Re: school issues

2010-02-27 Thread Len Gerstel
On Feb 27, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: Can connecting a Mac to my school's internet cause problems? I was told by our tech person that connecting my old iMac at school will cause viruses. I was wise enough not to argue the point, because the simple fact that they were

Re: Ethernet connection not recognized in PowerMac G5

2010-02-27 Thread Len Gerstel
On Feb 27, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Goody2 wrote: Then plugged the G5 in again and decided to jiggle the cable around. Sure enough, when the plug is pulled outward (but still seated) it disconnects.When pushed inward as far as possible there is no problem. I tried the same maneuver with the second

Re: Dongle for CAD/CAM

2010-03-06 Thread Len Gerstel
On Mar 6, 2010, at 1:23 PM, John Carmonne wrote: The app is ViITUAL GIBBS 5.0 the dongle is a ADB unit also I can use it on a Griffin iMate, but I want to use it on my G5 PM it doesn't boot OS9 and the dongle needs to boot at start up. So I have to boot 9 to use it, I have plenty of

Re: Setup Mac Mini G4 as print/fax server

2010-03-08 Thread Len Gerstel
On Mar 8, 2010, at 9:10 AM, Nestamicky wrote: On 3/4/10 3:31 PM, John Carmonne wrote: I use Fax Stuff Pro for faxing from any app that can print and my main printer is a Cannon MP210 print and scan, cheap and very good quality. Does this program allow you to fax through Ethernet, or must

Re: what internet browser to use.

2010-03-08 Thread Len Gerstel
On Mar 8, 2010, at 9:05 AM, Nestamicky wrote: On 3/8/10 3:02 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: If you're sticking with OS 9, you'll need to remember to manually set the memory for each application. With 288MB you should be able to assign quite a bit more than the default amount to your browser,

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

2010-03-08 Thread Len Gerstel
On Mar 8, 2010, at 9:51 AM, ah...clem wrote: On Mar 7, 4:45 pm, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: I think the 533 processor at $20.00 is a pretty good upgrade if it will produce a 33% improvement in speed. I agree that 1.25 GB of RAM is a good amount for most stuff. I use a lot of

Re: Upgrading a Sawtooth

2010-03-08 Thread Len Gerstel
On Mar 8, 2010, at 4:50 PM, skinnie wrote: Thanks all of you for the suggestions,but I'll try to make some things clear :) snip 2) When I say it's slow,I don't mean it's horribly slow,but I know this time it is a little slower than my ibook g3 800mhz,640mb ram,40gb hdd was! I think maybe

Re: Pros Cons of Stacking HDs

2010-03-10 Thread Len Gerstel
On Mar 10, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:49 PM, t...@io.com wrote: I use flat angle brackets from the hardware store. I can't remember if I get the 1.5 or the 2. Just get four of them, and screw them onto the sides of the drives. This will hold one drive

Re: EDIT: A good and cheap video card

2010-03-29 Thread Len Gerstel
On Mar 29, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 28, 2010, at 5:02 PM, roman...@ideal-access.com wrote: Roman OT. How does one make the tiny URL links? I use this great little Services app: http://www.riverdark.net/board/index.php?showtopic=344 It puts the following services

Re: Installing a MDD processor in a Quicksilver Power Mac

2010-04-04 Thread Len Gerstel
On Apr 4, 2010, at 11:02 AM, David Kendal wrote: O hai. I've got a 733MHz Quicksilver Power Mac G4, the 2001 edition. Can I install a dual 1.25GHz processor from a Mirror Drive Door G4 along with the heatsink from said MDD? Will the heatsink fit in the case? I've found a pretty good deal on a

Re: USB 2.0 with OS 9?

