, Guy Plunkett III g...@charter.net wrote:
So the Windows version will open old Mac documents, but the Mac version
won't!?
On 10/21/13, Bruce Ryan wrote:
Hi G-list
Thank you for all replies and thoughts. A G-lister offered to sort it for
me by on his old macs and their corresponding
Hi Peter
My thesis dates from 1996 and I'm no longer at that university. Scanning 250
would be a major task.
Also, while I want to see the difference between chemistry research language at
that time and current social informatics research language, I have a notion to
lay out my thesis
Sorry, that should have been 'Scanning 250 pages would be a major pain.'
Bruce
On 27 Oct 2013, at 16:13, Bruce Ryan bruce.r...@me.com wrote:
Hi Peter
My thesis dates from 1996 and I'm no longer at that university. Scanning 250
would be a major task.
Also, while I want to see
Hi g-listers
My PhD thesis dates from 1996 and was created in MS Word 4 or 5. I've just had
reason to look at this ancient history but can't do so satisfactorily. It
doesn't open in my current version of Word (mac:2011). It will open in
TextEdit: the text appears to be complete, as far as I
Date:Monday, 21. October 2013
From:Bruce Ryan bruce.r...@me.com
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So, is there any way of opening the Word file.
Word 4… sounds like this is a Mac OS 7/8/9 Application.
The best way is propably to try opening
Hi G-list
Thank you for all replies and thoughts. A G-lister offered to sort it for me by
on his old macs and their corresponding versions of Word.
But the answer was even simpler: 2 minutes later, he emailed 'I just tried it
on my work computer running Windows 7 and Word 2010, it opened
Hi Don
From experience I'd look for a Core2Duo machine from 2008 or thereby. Whether
you go desktop or laptop is your call. (I guess it will depend on what you can
afford and what's available.) But my 2008 17 MacBookPro (2·6 GHz, 4GB RAM,
the last of the pre-unibody ones) handled Quark 7 and
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Other thought - a modern mac will have the best hardware guarantees, and it
is possible (though maybe
I hate to use the G word here, but Google sketchup's Layout product is
prety good for 2D CAD on a budget as well.
Thanks! Looks very cool to this non-draftsman - I've forwarded the link to my
dad.
cheers
Bruce
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On Mar 25, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Bruce Ryan bruce.r...@me.com wrote:
Hi folks
I've just set my dad up with a base-model mac mini after years of supporting
his ancient XP box. He's used to Autosketch for technical drawing, but this
doesn't work
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On Mar 25, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Bruce Ryan bruce.r...@me.com wrote:
Hi folks
I've just set my dad up with a base-model mac mini after years of supporting
his ancient XP box. He's used to Autosketch for technical drawing, but this
doesn't work on the mac - even
Skip, Bruce J
Many thanks indeed - ideas forwarded
Bruce R
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have educated me over the years. Thank you one and all.
Bruce in Edinburgh
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On 3/26/13 11:36 AM, Frank Dutra of fdut...@gmail.com sent
Hi folks
I've just set my dad up with a base-model mac mini after years of supporting
his ancient XP box. He's used to Autosketch for technical drawing, but this
doesn't work on the mac - even the wonderful Crossover turns up its nose. So
I've given him my copy of Creative Suite 3 so he can
Fabian, Glen
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrator-Windows-Macintosh-Elaine-Weinmann/dp/0321510453/ref=sr_1_2?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1364233558sr=1-2keywords=illustrator+cs3+books
It is a good book. You can still buy a brand new copy for as little as
$3.37 (plus shipping) from an Amazon Marketplace.
Hi Santa
As an aside, have you set up a screen sharing link with both Macs, so you can
show your parents what to do? Skype makes it easy, but you do need reasonably
fast links. Skype suggest 300 KBs.
I find screen sharing invaluable, even from a few kilometers away.
Agreed - and
What other keyboard would work with this Mac®?
