Re: I have a Pioneer DVR 115

On 2011/02/14 13:03, peterh...@cruzio.com so eloquently wrote: Formerly, I was buying Pioneer almost exclusively, but Pioneer has ceased to be price- and performance-competitive. There was a time when Pioneer made the very best optical media players and burners but that time seems to have pass

Re: Would you trust this ebay seller?

On 2011/02/19 00:14, Ashgrove so eloquently wrote: One way or the other, I do agree with John et al: it's not good value. For less than $286, I bought a perfectly good Intel mini that runs circles around ANY G4 computer. We get very attached to these versatile old beasts that keep on going, but w

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

On 2011/02/20 06:18, Andy so eloquently wrote: Go to System Preferences> Security and enable the option "Require password to unlock each secure system preference". Then it will go away forever! That's an excellent solution to an annoying problem. The last time I ran into this I ended up dele

Re: Better bootloader

On 2011/02/20 09:00, Nestamicky so eloquently wrote: Is there a better way of getting the option to select which OS to boot to, in a dual boot (OS X 10.5 and Server) than holding down the Option key at startup? Perhaps a GUI bootloader that he could select from? For a GUI bootloader I don't kno

Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox

On 2011/02/21 18:02, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently 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, us

Re: [Manager Comment] Re: Posting Problem

On 2011/02/23 10:06, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: If I were king of the forest, all these myriad LEM lists would be reduced to a handful: 68K Macs (both laptop and desktops, because these are waaay obsolete by now.) OldWorld Macs (PowerPC old world machines, both laptops and desktops as ab

Re: [Manager Comment] Re: Posting Problem

On 2011/02/23 10:36, Jonathan Smith so eloquently wrote: I am subscribed to 8 and I am finding it an administrative nightmare organising them in a way that keeps me up to date but doesn't fill my inbox up. I haven't decided on the best approach as yet. I use filters to sort them into the mailbo

Browsers

Recently I tried using Camino as my primary browser and found it to be excruciatingly slow, pages that other browsers load in seconds take about a minute (or more) to load in Camino. Has anyone else noticed this? The reason I tried using Camino is because I'm a little low on RAM and OmniWeb us

Re: Browsers

On 2011/02/23 13:50, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: {snip} Safari luuurves it's RAM. Best to just get more RAM, if you can. Indeed, I'm saving for it already. Just trying to get by w/o thrashing the HDD in the meantime, though it is backed up and under warranty! :-) Tina -- iMac 20" U

Re: Browsers

On 2011/02/23 13:51, Jonathan Smith so eloquently wrote: Are you using any themes and plugin on camino? flash heavy web browsing? Camino might be hanging onto requested memory. I first noticed it on a 64 bit Intel "optimized" version so I downloaded the standard version and it loaded pages jus

Re: Browsers

On 2011/02/23 14:27, elbert boone so eloquently wrote: Try tenfourfox and see if that helps. Sorry, I should have mentioned this is on my Xeon MP. I don't think it's UB, or SL compatible, but I could be wrong. I did put some recent new acquaintances (and recent Mac converts) on TenFourFox

Re: Browsers

On 2011/02/23 14:27, elbert boone so eloquently wrote: Try tenfourfox and see if that helps. I should add that Namoroka and Minefield load pages in a timely manner, it seems to be isolated to Camino (2.0.6). Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX5200 Ultra 64MB VRAM 10.4.11 P

Re: Browsers

On 2011/02/23 21:41, Richard Gerome so eloquently wrote: Have you tried "Flock" ? It works pretty good on my G3 466 Clamshell with 576mb and a 7200rpm HD!!! It really works great on my Tibook A1025 too!!! It runs faster then Camino did... Being a WebKit browser Flock will use just as much RAM

Re: Browsers

On 2011/02/23 15:12, Dan Palka so eloquently wrote: No sense worrying one's self over a few MB when it really isn't going to make that much of a difference. Thank you Dan, but in this case the difference between the memory usage of WebKit and Gecko is enough to force my system to write a lot m

Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox

On 2011/02/23 20:22, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: On Feb 21, 8:54 pm, "Tina K." wrote: On 2011/02/21 18:02, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: I am running the latest Snow Leopard and Firefox. All of a sudden, I keep getting the spinning beach ball of death! An

