Re: G4 Tiger vs Leopard benchmarks

On Oct 30, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Dan wrote: > What about Spotlight - did you have its indexing disabled on all > volumes? No. Spotlight wasn't disabled, but it was also not indexing. I should have also commented that the CPU overhead of Leopard was about 2% higher than Tiger. Tiger was about 5%

Re: CCC

On Nov 1, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Dan wrote: > What a waste of space and time! I just cloned a drive with about 420 GB of data. It took a little over 7 hours in a G5 with a pair of striped RAID source HDs on the 1.5 Gbps built-in SATA 1.0 bus, and a single target HD on a 3 Gbps PCI-X SATA 2.0 b

Re: CCC

On Nov 1, 2008, at 10:24 PM, insightinmind wrote: > Was there an "Ignore Permissions ..." somewhere in your scheme? from > the Disk being copied from? Perhaps? I don't clone too often these days, I've been trying to use Time Machine. In the past CCC always worked for me with the default sett

Re: Boot a G3 from USB pen drive?

On Nov 2, 2008, at 10:38 PM, joplinfan wrote: > Any tips on how I can get the iMac G3 to recognize it as a bootable > drive? Did you reformat it as Apple HFS+? Drives are MS FAT32 to begin with. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are su

Re: Boot a G3 from USB pen drive?

On Nov 2, 2008, at 10:38 PM, joplinfan wrote: > Any tips on how I can get the iMac G3 to recognize it as a bootable > drive? Also, if you reformat to HFS+, be certain the partition scheme is "Apple Partition Scheme" for your 2001 iMac. Newer versions of Disk Utility default to the GUID parti

Re: Boot a G3 from USB pen drive?

On Nov 2, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Steve R wrote: > Can an iMac G3 boot from USB? The colored iMacs and iBooks can boot USB. It's slow, since it's USB 1.0. Why would you want to do this? Normally, it'd be for emergency use only, such as to clone an internal HD to a Firewire HD in a completely sa

Re: System Crash - Spotlight???

On Nov 3, 2008, at 1:46 AM, Charles Lenington wrote: > RediG3-5 wrote: >> Mini G4 10.4.11 >> >> I've had several Crashes recently >> where I get that nasty black dialog telling me that I have to shut >> down by pressing the power button for several seconds. >> >> When I reboot, it seems that Spot

Re: How much bandwidth is in use?

On Nov 3, 2008, at 9:40 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: > How much bandwidth is in use? You can measure bandwidth in real time using a utility like Menu Meters. The webcams performance can be related to many things. Some cams are slow, and can only do so many frames per second. If it USB 2.0 and you

Re: is my mac afflicted?

On Nov 3, 2008, at 11:35 PM, dan frederiksen wrote: > can i get some help please? If you'd mention the OS you're using, and the specific configuration, for example CPU speed, and RAM amount, this would be a good start. Also, what specific application are you using that is so slow? Is it sl

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

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Re: How much bandwidth is in use?

On Nov 6, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Jonas Lopez wrote: > Questions: Where is this bandwidth comming from? Little Snitch can show each individual source and how much it's using. It also allows you to control which processes can connect or not. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Yo

Re: iDVD refuses to run

On Nov 6, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Christopher Icha wrote: > iDVD and iMovie refuse to run on my iMac. They just crash and throw > up an error message. This has happened ever since I tried to reinstall > iMovie 6 after upgrading to Leopard and realising that it was no > longer continued. I have just b

Re: Estate sale find, imac wi password and bad CD...How to get past

On Nov 6, 2008, at 3:42 AM, Paxton wrote: > My question is how to bypass the password. Try:

Re: Upgrading the OS on an iMac700

>> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 12:25 AM, aechmea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> Sorry Jim and others, I wasnt clear enough. My iMac is actually a G4 >> - the LCD on a stick in the half snowball. I have a feeling that >> 10.5 >> will work since it's a G4. But will 10.5 actually work nicely o

Re: Upgrading the OS on an iMac700

On Nov 8, 2008, at 5:31 AM, aechmea wrote: > The 3 Tigers that I have would appear by their label to be machine > specific. Maybe the "G5" one would have a chance of installing on the > iMac. I'd think there'd be about a 99% chance you could use the G5 install disc on the iMac if you have the

Re: Upgrading the OS on an iMac700

On Nov 8, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > And your results are quite anomalous.. I don't think they're anomalous according to benchmarks with archived results for literally thousands of users. You can run the benchmarks yourself. If you get different results, post them like I did.

