On Sep 4, 2009, at 8:29 AM, Dan wrote:
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
-- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment
Corp., 1977
Heh... And we all know what happened to Digital Equipment!
snort
JT
(Who remembers them having B-I-G
On Sep 6, 2009, at 9:45 AM, lyne wrote:
I have 15 folders on my desktop, mostly with jpg files. I did download
CandyBar and found some cute Halloween icons for my desktop. Could
that be the problem? I'm an artist and a woman, and maybe it's silly
to you guys but I like interesting icons.
On Sep 10, 2009, at 5:05 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
.you can slap OS 9 onto a disk anytime.
If you want to boot from it (not just use it as Classic Mode) then
you need to make sure the driver was put on the disk when it was
initialized.
Here is where I run into trouble. The
On Sep 19, 2009, at 5:50 PM, hosemonkey wrote:
I am running Syst 10.4.11 and I need to use Classic. I have a Syst. 9
install disk. Apple tells me that I can find Classic support on my
10.5 intall disk. Where? Or am I missing something? Any way around
this?
I believe that it's an option
On Sep 20, 2009, at 10:00 AM, WhyOSX wrote:
There are many things my G4 cannot do with 'Tiger', but a G3 does
(SCSI card recognition for example).
Stupid G4.
And as TV sets I need my Performas, running 7.5.5, 8.5.1, 8.6, 9 or
9.1.
The update to 9.2 will not work on a system with an
Well, nothing Apple makes is manufactured in this country. The last
samples that were IIRC were G4 desktops.
In order to be competitive, components would have to come from
overseas as well. If this effort gathers steam, it will be in the
spotlight of Apple's legal beagles where they have a
On Oct 9, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Dan wrote:
At 9:20 PM +0200 10/9/2009, Mac User #330250 wrote:
When I see the CPU speeds of recent POWER chips (not PowerPC, but
the G5
derived from the POWER4+) it is very hard for me to believe, that
the PowerPC
developement wasn't able to compete with
On Oct 20, 2009, at 7:27 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Oct 20, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
got a whopping 64 megabytes of RAM in his.)
PC and Personal Computer go back before IBM started dabbling in
the
field.
Sort of, but they weren't in very wide use (but then, neither were
On Oct 21, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
I've had a rash of weird errors with ^...@#%@$ Firewire Boxes lately.
A professor just had his Iomega external drive cause OS X to be unable
to launch anything after it's plugged in. Weird. All the programs
running *before* you plug it in
Living out in the sticks has its disadvantages such as being stuck
with dial up internet.
Finally, I found a provider (3g) that gives me a solid unlimited (10x
dial up) speeds that I'm using on my Powerbook aluminum.
My old Gigabit desktop just is not up to the task and I'm considering
a
On Oct 28, 2009, at 6:53 AM, Bob Whiton wrote:
At 9:57 PM -0500 10/27/09, James Therrault wrote:
Living out in the sticks has its disadvantages such as being stuck
with dial up internet.
I'm there with you.
Finally, I found a provider (3g) that gives me a solid unlimited (10x
dial up
On Oct 28, 2009, at 3:17 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Oct 28, 2009, at 12:03 PM, James Therrault wrote:
IIRC, USB 1 is rated at a maximum of 12 Mb/s, while your
broadband
speeds will be well under 1Mb/s (I generally get 0.4 to 0.8 from my
provider), so I don't see the problem
First, a hearty thanks to all that responded.
Today I made a trip to Altex Electronics and bought 6' and 10' USB
extension cables. I figured that if need be, I could insert a
powered hub at the 6' distance. The benefit of all this was to place
the USB modem in a window free of foliage
On Dec 22, 2009, at 10:18 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Dec 22, 10:33 pm, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote:
Len Gerstel wrote:
My home Mac has been running rock solid for months with only rare
software crashes. My system is a DA with the following:
My experience with your configuration
I've been toying with getting a G4 Mac Mini 1.25 GHz or faster as a
stop gap move until going to some sort of Intel unit next year.
From what I have been able to research, 1 GB memory is the max that
is supported. My question is if anyone has ever installed 2GB?
TIA
JT
On Jan 22, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Dan wrote:
At 12:51 PM -0800 1/21/2010, Jonas Ulrich wrote:
Yes, Apple is dropping support for PPC machines and Tiger in general.