Re: App to Delete Unused Languages, Printers, Modems

On 2011/02/24 15:16, Judith Berkowitz so eloquently wrote: But here's something odd: I ran Monolingual on the Languages again, and lo and behold, it cleared 422MB of space! It appears that the first go-round of running it yesterday on Languages didn't "take." Did you install or update any softw

Re: Browsers

On 2011/02/25 08:11, Dan so eloquently wrote: At 1:50 PM -0700 2/23/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 23, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Tina K. wrote: Today I'm trying Safari and it's already up to 718MB, is this just the nature of WebKit? yes it is..some versions are better than others,

Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox

On 2011/02/25 10:06, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: Now the problem is that I want to sync my bookmarks with my other Macs This is one of the awesome things you can do with Dropbox. First go to ~/Library, right or control click on the Mozilla folder, make a duplicate for safe keepi

Re: Do not understand how to send html emails on my G4 Mac

On 2011/02/25 11:15, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: Not to beat a dead horse much more, but I got a perfect example of WHY html mail is simply not worth the trouble: I don't think you could illustrate it any better than that.

Re: G4 933 Quicksilver

On 2011/02/25 20:00, Barney Guzzo so eloquently wrote: Hi. I have a 2002 G4 933 Quicksilver. It has a 250 gb (Seagate) and a 128 gb (WD) ide drive, 500 gb sata drive, pci sata controller, pci gigabit ethernet card, pci 4 port 2.0 usb card, geforce ti 4600 128mb, and its connected to a a 23" App

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

On 3/2/11 9:13 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am giving my G4 flat screen iMac ("lamp shade" or 1/2 ball) to a teenager. It has had 10.4 on it forever without any problems. But I am thinking that he may want to run 10.5. Can this Mac handle 10.5 without a lot of slowdown? Though I am not a b

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

On 3/2/11 9:13 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am giving my G4 flat screen iMac ("lamp shade" or 1/2 ball) to a teenager. It has had 10.4 on it forever without any problems. But I am thinking that he may want to run 10.5. Can this Mac handle 10.5 without a lot of slowdown? Though I am not a b

Re: M-Audio Revolution 7.1 and Power Mac G4

On 3/6/11 7:23 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: Does anyone here have any experience to share about this PCI sound card? I think I'd like to get one, but some feedback from the older Mac crowd could be helpful in making that decision. Sound cards seem to be a subject of less than widespread interest here,

Re: M-Audio Revolution 7.1 and Power Mac G4

On 3/6/11 9:19 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: I own the 5.1 and I was pretty happy with the card. The drivers however had issues such as forgetting settings. Thanks, Tina. Do you still use the card? I see where M-Audio has some updated 5.1 drivers with a release date of 1-27-2009, don't know if that w

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

On 2011/03/16 14:03, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I hope "overclock" is the right word for my question! G4 17" Flat Screen iMac 10.4.11 800 MHz I gave this computer to a teenager. He said that You Tube is like a slide show. (His opinion!) Is there a way to speed up the processor? If there is i

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

On 2011/03/17 09:21, Alex Barnes wrote: You should use TenFourFox. It is designed for G4 processors and will run better than Safari. It can also use all the FireFox add-ons. He would probably have better luck using YouTube's HTML 5 option, perhaps even uninstalling Flash and using Safar

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

On 2011/03/18 10:15, Geke wrote: Interesting idea, Tina. How do you do that, making Safari (or Camino, or FireFox) pretend it’s an iPad? You have to enable Safari's Developer menu, and then you can choose from a number of different user agent strings to make Safari identify itself differently

Re: When you really need to erase data...

On 2011/03/21 06:58, Ralph Green so eloquently wrote: I always setup the browser to not save any of that stuff. That is really the best way. Don't remember passwords, either. And, it should go without saying that javascript is to be disabled, but I'll say it because it is so important. One o

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

On 2011/03/21 14:02, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: I have the latest and greatest ever PPC laptop, an AlBook 1.67 ghz system. compared to even the worst performing Macbook, it scks. It's perfectly usable (it's in daily use) but I don't make any pretense about it being a modern, 'capa

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

rs old, it was my family that pretty much > told me I need to spend some money on myself. And yes, it's cool to > take a video off a camera and see it on the tivo a few minutes later. > > On Mar 22, 12:41 am, "Tina K." wrote: > > And if you don't beli

