Re: ATI 9600 Dual DVI

On May 23, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Wayne Garrett wrote: I have one VGA monitor and the apple DVI to TV adapter on the other port. Switch the cable to be certain both DVI ports on the video card work individually. If both DVI ports work individually, then the problem is with the DVI-to-S-video ad

Re: Applications fail to launch

On May 22, 2011, at 8:30 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: The firmware isn't up to date, but I would think that OSX wouldn't install if it required a newer firmware. I think you should update the firmware before further troubleshooting. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group

Re: OS9 and OSX drivers for Adaptec AHA-2930CU?

On May 21, 2011, at 9:20 PM, admin wrote: This is what makes the Mac so great This is what MADE the Mac so great. I hope we never lose this flexibility Already lost, excluding the Mac Pro. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, a

Re: OS9 and OSX drivers for Adaptec AHA-2930CU?

On May 21, 2011, at 3:43 AM, Jörg Duurkoop wrote: Does anybody here have those drivers installed and could mail them to me please? Perhaps some of these links will work?(didn't try them)

Re: OT: Linksys WET54G Wireless Bridge

On May 20, 2011, at 6:27 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: Any more ideas before I trash this piece of crap Linksys and gets something that works? I am so frustrated... Is the firmware up-to-date? The Cisco site says there are three hardware version 1,2,3, and that the current firmware for each is v

Re: OT: Linksys WET54G Wireless Bridge

On May 19, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: I'd really appreciate some help on this. There's a link on this page that may help?: -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 de

Re: G5 1.8mhz spinning pinwheel

On May 17, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Wayne Garrett wrote: am still stuck when I tried to boot 10.5.8 from DVD. Hold Cmd-v at startup, see what the problem is. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular fo

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

On May 13, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: If you believe that EFI is some great conspiracy to prevent you from running another OS on a Mac it is YOU who doesn't understand what EFI is. I believe he's referring to TPM, not EFI. My understanding of TPM is that it's a set of cryptogr

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

On May 12, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Ralph Green wrote: I used an Ubuntu box, since Firefox 4 doesn't run on any of my macs. The 1.2 GHz G4 I am eying should be fast enough, if FF4 gets recompiled for PPC. Already been done, FF4 for PPC: -- You re

Re: login failing

On May 12, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Geke wrote: The big question: what else can it be? A corrupted cache or preferences file. Boot in Safe mode by holding the Shift key, this will trash the cache files and rebuild them. Reboot normally, if the same login persists, go to Accounts>Login Options an

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

On May 11, 2011, at 11:49 PM, jsmanson wrote: The mac is a G4 Digital Audio, I have both 9.2.2 and OS-X 10.4.11. The scanner is an Optronics Colorgetter 3 plus, using a program called Colorright Pro 2.0. I have no experience with this, but a quick web search seems to indicate the Optronics C

Re: G5 monitor fails to fire

On May 12, 2011, at 2:22 AM, pdimage wrote: Sounds like a bad dvi/vga adapter - have you checked for bent pins on it? - try a different adapter. Cable pins can be bent too causing intermittent contact. I agree, the adapter (or cable) seems a likely culprit. It seems like a DVI/DVI cable onto

Re: G4 Mini: Wifi Slot?; IR Receiver?; Choice of DVDRW?; Max Memory?

On May 11, 2011, at 10:54 AM, t...@io.com wrote: 1) Does anyone know what the Wifi slot is? It's proprietary. The kit is expensive and rare. The part you need is Apple part # M9870Z/A. It's 802.11g. I'd skip this and use a USB 2.0 802.11n adapter, any Broadcom USB adapter will work as "A

Re: G5 monitor fails to fire

On May 11, 2011, at 6:22 AM, ag wrote: Disconnecting all USBs and pulling power cable for ten minutes improved matters but now I have to power up 3-4 times or just leave it to another day. I don't understand? You mean you have to reboot 3 or 4 times and on the 3rd or 4th time the display f

