Gerome onecoolka...@earthlink.net wrote: Hey Stephen, Did this set up work before? I had 1 USB 4 Port Hub on one USB port and the KB on another If not, are you piggy backing 2 hubs to one USB port in the

Re: RAM

2009-09-23 Thread Charles Lenington
Stephen Conrad wrote: OK, MacTracker isn't telling me anything and a google search is less than helpful. Which Macs can this RAM be used in? PC2700U-25330 HYMD264646B8J-J AA 512MB DDR 333MHz CL2.5 start at 15 and go up to 17 iMac. both 200 and 184 pin listed. take this time

Re: Moving hard drives from one dual G4 to another

2009-09-23 Thread Charles Lenington
Clark Martin wrote: I thought we all had to do that once. It was some sort of requirement. You notice they never drop on foam padding or even carpet, only on concrete. Now of course there is the on purpose power up drive , quicky pull power and drop on floor/ The noise is fun. We had a

firefox/t-bird/apple menu bar issue issues

2009-09-16 Thread Charles Lenington
Anyone do the firefox/(and maybe t-bird) updates today? (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3) I lost control of Apple menu bar in FF/T-bird. If I clicked on item and moved cursor down the menu closed. Clicking the 3 colored window

Re: firefox/t-bird/apple menu bar issue issues

2009-09-16 Thread Charles Lenington
Charles Lenington wrote: Anyone do the firefox/(and maybe t-bird) updates today? (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3) I lost control of Apple menu bar in FF/T-bird. If I clicked on item and moved cursor down the menu closed

Re: Wireless 350 MHZ Yikes!

2009-09-14 Thread Charles Lenington
Bill Connelly wrote: On Sep 12, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: snip- No special concerns for lightening? underground currents? hooked to such a sensitive area of the computer? Seems like you're asking for it ... I would try the wireless first. Here in

Re: Shared Scanner over Wireless Networks

2009-09-10 Thread Charles Lenington
Kris Tilford wrote: I moved an HP-PSC-1210 AIO Printer/Scanner/Copier to a network connection attached via USB to a 1TB Time Capsule. I was bummed to see that Apple doesn't support network scanning, it's printing only over Apple wireless networks. Now I see that this is a function of

Re: FAX from a Mac under OS X 10.5.7?

2009-09-10 Thread Charles Lenington
Bill Connelly wrote: My insurance company hasn't discovered https I guess, so they require info FAXed to them. After creating some kind of pre-paper-like document on my Mac, can I FAX it over the internet using some hidden capability of OS X? or maybe NeoOffice? some other app for OS

Re: Distributed processing.

2009-09-10 Thread Charles Lenington
Bruce Johnson wrote: On Sep 9, 2009, at 7:48 AM, falst...@46 wrote: Addressing the original question, you could use the older (at least a g3) Macs to build a Mac Cluster. There have been universities and government agencies that have built, relatively inexpensive, supercomputers using

Re: Shared Scanner over Wireless Networks

2009-09-10 Thread Charles Lenington
Kris Tilford wrote: On Sep 10, 2009, at 2:29 AM, Charles Lenington wrote: I must be doing something wrong. My HP c6xxx aio (at parents) has a network port and I scan from it all the time. wait testing this office jet 7310.. works also both connected via a hub, to Speedstream

facebook

2009-09-04 Thread Charles Lenington
I keep getting invites to fagbook. What is it, is it secure, why do i want it. does it run on macs? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Xserve G4 (Tray Load) video card (and other) questions

2009-09-04 Thread Charles Lenington
Ian Prickett wrote: Hi I'm building/rebuilding a tray load Xserve G4 to use as a headless home server and I had a few questions: 1) I'm planning on installing 10.4 or 10.5 via Firewire Target mode from my other xServe G4 (slot load), is this the best way or should I install the o/s

Re: Question regarding non-mac monitors/display

2009-09-03 Thread Charles Lenington
Bruce Johnson wrote: On Sep 3, 2009, at 5:42 AM, Swigart, Kurt A [NTK] wrote: Hello, Quick question, request for advice. I was wondering what are some of the pros and cons and/or pieces ( cables/etc...) that I would need to hook up a non-apple display to a G5 Quad? Is this even

Re: OSX10.4 on G3

2009-08-29 Thread Charles Lenington
Clark Martin wrote: Paul Kemner wrote: One solution to that, if you have access to a later iMac with a DVD drive is to put the disk in that computer and install 10.4, then put the drive back in your older G4. That is doing it the hard way. On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 8:23

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-29 Thread Charles Lenington
diane wrote: At 8:14 AM -0600 8/29/09, Nestamicky wrote: On 8/28/09 10:52 PM, di...@mathermotorsports.com mailto:di...@mathermotorsports.com wrote: Something that I can use simple keystrokes for basic formatting. Install NeoOffice. When you need to use it, start it and go make coffee.