Re: B&W G3 - Strange display problems running 10.4

On Nov 8, 2008, at 10:37 PM, joplinfan wrote: > I'm kind of thinking it could be the ATI Rage 128 > video card or the HD, but not positive. No. It's not the Rage 128 video card, but you should try to replace it with at minimum a Radeon 7000. Then enable Quartz Extreme with PCI Extreme 3.1 an

Re: Admin password and name

On Nov 9, 2008, at 5:38 PM, Norman Rowe wrote: > First off I have never had linux. I have OS 10.5.5 on 2 HD drives. > The backup seems to be fine. The main one keeps asking for an > admisitrator name and password, does not like any I have tried. The > backup system pref is set to admin but

Re: Video Oddness

On Nov 10, 2008, at 6:24 AM, Andy wrote: > A friend’s G4 iBook is displaying strange video behaviour. Pink and > blue artifacts appear on the screen from boot up onwards. Also > images from windows leave their impression behind when closed. This > can sometimes be ‘cleaned up’ by draging an

Re: Out of the Blue

On Nov 10, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Dan wrote: >> That's what happened. What I did was install "Dock Detox" for >> Entourage from Unsanity. > > gah. What's the deal with Unsanity's haxie? It seems to break a lot > of things way too often! This is unfair. Unsanity products preform perfectly when use

Re: Admin password and name

On Nov 10, 2008, at 2:47 PM, norm46 wrote: > How does one delete the login keychain? Open the application "Keychain Access" in your Utilities folder. In the lefthand column highlight the keychain called "Login" and Control- click or right-click on it to get the contextual drop down menu and

Re: Out of the Blue

On Nov 10, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Dan wrote: > A responsible programmer would have put appropriate sanity (sic) > checks in their code to make sure it DOESN'T LOAD if it's on an > unsupported configuration. This is crazy. You're telling me that a software developer should go back and make certain t

Re: Hot iMac

On Nov 10, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Simon Royal wrote: > I even have a white cat called Widget (I got here when Tiger first > came out). "Wink" is sitting on my lap now, she's a really wild one! She always sleeps near the warm comput

Re: DDR 3200 In eMac 1.25Ghz

On Nov 10, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Simon Royal wrote: > Hi > > Am I right in thinking DDR 3200 RAM will work in a machine that > takes DDR > 2700 as long as both are 184 pin sticks. > > I've been offered some 1GB sticks of DDR 3200. I know my eMac takes > 2x1GB > sticks. > > Is it just like PC133 a

Re: Backing up "users" without backing up the whole OS X Boot volume

On Nov 12, 2008, at 8:31 PM, Mullin9 wrote: > So if l buy a new Mac, or I get a new Hard Drive, I could migrate my > "User" from the USB thumb drive, rather than relying on a Hard drive. I don't think Migration Assistant looks initially for individual files and folders, it starts looking for a

Re: where do I find /var/log/install.log?

On 14/11/2008, at 5:27 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: >> In the log list at the very bottom is /var/log/ and open it with >> the little cravat and find install.log. I wrote this above, but I'm wondering . . . I called the little triangle icon that expands a directory in list form

Re: where do I find /var/log/install.log?

On Nov 14, 2008, at 12:18 AM, Brian Christmas wrote: > I recently had cause to restore my 10.5.5 system from Time Machine. > In doing so it didn't restore my user scripts stored on the boot > library/scripts/folder action scripts. Turned out they were saved, > just not restored. > > I repor

Re: HELP! MY IMAC WON"T BOOT!!!!!!

On Nov 13, 2008, at 8:07 PM, vacputer wrote: > MY IMAC G3 REV D RUNNING OS 10.3 WONT EVEN POWER ON! > I hit restart and when it restarted I got that REALLY ANNOYING > firmware screen of death > that i have been getting ever so commonly on my imac g3s running os > 10. So i did what i usually do, I

Re: Video Question

On Nov 13, 2008, at 11:07 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to download this video? > I have tried with FF 2.0.0.18 with Download Helper and MediaPirate > > http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1033231.html I'm no expert on internet video, but here's my guess. There's an advert

Re: Need to reset password or passphrase

On Nov 14, 2008, at 5:56 PM, old newbie wrote: > Unfortunately, as is often the case with used gear, all I got was the > 'puter, kb and that was it. No disks or other accessories. Here you go: --~--~-~--~-

Re: Mac Help gone?

