Re: When did this happen?

2008-10-18 Thread Dan
g the printer queue forward (click on its dock icon while it's doing its thing), then it sticks around until you quit it. If you leave it alone, it should quit automatically. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Y

Re: Where did the Speed Go?

2008-10-18 Thread Dan
s 100+ ms for those pings isn't too bad, because guugle.com is in Berlin Germany. Please do a traceroute to phl.speakeasy.net You're in the Baltimore area? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You r

Flash in the pan ... aka dealing with Adobe Flash

2008-10-20 Thread Dan
ash 2 up to the latest Flash 10.  Grab a few, save 'em, share 'em with friends!  Then you can easily install whichever you need at will.   Good luck. For the sake of all things sane, PLEASE remember to run backups BEFORE installing

Re: Flash in the pan ... aka dealing with Adobe Flash

2008-10-20 Thread Dan
bunch of tabs and throwing the urls back into them and starting them loading? Yes, FF does that (even the latest 3.1beta). Great way to create a "crash loop". - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

Re: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

2008-10-21 Thread Dan
f even one pointer is off -- you will LOSE data. This is SO risky I never ever ever ever ever do it. It is ALWAYS better to make full backups, re-partition the drive cleanly, then reload each volume. FWIW, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~

Re: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

2008-10-21 Thread Dan
y - why are you partitioning the internal drive(s)? What OS's are involved? >At present, I'm using Disk Utility on the PCI Graphics machine to >Verify the backup drive, to include the first partition containing my >Time Machine backup. Can I trust the results if positive

Re: CCC

2008-10-22 Thread Dan
At 1:10 PM -0500 10/21/2008, George Hozendorf wrote: >anyone tried the latest version of Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1.2? On my >machine it's incredibly faster. hum. Hadn't even realized it was out! I'll give it a whirl. Thx! Might be interesting to compare it to the late

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down Annoying

2008-10-22 Thread Dan
Sometimes the settings seem to get "stuck". Try trashing /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist Then open System Preferences, and do your Energy Saver settings. Then reboot. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus;

Re: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

2008-10-22 Thread Dan
nd erase my old drive to repartition it, and >trust my backup CCC partitions? now that no errors are reported by >Disk Utility? If the backups are on the drive you "added" partitions, then I personally would not trust them. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Eme

Re: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

2008-10-22 Thread Dan
At 6:02 AM -0400 10/22/2008, insightinmind wrote: >On Oct 21, 2008, at 11:12 PM, Dan wrote: > > So you had a large empty space that was unpartitioned? If not, then > > you didn't just "add"... you did a massive data move to create the >> contiguous free sp

Re: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

2008-10-22 Thread Dan
7;s because if the file was too fragmented, its playback performance suffered. But between i/o and cpu speeds these days, even that's not really an issue anymore. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

Re: Mirror Image?

2008-10-22 Thread Dan
on the "Open Files and Ports" tab. Wait a bit for the window to fill. Then information there should lead you to its location. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because yo

Java vs Mozilla

2008-10-23 Thread Dan
ou dig deeper in your own Mac. Do you have an overzealous (ad) blocker running? A corrupted cache? Try a different/new user account. Try the beta. etc HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this mes

Re: hard drive orientation (horizontal v. vertical)

2008-10-23 Thread Dan
7;m still paranoid about perfect head alignment... Drives are factory formatted horizontally. If you're going to run it vertically, then I recommend zero'ing it vertically first. That way if the heads don't swing perfectly, you'll KNOW before it starts throwing data into ob

Re: Java vs Mozilla

2008-10-23 Thread Dan
At 3:34 PM -0400 10/23/2008, John Musbach wrote: >On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> First, it does not pass the "does that make sense" test. Firefox 3 >> has gone through *three* releases and umpteen alphas and betas, not >&g

Re: hard drive orientation (horizontal v. vertical)

2008-10-23 Thread Dan
y. It's done with a step motor and springs. As the drive ages, metal fatigues. If you suddenly change the gravitational orientation by 90 degrees, the amount of pressure on the arm changes quite a bit! If the servo motor can no longer compensate... - Dan. -- - Psychoce

Re: hard drive orientation (horizontal v. vertical)

