Re: Best Linux for a BW G3?

2011-12-24 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/12/24 13:15, Barry Levine so eloquently wrote: My son the Linux maven, has been trying various distros on a BW 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

Re: My subscription is screwed up.

2011-12-24 Thread Tina K.
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

Re: How do I block outgoing connections in Safari?

2011-12-31 Thread Tina K.
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 there

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

2012-01-02 Thread Tina K.
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: Firewire HD Partition is not accessible. Very strange.

2012-01-02 Thread Tina K.
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

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

2012-01-03 Thread Tina K.
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

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

2012-01-03 Thread Tina K.
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 Open

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

2012-01-04 Thread Tina K.
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 Bruce

Re: Firefox

2012-01-06 Thread Tina K.
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

Re: going to an Intel iMac

2012-01-08 Thread Tina K.
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: G4 or G5?

2012-01-10 Thread Tina K.
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 being

Re: G5 quad

2012-01-14 Thread Tina K.
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

Re: new to the MAC universe.

2012-02-01 Thread Tina K.
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

Re: new to the MAC universe.

2012-02-02 Thread Tina K.
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:

Re: new to the MAC universe.

2012-02-03 Thread Tina K.
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: G5 issues

2012-02-05 Thread Tina K.
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!!!: http://groups.google.com/group/lemswap/browse_thread/thread/c733ebfe5d50ddae?hl=en Wow, it's magic. If I

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

2012-02-11 Thread Tina K.
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: adding memory to iMac G4

2012-02-11 Thread Tina K.
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

Re: G5 issues

2012-02-11 Thread Tina K.
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

Re: adding memory to iMac G4

2012-02-12 Thread Tina K.
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

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-13 Thread Tina K.
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

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-13 Thread Tina K.
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

Re: PowerMac G5 not waking from sleep?

2012-02-13 Thread Tina K.
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

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-14 Thread Tina K.
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

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