Re: 2 Questions

2009-08-11 Thread Charles Lenington
Ralph Green wrote: Howdy, There is nothing special about the power adapter. I had one go bad at a company I used to work for and I just swapped in a spare one we had. Unfortunately, I don't remember the specs. Look on the drive and see if it says whether it needs a regulated power supply

Re: G4 TOWER

2009-08-11 Thread Charles Lenington
Geoff Black wrote: *From: * bla...@telkomsa.net mailto:bla...@telkomsa.net *Subject: * *Re: G4 TOWER* *Date: * 11 August 2009 8:47:33 AM *To: * g3-5-list@googlegroups.com mailto:g3-5-list@googlegroups.com The drive is on a sled which slides downward and locks onto 3 pins on the case.

Re: 750GB Seagate PATA is Dropping Out Again

2009-08-07 Thread Charles Lenington
Bill Connelly wrote: On Aug 1, 2:24 pm, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: Not enough power to run it off the internal power supply? (does a 750GB take more power than a 500GB Seagate?) Try using drive power extensions (probably easier to find splitters) and a

Re: No startup after Tiger install: G4 450 w/upgrades

2009-08-05 Thread Charles Lenington
Kris Tilford wrote: On Aug 4, 2009, at 1:59 PM, dibby97 wrote: Upgrade from 10.3.9 to 10.4 Installation from disk went fine, until restart--grey Apple scr snip- The 8500 had a firmware update way back in 2005. If you never updated the firmware, this can cause problems in Tiger,

Re: Do you have Slipy,only for Mac OS 10.4 rather 10.3?

2009-08-02 Thread Charles Lenington
J.M.P.Hissel wrote: On 31-07-2009 15:36, Ken Daggett, kadagg...@verizon.net, wrote: Did 10.4 come on CDs? Yes, you could/can? order Tiger on CD's. Jo Hissel try Allmac.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: Dual G5 Problem

2009-07-27 Thread Charles Lenington
another 512 meg stick tested one at a time and found the bad one from the iMac. So the tower is running @ 1.5 gig ram and the kid is a happy user again! Charles Lenington --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3

Re: BW: issues with start-up

2009-07-25 Thread Charles Lenington
Lawrence David Eden wrote: Greetings, My BW has been having difficulty starting up these days. This has been going on for a couple of weeks, but today, it was particularly bad. It took me dozens of try to finally get the HDs to spin up and boot. (I have 2 internal HDs in the BW.)

Re: Very useful Applescript

2009-07-24 Thread Charles Lenington
yersi...@cybernex.net wrote: Bruce Johnson writes, Cleans up a Mac of user files, and sets it up to run Setup Assistant when restarted. This lets you set up a Mac, update it and/or add programs, then hand it off as 'clean' with no users. Better than simply nuking and paving it. for

Re: G5 iMac

2009-07-21 Thread Charles Lenington
john wrote: Hi, Someone locally has a G5 iMac up for sale. I think it is in its stock condition, and has hardly ever been used. They are asking $300.00, with the original discs, box, etc. If it was in Oklahoma I would be camping outside her door. My kid's G5 iMac has the capacitor

Re: G5 troubleshooring: motherboard vs. RAM vs. something else

2009-07-21 Thread Charles Lenington
amoriellja...@att.net wrote: Hello, My dual G5 won't boot now. Here's a synopsis of the problems: 1. usually hangs up at the white screen with the gray logo 2. sometimes hangs up there and then shuts down on its own 3. the tech had it working for 4 hours this morning then it stopped

Re: G5 troubleshooring: motherboard vs. RAM vs. something else

2009-07-21 Thread Charles Lenington
amoriellja...@att.net wrote: When your capacitors were bulged, did you repair or replace the machines? I called the tech. He stated that he had also seen G5 with problem capacitors, but a replacement logic board was needed to fix that, which was a $700 repair so it wasn't worth repairing

Re: Any replacement keyboards

2009-06-26 Thread Charles Lenington
Brian Christmas wrote: G'day I'm just in the process of buying my daughter a new 24 iMac, but she doesn't like the Apple keyboards. Is there a 3rd part replacement that offers the same keys, or that can be keymapped? Said keyboard should be suitable for a touch typist. Or, should I

Re: Where Do I Find Reliable Info On Color Critical Monitor Choices?

