Re: Will it work on a MDD?

2010-07-02 Thread Clark Martin
les.com at a pretty good price as a refurbished unit. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3

Re: 933 mhz G4 Quicksilver Powermac Dual boot?

2010-06-02 Thread Clark Martin
rk right at all. The WiFi would only barely connect and it had some other problems. I ended up re-installing 9.04 on it and not trying anything higher. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highw

Re: 933 mhz G4 Quicksilver Powermac Dual boot?

2010-06-02 Thread Clark Martin
On 6/1/10 10:52 PM, Scotty wrote: Is it possible to setup a dual boot OS X 10.4 and Ubuntu on my Quicksilver? Sure, I have Tiger and Fedora on my QS. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highwa

Re: Power Mac G5: how to repair a broken PSU?

2010-05-21 Thread Clark Martin
/sell/abondon my G5 – I want it back! Look on e-Bay for either a PSU or a G5 , particularly one with a logic board problem but a good PSU. Make sure the supply matches your computer. I don't know if the G5 has different incompatible power supplies or not but if it does you don't

Re: Question

2010-05-15 Thread Clark Martin
a third party item (usually at the bottom of the window). Also check the Mouse Preferences for any added "features". -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this

Re: USB Question

2010-05-14 Thread Clark Martin
On 5/13/10 10:45 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Clark Martin mailto:cm...@sonic.net>> wrote: On 5/13/10 1:34 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On May 13, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: What could have changed? The b

Re: USB Question

2010-05-13 Thread Clark Martin
is in many ways a well thought out specifications but the implementation frequently falls short. I have seen some USB devices that request 500mA regardless of what they need. I suspect the programmers were just being lazy. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulti

Re: USB Question

2010-05-13 Thread Clark Martin
e. Most equipment that takes AA or AAA is designed to use alkalines or NiMH. So will charge NiMH but you usually have to switch it on some how (in some cases it takes a different battery holder). -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a desi

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-11 Thread Clark Martin
this point plug the Vendor ID and Device ID into a Google search (the two 4 digit numbers with a space in between) and see what pops up. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You recei

Re: I want to get a LCD monitor for my G4

2010-05-10 Thread Clark Martin
swap list. Good deals. Just as much as a new ViewSonic, but quite lovely. I just picked up a used Dell 1280x1024 monitor at a flea market for $20. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- Yo

Re: But Mini, I don't HAVE a Bluetooth Mouse!

2010-05-10 Thread Clark Martin
On 5/10/10 11:47 AM, ===( )8> wrote: Clark Martin writes, Oh wow! Yeah, the KVM acting momentarily wonky DOES sound like a possible explanation. Oh wait, how's THIS (although I have no idea how Bluetooth prefs got turned on in the Mini in the first place): My reasoning for the B

Re: But Mini, I don't HAVE a Bluetooth Mouse!

2010-05-10 Thread Clark Martin
;stuck cursor" (no mouse connection), the failure to safe boot (no keyboard connection) and possibly the bogus bluetooth mouse (maybe, because it didn't see a wired mouse and figured you had a bluetooth mouse). -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting

Re: Dying GPUs?

2010-05-08 Thread Clark Martin
Is it DOS or the DOS command shell under Windows that the card patching programs need. I always figured they were DOS programs because those writing them were too lazy to create a GUI. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated dri

Re: Custom DVDs

2010-05-02 Thread Clark Martin
n. I there a way to do this./ I hope I explained it right. Uncompressed video is huge. A DVD is going to hold minutes of video. You could try importing it into iMovie then burn the DVD from those files. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a

Re: PM G5 (Late 2005) does not boot with AP-BT card installed

2010-04-28 Thread Clark Martin
matter, it isn't being accessed. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop

Re: PM G5 (Late 2005) does not boot with AP-BT card installed

2010-04-28 Thread Clark Martin
they are incompatible with each other and they will only work in their respective computers. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G

Re: MySpace.