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

On May 9, 2011, at 9:36 PM, admin wrote: Adobe Flash 10.2 Intel only, I believe. I haven't encountered any problems with the final PPC Adobe Flash 10.1.102.64. What problems have you encountered? Web sites are starting not to work under Leopard and Firefox Camino 2.0.7, Firefox 3.6.17, S

Re: Extracting JPEGl Files From Phone "Attachments"

On May 8, 2011, at 6:04 PM, glen wrote: Most of the graphics work is done but it would be good get access to a couple of JPEG's the client has sent -- apparently from a smart phone. Why do you believe they're .jpeg format? My guess is you've got some other format. All I received are files c

Re: Malfunctioning ATA Drive

On May 8, 2011, at 12:15 AM, admin wrote: Yes, I am still hoping for a one lucky mount and copy. If you're only trying to salvage the data, the old school method for dead HDs is to place them in the freezer for at least several hours so that they're 100% frozen, and then attach them to an

Re: Malfunctioning ATA Drive

On May 6, 2011, at 10:54 PM, admin wrote: WD ATA drive won't mount on desktop, Disk Utility and Data Rescue (DEMO) can't recognize. DiskWarrior can recognize but chokes on re- build attempt. Disk does spin up fine. Have in external Firewire/ USB 2 case with Single/Master pinning. Anything

Re: iMac G4 questions

On Apr 30, 2011, at 4:07 AM, Ralph Green wrote: I don't see how the bottom plate comes off. I see in the pictures that they got it out. But, what do you pull or pry on? In the 2nd photo the plug that's causing you problems is shown taken apart in about the 11 o'clock position and someone has

Unlock your doors!

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Re: Fan issue on Powermac g3 400mh, 640 ram

On Apr 25, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: Thanks and my apologies ... guess I got caught off guard with what seems to be double negative like techies ... I read it the same way the first time, and started at reply based upon the wrong reading, and only realized my error when I saw t

Re: Fan issue on Powermac g3 400mh, 640 ram

On Apr 25, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: I believe the original poster is saying the fans won't stop when the machine is shutdown ... i.e. powered off. Not Sleep Mode ... Not Booted Up ... Not in Screen Saver Mode ... but, Shut Down. Weird. I think you read his posting wrong. H

Re: Fan issue on Powermac g3 400mh, 640 ram

On Apr 25, 2011, at 12:06 AM, crumvoc wrote: This computer works great, except for other than a power-off, BOTH the fans (internal and power supply) will not shut down. This old computer doesn't support hibernate (safe sleep), which would be the only situation I'm aware of where an operatio

Re: G5 turns off

On Apr 22, 2011, at 4:55 PM, Mark wrote: Power supply? You can open the side and remove the clear plastic and smell. If you smell a burned electrical smell it's likely a power supply. You can use a multimeter to check the voltages, here's a pinout: Power Supply P1 Connector Pin# Signal Co

Re: spam

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Re: 10.4 install disk will not work on PowerMac G5

On Apr 19, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Goody2 wrote: 2. I am looking to buy a retail version DVD of OS 10.4.3 or higher. However, I don't understand how I could install the OS to the G5 via another computer if it is not supposed to run on the G5. I believe the installer has an artificial check prior to

Re: netflix

On Apr 17, 2011, at 8:33 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: I run Netflix on several Hackintosh systems. There is NO modifying of any kind required to install SilverLight on a Hackintosh. Well there IS a required alteration. The installation package must be opened and the installation_check

Re: netflix

Netflix is absolutely not Intel only. Silverlight installs for supported browsers and runs on AMD chipsets too. http://preview.tinyurl.com/y96fe7v In the parlance of G3-5-list, the term "Intel only" means as opposed to "PPC" (Power PC processors used on G3-5 Macs). AMD chipsets are considere

Re: Nullriver's MediaLink & Leopard on a G4

On Apr 14, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Jonathan Smith wrote: I have Java 1.5.0_28 Why don't have the latest? (Digital Audio Dual 533 with Leopard 10.5.8 ...) that is the latest for Leopard. 1.6.0_24 is the latest for Snow Leopard. It may be possible to install Java 1.6 on Leopard?:

Re: Poor wireless reception on G4 Aluminum Powerbook

On Apr 14, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: You're seriously suggesting that Apple would ship laptops with a 5' wifi range? Apple shipped not one iPhone, but TWO iPhone's with a major antenna/ reception issue. If you Google search this issue you can find MANY people having this probl

Re: can't print from os9 classic from g4 mdd

On Apr 14, 2011, at 1:06 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: Here's a possible solution for you: <http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031201162848684> And here's a BETTER solution I think?: <http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2005030316173578> -- You receive

Re: can't print from os9 classic from g4 mdd

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Re: Poor wireless reception on G4 Aluminum Powerbook

On Apr 13, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Bruce - in Orlando wrote: Can anyone tell me what the real problem is? It appears the aluminum PowerBook suffers like the Ti PowerBook did, bad reception because of metal case (Faraday cage). A few people bought external antennas from QuickerTek, but they don't

Re: can't print from os9 classic from g4 mdd

On Apr 12, 2011, at 11:30 PM, rumble wrote: I don't see "save as pdf" as an option in pm 6.5. Select "Print" and then in the print dialog window select "Save as PDF". -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with

Re: Using HD > 128GB in G4 Macs!

On Apr 12, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: I booted from the Tiger DVD, went to Disk Utility, set up the "free space" into MacOS format, hit "Partition" button... and all my data was gone! :-((( (to be honest, Disk Utility informed me that it would happen) Your mistake was using a

Re: Using HD > 128GB in G4 Macs!

On Apr 6, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: So, what would happen if one would flash the ROM of a QS with the Open Firmware ROM version of a QS2002? This is interesting. Apple apparently never released any firmware updates for any models of the QS, but I see versions 4.2.1f2, 4.3.3

ClickToFlash/Chameleon confusion

Recently I've noticed a couple cases where it appears two different software developers have created confusion by selected identical names for their products: The first is "ClickToFlash" where there appear to be two completely separate Safari products that do similar functions related to Fl

Re: Faxing from Mac - wanting Free Software other than built in

On Apr 5, 2011, at 1:42 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: The law is a conservative, slow-moving, ponderous luddite at times. Indeed so. I don't believe a FAX is necessary unless the transactions are "unilateral", meaning the parties involved don't have a prior written agreement to abide b

Re: Faxing from Mac - wanting Free Software other than built in

On Apr 4, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Dark_Mac wrote: I also forgot to state that my HP scanner is accessible via the ethernet connection. Not connected by USB. I'd separate scanning and faxing into two individual processes rather than searching for an integrated solution. Scan the document using

Re: Best OS X?

On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:22 AM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: I'd put 10.5.8 on it. I just set up a G4 iBook 1GHZ with Leopard and it ran great. With 10.4.11 it would run great 20-30% faster. Don't take my word for it, here's some measured results: 10.4.11 Xbench score 37.78:

Re: Best OS X?

On Mar 29, 2011, at 6:54 AM, thejean...@gmail.com wrote: What's the best/newest version of OS X for my 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4 PowerBook? I had a friend with a 1.67GHz PowerBook that I upgraded to 10.5.8 and he hated it, and made me downgrade it back to 10.4.11. He mainly used Adobe Photoshop,

Re: Disabling Top Sites

On Mar 26, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: NOTE: Cover Flow does not appear on older computers with graphics cards that don’t support Cover Flow Cover Flow requires Core Image support in the graphics card. Aha! It was only recently that I - several times over, as it were - installed

Re: LogMeIN question

On Mar 26, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: You can also get an alarm on low mains voltage. Best answer is to RTFM. Low mains usually dims the lights, too, at least when it's enough to trip the UPS alarm. I seem to get this fairly often, and the lights only dim perhaps one of thr

Re: How to install OS9 drivers after the fact?