I've seen information about Apple no longer providing parts for
PowerPC-based Mac repairs, in some cases. But as for no longer
On Feb 22, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Da'Birdman wrote:
Yep, Kasey! Supported or not, I'm using a Apple Design Keyboard on
this post with an iMate on a Mac Mini Intel running Snow Leopard. I
much prefer the ADB Keyboards, especially this one. OTOH, never found
an ADB mouse that I really liked. . .
On Feb 22, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Feb 22, 2010, at 4:28 PM, James Therrault wrote:
I've been lurking on this thread and always thought that indeed,
G4 powerbooks had internal ADB even though it does not show up in
About This Mac hardware listings. I have a 1.25GHz PB
On Feb 22, 2010, at 9:58 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Feb 22, 2010, at 9:17 PM, James Therrault wrote:
I can't confirm any loading of extensions since I use Tiger.
What? You can look in System Profiler under Extensions, although
this may not show every extension. For a complete list
On Feb 23, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:43 PM, James Therrault
jetas...@netzero.com wrote:
On Feb 23, 2010, at 12:55 AM, Dan wrote:
Over the years, I think we've all taken note of Mac product
placement in
TV shows and movies. From Scotty
...as did some stupid nurse/hospital comedy back in the 1980's.
Oops, just got off topic since those were probably SE(s)...
JT
On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Da'Birdman wrote:
ROFLMAO! Don't forget the G3 iMacs that were always prominently
perched on the desks in Drew Carey's office.
On Feb 25, 2010, at 7:15 AM, Dan wrote:
At 9:16 AM + 2/25/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Bequette Jeff wrote:
I was going to mention Rush. I remember him extolling the
virtues of Powerbooks what back in 1990 when they first came out...
Always
On Feb 25, 2010, at 10:21 AM, diane wrote:
At 6:16 AM -0800 2/25/10, Austin Leeds wrote:
The IBM AT keyboard is known as the Model M, and it came in several
revisions, from ancient to fairly modern. The mechanisms in the Model
I have one of these in my attic - from 1985. Is there an
On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Feb 25, 2010, at 4:44 PM, James Therrault wrote:
The old Mac II extended keyboards were very good. But they were
of course ADB. I still have a couple of those somewhere...
Look for a Griffin iMate ADB-USB adapter if you want
On Mar 3, 2010, at 1:11 AM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:45 AM, lawson bishop wrote:
hey everyone can i put a powerbook g3 wallstreet display in
clamshell G3 i need the clamshell for school and its got a cracked
screen
There is someone on this list who replaced an 800x600
Heh, I got youse beat!
Two Power Computing 604e machines one of which I believe still has a
Sonnet G3 card...
JT
(Too much stuff, too little ambition)
On Mar 16, 2010, at 7:03 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
wait a sec. if you are a mac collector i have something u might
be interested
On Mar 21, 2010, at 2:09 AM, PETER WARNER wrote:
Here we are, three and a half years after the last G5 shipped, and
Apple has all but dropped support for PPC. In my other world, I am
a building maintenance tech. I keep up on news about building
automation, and HVAC controls, etc. PPC
In the old days, I used to use Visio but that went the way of
MicroSoft years ago.
I'm just curious if there is a decent flowchart app that is
reasonable $$$ for PPC Macs.
TIA
JT
(400MHz Gigabit, 1GB RAM, 160GB HD (three partitions)
On Mar 29, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Mar 26, 2010, at 7:59 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Mar 26, 2010, at 7:50 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
I'm just curious if there is a decent flowchart app that is
reasonable $$$ for PPC Macs.
Omnidraw, ConceptDraw (which opens Visio
On Apr 2, 2010, at 12:44 AM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Apr 1, 2010, at 12:41 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
It's much more reasonable to buy a 1.25Ghz PowerPC G4 processor
upgrade rather that the ones you see, because you don't know what
processors they are, and who knows what could be in them,
On Apr 2, 2010, at 11:01 PM, Albert Carter wrote:
This might be off-topic but fits with this response:
John,
You are only partially correct here. If you mean that AMD is CURRENTLY
consistently behind Intel you would be correct, however AMD has in the
past be ahead of Intel:
1) In 2006 AMD
On Apr 3, 2010, at 12:30 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
Well... I should have read the fine print. If those cutstom processors
are only upgrades from the ones of IBM and Motorola, then ok. look,
these days Ican barely trust anyone with fixing my Macs. First they
will say that it has alot of
On Apr 3, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Bill Connelly wrote:
On Apr 3, 2010, at 12:07 PM, James Therrault wrote:
Buyer always should beware... That said, I purchased a G4
PowerBook on eBay about three years ago and recently it had a
kernel panic. My cure was to boot in safe mode, run MacJanitor
On Apr 3, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Dan wrote:
At 1:54 PM -0700 4/1/2010, John Niven wrote:
http://www.weirdomatic.com/funny-mailboxes.html
Check out the very last photo for your next G4 project!
