Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

On 2012/02/14 01:08, Joshua Juran so eloquently wrote: The great thing about standards is... you can always ignore them and do it your own way! That is an excellent idea Joshua, why didn't I think of that?!?!?! Tell you what, you go ahead and remove all standards from your life then let us kno

Re: PowerMac G5 not waking from sleep?

On 2012/02/13 06:02, Mark Langthorne so eloquently wrote: Every time I put the Mac to sleep it cuts out when waking. Then I have to unplug it let it stand awhile then reboot it. Anybody have any ideas I have tried different configurations of ram to see if that was the issue but the same thing hap

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

On 2012/02/13 08:23, Barry Levine so eloquently wrote: I changed the subject line. That always has seemed to start a new thread. There is a number in the headers that determines what thread a message belongs to, what the subject line contains is irrelevant. Not to pick on you in particular b

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

On 2012/02/13 02:48, Josh Juran so eloquently wrote: Please don't Reply to send an unrelated message -- it hijacks the thread. Also, consider posting your questions to the macos9 mailing list instead. Word. I've gotten to the point that I delete hijacked threads because when I collapse the co

Re: adding memory to iMac G4

On 2012/02/12 08:24, QuoVadis so eloquently wrote: Hello Tina, Does the USB2.0 version use DDR memory, instead of SD-RAM of the USB 1.1 version? If so, then the topic starter has more options indeed. I'm not sure how pricey a 1GB DDR SO-DIMM is going to be.. Greetings, Eelco. Thanks for th

Re: G5 issues

On 2012/02/11 14:41, Mark Langthorne so eloquently wrote: Its a setting in the Click to Flash plug in not in YouTube and I think its Safari only. There are two Click to Flash plug-ins, one is indeed a Safari plug-in and the other that gets installed in the internet plug-ins folder works for al

Re: adding memory to iMac G4

On 2012/02/11 12:12, QuoVadis so eloquently wrote: One gigabyte of memory is the maximum you can get in an iMac G4, by the way. Just to be clear, the first G4 iMacs have a memory limit of 1GB. The later USB 2 iMac G4s are rated at 1GB of memory by Apple but in reality can use 2GB as I have in

Re: Installing a replacement internal speaker in a G4 mdd Tower

On 2012/02/11 14:40, Dan so eloquently wrote: At 4:54 PM -0800 2/8/2012, Robert Lee wrote: I'm trying to install a new replacement internal speaker and I'm having second thoughts about doing it myself. I can't even see where it connects to the motherboard. Me being visually impaired has some to

Re: G5 issues

On 2012/02/05 12:58, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: I don't know? On LEM-Swap there are three power supplies available right now for only $30 each, buy one NOW before they're gone!!!: Wow, it's magic. If I a

Re: new to the MAC universe.

On 2012/02/03 09:22, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: There were no dual-core PowerPC cpus ever used in Macs Except this one: PROCESSOR Processor PowerPC 970MP (G5) Processor Speed 2.0, 2.3, or dual 2.5 GHz Number of Cores 2 per processor Cache 64K (instruction), 32K (data) L1, 1MB

Re: new to the MAC universe.

On 2012/02/02 05:53, JoeTaxpayer so eloquently wrote: Tina, I do know, the hard way. Jane 2.0 and I are at the mall, and she asks to go to the mac store. You know where that got me.:) Smart lady! :) Tina -- Acceleron: HP Presario 2.8GHz Celeron D 2GB RAM Discrete graphics XP Pro Luxo Jr: iM

Re: new to the MAC universe.

MAC = Media Access Control Mac = PC sold by Apple M‧A‧C = Cosmetics line Mix them up and there's no telling what you'll get. ;-) Tina -- Acceleron: HP Presario 2.8GHz Celeron D 2GB RAM Discrete graphics XP Pro Luxo Jr: iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForceFX5200 Ultra 64MB VRAM 10.4.11 Wo

Re: G5 quad

On 2012/01/14 11:17, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: When Apple replaces a motherboard they make the serial # match Not always. I purchased a 'refurb' iMac G4 that initially had a matching SN, but it (along with others like it) had a problem with some flashed code that kept the display from

Re: G4 or G5?

