I wasn't talking about giving anyone read + write access to the entire file
tree except the administrator. Jane siad she was the sole person and the
administrator on that computer. Giving herself access shouldn't be a
security issue.
On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 1:36:33 PM UTC-7, joh...@pharmac
sh to keep and the OS makes it
harder to delete them quickly.
I'm basically just adding the ability of the administrator to read and
write all files.
On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 12:30:17 PM UTC-7, Valter Viglietti wrote:
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> Il giorno 27/03/13 19.50, "Wayne Stewart" ha scritt
In the HD privileges, I'd try clicking on the "apply to enclosed items"
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Aside from the aftermarket CPUs, you can also use a CPU from a B&W G3. If
so I’d suggest avoiding anything below 350mhz as you won’t see that much of
an improvement. Your 266 uses a 512k cache, in the B&W the 350mhz and
faster used a 1mb cache. That by itself made a noticeable difference.
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How about a Sonnet SATA card? It'll boot OS 9. If you really want an
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with eSATA and USB or FW so you could easily move data to another machine.
New SATA drives ate cheap enough, they're almost giving away small used
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For me this could prove awkward as My Airport Extreme doesn't connect to
the internet and I don't seem to see a stand alone installer. Looks like a
worthwhile update but is it worth hauling the hardware to a different
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All the Lacie D2 DVD drives I've seen used a regular ide optical drive.
Since almost any ide optical drive works in the G4, why not just pull it
out of the case and install it in the G4 in place of the stock one?
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Don't know if this will be helpful with the aluminum. A friend used to get
a lot of earlier keyboards that had had spills from a local shop. He found
damaged traces and used a trace pen to repair them. Probably more than it's
worth for 1 keyboard but he got in 50 a year and fixed most of them
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If it is a failing or marginal power supply you could try removing other
cards and running the hard drives off an external power supply. Then if it
does reboot when hot, you'll know it's your power supply. If it still
doesn't then maybe there's something wrong with the video card.
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You might check to see if the personality card is fully seated. Sometimes
in handling the front gets lifted out of the socket. If it is then the
built-in video port won't work
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If you do a search with"atx G4" you'll get quite a few hits with
pinouts and instructions.
I do have a G4 with an ATX power supply. Mine was done with an adapter
so that if the ATX power supply ever quits, it's just a matter of
plugging another in
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I've had a lot more connected to a G4 than a couple of drives and a
9800. My guess is that your power supply is getting marginal. After 12
years likely the capacitors in the power supply have started going.
You could recap the power supply or do an atx conversion. Another
option is to power some of
If the budget allows, the ACARD adapter might be a better choice. Once
I clocked a 78mb SCSI drive vs an 80gb ide on an ACARD adapter to see
how much faster the SCSI drive was. It wasn't, the 80gb on the adapter
beat the SCSI drive by a good margin.
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I thought you needed apples DVD decoder card to play DVDs from OS 9.
It doesn't occupy a slot but attaches to the Rage 128 card.
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You can just go to the Time Machine preference and switch it to off.
This just turns of the automatic backup. If you keep Time Machine in
your menu bar then you can click on Back Up Now whenever you want one
like when you're taking lunch.
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You could pick up an Apple ADC to DVI adapter, then you could use the
display with almost any Mac.
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Got to be something drawing a particular group with Macs more than 6
years old. I know several hundred Mac users and of those that are
online, about 1% are doing it with a PPC.
They'd be running newer hardware if they could afford to. Actually
their budget isn't much over free.
iPads are used a bit
Actually if someone says they're running 10.4 or 10.5, it doesn't mean
that OS is necessarily running on a PPC Mac. The first Intel machines
came with 10.4. I know a number of people still using 10.4 or 10.5 on
Intel machines for a variety of reasons. You could purchase10.5 to run
on a PPC Mac but
If you want to save power then a G5 really isn't going to do it, you'd
have to go to intel. A Mac Mini or MacBook don't draw a lot of power.
You didn't say but I'm guessing you want to be able to use some older
apps. You're not likely worried about PPC OSX apps as they'll work up
to 10.6. More lik
A couple of years ago I was rendering a small HD video on my Macbook
Pro. Out of curiosity I tried it on a MDD sporting dual 1.33 mhz
processors with 2 mb cache 2gb RAM and a large SATA hard drive. Under
OSX it's was faster than any Powerbook ever made. The MBP and MDD ran
the same OS and software.
When formatting with Disk Utility, instead of selecting Erase instead
select Partition
Under Volume Scheme it'll say Currant, change that to 1 partition
Now click on the options button and you will be able to select Apple
Partition Map
On Mar 18, 9:26 am, Dan A wrote:
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> I have an e
The dual 1.25 will work fine in a single 1.25 motherboard.