2008-10-23 Thread Dan
At 2:37 PM -0700 10/23/2008, PeterH wrote: >On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Dan wrote: > > Each set of heads is on an arm, whoze positioning is *critical* -- >> the head has to line up exactly over the track, or it fails to read >> or write the data correctly. It's

Re: eSATA question

2008-10-25 Thread Dan
should be Don't guess. Know. Guessing wrong could damage your hardware. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those

Re: PPC Benchmarks for Flashplayer 9 vs 10

2008-10-25 Thread Dan
9.0.124.0 - the regular ppc version, not the ub. The ub seems more crashy than the ppc. FWIW, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5

Re: One Program Crashing

2008-10-25 Thread Dan
r and installed/deinstalled these extensions a coupla times. >Bad idea I guess, because now the program crashes on startup. What does do the system, console, and crash logs say? Does the app work in a different user account? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South

Re: RealPlayer Problem

2008-10-26 Thread Dan
the results of this command, in Terminal: ls -al libstdc* - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desk

Re: Which OS X install discs will work with a G4?

2008-10-26 Thread Dan
e transferred without the original hardware. >I'm looking for a way to get a copy of 10.4 inexpensively. Look for a full retail kit. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you ar

Re: RealPlayer Problem

2008-10-26 Thread Dan
At 3:31 PM -0600 10/26/2008, Stephen Conrad wrote: >On 10/26/08, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 4:48 PM -0600 10/25/2008, Stephen Conrad wrote: >>>OS Version: 10.2.8 (Build 6R73) >>> >>>RealPlayer 10.1.0 (for OS X) and I have tried to use it

Re: Adding New HD

2008-10-26 Thread Dan
ne use the other volume. And when it farks up, you can wipe it out and still have that other volume as your primary backup. Maybe sometime Time Machine will be ready to run without training wheels... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~-

Re: Yikes! Power Button or CUDA?

2008-10-27 Thread Dan
above. > >Things are ok now. The PMU finally got completely booted. But you've probably drained that battery quite a bit... If you have problems booting in the future, replace the battery. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~--

Re: Filesystem corrupted since filesystem check

2008-10-27 Thread Dan
an recover anything it will tell you - for free. You don't have to pay unless you want to do a full recovery. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac&#x

Re: Yikes! Power Button or CUDA?

2008-10-27 Thread Dan
At 2:47 PM -0400 10/27/2008, insightinmind wrote: >Which button is the CUDA? The left one. :) >(jpeg being sent offlist). Reply sent offlist. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message b

Re: USB Drive Question

2008-10-27 Thread Dan
At 2:01 PM -0700 10/27/2008, PeterH wrote: >On Oct 27, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Dan wrote: > > One *formats* a drive. Usually this is done at the factory. The >> last step of which is to lay down a partition map (Apple or GID), and >> create (non-mountable) partitions to con

Re: USB Drive Question

2008-10-27 Thread Dan
ch is to lay down a partition map (Apple or GID), and create (non-mountable) partitions to contain drivers and such. THEN you create the "user" partitions (mountable volumes) and *initialize* the files systems therein. You can view all the partitions with a command such as: di

Re: Time Machine/Capsule (was: Adding New HD)

2008-10-27 Thread Dan
At 3:18 PM -0700 10/27/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: >On Oct 27, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Al Poulin wrote: > >> From: Dan > >> Maybe sometime Time Machine will be ready to run without training > >> wheels... >> > > So, Time Machine is not yet robustly mature

Re: jpeg and gif coversion problem

2008-10-28 Thread Dan
file's extension and look at the header to figure out what the format be? Even cheap/free products do that! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End M

Re: Time Machine/Capsule (was: Adding New HD)

2008-10-28 Thread Dan
, so even with hubs it's bandwidth limited. I donno. The more I write this, the more I'm thinking folx would be better off building their own disk server with an old PM G3 or G4 and a SATA card. Use the home router provided by your broadband ISP fo

Re: Adding New HD

2008-10-29 Thread Dan
At 12:04 PM -0400 10/28/2008, Wilton Shaw wrote: >I looked under "Partition Map Scheme" and it says "Master Boot Record". >Is this right or wrong? Apple Partion Map is *required* to boot PowerPC based Macs. Intel-based Macs use GID. Windoze uses Master Boot Record.