On Mar 23, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: what if I forgot to install os9 drivers when I erased the hard drive the last time? Is there a way to install the os9 drivers without re- erasing the drive? I don't think this is the cause of your Option key boot problem, but you can reinst

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

On Mar 22, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Only one Mac uses Intel graphics A few more than one. I'm counting at least 12 models with three different families of Intel graphics. Without these many hackintosh would be SOL. Intel GMA 800: developer Mac Pro Intel GMA 950: MacBook

Re: Need a HP Laserjet Printer

On Mar 19, 2011, at 10:19 PM, Mama Haymes wrote: Hey what are you willing to pay? Please take this "off list" in the future. Remember that this is a "plain text" list. To post in "plain text" please either set your email preferences to "plain text" or individually set your posting to "pla

Re: importing iphoto files.

On Mar 19, 2011, at 8:47 PM, jason wrote: I had the pismo in target disk mode and it transferred the 6.5 gb worth of pictures, however, some pictures were psychedelic colors, and some were missing. And I got the same popup box (as noted in the original post above) that told me that the files co

Re: rich text problem

On Mar 19, 2011, at 6:37 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: A bit odd that Mail doesn't directly offer the option to view all messages as plain text. As far as I can tell. The problem isn't in the receiving end, it's in the creation end. You'll need to go to Mail>Preference>Composing Tab>Composing:Mess

Re: Emac issues and OSX 10.5.8 and Airport Extreme Card

On Mar 17, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Clmtyne wrote: I'm having to reset the date and time every time I reboot the system as well. This is a dead PRAM battery. Get a new one and report back if your problems aren't solved. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group fo

Re: Airport Card wont stay joined to network

On Mar 17, 2011, at 6:51 PM, Clmtyne wrote: I have issues adding a airport extreme card in a Mac Emac 1.25ghz system. I join a network and everything is fine until I restart the system and I have to go through and add again. This is frustrating. I know the keychain has something to do with it, b

Re: rich text problem

On Mar 17, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Alex Barnes wrote: Why does anyone care about rich text/plain text. People that care use correct grammar and punctuation. They also tend to bottom post or interleave their replies because they believe top posting is rude. Bruce has posted a good example of why

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

On Mar 16, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Tina K. wrote: He said that YouTube is like a slide show. (His opinion!) Is there a way to speed up the processor? YouTube is available in several formats, and there are ways to avoid Flash and force the use of the WebM HTML5 format instead. It may be faster

Re: importing iphoto files.

On Mar 14, 2011, at 7:43 PM, jason wrote: Pismo's in target mode, connected by firewire. I opened up iphoto 6, File>Import to Library. Chose applications> but the iphoto 3 icon seems to be grayed out, and can't select it as an option. It's NOT the application you're trying to import, it's t

Re: M-Audio Revolution 7.1 and Power Mac G4

On Mar 14, 2011, at 9:54 AM, imrazor wrote: As a final note, I'd like to point out that the the Revolution sounds very good on a Hackintosh. A hacker has taken it upon himself to write Intel drivers from scratch for the Revolution (and similar cards) that actually sound quite good. See here: ht

Re: importing iphoto files.

On Mar 14, 2011, at 1:59 PM, jason wrote: Ok. Got the g5 in target disk mode and in iphoto on the pismo I clicked File>Export to a folder on the g5. Popup box said : Caution. There is not enough disk space to complete that operation. The hard drive on the pismo has 68 gb free and the g5 has

Re: Radeon 9600 from G5 – possible upgrade for G4?

On Mar 14, 2011, at 12:51 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: Why tape the pins 3&11, if this card doesn't feature ADC? The problem is related to using normal, non-ADC x8 AGP cards in x2 & x4 AGP ADC G4 Macs. Since the card you're citing, the Dual-DVI 9600 RV351, 128 MB VRAM is a x8 card from a G5

Re: rich text problem

On Mar 12, 2011, at 5:26 PM, John Carmonne wrote: Why can't the list managers make some kind of a rich text block on the lists Yes, this is a great idea, bounce all posts that aren't plain text. Unfortunately, I don't think Google has an option for this? Several list owners have requested

Re: M-Audio Revolution 7.1 and Power Mac G4

On Mar 12, 2011, at 7:01 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: You should read all older posts about this. Thanks, I will. Didn't search because I really didn't figure there would be any. One problem with archive searches is that this list migrated from LEM and MacLaunch.com over to Google Groups, and

