Re: Eudora replacement

2014-01-19 Thread Doug McNutt
At 5:51 -0800 1/19/14, Jay Koutavas wrote: Now that MailForge is dead, I've been pondering... How many people would be interested in a faithful reproduction of Mac Eudora 6.2? 10? 100?, 1000? Probably 100, by the likes of the FB page. I use Mac Eudora v6.2 every day, since the mid 90s. I'm a

Re: What Mac to buy - and from where?

2013-10-05 Thread Doug McNutt
At 15:33 -0700 10/5/13, Don Wakefield wrote: OK, so I have finally accepted that my eMac has outlived it's usefulness and needs to be retired. My question is what to replace it with? Cost is a big consideration, so I am probably limited to a core 2 duo iMac or Mac Mini. Unfortunately my entire

Re: Root, Admin and User

2013-05-03 Thread Doug McNutt
At 18:21 -0400 5/3/13, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: Okay, I have an iMac running Snow Leopard, and way back in the stone age (2009) after I turned it on I set up an account with a username and password, then forgot about it except when installing software, where it asked for my username and

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread Doug McNutt
At 09:43 -0700 4/30/13, gifutiger wrote: DNS stands for Directory Name Server and has nothing to do with your router. OPEN is just the name of a server, and there are lots of DNS units throughout the world. Just to avoid confusion. In this context DNS is Domain Name Server and is very much

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread Doug McNutt
elaborate further please? On 04/30/13 03:31 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: Just to avoid confusion. In this context DNS is Domain Name Server and is very much associated with your router whenever you use the internet or even access local machines via an IP address like 192.168.xxx.xxx -- -- A fair tax

Re: New Forums

2013-03-13 Thread Doug McNutt
At 19:58 -0400 3/13/13, W.Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Are you still getting your group's mail ? On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Cameron Kaiser mailto:spec...@floodgap.comspec...@floodgap.com wrote: Are these Wordpress forums email lists, or accessible only via web browser? I have to say

Re: Video flicker

2013-01-19 Thread Doug McNutt
At 17:16 -0500 1/19/13, W.Adrian D'Alessio wrote: A Viewsonic here has problems with an external power supply. It works well when a replacement is plugged in. In the good old days of cathode ray tubes rolling bands were almost always due to an interference. the AC power's 60 Hz, with

Re: MacDraw like application?

2012-10-19 Thread Doug McNutt
At 14:14 -0700 10/19/12, Clark Martin wrote: On Oct 19, 2012, at 12:16 PM, John Callahan wrote: A long time ago in an another century, in another millennium I had a MacDraw application that was just great for relatively simple drawings. I used it for house drawings, working drawings and so

Re: Eudora replacement

2012-07-22 Thread Doug McNutt
At 08:23 +0200 7/22/12, ben...@gmail.com wrote: We have set up a Facebook page to discuss and to see how many of us are still looking for a true Eudora replacement: Http://www.facebook.com/WeWantEudoraHttp://www.facebook.com/WeWantEudora Get thee over to: List-ID: Eudora for the Mac

Re: Problem .pdf

2012-07-09 Thread Doug McNutt
At 01:03 -0700 7/8/12, John Carmonne wrote: On Friday I received an order form from a vendor to complete and electronically sign, so I filled out the form, created a secure signature in Acrobat Pro 9 and applied it to the document. However when I email the PDF it arrives as a blank form just as

Re: Questions About New Spam Concerns

2012-06-22 Thread Doug McNutt
At 00:26 -0400 6/22/12, Dan wrote: At 4:12 PM -0700 6/21/2012, glen wrote: I get my share of spam -- most of it goes into the spam folder where it belongs. Which spam folder - the one in your local mail client or the one on Yahoo's service? If the former then your Yahoo service isn't doing its

Re: OS9.1 Updater

2012-06-21 Thread Doug McNutt
At 14:20 -0700 6/21/12, Alex Sciortino wrote: That is what I thought so I redownloaded and it still didn't work. The self extracting compressed files using the stuffit model - were they .smi? or something else very close? - put the data in the data fork and the application that would unpack

Re: MAC Instead of Computer Name in Router Device List?

