Re: Sad day...

2011-10-07 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 11-10-05 11:31 PM, Valter Prahlad valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it wrote: Il giorno 6-10-2011 3:44, Len Gerstel ha scritto: 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. Zoom the Text Edit

Re: Upgrading to Lion

2011-08-04 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 11-08-04 1:30 PM, diane dianed...@gmail.com wrote: Is it true that you have to have SL to do the upgrade? I didn't see this as a requirement on Apple's site though they only have instructions for upgrading from SL, no other OS is mentioned. Somehow I missed that tidbit in the hoopla.

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

2011-06-01 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 10/05/11 12:50 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Go to these sources: http://www.tonymacx86.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a?hl=en For a wealth of information on building a Hack that DOES NOT REQUIRE altering the OS X installer; you install from the

Re: Car computer

2011-05-23 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 22/05/11 10:30 PM, Alexander Gomes alexcomputersolut...@gmail.com wrote: Again, that would be developed for an ARM cpu.  I'm looking for a way to use my oldish hardware in a very productive way. I'm not wanting to use an ipod/ipad. I use an android phone because I found it to be much better

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

2011-05-14 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 10/05/11 12:50 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On May 10, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Jack Countryman wrote: IPC 10.5.6?? What's IPC mean here, or where do I find that version of 10.5.6? Yeah, I know...you know what you mean, but I'm not that much up to speed on this

Re: Nullriver's MediaLink Leopard on a G4

2011-04-19 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 14/04/11 8:29 AM, Jay Smith jonathan.newcas...@gmail.com wrote: I only have experience of this from my PC days and I used 'ps3 media server'. It was light, free and did the job. It is also available for mac on macupdates and runs on Leopard. I would try it and save $20. Sent from my

Re: New addition to my tool kit...

2011-04-03 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 01/04/11 7:35 PM, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote: 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 Johnsonjohn...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: ...something everyone who works with computers should have in their

Re: problemas com o blackberry e apple

2011-03-16 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 16/03/11 3:59 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) janespra...@comcast.net wrote: On Mar 10, 5:12 pm, ricardo ferreira rjr...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.flixxy.com/my-blackberry-is-not-working.htm This is so funny that I forwarded it to lots of friends! Jane ROFL Thanks Jane! -- You

Re: Apple Oompa Loompas!

2011-03-04 Thread Arnel Tuazon
LOL!! LOVE IT! Thanks Dan! I'm glad they included the song Pure Imagination it's my fav from the original Willy Wonka. Those Apple Loompas don't look Chinese though. Shouldn't they? On 04/03/11 10:10 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1948362 And make

Re: BW G3

2010-12-08 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 08/12/10 5:56 PM, applewho queel...@yahoo.com wrote: I have BW G3, rev1, , it seems that the motherboard is good because when turned on the light come on on the motherboard and it chimes. It has a SCSI board installed on it, ATA/133 PCI card installed, and ati graphics card. There are 4

Re: Interesting Vintage Website

2010-10-22 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 22/10/10 4:14 PM, Bill Brown thunder...@mindspring.com wrote: Wow!! Take a look at this stuff!! A little expensive for a hard drive, eh? Bill http://www.oddee.com/item_97232.aspx?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=emailut m_campaign=Feed%3A+Oddee+%28Oddee%29 I remember watching a

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-21 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 21/10/10 7:02 AM, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote: On Oct 21, 2010, at 3:40 AM, Brian Christmas wrote: Unfortunately obsolescence is a fact of life in the electronics industry, even tho it's not planned. That may be true but Marketing certainly is planned. And,

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-20 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 20/10/10 12:26 PM, Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: Lion ? To be fair Steve did say (regarding the App store), that it won't be the only place to get software. However questions I have are: 1) I'm guessing we can still create an empty folder so one can use them for files? 2) The

64-bit question

2010-10-15 Thread Arnel Tuazon
I know my G5 is 64-bit (I have the late 2005 dual core PPC G5), but is Leopard (10.5.9) 64-bit? I've been looking on the net, but couldn't find a definitive answer. I was told that only 10.6+ is 64-bit. If this is true is there an alternative OS that will run at 64-bit on the PPC G5? Not that