This seems to have good reviews: http://matias.ca/tactilepro3/
What should I be looking for? Is there a way to use a Nimitz keyboard with
the G4?
Griffin iMate - adapts ADB keyboards to USB. Have a look at
One sampler also has it's own LCD monitor, so five monitors all up. Plus rack
hardware, desktop controllers, and keyboard synths. Of course, this all comes
with an ample serving of cable soup.
Just thinking about your ‘cable soup’ and the number of monitors you have
running - hot, easy to
I've been looking into relatively cheap PATA/IDE SSDs on eBay, but
I'm not sure whether they'll be faster than a regular spinning disk.
I'm quite interested in this one: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190705077160.
The specs are:
Performance
Capacity(GB) 16 GB (4C)
Sustained
There are a few tricks you need to know when taking it apart or you could
crack some parts trying without it, there is also a special tool you need to
get for it too it's made of plastic...
Tool is called a ‘spudger’
Easily available online for £1.50 (UK) so should be just a few $ in the
Many thanks Bruce
Are you certain this HD is formatted correctly for a PPC Mac? The partition
scheme MUST be Apple Partition Scheme and NOT GUID Partition Scheme used
on Intel Macs, OR Master Boot Record Partition Scheme used on PCs. You can
check the partition scheme in System
Thanks to Dan and Kris for responses so far
So what can I have done to the TiBook? The obvious candidate is the
connection from HD to motherboard but it seems intact and to be firmly
plugged into the mobo. Is there another bit I could have wrecked?
IDE drive, yes? Still set to cable
Hi folks
I have 1GHz TiBook. After a few shenanigans (the SSD with which I replaced the
HD became corrupted), I tried to revert to using the original HD (A 60GB
fujitsu with partitions for MacOSes 10·5·8, 10·4·11 and 9·2·2.
With the HD inside the TiBook, it won't boot - it's as if there is no
with the bottom case off and my ear next to the HD.
BTW, with SSD repartitioned and 10·5·8 and 10·4·11 partitions CCCed back to it,
I can also boot from these.
Bruce
On 12 Feb 2012, at 22:53, Bruce Ryan wrote:
Hi folks
I have 1GHz TiBook. After a few shenanigans (the SSD with which I replaced
G4 Cube and Quicksilver both donated and for use for the 16-yr old kid to
reverse explore Apple/Mac have newly installed 10.4.11. Both accept Airport.
Both show and allow a choice of network (my home) but show an error message.
Error connecting to AirPort network etc.
My own and the
Well, the web site puts up a page stating browser requirement. Attempts to
ignore and use Firefox 3.6.x results in long waits and or errors.
Tried so far:
IE 5.1.7 (OS 9), 5.2.0
FF 3.6.25
Want to try IE 5.2.3?
Edinburgh Bruce
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Hi Arizona Bruce et al
(a follow-up to the 'repairing DVD-drive' thread I started)
Pismo is now behaving after a complete nuke and pave. (I had erased and
reinstalled only the Tiger partition but updating from 10·4 to 10·4·11 and some
other updates failed so I booted from the Tiger installer
Hi folks
I think I need to replace the DVD drive on my 1GHz TiBook. It wouldn't accept
disks so I took the TiBook apart to see if something in the drive mechanism was
jamming. It no longer jams - but now disks won't stay in.
The drive is a Matshita DVD-R UJ-815. I don't want to spend huge
Is it pulling them in and then pushing them back out or are they falling out?
If the former, I'd suspect that the alignment with the slot is still not
right or something's pressing against the eject switch (which some of these
slot loaders do have) to make it kick it back out.
The drive
Any ideas on how to destick this baby - and how not to offend the hardware
gods further?
Wow...when I've sinned that badly against the hardware gods, I do penance far
far away from computers for a day or two, and partake of beer and fishing or
something similarly less technologically
There is this ... see what people using them have to say...
Thank you!