Re: 533MHZ Digital Audio G4 won't boot to OS9.1 retail CD

On Mar 9, 2011, at 12:18 AM, jsmanson wrote: I CANNOT get this machine to boot from a CD drive, with the retail CD of 9.1 (Not copied, it has the apple logo on it), and I can't get it to go with ISO files of 9.1, 9.22, and 9.21, they all do the same thing - a quick read from the CD, and the sys

Re: Superdrive woe

On Mar 8, 2011, at 6:38 AM, Jonathan Smith wrote: I have a 17" powerbook G4 1.5 with the MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-825 superdrive. I am not a frequent burner of dvd/cd's. But I am used to more modern drive which don't fuss over what type of media you use. According to it's specs, it reads dvd full sto

Re: Target mode problem (fwd)

On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Clark Martin wrote: No ports other than the Firewire port are functional in Target Disk mode, and nothing will work other than the HD, which should mount onto any other Mac, or PC with MacDrive for Windows, or Linux PC or Mac w/HFS+ support. In at least some mo

Re: Target mode problem (fwd)

On Mar 7, 2011, at 7:20 PM, MichaelP wrote: Thanks for the link -- It does not clearly explain what trouble MY machines are in, but there is an obvious asymmetry which oughtnot to have any effect. One machine has broadband internet connection, the otherr does not The firstmachine sets up in t

Re: Mount eSATA drives on the fly

On Mar 5, 2011, at 8:39 PM, Dan wrote: I don't believe that the 1V4 supports hot swapping. From your 2nd link above: Three unique things come to mind after spending some time testing their products. 1. Ho

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

On Mar 3, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: Kris, I am admitting ignorance here. I don't know how to interpret the bench marks and what they mean. They're just a scale for comparison. Sometimes the scale isn't very good, but until there's a better scale, it's what we have. In t

Re: 533MHZ Digital Audio G4 won't boot to OS9.1 retail CD

On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:09 PM, jsmanson wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_9 give a look at the table at the bottom under the PowerPC Digital Audio G4, and it tells you that: OS 9.0 is NFG; 9.1 is OK, but it needs a 'custom' version of the 9.1 install disk; 9.2 is also OK (But I can't us

Re: 533MHZ Digital Audio G4 won't boot to OS9.1 retail CD

On Mar 3, 2011, at 12:30 AM, Sean Carroll wrote: Can you not, from within Tiger, insert the OS 9.1 install CD and install OS 9.1 on your "empty" HD (or a partition there)? I think you're correct here, I don't think you need to be booted in OS 9 to install OS 9, you should be able to do it f

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:13 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: Can this Mac handle 10.5 without a lot of slowdown? The slowdown averages about 15% or so, you can check out the Xbench or Geekbench archives for exact numbers for your specific Mac:

Re: how to record voice and screen activity on the cheap?

I thought someone said you could do this same thing for free using Skype? I don't mean as a recording a file, but that with a live Skype connection you have an option to display your desktop live while you talk live, so you can demonstrate whatever you need interactively, which would seem b

Re: 22 pin power supply

On Feb 27, 2011, at 10:44 PM, smac0031 wrote: I think I have found a source for a replacement power supply. Does 22 pin mean the number of wires that comes off the power supply? Otherwise the markings on these power supplies are identical to the markings on the power supply in my DA.

Re: Fan Cowl on the MDD fw800?

On Feb 26, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: On Feb 26, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: just some curiosity here . has anybody ever seen the cowl/ housing? You're probably talking about the little strip of foam shown in these photos:

Re: Fan Cowl on the MDD fw800?

On Feb 26, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: just some curiosity here . has anybody ever seen the cowl/housing? You're probably talking about the little strip of foam shown in these photos: --

Re: Timer

On Feb 26, 2011, at 8:23 PM, Dan wrote: Geeze. Using a Mac as a $2 egg timer?! Two dollars for an egg timer!? You must be using an Apple iEgg or iEgg Pro? At any Dollar Store you can get a generic egg timer for only a buck. It won't look as nice or work as seamlessly as an Apple iEgg, but

Re: Timer

On Feb 26, 2011, at 7:27 PM, John Carmonne wrote: Is there a timer I can get for my Mac that I can set to remind me audibly of an elapsed amount of time to help with my cooking? -- You received this message bec

Re: Any way to convert WMV to .Mov?