Re: CCC

2008-10-29 Thread Dan
At 9:17 PM -0400 10/22/2008, Al Poulin wrote: >On Oct 22, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Dan wrote: > > At 1:10 PM -0500 10/21/2008, George Hozendorf wrote: >>> anyone tried the latest version of Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1.2? On my >>> machine it's incredibly faster. >>

Re: CCC

2008-10-29 Thread Dan
At 4:11 PM -0400 10/29/2008, Dan wrote: >5. Need to look into CCC's handling of the various Cache directories. My worry was the CCC was copying caches - those directories aren't listed in the docs as ones that are ignored. Turns out that CCC is, as expected, smart about it. T

Re: search in 10.5 server

2008-10-29 Thread Dan
your admin password. Replace "fred" with the actual volume's name. Be sure to let things sit afterward, to give Spotlight time to complete the indexing process. Do not shutdown or sleep that Mac until it's done. You can monitor the process using Activity Monitor - search on

Re: Yikes! Power Button or CUDA?

2008-10-29 Thread Dan
ple.com is really screwed up. Besides being slowslowslow, it seems to rarely find on-point articles like it used to. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End M

Re: Personal Data Removal Methodology Questions

2008-10-29 Thread Dan
> >The question popped in my head - is data that was deleted a part of >this byte for bye duping process? yes, IF it's a block-level copy. >Is my 'deleted' data sitting out on the backup drive and I didn't know >I put it there? If y

Re: malware and web pages

2008-10-29 Thread Dan
any other account, in case its number is "stolen". 3) If you need to be able to accept payments, use a service like Paypal and *don't* connect it to your bank account. 4) Skip number 2. Use Paypal's debit mastercard instead. That makes your online fundage a

Re: G4 Tiger vs Leopard benchmarks

2008-10-30 Thread Dan
At 9:27 PM -0500 10/29/2008, Kris Tilford wrote: >ran benchmarks. Sure enough, it appears Leopard 10.5.5 was about 20% >slower than Tiger 10.4.11. Benchmarks were run on a clean system >with nothing else running. What about Spotlight - did you have its indexing disabled on all volume

Re: G4 Tiger vs Leopard benchmarks

2008-10-30 Thread Dan
e speed difference is PURE speculation. 99% of OS X is written in HOL (high order languages), not assembler (machine language). It is more likely that the speed differences were due to the way the two operating systems do certain functions. Leopard uses the video GPU and such much more than Tiger.

Re: search in 10.5 server

2008-10-30 Thread Dan
back on there is >little to no activity from any 'md' >process most I've seen is 0.6 for a second on 'mds' Well, if you didn't actually erase the index, then there's nothing for the indexing processes to do. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jers

Re: search in 10.5 server

2008-10-30 Thread Dan
e Macs here, tiger and leopard, say "index removed" after a -E. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3,

Apple blows it again

2008-11-01 Thread Dan
presented in a tiny unreadble font with narrow FIXED column size. The aritcle titles are TRUNCATED, so no matter what you do, you can't read them. Way to go Apple. Oh, I know -- at least they did use a black background and dark gray text. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey

Re: CCC

2008-11-01 Thread Dan
At 6:39 PM -0400 10/29/2008, Dan wrote: >At 4:11 PM -0400 10/29/2008, Dan wrote: >>5. Need to look into CCC's handling of the various Cache directories. > >My worry was the CCC was copying caches - those directories aren't >listed in the docs as ones that are ign

Re: malware and web pages

2008-11-01 Thread Dan
At 8:10 AM -0700 10/30/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: >On Oct 29, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Dan wrote: > > 2) Only use a single credit card with a low limit online. And make >> sure that card isn't paid automatically from any other account, in >> case its number is "sto

Re: search in 10.5 server

2008-11-01 Thread Dan
ut the index, you can always rm it manually. Just remove all the files from the top-level .Spotlight-V100 directory on that volume. Then do the -i on, and it WILL rebuild. At that point, you could have Console open, watching the system log... so you can see any errors that come in... HTH, - Dan. -

Re: Personal Data Removal Methodology Questions

2008-11-01 Thread Dan
mailing list. There have been a lot of disussions about this in the past. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those us

Re: Apple blows it again

2008-11-01 Thread Dan
At 12:21 PM -0400 11/1/2008, Dan wrote: >Now it just has a link to a list on apple.com. >http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=articles > >The list is presented in a tiny unreadble font with narrow FIXED >column size. The aritcle titles are TRUNCATED, so no matter what >you

