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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 2011/03/23 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 ?

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 2011/03/21 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: 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: 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: 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 2011/03/16 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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 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 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 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

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: [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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Anyone Want To Explain? + The -122 Error

On 2011/02/10 11:07, Bruce so eloquently wrote: So for instance if you had a folder called One, and inside that was a folder called Two, you can't move One into Two, because Two is inside One. So you'd have One inside Two, inside One, inside Two, inside One, inside Two. Somewhere Schrodinge

Re: Mac Pro Memory

On 2011/02/03 15:22, Jay Smith so eloquently wrote: This may help? http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1002588 There's the link I've been looking for, thank you! Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB 10.4.11 PB G4 15" HR-DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeo

Re: Mac G5 Single 1.8ghz Tower for sale AS IS

On 2011/02/07 20:00, Clmtyne so eloquently wrote: I have a Mac G5 Tower for sale. It has the processor and logic board in it, but all fans and everything else is gone. Very clean. looking for $150.00. Only serious people inquire. Will ship in United States only and is sold as is. The swap list

Re: lightscribe/Labelflash

On 2011/02/05 17:51, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: Your is is our are. Oh geez, now I've got a headache! :-p Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB 10.4.11 PB G4 15" HR-DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon 9700 128MB VRAM 10.5.8 Mac Pro Mid-2010 2.8 GHz QC 8 GB

Re: Need to Ping HP laserjet 8000dn on Jetdirect Network with Mac Powerbook (OSX 10.5.8)

On 2011/02/04 17:58, t...@nehaia.dk so eloquently wrote: On Fredag, 4/2 2011, 04:43, Tina K. wrote: > On 2011/02/03 19:20, Dennis Myhand so eloquently wrote: >> If you know the IP address of the printer you can open a terminal window >> and type ping and the address > &g

Re: General Disk hardware health?

On 2011/02/04 11:02, Jeffrey Engle so eloquently wrote: I have a 9 year old 3.5 WD 60gb hard drive and as I often get disks like this in trade or whatever, Is there a software program out there that's very good at judging the "hardware health" of a disk? One thing you can do with them is to era

Re: Need to Ping HP laserjet 8000dn on Jetdirect Network with Mac Powerbook (OSX 10.5.8)

On 2011/02/03 22:04, Dennis Myhand so eloquently wrote: On 2/3/2011 9:43 PM, Tina K. wrote: That's handy, but is there a way to stop it short of closing the window? Tina ctrl and c at the same time Thank you! Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64

Re: Need to Ping HP laserjet 8000dn on Jetdirect Network with Mac Powerbook (OSX 10.5.8)

On 2011/02/03 20:22, Mama Haymes so eloquently wrote: 10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss You have no connection to the printer, or the printer is not responding. Somehow you need to correct the address or get the printer to respond, sorry I can't be more help than th

Re: Need to Ping HP laserjet 8000dn on Jetdirect Network with Mac Powerbook (OSX 10.5.8)

On 2011/02/03 19:20, Dennis Myhand so eloquently wrote: If you know the IP address of the printer you can open a terminal window and type ping and the address That's handy, but is there a way to stop it short of closing the window? Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ul

Re: Need to Ping HP laserjet 8000dn on Jetdirect Network with Mac Powerbook (OSX 10.5.8)

On 2011/02/03 18:49, Clmtyne so eloquently wrote: If any one has any knowledge about this. According to HP I need to ping my HP Laserjet's Jet direct card with the Powerbook (OSX10.5.8). Any one familiar with how to do this. First find out the IP address of the printer, then go to Applications

Mac Pro Memory

Since the Mac Pro & Mac Intel lists seem to be all but dead I'll ask this here. Apparently the current Mac Pro use 3 channel memory, which if I understand correctly means that you'll get better performance on a SP with 3 identical sticks of RAM than you would with 4, and with 6 instead of 8 on

Re: How to test PRAM battery?

On 2011/02/02 15:53, J.M.P.Hissel so eloquently wrote: On 02-02-2011 21:14, Yersinia,yersi...@myfairpoint.net, wrote: > and you buy a new one that tests good (with a voltmeter) No, a voltmeter is useless! You'll need a battery-tester (10/15 $/€ ?)! I believe Jo is correct. A voltmeter tests

Re: Error Code Question

On 2011/01/31 11:44, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: Reformat the card in the camera This is good advice in general, when re-formatting something it is a good idea to do so with the device that it will be used in, if possible. Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ul

Re: How to Auto-shutdown during sleep?