2010-04-19 Thread Len Gerstel
On Apr 19, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Gorka L Martinez Mezo wrote: Did OS 9 support the USB 2.0 protocol? I would like to get a USB 2.0 PCI card for a Beige G3 running 9.1 and some cards say they will run USB 2.0 only under OS X. Thanks! Sorry, no USB 2 drivers were ever written for OS 9. So the

Inappropriate Posts

2010-04-21 Thread Len Gerstel
. While most of us are pretty safe using Macs, some people read the list on windows machines and are, generally speaking, more vulnerable. So, please, do not post any attachments to the list of any type. Thanks, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com List Nanny G3-5 Mac list -- You received this message

Re: Question about Tiger DVD Install Disc???

2010-04-25 Thread Len Gerstel
On Apr 25, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Richard Gerome wrote: At 12:10 PM -0400 4/25/2010, Richard Gerome wrote: Just for safety sake as soon as I get my Ti Powerbook fixed I'm going to try and make some copies of it!!! Making a backup of an installation CD/DVD is a good plan. (I already have

Re: OS 9

2010-04-26 Thread Len Gerstel
On Apr 26, 2010, at 7:37 PM, Fabian Fang wrote: On Apr 26, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: Some time ago someone gave a url for a net install of OS 9. Could someone repost that url? http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120243 You could have found this by

Re: mp4 trouble

2010-04-27 Thread Len Gerstel
On Apr 27, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Dan wrote: At 6:04 PM -0700 4/26/2010, John Carmonne wrote: I've been making some mp4s with VisualHub and the sync of sound and video is about 5 to 8 seconds off. I've made some before and all were good. The DVDs play properly. snip The codecs in VLC

Re: Overclocking a Rev A Beige Desktop that's been upgraded to a G4

2010-05-04 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 4, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On May 4, 2010, at 12:48 PM, deadwinter wrote: I have a Rev.A Beige Desktop G3. maxed out in RAM, with the stock 4GB HD. I upgraded the CPU to a G4, so now it's up to 500MHz. OS is 10.2.6. Strangely, with the L2 cache enabled (I'm assuming

Re: Overclocking a Rev A Beige Desktop that's been upgraded to a G4

2010-05-04 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 4, 2010, at 10:49 PM, deadwinter wrote with lots of snips: On May 4, 5:27 pm, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote: On May 4, 2010, at 12:48 PM, deadwinter wrote: I have a Rev.A Beige Desktop G3. maxed out in RAM, with the stock 4GB HD. I upgraded the CPU to a G4, so now it's

Re: ESATA IN PM G5

2010-05-06 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 6, 2010, at 8:50 AM, John Carmonne wrote: On May 5, 2010, at 3:49 PM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: On May 5, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On May 5, 2010, at 5:27 PM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: How do I check the firmware? Look in System ProfilerPCI Cards and highlight the

Re: Beige G3 not booting from CD!

2010-05-08 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 8, 2010, at 8:03 PM, Gus wrote: It would be fair to say that I have the desktop 266 (not the tower) so it takes those low profile simms. I have the standard size simms in it so I have the case off and top part slightly open so the simms don't have any weight on them. If you are

Re: Which is better?

2010-05-09 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 9, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: okay but the thing is... where can i download a benchmark program? -- http://lmgtfy.com/?q=geekbench http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cinebench http://lmgtfy.com/?q=xbench I normally use xBench for benchmarking Len -- You received this message

Re: Beige G3 not booting from CD!

2010-05-09 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 9, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Manuel Marques wrote: But the low-profile SIMMs are for the VRAM, correct? The RAM modules are standard PC-66 low-density ones, right? vram modules are different than simms. vrams are smaller and look like laptop memory. The ram modules are standard pc-66 low

All program word/character count question

2010-05-14 Thread Len Gerstel
This search primarily involves Mail (running 2.1.3 on 10.4.11), but I could use this in other applications. Absolute best case scenario, I am looking for something that would do the following. Highlight a block of text in a program. Right (or control) click on it and in the contextual

Re: All program word/character count question

2010-05-14 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 14, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Fabian Fang wrote: On May 14, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: This search primarily involves Mail (running 2.1.3 on 10.4.11), but I could use this in other applications. Absolute best case scenario, I am looking for something that would do

Re: All program word/character count question

2010-05-14 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 14, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: It works great for what it does. Much easier than firing up Word. Now, for lazy ol' me, if I could find the same thing that pops up when I right click instead of mousing ALL THE WAY to the menu bar life would be wonderful. I typically

Re: BW G3 - G4 Upgrade Revisited.

