Re: Can I add IR to my Quicksilver?

2010-05-19 Thread Kevin Barth
Trying this again. My first attempt got rejected for excessive quoting... Thanks, everybody, for your suggestions! I think Jeffrey's device is exactly what I'm looking for. Kevin On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote: I got this IR and software, works great

Re: Can I add IR to my Quicksilver?

2010-05-21 Thread Kevin Barth
The media center is in another room than the Macbook, which needs to remain there most of the time because of the printer, hard drive, speakers, etc. that are generally attached to it while I'm at home. If I don't want to go across the room to use the mouse/keyboard that are connected to the

Re: Can I add IR to my Quicksilver?

2010-05-24 Thread Kevin Barth
Hadn't thought of that. Yes, that is another possible solution, thanks! On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:13 PM, ben64sm...@googlemail.com ben64sm...@googlemail.com wrote: You can buy IR extenders, they are used were you have set-ups like a Sat box in one room and a second TV in the bedroom, they

Re: G3 Lime iMac and 10.4 instal CD

2010-06-15 Thread Kevin Barth
Another possibility is what I did on my G3. If you have access tp a MacBook, put the Tiger DVD in its drive and throw it into hard drive mode. Then hook it up to Your G3 via USB. At 4:01 PM + 6/15/2010, janespra...@comcast.net wrote: I need to install 10.4 on a G3 Lime iMac. However, I

Re: G3 Lime iMac and 10.4 instal CD

2010-06-15 Thread Kevin Barth
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Matt Rhinesmith platni...@gmail.comwrote: Lime iMacs can't boot from external HDDs, as they have no FireWire Yup. That's why I specified using USB. Although as another poster noted, there are some G3s that have firewire. Mine does, for example :-) But I

Re: plain text please

2010-07-17 Thread Kevin Barth
With due respect, seems to me that a steadfast insistence on plain text is dated and unrealistic. Most people today are using email clients, either online or localized, that are capable of accurately reproducing emails encoded with fairly complex HTML markup. It's fast becoming the norm. PINE

Re: plain text please

2010-07-17 Thread Kevin Barth
JUST DON'T SEND HTML! Well, there are reasons for it but rarely, if at all, on a mailing list that's for users of older machines. Just because we're all users of older machines doesn't mean we use those machines exclusively to read emails. And even if some of us do, so what? My G3 is very

Re: plain text please

2010-07-17 Thread Kevin Barth
Well, Plain Text traditionally refers to Low ASCII characters and numbers (0-127). Anything else is likely to be non-standard and can produce unpredictable results on the receiving end of an email (or any other internet transmitted file for that matter). Ken The aim at the LCD argument.

Re: plain text please

2010-07-17 Thread Kevin Barth
For those of you arguing that anyone's machine can display HTML and styled text, that's not the point. One of the posts that triggered this came through in huge blue letters on my system. In the past, some posters have sent HTML that displayed as fine print only a lawyer could love. The

Re: Card Reader

2010-07-19 Thread Kevin Barth
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: Why would a 24x CD-ROM be a requirement for a USB 2.0 cardreader, this makes no sense. The speed requirement makes no sense (and no difference in all likelihood...), but these devices often have drivers for pre-windows

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin Barth
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:46 PM, admin oneluc...@mac.com wrote: How do you do that? I always wondered why one monitor couldn't work for all uses. Thanks. It's not difficult. I have a KVM switch set up to allow me to share the monitor between multiple CPUs. One of the CPUs has an ATSC tuner

Re: Whatever happened to RAM disks?

2010-08-07 Thread Kevin Barth
Ram disks are not for storing programs . they disappear on shutdown unless set up for reboot. A lot of people use RAM drives to store executables, in fact. Yes, they disappear on shutdown unless set up for reboot. So set them up for reboot. Adding a few seconds to a reboot that I might do

Re: Quicksilver trouble

2010-08-14 Thread Kevin Barth
Have you tried resetting the PMU? On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:46 PM, TVirkkala multi...@wirkman.com wrote: Thanks for all the help. but I really blew this question (below). It turns out that the system just shuts off before the login window comes up. The system itself is shutting down. The

Re: Writing on the wall...

2010-08-26 Thread Kevin Barth
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Illirik Smirnov illir...@gmail.com wrote: Who uses Firefox? I do, most of the time. Yes, it's slow, and especially in the last couple of releases has had some stability issues. But Safari lacks some of the plugins that I use on a day to day basis. Hopefully

Re: Writing on the wall...

2010-08-27 Thread Kevin Barth
Unstable? I've never had any problem with Firefox on my g4's running Leopard. Or on Windows XP either. I did have problems with crashing about a year ago but that was because of a non-standard card I installed in my Dual 1.42ghz G4. So, it was a hardware problem that showed up as Firefox

Re: Quicksilver question

2010-09-29 Thread Kevin Barth
PC Cards are another name for PCMCIA cards, the type of small, external expansion cards that were used in early laptops. The original Airport card was a PCMCIA, and the Quicksilver has a PCMCIA port to accept it. However, when the Airport is used, System Profiler lists it as an Airport card and

Re: Quicksilver question

2010-09-29 Thread Kevin Barth
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Kevin Barth godai@gmail.com wrote: PC Cards are another name for PCMCIA cards, the type of small, external expansion cards that were used in early laptops. The original Airport card was a PCMCIA, and the Quicksilver has a PCMCIA port to accept it. However

Re: Another Quicksilver Question possible dirty lense on drive.

2010-09-30 Thread Kevin Barth
If you don't have one, email me privately. I have tons and would be happy to send you one. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Stephen Rudy sr...@cudc.org wrote: Dirty lens is my first guess. Get yourself one of those DVD drive cleaning disks with the little microfiber brushes sticking up on

Re: Quicksilver CD-ROM

2010-10-05 Thread Kevin Barth
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Eric Herbert goo...@hillcotechnology.comwrote: OK, first off THANKS for the cleaners for my CD-ROM and DVD Player! Now, I ran the one for the CD-ROM unit and then stuck that CD-ROM back in and it STILL asks me to choose between Ignore and Eject. I

Re: How to burn VIDEO_TS

2010-10-10 Thread Kevin Barth
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Lavode lav...@comcast.net wrote: On 10/10/10 10:34 AM, M Christol chris...@fuse.net wrote: step3: if you want audio, you'll need to create another folder inside the folder you created in step1. Name this new folder AUDIO_TS. == I don't

Re: iTunes De-authorize issue on a G5

2010-10-18 Thread Kevin Barth
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: When you have a DRM track the first thing to do is create a non-DRM duplicate, then trash the original DRM file and never worry about authorization again. It's your

Re: back up generator question

2010-10-30 Thread Kevin Barth
And do you have the same generator he does? Or are you familiar enough with the output of the generator he has to make the claim? All generators are NOT created equal. Some produce MUCH cleaner output than others. Spikes and surges can destroy sensitive electronics. Square Wave-producing

Re: back up generator question

2010-10-30 Thread Kevin Barth
not knowing too much about electricity 800 watts seems like a lot for our use. How much juice does a mac mini and external HD pull? Well under 800 Watts. Depends on what you are using for a monitor, of course. Per Apple, Mac Mini (without monitor) uses 85-110 Watts.

Re: G4 Quicksilver 2002

2011-02-11 Thread Kevin Barth
I have both Leopard and Tiger on my dual-800 QS with 1.5gb ram. Leopard takes longer to startup, but once it has done so, I have no problems with its performance. I don't have a single-processor model to compare it to, though. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Jay jonathan.newcas...@gmail.com