Re: New Mini

stem onto it. - 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 focus on Pow

Re: Time Machine Failing

way. I haven't seen a Mac with the Finder preference "Show all file extensions" unchecked in so long - I guess I forgot that keeping them hidden is the default. A bad choice, wrt security, IMO. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~

Re: Setting up External Firewire Drive for CCC

he caches. Not sure why the author chose to do that. They're stale useless data, really. To keep your backup a bit more trim, tell CCC to ignore "Library/Caches". Notice the lack of "/" before and after that string - you want it to ignore all the Caches folders, i

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

At 8:15 PM -0500 1/9/2009, John Callahan wrote: >Haven't read anything in this discussion about the use of flash >memory for archiving photographs etc. Would someone expand on this? Flash is one of the least reliable medias available. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South

Re: Time Machine Failing

the backup and restart it. Chances are pretty good in n days it will slam into the same problemo tho. Honestly - TM is simply not reliable. You'd be better off if you used CCC or SuperDuper. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~

Re: Time Machine Failing

S X DVD and do a repair disk on all your volumes. Let's make sure your internal (especially) is clean. (We still don't know exactly *why* TM is punting - it could be because it's falling into a hold on the source). - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus

Re: Time Machine Failing

at we now know the problem is definitely the destination, not your source. It will be interesting to see TM continues to work now, after n days. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message becau

Re: RAM prices going up??

anufacturing cost. Some of the companies are now on the rocks, near filing for bankruptcy. They're asking their governments for multi-billion-dollar bailouts. I think you're going to see much much higher prices shortly. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; So

Re: Can my Mac Access my Cable DVR Box 'safely'?

right now tho. The market is changing so much. It's only a matter of time before the cables loose control and we can get all the shows over the 'net. heh. I keep looking at that eye-patch sitting on my desk. :\ FWIW, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

or a resource - memory, disk, or other i/o, that's taking too long. Sometimes information about what's not available might be thrown into console.log. Is this happening on any specific web page? A QuickSilver running OS X 10.4.11... how much memory? free HD space? What else is ru

Playing AAC+ on a Mac

(OS X 10.4.11). Are there other players for Macs that can handle AAC+? Thanks! - 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: Computer Parts

At 9:45 PM -0800 1/13/2009, KP wrote: >I have a few odd computer parts, HDs', motherboards'... etc. Have any >of you came up with any unique uses for the parts Modern art. Bird houses. Large mobiles / wind chimes. Long-term basement ballast. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emerit

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

At 2:52 PM -0600 1/14/2009, Kris Tilford wrote: >On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Dan wrote: > > > Are there other players for Macs that can handle AAC+? > >Perhaps Windows iTunes can play AAC+? but not the Mac version? Apple marginalizing the Mac?grrr. >I have no AA

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

arket. It's a shame really... iTunes has some nice collection management features, but as an actual player it's terrible. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subsc

Re: Can't Download iWork '09

especially if those files are an installer or application. - 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

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

y 640 MB RAM and OS X 10.4.11, btw. RPM's optimized version is even about as fast as the current WebKits. FF is stable, for the most part - the only crashes I've seen were caused by Flash. FF bogs now and then when I hit a site that spews out a lot of ads, especially animated (fl

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

At 12:16 PM -0500 1/15/2009, Dan wrote: >At 8:19 AM -0800 1/15/2009, OriginalMacBabe wrote, without bothering >to bottom post and trim: >>I have this all the time with my mini and so does my dad. It is FF >>- it is a memory hog > >Please provide details of such. Spec

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

At 12:38 PM -0500 1/15/2009, Dan wrote: >At 12:16 PM -0500 1/15/2009, Dan wrote: >>At 8:19 AM -0800 1/15/2009, OriginalMacBabe wrote, without >>bothering to bottom post and trim: >>>I have this all the time with my mini and so does my dad. It is >>>FF - it is

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

At 12:45 PM -0500 1/15/2009, Dan wrote: >At 12:38 PM -0500 1/15/2009, Dan wrote: >>At 12:16 PM -0500 1/15/2009, Dan wrote: >>>At 8:19 AM -0800 1/15/2009, OriginalMacBabe wrote, without >>>bothering to bottom post and trim: >>>>I have this all the time