Very cool. Regretfully, it would last less than 24 hours here.
The kids from the HS down the
On Apr 3, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Peter wrote:
It still would be illegal to make copies ;-)
Peter M.
Legal precedent in several court cases upheld the right to make
personal copies of copyrighted material for personal use.
JT
-Original Message-
From: John Carmonne
On Apr 3, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Alexander MacLeod wrote:
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 7:55 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com
wrote:
Well maybe it's for the better, you really should stop pirating
movies, it's a violation of federal law.
--
Best Regards,
John Musbach
FYI Snarky John I happen
On Apr 16, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Charles Lenington wrote:
Kris Tilford wrote:
On Apr 16, 2010, at 6:37 AM, flags wrote:
New 20-30 iMac lab w/ wireless mice. Problem: Imac 1's mouse
controls
iMac 7, etc. is there a quick/simple fix?
Sounds like someone moved all the wireless mice around between
On Apr 17, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Dan wrote:
At 4:39 AM + 4/17/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
Some here will not like this. Some will dismiss it. Just as Intel
rumors were often dismissed.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/computers/?p=2162tag=nl.e589
It is unacceptable for Apple product
On Apr 17, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Baha Ata wrote:
There is EFI bios usb solutions out there already with right or
choosen hardware Pc can work with Mac Os X without hack with
orginal DVD of Mac OS X
I think that the Dell mini laptop, (netbook I think), might be one of
'em.
There are sure
On Apr 19, 2010, at 6:53 AM, diane wrote:
At 1:50 AM -0400 4/19/10, Dan wrote:
At 11:43 PM -0400 4/18/2010, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
or we could have a forums site.
To be honest, going pure forums is a deal breaker with me.
Ditto. No forums for me, hate them. Email is great, it all comes
On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Dan wrote:
At 6:03 AM -0500 4/19/2010, Bequette Jeff wrote:
I think it is perfect for my semi-luddite wife whose idea of using
a computer is that it should adapt to her- her preferred location
in the living room, not seated in front of a computer..
Someone
On Apr 22, 2010, at 10:35 PM, Richard Gerome wrote:
I got this 60g 7200rpm HD for my 466mhz Clamshell, I found a
detailed directions to format a new HD and the drive still doesn't
show up anywhere??? I even tried hooking up a firewire cable to my
Powerbook just to see if it showed up
On Apr 23, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Richard Gerome wrote:
I tried the other lists and the only one that lets me post is
the Jaguar list and this one, the Clamshell List isn't active
anymore, I am very sorry about this...
I have a 466mhz with DVD drive and the ram is maxed 576!!! The
On Apr 25, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Richard Gerome wrote:
I don't think Apple will care about this at all, they are old
OS's... If it was Leopard or Snow Leopard that would be
different... I'm only living on S.S. Disability, I do not own
anything or have any large amount of money saved and
On Apr 28, 2010, at 11:15 PM, Dan wrote:
At 12:01 AM -0400 4/29/2010, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
Oh really? Then how come i am able to install tiger on multiple
computers without activation or licence errors?
Not sure to what exactly you're commenting.
Apple chooses to trust its customers,
On Apr 29, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Dan wrote:
At 9:56 AM -0500 4/29/2010, James Therrault wrote:
On Apr 28, 2010, at 11:15 PM, Dan wrote:
At 12:01 AM -0400 4/29/2010, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
Oh really? Then how come i am able to install tiger on multiple
computers without activation or licence
On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:08 AM, Dan wrote:
At 4:00 AM + 6/14/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Dan
mailto:dantear...@gmail.comdantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At 9:01 PM + 6/13/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
Why there is not a basic computer
Living in the sticks has its drawbacks of which one is the nearly
absent availability of broadband
After sufferin' years with erratic dial up, Cricket, (USB Modem),
started covering the area last November of 2009. Best signal
strength was two and sometimes three bars. Service was pretty
On Jun 14, 2010, at 3:59 AM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:46 AM, James Therrault wrote:
So, am I on the right track thinking that somehow this modem was
not put away properly on the Powerbook? If so, what steps might
I take to recover it?