2010-05-22 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 22, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Gus wrote: I was directed to a web site that pointed out that you had to hobble the bus speed on the G3 in order to use the Yikes G4 processor in it. Please cite the site. Both are 100MHz machines. The only upgrades to the BW that hobble the bus speed are the

Re: Cube speed

2010-05-23 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 23, 2010, at 11:38 AM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: On May 23, 2010, at 8:18 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: John, I don't know anything about cubes, but the CPU modules get their clock speed by multiplying the bus speed so 133 x 4 = 533. If you use it with a 100MHz bus then it will

Re: XLR8 Velocity MPe dual G4 500Mhz CPU upgrade

2010-05-25 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 25, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On May 25, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Larry Stotler wrote: Found this on eBay recently: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItemitem=320531235320ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT Kinda pricy, but an interesting upgrade I think I've seen before.

Re: viewing earlier internet sites no longer in existence

2010-06-02 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 2, 2010, at 1:31 PM, M. Worgan, J. wrote: Is there still a site that takes you to old sites that used to be on the internet but are no longer there - that takes you to older copies of the internet? Like going back in time by viewing stored copies of what was on the internet some

Re: Oxford 924 Bridge Board Drive Size limitation

2010-06-07 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 5, 3:41 pm, Peter Haas peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: On Jun 5, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: I just grabbed from OWC's Garage sale a Mercury Elite Pro AL   Firewire 800/400/USB 2.0 dual drive enclosure. It has the Oxford   924 chipset. The specs say it supports drives up

Re: 10.5 on a G4 400 MHZ Sawtooth

2010-06-07 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 7, 2010, at 9:16 AM, John Carmonne wrote: Post a system profiler screen shot please. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP Uh, no. Posting attachments is not allowed on the list. Posting somewhere like fliker and posting the link is perfectly fine. Len Gerstel lgers

Re: Safari 5

2010-06-08 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 8, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Fabian Fang wrote: Because of recent threads about Safari on the G-Group, it may be of interest to note that Apple released Safari 5 yesterday: http://www.apple.com/safari/ Even more important, they also released 4.1 for those of us running 10.4. Len --

Re: Safari 4.1

2010-06-08 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 8, 2010, at 8:54 PM, hosemonkey wrote: Where can I download a copy of Safari 4.1? Easiest way is through Software Update in the Apple Menu. or go to: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1045 Len -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-14 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:15 PM, ah...clem wrote: On Jun 10, 4:17 am, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: I'm not certain if this article will enable 4GB RAM for you, but I suspect it will, if this is possible? Instead of reducing the memory, as the title of this article references, you'd be

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-14 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 14, 2010, at 3:24 PM, ah...clem wrote: On Jun 14, 2:24 pm, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote: . . . how and where to get a hold of some of these 1GB PC133 sticks without trolling dumpsters for old Dell servers? Easily and cheaply found on eBay. I just sold 8 1GB sticks for $30

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-14 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 14, 2010, at 4:21 PM, ah...clem wrote: On Jun 14, 2:24 pm, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote: Problem is that registered sticks are keyed differently than regular SD ram stick and will not fit in the slot. Even if you physically modify the slot, the contacts will not line up. So

Re: Apple Store closed for update

2010-06-15 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 15, 2010, at 6:56 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Ted Treen ted.tr...@btinternet.com wrote: Looks like new toys coming... 2.4 GHz Mini with HDMI. And user friendly RAM slot. Plus a little better graphics, NVidia 320m. But also a $100 price

Re: New unibody Mac Mini (was Re: Apple Store closed for update)

2010-06-15 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 15, 2010, at 2:43 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. And to

Re: New unibody Mac Mini (was Re: Apple Store closed for update)