On Nov 21, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > when I try to launch "Mac Help", the window comes up, beach ball > spins, and then the window goes away? any ideas? You know the drill. Do one step, see if it's fixed, if not, go to next step: 1)Disk Utility>Verify Disk and Repair Permissions

Re: SCSI HD partly recognized?

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Re: Finder icons...

On Nov 24, 2008, at 3:29 AM, dorayme wrote: > Hi there everyone! > > Could you please remind me what needs to be done in Tiger to > make .html and .php files show with BBEdit icons rather than Safari > ones (whether or not they open in Safari! Even though they often open > fine in BBEdit. But I d

Re: iTunes and duplicating songs

On Nov 28, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Ray wrote: > Another odd thing about iTunes is why the default is set to "Copy > files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library". Every person's > Mac that I have looked at has duplicate songs because of this default. On Nov 28, 2008, at 8:40 PM, Dan wrote:

Re: From Jonas - ibook Clamshell randomly freezing??

On Nov 28, 2008, at 10:52 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > well it has the latest firmware then. I installed os 9.2 and it > won't even start up unless the extensions are turned off. any other > ideas? At this point, you use Extensions Manager to turn on extensions in groups. For example, whateve

Re: Lombard with new pram losing time????

On Nov 29, 2008, at 3:55 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > Thanks but i think i solved it. According to apple the pram will > only hold a 3-5 hour charge without being plugged in and without a > main battery present. Does this mean you drained your new PRAM battery dead in 3-5 hours since you didn

Re: iTunes and duplicating songs

On Nov 30, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Dan wrote: > The iTunes library AND the folders in which my "master" copy be are > on the same volume. In fact, they're both in ~/Music. The "iTunes library" is just a small cataloging file and has no music or music copies in it. It only keeps formatting informat

Re: CCC Bootable Backup

On Nov 30, 2008, at 7:58 PM, George Hozendorf wrote: > In the past I've had no problem making a bootable backup via > firewire with Carbon Copy Cloner. Now that I'm using a USB > connected external HD, it doesn't show up when I go to Startup Disk > in System Preferences. Is there no way I

Re: LCD screen flickering and going black.

On Nov 30, 2008, at 7:31 PM, dorayme wrote: > It has started flickering now and then, and sometimes goes right > blank, all black. Original LCD monitors have fluorescent backlights that burn out just like any fluorescent bulb does. They can be replaced, and you may be able to do it yoursel

Spotlight vs. Google Desktop for Mac

I was having a search issue where I wasn't getting complete search results in Mail.app. In a Mail search the "entire message" search field was dimmed and non-functional. It was not obvious this was a Spotlight issue, so I wasted a lot of time and effort on trashing Mail preferences, and re

Re: iTunes and duplicating songs

On Nov 30, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Dan wrote: > From a podcast, I have some nice mp3 tracks. How do I move them from > the podcast category to the regular Music area? I don't when to get > lost, when I dump the podcast. > > I tried doing an "add" on the mp3 file itself, after removing it from > the p

Re: CCC Bootable Backup

On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:55 PM, yawg wrote: > As I said I changed permissions to my own admin account so "Ignore > Permissions" was overwritten. I said also that both Initio FW-drives > don't boot no matter what version of CCC, I use both the old and the > new one as I can only use the old version wh

Re: My Power G3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is in panic mode.-new to Apple

On Dec 2, 2008, at 9:33 PM, mlitwin wrote: > I put in the 10.3 cd. The computer still gave me the panic > error. I was never given the options you mentioned. We've never heard if the firmware was up-to-date? I'd suggest you boot any CD and check the firmware revision. If it's not version 1.1,

Re: My Power G3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is in panic mode.-new to Apple

On Dec 2, 2008, at 9:36 PM, mlitwin wrote: > I do not know what that is? The "firmware" is what a PC calls the "BIOS". It's the software in the chips of the computer that controls the initial boot process. Since you've installed OS X already, boot and go to Applications>Utilities>System P