2009-06-18 Thread Charles Lenington
aussieshepsrock wrote: Seeking a reliable web resource or resources to become knowledgeable in choosing a color critical Monitor for myself. My google searches looking for websites or webpages were ludicrously scatter shot and mostly 'forum' posts dating back as much as multiple years and no

Re: A polite netiquette back and forth

2009-06-15 Thread Charles Lenington
Dante Armok wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhun...@gmail.com mailto:shadowhun...@gmail.com wrote: I thought that this thread was closed by the moderator? No, the other thread was closed. This is supposed to be the constructive discussion. What

Re: Bigger Internal HDs Bigger External Firewire/USB HD

2009-05-22 Thread Charles Lenington
yersi...@cybernex.net wrote: Hiya Listers, snip G4 867 Quicksilver with 2 internal HDs: 1. Nucleus -- OS X Tiger 10.4.9, 60 GB (came with this Mac originally). 2. Nucleolus -- OS X Panther 10.3.2, 20 GB (was pulled out of my Beige G3 and transplanted in when I got the G4)

Re: Bigger Internal HDs Bigger External Firewire/USB HD

2009-05-22 Thread Charles Lenington
joe wrote: On May 22, 2009, at 3:07 AM, Charles Lenington wrote: first which model QS? If 2002 or 2002ed then no problems w/ large drives. But!! if first model then you will haveto partition or use third party software to set drive up. Look in archives for drive size

Re: OT - Photos

2009-04-07 Thread Charles Lenington
Steve R wrote: At 7:09 AM -0700 4/7/09, PETE posted: I found an

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-04 Thread Charles Lenington
diane wrote: I have a number of SCSI drives from Compaq servers ranging in size from 4.3 - 18.2 gb. I'm putting most of them up for sale and would like a quick and easy way to scramble whatever data may be on them. Will a magnet work OK and how heavy a magnet should it be? Thanks,

Re: resurrecting a hard drive?

2009-04-03 Thread Charles Lenington
snip- Get one of these http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020-OTBcpc=SCH and stop tearing into systems to do this sort of thing. With this you can boot from a functioning Mac and work on these drives without don't bother trying to buy from geeks if you use a PO box. They

Re: What is the point of Mail.app??

2009-04-03 Thread Charles Lenington
Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 2, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: I followed the google instructions for setting up the account to use imap. it wouldn't work at all. It just didn't receive any mail.-Jonas I dunno. Go back through the directions and make sure you follow the

Re: Quicktime Vs Aspyr

2009-02-02 Thread Charles Lenington
Jeff Bequette wrote: Has anyone else been hit by this upgrade to Quicktime 7,6 and it incompatibility with some Aspyr products. My daughter is going thru Sims 2withdrawaland I'm missing Civilization 3. One list I looked at suggested 'reverting to QT7.5 What would be the best way to do

Re: Duplicate User Account

2009-01-17 Thread Charles Lenington
George Hozendorf wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:32 PM, Clark Martin wrote: George Hozendorf wrote: On Jan 9, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Clark Martin wrote: George Hozendorf wrote: Is there a way to duplicate a User Account? I'm setting up a machine for my

Re: Up from an eMac 700

2009-01-13 Thread Charles Lenington
Sam Macomber wrote: On Jan 5, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Sam Macomber wrote: On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Mel wrote: snip If I did a lot of writing, an snip-- in screen, then I take a look at the mini's lottsa powere-itty bitty box. that's just it, I don't have a screen I'd be buying one

Re: Where do I learn.... becomes archiving files and images- the future

2009-01-08 Thread Charles Lenington
Ralph Green wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 21:13 -0800, aussieshepsrock wrote: Has anyone heard of Taiyo Yuden the japanese cdr dvdr media manufacturer? Taiyo Yuden is generally considered to be the best producer of media out there. They are rarely the cheapest. At one time,

Re: Where do I learn about long lasting cdr's or dvdr's ????

2009-01-08 Thread Charles Lenington
Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:32 PM, John Callahan wrote: snip- Damn, you can get larger boxes, but apparently not from them anymore. A friend had one, I thought it was by them, which was large enough for a sizable camera/lens collection. There are other

Re: Where do I learn about long lasting cdr's or dvdr's ????