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

On 2011/03/23 11:30, Dan so eloquently wrote: I'll betcha a few million quatloos Brother can you spare a quatloo? ;-) Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX5200 Ultra 64MB VRAM 10.4.11 PB G4 15" HR-DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon 9700 128MB VRAM 10.4.11 Mac Pro Mid-2010 2.8 GHz

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

On 2011/03/24 09:38, ah...clem so eloquently wrote: intel is junk, and the switch to intel was a HUGE step backwards for apple. and "puhleeze," spare us all the stories about how fast your MacPro is compared to an MDD. that proves NOTHING. the relevant question is, how fast would a MacPro be if

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

On 2011/03/25 07:08, Nestamicky so eloquently wrote: On 24/03/11 11:31 AM, Tina K. wrote: Look, I'm no Intel fan. Point of fact I hate Intel and always buy AMD when building a computer. But the bottom line is that I can do more in less time, and use half the electricity in the process, wi

Re: Best OS X?

On 2011/03/29 05:54, thejean...@gmail.com so eloquently wrote: What's the best/newest version of OS X for my 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4 PowerBook? Currently, I'm running 10.3.9 and experiencing limitations in browser/Flash upgrades, etc. Currently have 1.5 GB memory. I recently went back to 10.4 Tiger

Re: M-Audio Revolution 7.1 and Power Mac G4

On 2011/03/11 22:00, Sean Carroll wrote: I appreciate the feedback here so far on the M-Audio Revolution sound cards. I get the overall impression that either one should work fine with Tiger in a single-processor G4 desktop. Keep in mind that the driver OS compatibility is misleading, at least

Re: Bootable External

On 2011/03/11 22:09, Nestamicky wrote: On 11/03/11 9:30 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: OK, went to Staples today cuz I was passing it, a waste of time. They only had USB drives. Did some googling and it looks like with an Intel Mac any Firewire will do, and most USB will work but that's not optimu

Re: bootable firewire sata enclosure

On 2011/03/11 07:19, Nestamicky wrote: Anyone here who've used a Firewire SATA enclosure that's bootable and care to send me the make and model. One with Ethernet would be sweet, but as long as it's bootable that should be fine. I have been very happy with the IcyDock that I own, sorry I can't

Will this affect TenFourFox too?

*WebKit best option for Camino as Mozilla drops Gecko embedding* OR Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX5200 Ultra 64MB VRAM 10.4.11 PB G4 15

Re: New addition to my tool kit...

On 2011/04/01 15:57, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 1, 2011, at 2:40 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: > On Apr 1, 4:37 pm, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> ...something everyone who works with computers should have in their kit... >> >> >> >> I'm buying a bunch! > > T

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

On 2011/04/04 21:52, Kris Tilford wrote: Fax is a dying technology, it would certainly be easier to scan the documents and then email them, which I would think would nearly always be the preferred solution. When I purchased my NOS (New Old Stock) Power Mac G5 in February of 2008, I could not r

Re: Poor wireless reception on G4 Aluminum Powerbook

On 2011/04/13 19:22, Clark Martin so eloquently wrote: There was one or more versions of the PowerBook that had problems with WiFi range. It was basically a design error (AFAIK). Your model is from around that period but I don't know specifics. This means that you may never get acceptable rece

Re: Network burning?

On 2011/04/16 11:49, PETER WARNER so eloquently wrote: I would like to burn something with Toast onto a Dual Layer DVD. I have Toast on my Dual 450 Gig Ethernet, and I have a Dual Layer capable Super Drive in my Lombard... As far as I know there is no way on earth to get a Lombard into Target di

Re: OpenOffice vs Oracle

On 2010/11/23 08:32, Dan so eloquently wrote: hum. Things are getting messy. An interesting read... Anyone using the 3.3 b

Re: Need printer advice

On 2011/04/18 11:53, Valter Prahlad so eloquently wrote: I have an old iP2000 (cheap) and I'm quite satisfied with it. Good quality, fast, and cartridges are cheaper than Epson or HP equivalent (let alone Lexmark's, that where crazily expensive) I've seen Kodak's advertisements saying that thei

Re: QS 733 freezes

On 2011/04/18 07:39, shirley allan so eloquently wrote: I'm running rember to check RAM . Where would I find applejack? The price of PC-133 RAM from MemoryX is a little too high, is there another supplier recommended? As previously recommended in other threads, DMS has excellent prices and an

Re: Folder Label Color settings ?