Re: My Power G3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is in panic mode.-new to Apple

On Dec 2, 2008, at 11:14 PM, mlitwin wrote: > When I decided to reinstall 9,I erased the disk with 10.3 on > it and installed 9.0. That was the only way I could get 9.0 back. 9.0 > was successfully installed.Then I tried to install 10.3 > unsucessfully. The error occurred when I rebooted after

Re: Upgrading to 10.4 - No DVD Drive

On Dec 3, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: > > Okay, so I *was* all ready to upgrade, but the G4 has no DVD drive. > > So I'm on hold with Apple right now as there's Applecare for the new > iMac, I thought I'd network the two machines together with the Airport > Express and upgrade from

Re: Dead or Alive

On Dec 3, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Maestro_T wrote: > In the wonderful world of PC's, you can set things up (Bios, > peripherals etc) via an 'F' key during initial start up. This > usually can be done even if there are no memory modules or hard drive > attached. Is this sort of thing possible on Macs

Re: LCD screen flickering and going black.

On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:36 AM, dorayme wrote: > I have been looking at: > > http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/shorts/overview.aspx > > to prepare myself! You folks might like to know this url. I will buy a > new monitor and consider fixing this one at my leisure. I like the > sound of $20 for parts

Re: Display card and resolution support

On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:01 AM, dorayme wrote: > In my G4 QS 933 I have: > > Chipset Model:GeForce4 MX > Type:Display > Bus: AGP > VRAM (Total):64 MB > Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de) > Revision ID: 0x00a2 > ROM Revision:1091 > > Wondering if it will be able to run

Re: Pixels and card capacity.

On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:57 AM, dorayme wrote: > > In my G4 QS 933 I have: > > Chipset Model: GeForce4 MX > Type: Display > Bus:AGP > Slot: SLOT-1 > VRAM (Total): 64 MB > Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de) > Device ID: 0x0171 > Revision ID:0x00a2 > RO

Re: Please, G4, Spit out that CD for me...?

On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Yersinia wrote: > Having tried to boot from a copy of my "original" OS 9 system folder > which I'd put on the OS X HD for safekeeping just prior to doing the > OS 9 > reinstall Sat night (and which my G4 had also been running Classic > Mode > from since then when

Re: AirportExtreme+HardDrive=TimeCapsule?

On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > If that ethernet network storage is connected to the > Airport Extreme and then accessed with my macbook via wireless, I'm > back to that 58mbit/s at best right? > So, If i'm hearing you correctly, > the wireless is going to slow me down to 58mb

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:24 PM, Charles Davis wrote: > "deliberately unblessed' ? I've never heard of doing that for > any reason. > > The OS9 installations are 'blessed' as a part of the installation > process. No special effort needed. > > The having 2 instances of 'OS9 installation' doesn't

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Dec 5, 2008, at 1:16 AM, PeterH wrote: > Perhaps zero cost for the hardware, but IBM will charge you one > hundred thousand dollars PER MONTH, or more, for the software license. I thought IBM was pushing Linux now? I thought they're a "service" company, not a "software" company? --~--~-

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

On Dec 5, 2008, at 1:33 AM, Clark Martin wrote: > OS X doesn't really have the concept of "blessing" and the term is > usually not used with OS X. That's what I thought until I read the man page for "bless" in Terminal. This is what it says: BLESS(8) BSD System Manager's Manua

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

On Dec 5, 2008, at 2:33 AM, Clark Martin wrote: > Hmmm, I'd heard of that command before but had never delved into it. > Clearly "blessing" of OS X is officially sanctioned, but you still > don't > hear it much. Mostly because people don't usually get into shell > commands when the GUI equival

Re: G5 and 10.5.5 nightmare.

On Dec 5, 2008, at 2:31 AM, Brian Durant wrote: > I have had a problem similar to other postings on this list with my > G5 single and 10.5.5. I don't think there was a kernel crash, I > couldn't find it in the logs at any rate, but I have been > experiencing problems with the system becomi

Re: Command-option p-r

> On Dec 3, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Paul Stamsen wrote: > >> I may have this wrong, but I hold the Command, Option >> and R down with my left hand. Then hit the R and power >> with my right. :-P On Dec 5, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Yersinia wrote: > OMG, what timing you should mention this! I have yet to zap

Re: G5 and 10.5.5 nightmare.