2012-05-25 Thread Doug McNutt
At 11:42 -0700 5/25/12, Bruce Johnson wrote, and I snipped: They did support it, for 4 versions of OS X...you just have the one where they dropped support. I run OS 10.3.9 on my G4. 10.4 was installed and I was shocked when it absolutely would not talk to my SE/30 file server. No warning

Re: 35 pass erase

2012-05-15 Thread Doug McNutt
At 15:49 -0700 5/15/12, Bruce Johnson wrote: Gotta love Wikipedia! I clicked on the 'srm' link in the above article to find this helpful suggestion: The US government recommends complete physical destruction of hard disk data surfaces to guarantee secure data erasure. Presumably, this can be

Re: mail

2012-05-10 Thread Doug McNutt
At 16:51 -0700 5/10/12, Bruce Johnson wrote: On May 10, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Baldassare Guzzo wrote: PM G4 933 and Mail 3.6. Is there any way that Mail will not select the next message after deleting a message? In other words, if you open Mail then select a message and delete it, Mail

Re: Need 2 things via PB G4 and OS Lion directory help

2012-03-11 Thread Doug McNutt
At 09:27 -0700 3/11/12, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 11, 2012, at 4:31 AM, Dana Collins wrote: Hi David. Thank you for the response. Since copying is a Finder operation, this would translate into a force Finder to quit -wich was what was hoping to avoid. Actually I was wondering if there was

Re: Overclocked MDD

2012-03-08 Thread Doug McNutt
At 20:00 -0800 3/7/12, Wayne Stewart wrote: 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

Re: Don't Landfill old Mac's

2012-01-09 Thread Doug McNutt
At 08:23 -0800 1/9/12, Joshua Juran wrote, and I snipped:: Those seeking an alternative OS for PPC Macs I would refer to Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org/ An eccentric few[1] might enjoy using MacRelix on Mac OS 9 or earlier. It's developed by me and distributed under the GNU GPL

iPad, G4, and Lion

2012-01-07 Thread Doug McNutt
At a user group meeting last week a question was asked that nobody could answer. The user was not, shall we say, knowledgeable about version and model numbers and the like but it went like this: Highly interpreted sort of a quote begins. I hooked my iPod to my new iMac running Lion as

Re: Happy New Year!

2012-01-01 Thread Doug McNutt
At 11:56 -0500 1/1/12, Michael Koch wrote: Happy New Tear to you too Your TAX 's for 2011 are now due; please pay by APRIL 15 2012 And you will get the final rules for calculating it later in 2012 as I did in June of 2011 for tax year 2010. Plan to file for the automatic extension until Oct

Re: Getting really sick of access privileges

2011-11-26 Thread Doug McNutt
At 18:29 -0800 11/25/11, Tom wrote: For example, I just pulled a TIFF image from Computer A to Computer B. I open it on Computer B, make some adjustments to color, and then try to Save, and up pops a box that says I can't Save because I don't have the necessary access privileges. That sounds as

Re: Daylight Savings Time and OS X?

2011-11-21 Thread Doug McNutt
At 09:05 -0700 11/21/11, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Nov 21, 2011, at 5:22 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: Anyone know where to set Observe Daylight Savings Time in OS X.5.8? I just got an e-mail from a friend in Ghana, and now being 5 hours in front of us, they are still showing up as only 4 ... That

Re: connectivity question

2011-11-21 Thread Doug McNutt
At 15:24 -0700 11/21/11, Bruce Johnson wrote: About half of all prescriptions filled remotely in the US is done by fax machine. A fax cannot be falsified via a MITM attack like an email can, nor can it be as easily forged, and faxes, unlike emails, support legal signature requirements. rant/

Re: what is this card....

2011-10-26 Thread Doug McNutt
At 01:12 -0700 10/26/11, QuoVadis wrote: Isn't that the 56K Modem? PowerMac G4's have something very similar, connected by two cables to the telephone jack (RJ45). Perhaps picky, but just to avoid confusion that would be an RJ-11 jack. Six slots and probably only two wires used. -- --

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-14 Thread Doug McNutt
At 15:50 -0700 10/14/11, Eric Hall wrote: That sounds very interesting indeed. From: Andrew Owen cheve...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 9:48 AM Subject: 10.3.9 hacking Hi folks, I've just stepped over from the Panther list, which is a little slow these