2009-01-06 Thread Charles Lenington
Dan wrote: At 10:13 AM -0800 1/5/2009, aussieshepsrock wrote: I wanted to 'expand' on how I'm handling this family photo archive project. :-) [snip - lots of details] snip more details... Burned media stores data as pits in the substraight, under the outer plastic

Re: Where do I learn about long lasting cdr's or dvdr's ????

2009-01-06 Thread Charles Lenington
Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:29 PM, aussieshepsrock ilovaussiesh...@yahoo.com wrote: HiYa Wallace, Wikipedia was my first stop and while the entries I found were info snip--- Actually the tape formats in use 10 to 20 years ago can be found

Your network settings have been changed by another application.

2009-01-02 Thread Charles Lenington
I get the following in a box when I attempt to enter network Your network settings have been changed by another application. Clicking OK just causes the box to refresh. There was a brief mention on another list but it went away by itself. Any clues? To close s/p window I have to force quit.

[update: Your network settings have been changed by another application.]

2009-01-02 Thread Charles Lenington
Forgot the network info. I get the following in a box when I attempt to enter network Your network settings have been changed by another application. Clicking OK just causes the box to refresh. There was a brief mention on another list but it went away by itself. Any clues? To close s/p

Re: Replacement Fan for ATI 9800 Video Card

2009-01-01 Thread Charles Lenington
Mike Baker wrote: Will a Nvidia 6200 work on a G$ Sawtooth without any special hardware adjustments? I want to get a newer, better video card than the one it came with. --- On Thu, 1/1/09, dc dbc...@verizon.net wrote: From: dc dbc...@verizon.net Subject: Re: Replacement Fan for ATI

Re: Reasonable Pricing for Selling a PowerMac G4

2009-01-01 Thread Charles Lenington
Bucky wrote: I'm going to be getting a reasonably new iMac very soon. And decided I would want to sell my system, I have been trying to find listings on ebay or the swaplist but I haven't found any that matched my configuration very well. I wanted to come through here and hear from much more

MDD Dual 1.25 on a MDD dual 867 logic board

2008-12-31 Thread Charles Lenington
I'm trying to find the recent discussion on moving newer Mac processors to older macs. I can't remember the topic it came up under. One discussion led to this ref which doesn't help. http://lowendmac.com/musings/08mm/used-power-mac-value.html While I realize the board buss speeds are

Re: Power failure-computer won't start

2008-12-30 Thread Charles Lenington
cheryl wrote: Home Depot has the Monster Power surge protectors, which is what I've been using for the last 7 years or so. I'll probably go get one of those to replace this one once they plow the roads so I can drive! I don't have any way to test the pram battery When you go out take the

Re: Power failure-computer won't start

2008-12-26 Thread Charles Lenington
2 next to each other. One's a power and the other is pram/reset button. And is the pram battery that small lithium battery thats on the door of the machine? Correct Thanks! On Dec 25, 10:59 pm, Charles Lenington macso...@brightok.net wrote: cheryl wrote: My G4 won't start

Re: Power failure-computer won't start

2008-12-25 Thread Charles Lenington
cheryl wrote: My G4 won't start up. The power went out while I was gone, and when it came back on, I couldn't get the computer to start. The light on the button comes on but then it goes out as soon as I take my finger off it. The monitor and internet box are fine, and right now I'm working

Re: how to force a G3 to format its HD with 8.0 ( Has OSX)

2008-12-24 Thread Charles Lenington
Robert Gruber wrote: I've forgotten this computer's password; want to travel tomorrow with it able to get on the web. (the black, shapely model of G3) The only black G3 I know of is a laptop and it belongs on the G book list http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en

Re: Can I add content after burn?

2008-12-21 Thread Charles Lenington
Jeffrey Engle wrote: Is there a way to add files to a disk that's already burned? I thought I saw somewhere how you could do that, but not sure. Google came up with a blank. Jeff Requires third party software that allows multisessions. Apples software doesn't (the last time I tried).