Re: How to burn VIDEO_TS

2010-10-11 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 11/10/10 3:41 AM, Ted Treen ted.tr...@btinternet.com wrote: Except in Toast 6, I always select Video, then on the left panel choose DVD-Video from VIDEO_TS This gives you the option of selecting NTSC or PAL, and in Toast 8 or later, you also have the option to compress to fit on a

RE: External Fax Modem for G5

2010-09-22 Thread Arnel Tuazon
Hey folks, I have a late 2005 2.3GHz dual core G5. I wanted to get a fax modem for it and was told that my only option was for an external USB modem. However, I have read that my current OS (10.5.8) does not play well with external modems and that the built-in Fax software of OS X will not

USB 2.0 Port G5 PPC (late 2005) question

2010-08-12 Thread Arnel Tuazon
Hey folks, Quick question is there a difference as how OS X or the computer itself handles the front USB port vs. the rear ports? I have an iPhone 4 and when I connect it to the front port iTunes doesn't automatically start up I have to manually start it. Now iPhoto does start up automatically

Re: Video

2010-07-22 Thread Arnel Tuazon
Can¹t you simply (in Safari) go to Window-- Activity and then in the window that pops up look for your video file (it¹s the only file in MB). Double click your file and it should start to download. Once downloaded DO NOT open it, but add the extension .flv to it. Then you can open it in

Re: BW G3 - G4 Upgrade Revisited.

2010-05-23 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 22/05/10 7:24 PM, Gus gusr...@comcast.net wrote: I was directed to a web site that pointed out that you had to hobble the bus speed on the G3 in order to use the Yikes G4 processor in it. As someone noted, hobbling the bus speed was only for those processors that were 700+ MHz. I believe

Re: Plz help with printing over network.

2010-02-06 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 05/02/10 10:49 AM, A. Tuazon a.tua...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Clark Martin Or since you have a PPC G5 you could put an airport card in it.  That is, if it doesn't already have one.  Somewhere around the time frame of G5s the Airport card became standard.  

Re: Plz help with printing over network.

2010-02-05 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 05/02/10 2:37 AM, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: As an aside to your current problem, I believe you can configure the Airport Extreme Base Station (AEBS) to act as a network connection. That is you use the wireless Access Point feature of the DSL modem. You then set up the AEBS to

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-26 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 26/01/10 7:58 PM, Chance Reecher cnrtechh...@gmail.com wrote: Glad G4s are still cutting it for you. They don't for me anymore. Between today's internet (flash), multitasking, gaming, and video/graphics work, I need Intel. I'm not saying that G4s aren't totally useless though. I have 2

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-23 Thread Arnel Tuazon
It's was the same when people asked, Why don't you just throw away that IIsi? The IIsi can still run MS Word 4, boots up quicker than any PPC and Intel Mac I know of and if you can still find a use for the thing then it ain't dead. Surfing the web with it is tricky, but it was my main computer

MS Office (Word) memory question

2010-01-17 Thread Arnel Tuazon
Hey folks, I have a 2.3GHZ dual core G5 running Leopard (latest) and 5.5 GB of RAM. I've been having trouble with MS Office 2008 (w/latest update) especially in Word when working with a document containing graphics. My situation last night: I was working in MS Word on a document containing 2

Re: Will any usb/vga KVM switch work?

2010-01-05 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 05/01/10 3:13 PM, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote: I've been looking at some cheap KVM switches on ebay, will they work? or do I need a mac compatible version $$$? Jeff If it doesn't require any software to switch between computers then it should work. I have seen one or two

Re: Bluray revisited

2009-12-21 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 21/12/09 3:59 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Dec 21, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: You mentioned an HDMI connector? Then yes all you need is a player. Sounds pretty good to me, what about audio does the Bluray player connect to my stereo. also can I play

Re: Next for PPC?

2009-09-02 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 02/09/09 12:29 AM, Ralph Green sfrea...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Howdy CoolKat, Yes, I was referring to the Intel laptops. The PPC laptops seem to have been solid designs, for the most part. I just got a G3/700 iBook and it works very well and looks very nice. I have seen speculation

Re: Posting etiquette?

2009-08-31 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 31/08/09 11:53 AM, John Niven sense...@yahoo.com wrote: Dan, Somebody made you the God of posting etiquette? Trim? Sure I did that. Bottom post? Only for people who want to re-read everything. Man are we on this topic again?! I thought the last time postiquette came up as a topic

Next for PPC?

