Re: Maybe off topic?

2011-08-03 Thread Dan
Intelligent questions are NEVER off topic. At 8:19 PM -0500 8/3/2011, DAN A CURRIE wrote: I have been running a G5 2.5 Ghz PPC Dualie with 10.5.8 using wireless internet through a Linksys WRT54G router for several years. Now the wife is worried about someone stealing our wifi. You should

Re: Can't clone my drive anymore

2011-07-30 Thread Dan
-this-item-on-the-destination (or http://bit.ly/p2O5OJ ) - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: Stop gap hardware recommendations ?

2011-07-29 Thread Dan
At 6:00 PM -0700 7/28/2011, Cliff Rediger wrote: Are not the latest iPads 64 bit arch.? No. iPhone and iPad use Apple's custom version of an ARM processor. They are 32-bit. ARM is moving to 64-bit, but it's not done yet. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth

Re: defragging ?

2011-07-28 Thread Dan
://www.stellardefragdrive.com/ Yea. It's a lost market looking to make $ off of the unwashed masses. While yer at it, buy the most expensive anti-virus package you can find. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group

Re: defragging ?

2011-07-28 Thread Dan
At 12:21 PM -0700 7/28/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jul 28, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Dan wrote: Yea. It's a lost market looking to make $ off of the unwashed masses. While yer at it, buy the most expensive anti-virus package you can find. ROFL, I JUST got an email in my inbox from Prosoft

Re: sata

2011-07-22 Thread Dan
, then they can be a good deal. The real savings comes from having the drive spun down... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: G4 hd fail

2011-07-22 Thread Dan
warranty, the manufacturer will replace it. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: imac g5 will not install 10.4/10.5 - dead hd or...?

2011-07-22 Thread Dan
is that the engine is sputtering. At best it does nothing. At worst it locks you out! If your HD is failing, the *last* thing you want to do is add more corruptions to it! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: sata

2011-07-22 Thread Dan
At 7:33 PM +0200 7/22/2011, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 22-07-2011 15:15, Dan ha scritto: These new-fangled eco friendly drives aren't really something new, they're just spinning slower, 3200 or 4500rpm instead of 7200 or 1 - which makes them less expensive and higher profit

Re: Virtual Snow Leopard in Lion?

2011-07-21 Thread Dan
or just plain incompatible. Not everyone is floating in the megabucks, to the point they can afford to upgrade everything. So what do you do? You either ignore Lion. Or you go virtual... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you

Power Mac 7300 opins

2011-07-20 Thread Dan
or /200. Is there any interest in these old machines? Would I be better off offering them as routers or basic machines or stripped or ? (As as home router, they're good for aro 6 to 8 Mbps throughput, while offering file services and such). LEM Swap or eBay or ? Thanks, - Dan

Re: Cleaning a PowerBook G4

2011-07-19 Thread Dan
.' Yea. Was thinking about that, but things worked out ok for now. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Stupified by Spotify

2011-07-19 Thread Dan
something nice about it... The music, once it starts to play, sounds pretty good. No drop outs or anything. And it's only using 8 to 10% of my CPU. Oh, I get it. Spotify is an ad for iTunes! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you

Cleaning a PowerBook G4

2011-07-18 Thread Dan
... Ok, so tonight I'm going to double up on the latex gloves and try cleaning this beastie. Normally I use things like rubbing or iso alcohol. But then normally, I avoid tar'd computers. Is there something better for ciggy goo? Thanks, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA

Re: Lost Ethernet port

2011-07-16 Thread Dan
... and it won't come back until the Mac is rebooted. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: Hard drive woes

2011-07-11 Thread Dan
or controller related errors. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: G4 MDD has lost FireWire.. .. Ideas?

2011-07-10 Thread Dan
to see if there are any firewire related errors. Try booting with nothing plugged into those ports. Try booting on a different system - your OS X DVD, for example, just to rule out a software issue. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message

Re: Connect as vs. Screen Sharing to drag files between Macs

2011-07-09 Thread Dan
install yet-another? And as we have said, over and over, over the years, on these LEM lists... Symantec is BAD. Get it AWAY from your Mac !! That advice has not changed. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member

Re: Intel Mac PPC apps

2011-07-02 Thread Dan
and G3 is 32-bit. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: 20 Aluminum iMac /2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo ADVICE

2011-07-02 Thread Dan
advice please and thank you.maggell Reset the PRAM/nvram/SMC. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: 20 Aluminum iMac /2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo ADVICE