2010-06-15 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 15, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Chance Reecher wrote: Dan wrote: I'm disappointed. IMO, this seems to be yet-another overpriced Mini that goes into the why bother category. It should be a fast machine, but then it's got older i/o technology, circa 2005ish, bolted on. Only one

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-15 Thread Len Gerstel
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 one that has used this machine since purchasing it

Re: New unibody Mac Mini (was Re: Apple Store closed for update)

2010-06-15 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 15, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Peter Haas wrote: On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: Is it any wonder that the OSx86 crowd is operating Snow machines which cost one-fourth, yet deliver four-times the performance? In the same form factor as the mini? Of course not. But who

Re: Burn .mkv file to DVD

2010-06-23 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 23, 2010, at 10:01 AM, John Carmonne wrote: Hi All I have a movie that's a .mkv file 4.46 GBs I want to burn it to a DVD but I can't get Toast 10 to see it as an image I also tried Toast 8 and 6 still no cigar. Is this spometing I can do? John Carmonne .mkv is not an image

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 24, 2010, at 1:01 PM, gifutiger wrote: Greetings G-Group I know that this might be the incorrect place to post this question but I'm hopping that someone can point me to the correct location. I have some music that is in MP3 and MP4 format however my family room CD/DVD player is a

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 24, 2010, at 4:26 PM, gifutiger wrote: Tried the iTunes, got a lot of CD's that will play in my Saturn VUE, but so will the CD's that have the songs in MP4 format, and on a lot fewer disks. Thanks for your input and if you have any other ideas let me know. Harry San Jose, Ca If the

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 24, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jun 24, 2010, at 3:30 PM, gifutiger wrote: That's what I'm thinking, I burned the CD's using iTunes, but I used CD -R blank disk and it may be that the Toshiba just won't read -R disks. What would you recommend as a substitute for the -R

Re: Modem DOCSIS speeds

2010-07-07 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jul 7, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Dan wrote: At 1:14 PM -0700 7/7/2010, John Carmonne wrote: I'm having a discussion with my son who just got hooked up with Charter in northern Nevada and the lady at the cable company told him the speed he bought is 25 Mbps and she told him he had to have a

Re: Attatch PDF to mail PITA

2010-07-09 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jul 9, 2010, at 11:54 AM, john CARMONNE wrote: Hi All As of late I've been having trouble attaching PDF files to an Email, When I attach or drag a PDF to the message it blows open on the page. I don't want that, I want the file to be in PDF form. The only way I can stop this is to

Re: Attatch PDF to mail PITA

2010-07-09 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jul 9, 2010, at 12:23 PM, john CARMONNE wrote: On Jul 9, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: On Jul 9, 2010, at 11:54 AM, john CARMONNE wrote: Hi All As of late I've been having trouble attaching PDF files to an Email, When I attach or drag a PDF to the message it blows open

Re: Attatch PDF to mail PITA

2010-07-09 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jul 9, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jul 9, 2010, at 9:23 AM, john CARMONNE wrote: I don't want every one in the next cubicle to see the PDF until the recipient does. This seems to be a new occurrence. Also I think it's mostly on my MBP 10.6.4. I recall seeing PDF's

Nanny note Re: plain text please

2010-07-18 Thread Len Gerstel
on moderated status or your messages not getting through. Len Gerstel List Nanny -- 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

Re: Plain text format

2010-07-20 Thread Len Gerstel
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 wide official default plain text font. Many

Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-07-26 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jul 26, 2010, at 4:49 PM, nestamicky wrote: On 7/26/2010 1:12 PM, Peter Haas wrote: 750 GB PATA drives were available for a while at many retailers. What, can someone please say, are the difference(s) between ATA and PATA? Very overly simplified: ATA drives in the beginning were all

Re: G4 IDENTITY

2010-07-30 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jul 30, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: -- Original message -- Subject: G4 IDENTITY Date:Freitag 30 Juli 2010N From:george monroe geomonro...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com hello all; if i look up my G4 on the web it comes up as a

Re: will DA processor fit in Gigabit?