Re: Topic: Removing Heat Sink from Sonnet G4 upgrade card

2011-08-01 Thread Doug McNutt
At 06:37 -0700 8/1/11, Geke wrote: That's 71 degrees Centigrade, if I'm right. That doesn't sound like too much to me. Anyone can say something about what is a safe max temperature of CPUs? Does it vary a lot among different models? The absolute maximum temperature for a PN junction is about 205

Re: Cleaning a PowerBook G4

2011-07-18 Thread Doug McNutt
At 15:03 -0400 7/18/11, Dan wrote: The owner of this PB G4 claimed he doesn't smoke - but he smells and has glowing yellow eyes. The PB has that nicotine patina, and the keys are gummy, some unresponsive. I opened it up... and the nicotine/tar is acting as a glue for some white cat hairs...

Curious external login

2011-07-06 Thread Doug McNutt
A few weeks ago, on this 8500 with a G3 in it and under OS 9.1, I placed an alias to a a disk on my G4 into System Folder:Startup Items: The G4 is running OS 10.3.9. Actually I was testing something. It's not the way I usually operate. But I do shut my machines down at night. This morning

Re: Mysterious communications between two G5s

2011-07-06 Thread Doug McNutt
At 10:34 -0700 7/6/11, Tom wrote: Bruce, I don't understand how I might 'open the modem with a browser' to learn more about it. If you explain that I'll give it a try. I'm running both Safari and Firefox, but I don't see anything in their menus related to modems. Some common numbers are

Re: Mysterious communications between two G5s

2011-07-05 Thread Doug McNutt
At 02:19 -0700 7/5/11, Tom wrote: The Zoom X6v integrates a full-rate ADSL 2/2+ modem, router, 802.11 wireless access point, VoIP telephone adapter, firewall, and four-port 10/100 Ethernet switch into a single cost-effective product. The integration of networking devices, along with Zoom's

Re: Startup Sequence

2011-06-29 Thread Doug McNutt
At 06:25 -0700 6/29/11, Iamanamma wrote: Doug, thanks, but I already looked in the Startup Items folder. It's up there in my list of where it isn't. On my 8500 I mount external drives at startup by running an MPW script. MPW is on my startup list and I just use it's capabilities to mount my

Re: Startup Sequence

2011-06-28 Thread Doug McNutt
At 13:03 -0500 6/28/11, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jun 28, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Iamanamma wrote: Beige G3, OS 8.6. This isn't the 1990's. Hassles like you're experiencing is the universe's way of telling you it's time to upgrade your system. His Beige can run 10.4.11 w/XPostFacto, and a simple

Re: Connect as vs. Screen Sharing to drag files between Macs

2011-06-27 Thread Doug McNutt
At 11:38 -0700 6/27/11, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am trying to drag some files from 1 Mac to another. I thought Screen Sharing would be ideal for that. But, I was not able to drag the files from the shared screen Mac to the original Mac. Is there a specific procedure for this? Do I need to

Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM?

2011-06-18 Thread Doug McNutt
I personally handle lists using the ListID: header that is almost universal now. These are typical: To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Only way to stop the sex and drug SPAM? Reply-To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com List-ID: g3-5-list.googlegroups.com My list address is filtered using a

Re: G4 Cube: possible processors?

2011-06-17 Thread Doug McNutt
At 17:27 +0200 6/17/11, Mac User #330250 wrote, and I snipped: For a thermally limited cube you could measure the temperature and adjust the clock speed accordingly. If you try to play some war game that demands three dimensional viewing depending on your place in the synthetic environment

Re: Home folder near capacity

2011-06-17 Thread Doug McNutt
At 15:31 -0700 6/17/11, Bruce Johnson wrote some good stuff: At 17:04 -0500 6/17/11, Sean Carroll wrote: drwx--+ describes type of permission, I think. the d indicates a directory. rwx means that the owner (user) has read, write, and execute permissions to the directory. Execute

Re: Home folder near capacity

2011-06-14 Thread Doug McNutt
I don't really think your home directory is limited but for changing permissions you should consider using Terminal.app. I know, I know. Apple doesn't really like that. http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24068 seems to say that with File Vault you are always talking to a disk image that was likely

Re: Home folder near capacity

2011-06-14 Thread Doug McNutt
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24068 1. Log in as the account user. 2. Use Security preferences to turn off File Vault (you will be logged out during the process). 3. Log in with the account again. 4. Use Security preferences to turn FileVault back on (you will be logged out during

Re: Home folder near capacity

2011-06-14 Thread Doug McNutt
At 20:35 -0500 6/14/11, Sean Carroll wrote, and I snipped: The daunting thing was realizing that were still approximately 1 billion files to check/change permissions on - and this just to TEST the theory that it would work. Are you serious? 10^9 files requires a 30 bit integer to count them.