On Dec 6, 2008, at 3:52 AM, Brian Durant wrote: > It seems to me at this point, since the memory tests checked out, to > ask the following two questions: > > 1) What caused the original, massive performance hits that my system > gradually started taking over a period of a week or so, and > >

Re: Can't get my mac to boot

On Dec 6, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Elbert Boone wrote: > Pushed my computer desk against the wall and caused my power plug to > short and blew out a capacitor on my mother board so that I couldn't > get booted. Replaced motherboard now no boing. Fans come on, red led > on motherboard, and drives

Re: upgrading advice

On Dec 6, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Linda wrote: > What sequence should I use to upgrade my machine? Should I install the > RAM and drive and then the OS or the other way around? RAM & drive first, OS 2nd. > I've never put a CD/DVD drive in a computer before is there anything > special I should > wat

Fwd: need your help in posting

Begin forwarded message from Dana Collins: > Greetings, gang. > > I've asked our colleague to submit this to the group on my behalf as > I have > no way to contribute. My problem is that it appears that Google has > glitched > my membership in the G3-5 List, and I no longer have any contribu

Re: Command-option p-r

On Dec 6, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Jason Brown wrote: > I just hold down command and option with my thumb and press the p with > my pointer and r with pinky and then use my right hand to turn on my > machine. This works for full size keyboards that have Cmd & Opt on both the left & right side of the

Re: need your help in posting

On Dec 6, 2008, at 9:33 PM, insightinmind wrote: > I think I'm being censored on weekends. My Posts aren't appearing on > the e-mail lists ... web yes ... list no ... but mainly on weekends. There's something screwy with Google resending the individual emails. I think you'll eventually get t

Re: Command-option p-r

>>>> On Dec 6, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Jason Brown wrote: >>>> >>>> I just hold down command and option with my thumb and press the p >>>> with >>>> my pointer and r with pinky and then use my right hand to turn on >>>> my

Re: Command-option p-r

>>>>>> On Dec 6, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Jason Brown wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I just hold down command and option with my thumb and press the p >>>>>> with >>>>>> my pointer and r with pinky and then use my right h

Re: G5 or Intel?

On Dec 7, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Jack Countryman wrote: > Note that the slots on the g5 towers are PCI-e format...not the > older PCI, > so you loose the use of your old cards on either machine. No, this isn't necessarily true. The early G5s, below 2.0 GHz had regular "old" PCI slots. The middle

Re: 8 gig SanDisk Micro Cruzer does not work

On Dec 7, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Ken Rossman wrote: > I couldn't > resist buying them here and there), and all of them work great. > > However, the *first* thing I do is to toss the thing onto a Windows > box and use > U3 to *remove* U3 and fully reformat the stick as just a plain old > FAT32 drive.

Re: G5 or Intel?

On Dec 7, 2008, at 2:10 PM, Jack Countryman wrote: > Strange then that the single 1.6 I passed on to mom, and the dual > 2.7 I have > here now, will not take the old PCI cards...the slots are configured > so they > don't fit... The dual 2.7 uses PCIe. The single 1.6 has normal PCI slots. -

Re: G5 or Intel?

On Dec 7, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Donald Hall wrote: > Actually, the dual 2.7 has PCI-X slots. PCI-X is mostly backward > compatible to PCI. > > Jack is most likely referring to the slot keying. Around the MDD era, > the old 5 volt PCI cards started being phased out in favor of 3.3v or > universal P

Re: OT: Mac Mini hard drive replacement?

On Dec 11, 2008, at 12:00 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > If I were to replace the existing hard drive in my mac mini with a > larger drive, would that void my warranty? Is a hard drive a "user > replaceable part", Thank you, Jeff Assuming it's a G4 Mini (this is "G3-5 List"), it would appear your

Re: Wonky PowerMac G5 Single Processor Freeze-Ups Resolution

On Dec 11, 2008, at 10:01 AM, BillBoggs wrote: > I then tried > one last suggestion, that Leopard was basically incompatible with my > PowerMac G5 1.6 single processor hardware for some reason. I went back > to Tiger and now after nearly a week working hard to make it freeze > up, nary a hiccup (

Re: Major Airport issues

On Dec 13, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Chris N wrote: > Any input on this would be much appreciated. I've got a bunch of > Macs at home, ranging from a G4 400 (wireless) through a G4 dual > 1.25 (wired), G5 iMac (wired), Intel iMac (wireless) and a couple of > powerbooks/macbooks. I have a Comcast

Re: Major Airport issues

On Dec 13, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Chris N wrote: > I thought this might be it, but I can get IP addresses from my > neighbors unencrypted networks and still can't access the internet. That sounds different. You should be able to connect. > The DNS on these networks might not be correct, but I shou

Re: Mac book vs PC?