On 2011/04/18 13:30, Jonas Lopez so eloquently wrote: WELL then what is the FINDER/Pref/Labels that shows several colors used for??? *sigh* --- On *Mon, 4/18/11, Bruce Johnson //* wrote: Well, I suspect that Cliff is actually talking about Label colors, not folder colors: control-c

Re: iMac G4 questions

On 2011/04/26 09:41, t...@io.com so eloquently wrote: There were two extremely similar models of 800MHz G4, 17" iLamp. The first one will boot into OS 9.2. The second one will not.It's a bit like the difference between a regular MDD and a FW800 MDD, except harder to tell apart. Yours is pr

Re: Lock your doors....

On 2011/04/26 10:50, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 9:36 AM, iJohn wrote: > The only thing worse than not securing your network is the poor folks > who THINK they've secured it but are using WEP. To my understanding > WEP is getting to be so laughably easy to hack tha

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

On 2011/04/26 12:26, Yersinia so eloquently wrote: So there IS an easy way to name and secure my little network? If so, I would greatly appreciate it if one of you wifi locksmiths could provide me with step-by-step instructions. Here is the equipment list: Router: US Robotics MAXg, Model 5461.

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

On 2011/04/26 13:39, Bruce Johnson so eloquently 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 passphra

Re: iMac G4 questions

On 2011/04/26 14:28, John Carmonne so eloquently wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Tina K. wrote: According to Mactracker both of the USB 1 17" iMacs use the GeForce4 MX but the earlier one came with 32 MB of VRAM whereas the second one came with 64 MB VRAM. Tina IMO EveryMa

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

On 2011/04/26 16:35, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Tina K. wrote: It doesn't have to be complex. Using a random generator such as RPG and an*encrypted* password repository such as Pastor, PasswordWallet, Keychain Access, 1Password, etc… provides

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

On 2011/04/26 17:38, iJohn so eloquently wrote: To repeat for what it's worth, you simply can NOT permanently lock yourself out of your network. The worst you can do is forget and lose all the router passwords and need to go through the hassle of resetting the router back to the factory defaults

Re: customize email pgm

On 2011/04/27 05:45, Geke so eloquently wrote: There it was again, that "... so eloquently wrote" in Tina's posts. I'm always wondering how you got that in, so finally I'm going to ask: Which email pgm is allowing such customization, and how to go about it? For this, my mailing lists account,

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

On 2011/04/27 10:12, Len Gerstel so eloquently wrote: And, to make this more topical, how much better of a password is: gre5^#$dkl(dfdlq!94NdKRl&fl‡Ò˝vt456wy^^9G53MJUlo0!! as a password vs: P4ssW0rD Well if there is any such thing as a 'leet speak' dictionary attack, the former is a much bet

Re: Any keyboard key cleaning suggestions? (NOT involving a dishwasher!)

On 2011/04/28 13:37, iJohn so eloquently wrote: A secondary question. What would be a good lubricant to (re)apply to the metal guides on the larger keys such as the space bar, return key, shift keys, et cetera? My only thought so far here is maybe petroleum jelly? I think anything moist will at

Re: Any keyboard key cleaning suggestions? (NOT involving a dishwasher!)

On 2011/04/28 15:13, Alexander MacLeod so eloquently wrote: I just did both my (totally gross) Matias TactilePro keyboards with a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser They both look nearly brand new now. A truly amazing product, and not just for keyboards. They're

Re: Any keyboard key cleaning suggestions? (NOT involving a dishwasher!)

On 2011/04/29 08:55, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Apr 29, 2011, at 5:17 AM, iJohn wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Tina K. wrote: >> I think anything moist will attract dirt& debris, defeating the purpose. >> Perhaps graphite powder? > >

Re: New Yahoo mail on clamshell?