2011-07-02 Thread Dan
At 3:46 AM +0200 7/3/2011, Valter Prahlad wrote: POST? Power-On Self Test. heh. Ok. I haven't heard it called that in years. My Macs BONG, they doesn't post. :) - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G

Re: 20 Aluminum iMac /2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo ADVICE

2011-07-02 Thread Dan
instead of bonging? Try reseating the memory. Try running on only one stick of known-good memory. Any kernel panics? If you can get it to boot at all, peruse the system.log for error messages. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you

Time Limits

2011-06-29 Thread DAN A CURRIE
Hello Here is what I want to do with my sons G4 MDD running 10.5.8! He ‘s on the computer WY too much and I want to limit his time and access. I want him to have access ONLY from 4pm to 8pm Daily. How do I set that up? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a

More mass bounced emails...

2011-06-25 Thread Dan Palka
Got another huge boatload of bounced emails today from trinettejohn...@fuse.net - some dating as far back as August of last year. This also happened around April 19 of this year. Thanks, Dan ___ Dan Palka | INFO-MAC | w: info-mac.org | e: d...@info-mac.org | p: 312.857.6522 -- You

Re: Quicksilver 2002 running slow...

2011-06-24 Thread Dan
. It will then give you an old fashioned menu. Tell it to do everything. everything, btw, will include clearing the kernel cache just like OnyX can do. Of course, this is done after that all-importand Repair Disk step. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received

Re: Mail 2.1.3 Yahoo Mail

2011-06-24 Thread Dan
At 8:16 PM -0700 6/23/2011, Cliff Rediger wrote: At 12:32 PM -0700 6/23/2011, Cliff Rediger wrote: Still no joy. I now cannot POP mail yahoo at all. On Jun 23, 12:51 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: And since this is a service for which you paid, contact Yahoo directly. Yahoo

Re: Mail 2.1.3 Yahoo Mail

2011-06-24 Thread Dan
At 9:56 AM -0700 6/24/2011, John Carmonne wrote: I have found Apple Mail doesn't work with the free Yahoo Mail service. You have to pay for their premium mail account. Well, yea. Their free service is webmail only. To use Apple Mail you need POP3 or IMAP. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic

Re: Mail 2.1.3 Yahoo Mail

2011-06-23 Thread Dan
, contact Yahoo directly. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: Quicksilver 2002 running slow...

2011-06-23 Thread Dan
... CarbonCopyCloner http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: Quicksilver 2002 running slow...

2011-06-23 Thread Dan
is to OnyX as a stubby screwdriver is to a whole Sears store. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Help restoring contents of drive to newer computer

2011-06-22 Thread Dan A
Hi all, I need some help to clarify the best procedure to use to restore the contents of an internal drive to a new place. My old G4 15” 800 MHz Ti-Book, using 10.4.11, developed bouts of severe screen disruption with lines, which I think might be due to the cable going trom computer to screen,

Re: Help restoring contents of drive to newer computer

2011-06-22 Thread dan auerbach
On 22-Jun-11, at 6:42 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jun 22, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Dan A wrote: Here is the situation that I’m working with: I have been doing daily backups of the 800MHz using SuperDuper to an external 1TB firewire drive. Even though SuperDuper has been finishing each backup

Re: Performance When Playing Camera Video on G4?

2011-06-20 Thread Dan
such as Activity Monitor to watch the cpu and memory... fwiw, I can play some h.264 on my 933-MHz QuickSilver G4. But, depending on the compression used, sometimes it skips a bit even in VLC. My solution then is to either re-compress it, or transcribe it to something like mpeg-2, using ffmpeg. - Dan

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-19 Thread Dan
At 2:05 PM -0400 6/19/2011, Bill Connelly wrote: On Jun 18, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Dan wrote: At 10:49 AM -0400 6/18/2011, Bill Connelly wrote: But I keep getting these things, and its been happening for a long time ... they end up in my g3-g5 mailbox. Perhaps someone's just using my e-mail

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-19 Thread Dan
his addr farther). (and the body of the email is just a standard drug push with a url in the Russian tld. Kindof boring, actually, not even a spoofed domain). - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread Dan
floats your boat. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: Spotlight vs corrupted JPG files

2011-06-18 Thread Dan
At 9:16 AM -0700 6/17/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:26 AM, Dan wrote: I'm thinking maybe Spotlight is falling into some abyss in its index, caused by bad processing of these corrupted jpegs. Any ideas on how to find 'em? Another thought, generate a list of files

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread Dan
they got that in the first place ... I thought we were protected there. Please send me a single sample, including the full headers. I'll take a look. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread Dan
At 11:16 AM -0400 6/18/2011, Bill Connelly wrote: On Jun 18, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Dan wrote: At 10:49 AM -0400 6/18/2011, Bill Connelly wrote: But I keep getting these things, and its been happening for a long time ... they end up in my g3-g5 mailbox. Perhaps someone's just using my e-mail

Spotlight vs corrupted JPG files

2011-06-17 Thread Dan
ideas on how to find 'em? Thanks, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: Apple --AHT images?