2010-04-23 Thread Clark Martin
in some creative way. Superglue is inexpensive. C4 is more expensive but, oh, so much more satisfying. It depends on the IT people and management. Some IT people will pretty much do as they please if they know management won't say not to it (usually due to them being clueless). -- Clark

Re: MySpace.

2010-04-23 Thread Clark Martin
On 4/23/10 12:05 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 23, 2010, at 6:49 AM, John Niven wrote: --- On Fri, 4/23/10, Clark Martin wrote: A lot of companies are blocking access to various sites that employees hit a lot but don't have any business purpose. Funny how companies want their employe

Re: g4/500 fan doesn't turn off?

2010-04-22 Thread Clark Martin
er off and hit the button. I wouldn't have thought the tickle power (what is one when the computer is off and is used to start the computer) wasn't enough to make the fan tick much less run. So, either it does provide more power or the power supply isn't being shut off when th

Re: MySpace.

2010-04-22 Thread Clark Martin
their employees to work for them. :) But another reason stuff gets blocked is due to bandwidth load. One streamed video times how many employees turns in to some major MBps. And while audio isn't nearly as heavy they (IT they) might lump it in with the video and block all of it. -- Clark

Re: G4 Quicksilver question

2010-04-08 Thread Clark Martin
then you could put in a PATA harddrive as big as you can. The earlier QS was limited to 128Gb. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a membe

Re: G3 BW. No power

2010-04-07 Thread Clark Martin
form the socket. If it is the pram battery, can I get it from Frys Best BUY? You can just test the battery with a voltmeter. A good one will read 3.6 V or better. Anything over 3V is acceptable. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated

Re: TiBook charger

2010-04-02 Thread Clark Martin
works great, it's just the indicator that's goofy. Also the battery indication in the menu bar shows it's fully charged. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You rece

Re: Sawtooth Video card/display issue

2010-04-02 Thread Clark Martin
it may have, it's been a while. The monitor is a 1600x1200 and when I dropped the resolution it didn't do it. I never tested it any further, I just switched over to VGA which hasn't had any such problem. It didn't seemed to be tied to any computer activity, it was just

Re: G5 HD in Intel Mac?

2010-03-30 Thread Clark Martin
And any Intel Mac that does boot Tiger uses a special version that shipped with the computer. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: Airport Extreme Base Station failure?

2010-03-27 Thread Clark Martin
are a lot more expensive, but you're only using two or three of 'em. That would be, replace the aluminum caps with tantalum caps. They are both electrolytic caps. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Informat

AVR & PIC development on a Mac

2010-03-23 Thread Clark Martin
I'm also trying to whittle down the massive selection of chips. TIA -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group f

Re: Mac's can't connect to WAP

2010-03-22 Thread Clark Martin
nd is why they hit you with the page everytime you connect. They should be able to remember the MAC address and skip the agreement page after the first time. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"

Re: [Bulk] Re: OT 1966 iMac

2010-03-18 Thread Clark Martin
;t at all care) and they want to be able to concentrate on other stuff. And then there is the whole "I'm not dressed right to be seen on the phone" (or dressed at all). Sure, there's lots of uses for it but it's not a universal "must have". -- Clark Martin Redwood

Re: OT 1966 iMac

2010-03-18 Thread Clark Martin
ch my misspent youth did not wipe out! Disneyland had it too. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: OT 1966 iMac

2010-03-18 Thread Clark Martin
AT&T Video-Phone. We all knew we would all have one of those in ten years. Another lie from the "Phonee" company. It will take a little longer before we have video phones in our flying cars. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a de

Re: OT 1966 iMac

2010-03-18 Thread Clark Martin
t;. There were some that looked like that way back when. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4,

Re: Safari 4.0.5 memory leak?

2010-03-15 Thread Clark Martin
sign. Safari MIGHT be the trigger but the cause of the freeze is something else. First thing, check your free disk space. If you run low BAD (TM) things can happen. Otherwise I'd suspect bad memory. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a

Re: Safari 4.0.5 memory leak?