On 2011/05/01 06:28, PAR so eloquently wrote: Any suggestions? I don't have a copy of OSX 10.4 to upgrade with. Find one. ;-) Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX5200 Ultra 64MB VRAM 10.4.11 PB G4 15" HR-DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon 9700 128MB VRAM 10.4.11 Mac Pro Mid-2010 2

Re: Video upgrade

On 2011/05/09 08:52, Jeff Bequette so eloquently wrote: I have the low end June 2004 1.8 DP G5 with the Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 (64mb) video card on the AGP bus. From Mactracker, it looks like the Radeon 9800XT or Nvidia Geforce 6800 Ultra Ddl 256mb For Power Mac G5 will work as a replacement car

Re: G5 Logicboard

On 2011/05/09 15:14, Gottick International so eloquently wrote: I've suffered the dreaded G5 capacitor collapse. Since I don't think I'll manage replacing them I'm thinking of replacing the entire logic board. Any ideas where one can find one? The LEM swap list and ebay are the first things tha

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

On 2011/05/09 20:36, admin so eloquently wrote: Adobe Flash 10.2 Intel only, I believe. Web sites are starting not to work under Leopard and Firefox Camino 2.0.7, Firefox 3.6.17, Safari 5.0.5. I can do everything I need to and still use Classic Programs with my G4 computers. I'd rather invest in

Re: Repaired an Apple Cinema Display HD 23" A1082

On 2011/05/19 10:00, faithie999 so eloquently wrote: put the display back into the case, buttoned it up, plugged it in, and voila--back to life--for $2 plus shipping!! That is a great do-it yourself success story, good job! Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX5200 Ultra 64MB V

iLife & OEM CD/DVD Burner

At what point did Apple remove the OEM burner requirement for iLife? My iMac (below) needs a new optical drive and I'm wondering if it has to be Pioneer. Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX5200 Ultra 64MB VRAM 10.4.11 PB G4 15" HR-DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon 9700 128MB VRAM

Re: iLife & OEM CD/DVD Burner

On 2011/06/01 14:08, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Tina K. wrote: > At what point did Apple remove the OEM burner requirement for iLife? My iMac (below) needs a new optical drive and I'm wondering if it has to be Pioneer. 10.5, but patchburn w

Hosts file wildcard

I have a lot of entries in my hosts file for intellitext.com, each one having the name of a different website preceeding us.intellitext.com: livescience.us.intellitxt.com quizfarm.us.intellitxt.com space.us.intellitxt.com knowyourmobile.uk.intellitxt.com handcellphone.us.intellitxt.com modmymoto

Re: Hosts file wildcard

On 2011/06/13 11:17, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Jun 13, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Charles Lenington wrote: >> etc… ad nauseum. >> >> Is there a wild card I can use to block all us.intellitext.com sites >> instead of making a separate entry with each one I come across? >> >> Tina >> > >

Re: Hosts file wildcard

On 2011/06/14 11:58, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Jun 13, 2011, at 8:00 PM, Tina K. wrote: The sites that have added Intellitext's 'feature' end up loading a separate tab that I end up having to close. I believe it is some sort of markup (?) that turns select words

Re: Hello! and question from a relative newbie

On 2011/06/14 19:06, Stephen E. Bodnar so eloquently wrote: The 2-SATA PCI card is worth it, it will speed up the system quite a bit. At least it did on my old G4! In theory does the SATA PCI card give higher bandwidth than the IDE/PATA connections, or is it still limited by the bus speed? T

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

On 2011/06/18 07:15, Bill Connelly so eloquently wrote: Terminate my membership? Is this the only way to stop the sex and drug sales e-mails from coming "from" the G3-G5 LEM List? I'm not getting much from the topics these days anyway ... Huh? I get zero spam from LEM lists, and I'm subscribed

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

On 2011/06/19 06:37, Dan so eloquently wrote: At 11:34 PM -0600 6/18/2011, Tina K. wrote: On 2011/06/18 07:15, Bill Connelly so eloquently wrote: Terminate my membership? Is this the only way to stop the sex and drug sales e-mails from coming "from" the G3-G5 LEM List? I'm n

Re: Intel Mac & PPC apps

On 2011/06/25 13:32, Cliff Rediger wrote: Also, what about Classic apps. ? There's one I just can't live without, viz. INCONTROL no ToDo/Calendar app like it anywhere that I can find. I'm pretty sure that Classic support was dropped with 10.5 Leopard so if you can't live without

Re: Intel Mac & PPC apps

On 2011/07/01 19:15, cubpa...@aol.com wrote: FYI, the earlier Intel Macs used a different version of Tiger than did the PPC Macs. I do not believe that Intel Macs are able to run OS9. Thank you for that tidbit of information, I was Intel-less until just this year so my knowledge regarding the