2010-08-06 Thread Len Gerstel
On Aug 6, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Geke wrote: I just got a Gigabit with a Sonnet Encore ST/G4 1GHz processor upgrade inside. Now I want to swap that Sonnet with the 466MHz cpu in my Digital Audio, but before I do that, I wanted to check two things here: 1. How tricky is it to put the DA's CPU into

Re: will DA processor fit in Gigabit?

2010-08-10 Thread Len Gerstel
On Aug 10, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Geke wrote: To finish off this thread (at least the title topic) and for the record: -The Digital Audio's 466MHz does fit -- as is -- into the Gigabit. So no soldering needed there, it's not even too tight. Did not know that. My warning was based upon QS

Re: New install of OS 10.4 on G5 iMac

2010-09-09 Thread Len Gerstel
On Sep 9, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Iamanamma wrote: You're using a machine specific install disk you need a Retail Universal disk. John Carmonne John: Are you serious? The install disks are keyed to a specific iMac serial number? I bought all 4 of my PowerPC G5 iMacs at the same time. I

Re: Power Macintosh G3/266 tabletop

2010-09-26 Thread Len Gerstel
On Sep 26, 2010, at 10:10 AM, John Markowitz wrote: On Sep 26, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Paul Cefola wrote: I have some questions regarding a Power Mac G3/266 machine. Is this the correct group to ask the questions to? Paul Welcome Paul I think the PCI PowerMacs group is the one

Re: Mail address export import

2010-09-28 Thread Len Gerstel
On Sep 28, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Sep 28, 2010, at 11:54 AM, John Markowitz wrote: If you open the Previous Recipients window, the contents should change when you switch between those inboxes...if this is the problem. This does change, I've never noticed this

Re: Video card advice for MDD and/or Digital Audio

2010-10-06 Thread Len Gerstel
On Oct 6, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Dan Knight, LowEndMac.com wrote: Friends, I have two production machines here at Low End Mac headquarters - a dual 1 GHz Mirror Drive Door with 2 GB of RAM and a Rage 128 Pro video card running Tiger and a Digital Audio upgraded with 1.25 GB of RAM, a dual 1.6 GHz

Re: Where is Flash 10.1

2010-10-21 Thread Len Gerstel
On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Richard Gerome wrote: -Original Message- From: Cliff Rediger redicl...@yahoo.com I'm running 10.4.11 on G4 Mini Every time Firefox updates it tells me I must update Flash Player NOW. So I download and install Flash Player 10.1 but where does it go? I

Re: capture still pics from movies

2010-12-04 Thread Len Gerstel
On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:24 AM, John Carmonne wrote: I would like to capture still pics from .wmv files that dump into my iPhoto library from my digital Olympus camera. I can freeze the shot I want and click the pic to remove the control strip but as soon as I move the mouse to use a capture

Re: capture still pics from movies

2010-12-04 Thread Len Gerstel
On Dec 4, 2010, at 11:43 AM, John Carmonne wrote: On Dec 4, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:24 AM, John Carmonne wrote: I would like to capture still pics from .wmv files that dump into my iPhoto library from my digital Olympus camera. I can freeze the shot

Nanny note Re: 2 Questions

2010-12-04 Thread Len Gerstel
John, I know it is very small, and probably part of your sig, but please do not send any attachments to the list. Thanks, Len Gerstel List Nanny On Dec 4, 2010, at 6:52 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Dec 4, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: One, what do you think of these? Just saw

Re: Nanny note Re: 2 Questions

2010-12-05 Thread Len Gerstel
of the email and should come after your name. • Avoid vulgar and offensive taglines. Both the netiquette guide and the full G Group FAQ are linked to from the Google Groups G List page. Len Gerstel List Nanny -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: iTunes on Tiger

2010-12-16 Thread Len Gerstel
On Dec 16, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Dan wrote: I've lost track. :\ iTunes 9.2.1... is this the last version of iTunes to support Tiger or is there another? And the next release is 10.x, which is Leopard/SL only? It's heck to get old, isn't it? Just checked. Running Tiger and iTunes 9.2.1 and

Re: OK, I'll Try This Again. Locksmith Wanted (wifi).