Re: CCC

2008-11-02 Thread Dan
.log - it's in /var/logs. See if there are any errors there. I'll check a this on my clone here... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's

Re: Digital Audio won't stop Kernel Panicking

2008-11-02 Thread Dan
eat the memory. Make sure you're grounded properly while do this, of course. If that doesn't improve things, then pull the memory and try one stick at a time. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rece

Re: CCC

2008-11-02 Thread Dan
h those made on my Smurf and a PB. They pass DU repair disk with zero errors. Repair permissions just finds the usual suspects. I think something failed on your system. Check your system log and the ccc log. Maybe wipe the clone and redo it. Make sure it's file level, not block l

Re: Digital Audio is too slow (Re: Digital Audio won't stop Kernel Panicking)

2008-11-02 Thread Dan
x27;re viewing ALL processes, sorted by CPU usage, or just your own? >Out of the now 1GB of RAM in the computer, only about 10MB are free, >and around 600MB are "Active." What have you got running? Send me some snapshots if you w

Re: Digital Audio is too slow (Re: Digital Audio won't stop Kernel Panicking)

2008-11-02 Thread Dan
was only viewing "My Processes." I didn't even know Activity >Monitor had that menu there. Shows how infrequently I use it. Anyway, >I changed it to "All processes," and found out that the thing with the >most processor usage was a Virus scanner tha

Re: CCC

2008-11-02 Thread Dan
rying to clone a volume to itself." But I think folx need to be aware of this potential problem, so they can be careful... Keep your volumes named uniquely and ALWAYS double check the selected source and target before hitting that Clone button! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; Sou

Re: Apple blows it again

2008-11-03 Thread Dan
s from the newsletter they *used* to publish with the article lists. Prior to 13 Sept, the email was 15 to 30 KB long, with complete information - listing every changed and new article and their urls. Now it's just a meatless high-noise email - no article listing; just a link to that one

Re: Where did the Speed Go?

2008-11-03 Thread Dan
etwork, to Speakeasy's servers. That's a LOT of added path. Oh, and the whole thing is run by a Java applet in your web browser - so we have to factor in the speed at which your computer runs Java! hop hop hop - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---

Re: Netinfo?

2008-11-03 Thread Dan
fy OS X's configuration. Not normally used by your average user. Was someone using your computer? Unless they had your admin password, the information shown was all read-only. What else was open? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jers

Re: Netinfo?

2008-11-03 Thread Dan
7;t gotten around to it yet. NetInfo is used in OS X 10.0 thru 10.4. It has been replaced by a number of tools in Leopard. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low

Re: Netinfo?

2008-11-03 Thread Dan
At 2:09 PM -0500 11/3/2008, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 8:09 AM -0800 11/3/2008, vsedriver wrote: >> >I came home the other day and found a couple of strange windows open >> >on my desktop. One was for Netinfo. W

Re: How much bandwidth is in use?

2008-11-04 Thread Dan
n't decided which I like better yet. Of course, there's always Activity Monitor's Network pane. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac'

Re: DLink G122 Keeps Disappearing

2008-11-04 Thread Dan
says not connected. If I pull it out and put it >back in it works again. Any ideas? What does system and console log say? Try pinging thru it, once every minute. See if that makes it stay awake. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~

Re: Cloning

2008-11-06 Thread Dan
he pretty interface (you just poke in with Finder to get older stuff you need). eg: With CCC, I cloned my whole boot volume to my external. And now I've told CCC to backup /Users/dan every day at 4pm, incremental, archive. Each afternoon it yammers at me to plug in the external. I

Re: Another annoyance

2008-11-06 Thread Dan
that way. If they're not, then perhaps you don't have write access to the .DS_Store file... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List,

Re: How much bandwidth is in use?

2008-11-06 Thread Dan
me time, instead of just lurking. >Is this application the most demanding you would have on a fast DSL? You're looking to swamp your DSL circuit? Try some bittorrent stuff or some multiple-stream usenet downloads. - Dan. -- - Ps

Re: How do you silence a G5's startup chime?

2008-11-06 Thread Dan
assed. If you suppress it, then you won't hear any of the error chimes either -- so you'll have no clue that things are dying. You'll just happily sit there and corrupt your HD etc. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~

Re: UPS & Hard drive = ?