It's a software issue, and AFAIK
On Jun 14, 2010, at 9:17 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jun 13, 2010, at 11:46 PM, James Therrault wrote:
A call to tech support resulted in speaking with a Indian drone,
Martha to no avail. Modem would not mount as a CD on the
Powerbook G4 1.25MHz. After hanging up, decided to try
On Jun 14, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:29 AM, James Therrault wrote:
Yes, there is an update but every attempt to install it failed.
Now that you mention snow leopard, I know why it won't.
No, the update isn't for Snow Leopard only. The installer
On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Dan wrote:
At 1:46 AM -0500 6/14/2010, James Therrault wrote:
After sufferin' years with erratic dial up, Cricket, (USB Modem),
started covering the area last November of 2009. Best signal
strength was two and sometimes three bars. Service was pretty
On Jun 14, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:20 PM, James Therrault wrote:
That is unlikely, the 'improperly put away' issue only affects
read/write media like flash drives, and is a warning about un-
flushed write caches for that volume filesystem, it wouldn't
On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Dan wrote:
At 1:46 AM -0500 6/14/2010, James Therrault wrote:
After sufferin' years with erratic dial up, Cricket, (USB Modem),
started covering the area last November of 2009. Best signal
strength was two and sometimes three bars. Service was pretty
On Jun 14, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:29 AM, James Therrault wrote:
Yes, there is an update but every attempt to install it failed.
Now that you mention snow leopard, I know why it won't.
No, the update isn't for Snow Leopard only. The installer
On Jun 14, 2010, at 7:03 PM, Dan wrote:
At 5:44 PM -0500 6/14/2010, James Therrault wrote:
On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Dan wrote:
At 1:46 AM -0500 6/14/2010, James Therrault wrote:
After sufferin' years with erratic dial up, Cricket, (USB
Modem), started covering the area last November
On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:31 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Jun 14, 2010, at 6:31 PM, James Therrault wrote:
thus the failure since it is not seen on the desktop as a CD.
This is starting to sound more like a USB problem. Are you certain
your USB is working properly with other devices. Does
On Jun 15, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Dan wrote:
At 7:39 AM -0400 6/15/2010, Len Gerstel wrote:
2.4 GHz Mini with HDMI. And user friendly RAM slot.
Plus a little better graphics, NVidia 320m. But also a $100 price
bump.
I'm disappointed. IMO, this seems to be yet-another overpriced
Mini that
On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Dan wrote:
At 8:51 PM -0500 6/14/2010, James Therrault wrote:
Here's the system log beginning with a couple of lines before I
plugged the modem in. com.devgure... is when I plugged the
modem in. It's all Greek to me...
Definitely a hardware issue. Looks
On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:51 PM, John Martz wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
Definitely a hardware issue. Looks like it's cycling - it can't
get a grip
on the device.
Just wild speculation ... my first thought in a situation like this is
that the
On Jun 15, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Peter Haas wrote:
On Jun 15, 2010, at 11:27 AM, James Therrault wrote:
...and probably a slow 5,400 rpm drive...
Undoubtedly true.
One way to conserve unit power is to dumb-down the HD from 7200 to
5400 rpm, and from 16 MB cache to 4 MB cache.
Also
On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:07 PM, James Therrault wrote:
Have you tried loading this device as a different user on the
computer?
Not sure what you mean by different user as I'm the only one
that has used this machine since purchasing
On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Jun 15, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:07 PM, James Therrault wrote:
Have you tried loading this device as a different user on the
computer?
Not sure what you mean by different user as I'm the only
What I ended up doing was plugging the offending modem into the G4
Gigabit where it would mount as a CD.
I then created a new folder and copied the contents to it and then
sent it to my drop folder in the PowerBook.
(I first tried to do a disk image as suggested by Bruce but no go)
On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
Problem solved: I re-installed Leopard. I checked the logs, it said
it could not boot from leopard (the old copy of leopard i had
before it crashed) because of a bad HDD. OMG really? So i went out
and bought myself a new 80GB EIDE HDD.
On Jun 17, 2010, at 4:23 AM, Justin The Cynical wrote:
On 6/17/10 1:48 AM, James Therrault wrote:
On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
*snip*
failure until yesterday. I took it apart, and the entire disk was
charred/scratched inside. How wonderful? Next time i'll think
On Jun 17, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Dan wrote:
At 3:48 AM -0500 6/17/2010, James Therrault wrote:
Didn't Maxtor go belly up a few years back?