2010-03-15 Thread Clark Martin
f VM for Safari. That's with 7 windows open and I don't know how many tabs. AFAIK that's normal and it doesn't concern me. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- Yo

Re: G4 MDD

2010-03-15 Thread Clark Martin
t shipped with them. Any OS X disk up to 10.5.x should boot. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those usi

Re: Cube Troubles

2010-03-13 Thread Clark Martin
time. If it doesn't then it's possibly a power supply problem. If it does then it could still be either. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message beca

Fun with LN2, was: Uses for a Wallstreet

2010-03-10 Thread Clark Martin
hould go to this guy's class. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop

Re: Logic board interchange

2010-03-10 Thread Clark Martin
. The speaker jack is actually one of the few things you have a decent chance at fixing on a logic board. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you ar

Re: Airport extreme - How to extend my network?

2010-03-09 Thread Clark Martin
On Mar 8, 2010, at 8:19 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: On Mar 8, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Clark Martin wrote: One problem with this lashup is that the relay AEBS may or may not get a strong enough connection to the main AEBS. That is because all it's WiFi traffic would be going throug

Re: Antenna "type" on older AEBS

2010-03-08 Thread Clark Martin
uot; of connection that I need? Thanks in advance, Jeff Does it look like one of these: <http://wireless.gumph.org/content/3/7/011-cable-connectors.html> -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highw

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

2010-03-08 Thread Clark Martin
techoh and new! If you mean a SATA drive attached to the Sawtooth via a SATA to IDE adapter, no. Without one of the two fixes, a stock Sawtooth canNOT see past the first 128Gb of a drive. Not a parition, the entire drive. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulti

Re: Airport extreme - How to extend my network?

2010-03-08 Thread Clark Martin
bile homes are in the way. Or are you planning on mounting the cantenna very high? -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a

Re: Airport extreme - How to extend my network?

2010-03-08 Thread Clark Martin
r out in a narrow beam you use a directional antenna. But radiation pattern is independent of transmitter power. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message beca

Re: Airport extreme - How to extend my network?

2010-03-08 Thread Clark Martin
given distance than most anything else. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop

Re: Airport extreme - How to extend my network?

2010-03-08 Thread Clark Martin
g USB cable to connect it. Within the limits of USB connectivity the cable won't degrade the Wifi signal. An antenna cable on the other hand will badly degrade the 2.4 GHz signal used in 802.11b or g in a matter of feet. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet

Re: Need help with setting up G4 for internet

2010-03-06 Thread Clark Martin
ldn't get any faster service. So I signed up with Cable. I had held off going that route because I don't like the cable company, but... I kind of wish I'd signed up a little sooner, all those linux distro downloads would have been much faster. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, C

Re: Who's using my network?

2010-03-05 Thread Clark Martin
eck that then do a refresh you can tell when a lot of data is moving. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for t

Re: Who's using my network?

2010-03-05 Thread Clark Martin
e vendor of the Ethernet chip set. Apple computers almost always come up as Apple being the vendor. Other brands are harder to tell. You can use either of these web pages to look up the MAC prefix. <http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt> <http://www.curreedy.com/stu/nic/> -

Re: Airport extreme - How to extend my network?

2010-03-05 Thread Clark Martin
On 3/5/10 7:23 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: On Mar 5, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Clark Martin wrote: On 3/5/10 5:26 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: So, here's the deal.. I'd like very much to "extend" my network. Is there a way to do this? I use a current Airport Extreme Base Station mou

Re: Airport extreme - How to extend my network?

2010-03-05 Thread Clark Martin
ting up an Airport Express as a WDS relay at her end. With your Extreme and her Express both mounted near windows so they have a good line of sight connection it ought to work pretty well. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated

Re: Need help with setting up G4 for internet

2010-03-05 Thread Clark Martin
rry the DSL service. But what was working well enough for voice and modem didn't seem to be cutting it for DSL. It turned out the "pair" was somehow wired via one wire each of two pairs. The local service guy didn't think much of the work by the out of town guys. -- C

Re: Printer recommendation?