I don't believe it will harm the motherboard. A number of years ago I
did have a dual processor where each processor was running a different
speed. An error on my part. It was my first try at overclocking and I
somehow skipped part of the
The reason I suggested this is that he's not going to run MacOS in
this machine and the OS he's going to use won't use the second
processor at all. CHUD won't work in a non MacOS machine.
On Mar 9, 8:17 am, Jörg Duurkoop wrote:
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>
> > Your dual 1.25 will have a 2mb cache while the single wil
You can easily swap CPU modules between MDDs with the same bus speed.
You can also do it between MDDs with different bus speeds but you need
to do some resistor mods to get the best results or in some cases to
work at all
Taking out a dual 1.25 and replacing it with a single 1.25 is just
plug and
According to iStat pro I'm running 2 degrees Celsius hotter at idle
with both processors running. Using CHUD tools to turn on nap dropps
my idle temp about 20 degrees C.
At 1.5ghz there wasn't any problems. 1.58 is new to me so I'll be
keeping an eye on the temp. If I get worried I'll see about add
I tried the first one without luck but I was a bit tired and may have
made an error. I'll try again in a day or two when I"m more rested
Wayne
On Mar 6, 11:30 pm, Kris Tilford wrote:
> I just realized your MDD is dual-CPU. This will likely require a
> slightly different patch because the G4 Mini
I've been trying to do something with a MDD that was a little beyond
it so I overclocked a 1.42 to 1.5ghz. That wasn't quite enough so I
tried for 1.58ghz.
System Profiler is saying 1.5ghz. Xbench tests seems to be showing the
correct amount of speedup though it's also saying I have 1.5ghz
processo
It'll do what you ask provided you have the software. If you're
thinking of making DVDs with a camcorder then it'd technically do it
but you'd be looking at days to render a full length video. And that's
with regular video, you'd grow old waiting for it to render HD video
Unless it's a local ebay
It's an OSX preference pane so it won't work on any other OS. I
haven't looked into it maybe because I can't see any obvious
difference from a user standpoint other than temperatures decrease. I
believe it throttles down the processors and possibly shuts one down
when not needed. From the computers
Another possible option for people running OSX on a dual PPC is using
the CHUD utilities 3.5.2 to turn on nap mode. Some people have had
problems with it but it works great for me. On my G4 dual overclocked
to 1.5 ghz the CPU idle temp went from 57C to 35C and of course the
fans slowed down.
Wayne
I was noticing that all the OS 9 bootable MDD have the solder pads for
the components for Firewire 800. I'm wondering if anyone has tried
adding the parts?
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If nothing else, the drive should open if you hold down the mouse
button on boot up
If not, I'd try opening the door to the optical bay and pressing the
drives eject button and see if it opens that way. If not then you
likely have either a bad drive or no power going to it
On Jan 7, 1:12 pm, Chan
All the MDD power supplies are interchangeable.
On Jan 4, 4:00 am, k l wrote:
> house fuse blows in a sec when you attach the powerchord,
> my guess is the psu
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> are the psus interchangeable with older 2 x 867 mhz mdd psu ??
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> the model i want to use it in is the 1.25 mhz year 2003 167 mhz
I've used a couple of Elgato devices that input S or composite video
and send it to a Mac via USB2. I used an earlier product and later the
EyeTV 250 Plus. At the time I bought it, it said it required a G4 or
higher but when my G4 died in the middle of a project I discovered a
G3 worked with both t
It was mounted internally in one of the hard drive bays.
Apple didn't sell many as most people used the CD/DVD burner or opted
for a USB Zip drive.
On Dec 2, 8:55 am, John Ruschmeyer wrote:
> I recently became the owner of a dual 1.0ghz G4 MDD. In looking at the
> various specs online, I see refe
I have a few G4 DA, one of which is a 733 mhz. It alone happens to
have a light grey top cover. I'd suspect that someone swapped it from
a Quicksilver. Does anyone know if possibly any late models might have
come with a light grey top.
Only reason I'm wondering is that I'm turfing the remains of a
Yes, that's a MDD CPU
On Nov 16, 12:30 pm, JoeTaxpayer wrote:
> The eBay Listing I see says QS as you noted, but P/N 820-1452-A which
> looks like an MDD board.
> I added a SATA card to my MDD and am happy I did it. Extra RAM can't
> hurt.
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I've used Photoshop CS & InDesign CS on intel Macs.
MacOS 10.6 and earlier will run PPC software. With the currant 10.7
they eliminated support for PPC software.
On Nov 9, 3:01 am, Bill Connelly wrote:
> Some day soon, I'd like to upgrade to a faster cpu Mac, from my
> current 10.5.8 based models
How much space is left on your boot volume?
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Usually when I get freezes it ends up being a faulty RAM strip. Have
you tested the RAM or tried swapping out strips?
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The AGP G4 came out before ADC and the AGP slot doesn't supply the 25
volts required to power the ADC monitor.