On Feb 26, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Tom wrote: Some of the movies I download off the net are in WMV format, and QuickTime Player won't play them (I have QT 7.6.9 pro). Doing a web search, I find third-party utilities that will do this conversion, priced from $25 to $50, but hasn't anyone created a sha

Re: GeForce FX 5200 causing kernel panics on Sawtooth running Tiger

On Feb 24, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: according to the OHS website. ??? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-li

Re: Apple laptop advice

iPad is the $500 portable Mac. And a wonderful little netpad it is. One that is too weak for much graphic work or standard app. Yes, but with web 2.0, cloud computing, and web applications emerging, you can use this web-based power to leverage iPad from within a browser window. -- You re

Re: GeForce FX 5200 causing kernel panics on Sawtooth running Tiger

On Feb 24, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: I've been unable to get this new graphics card to work properly. It's the only failure of an otherwise successful upgrade project (Sonnet ST/ G4 1.0 GHz CPU, SATA card and HD, and USB 2.0 card were the other items). I finally spoke with Bob at

Re: Apple laptop advice

On Feb 24, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Mike Linnett wrote: I'm not sure what the question is, really, but Apple has never made a (RRP) $600 laptop. iPad is the $500 portable Mac. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - wi

Re: Better bootloader

On Feb 24, 2011, at 4:50 PM, nestamicky wrote: Thanks, Kris. Are you able to point me in the right direction to get the right version for Chameleon that will work on a PPC machine? There's no such thing as Chameleon for a PPC Mac. It's open source, but I think it's much more complicated tha

Re: Better bootloader

On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:14 AM, Nestamicky wrote: Thanks for your input. But I was looking for an application that won't require that sort of interation. Something that we could see with Chameleon, for example. I use Chameleon every day, and it requires at least as much interaction as pressi

Re: Live TV on PM G5

On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:05 AM, John Carmonne wrote: I have a PM G5 that I want to watch live cable TV news and market channels. CNBC, FNC, MSNBC and CNN. I'm having trouble finding an internet service for this. Yes, that's the way they want it. Now everyone pays for cable TV AND internet, a

Re: App to Delete Unused Languages, Printers, Modems

On Feb 24, 2011, at 1:16 AM, Judith Berkowitz wrote: what should I choose to clear out in the Input Menu category? You can clear out all the foreign language input methods that you don't normally write or speak. You probably should keep the Apple Keyboard Layouts. These won't save much spa

Re: App to Delete Unused Languages, Printers, Modems

Barney Guzzo wrote: Where do you get 1.3.9? Yersinia wrote: Yeah, good question. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus o

Re: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X -- free today!

On Feb 23, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: So far I've been happy with the the open source NTFS-3G, although it's oftimes very slow to mount a volume. I suspect the slowness may be on purpose? After all, they splintered off Tuxera NTFS for Mac from NTFS-3G and make the claim that if

Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox

On Feb 21, 2011, at 7:02 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am running the latest Snow Leopard and Firefox. All of a sudden, I keep getting the spinning beach ball of death! And it won't quit! I have to force quit over and over again. It doesn't matter if I select an email, try to delete, use a b

Re: Sawtooth/Tiger boot problems

On Feb 20, 2011, at 8:54 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: Graphics/Displays: GeForce FX 5200: Chipset Model: GeForce FX 5200 Type: Display Bus: AGP Slot: SLOT-A VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor:nVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0321 Revision ID: 0x00b1 ROM Revision: 2060 Another odd

Re: Sawtooth/Tiger boot problems

On Feb 20, 2011, at 8:18 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: With this from System Profiler>Extensions: What does System Profiler>Graphics/Displays>nVidia GeForce FX5200 say? Specifically, Vendor & Device IDs and the ROM Revision? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: network settings have changed-but it won't go away!