Re: upgraded to 10.4.11 -old file linkage issue

2008-12-21 Thread Charles Lenington
D Stubbs wrote: Aloo, this week I happily left behind my 30 gig HD ( with the Dark Matter 10.3.9 OS) and transferred every thing to my new Seagate 160 and upped to Tiger. ( 30 gig is still hooked up in our Sawtooth) We run our sizeable family biz website with the friendly old Pagemill3

CO2 monitor data collecting software

2008-12-20 Thread Charles Lenington
Is anyone using a CO2 monitor data collecting software with their Macs? Maybe temp also (could affect CO2 levels). I have one of those supposedly ventless heaters. Funny thing is you still have to provide ventilation which defeats the heat. Some concern if I have enough venting. I've started

Re: CO2 monitor data collecting software

2008-12-20 Thread Charles Lenington
Kris Tilford wrote: I believe you're talking about CO (carbon monoxide) the molecule that kills you, and not CO2 (carbon dioxide) a relatively harmless greenhouse gas? Originally wrote the message around 0100 - how did that 2 get in there? Of course I didn't make sure I used my

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

2008-12-06 Thread Charles Lenington
Yersinia wrote: Charles Davis writes, Yeah what you just said. BUT, multiple partitions will allow for multiple instances of 'blessed' OS9 systems. Opt/alt startup will show as many systems as are bootable. I.E. it doesn't just look at one partition.. Exactly -- it looks at a HD

Re: Reading this group

2008-12-04 Thread Charles Lenington
nestamicky wrote: I have T-bird set up now. But still have a problem. This is what I want. I want to follow the conversation in T-Bird just as they will appear on the web-page of Google. Can I do that? Please! At the very top would be the original poster, and at the very end, the last

Re: TOPIC: Apple Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-04 Thread Charles Lenington
lampbay wrote: Running any form of Windows or Microsoft software on my Mac is not the issue - not because I dislike MS software, but because I prefer Apple and Mac software. Plus, I don't want to have any pesky bugs to deal with - that's the main reason I switched to Apple - afterwards

Re: System Crash - Spotlight???

2008-11-02 Thread Charles Lenington
RediG3-5 wrote: Mini G4 10.4.11 I've had several Crashes recently where I get that nasty black dialog telling me that I have to shut down by pressing the power button for several seconds. When I reboot, it seems that Spotlight begins indexing. Recently, I've taken to shutting my computer

Re: jpeg and gif coversion problem

2008-10-30 Thread Charles Lenington
Ray wrote: I am curious why a jpeg and a gif file from an OS X user would not open in my son's Window XP pro computer. They all opened in 10.4 Preview. It was also strange that the gif file could not be opened by Photoshop CS3 in my G4 running 10.4; I had to open it in Preview and copy it

Re: need a barrel type plug - power adapter model A1021, for G5 powerbook

2008-10-26 Thread Charles Lenington
Dwight Hines wrote: I just need a plug to replace theone the dog chewed up. I can cut and solder the wires ok. I did this before on older powerbooks but I can't remember where I bought only the little plugs. They costs about 3.49 and it's a sin to buy the whole power supply for 30 or 40

Re: Apple Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-26 Thread Charles Lenington
PeterH wrote: On Oct 22, 2008, at 6:40 PM, James E. Therrault wrote: Meanwhile, I have a bunch of MacPro-equivalents which cost me a couple of hundred apiece (not a couple of thousand apiece). Would you build one for me? I replied privately with a suggested parts list.

Re: Apple Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-10-26 Thread Charles Lenington
Charles Lenington wrote: PeterH wrote: On Oct 22, 2008, at 6:40 PM, James E. Therrault wrote: Meanwhile, I have a bunch of MacPro-equivalents which cost me a couple of hundred apiece (not a couple of thousand apiece). Would you build one for me

Re: USB card versus USB hub

2008-10-19 Thread Charles Lenington
Doug Burton wrote: On Oct 19, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Steve R wrote: snip--- Of course it will operate without the power brick plugged in, but I find so many devices don't work this way that I just always use mine plugged in. HTH A power brick also reduces the load on the

Re: Dead iBook G4 1.33 GHz, HDD Spins, DVD starts up but stops,

2008-10-18 Thread Charles Lenington
Mullin9 wrote: I Have an iBook G4 /1.33 (2005) When I press the on/off button. the DVD starts up for only 2 seconds, HDD spins up, but no bong, no beeps. the green light, between F5 and F6 lights up when I press the on/ off button HDD is spinning but the screen remains dark. what's wrong?

Re: Disk Warrior-How?

2008-10-10 Thread Charles Lenington
Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 9, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Michael Kopp wrote: Hey, fellas and girls, not nice to give people serial numbers for pirated software on a supposedly respectable mailing list. Which is against list rules, as all parties to this convo should well have known.

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