Re: G4 Cube: possible processors?

2011-06-11 Thread Doug McNutt
At 19:22 -0700 6/10/11, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: A batch of good stuff about power usage and clock speeds which I snipped. Microprocessors built with complimentary symmetry metal oxide transistors, CMOS, dissipate power only as the states of the CMOS gates are changed. While sitting in a 1

Re: Bounced mail?

2011-06-11 Thread Doug McNutt
At 19:39 -0800 6/11/11, Stephen E. Bodnar wrote: Yep, getting lots of them. All with this username - trinettejohn...@fuse.net I have received exactly zero. I suspect the reason is that I allow only messages that have a List-ID: g3-5-list.googlegroups.com header to come through. I have a login

Re: What is the best OS for PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics?

2011-06-07 Thread Doug McNutt
At 08:37 -0700 6/5/11, Daniel Attard wrote: I have an old Power Mac G4 and I was wondering what is the best Mac OS X version.I was also wondering which is the best Ubuntu version for it.I don't want 6.06. These are it's specs: 400 Mhz G4 CPU 320 MB of RAM 10 GB harddrive DVD drive I'm using one

Re: Executor

2011-06-01 Thread Doug McNutt
At 20:24 +0200 6/1/11, Mac User #330250 wrote: Anyone ever heard of Executor? https://github.com/ctm/executor Supposed to run Classic Mac OS Applications on some Mac OS X, DOS, Linux, Š, but I'm very unsure about the specs. Any successful attempts to use it on a PowerPC-based Mac? Wow. I

Re: new icon for networked mac?

2011-05-30 Thread Doug McNutt
At 12:36 -0700 5/30/11, Jeffrey Engle wrote: On May 30, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On May 30, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Ya, first thing I tried before going on the list.. funny thing is that there's nothing at all on the web about the topic either... So it

Re: Car computer

2011-05-18 Thread Doug McNutt
At 00:20 -0500 5/18/11, Alexander Gomes wrote: I had a thought and a couple of questions. I was thinking about putting a computer into my car for music and gas mileage tracking, things of the like, and I was wondering what you all might think of it? I know my G4 has passive cooling anyway,

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

2011-05-11 Thread Doug McNutt
At 19:18 -0500 5/10/11, Jerry Kemp wrote: What happened to Yellow Dog Linux PPC? At least at some point in the past when Apple was still on PPC, that was the Linux to run, if you needed to run it on Apple hw. I think the OP's original problem was the fact that Adobe Flash and other byproducts

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

2011-05-10 Thread Doug McNutt
At 22:36 -0400 5/9/11, admin wrote: Adobe Flash 10.2 Intel only, I believe. Web sites are starting not to work under Leopard and Firefox Camino 2.0.7, Firefox 3.6.17, Safari 5.0.5. I can do everything I need to and still use Classic Programs with my G4 computers. I'd rather invest in

Re: Apple_ARM ?

2011-05-07 Thread Doug McNutt
At 13:49 +0200 5/7/11, Matevzť Markovicť wrote: Wow! If Apple goes to ARM on laptops, wouldn't that be like going back to the PowerPC. I know that the times are different today and that ARM is way better off than PowerPC was in 2005 as far as Apple is concerned, but still, what would the

Re: Leopard on my iMac

2011-04-11 Thread Doug McNutt
At 12:13 -0700 4/11/11, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 11, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Dan Ziegler wrote: Well the RAM amount is possible, I know it needs more... but it has worked great for 1.5 years until about 2 weeks ago this started. (And will Dad want to spend $70, hmm...) This is really really

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-19 Thread Doug McNutt
At 18:37 -0500 3/19/11, Sean Carroll wrote: A bit odd that Mail doesn't directly offer the option to view all messages as plain text. As far as I can tell. I haven't tried it but. . . . defaults write is a command to be executed in terminal.app And you might want to try: defaults read