2011-04-26 Thread Len Gerstel
On Apr 26, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 12:23 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: Just select the defaults of WPA2 and WPA (PSK), and TKIP AES. Choose a good passphrase mixing letters and numbers: Hey it's sn0w1ng Macintoshes outside! OTOH, use a

Re: OK, I'll Try This Again. Locksmith Wanted (wifi).

2011-04-27 Thread Len Gerstel
On Apr 27, 2011, at 11:59 AM, t...@io.com wrote: On Apr 26, 5:35 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Hey look! 8-) it's sn0w1ng Macintoshes outside! is AS SECURE as anything RPG will generate, because while it's true that a truly random password string is more secure

Re: Car computer

2011-05-18 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 18, 2011, at 1:20 AM, Alexander Gomes wrote: I had a thought and a couple of questions. I was thinking about putting a computer into my car for music and gas mileage tracking, things of the like, and I was wondering what you all might think of it? I know my G4 has passive cooling

Re: Stupified by Spotify

2011-07-22 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jul 22, 2011, at 10:32 AM, Isaac Smith wrote: On Jul 19, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Dan wrote: Anyone using Spotify? It seems to have just opened up to everybody; that or I finally got my invite. So I'm using it as of about 5 minutes ago. What's your experience? Big snip From the Harvard

Re: Poor Airport reception

2011-09-30 Thread Len Gerstel
On Sep 30, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Sep 30, 2011, at 12:21 AM, QuoVadis wrote: @Dan: If only I could get an Ethernet cable to the G4.. I've thought about it, but it means drilling through three walls and the floor. I don't know about houses in the US, but here in the

Re: Sad day...

2011-10-05 Thread Len Gerstel
On Oct 5, 2011, at 8:01 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/ Reading the slashdot thread showed me a little easter egg I had never seen. The text of which applied to Steve Jobs as much as anyone in the ads. Zoom the Text Edit icon to as large as you can, and you will see

Re: Disk image from SD card

2011-10-25 Thread Len Gerstel
On Oct 24, 2011, at 5:09 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Oct 22, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:48 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Oct 18, 2011, at 8:11 PM, John Carmonne wrote: What's the fastest method to create a 8GB video image from an SDHC card from a video

Re: USB Modems any good?

2011-10-27 Thread Len Gerstel
On Oct 27, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 27, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Oct 27, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 26, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: I might be traveling to Ghana, and this is offered there:

Can I CCC a 10.4 from a G4 DA to a G5?

2011-11-04 Thread Len Gerstel
Everything I have read is that 10.X installs are monolithic. ie: they include everything needed for any machine that will run the OS. I know G5s can run 10.5, but we still have classic apps that we run and I have not been able to get SheepShaver working. Remote desktopping into a G4 will

Re: Can I CCC a 10.4 from a G4 DA to a G5?

2011-11-04 Thread Len Gerstel
On Nov 4, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 4-11-2011 15:34, Len Gerstel ha scritto: My plan is to install the HD for the G5 into my DA (with a SATA card) and just clone my DA HD onto it. I had the same situation (OSX 10.4.11 from G4 DA to G5 2.7) some time ago, asked

Re: Can I CCC a 10.4 from a G4 DA to a G5?

2011-11-04 Thread Len Gerstel
On Nov 4, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 4-11-2011 18:41, Len Gerstel ha scritto: I was mostly concerned about pci-x and the fan controls. I don't know if I am getting a hardware test disk with it. My G5 (2,7 DP) is quite silent. During normal operations, I can barely

Does the Radeon 9650 support dual monitors?

2011-11-07 Thread Len Gerstel
Seeing conflicting answers on the web, Mactracker and EveryMac. My new G5 (dual 2.0, early 2005, pci model) has a Radeon 9650 card. Before I spring for an ADC to DVI adapter, just wanted to check here. Does the Radeon 9650 support 2 displays? Not mirrored, but regular duals? Thanks, Len

Re: Does the Radeon 9650 support dual monitors?