If I recall correctly, Bruce, you had examples of why formatted emails are
**BAD**. Could you either repost them or send them on to me directly so I
can show my dad the nasties that can lurk in email, please?
Can't resist any longer...
(clipping those resistor leads were literally more nerve-wracking than
anything I've done since, including my wedding day.)
but that's because you don't clip resistor leads to your new spouse - or even
to a spouse of many years, I hope.
Bruce
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It is not recognized at all in any utility program or in any way. It is like
it does not exist at all. I will take your advice and try to connect it
through a powered USB hub and see if it shows up that way. I just want to
reformat it and use it as my TimeMachine backup drive and storage
Hi Jane
2. I also have been looking at online backup sites, in addition to a physical
back up. Carbonite looks good to me, but I am not familiar with the pros and
cons of online. I would value your opinion.
pro
- if your mac and backup become unavailable (as might happen if your house
burns
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/21/us-thailand-floods-tech-idUSTRE79K76Z20111021
This mentions 'Apple chief executive Steve Cook'
Freudian slip?
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Here's what I want to do
I have some friends that I would like to be able to access my computer over
the web easily... to be able to get at anything they put their minds to...
is there an easy way of doing this? without the need for special software or
complicated instructions? maybe
Attaching 2 or more computers to one drive won't physically hurt the
firewire interface but it may corrupt the drive. Each computer
will mount
the drive and there is nothing to keep them from writing
contradictory
directory information to the disk. So don't do it.
too bad, sounded like
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Hi folks, especially Matevž
Over a month later, I've found time to upload pictures of the guts of
my 2·0GHz single-processor XServe G5.
You should be able to make out a rectangular white connector block on
the right of http://tinyurl.com/438333t. (You can see its location at
?
On Jun 2, 3:13 pm, Bruce Ryan bruce.r...@mac.com wrote:
Hi Austin
I'm using an XServe G5 2·0 GHz single processor as a desktop machine,
running Leopard client. (It came with 10.3 server but I wanted Leopard
for TimeMachine and didn't need server capabilities. To be honest I
just wanted
Hi Austin
I'm using an XServe G5 2·0 GHz single processor as a desktop machine,
running Leopard client. (It came with 10.3 server but I wanted Leopard
for TimeMachine and didn't need server capabilities. To be honest I
just wanted the coolness of having my own XServe/shiny Apple joy,
Hi Matevž
Here is the link to the Xserve G5 developer note:
http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Servers/XserveG5/XserveG5.pdf
I still do not know whether it is possible to install second-cpu,
perhaps
others can tell you more? Do you have a
Hi there
I'm the proud owner of an XServe G5, single processor 2·0 GHz (Model
Identifier: RackMac3,1). SInce I'm now using it as my main mac, I'm
pondering cheap ways to increase its performance. (It already has
three 250GB 7200repm hard disks, albeit they're second-hand 2·5
drives.)
I've seen Kodak's advertisements saying that their ink is cheaper, has anyone
on the list actually used one?
Yes - in Scotland. My better half and I were at PC World, about to buy £90 of
printer inks (2 blacks, 1 colour, IIRC) for her HP1215 printer/scanner. For
just over double that we
Hi Dan, listers
I've received quite a few bounce notices recently, all regarding addresses at
me.com. Seems to be affecting all the LEM Lists.
I'm wondering if this is typical of Apple's MobileMe service or simply the
melt-down du jour?
Just tried
frombruce.r...@mac.com to
Hi Mark
Not sure whether this has been answered but some USB devices need
external power (which I presume the scanner does). IIRC - I admit I'm
a bit hazy - keyboards don't provide much power. For example, my mouse
and Wacom bamboo graphics tablet work just fine connected to an Apple
Hi folks
At the moment, I use an XServe G5 (2·0 GHz, 2GB RAM) running Leopard
client (not Leopard Server) as my main computer. It looks like I'll be
using it for a while to come. Can anyone recommend speakers and a blu-
ray player - or doesn't the G5 have enough poke for such shiny
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