On 2012/01/10 13:36, John Carmonne so eloquently wrote: On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:40 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: > > What's going on in that Mac, John? > Dual 1.25 4 HDD's, 2 optical's burning at the same time.:-) and other stuff. Now that's a PPC Mac being put to good use, it's nice to see one bei

Re: Don't Landfill old Mac's

On 2012/01/09 12:43, Doug McNutt so eloquently wrote: It has no problems with Eudora 5.1 which beats any UNIX mail program I have ever seen. The application uses a resource fork for its preferences and message directories. It will never be ported to Lion. And if it supported IMAP I'd still be u

Re: going to an Intel iMac

On 2012/01/07 09:54, Stephen E. Bodnar so eloquently wrote: Very well said. Having done this very same migration numerous times, there is one gotcha - let Migration Assistant create the new user on the new (target) machine and not update an existing account. Otherwise, weird things happen with

Re: Firefox

On 2012/01/06 19:00, Mel so eloquently wrote: How does one enable plugins on TFF so that flash will work? Type "about:config" in the address bar, without the quotes, and Enter; then search for "flash." I don't remember what the relevant lines are but it's pretty straightforward to enable plug

Re: Firewire HD Partition is not accessible. Very strange.

On 2012/01/03 13:07, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Jan 3, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Tina K. wrote: > But is it not better to run fsck from SU or a different drive/partition/disc? It makes no difference here. The key is having access to the entire volume. Point taken, thank you Br

Re: Firewire HD Partition is not accessible. Very strange.

On 2012/01/03 12:12, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Jan 3, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Tina K. wrote: DW is probably more likely to fix it, but running fsck from Open Firmware instead of the boot drive, and possibly permissions repair, might be helpful. Applejack doesn't run fsck from

Re: Firewire HD Partition is not accessible. Very strange.

On 2012/01/03 09:16, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Jan 2, 2012, at 9:00 PM, Tina K. wrote: It seems odd that two different machines are experiencing the same condition, have you done any maintenance on them recently? Perhaps the free Applejack or the very un-free DiskWarrior could be

Re: Firewire HD Partition is not accessible. Very strange.

On 2012/01/02 20:53, Kevin so eloquently wrote: Recently I have not been able to access a partition on a Firewire hard drive. When I click on the icon for the partition on my desktop or in the devices list in the sidebar of the Finder, the Finder seems to blink and all of the icons on the deskt

Re: How do I remove an OS from a computer?

On 2012/01/02 17:11, Valter Prahlad so eloquently wrote: Il giorno 2-01-2012 23:54, cheryl ha scritto: > I have two old Macs that I want to wipe the data from. Can I do that > myself? Do you mean erasing the whole drive, or just the user's data? In other words: do you want an empty drive, or

Re: How do I block outgoing connections in Safari?

On 2011/12/30 16:15, dc so eloquently wrote: After reading over one of the topics in this list I installed "Private Eye". What a mistake! Now I'm paranoid! There are scores of outgoing connections, including amazonaws.com. How do I disable or remove them? ClamAV shows the system is clean but ther

Re: My subscription is screwed up.

On 2011/12/24 13:22, Dan so eloquently wrote: At 3:08 PM -0500 12/24/2011, Barry Levine wrote: change settings to the digest version. To be honest, I really wish there was a way to kill off the digesting completely. Data-wise, it saves very little. It delays sending of messages so your (gen

Re: Best Linux for a B&W G3?

On 2011/12/24 13:15, Barry Levine so eloquently wrote: My son the Linux maven, has been trying various distros on a B&W G3. His main complaint has been a problem with video card driver functionality (he says it's a "Rage 128" card). Any wisdom here for him? There's a lot of good support in the

USB 3 Devices on USB 2 Ports

Mac OS X Hints has a blurb today about using USB 3 Devices on your USB 2 equipped Mac for faster data transfers: Tina -- Acceleron: HP Presario 2.8GHz Celeron D 2GB RAM Discrete graphics XP Pro Luxo Jr: iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4

Re: Sharing Printer and Public Folder From G-4 to Win 7

On 2011/12/19 10:48, Dennis Myhand so eloquently wrote: On 12/19/2011 11:39 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2011/12/18 10:43, Dennis Myhand so eloquently wrote: I am trying to share my printer and public folder from a G-4 DA running 10.4 to a windows 7 machine. The windows 7 machine lied and said