Re: PowerMac G5 Quits

On 2011/07/18 13:08, James Morgan wrote: My G5 just shuts down and restarts itself. And often freezes up. Does this sound like a faulty power supply to you folks? Have you read the Console logs to see if it's just an OS crash? Which version of OS X are you running? How is your machine configur

Re: Mouseball comes to life, keyboard dies

On 2011/07/30 14:28, Tom wrote: On the downside, I had a glass of water sitting next to my keyboard (the very thin aluminum kind), and I bumped it over on the keyboard. The water went all over the keys. Instantly I turned the board over and set it on a towel, and tapped on it, hoping to drain out

Re: Upgrading to Lion

On 2011/08/04 12:39, Bruce Johnson wrote: Lion is strictly 64 bit.. Meaning the OS is 100% 64 bit, or the OS and Apps are 100% 64 bit? Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX5200 Ultra 64MB VRAM 10.4.11 PB G4 15" HR-DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon 9700 128MB VRAM 10.5.8 Mac Pro

Re: 10.5.8 G4 Won't restart

On 2011/08/11 15:37, Vince Meghrouni so eloquently wrote: When I try to properly shut down or restart my G4 Quicksilver OS 10.5.8, the icons leave the screen (the screensaver image - is that what you call it? - remains) and the beach ball spins forever. I can shut it down with the power button a

Re: Cool hack for an old keyboard...

On 2011/08/12 16:56, Joshua Juran so eloquently wrote: I'm typing this on a Matias Tactile Pro. :-) Noisy cricket, but it feels great. I'm waiting for my TP to get old enough to justify taking it apart and seeing what I can do with it. Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX52

Re: Mail Question

On 2011/08/14 10:58, QuoVadis so eloquently wrote: Might even be so that no one sees the e-mail addresses in the BCC entry field! That is correct, if all of the addressees are BCC none of them will be able to see who else it went out to. On the flip side, if you want to see who you sent a me

Re: Inadvertant short cut key combination

On 2011/08/16 20:52, Cliff Rediger so eloquently wrote: I've heard about Haxie issues but haven't experienced much. Do OS versions later than Tiger offer contextual menu customization? No, just in the Keyboard pref pane. I miss Menu Master (and Font Card for that matter), they were much more i

Re: efficient EMac HD transfer

On 2011/08/29 08:10, Don Wakefield so eloquently wrote: Please help me with my EMac 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 / 768 MB DDR SDRAM running Leopard 10.5.8. My internal 80 GB HD is becoming a bit crowded sharing space with all my data and application files. So I have just copied the application and data f

Re: Quieter fans for a Quicksilver G4?

On 2011/08/31 17:14, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Alex Barnes wrote: Once upon a time I took apart a 1 kW PSU to see what was inside. I was zapped pretty well and the worst thing about it was that it hurt like crazy. I did not need CPR or any help whatsoever.

Re: Snoring G4 Digital Audio?

On 2011/09/04 17:10, faithie999 so eloquently wrote: the DA uses 22 pins and one of the 2 extra pins supplies +28volts. if you decide to do a mod to a standard power supply, you'll need to find a wallwart 28v power supply, probably on ebay. Is this 28v vitally important to operating the DA, or

Re: B&W G3 Freezes - thanks for the suggestions.

On 2011/09/10 12:19, Mac User #330250 so eloquently wrote: -- Original message -- Subject: Re: B&W G3 Freezes - thanks for the suggestions. Date:Saturday, 10. September 2011 From:Alexander Gomes To:g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > On any processor, IBM or otherwise it is r

Re: Best possible graphics card for MDD G4?

On 2011/09/13 17:34, Jörg Duurkoop so eloquently wrote: Where can I get this control panel to switch my MDD Dual to single CPU mode? I often listen to music from my harddisks and don't like the constantly changing fan noise at all. Before I upgraded my single processor MDD 1.25 with a dual CPU b

Re: OSX: cloning or ex-novo?

On 2011/09/20 20:55, Dan so eloquently wrote: At 12:45 AM +0200 9/21/2011, Valter Prahlad wrote: PowerMac G5, DP 2.7 AGP (not PCI-X). PowerMac G4 DA, with OSX 10.4.11, and lots of installed bits and pieces (apps, tools, drivers, personal data, etc.). I now have two possible options for setting

Re: OSX: cloning or ex-novo?