Starting with the Gigabit Ethernet machine Apple replaced the 20 pin
power supply with a 22 pin power supply which supplied 25 volts. To
use your display you need a newer G4, an ADC to DVI
People who get used computer, either stolen or just bought second hand
seldom wipe the HD. Usually there's applications they want to keep or
they're just lazy.
On Jun 1, 2:00 pm, Jonas Lopez wrote:
> Prey and Hidden tracking stolen Mac computers
>
> What is to prevent the wipe of the hd and a new
You should be able to find a 1.25 or possibly a dual 1.25 G4 MDD in
the $40 - 100 area and unupgraded, it'll run circles around the most
heavily upgraded G3 out there
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Sounds like you have an 867mhz Quicksilver.
I doubt that an upgraded G3 would likely even equal what you have for
video work. If you want more speed you have a few choices depending on
budget and maybe where you live.
You could get a processor upgrade for your machine. I may be mistaken
but I thin
I think I've used every version of Mouseworks and never had to zap the
PRAM. I'm using Mouseworks on several computers and it's been
flawless. As Bruce said, the only problem has been with the trackball
which requires the occasional takedown for cleaning
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I'm guessing that we're talking B&W G3 not iMac. Neither has USB2
ports but you can install a USB2 card in a B&W
If you went by the paper specs you'd think for speed that it'd be
USB2, Firewire 400 then ATA/33 but the real world is a lot
different.
On a B&W G3 with a 7200 rpm drive you'll likely g
I'd think something like an iBook would be a better choice. Dismount
the screen and attach that to the dash. Might need to make a custom
cable. The car can be a warm environment so I might pull the top and
put a fan over the heatsink. Either reuse the keyboard and trackpad or
go USB or Bluetooth.
What about one of those SCSI to USB adapters? I know they also made
SCSI to firewire adapters though I've never owned one of those
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If you didn't feel much of a difference going from 500mb to 1.5gb then
I suspect adding a little RAM more won't satisfy you. If you still
have the original hard drive then a new large hard drive should make
it feel a little faster. Otherwise nothings going to make it feel
hugely faster. If the budg
I have 3 B&W G3s and neither fan ever stops spinning while they're
powered up. I was under the impression that they weren't supposed to
stop
On Apr 24, 10:06 pm, crumvoc wrote:
> This computer works great, except for other than a power-off, BOTH the
> fans (internal and power supply) will not sh
I did re-equip one school. Someone said they were short a mouse and
asked if I could spare one. When I went to drop it off I found a
motley collection of really old Macs. Seemed like every machine was
running different software with every possible version of MacOS. I
knew from a teacher at a privat
I guess I should mention that I have about 125 Apple computers. Even
though I've explained that this isn't unusual, the girlfriend remains
unconvinced. Anyways I'm trying not to let the cubic footage of Macs,
software & peripherals increase so I'm eying different machines.
On Apr 20, 6:14 am, Nest
I have every model of G4 tower Yikes, Sawtooth, Gigabit Ethernet,
Digital Audio, Quicksilver, MDD. I'm clearing out a few things and I'm
trying to think of a compelling reason to not get rid of the Sawtooth
and I can't think of one. Is there one?
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I have a lot of Apple IIs, IIIs and Macs and I really need to
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Macs I have one or more of
Macs: 128k, 512k, 512ke, Plus, SE, SE/30, Classic, Color Classic,
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If the backup is made by cloning your hard drive then it should be
bootable. Firewire is preferable to USB 2.0 as USB 2.0 is pretty slow
to boot from but in a pinch it works. If your backup was done with
Time Machine then it's not bootable.
If you want to see if your backup is bootable, you can ch
I wouldn't count on that EEE number, I have 11 G4 towers and none of
the video cards has an EEE anywhere in the serial number. Two of them
I bought brand new and I know they still have the original video card.
Most likely the rest do too but of course I can't guarantee that.
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Adobe says that you need a Mac with an intel processor to run
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I didn't mean that a Quicksilver was inordinately slow but right out
of the box a MDD has certain advantages that you'll never get no
matter how much you upgrade a Quicksilver. 167mhz bus speed, faster
RAM and more RAM are just 3 of them. Start with a faster machine and
if you feel like upgrading,
Since the prices on MDD(Mirrored Drive Door) G4s is almost the same as
a quicksilver now, I'd get a MDD. Any stock MDD is already way faster
than any maxed out Yikes. If you choose the right one, the stock MDD
will blow away virtually any upgraded Quicksilver
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First thing I'd do is open the computers door and see if it's really
the hard drives that are making the noise and not a fan or optical
drive.
If it is indeed the hard drive then what your options are depends a
little on finances.
One good option would be to get an external firewire hard drive to
Only the MDD power supplies are drop in replacements
If you're looking on ebay then do a search for MDD power supply.
You'll get a number of hits.
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