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

t it to do the WRTI AAC+ stream tho - it just buffers forever. - 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, an

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

and is occasionally scratched by >closing a few apps I am probably not going to use for an hour or >two...). > >So, it does matter a bit! Interesting observation, Dan. If the tabs are closed, the CPU usage drops to nil. IOW, the problem is that Firefox allows javascripts to co

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

ges. Sounds like a memory leak. What URLs are involved? Does it occur if you pull the flash plug-in? What other add-ons do you have installed? Have you tried the Firefox beta? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

obtained form a 3rd party. Manual uses filters you create. On slower Macs, I've found Automatic really bogs Safari down, so I mostly use the Manual mode and add filters pertaining to only those sites with animated ads that irritate me. FWIW, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey,

Re: Safari Slow to open

o open. I tried >cleaning out the caches, but that didn't help. Is it slow if you just do something locally, like display your bookmarks? Is this URL slow to give an error? http://127.0.0.1/ Does it seem to take a long time to translate the domain names to ip addresses? - Dan. -- - Psycho

Re: Safari Slow to open

At 4:50 PM -0500 1/16/2009, Wilton Shaw wrote: >On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Dan wrote: >>Does it seem to take a long time to translate the domain names to >>ip addresses? > >Yes Ok. Try switching to a different set of domain name servers. Just put these two IP addres

Re: Safari Slow to open

fari can't connect to this service". > >Go into Sharing and turn on Web Sharing. Again, Dan probably did this >so long ago he's forgotten it's not normally on :-) Actually, I wanted that error. It's the speed at which it comes up that counts. If your dns cach

Re: New RAM & DVD Burner slow down (was....)

cables and such. >Tomorrow I'm going to clone the drive and reinstall the OS plus Toast Concentrate on the DVD drive. Don't go replacing the floor mats just because you have an engine problem. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~-

Re: Kernel Panic on Cube

that Leopard clone in single user mode and run Memtest. - 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: How do you change type in Finder?

use 14pt ... - 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 focus on Power

Re: New RAM & DVD Burner slow down (was....)

k. it would be interesting to know what was thrown into the system log during all this. It just makes no sense to me that differing memory sticks would affect the burning speed of one drive but the not the other. You sure the new memory AND the drive cables were seated properly? Bruce? - Dan

Re: New RAM & DVD Burner slow down (was....)

DVD needs to do a fast burn. AND Toast has, afaik, NO logic to test such things; it just goes by reported CPU speed. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Ma

Re: Awaken w/User Choice

;Switch Users" button. Pressing that will bring up the full login dialog. Does Leopard not do this? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5

Re: Awaken w/User Choice

At 9:10 AM -0600 1/18/2009, George Hozendorf wrote: >On Jan 18, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Dan wrote: > > At 8:05 AM -0600 1/17/2009, George Hozendorf wrote: >>> How do I get a window showing the Users when the computer wakes up, >>> instead of a sign in for the previous

Re: 'Do I Need More Memory?' app & Leopard

updated in 2003 >circa 10.3/Tiger, and I'm wondering if anyone has any knowledge that >the application no longer works accurately in Leopard since 10.5 was >a major overhaul of OS X. Does it run? Personally, I would never trust such. "Average" usage is not a good metr

Re: 'Do I Need More Memory?' app & Leopard

8, we had a very good thread on g3-5 that covered all this; subject "Memory Allocation". Also search on "Virtual Memory" in the LEM lists. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this mess

Re: Dropbox How to Remove it?

rt. But if it's running automatically, then there are other pieces laying around - things like login item entries etc. Best to know exactly what product it is, before hitting it. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~

Re: iTunes 8.0.2 & Rio S10 problem

the system and panic logs? Is anything else not working correctly? - 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: Keyboard/Mouse suggestion

support is mediocre. And their software, Logitech Control Center, is horrible. VERY buggy. Luckily, there's an easy workaround - you install LCC, rip out the broken pieces, then add things like MouseZoom and Spark (both freeware) to replace the lost functionality. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psych

Re: Keyboard/Mouse suggestion

use the higher-capacity ones, like what I buy for my cameras, then they last for weeks and weeks. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5