On 2011/01/31 05:58, Geke so eloquently wrote: I have set up a Mac for public use. It starts up and shuts down automatically at the beginning and end of the day -- but the shutting down works only if the Mac is being used at the scheduled time. I like to have it sleep and log off after some time

Re: unread mail on G5 PM

On 2011/01/29 10:50, John Carmonne so eloquently wrote: Is there a way to gather unread mail in Apple Mail application in one folder or list without searching an unending mail list? I'm using 10.4.11 and 10.5.8. You can also sort the mail by status by clicking the top of the status column (the

Re: Changing the breathing rate of a sleeping Power Mac G4

On 2011/01/29 08:17, Yersinia so eloquently wrote: Oh and while I TOTALLY agree with both Sean and Tina on how cool (and endearing) Macs are when breathing while sleeping, gotta say the one thing I personally NEVER liked about ANY Mac design was where they put ports and outlets. As far as I'm con

Re: Changing the breathing rate of a sleeping Power Mac G4

On 2011/01/28 23:57, Sean Carroll so eloquently wrote: Have all Macs, or at least desktops, since... well, since whenever Apple introduced it... have they all "breathed" during sleep? Do they still? Except for trips to the Apple Store to gawk and dream, the entirety of my Mac experience has been

Re: Changing the breathing rate of a sleeping Power Mac G4

On 2011/01/28 20:30, Sean Carroll so eloquently wrote: I liked the way that, during sleep, the power button light on my old Gig-E would fade and brighten. I don't know when Apple started with this, but it was new to me in 2000. (I liked to point out this amusing - but not useless - feature to non

Re: blu-ray drive in and speakers for XServe G5

On 2011/01/28 12:14, Bruce Ryan so eloquently wrote: Can anyone recommend speakers My Logitech 2.1 THX certified makes me very happy, especially when I turn it up. Sorry I don't remember the model # but they were about $70-$80. Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultr

Re: Dual G5 Dilemma

On 2011/01/26 13:50, imrazor so eloquently wrote: Recently, however, the optical drive has quit ejecting properly. If you force open the tray, you can get it to eject with a paper clip, but that's rather inconvenient. FWIW my new old stock G5 DP had a similar issue without any chassis damage.

Re: frivolous question

On 2011/01/25 10:38, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 4:42 PM, ah...clem wrote: >i miss my flying > toasters. :'o( Miss them no more: Bah! NOTE Currently download links are not enabled by request of Vivendi. -- iMac 20" USB 2

Re: Is LogMeIn the answer?

On 2011/01/24 08:33, Dan so eloquently wrote: First, make sure you use a strong password. This "vnc login" is giving someone on the outside FULL access to your computer, and thru it FULL access to everything on your home LAN! Next, DO NOT use the default inbound port 5900. That's a well-known

Re: Can a G5 iMac power supply replace MDD power supply?

On 2011/01/24 06:32, johnwd5 so eloquently wrote: I have been offered a MDD tower with a bad psu. Can I use an iMac psu in place and do I need to make any adjustments? *Anything* is possible, but given the completely different form factors of the two it isn't going to be easy. Doing the ATX PS

Re: Sawtooth with ubuntu?

On 2011/01/23 16:27, t...@savingus.org so eloquently wrote: add-on for ubuntu, works with PPC - mythbuntu http://www.mythbuntu.org/ I wouldn't call it an add-on, more of a variant like Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc… Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB 10.4.11 PB G4

Re: Is LogMeIn the answer?

On 2011/01/21 08:05, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: On Jan 20, 1:34 pm, "Tina K." wrote: On 2011/01/20 19:04, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: I have heard of LogMeIn, but it looks like you have to pay for it. I don't know how well it works, either.

Re: Sawtooth with ubuntu?

On 2011/01/22 13:42, Dale Hoffman so eloquently wrote: Regarding Flash, I read on the screen during installation that Flash is supported. Firefox is the browser. Just make sure to check a couple of boxes that allow downloading updates during installation, and say "Yes" to any extras offered durin

Re: Mac Mini HDD speed

On 2011/01/22 09:28, John Carmonne so eloquently wrote: I recently got a Mac Mini PPC 1.25 with a 4200 RPM ATA 40 GB HDD. Is there an advantage to putting in a 7200 RPM ATA HDD? I know they're a little scarce but if it increases performance it's worth a try. My only concern would be heat. I do

Re: Is LogMeIn the answer?

On 2011/01/21 20:02, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Jan 21, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2011/01/21 09:50, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On the 'inside the house' side of the network you have a private, non-routing IP address range, your own LAN. Typically they

Re: Is LogMeIn the answer?

On 2011/01/21 19:49, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: I just noticed that in System Preferences>Sharing, it also lists remote Remote Log in. Should that be enabled, too? Remote Login is for logging in via ssh through Terminal. It *shouldn't* need to be enabled, but then Web Sharing sh

Re: Is LogMeIn the answer?

On 2011/01/21 12:42, Ashgrove so eloquently wrote: Check if the Tiger machine has sharing enabled: that's usually the only bump in the road when it comes to Screen Sharing, and it's often overlooked because, well, it's such a basic one. It has Personal File Sharing, Personal Web Sharing (which

Re: Is LogMeIn the answer?

On 2011/01/21 09:50, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On the 'inside the house' side of the network you have a private, non-routing IP address range, your own LAN. Typically they're either 192.168.n.n or 10.n.n.n I've seen both in use by various brands of wired and wireless routers. You CANNOT

Re: Is LogMeIn the answer?