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Doug McNutt
At 22:53 -0400 3/17/11, Dan wrote: At 9:31 PM -0500 3/17/2011, Sean Carroll wrote: A long time ago, I thought the problem with rich text/HTML mail (synonymous terms?) Rich text is text marked up with HTML. Practically true so long as the discussion is limited to mail; Two possible

Re: Do not understand how to send html emails on my G4 Mac

2011-02-24 Thread Doug McNutt
At 12:28 -0500 2/24/11, M Christol wrote, and I snipped: It's easy in Thunderbird. Pretty easy in Outlook. Not so easy in Mail as it prefers RTF. My main problem is trying to get my wife to send plain text email from Apple's OS X mail application. All I ever get is three lines of text in a 300

Re: How to test PRAM battery?

2011-02-02 Thread Doug McNutt
When messing with dry cells - batteries if there is more than one - pay a lot of attention to the mounting parts. A cell may test good with a voltmeter but it may not make a good connection with the springy metal parts in its holder. Those cells are very lightly loaded as used in the

Re: help, i'm going deaf!

2011-01-19 Thread Doug McNutt
At 21:17 -0800 1/18/11, Jeffrey Daile Engle wrote: On Jan 18, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Yersinia wrote: On 1/18/11 10:59 PM, Jeffrey Daile Engle wrote: hThen when the chat is over, heaven forbid if I had itunes playing a song earlier, because the song is now 1400 decimals!! ...decimals?!

Re: Sudden power loss in G5

2011-01-03 Thread Doug McNutt
At 10:55 -0800 1/3/11, Leo Hoyt wrote: I have a dual 2.7 Ghz PPC G5 w/ 4.5 GB ram. The machine recently started powering off without warning. Is this signs of a power supply failing? If so how hard are the power supplies to replace in these towers? Don't overlook the possibility of a problem

Re: how do i stop these emails its been a year now!!

2010-12-03 Thread Doug McNutt
An unsubscribe request will likely require a confirmation in the form of a reply to an email which will be sent from the list owner. After doing a proper request be sure to watch for a confirmation message that might not make it through your spam filters because it won't match the list address

Re: hijacking

2010-11-10 Thread Doug McNutt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Header_fields http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html Section 3.6.4 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4685.txt Note the In-Reply-To: header that contains the Message-ID: information from the message being replied to. A recursive train of those headers gives mail

Re: PowerMac G3 AIO 'snapping/popping'

2010-11-09 Thread Doug McNutt
At 15:35 -0800 11/9/10, Peter Haas wrote: However, ANY repairs on a CRT's analog board must, necessarily, be effected by well-trained personnel. Remembering that good advice. . . It's possible, given the really possibility of bad storage by the previous owner, that you might luck out and

Re: Mismatched SCSI connectors... (G4 Sawtooth)

2010-11-03 Thread Doug McNutt
There is something that doesn't make a lot of sense here. I don't think there ever was a peecee that used a DB25 connector for SCSI. Only Apple ever did that and they shorted a bunch of grounds together while violating SCSI rules of engagement. Was that scanner really a peecee parallel-port

Re: Calling Apple Script Experts

2010-11-01 Thread Doug McNutt
At 15:39 -0700 11/1/10, glen wrote: - Original Message From: Jason Brown jason_brown1...@att.net I am actually very surprised that I have received 0 responses to this. I thought sure that there would be a ton of people that were good with Applescript. Oh well, thank you to each of

Re: back up generator question

2010-10-31 Thread Doug McNutt
At 21:29 -0400 10/30/10, Kevin Barth wrote: All generators are NOT created equal. Some produce MUCH cleaner output than others. Spikes and surges can destroy sensitive electronics. Square Wave-producing generators may power lights and freezers just fine, but they will not work well with

Re: Kernel panics on installing 10.4.11 on Powermac G4

2010-10-30 Thread Doug McNutt
At 14:21 -0700 10/30/10, smac0031 wrote: I'm getting a kernel panic after installing 10.4.11 on a G4 tower. After that it won't reboot. I'm not sure which model it is except that it has 100Mhz bus and it has 832mb of ram. Everything seemed to be going fine until 10.4.11. I started out putting OS9

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-26 Thread Doug McNutt
At 07:08 -0700 10/26/10, Gary D. wrote: The big cats are pretty much played out. How about something more agressive: Alligator or Crocodile. And then on to the dinosaurs - lots to choose from. Sorry, couldn't resist. Lists can be fun. With the Lion King one thinks of Disney - o wait,

Re: G4 monitor power?