On Dec 13, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Ken wrote: > The Mac really can't do much about SPAM, My SPAM filter in Mail.app is about 99.9% efficient. I wait until the SPAM box is full to several hundred before scanning and deleting. If you mark the wrong ones as "not spam" it remembers and learns. Likew

Re: Security Fix

On Dec 14, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: > OK, I turn on my computer this morning and it says there's a security > error and I have a choice to fix or not. I do pick "fix" but I'm > wondering what is up. If you were using a browser, this was a phishing window meant to look like a

10.5.6 Update Available

10.5.6 is available. I used Software Update, it was 377 MB for my PPC G5. The MacBook Pro Intel version was 190 MB. I'm using a non-Apple 802.11n card (Netgear WN311B) that requires patching with the bcm43xx_enabler_0.5.1pre.sh.zip to be recognized as Airport. After the update I had no wir

Re: Can you copy (move) 10.4 to different HD?

On Dec 15, 2008, at 7:22 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: > Can you copy (move) 10.4 to different HD? No. You need to clone it to another HD or partition using something like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Re: 10.5.6 Update Available

Something to report: While the large 377 MB update worked fine on my PPC G5 PowerMac, the two Intel MacBook Pros I updated with the 190 MB version faired worse. One failed to reboot, stuck on the spinning thing, and required a little maintenance before successfully rebooting to seeming im

Re: 10.5.6 Update Available

On Dec 16, 2008, at 8:55 AM, Dan wrote: > Is this the first update that has required you to re-install that 3rd > party driver? Don't know. I was using real Apple Airport 802.11g until 10.5.5, so this was the first update since I moved on to 802.11n. I've had no problems with my NetGear WN31

Re: Why can't I update?

On Dec 16, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Wilton Shaw wrote: > One of the reasons given is it will not mount because of "invalid > checksum", whatever that is? This means the downloaded disk image file is corrupted. The checksum is a sum calculated in a specific way such that if any single bit has bee

Re: HDMI monitor

On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:26 AM, Clark Martin wrote: > My G4 Mac Mini has DVI output which is fed to a DVI to HDMI cable > into my HDTV. I never got mine to work, and was told that "cheap" DVI-to-HDMI cables often fail to work? I bought my cable to about $6 off eBay, and locally they sell for

Re: CO2 monitor & data collecting software

On Dec 20, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Charles Lenington wrote: > Is anyone using a CO2 monitor & data collecting software with their > Macs? Maybe temp also (could affect CO2 levels). > I have one of those supposedly ventless heaters. Funny thing is you > still have to provide ventilation which defeats th

Re: Burning Audio CD

On Dec 20, 2008, at 5:14 PM, George Hozendorf wrote: > Using iTunes 8.0.2 under OSX 10.5.6 I can't get a playable CD to > burn. The files come out MP4 not aiff. Toast Titanium will only > burn four of 14 selected songs from my iTunes playlist. What am I > doing wrong? Choose "Burn Playl

Re: Lombard DVD card in OSX??

On Dec 20, 2008, at 11:14 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > Hi. I just bought a DVD card for my PowerBook G3 Lombard 333MHZ. I > can play DVDs great in OS9, but I would like to find a way to play > them in OS10. Does anyone know of any programs that will do that? > Thanks! VLC should play them in

Re: Trouble reading certain DVD's in SR-8585F DVD-ROM drive

On Dec 21, 2008, at 12:14 AM, Paul wrote: > Is there a firmware upgrade that will allow the drive to read more > discs, or at least some documentation that explains what it will and > won't read? I don't know, the older DVD units had trouble with some types of discs, and I think your model may

Re: Mac printing on a PC network

On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Arthur Dirks wrote: > On the HP site for the HP4 I find all the MS drivers and OS/2 and > Unix, and for the Color Laserjet 1600 I find all the MS drivers and > Linux. You'll want to download the GutenPrint drivers and use them:

Re: Newbie window problem

On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:17 PM, Arthur Dirks wrote: > if the cursor wanders off the app window all of them suddenly pop up > tiled. This sounds like the OS X feature "Exposé". You can change this behavior in System Preferences>Exposé. Likely you've got a "hot corner" as a default and the curs

natd issue, perhaps security problem?