2008-11-06 Thread Dan
r it :-) > >Seriously, no, not at all. I'd be wary of those UPS drivers. A UPS at its best, is a hotbed of EM fields. No HD should be near that. And if you do have any electrical problems, that the UPS has to suppress or regulate, it will generate extra heat. Again, no

Re: Cloning problem

2008-11-06 Thread Dan
ck as question >marks. Items in the dock are just aliases. If they're showing up as question marks, re-drag them in. >Also I can't find the option in the new CCC where I can decide if I >want a file to file clone done or a block clone. Full backup is block-level.

Re: UPS & Hard drive = ?

2008-11-06 Thread Dan
ting some copper shielding to place between >> them? Or the same from a local metals dealer? > >Why? UPS'es don't generate a significant magnetic field. Shields, keptin! Shields! Darn warp coils and isolation transformers. They'll suck the iron right out of your c

Re: How do you silence a G5's startup chime?

2008-11-06 Thread Dan
then boots just fine. It runs very slowly. After a while, depending on the type of memory errors that accumulate, either the video starts showing artifacts or it writes bad data to the HD. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~

Re: How much bandwidth is in use?

2008-11-07 Thread Dan
At 7:21 PM -0800 11/6/2008, Jonas Lopez wrote: >-- On Thu, 11/6/08, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I think the CPU monitor never is below full green. So, yes the cpu >is now the limiting factor at 400 MHz, but that is not bad; 100 MHz >per webcam, I doubt you ca

Re: Cloning problem

2008-11-07 Thread Dan
rors. If none, then it might be safe to reload it from scratch. ...If the backups you have are block-level clones, then you might not be able to trust them! A perfect copy of corrupted data is itself corrupted... HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-

Re: Cloning

2008-11-07 Thread Dan
that drive is running all the time - so you'll need to make other backups too. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for

Re: Another annoyance

2008-11-07 Thread Dan
At 6:47 PM -0500 11/6/2008, Doug Burton wrote: >On Nov 6, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Dan wrote: > > At 3:20 PM -0500 11/5/2008, Doug Burton wrote: >>> upgraded DA to Tiger >> [no further config information supplied] > >no further supplied because it's not relevan

Re: How much bandwidth is in use?

2008-11-07 Thread Dan
isplay it... QuickTime automatically drops frames, on your computer, if it can't process them fast enough to maintain the time sync of the video "feed" (be it a webcam, normal streams, or even something you're playing locally). - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jers

Apps to track your apps

2008-11-07 Thread Dan
sethis.com. Seems interesting. Do you'all use such tools? Which do you like or dislike and why? Thx, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-

Re: Apps to track your apps

2008-11-07 Thread Dan
ompatibility. And the information will have to be provided on an app by app basis. :\ - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for

Re: Cloning

2008-11-08 Thread Dan
At 7:03 AM -0800 11/8/2008, Al wrote: >On Nov 7, 11:11 am, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> The nature of the backup is such that you need lower level access >> than AFP provides. CCC supports this by creating an encrypted tunnel >> between the two Macs

Re: Another annoyance

2008-11-08 Thread Dan
mount and open it! Do that with a shell or applescript that runs disk utility. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for

Re: eMac Ventilation

2008-11-09 Thread Dan
problem, so they'll be sure to let you know if things seem too hot. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using

Re: eMac Ventilation

2008-11-09 Thread Dan
At 3:36 PM + 11/9/2008, Simon Royal wrote: > >Potential problems? What like smoking and burning their bedroom. >I'll be sure to tell them. Fans cranking away all the time, as the case gets warmer and warmer. Sudden shutdowns, that don't occur on cooler days. - Dan.