Re: iTunes 8.0.2 & Rio S10 problem

SB errors. In particular check the few minutes preceeding the panic. - 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,

Re: iWork '09

At 6:21 PM -0500 1/25/2009, jgc wrote: >I found iworks to be a little awkard. In what way exactly? Did you write it up and submit it to Apple so they could improve the product? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Ea

Re: iTunes 8.0.2 & Rio S10 problem

and kernel caches, using a tool such as OnyX or do a deep cleaning with AppleJack. (more likely than the above) Maybe the driver itself is corrupted or buggy. Try (re)applying the latest combo update to Leopard. Do you have a hot backup (clone) of a prior version of Leopard? It might be wo

Re: Recommend a Scanner

them up for you, giving you individual files for each. FWIW, - 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 G

Re: Kensington Wireless Mouse Whining??

t to the store for a replacement. Defective. Probably only a matter of time before it fails totally. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-

Re: MacTuneUp

are. Those plus Apple's Disk Utility are all you need. - 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, an

Re: Cool plugin

icer way of controlling Flash in your browser...see the content, >but not the ads, for example... Google sayeth: Forbidden Your client does not have permission to get URL /p/clicktoflash/ from this server. :P - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~-

Re: Cool plugin

At 10:09 AM -0700 1/27/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: >On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Dan wrote: > > At 2:06 PM -0700 1/26/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> <http://code.google.com/p/clicktoflash/> > >> Google sayeth: >> >> Forbidden >> Your client

Re: Cool plugin

s at least for a few days or my system gets slashdotted: > ><http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/ClickToFlash.zip> > >The source code is included, so if it's not working on Tiger, you can >try compiling it and seeing what's broken... Thanks! -

Re: DBAN on Macs??

and degauss is done. Sounds like an extreme... but you have to consider the importance of the data. You have to "secure" it just farther than the enemy is willing to go to retrieve it. Shredding begat finer shredding begat cross shredding begat burn bags begat things like a

Re: Good dvd ripping software??

ou implying that the OP would besmirch this list's rep by asking for assistance with ripping DVDs he doesn't already own? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: DBAN on Macs??

rasure would be inconsistent, leaving a high likelihood that at least some data could be recovered. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 Lis

Re: DBAN on Macs??

h magnets in them! If you put them in your wallet, your cards were toast! Ok, so you put them on a chain around your neck then looked like an idiot kissing the wall to get in the door. Then the practical jokes started... slip a card under someone's butt as they're sitt

Re: 3rd party mouse/keyboard?

res work. eg: on my Logitech keyboard there are a bunch of programmable non-standard buttons on the left and right side of the keyoard. Logitech's software is required to be able to access them. See also the keyboard and mouse thread on this list from just a few days ago. - Dan. -- - Psy

Re: Keyboard/Mouse suggestion

At 9:53 AM -0500 1/29/2009, insightinmind wrote: >I believe I found my answer in another G3-G5 thread (Thanks to Dan): Thanks for finding that! >... if you've installed LCC Scroll Enhancer, then you've added a VERY >buggy evil >InputManager to your system -- that loads in

Re: 3rd party mouse/keyboard?

ens. It only happens sometimes and even >Logitech cannot figure out why. in what app, while it's doing what? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac&#

Print an evil PDF file?

;m trying to use Acrobat 8.1.3 (on OS X 10.4.11). What print settings do I need to use to print this thing at full size, so I can read / use it? So far, every combination I've tried has resulted in cut off text at the margins, or so tiny you cannot even read it with a magnifying glass...

Re: Startup drive choice by default?

to make choosing one of the two the default? IE: Turn >on the power and it *always* comes up to the list of boot drives? Gotta be a OF or EFI setting for that. Is the testbed a ppc or x86? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~

Re: Print an evil PDF file?

igh. pita. Tried to get the printed schedule directly from NJT... I was told they don't mail them out. Checked the train station - they no gots. The bins for them, glued to the ticket machines, are full of ancient trash. So it doesn't look like they ever gots. sigh. Gotta love th

Re: Yahoo! Widget Woes

ld be free of the widgetcooties... No need to reboot. If you want to double-check then launch Activity Monitor and look for anything with the Yahoo name in it. If you find any remnants, don't panic - just tell me what they be and we'll figure it out. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emer

Re: More Yahoo! Widget Woes

Hopefully if you follow the full uninstall instructions I wrote, the problem will go away. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a gro

Re: Router problem?

acs running 10.4.11. > >What should I try next? Set the desktop to use manual addressing, and make sure it's within the router's subnet range. Then see if you can ping around, etc. Check the system log for errors. If you have a hardware problem, there will be information there.