2011-11-07 Thread Len Gerstel
On Nov 7, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 7-11-2011 19:21, Len Gerstel ha scritto: My new G5 (dual 2.0, early 2005, pci model) has a Radeon 9650 card. Before I spring for an ADC to DVI adapter, just wanted to check here. Does the Radeon 9650 support 2 displays

Re: 68 pin vs. 50 pin SCSI HD?

2011-12-10 Thread Len Gerstel
On Dec 10, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Barry Levine wrote: Hi One of the 8GB SCSI HD's on my 8600 G3 is failing. Checking around eBay, I see 68 pin SCSI HD's for sale; and one can purchase an adapter to go to the mac 50 pin cable. I also noticed that there are many larger size 68 pin scsi HD's

Re: Why I hate html mail reason #3455, and like Mail

2011-12-23 Thread Len Gerstel
On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Dan wrote: At 11:34 AM -0700 12/23/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: No Apple hasn't outsourced their customer support to some unknown domain. LOL The geniuses at Chase Bank have hired a company to handle their email, that has in turn hired an ex-spammer to do the

Re: bots

2011-12-23 Thread Len Gerstel
On Dec 23, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: I've been quite happy using ClamXAv on the UA systems (which by official policy MUST have AV software running on them, which is akin to requiring all employees to get a pap smear and prostate exam every year, no exceptions...;-) but my

Re: bots

2011-12-23 Thread Len Gerstel
On Dec 23, 2011, at 4:06 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 23, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: I was such a complete rank newb that I didn't know how to eject disks, and resorted to Norton Disk Tools eject function, leaving ghost images of all these floppies up on the desktop

Re: Are powermac g4 still useful?

2012-01-02 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jan 2, 2012, at 2:54 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: Crazy? You'd be crazy only if it didn't do what you needed and made you miserable. (Which certainly makes the case for most windows users, but I digress.) I still have my MDD G4s and they're very useful. They still rip DVDs, browse the web,

Re: G5 quad

2012-01-14 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jan 14, 2012, at 11:23 AM, JohnV wrote: Any reason why a late 2005 G5 quad would show a different serial number on the side label vs the system profile info screen? I'm looking to buy. Rough quick guess is a replaced motherboard. Is this a liquid cooled unit? With the reported

Re: Question about exporting email addresses from Apple Mail app

2012-01-17 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jan 16, 2012, at 4:59 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 16, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: My google fu is week here. Running Apple Mail 2.1.3 on 10.4.11, but have access to a 10.6 if that has a better answer. snip Short of importing the whole 14,000 into AddressBook

Re: ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Version 32MB PCI video card not recognized on Sawtooth

2012-02-09 Thread Len Gerstel
On Feb 9, 2012, at 3:21 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 9, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: This can't be a real Mac card because all the real Mac cards were identical and came with three ports, a DVI, a VGA, and an S-video. Since this card has only one port it's absolutely a PC

Re: ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Version 32MB PCI video card not recognized on Sawtooth

2012-02-09 Thread Len Gerstel
On Feb 9, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 9, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: IIRC the very first Xserve's had a VGA-only PCI ATI card, ISTR it was a 32 mb 7000. I was unaware of this card, is it a half-height card or full size? Full size. Looked just like the retail

Re: ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Version 32MB PCI video card not recognized on Sawtooth

2012-02-10 Thread Len Gerstel
On Feb 10, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 10, 2012, at 12:29 PM, Jesse wrote: So does anyone have experience using this card in anything other than the Xserve? It SHOULD just work, as the only difference between this and a retail Radeon 7000, iirc, was the lack of the

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-13 Thread Len Gerstel
On Feb 13, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 12, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Barry Levine wrote: Lastly, I also have a hardware/software question that maybe someone will know. Re the default Page Setup for a laserjet 2100M - it's ALWAYS US Letter Small, and defaults back to that

Re: ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Version 32MB PCI video card not recognized on Sawtooth

2012-02-23 Thread Len Gerstel
On Feb 23, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Jesse wrote: After much doing (using a hybrid of methods), I was able to flash the Radeon 7000 PCI graphics card to successfully work on the Mac -- currently I'm using v2.08 of the ROM and have noticed that neither QE or Core Image are being supported. Will going

Re: g4 mdd getting louder?