2009-08-31 Thread Arnel Tuazon
So now that we've been orphaned or actually abandoned (Apple didn't die), do we happily chug along under Tiger/Leopard hoping that at least Firefox will keep updating PPC versions? How many more updates to Safari can we theoretically expect before PPC is no longer supported? Do we all jump ship

Re: OSX10.4 on G3

2009-08-29 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 28/08/09 12:40 PM, Richard Gerome onecoolka...@earthlink.net wrote: Hey everyone, I'm a little confused? The question was: OSX10.4 on a G3 but when I'm reading these emails I keep hearing G4 mentioned too??? With all my knowledge and all the yrs I have been using Apples Tiger can

Re: OSX10.4 on G3

2009-08-29 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 29/08/09 11:31 PM, Richard Gerome onecoolka...@earthlink.net wrote: Hey Arnel, thanks for that info!!! I guess there is no way to do this on a 466 clamshell with 576mb??? Because Panther was way too slow on that machine for me so I down graded it to Jaguar... I ended up buying a used

Re: Rumor: Snow Leopard to support PPC !!

2009-08-15 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 15/08/09 11:49 AM, ah...clem boneheads...@gmail.com wrote: freinds, romans, countrymen, i come to praise the G5, not bury them. i wonder how many of the posters above who can't wait for Apple to abandon the G5 actually understand chip architecture. i had a G5 for high-end computational

Re: Open Office

2009-08-10 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 10/08/09 12:55 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Aug 9, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Arnel Tuazon wrote: I just went on the Open Office site to download their PPC version. Funny thing though was that when you mouse over the Download Open Office button it says version

Re: iBook G3/700 Ubuntu experiment

2009-08-09 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 08/08/09 8:48 AM, Mark chris...@fuse.net wrote: That version of Ubuntu is not the latest and greatest - but yeah the latest and greatest still isn't exactly ready for the masses. Adobe plug ins for Linux are distributed the same as for Mac Windows. Not sure why that was a problem. I'd

Open Office

2009-08-09 Thread Arnel Tuazon
I just went on the Open Office site to download their PPC version. Funny thing though was that when you mouse over the Download Open Office button it says version 3.1.0 for PPC, but then you go through a list of versions for all systems and the PPC version available for English is 2.4.0. Anyone

iBook G3/700 Ubuntu experiment

2009-08-07 Thread Arnel Tuazon
Well I thought I'd give my old iBook G3 some new life by installing Jaunty Jackalope as I kept hearing about Ubuntu and how great it is. All I can say is if you're a regular Joe computer user, Linux is still not for you IMHO. I don't understand how an OS (Linux) after all these years and with

Re: Orig. Airport card vs. PCI wireless card

2009-06-20 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 19/06/09 10:11 PM, ah...clem boneheads...@gmail.com wrote: new to this topic. perhaps i missed it in the deluge of replies, but it seems no one addressed the point of cost vs protocol (b or n). you said in your original post that you'll be using it with an airport extreme base

Re: Orig. Airport card vs. PCI wireless card

2009-06-20 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 20/06/09 12:21 AM, iJohn zjboyguard-ggro...@yahoo.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:11 PM, ah...clemboneheads...@gmail.com wrote: new to this topic.  perhaps i missed it in the deluge of replies, but it seems no one addressed the point of cost vs protocol (b or n). if all

Re: Orig. Airport card vs. PCI wireless card

2009-06-19 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 19/06/09 10:01 AM, Jason deftone...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello there. I just put an aftermarket pci wireless card into my sons dual G4 450 powermac. It is very stable, no drivers were needed and he gets fast internet upstairs in his room. Hope this helps Make? Model?

Re: Orig. Airport card vs. PCI wireless card

2009-06-18 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 17/06/09 10:40 PM, John Martz zjo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Arnel Tuazona.tua...@gmail.com wrote: Quick question: Which is better (more stable) an original Airport card (802.11b) or a PCI wireless card that is 802.11n ? IMO that's a question that can't

Re: Orig. Airport card vs. PCI wireless card

2009-06-18 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 18/06/09 10:58 AM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Jun 18, 2009, at 3:04 AM, Arnel Tuazon wrote: Thanks for the detailed answer, but my question wasn't really dealing with the protocol. I apologize if it seemed confusing, but what I was really asking

Re: G5 bad choice?