They were assimilated by Seagate. Seagate now uses the Maxtor name
to brand their lower-end drives.
I remember something of the sort as the original
On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Dan wrote:
At 10:39 AM -0500 6/17/2010, James Therrault wrote:
Didn't Maxtor go belly up a few years back?
They were assimilated by Seagate. Seagate now uses the Maxtor
name to brand their lower-end drives.
I remember something of the sort as the original
On Jul 4, 2010, at 8:23 AM, Norm Rowe wrote:
I'm trying to watch movies Netflick on my G4 Mac but am told I need
an Intel Mac. As I do not have that kind of money is there away
around this?
Thanks
Norm
Used Intel Mac Mini(s) are starting to get reasonable. It is the way
I plan to go
On Jul 8, 2010, at 1:23 AM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Jul 7, 2010, at 10:34 PM, Eric Herbert wrote:
Just remember on any G4 made prior to the Quicksilver 2002, you're
limited to a 120GB or smaller drive on the internal IDE bus.
There are multiple ways to get around this artificial 128GB
On Jul 8, 2010, at 4:30 AM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Jul 8, 2010, at 4:17 AM, James Therrault wrote:
I have a Seagate 160GB with three partitions which also seems to
have defeated the limitation.
Partitions have nothing to do with it, it's the total size only. I
suspect your Mac probably
On Jul 15, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote:
-- Original message --
Subject: Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!
Date:Donnerstag 15 Juli 2010N
From:John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
466 is kinda slow, if you can get a faster
On Jul 15, 2010, at 8:10 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:11 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
I can play DVDs in the optcal drive on a 500 with nothing running,
need all 500 processor or the stumbling begins. DVD image plays
smoothest.
Something is wrong. The optical drive should
On Jul 15, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Amanda Ward wrote:
snip
I was able to play DVDs on a BW with a G4/450 CPU. Not too bad,
but I had to close almost everything first.
Amanda
Well, if I'm watching a DVD I'll probably not be interested in much
of anything else. I don't have a DVD
On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:02 PM, Richard Gerome wrote:
Yeah I would have to agree with you on that Kris, I play DVD's
on my G3 466 Clamshell without any problems at all and the max
memory in that is only 576...
I just posted something similar but had 320MB ram. Never got around
to
On Jul 17, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Bob Whiton wrote:
At 5:16 PM -0500 7/17/10, Eric Herbert wrote:
,,, reason that HTML and Rich Text are suddenly taboo?
Nothing sudden about it. List rules for LEM lists have always
required it http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml, try
reading
On Jul 18, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote:
On 7/17/10 3:10 PM, Kevin Barth godai@gmail.com wrote:
With due respect, seems to me that a steadfast insistence on plain
text is dated and unrealistic.
This is not up for debate. It has to due with the bandwidth that
google allows
On Jul 19, 2010, at 3:34 AM, pdimage wrote:
On 19/7/10 03:39, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote:
(In a previous thread responding to Kyle Hansen)
You don't appear to be using plain text, (at least in my reader).
sigh
JT
Hmm - I am experiencing this anomaly recently
On Jul 19, 2010, at 6:11 AM, pdimage wrote:
On 19/7/10 11:19, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote:
I use Apple's Mail and have it set to only send out in plain text.
To see if you are actually using plain text, just type out a few
letters in a new mail. Then select all the text
On Jul 19, 2010, at 10:18 AM, pdimage wrote:
On 19/7/10 13:54, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
What you observed, in this particular case, was kindof a cascade
failure. Kevin Barth's reply in the thread was in rich text. Kyle
replied to that, quoting Kevin, so his email client used the
On Jul 19, 2010, at 6:11 AM, pdimage wrote:
On 19/7/10 11:19, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote:
But when you wrote this what did you see in your reader -
presumably not
fixed width Courier. Was it full width and a html type font as I
saw and if
so was it plain text
On Jul 19, 2010, at 4:00 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote:
This is a dilemma!
One the one hand you may have (get, buy) a PowerPC (also Intel?)
Mac. The bad
thing about it: it didn't came with the original installation
discs; they
simply seem to be lost, over the years maybe (like for tons of G4
On Jul 19, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
Please Content-Type text/plain
describes a mail message that, as delivered, contains zero, nada,
no, precisely no, information about the font and size in which the
email was sent.