On Feb 20, 2011, at 7:18 AM, Andy wrote: Hey guys. I'm one of the folks who recently had problems with the g5 1.8 tower being flakey as far as the monitor not turning on goes. Turns out that yes, indeed, it was the pram battery that was dead. So I picked up a router antenna from amazons site:(h

Re: Sawtooth/Tiger boot problems

On Feb 19, 2011, at 11:29 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: There is no joy to be had from this GeForce 5200 FX graphics card. The 5200 is usually a pretty good card, it supports both Quartz Extreme & Core Image. Have you checked the firmware revision in System Profiler against other versions availa

Re: Shut down problem & Internal hard not mounting

On Feb 18, 2011, at 6:47 AM, nick telis wrote: I tried reformatting the drive with Disk Utility and I get an error. What's the error? Do the Console logs show anything? Any suggestions? You wife's Intel iMac may be able to boot the Maxtor drive utility CD? (or Seagate SeaTools for DOS CD

Re: Mac G5 superdrive Sony DW-Q28A use DVD+r DL media?

On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:33 PM, h2ofun wrote: I keep making coasters in my G5 superdrive using DVD+R DL media. I first was doing in Leopard. Then I tried via Tiger. Have tried Toast version 10. I assume DVD+R DL media is okay since the drive say it support it. I have this same drive in my G5,

Re: I have a Pioneer DVR 115

On Feb 16, 2011, at 9:07 AM, smac0031 wrote: If I am not mistaken, this DVR was at one time oem from Apple. If it is, then I had the same problem. I got mine from OWC. Mine wouldn't burn CD's but it would read CD's and DVD's. Anyway, I wound up replacing it. Fortunately, they are cheap. Perhap

Re: 3rd party wireless pci card for MDD

On Feb 13, 2011, at 9:10 PM, akhoff18 wrote: I tried, to the best of my ability, but it said that the command could not be found. does the entire script need to be dragged or just the specific chip that i have? Download the file "bcm43xx_enabler_0.5.3.sh.zip" and double-click it to unzip it.

Re: 3rd party wireless pci card for MDD

On Feb 13, 2011, at 2:30 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: There is a script which purports to add to the plist the remaining (i.e., the omitted) Broadcom IDs. The script is called "bcm43xx_enabler_0.5.3.sh.zip". After unzipping launch Terminal, type "sudo" without the quotes, add a space an

Re: Is it memory or software?

On Feb 12, 2011, at 10:36 PM, Opinioneditor wrote: It is only Adobe products that are doing it. Today, I accessed the software from a laptop through Airport, and it ran fine on the laptop. I don't think you're getting this. Your test doesn't help, and doesn't address the problem. Adobe insta

Re: Is it memory or software?

On Feb 12, 2011, at 10:28 PM, Opinioneditor wrote: Are the capacitors easy to get to, and can they be changed DIY? This isn't a capacitor issue because it only affects your Adobe software. When you Google search "Read Only Memory Exception" which is the error you cited, the ONLY results yo

Re: DHCP Server??

On Feb 12, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Dan wrote: Um, why not just use the dhcp service built-in? That's what I thought also, why reinvent the wheel? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power

Re: My g5 is a snob

My G5 which is a dual 2.3 using PC3200 is VERY picky about how the RAM is seated. I reseated my sticks something like 26 times before I got all 8 slots recognized and working simultaneously. Once they all were recognized, I've never had another problem. I think it helps if you press the CUDA

Re: Power Mac G4 733mhz Digital Audio dilemma

On Feb 10, 2011, at 8:43 PM, Scotty wrote: I have a copy of Leopard from my Quicksilver but if fails to install and Leopard Assist does not seem to work (I have actually never successfully gotten Leopard Assist to work on a non supported G4.). Then use the Open Firmware method instead of Leopa

Re: Power Mac G4 wireless success story

On Feb 10, 2011, at 6:42 PM, faithie999 wrote: i bought a mini-pci to pci adapter on ebay for about $6 including shipping. in my parts bin i had a mini-pci broadcom wireless card that i had salvaged from an old dell laptop. There are many 802.11n mini-pci Broadcom cards for cheap, and this

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