2009-06-17 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 17/06/09 3:37 PM, Meghrouni Vince foomc...@sbcglobal.net wrote: A good friend who is much more computer savvy than me has advised me to sell it before getting it out of the box, that the G5 is at best highly problematic. I am aware that the next OS is leaving all but the intel behind, so

Re: G5 bad choice?

2009-06-17 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 17/06/09 4:56 PM, Meghrouni Vince foomc...@sbcglobal.net wrote: It is a dual core, late 2005 series. Sounds like good news to me. I don't like the idea of not being able to keep up with the latest OS, but that's my own lack of computer savvy considering my own needs. My uses are

Re: Hard drive plate and screw

2009-05-31 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 31/05/09 5:02 AM, ron ronstei...@mac.com wrote: On May 30, 7:54 pm, Arnel Tuazon a.tua...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know how to get the screws out?  As of now only the center hard drive plate can be removed the others are stuck with the damaged screw heads. Use a sharp edged tool like

Re: G4 upgrade opinions welcomed

2009-05-30 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 30/05/09 6:44 PM, Eric Volker evol...@gmail.com wrote: On May 30, 2009, at 2:05 AM, Paul wrote: The less expensive G5's and Intels are cheap enough to compete with those third party G4 upgrades, and you end up with a much more powerful machine. Like others have said, I think your

Hard drive plate and screw

2009-05-30 Thread Arnel Tuazon
Hey folks, I just noticed that the G4 Gig-e Mac I have has a problem with 2 of the hard drive plates. You know the metal plates that you attach the hard drives to and then in turn attach these plates inside the bottom of the G4 case. Each plate has one screw that keeps it in place inside the

G4 upgrade opinions welcomed

2009-05-29 Thread Arnel Tuazon
Hey folks, I am planning on upgrading a recently acquired G4 Gigabit PM. I'm looking at either the Sonnet Encore 1.6GHz or Newer Tech's MAXPower 1.6 GHz. I need opinions on which to get. First does anyone know if both are 7447 models? I know the MAXPower is (it says so on the site), but is

Re: G4 upgrade opinions welcomed

2009-05-29 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 29/05/09 2:06 PM, dc dbc...@verizon.net wrote: I've had great experiences with Sonnet upgrades. Their hardware, software and tech support is first class. Having said that, are you sure you want to invest $200 in such an outdated machine? You can probably find an Apple DP 500 MHz

PM G5 webcam

2009-05-06 Thread Arnel Tuazon
Anyone have any suggestions for a webcam for my PM G5? I'm running OSX 10.5.6. I wanted an iSight, but ebay seems to be selling them for triple their original price. I have heard that USB 2.0 cams work now with OS X. I wanted it for video chatting with family in the U.S. Thanks in advance!

Weird screen saver issue.

2009-04-01 Thread Arnel Tuazon
Hey folks, I noticed a problem yesterday with my screen saver. I've set my screen saver to collage using my iPhoto library. The screen saver works during the first time period of inactivity, but after it's used again and then left inactive, the screen saver reverts to the computer name screen

Re: Apple jumped the shark...

2009-03-05 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 05/03/09 8:55 PM, Stephen Weber maryland...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Toshiba A205-S5803 running Windows Vista with 2GB ram, 250GB hard drive, with a intel Pentium Duel Core (1.6GHz).  I've had this computer for around a half of a year and so far the only problem I've had is the the left

Re: A once in an epoch event!

2009-02-04 Thread Arnel Tuazon
Now that's cool... =) On 04/02/09 2:23 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Check it out! Better than watching your first car's odometer roll over! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/04/unix_timestamp_milestone/ :) - Dan. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

iTunes 8.0.2 Rio S10 problem

2009-01-24 Thread Arnel Tuazon
Hey folks, I posted this problem on the Apple discussion forums for iTunes, but so far no solutions. I hope someone here can help with this problem. I have a PM 2.3GHz dual core G5 with 5.5 GB RAM, it's running on OS X 10.5.6. I have a Rio S10 mp3 player that worked great with iTunes up until

Re: Rotten smell raises Apple toxin fears

2008-10-04 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 03/10/08 7:20 AM, Simon Royal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have had a number of iMac G3s and these smell terrible of burning. I changed the plastics on one recently and whilst testing it afterward smelt so bad of burning plastic I thought I had done something wrong. But my sons