Re: best browser now

seem pretty quick. I'm finding WebKit nightly to be a bit faster tho. - 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

Browsing bog. Thanks Google.

*and* dumb enough to give it your admin password, well FWIW, - 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

Re: ok im going to give this a try

ter. looking for other mac users to chat >with via im.im up all hours night and day been up all night.wifs >going to be mad about that =) lol so if any one wants to be nice >send me an im and say hi Welcome to da list. Ahm around on IM now and then. AIM is Darmok. - Dan. -- - P

Re: Keyboard/Mouse suggestion

nd what's left of LCC won't let you re-define a function key, then add Spark. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a gro

Re: Browsing bog. Thanks Google.

;s five levels of stupidity you have to willingly do to make each of them work. I don't know any Mac users that are that stupid. AND they are NOT protected against by this Google Safe Browsing bs, because they use bittorrent, not the web. - Dan. -- - Psyc

Re: Browsing bog. Thanks Google.

At 12:11 PM -0700 1/31/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: >On Jan 31, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Dan wrote: > > Apparently, Google Safe Browsing has had some problems over the past >> few days. >> >> If you're using a browser such as Safari 3.2.x or Firefox that >>

Re: Browsing bog. Thanks Google.

At 2:18 PM -0500 1/31/2009, Dan wrote: >At 1:55 PM -0500 1/31/2009, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >>Either pro Win propaganda or the truth. You judge. They say OS X >>root kits are showing up in pirated apps and copies of Apple stuff >>like ILife apps and OS X

Re: Browsing bog. Thanks Google.

At 12:49 PM -0700 1/31/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: >On Jan 31, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Dan wrote: > > We just went to check a flight and were told the airline's web site > > is not safe. > >Hmm, it is working for me right now , wonder if this is a geographic >differe

Re: Browsing bog. Thanks Google.

At 2:07 PM -0700 1/31/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: >On Jan 31, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Dan wrote: > >> >> At 12:11 PM -0700 1/31/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: >>> On Jan 31, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Dan wrote: >>>> Apparently, Google Safe Browsing has had som

Re: Quite External Drive

aCie Mini which developed a loud fan noise. It was >replaced with a LaCie Big Disk as they offered me a great deal, but >it too is noisy. Wrap it in lots of bubble wrap. Oh wait. That might create a few other issues. sigh. :) - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jer

Re: Which html email program

looks right to everyone. It will look like extreme garbage to anyone that doesn't have html enabled. And worse, your ISP will chase you with a stick for spamming such a large mess out. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~-

Re: Quicktime Vs Aspyr

;http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090125215418693> - 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, a

Re: best browser now

t unstable. Nice speed, but if it cannot keep running long enough for me to view the pages I have a very low frustration tolerance. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are sub

Re: Unstable upgraded B&W G3...

the full BONG. Then it will initialize your video, and give you the various icons indicating it cannot find the HD, etc. >Sandymac Smit? Tosmit! HTH, - Dan. (On a Smurf) -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rec

Re: best browser now

s experience and focus on >mac exclusively. Yea. - 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 des

Re: Finder Windows Jump to the Front

At 5:42 AM -0800 2/2/2009, Al wrote: >The problem apparently comes from a conflict between a recent update >to QuickTime 7.6 and an older version of Stuffit 10.0.2, where the >Stuffit AVR preference needs to be turned off. :( Yet-another example of StuffIt screw-up. sig

Re: Quicktime Vs Aspyr

s very difficult - there are many pieces that have to be removed - apps, plug-ins, frameworks, etc. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List

Re: reverting iTunes

Tunes upgrade, defies any pattern and no internal >diagnostics, reinstalling etc has helped) What does it say in system.log when you hook up the iPod? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: reverting iTunes