2011-06-14 Thread Dan
they still have some of the replacement media in stock. If you google around, there are probably sites selling 'em. Or post a WTB on LEM Swap... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using

Re: You all have probably figured it out by now

2011-06-13 Thread Dan
of characterizations (fields, bayesians, etc) the spam filter uses on your particular mail service.. eg: I marked one of the bounces as spam in GMail, and it subsequently put about 1/4 of the legit posts to g3-5 into the spam box. At 5:38 PM -0400 6/12/2011, Dan wrote: 1 got past Gmail, and was nailed

Re: You all have probably figured it out by now

2011-06-12 Thread Dan
! Not sure that's 100% bounces, but the n pages I scrolled thru were all them. lol wow. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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: You all have probably figured it out by now

2011-06-12 Thread Dan
spazzing out means. To spaz. To convulse and spew, sometimes violently. Defn 4 looks pretty good: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spaz - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: Jump-Starting a Dead G5

2011-06-09 Thread Dan
. Replace the PRAM/Backup battery. If that doesn't fix, check the voltages out of the power supply. Then start disconnecting things... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread Dan
files to see exactly what died. Have you made any hardware changes to your system recently? Do you have any tasks that explicitly run when you're idle? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: OpenDNS or Google Public DNS?

2011-05-28 Thread Dan
Verizon or the L3's, 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, etc. dig 'em all. See what gives you the best response. It's all about the route... fwiw, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5

Re: OpenDNS or Google Public DNS?

2011-05-28 Thread Dan
reference I find is an unsubstantiated comment made to blog post at circleid -- in 2008 -- three years ago! http://www.circleid.com/posts/87143_dns_not_a_guessing_game/ And aside -- Albert, please remember to post in PLAIN TEXT and TRIM on these LEM lists. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South

Re: The boys who cried Wolf

2011-05-25 Thread Dan
At 1:48 PM -0400 5/16/2011, Dan wrote: At 2:46 PM -0700 5/6/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: http://daringfireball.net/2011/05/wolf Good compilation of scary pronouncements about OS X and malware... An interesting read: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/05/14/malware-macs-and-crying-wolf-doing-the-math

Re: The boys who cried Wolf

2011-05-16 Thread Dan
At 2:46 PM -0700 5/6/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: http://daringfireball.net/2011/05/wolf Good compilation of scary pronouncements about OS X and malware... An interesting read: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/05/14/malware-macs-and-crying-wolf-doing-the-math/ - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South

Re: Help with Mac OS9 Drivers, running in OS-X/Classic

2011-05-11 Thread Dan
is an *application* that runs as a process in OS X, that emulates the OS 9 environment. It has no special kernel access, therefore all drivers are OS X. What you need is a wedge extension for Classic that translates the app's OS 9 calls to the format required by said OS X driver. - Dan

Re: G5 monitor fails to fire

2011-05-11 Thread Dan
pulled the graphics card (ATI Radeon 9600 pro), and tested for wobbly joins, dust, anything else but drew a blank. Check the system.log for error messages. Try a different cable. Try a different interface. Try a different video card. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth

Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

2011-05-10 Thread Dan
. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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 our netiquette

Re: Apple_ARM ?

2011-05-08 Thread Dan
to be thinner and thinner tho. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: Apple_ARM ?

2011-05-07 Thread Dan
by generation. As Atom fails, Intel will have more and more fabrication capacity available. Bidding war. Yea, Intel will make ARM processors for whoever pays. *yawn* - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group

Re: Apple_ARM ?

2011-05-07 Thread Dan
At 12:35 AM +0200 5/8/2011, MatevÏ Markoviã wrote: About your bet, Dan, what do you think will happen to the Mac Pro line? It's going to be a few years before ARM can compete with the high end Core line, if ever. And I doubt L'Jobs will bless us with a Power based system. The reason I am

Re: Safari memory leak fixed ?