2010-03-05 Thread Clark Martin
he case, tell me what the subnet mask If the IP address the printer has did indeed show up in the list of DHCP assigned addresses then it should certainly be in the local subnet and therefore be accessable to you. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "

Re: Need help with setting up G4 for internet

2010-03-04 Thread Clark Martin
has almost always been good. I've never measured the speed but it's usually what should be expected. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you

Re: Printer recommendation?

2010-03-04 Thread Clark Martin
as GCC. It worked well enough (although there was a weird problem printing to it via AppleTalk) but the only source for consumables was GCC and they were frequently back ordered. As far as I could tell the printer was made by Xerox but I was never able to find what Xerox toner carts would fit

Re: Setup Mac Mini G4 as print/fax server

2010-03-04 Thread Clark Martin
n set it up to save, e-mail and/or print the incoming faxes. I expect you can also send faxes from the print window. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message beca

Re: Should I get a Pismo...

2010-03-01 Thread Clark Martin
dest web surfing and the like a Pismo with Tiger is still a good machine. I was using mine to check e-mail and the web when my MacBook Pro was in the shop. I could have used a iBook G4 instead but the Pismo was enough. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting &quo

Re: OS 9 boot CD

2010-02-28 Thread Clark Martin
eeded. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- 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 focu

Re: Connector identification assistance IN SPADES !

2010-02-26 Thread Clark Martin
find, Wallace! Got a tabloid-sized copy coming out for the repair bench right now. It even has the proper designation for the DB, DA and DE connectors... Amazing. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Informatio

Re: Ethernet connection not recognized in PowerMac G5

2010-02-26 Thread Clark Martin
known-good router, and seeing which combination works or not. Try plugging the computer into each LAN port of the router, checking the log if needed. It's possible just the one port is caca. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a desig

Re: Need for list message morphing rule

2010-02-23 Thread Clark Martin
as this one, or is there one? I thought the moderator(s) made it pretty clear. If they aren't telling people by now to move it elsewhere, then the discussion, to date, is okay here. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver o

Re: Proof that Apple could not have dropped ADB support in Tiger and Leo

2010-02-22 Thread Clark Martin
ot these items: com.apple.iokit.IOADBFamily com.apple.driver.AppleADBKeyboard com.apple.driver.AppleADBMouse com.apple.driver.AppleADBButtons Trying it on my MBP (10.5.8) returned nothing with ADB in it. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the I

Re: Proof that Apple could not have dropped ADB support in Tiger and Leo

2010-02-22 Thread Clark Martin
sure that the ADBButtons extension is for the independent brightness and volume buttons on some keyboards, the ones that aren't a part of the main keyboard. The trackpad / mouse clicker button is almost certainly handled by the Mouse extension. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macin

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

2010-02-21 Thread Clark Martin
On 2/21/10 9:57 PM, Kasey Smith wrote: Im wondering how plastic platters hold data as hard drives are a magnetic based storage medium o.O Metal hard drive platters are aluminum (non-magnetic). In either case they use a sputtered magnetic metal coating. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA

Re: Proof that Apple could not have dropped ADB support in Tiger and Leo

2010-02-21 Thread Clark Martin
ve the following files in /System/Library/Extensions: AppleADBButtons.kext AppleADBKeyboard.kext AppleADBMouse.kext -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because

Re: Webcam program search for internet access, best or what

2010-02-21 Thread Clark Martin
of cool to watch a day in or outside your house in 5 minutes. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G

Re: Hard drive issues with a MDD 1.25

2010-02-21 Thread Clark Martin
10.4 wouldn't other than giving the computer a slightly longer usable life? Thanks again everyone. I'd go for 10.5. I just put it on a Dual 1.25 GHz MDD and it purrs along nicely. And yes, it should have a longer functional life. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Inte

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

2010-02-21 Thread Clark Martin
edgehammer is contra-indicated. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs

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

2010-02-21 Thread Clark Martin
zy are they to not unplug the cable. It ought to be easier to pull the cable than to dig out a cutting tool to cut it. I guess it's cheaper to shred the drive than to wipe it fully. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on