My dual 2.3 GHz G5 w/10.5.6 froze strangely with the cursor & mouse still moving with the spinning beachball icon, and no other functionality. The clock was frozen also. I waited 5 minutes and nothing changed. No commands for "Force Quit" worked, so I rebooted by holding the power button o

Re: Titanium 400Mhz Powerbook won't start

On Dec 22, 2008, at 4:36 PM, nestamicky wrote: > Someone said I can use the 45W PSU and it should work. I have a few > of those that I used, including a 2002 flying-saucer looking PSU. None > worked. I know the adapters work. There are two types of plugs on the PSUs, they look identical, but the

Re: Perian Update

> On my Tiger 10.4.11 Yikes!, I recently lost Quicktime > playback in Firefox looking at MySpace. This isn't a QuickTime issue, or a Perian issue. MySpace uses a different player called FIM Media Player (FIM=FOX Interactive Media) which is related to the player that FOX Network uses on the F

G5 SuperDrive Sony DW-Q28A firmware update

I've got a dual G5 that came with an Apple SuperDrive that was branded as a Sony DW-Q28A with firmware KAS7. I became aware that this "Sony" drive was actually a rebranded LiteOn SOHW-1693S. The LiteOn drive had many firmware updates after the Apple drive was issued that added support for

Re: natd issue, perhaps security problem?

On Dec 23, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > Also, note this is ONLY if you're using Internet sharing on your Mac > (Not Web sharing, not File sharing, not Remote login) since this is > the only reason ever to run natd. Bruce to the rescue. It's an Internet Sharing thing. I'd totally for

Re: 2 ATI 9200 video cards in G4 Sawtooth?

On Dec 24, 2008, at 8:33 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > As long as there is enough free ports. I ran 2 pci video cards a 1 > agp video card in my G4 gigabyte ethernet powermac. Using a PCI video card in an AGP Mac will kill off Quartz Extreme acceleration for both cards unless you enable it with

Re: 2 ATI 9200 video cards in G4 Sawtooth?

On Dec 24, 2008, at 8:40 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > What exactly is quartz extreme? Quartz Extreme Mac OS X v10.2 introduced Quartz Extreme: graphics processor (GPU) acceleration for the Quartz Compositor. With Quartz Extreme, no central processo

Re: Quicken no more? Need something else,... what?

On Dec 24, 2008, at 9:38 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > I've been using Quicken 2007 for quite some time and now come to find > out that they're not going to make an update to it. The update for "Quicken 2007" is called "Quicken Financial Life for Mac":

Re: Quicken no more? Need something else,... what?

On Dec 24, 2008, at 9:54 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > I looked into that already, it is strictly an online free thing > that they're doing It's a beta of a new product they will sell. > the wife isn't interested in the online banking. It's a stand-alone application, not an online banking interfa

Re: why can't I get mail?

On Dec 25, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Linda wrote: > I just upgraded to OS 10.5.4 on my mirror door tower. When I opened > my mail it asked if I wanted to import or update (I think) anyway, no > problem and everything is up and running. > > But my hubby went on his user and his mail is not working. His

Re: Power failure-computer won't start

On Dec 26, 2008, at 1:17 AM, cheryl wrote: > The keyboard, mouse and monitor are working fine with the G3 and they > are all plugged in to my MonsterPower surge protector. I do notice > that the light for the ground is on but the protection light is not. > > Where is the reset button? I'm assumi

Re: Beige G3 --> G4 _ 450 HD troubles

On Dec 26, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote: > I replaced the 266 MHz G3 with a 450 MHz G4 and changed the jumper > position to get a 83.3 MHz bus x 5.5 = 458 MHz G4. You need to look at the Grackle chip on the motherboard to see if it can support the 83MHz bus speed. There were tw

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