2011-05-04 Thread Dan
Show Develop menu in menu bar No, I meant what I said: the Debug menu. You enable it with a hidden preference. Tools such of OnyX will do it for you, or you can issue a defaults command in Terminal. defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1 - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus

Re: Safari memory leak fixed ?

2011-05-03 Thread Dan
, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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 our

Re: New Yahoo mail on clamshell?

2011-05-02 Thread Dan
Have you looked at iCab? iCab 4 uses a recent WebKit engine that should work, you might just need to change the user agent to a recent Safari. It'll also happily run on 10.3.9. You can download it from http://www.icab.de/ -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a

Re: Mini Problem

2011-05-01 Thread Dan
volumes on an external drive... :\ If zapping the pram as described above doesn't fix it, I'm thinking you have some other hardware issue. Might be time to open it up and disconnect the HD altogether -- see if you can then boot from an external etc. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South

Re: TenFourFox

2011-04-30 Thread Dan
code. It is x86 ONLY. The *point* of TenFourFox is that it is a *PowerPC* build of Firefox 4. Cameron has put in an amazing amount of work to keep FF running on our older PowerPC-based Macs. Check it out! And if you have any problems with it, please let him know so he can fix! - Dan

Re: Mini Problem

2011-04-29 Thread Dan
you boot from an external drive? ...One possibility is that the boot stuff in the partition map is foo. If that's the case, then the fix is to clone your partitions to an external, boot on an external, erase and re-partition the internal, then reload them from the clones. - Dan

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-26 Thread Dan Ziegler
xlr8 your mac's page here: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/iMac_g4/imacg4_takeapart.html - it's helpful. Dan Ziegler -- 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

iMac G4 questions

2011-04-25 Thread Dan Ziegler
, is it possible to buy a screen top mat or whatever you call it to replace the scratched one? Thanks alot, Dan Ziegler P.S. The iMac I had been having trouble with has mysteriously fixed itself (for now). Thanks for your insight! -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

iMac G4 questions

2011-04-25 Thread Dan Ziegler
, is it possible to buy a screen top mat or whatever you call it to replace the scratched one? Or remove the scratches. Thanks alot, Dan Ziegler P.S. The iMac I had been having trouble with has mysteriously fixed itself (for now). Thanks for your insight! -- You received this message because you are a member

Re: Lock your doors....

2011-04-25 Thread Dan
ports! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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 our

Re: G4 laptop

2011-04-21 Thread Dan
-10332097-263.html - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: OpenOffice vs Oracle

2011-04-20 Thread Dan
At 11:49 PM -0600 4/17/2011, Tina K. wrote: Looks like Oracle has taken the highway optionŠ http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/04/oracle-gives-up-on-ooo-after-community-forks-the-project.ars Good. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received

Huge amount of bounced mail coming back from this list...

2011-04-19 Thread Dan Palka
I've received like 20 bounced emails today, some dating from years ago, from a user on this group trinettejohn...@fuse.net Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks, Dan ___ Dan Palka | INFO-MAC | w: info-mac.org | e: d...@info-mac.org | p: 312.857.6522 -- You received this message

Re: Leopard on my iMac

2011-04-15 Thread Dan Ziegler
the whole speed dump problem. Also Bruce I think it needs RAM as well. With Safari and Firefox open with 4 tabs, mail open, and textedit, I am down to 18 MB of free RAM! So besides some more RAM what could be wrong w/ Dashboard? Thanks alot, Dan On Apr 11, 9:21 pm, Bruce Johnson john

Leopard on my iMac

2011-04-11 Thread Dan Ziegler
on this computer. The specs of the machine if it helps: April 2008 iMac Penryn 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo 1 GB 800 MHz DDR2 250 GB Disk (about 1/2 full) Leopard 10.5.8 w/all latest updates Thanks alot, Dan Ziegler -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4

Re: Leopard on my iMac

2011-04-11 Thread Dan Ziegler
with age? I'd hate to have to do a clean install. Plus 10.6 doesn't work with some of our software, so... Other than those, anything else that could be bogging me down? Thanks, Dan On Apr 11, 1:34 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Apr 11, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Dan Ziegler wrote

Re: PowerBook 500MHz G4 (original Ti) does not power on?