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

2010-02-21 Thread Clark Martin
On 2/21/10 11:43 AM, Dan wrote: At 11:20 AM -0800 2/21/2010, Clark Martin wrote: I got one machine from a local medical center with all sorts of notes on treatment but none was patient data. I think if I had I might have reported it. I do look at people's data, mostly out of curiosity as t

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

2010-02-21 Thread Clark Martin
eported it. I do look at people's data, mostly out of curiosity as to how careless people can be. I then format the drive, I don't bother zeroing it, that's a waste of time. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver

Re: Hard drive issues with a MDD 1.25

2010-02-21 Thread Clark Martin
On 2/21/10 10:58 AM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: On Feb 21, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Clark Martin wrote: On Feb 21, 2010, at 12:39 AM, Jake Zeppa wrote: I just picked up a dual 1.25 MDD to replace my slow dual 450 giga. None the less, I've spent the last few hours fighting a problem transferring

Re: Hard drive issues with a MDD 1.25

2010-02-21 Thread Clark Martin
problems recognizing the drives. I tried putting the 80Gb in a FW enclosure and that didn't work. About then I noticed the 3rd bus, tried that and that worked just fine. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Info

Re: PowerMac G5 PMU weirdness

2010-02-19 Thread Clark Martin
cleared by completely disconnecting power. Pulling the plug was SOP in the iMac G3 labs I worked in. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a

Re: running OS 9.2 from a folder vs a partition.

2010-02-18 Thread Clark Martin
oomier, 120 Gb, but it is partitioned for Tiger and Fedora. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those us

Re: running OS 9.2 from a folder vs a partition.

2010-02-18 Thread Clark Martin
rtition unless I have to because it reduces flexibility. I'd hate to have to go and copy a couple of partitions to another disk then re-partition the disk then copy things back because one got full. It's enough of a pain when the whole disk runs out of room. -- Clark Martin Redwood

Re: G4 Power Mac OSX10.3 / classic with OS9.2.1

2010-02-18 Thread Clark Martin
removed. Another reason, I believe, to go to Tiger is there is more native support for disk burners. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a mem

Re: iMac G5 iSight, freezes, kernal Panics, mouse/keyboard goes dead at times

2010-02-15 Thread Clark Martin
x27;s regular enough I would try booting from an installer disk and see if you get the problem. If you do then it's either the memory or the motherboard. If you don't then it's likely the HD. Since you reinstalled the OS it's probably the HD itself is failing. -- Clark Mar

Re: [G3-5]Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-02-15 Thread Clark Martin
like to think of it as the good case designers vs the evil case designers. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group f

Re: 5v power adapters

2010-02-15 Thread Clark Martin
On 2/15/10 11:21 AM, Doug McNutt wrote: At 21:00 -0800 2/14/10, Clark Martin wrote: On 2/14/10 8:14 PM, Bill Christensen wrote: At 10:07 AM -0700 2/9/10, Bruce Johnson wrote: If the river is too big (high amperage), the water wheel will work just fine, because it'll only use the amou

Re: 5v power adapters

2010-02-14 Thread Clark Martin
mer in particular isn't linear. In particular, smaller transformers tend to more quiescent power as a percentage of the total power drawn. Quiescent power is the power the transformer draws with no load. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a

Re: Downgrade from iMac/10.6 to PM G5/10.5

2010-02-12 Thread Clark Martin
and error. I think most applications would flag an error. If that happens remove the preference file (I would store it in a temporary folder, just in case) and let the app recreate it's preference file. The same holds true for the various system related user preferences (dock, finder, etc.).

Re: 2 macs-1 monitor?