2010-10-25 Thread Doug McNutt
At 14:48 -0700 10/24/10, MarkyB wrote: I sold my G4 MDD (epic sad face here) and I am about to set up my old G4 BW. I've never had a use for the monitor power share on the PSU, but are there cords to which I can use that with a standard lcd screen? What I am talking about is the PSU has a male

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-25 Thread Doug McNutt
At 14:19 -0700 10/25/10, Andrew Liu Anderson wrote: Also, at 3GHz, you cross-over into the SHF range of micro-wave on radio spectrum. As frequency increases, Skin Effect of AC current becomes more dramatic, to where it becomes impossible to use ordinary conductors to carry your clock

Re: Interesting Vintage Website

2010-10-23 Thread Doug McNutt
At 11:19 -0700 10/23/10, Bruce Johnson wrote: The first Apple hard drive was a serial drive that connected to the Appletalk port on the original Macs. I believe it may have been SCSI on the inside. I'm pretty sure there was one - MacBottom? - that connected to the 19 pin D connector for an

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-21 Thread Doug McNutt
If we lose the optical disk what will we have for archiving? Financial data coming from the bank is rapidly moving to computer files. What about those pictures we take to help in filing a fire insurance claim? Your last decade of income tax filings. Home-written CD-ROMs are not the best but

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-20 Thread Doug McNutt
I agree, Apple has thrown a lot of users under the bus... Funny, I just bought a new imac and I have this strange sinking feeling that I have the last OS worth owning in the box. Down with the ipad OS!! I find myself attending meetups which are sponsored by a group that was all Java a year

Re: Odd Posting issue

2010-09-02 Thread Doug McNutt
At 09:18 -0700 9/2/10, JoeTaxpayer wrote: Bill - I read the group on line as well as in a news feed in Thunderbird, John's posts look no different to me. I'd ask (repeat?) that any time one goes off topic, he should change the subject line to reflect the new issue. Please, when you introduce a

Re: CCC image bootable?

2010-08-26 Thread Doug McNutt
At 10:45 -0700 8/26/10, gifutiger wrote: What is a CCC image, CCC copies one disk to another, its not a image, it is a CLONE I can not find any option in CCC to make an image. Images are made if you use Apples Disk Utility, If you make a xxx,img using Disk Utility you can open (mount) the xxx.img

Re: USB to serial??

2010-08-11 Thread Doug McNutt
At 05:52 -0700 8/11/10, John Carmonne wrote: I have a G4 Cube and PM G4 MDD both boot OS9 and I use a program to communicate data to CNC machinery. The method was always via printer or modem ports on the pre G4 machines with those ports. So the G4's have USB and I need to transfer the files via

Re: we don't need no stinkin' adapters!

2010-08-06 Thread Doug McNutt
At 19:00 -0700 8/6/10, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Mess? a neat solder job and some shrink tubing? and that's assuming I have to cut the wires at all. You'll find that Molex, and AMP too, recommend against soldering those crimp terminals. The high temperature and solder blobs interfere with

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-04 Thread Doug McNutt
At 16:22 -0700 8/4/10, glen wrote: Generally, I have no problem taking anything apart including the Dell. Should I assume the same danger applies to LCD's as CRT monitors regarding electric shock from the charge stored in the capacitors? If so, any safe way to discharge them? Probably won't

Re: Plain text format

2010-07-19 Thread Doug McNutt
Please Content-Type text/plain describes a mail message that, as delivered, contains zero, nada, no, precisely no, information about the font and size in which the email was sent. The font used for display by the client software is totally, absolutely, firmly, decided at the time the

Re: plain text please

2010-07-18 Thread Doug McNutt
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html is the controlling document for the basics of internet email. (Some would claim that the real RTF is 822 which is formally approved and not still standards track. It's worth a read. Its also worth while to poke around on that site for general education.