2011-04-10 Thread Dan
since it's been stuck in its box in storage for a year or more. Remove the main battery, plug in the adapter and see if you can boot. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-27 Thread Dan
of one. I see Top Sites and the bookmark cover flow as being bs featuritis / eye candy that serves no function other than to slow your work flow. There must be a dozen features that Apple *could* have taken that time to implement. You know, things like simple bookmark sorting, etc. - Dan

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-27 Thread Dan
At 9:35 AM -0700 3/27/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 27, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Dan wrote: I see Top Sites and the bookmark cover flow as being bs featuritis / eye candy that serves no function other than to slow your work flow. On a modern mac with a fast network connection they're quite

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-27 Thread Dan
field. In there, in the middle, just above the boundary with the white area, is the slider. You know you're over it when the cursor changes to the hand. Then you can grab and drag down. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-26 Thread Dan
smooth etc. The problem is that it's continuously updating the previews, chewing up your cpu and network bandwidth. Make general surfing slow! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: A note on Monolingual 1.3.9 and Tiger

2011-03-26 Thread Dan
which to restore things - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-25 Thread Dan
. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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 our

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-25 Thread Dan
PM, Dan wrote: Show All Bookmarks. Top Sites is sortof / seems to be related to Cover Flow. The setting in the Bookmarks tab of Safari's preferences removes the Top Sites icon from the bookmarks bar and seems to mostly turn off the function. Then, in the regular Bookmarks window, there's

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-25 Thread Dan
on - by opening its window. :\ - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-24 Thread Dan
/PowerBook%20G5.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/610326/penguin-lust.gif - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-23 Thread Dan
seen a performance comparison between Altivec and SSE, though it would make an interesting read. This is good too: http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers/ve/summary.html - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-23 Thread Dan
At 9:44 AM -0700 3/23/2011, imrazor wrote: On Mar 23, 9:34 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 7:15 AM -0700 3/23/2011, imrazor wrote: This is good too: http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers/ve/summary.html Thanks Dan, that's a very good summary for a non-coder like myself. Apple

Re: Option key boot?

2011-03-23 Thread Dan
never had a problem. Journaling is an enhancement upon HFS+. As far as the partition format is concerned, journaling is just a flag. It has nothing to do with boot operations. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member

Re: Disappearing Ram in Powerbook G4 15inch

2011-03-23 Thread Dan
the memory. Hopefully it's just been jarred lose a bit... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-22 Thread Dan
4 GB of MPEG-2 data into *anything* on a 2.8 GHz PowerPC G4 machine then you were hitting ffmpeg with some really screwed up options. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-21 Thread Dan
but now this past few weeks... I donno... Playing YouTube stuff on my QuickSilver has been pretty good! Not as smooth as on a multi GHz x86 Mac, but still quite watchable. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G

Safari and a RAM Disk

2011-03-21 Thread Dan
on a QuickSilver. Does Experance work on newer and x86? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-21 Thread Dan
At 12:56 PM -0400 3/21/2011, John Martz wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: YouTube recently discontinued the fmt tags. What does discontinued mean? I tried Googling about for some announcement or other info on just Google did, but didn't come up

MDD G4: How to install OS 9.2.2

2011-03-21 Thread Dan Knight, LowEndMac.com
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Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-21 Thread Dan
such processors. They are now at G7-level, which is at least THREE generations BEYOND that which Apple signed-up for. Are you comparing the latest POWER processors to the PowerPC line? Big diff. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-21 Thread Dan
it plays without a hiccup with the free MPEG Streamclip video player on the DA. Which means that the machine is fast enough to handle the flash content. The problem is buffering - the ability of the machine to get enough of the content in memory to keep up with playing it. - Dan

Bounces from me.com

2011-03-20 Thread Dan
service or simply the melt-down du jour? Thx, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-18 Thread Dan
At 9:56 PM -0600 3/17/2011, Alex Barnes wrote: At least there's not flash emails going around (although I can see us headed there)! Go wash your brain out with soap. /me shudders, and does a horrified squishy face, as he staggers off to the kitchen - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Dan
or -especially- any visual problems, you're screwing them over. Is that your intention? You want to get technical assistance by making your reader's eyes bleed? FWIW, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: RAID Backup

2011-03-17 Thread Dan
Another tidbit about raid: http://www.ghen.be/raid.jpg - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Dan
it, MS got involved and suddenly it was full-on HTML with all sorts of MS specific malformations and such. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-16 Thread Dan
the Reset button. Wait about 10 seconds and quit Safari. If the above doesn't crush that @#$% feature, then look into wiping out prefs files. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: Good time machine alternative for Tiger on a DA 733

2011-03-15 Thread Dan
is so critical that you need hourly backups or better, then perhaps Dropbox is a better solution. It pushes the modified data offsite - to Amazon's S3 cloud - *as you make the changes*! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you

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