2010-02-11 Thread Clark Martin
itor is switched to that computer or not. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 des

Re: Power mac G5 question

2010-02-10 Thread Clark Martin
160. Is there an easy way to move this and the progs that I have installed over to the 300 gig, and make that my boot disc? Would prefer not to reinstall everything. Any help that anyone can provide would be great. Carbon Copy Cloner <http://www.bombich.com> -- Clark Martin Redwood Ci

Re: Beige Desktop Ram Question

2010-02-09 Thread Clark Martin
d for FW drives, HDs whose interface was FW, not via an IDE convertor but directly. Such drives never materialized. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message becau

Re: Beige Desktop Ram Question

2010-02-09 Thread Clark Martin
likely be more cost effective to move up to a newer model that has a faster IDE bus built in. I just bought a MDD on e-bay for $100, that's not much more than an IDE card. That's if you can find an IDE card. I just did a real quick search and the only I found was a combo PATA/SAT

Re: 5v power adapters

2010-02-09 Thread Clark Martin
go in. If it's too small it still can go in and it will usually make contact. I don't recall ever running into one that didn't come to think of it. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super

Re: 5v power adapters

2010-02-09 Thread Clark Martin
A.P. There is also equipment out there that requires a 3.3V regulated supply. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a

Re: iMac G5 2GHZ Graphics Problem

2010-02-07 Thread Clark Martin
is NO swelling or leaking Is there something I can try to fix the graphics chip? What exactly is the problem? Thanks in advanced! P.S It is the 2nd generation imac 20" with a 2.0GHZ G5 Processor. -Jonas -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I&

Re: iMac G5 2GHZ Graphics Problem

2010-02-07 Thread Clark Martin
booting from an installer disk to see if you see it there. If it's there then it's a hardware problem. If not you should probably wipe the disk and reinstall the OS. I'd recommend this anyway on a new-to-you computer. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet

Re: wireless connection issues

2010-02-05 Thread Clark Martin
area (IOW, the middle of the house). Not only because it will send and receive the strongest signal to computers in that area but also because it minimizes the interference from (literally) outside sources. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "

Re: wireless connection issues

2010-02-05 Thread Clark Martin
s video cameras, WiFi, microwave ovens all use the same 2.4GHz band. There is basically no control over it so they are free to step on each other. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"

Re: Plz help with printing over network.

2010-02-05 Thread Clark Martin
ave, in my experience, terrible software. It works but it's cumbersome, confusing and not very fun to work with. Apple's Airport software is far, far better to work with. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on

Re: Plz help with printing over network.

2010-02-04 Thread Clark Martin
doing double NAT still. It will cause a slight speed penalty on Internet access and can be a configuration problem waiting to happen, especially if you don't understand it. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the

Re: Good simple graphics/art/publishing app?

2010-02-04 Thread Clark Martin
nical drawings but it can certainly do what you want. It's very much like MacDraw and ClarisDraw (which is what I bought it to replace). It's around $90. They have a demo version you can download. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a desig

Re: Good simple graphics/art/publishing app?

2010-02-04 Thread Clark Martin
he text is done in bit map then it should be dismissed. For stuff going to printers you want it all in vector except for actual photos. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You receive

Re: Power Mac G5 (June 2004) crash?

2010-02-04 Thread Clark Martin
be to reinstall the latest Combo Update. If that fails, THEN is the time for a System reinstallation. Or boot the computer in question from another working system, either on an external HD or using Target Disk Mode. It's a much simpler way to test if the problem is software or not. -- Cl

Re: Adding a second monitor

2010-02-04 Thread Clark Martin
versity of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message

Re: Adding a second monitor

2010-02-04 Thread Clark Martin
on PCI cards but it disables QE for AGP cards. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and

Re: Adding a second monitor

2010-02-04 Thread Clark Martin
On 2/4/10 5:36 AM, Kasey Smith wrote: Erm, get an ADC to DVI adaptor? Last I looked those were more expensive than a video card. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You receiv

Re: Adding a second monitor

2010-02-04 Thread Clark Martin
idely supported. Using both video ports on a card doesn't slow it down to my knowledge. AGP as a higher throughput than PCI. PCI graphics cards are not supported by Quartz Extreme. There is a fix to make Quartz Extreme work on PCI cards but it disables QE for AGP cards. -- Clark Martin R

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