You're missing the entire point. I never implied that
On Jul 20, 2010, at 3:07 AM, pdimage wrote:
On 20/7/10 07:16, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote:
It is not about Mac G hardware or one step removed. It is a good
candidate for the Mac2Mac list or a list where people like to debate
what plain text is while sending in
On Jul 20, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Jul 20, 2010, at 10:59 AM, James Therrault wrote:
OTOH, I understand exactly what Dan stated when he uses Lucida as
a display font but the actual output when mailed defaults to
Courier which is the plain text.
There is no internet
On Jul 20, 2010, at 11:19 AM, Dan wrote:
At 11:58 AM -0400 7/20/2010, Len Gerstel wrote:
The receiving device can be set to output the ASCII code as
Lucida, Courier, Zapf Chancery, Braille, punched paper tape, 80
column Hollerith cards, a ticker tape machine (yes, someone has
kludged one
On Jul 20, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jul 20, 2010, at 7:59 AM, James Therrault wrote:
I believe that RTF is a relatively late development as sort of a
bridge between full blown type control and plain text. But like
you, it can pass on as some here just don't know a lot
On Jul 20, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jul 20, 2010, at 2:55 PM, James Therrault wrote:
Certainly, RTF does provide even the novice user with pretty good
type control but it never did really fit my needs and of course it
wasn't available to Mac users until later.
RTF
On Jul 20, 2010, at 6:55 PM, glen wrote:
- Original Message
From: James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com
Heh... You're only a kid by my standards. Sometimes off topic,
(officially),
still can share knowledge or at the least some general
information. I learn a
lot
On Jul 21, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jul 20, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Jul 20, 2010, at 5:14 PM, onelucent wrote:
Yes, from an era, when economy in programming was a virtue.
It still is a virtue with the ascendency of the iPhone, iPad, and
other mobile
On Jul 21, 2010, at 3:39 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jul 21, 2010, at 12:32 PM, James Therrault wrote:
The faster machines become along with huge amounts of RAM, the
sloppier code gets.
A common claim, but not really backed up by evidence... modern
computers do a LOT more. Yes
On Jul 24, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Charles Lenington wrote:
The other side of the issue is when I want to forward an html msg
that I rcvd (off list) to a friend, there is no option in t-bird to
include the pictures as in the original. I've tried changing
prefs, but no change. I guess I'll have
On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Dan wrote:
heh. Grab your coffee and donut...
http://mac-security.blogspot.com/2010/07/desperate-propaganda-aka-
fud-in-anti.html
Love this guy's writings.
I get bombarded with security abuse all the time even though it is
essentially a non-issue. You'd
On Jul 26, 2010, at 1:03 PM, Jason Brown wrote:
On Jul 26, 2010, at 12:58 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote:
On Jul 26, 12:39 pm, Richard Gerome onecoolka...@earthlink.net
wrote:
I found this on newegg for $55.00 do you think it would be
good for this computer??? I can't seem to find any better
On Aug 12, 2010, at 8:31 PM, Midnight rider wrote:
Don't ever plug in a monitor bigger than 17 in a card that is less
than 32MB, because you won't like the performance at all, and it
might freeze. That used to happen to me when I had my 23 dell
plugged into my ATI rage 128 pro card. If
On Aug 12, 2010, at 10:25 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Aug 12, 2010, at 10:10 PM, James Therrault wrote:
I bought a 22 Samsung display plugged it in out of the box with
my G4 Gigabit/ATI RAgePro with 16MB. Never have had a problem.
I think you've got a problem and you just don't know
On Aug 13, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Aug 13, 2010, at 5:40 AM, James Therrault wrote:
I'm not sure what graphics you might be referring to, (I'm not a
gamer), but I can play DVD's full screen etc without any problems.
I imagine your scrolling within large, extended windows
On Aug 21, 2010, at 9:33 PM, Sarge3041969 wrote:
Hey all, I have read through some of the older threads for info, but
could not find anything quite like this so here goes:
I have a G4 digital audio 466mhz system that I would like to do some
upgrades to, but nothing extreme. I want to start out
On Aug 26, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Rock wrote:
On 8/26/2010 3:52 PM, Ashgrove wrote:
I LOVED Firefox. It was my browser of choice for a number of years,
and still is on the Windows platform. But it became very unstable a
few months back, just like Dan says, and I have ended up a reluctant
lover of
I subscribe to GigaNews and am using SeaMonkey 1.1 and a local
newsgroup will no longer load current posts. I subscribe to eleven
newsgroups and have no problems with any of the others. Previously,
unsubscribing and resubscribing usually cured this type of issue but
not this time. (problem
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