Re: plain text please

2010-07-17 Thread Doug McNutt
At 17:27 -0400 7/17/10, Chance Reecher wrote: Q: what is plain text? and how do I make sure that I'm always using it? I thought it was simply in a font everybody had (helvetica) and that there was/is no pictures? evidently that apple is a picture? Jeff It's getting more and more difficult

Re: plain text please

2010-07-17 Thread Doug McNutt
At 00:15 + 7/18/10, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: An antiquated rule. Still on the books in Indiana If it cannot be displayed on a Apple II we don't want is here. That's for sure. Since 1 July 2010 these are the content types on this list. 447 text/plain 18 text/html 5 multipart/mixed 89

Re: Is a power inverter safe for laptops and iPods?

2010-07-14 Thread Doug McNutt
At 14:08 -0400 7/14/10, Dan wrote: Best to try things in advance... Yep. And it would be pretty hard to find a power converter that would damage any of today's computer power converters. If it doesn't work don't leave it hooked up too long and pay attention to hot spots that shouldn't be.

Re: IBM HDD clicking

2010-07-09 Thread Doug McNutt
At 12:00 -0700 7/9/10, john CARMONNE wrote: For fear of sounding dumb. Just what does a person do with the magnets? Where are they in the drive. One of the reasons for really small disks is that magnets made with rare-earth elements - Neodymium and Lanthanum in particular - can be much

Re: Goodbye Power Macs! Or: Linux on Power Macs

2010-07-09 Thread Doug McNutt
At 22:53 +0200 7/9/10, Mac User #330250 wrote: From:Doug McNutt dougl...@macnauchtan.com Before you go too far. A couple of questions about Linux on MY 64 Sawtooth What is a 64 Sawtooth? Or do you meen you've 64 (pieces of) Sawtooth_s_? Thanks for sticking around. Damn. I guess I

Re: Fresh out of ideas on .dmg mounts

2010-07-06 Thread Doug McNutt
Some old notes I wrote down when I was having problems on 10.3.9. I don't remember all of what I tried but here is what I wrote at the time. no mountable file systems Gregory Weston uce RemoveThis @splook.com wrote: Any error messages being reported to the screen or to the console.log

Re: Goodbye Power Macs! Or: Linux on Power Macs

2010-07-05 Thread Doug McNutt
At 21:54 +0200 7/5/10, Mac User #330250 wrote: And, sadly: goodbye! Before you go too far. A couple of questions about Linux on MY 64 Sawtooth I'm now using Ubuntu on an Intel, but not Apple, box with a pair of Nvidia flat screens that work like a Mac only because of proprietary drivers from

Re: Fresh out of ideas on .dmg mounts

2010-07-05 Thread Doug McNutt
At 20:42 -0700 7/5/10, John Carmonne wrote: On Jul 5, 2010, at 8:33 PM, Nestamicky wrote: I've spent the whole evening trying to find out the solution to this one. Fresh 10.4.11 install. Completely fresh with all updates that were done immediately after the istall. Then I went first to VLC,

Re: OSX is a 32-bit operating system?? is this true??

2010-06-19 Thread Doug McNutt
Just because nobody seems to have mentioned it. . . Without multiplexing, 64 bit addressing of external memory requires 64 external pins on the chip. Have you looked at the pins on a modern processor chip? Where would you put 32 more? How about the printed circuit wiring that connects the

Re: Importing WmV files to final cut pro

2010-06-08 Thread Doug McNutt
At 20:57 -0400 6/8/10, M Christol wrote: FCP doesn't read .wmv natively. If you have Flip 4 Mac Pro it should work because that is a Quicktime Plug In. If you don't have the Pro version of Flip 4 Mac, it is probably just going to waste your time importing a file with a big ugly watermark. AFAIK,

Re: They're dead, Jim...

2010-05-14 Thread Doug McNutt
At 00:58 -0400 5/14/10, Richard Gerome wrote, and I snipped: but do not fold up the display screen cord for this may cause a inductive voltage problem and mess up the picture (this happens when guys with the hot rods get engines and the computer and wire harness out of junk yards and the

Re: All program word/character count question

2010-05-14 Thread Doug McNutt
It works great for what it does. Much easier than firing up Word. Now, for lazy ol' me, if I could find the same thing that pops up when I right click instead of mousing ALL THE WAY to the menu bar life would be wonderful. I typically use pbpaste | wc as a command in Terminal.app to

Re: Digitizing ?

2010-04-21 Thread Doug McNutt
At 05:23 -0700 4/21/10, John Carmonne wrote: If you use StreamLine and it works well please post the results. I could never get StreamLine to work for me, I'm a CNC machinist and want to scan images of logos and such to cusomize products for cusomers, it'd be so easy if I could get a DXF file

Re: I have an idea...