2012-03-21 Thread Len Gerstel
On Mar 21, 2012, at 10:08 AM, rumble wrote: thanks. i'll crack it open and see if i left a sweater in there. On Mar 20, 5:32 pm, rumble rum...@metrocast.net wrote: it seems to me that my old g4 mdd fan noise has gotten louder. is there anything i can do to get it to quiet down again?

Re: USB-Parallel cable: Driver for a G5?

2012-04-19 Thread Len Gerstel
On Apr 19, 2012, at 10:23 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: I've switched to a G5 recently, but I still own an old LaserWriter Select 360 I'd like to use with the G5 (OSX 10.4.11). The LW has LocalTalk (AppleTalk?), Serial and Parallel (Centronics) connectors. Of course the G5 has no LocalTalk

Re: Games for G3's?

2012-04-30 Thread Len Gerstel
On Apr 29, 2012, at 7:22 PM, Xion Dracari wrote: well i still cant find the Right Codec/(and encoder settings to us efor video!) but what games would everyone suggets for the Snow white iMac (G3 600mhz 512MB Ram) What type of game are you looking for? If puzzles are your thing: Myst

Mail error log

2012-05-03 Thread Len Gerstel
Running Mail 2.1.3 on a G5 with 10.4.11. Connecting to a POP server I am having connection issues to my mail server, hosted by a small firm. I frequently get the connection issue (I am pretty sure that is it) icon when checking mail. The icon that is an exclamation point in a triangle

Re: On PPCs, HTML5 is a markup language for structuring and presenting content

2012-05-12 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 12, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On May 12, 2012, at 5:01 AM, skinnie wrote: I used demeter, I don't know if supports html5, but if I go to http://html5.grooveshark.com/ it plays nice and uses about 10% cpu sometimes less! A better way to see how compatible your

Re: On PPCs, HTML5 is a markup language for structuring and presenting content

2012-05-12 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 12, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: I am running the latest TenFourFox, 10.0.4. Got a score of 327 plus 9 bonus points. I think I have the latest Safari, 4.1.3, that will run on 10.4 and that scored a 265 and 6 bonus points. Looking at the what I think are the important stuff,

Re: PM G4: Old CPU back in, no boot

2012-05-14 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 14, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Today I took out the upgrade CPU, and I put back in the old, original Apple 667 MHz CPU (I applied thermal grease, connected the CPU fan wire, pressed the PMU switch). Problem is, the Mac doesn't boot anymore. When I press the power

Mail 2.1.3 vs iPhone 4s problem

2012-05-16 Thread Len Gerstel
pics of the same image, all also names img_2496) Anyone seen this before or have any thoughts? Thanks, Len Gerstel -- 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

Re: Mail 2.1.3 vs iPhone 4s problem

2012-05-17 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 16, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On May 16, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: Relevant Hardware/software: PowerMac G5 running 10.4.11 with Mail 2.1.3 iPhone 4s with latest updates. My brother got an iPhone 4s for business. Most of the reason he went

Re: Moderator's spam report for g3-5-list@googlegroups.com

2012-05-18 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 18, 2012, at 7:03 AM, g3-5-list@googlegroups.com wrote: This message is being sent to you because you are a moderator of the group g3-5-list. The following suspicious messages were sent to your group, but are being held in your moderation queue because they are classified as

Re: Mail 2.1.3 vs iPhone 4s problem

2012-05-18 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 18, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On May 17, 2012, at 1:31 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: Just ran the cache clearing from OnyX with no change. This is from one that does not forward: --__CONTENT_64564_PART_BOUNDARY__33243242__ Content-Type: image/jpeg; name=IMG_8419.jpg Content

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