On 2011/09/21 13:40, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: On Sep 21, 2011, at 7:55 AM, Valter Prahlad wrote: I don't want Leopard. I still need and use some Classic apps, and Leopard "killed" Classic. You can run MacOS apps in Leopard using SheepShaver: No need t

Re: Mac frozen in startup

On 2011/09/26 23:52, Jeff Bequette so eloquently wrote: (then get applejack) Applejack is the first thing I install on a Mac. Why Apple hasn't bought the rights to it is beyond me, but the developer deserves donations for this fantastic tool. Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeFo

Re: 16x DVD burning in PowerMac G4

On 2011/10/01 01:56, Charles Lenington so eloquently wrote: I'm going to top post on this one and ask the question: WHAT THE HECK? Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX5200 Ultra 64MB VRAM 10.4.11 PB G4 15" HR-DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon 9700 128MB VRAM 10.5.8 Mac Pro Mid-201

Re: TenFourFox

On 2011/10/01 14:05, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: On Oct 1, 2011, at 7:35 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: I recently installed the upgrade of TenFourFox (7.0) on my Mac G4 running Tiger (10.4.11). TenFourFox is telling me that I need to install the Flash Player Plugin TenFourFox no longer

Mapping Out Bad Sectors

If you zero out a hard drive with Disk Utility to map out the bad blocks, are they notated in a permanent fashion or will a simple reformat lose the bad block "map." Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX5200 Ultra 64MB VRAM 10.4.11 PB G4 15" HR-DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon 970

Re: Mapping Out Bad Sectors

On 2011/10/04 09:34, John Martz so eloquently wrote: My understanding is it works this way. If the drive attempts to read a sector and the read fails, the sector is marked as "pending". It is not remapped under the rational that the read may succeed in the future. So if you see a non-zero value f

Re: Mapping Out Bad Sectors

On 2011/10/04 11:16, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: I'll also add my voice to the chorus about "new bad sectors == failing drive"; in my experience, new bad sectors invariably mean 'time to get a new drive'. The moment SMART starts telling you things are going wrong, you should take action.

Re: Sad day...

On 2011/10/05 19:44, Len Gerstel so eloquently wrote: 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. I was holding it together until I saw this, then I finally lost it. Steve affected so many pe

Re: Air filter on a G5 ppc

On 2011/10/14 16:59, JohnV wrote: Is there an elegant way to filter the incoming air in a ppc G5 tower? A long time ago I read a post by a man who used his wife's old stockings to filter the air. I make no claims to the feasibility of doing so. ;-) Tina -- HP Presario 2.8GHz Celeron D 2G

Re: non ECC RAM?

On 2011/10/14 18:52, John Carmonne wrote: Has anyone mixed non ECC RAM on a Mac PRO? If so was there any problems? The ECC RAM of coarse is more expensive and I'm trying to keep down the cost. I have a 2009 2.66 Quad Nehalem. Whether Non-ECC memory works or not, mixing ECC & Non-ECC doesn't so

Re: non ECC RAM?

On 2011/10/15 21:11, Brielle Bruns wrote: Sticks of ram are done in pairs if they use interleaving to improve performance. There's no such thing as triple or quad (unless its something non-standard and obscure). 4 sticks is basically 2 banks of 2 interleaved sticks. My un-educated internet re

Re: non ECC RAM?

On 2011/10/15 23:38, Brielle Bruns wrote: DDR3 means 'double data rate type three' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM It primarily means its an evolution of DDR2 and transfers data 2x as fast as DDR2. Thank you for the clarification, sometimes I am a little bit dyslexic. :-) Tina --

Re: USB Drive Issues

On 2011/10/24 10:05, Michael McMurtrey wrote: All of a sudden my Verbatim USB drive (AC320GB) will not work when connected to my Targus USB hub. The hub is powered, and the power supply seems to be working. All other USB peripherals work fine when plugged into the hub, and the Verbatim drive work

Re: APC ES-500 Yelling Right Out of the Box

On 2011/10/31 22:24, Anne Keller-Smith so eloquently wrote: Had power outage Friday and noted that while my son's Back UPS ES 750 worked fine, beeped to let him know to shut down, mine just allowed the computer to shut off. Not good! Did you have the Energy Saver pref pane configured to shut th

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