Re: Sharing Printer and Public Folder From G-4 to Win 7

On 2011/12/18 10:43, Dennis Myhand so eloquently wrote: I am trying to share my printer and public folder from a G-4 DA running 10.4 to a windows 7 machine. The windows 7 machine lied and said the printer installed but nothing prints. I cannot see the public folder on the Mac. I went into s

Re: Strange fan issue with G5 + Leopard

On 2011/12/09 06:30, Nick Adams so eloquently wrote: Sorry about not changing the subject, an oversight on my part. Actually it's better to start a new subject rather than changing the subject - I have "Strange fan issue with G5 + Leopard" "68 pin vs 50 pin SCSI HD?" and "Question re failing

Re: PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS

On 2011/12/04 22:37, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:09 PM, John Ruschmeyer wrote: According to the file, the Zip actually contains a copy of the last PPC-compatible version which has then been hacked to report a later version number as required for the Facebook test. I

Re: Entourage in MS 2008 Question

On 2011/12/03 21:03, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: On Dec 3, 2011, at 9:44 PM, DLC wrote: Someone recently tried to send me a .exe driver for my Win laptop. Have'm resend the driver compressed (.zip). And without "exe" in the file name. Tina -- Acceleron: HP Presario 2.8GHz Celeron

Re: Strange fan issue with G5 + Leopard

On 2011/12/01 14:41, Dan so eloquently wrote: At 9:41 PM +0100 12/1/2011, Mac User #330250 wrote: Might the issue be fixed if I clean out the dust, which I presume must be there after all these years (I didn't look too deep into it yet)? Yea. Crud is one of the biggest causes of heat build-

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

On 2011/11/27 20:25, janespra...@comcast.net so eloquently wrote: 1. So, what brand would any of you suggest for an external drive? I should have mentioned that Western Digital's enterprise drives are warranted for 5 years and have a good reputation. They cost a bit more, but worth it in my mi

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

On 2011/11/27 20:25, janespra...@comcast.net so eloquently wrote: 1. So, what brand would any of you suggest for an external drive? If you want a ready to go solution I recommend OWC's external drive enclosures. Personally I prefer to put my own together using enclosures that have Oxford fire

Re: UPS

On 2011/11/27 08:01, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: Batterys of the kind used are generally available at places like Batteries Plus. Exactly what I was going to recommend. If the UPS is functional and the battery is accessible, there's not much point in getting a whole new UPS. Unless you

Re: router question

On 2011/11/27 04:43, Lawrence David Eden so eloquently wrote: Many thanks to the mavens who offered great answers to my question. This Group is the best place to get answers quickly. And they're affordable too! Tina -- Acceleron: HP Presario 2.8GHz Celeron D 2GB RAM Discrete graphics XP Pr

Re: PCI Cards under OS X 10.5.8 vrs 10.4.11

On 2011/11/22 12:07, Bill Connelly so eloquently wrote: It is an M-Audio 2496 Audio PCI card, which I have not yet installed the drivers. Drivers do not work (very well) under 10.5.8, but supposedly will be fine under 10.4.11 My Revolution 5.1's drivers for 10.4 & 10.5 never did work quite rig

Re: hands free video/audio communication

On 2011/11/18 14:33, Nesta Nesta so eloquently wrote: ...what happens when you turn on the music? Most decent VOX devices will have an adjustable threshold of how loud something has to be to trigger the VOX. Tina -- Acceleron: HP Presario 2.8GHz Celeron D 2GB RAM Discrete graphics XP Pro

Re: Fed up with Google changes on browsers in Tiger

On 2011/11/15 23:57, a1 so eloquently wrote: I am utterly fed up with what Google did to Reader, (snip) Software: I really, really need an RSS reader that will remain reliable with Tiger. I use Google Reader to Synch NetNewsWire MP & PB and avoid the changes Google made to Reader, I don't even

Re: Can't load youtube with certain browsers, others ok

On 2011/11/13 20:24, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: do you have Perian installed? About Perian aims to provide a single package for all your playback needs. It is a collection of QuickTime components incorporating several libraries: • libavcodec, from the ffmpeg project, along with code fro