2010-04-20 Thread Doug McNutt
At 18:07 -0400 4/20/10, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: Here's another good question. Is it possible to run Snow Leopard on a PPC machine using virtual PC? If so, where do I download it? I have searched all over google and no flags anywhere. If anyone had a direct site or download link in which i can

Re: I have an idea...

2010-04-20 Thread Doug McNutt
At 04:49 +0300 4/21/10, Baha Ata wrote: And why not make a Firefox browser for Mac OS 9... Are you, and everyone else, aware of Classilla? http://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/ -- -- Give me liberty or give me Obamacare -- -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: Need some help please

2010-03-10 Thread Doug McNutt
At 09:00 -0700 3/10/10, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 9, 2010, at 9:31 PM, Derek Jones wrote: My Power Mac G4 keeps making this whining noise when I try to use it, I think It has something to do with the hard drive, but I'm not sure. Any help would be appreciated, thank you. My sawtooth G4

Re: what internet browser to use.

2010-03-08 Thread Doug McNutt
At 04:02 -0600 3/8/10, Kris Tilford wrote: In OS 9, you need WaMCom 1.3.1 from here: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/20136vid=109103 Have a look at: http://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/releases/ for improvements to WaMCom for OS 9.1 and the more modern web. -- -- In

Re: Airport extreme - How to extend my network?

2010-03-08 Thread Doug McNutt
I can't believe that no one has mentioned the Pringle's can antenna. It was a big deal when 802.11 first became popular and folks were reporting a couple of miles across a lake. one on each mobile home rooftop pointer at each other ought to work pretty well. It must be Googleable. Pringle

Re: Airport extreme - How to extend my network?

2010-03-08 Thread Doug McNutt
At 13:18 -0500 3/8/10, John Musbach wrote: Basically, in lower power access points--like consumer Apple airport base stations the signal is broadcast in a circular fashion around the base station. But as the power increases, the signal becomes more and more narrow until at the highest powers the

Re: 5v power adapters

2010-02-09 Thread Doug McNutt
At 10:07 -0700 2/9/10, Bruce Johnson wrote, and I snipped: To a point you can connect a device to the correct voltage and a higher amperage and everything will work just fine. That to a point can be significant, though probably not for computer peripherals that need the supply connected all of

Re: Good simple graphics/art/publishing app?

2010-02-04 Thread Doug McNutt
At 14:18 -0500 2/4/10, graphics...@columbus.rr.com wrote: Meghrouni Vince foomc...@sbcglobal.net wrote: = Needed: An app with which to create/design flyers and posters in which images and text can be manipulated, that doesn't cost an arm and aleg. Not for

Re: Leaving the group

2010-02-02 Thread Doug McNutt
On top: Below is the list sent to me. It never ceases to amaze me that modern mail clients manage to suppress information that folks really need to perform such things as an unsubscribe request. But then we're sorry to see you go. Live long and prosper. If you do the List-Unsubscribe: thing

Re: Question: What Are They?

2010-01-31 Thread Doug McNutt
At 20:54 -0600 1/31/10, Stephen Conrad wrote: I have 3 things you plug into your computer that look like USB on one end. The other end has 6 pins and a black square pin in the middle Two are a light purple, one is green (1 2 are purple, #3 is green) 1) Has a KB pic near the pin plugin end and a

Re: Holy File Listing, BBatman!

2010-01-29 Thread Doug McNutt
At 11:41 -0700 1/29/10, Bruce Johnson wrote: This may be a 'No duh!' moment to some of you, but I just found something amazing in BBEdit. If you're in terminal or TextEdit, you can drag the folder or volume icon off of a Finder window to drop the path of that folder into the terminal window.

Re: G4 Mac OS 10.3 to 10.4 or 10.5?

2010-01-15 Thread Doug McNutt
At 09:26 -0800 1/15/10, stevo137 wrote: I have a G4 mac, 400 Mb processor, 1 gb memory. It has a os 10.3 panther Os. Can I upgrade to 10.5 or do I have to upgrade to 10.4 tiger? If you have any other older Macs around be careful about upgrading above 10.3.9. Tiger (10.4) terminates the ability

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