I am concerned that downgrading iTunes is a waste of time. I did some (albeit brief) googling and didn't find anything that refers to downgrading as an iPod fix. I found several articles that talk about iPod firmware problems... Can you please supply some references and perhaps

Re: Logitech DiNovo Keyboard & MediaPad

y sure you are SOL. > >Does the Mac see it as a keyboard? > >Aren't standards wonderful, everyone does them differently. The DiNovo PC edition only talks to WIndoze. Logitech sells a Mac version for Macs. They're playing games with the handshake. :( - Dan. -- - Psych

Firewire module in a B&W G3

x27;s daughter card? Thanks, - 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 partic

Re: Unstable upgraded B&W G3...

ems start. yes, exactly. And when the problems start, look to other components, not just the CPU. It might be that a PCI card or (more likely) one of the memory sticks is causing the problem. It could also be a heat issue... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~

Re: reverting iTunes

>which Um... In my googling last night, I ran across a few forum type replies where people gave directions on how to replace the flash media within the iPod. Might be worth a try. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~

A once in an epoch event!

Check it out! Better than watching your first car's odometer roll over! <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/04/unix_timestamp_milestone/> :) - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this mess

Re: irc:// -- how to open in non-browser application?

es - but not reliably. It's not enough that the system recognize the url and throw it to the right app; the app has to have the necessaries to catch it. Ircle does better than Snak, but both seem to have problems. - Dan (Darmok_ on Freenode). -- - Psychocera

The need, the need for (browser) speed

<http://nightly.webkit.org/> ...Don't forget to turn off the check for fraudulent sites in Safari/WebKit. That lame feature really slows things down a lot! FWIW, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this messag

Re: Default Icon View???

evel of the HD itself (double-click on the HD icon on your desktop). Set it up. Close it. Then open your home folder (shift-cmd-H), set it up, then close it,.. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received t

Re: New DVD RW running slow on PowerMac G4 Dual 450

burning speed? What burning speeds does Finder offer when you do a data burn? - 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 tho

Re: New DVD RW running slow on PowerMac G4 Dual 450

the thing can burn). >Do you need to set Master Slave settings ... can't remember about >ATAPI DVRs ... If he'd gotten it wrong, he'd have other problems. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You re

Re: Endless problems with little windows on screen

window every time you close it. Turning off pop-up windows should fix. - 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

Satan before coffee

fonts. ok. Coffee is ready. - 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 part

Re: Satan before coffee

At 11:23 AM -0500 2/8/2009, Mark wrote: >There has got to be a school of psychology that studies mis-readings. My brain runs down strange avenues when it's under caffinated. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~-

Re: ... on a G4 MDD

At 10:20 AM -0600 2/8/2009, Dan A. Currie wrote: >G4 MDD DUAL 1.25 MHz / 2 GB RAM >1 -120 GB (OS10.5), 1 - 200 GB (OS10.4), 1- 120GB and 1 - 6GB >(OS9.2) HDD's in that order. > >When I go to Startup Disk in System Preferences all 3 OS's are there on >their respective

Re: ... on a G4 MDD

At 11:07 AM -0600 2/8/2009, Dan A. Currie wrote: >When I try to boot up OS9.2 going through SP, it tries very hard to find >OS9.2 - the old file folder is there flashing from the Picasso to ? mark >about 5 or 6 times then it "gives up" and goes to 10.5. The flashing ? means

Re: ... on a G4 MDD

At 11:52 AM -0600 2/8/2009, James E. Therrault wrote: >Is the system folder blessed? It should be - it's selectable in the Startup Disk sysprefs. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: PACE ??

imental/ppc64/livecd/installcd-ps3-minimal-20071212-r1.iso Ok. That probably wrapped poorly, but you get the idea. To kill the download, hit ^C. To resume the download, just re-issue the command. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~-

Re: best browser now

you look at the crash log. The thread marked as crashed will have all sorts of references to "adobe" and "flash" in it. There is no total solution, other than just blocking all flash content. Flash is a horrible horrible horrible POS. See the thread "Flash in the pan

Re: LAN

the PC, turn on windows file sharing. - 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

Re: best browser now

one >that can handle flash without getting all crashy. See the "Cool plugin" thread on the G-Books LEM list. Great discussion re clicktoflash. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

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