Re: Can't load youtube with certain browsers, others ok

On 2011/11/13 20:24, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: do you have Perian installed? About Perian aims to provide a single package for all your playback needs. It is a collection of QuickTime components incorporating several libraries: • libavcodec, from the ffmpeg project, along with code fro

Re: Can't load youtube with certain browsers, others ok

On 2011/11/13 20:07, Dan so eloquently wrote: This link should suffice as a demo: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/610326/Handwriting%20Clock.swf Yes Chromium plays the file, no I do not have Flash Player installed - not in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins, not in ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins, or even in /Sy

Re: Can't load youtube with certain browsers, others ok

On 2011/11/13 18:19, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: On Nov 13, 2011, at 5:49 PM, Tina K. wrote: Apparently Chromium does have Flash Player included, I don't have it installed and my other browsers won't play Flash content but Chromium does. I suspect you're misinterpreting

Re: Can't load youtube with certain browsers, others ok

On 2011/11/13 17:03, David W. Morris so eloquently wrote: Flash is hopefully on it's way out and will be replaced with html5. It is already happening on YouTube and other sites. I was thrilled when I heard Adobe was going to drop mobile Flash, hopefully desktop Flash will follow. It's *usu

Re: Can't load youtube with certain browsers, others ok

On 2011/11/09 15:43, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: AFAIK "Chromium" should have always required a Flash Player plugin. The integrated Flash Player plugin is included in Google "Chrome" browser, but the open source progenitor "Chromium" never had Flash capability, and IF you were able to view

Can't load youtube with certain browsers, others ok

This is on my Mac Pro, below. I had been using Chromium for Flash sites so that I wouldn't have to install the Flash Player plug-in, but recently, about the time v14 came out, it has stopped loading the >> youtube page. The youtube logo comes up on the tab, but that's it - no parts of the page

Re: Can't load youtube with certain browsers, others ok

On 2011/11/10 09:02, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Nov 9, 2011, at 8:43 PM, Tina K. wrote: > > Sorry, I misspoke. I was using Chrome, and when it stopped loading YouTube at about v14 I switched to >> >Chromium with no relief. I only have one instance of Flash Player

Re: Which G5 or older Mac

On 2011/11/09 04:01, Bill Connelly so eloquently wrote: Some day soon, I'd like to upgrade to a faster cpu Mac, from my current 10.5.8 based models: a QS 2002 Dual 1GHz and a Digital Audio Dual 533. A Dual 2 GHz sounds really nice ... I run many "older" apps such as Photoshop CS, InDesign CS, Ad

Re: Can't load youtube with certain browsers, others ok

On 2011/11/09 15:43, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: On Nov 9, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Tina K. wrote: This is on my Mac Pro, below. I had been using Chromium for Flash sites so that I wouldn't have to install the Flash Player plug-in, but recently, about the time v14 came out, it has st

Can't load youtube with certain browsers, others ok

This is on my Mac Pro, below. I had been using Chromium for Flash sites so that I wouldn't have to install the Flash Player plug-in, but recently, about the time v14 came out, it has stopped loading the youtube page. The youtube logo comes up on the tab, but that's it - no parts of the page lo

Can't load youtube with certain browsers, others ok

This is on my Mac Pro, below. I had been using Chromium for Flash sites so that I wouldn't have to install the Flash Player plug-in, but recently, about the time v14 came out, it has stopped loading the youtube page. The youtube logo comes up on the tab, but that's it - no parts of the page l

Re: APC ES-500 now APC ES-750 what do you all use?

On 2011/11/02 16:42, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: have no experience with Tripp-Light (only ever used some of their line conditioners on scientific instruments in the past. Those were really good, but IIRC quite pricey at the time. Again, higher end stuff is better.) FWIW I've used Trip

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

On 2011/11/01 06:26, Anne Keller-Smith so eloquently wrote: On Nov 1, 2011, at 1:17 AM, Tina K. wrote: 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,

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

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: 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: 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 2011/10/14 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 >> > >

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: 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 2011/04/28 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: 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: 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,

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