Re: Hot iMac

2008-11-10 Thread Dan
At 9:52 PM -0500 11/9/2008, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: > >Is the new iMac supposed to run so hot? How hot? All the time, or just when you're making it work hard? Ambient room temperature range? Good ventilation around the iMac? They do run warm, but not anywhere near what I'd

Re: Out of the Blue

2008-11-10 Thread Dan
things way too often! See this article for recovery steps: <http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1545> In general, you need to get in there somehow and wipe out ApplicationEnhancer. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: Out of the Blue

2008-11-10 Thread Dan
At 2:34 PM -0600 11/10/2008, Kris Tilford wrote: >On Nov 10, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Dan wrote: > >> That's what happened. What I did was install "Dock Detox" for >>> Entourage from Unsanity. >> >> gah. What's the deal with Unsanity's h

Re: Free memory question

2008-11-10 Thread Dan
looking at the environment that really counts. Watch while it's being stressed instead. Watching the size of the pools is good, but it needs to be done in conjunction with the page out rate - the rate at which that number changes. If both those pools get small *and* the page out rate is

Re: Out of the Blue

2008-11-10 Thread Dan
At 3:44 PM -0600 11/10/2008, Kris Tilford wrote: >On Nov 10, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Dan wrote: > > A responsible programmer would have put appropriate sanity (sic) >> checks in their code to make sure it DOESN'T LOAD if it's on an >> unsupported configuration. >

Re: Hot iMac

2008-11-10 Thread Dan
bjecteth to that. You know you have cats when you have to remove all your keycaps once a year, so you can lift off the "woven" grid of fur that it has accumulated therein. *shudder* - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~--

Re: Hot iMac

2008-11-10 Thread Dan
tor. Had an x86 iMac here. She was very unhappy with that. No flat spot to pirch on! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group f

Re: G4 as Server?

2008-11-11 Thread Dan
ets you share anything easily, manage groups, etc. > I'd like to have the G4 still functional as a machine for >background renedring for Final Cut. No problemo. And if you find that the rendering process is being bogged or taking over too much of the computer, you can ren

Re: Cloning

2008-11-11 Thread Dan
o be fragile. In a normal user environment, it seems like they fail too often. So I don't recommend them for backups. > > Another example is the more expensive Drobo, which has more industrial >> weight expansion, including the gigabit NAS option with DroboShare > >

Re: Mail date question

2008-11-11 Thread Dan
he final Received header can be forged... take it all with a grain of salt. The time zone should be local with the GMT offset indicated. The receiving client either shows that as-is or displays/converts it to the receiver's local time. There is no standard wrt to how the

Re: Cloning

2008-11-11 Thread Dan
to divide the backup into DVD-sided chunks, to facilitate easy burning. Kindof the way DiskFit did, back in the early 1990s, with floppies. (DiskFit has grown up in both bloat and price - it's called Retrospect now). - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~--

Re: See You Later...

2008-11-11 Thread Dan
rest are diluted shadows. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular f

Re: Current HD costs update

2008-11-12 Thread Dan
cannot keep up with their fast SATA or USB 2 or FW interfaces! IOW, they're cheap because they're s l o o o o o w. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Background speed test alert?

2008-11-12 Thread Dan
it would be better to diagnose it and get it fixed... than to chew up your bandwidth running speed tests... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G

Re: Cloning

2008-11-12 Thread Dan
At 9:27 AM -0700 11/12/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: >On Nov 11, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Dan wrote: > >> I"m waiting for 'em to support segmenting for burning. The idea >> being to to divide the backup into DVD-sided chunks, to facilitate >> easy burning. Kindof the

Re: USB external HD unmount on it's own?

2008-11-12 Thread Dan
At 9:03 AM -0800 11/12/2008, Jeffrey Engle wrote: >two external drives after minutes of being connected via USB2.0 >unmount themselves? Volumes do not spontaneously unmount. Check the system log. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA,

Re: Current HD costs update

2008-11-12 Thread Dan
At 12:39 PM -0500 11/12/2008, Donald Hall wrote: >On Nov 12, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Dan wrote: >> On another note... There are a lot of 1 TB drives going for $99 or >> less right now. Careful, folx! Many of them are LP size (normal >> 3.5" drives) but then they'

Re: Current HD costs update

2008-11-12 Thread Dan
At 12:44 PM -0500 11/12/2008, Len Gerstel wrote: >On Nov 12, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Dan wrote: > > On another note... There are a lot of 1 TB drives going for $99 or >> less right now. Careful, folx! Many of them are LP size (normal >> 3.5" drives) but then they'

Re: OS X and OS X Server differences?

2008-11-13 Thread Dan
that? Thanks, Dennis > >The OS is basically the same but Server includes several applications >for providing services and the control of same. The 10 connection at a time limit is removed also. Is that in a plist somewhere, that we can poke? Or were they more clever? - Dan. -- - Psycho

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