On 2011/01/21 09:50, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: Both new macs will let you use Screen Sharing to connect to his computer; he'll have to install a vnc server VINE server is free and easy. Tiger has a built in VNC server. I just tried to remote access my Tiger iMac from my SL MP and I'm

Re: Is LogMeIn the answer?

On 2011/01/21 08:00, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: Robert, my husband is of the opinion that 2-3 clicks is better than only 1! So I need to control the keyboard and do the fixing. In that case he would probably love XP. Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 U

Re: Is LogMeIn the answer?

On 2011/01/20 19:04, Jane, (Portland, OR) so eloquently wrote: I have heard of LogMeIn, but it looks like you have to pay for it. I don't know how well it works, either. Can any of you recommend a program and how easy it would be to use? What about Screen Sharing in Core Services? That's what I

Re: Sawtooth with ubuntu?

On 2011/01/19 18:36, Tina K. so eloquently wrote: On 2011/01/19 17:03, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: On Jan 19, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Dale Hoffman wrote: where did you download it? <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads> If you want Ubuntu the installer is a few MB too big fo

Re: Sawtooth with ubuntu?

On 2011/01/19 17:03, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: On Jan 19, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Dale Hoffman wrote: where did you download it? If you want Ubuntu the installer is a few MB too big for a CD. You can avoid wasting a DVD by using the Kubuntu inst

Re: Sawtooth with ubuntu?

On 2011/01/19 13:21, skinnie so eloquently wrote: Hi guys,anyone here tried having ubuntu on a G4 450MHz sawtooth? Does it run flash well? I had Ubuntu on my iMac at one time and there is no Flash for PPC Ubuntu, or any other distro that I know of. Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM

Re: help, i'm going deaf!

On 2011/01/18 20:59, Jeffrey & Daile Engle so eloquently wrote: While using my powermac G5, I use ichat, skype and other video conferencing software. When I get an invite to chat, I have to turn my (system) volume way up to hear the caller. Then when the chat is over, heaven forbid if I had itune

Re: Appleworks problem

On 2011/01/17 18:44, Wm. Arnold so eloquently wrote: I would like to know what replaces Appleworks. I am using G4& G5 Power PC's with OSX10.4.11 AppleWorks will run just fine on your PPCs running Tiger. The alternatives are iWork ($79), Office ($150), or NeoOffice (free). Tina -- iMac 20"

Re: G5 Questions

On 2011/01/15 17:59, Bruce so eloquently wrote: Questions: 1. The June 2004 2,5 GHZ DP, and the Early 2005 2.7 GHZ DP, are liquid cooled. There are many stories about liquid cooled G5s leaking. What is the consensus about the liquid cooled G5s? Are they prone to leaking? Should they be avoided

Re: Quicksilver HD backup problem

On 2011/01/12 08:32, Greg Kennedy so eloquently wrote: In fact you may even be able to skip the whole Linux thing since OS X is BSD-based, and start some kind of recovery mode through a magic key sequence. TestDisk does essentially the same thing and is multi-platform, including OS X.

Re: Sleep coolant pump on G5 PM

On 2011/01/11 19:12, John Carmonne so eloquently wrote: Well it has a load of "non corrosive marine coolant" Hopefully that along with new "O" rings it will last another 5 years. Occasionally I see the upgrade Panasonic unit for sale but if I can get a lot of mileage from my rebuild it'll save me

Re: Sleep coolant pump on G5 PM

On 2011/01/11 17:47, John Carmonne so eloquently wrote: I have a G5 PowerMac Dual 2.7 with the Delphi liquid cooled heat sink. I recently had to rebuild the heat sink due to leakage, I've seen on the list that some say if you never shut them down they wont corrode and leak,. What I need to know i

Re: PowerMacG5 Upgrade Question

On 2011/01/11 14:24, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:00 PM, aspirito wrote: I love this machine and it's been good to me and I'm wondering what (if any) would be the best way to just give it a bit more oomph as I do video editing for a living and am about to upgrade eve

Re: Need fun software for visually impaired man with MacBook Pro

On 2011/01/04 10:42, MacMyDay wrote: *I was gifted with Apples MacBook Pro 2.66 GHZ with 4 GB memory. I didn't get software but I was able to download the free iPoker and it keeps me entertained. Where can you download other stuff these days that works with Snow Leopard. I would love to get a Sc

Re: "No Valid Packages" Error ???

On 2011/01/02 19:23, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jan 2, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: I get an error message informing me that "First Aid Failed! Disk Utility stopped repairing permissions on "HD" because the following error: "No Valid Packages" I told George that he had "no valid packages"

Re: Help Me Please!

On 2010/12/29 08:45, Dan wrote: The answer is to use the proper command diskutil eject devicename If for some reason you don't know the proper device name, and it is a tray-loading ODD, you can use: drutil tray open drutil tray close Tina -- You received this message because you are a mem

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