RE: SSD for 2002 Quicksilver G4

2016-04-06 Thread Jason Brown
I cannot speak specifically for the Macintosh side of things however it would appear that TRIM is capable of being passed through IDE. This happens to be through IDE to an MSATA style SSD. I would imagine that this would translate roughly the same in using a program to issue a trim command to

Re: Mac OS X Server 1.2 - WAS::::: Re: Updates for Mac OS X?

2012-07-19 Thread Jason Brown
A quick google search came up with this result. I read through it and it makes sense as to why it is not working and how to make it work. I do not have a cube to test this on however, anyone wanna donate one to the cause? :P Hopefully this helps ya. :)

Re: Updates for Mac OS X?

2012-07-11 Thread Jason Brown
On Jul 11, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: Anyone else having problem with Software Update? I am on multiple Macs and Wintel machines. Says its checking then just blips out and leaves a blank window telling you the following updates are available. Not enough time passed to

Re: Car computer

2011-05-18 Thread Jason Brown
IPad 16 gig with vehicle bolt mount from Joy Factory would be my choice. :) Sent from my iPad On May 18, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Alexander Gomes alexcomputersolut...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking about buying another old Pismo and using that in the car on a mount. Since the interface would be

Re: Safari memory leak fixed ?

2011-05-09 Thread Jason Brown
I learned many moons ago from reading Dan's responses that he is usually right 99.9 percent of the time. I have not checked it out myself to validate, but if Dan says that there is a Debug menu as well, I personally believe him. :) I may test it out on my system at home to satisfy my curiosity

Re: Extracting JPEGl Files From Phone Attachments

2011-05-09 Thread Jason Brown
I have seen this issue when going from Mac to Pc before. Try opening the file in Preview then save it back out if it opens. Sent from my iPad On May 8, 2011, at 10:26 PM, glen glenst...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net On May 8, 2011, at

Re: [Manager Comment] Re: Posting Problem

2011-02-23 Thread Jason Brown
I'd even cut it some more but that's a great start! 1. 68K of all flavors 2. Pre G Power Macs of all flavors 3. G Power Macs of all flavors 4. Intel Macs of all flavors 5. Software group maybe Consolidation always results in greater efficiencies. After spending a good part of my

Re: Power Mac G5, and installing OSX 10.5 on external HD

2011-02-02 Thread Jason Brown
Click on the physical disk itself, go to the partition tab and set it to 1 or however many partitions you want. Go to the options tab and make sure its set to Apple Partition Map instead of Master Boot Record and then apply it. That will change it from MBR to APM which is bootable on a G5 and

Re: Hard drive failing!

2011-01-30 Thread Jason Brown
It is a WD though. Couldn't pay me to use one. YMMV but MM has been very very bad with them. On 1/29/2011 10:34 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: Ben's bargains has a 2TB WD from New Egg for $70 after rebate. 2TB! On Jan 29, 10:54 pm, Sean Carrollcedarwaxw...@att.net wrote: Current (failing) is a

Re: Mac Mini HDD speed

2011-01-22 Thread Jason Brown
That particular Mini uses PATA interface instead of SATA. Finding an SSD in PATA could be problematic. On 1/22/2011 1:22 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: For 2.5 why no use a SSD? On Jan 22, 1:21 pm, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: The 7200 RPM drives have faster seek times. There may also be a higher Bus

Re: Newer Technology MaxPower processor upgrade

2011-01-05 Thread Jason Brown
On Jan 4, 2011, at 8:03 AM, faithie999 wrote: has anyone tried one of these upgrades? the 7447A or 7448? i have a Sawtooth G4 that i'd like to use for Photoshop CS5. i know it won't be blazing fast with either of these upgrades. does anyone have experience with either of these? the

Re: the big knot thingy?

2010-12-24 Thread Jason Brown
Those are Ferrite Ring Filters. They are designed to help cut down on interference. Here is a link to some of the do it yourself types. http://www.camera2000.com/en/2-lots-tdk-clip-on-emi-rfi-filter-snap-around-ferrite.html On 12/24/2010 4:49 PM, Jeffrey Daile Engle wrote: ok, here's a

Re: MDD ??

2010-11-20 Thread Jason Brown
On 11/20/2010 3:48 PM, DAN A CURRIE wrote: Hello, Been years but I have a problem with my MDD, dual 1.25, 2GB RAM running 10.4. I unplugged it the other night during a t-storm, forgot to plug it back in and two days later when I did plug it in ... NOTHING! Pressed the power button on the

Re: PowerMac G3 AIO 'snapping/popping'

2010-11-09 Thread Jason Brown
On 11/9/2010 1:10 AM, lrbarrios wrote: I just purchased a PowerMac G3 All-In-One from a flee market for $5. I was told that it works, so what the heck. As long as my wife doesn't find out, I'm okay. :) I powered it up tonight and it's making a 'snapping/popping' sound from under the hood --

Re: Calling Apple Script Experts

2010-11-01 Thread Jason Brown
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 you that read it and tried to figure things out. On Oct 28, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Jason Brown wrote: I have

Calling Apple Script Experts

2010-10-28 Thread Jason Brown
-shares/ -- -- Script Modifications by Jason Brown, The Birmingham News. repeat set intnt to do shell script ping -c 1 10.50.3.221; echo -n set paras to number of paragraphs in intnt if paras 5 then else set serverIP to afp://10.50.3.221/Vol1

Re: will DA processor fit in Gigabit?

2010-08-06 Thread Jason Brown
On 8/6/2010 3:14 PM, Daniel Stewart wrote: I can't agree with that. A P4 is the definition of hype verses performance. My G4 933 mhz Quicksilver is more responsive then a P4 at twice the clock speed and the ram is PC133 on my QS and it is still the better machine. P4s were not even that

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-04 Thread Jason Brown
On 8/3/2010 9:42 PM, glen wrote: The Dell started having a problem with the screen image rolling down (or up depending on your reference). Sort of like the very old CRT TV's that needed the horizontal hold adjusted. I'm talking about 1950's or 60's TV's. Don't know if you are old enough to

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-03 Thread Jason Brown
On Aug 3, 2010, at 5:13 PM, glen wrote: My reply: Thanks Kevin, I went with the Hannspree 22 mostly because it was an easy, cheap and fast replacement. Like most new monitors the screen images are crisp and clear. No real complaints it will suit my purpose. The only thing difficult

Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-07-26 Thread Jason Brown
On Jul 26, 2010, at 12:58 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: On Jul 26, 12:39 pm, Richard Gerome onecoolka...@earthlink.net wrote: I found this on newegg for $55.00 do you think it would be good for this computer??? I can't seem to find any better deals on ebay and this is a new one...

Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-07-26 Thread Jason Brown
I've had a 120GB rotating happily in my G4 Gigabit for over four years... JT I guess even WD has a fluke every now and then :P All kidding aside though, I have trashed brand new WD drives that were given to me. I refuse to use one, I have had too many issues with them. I have seen close to

Re: New unibody Mac Mini (was Re: Apple Store closed for update)

2010-06-16 Thread Jason Brown
I hope others realize how humorous this Product M and H discussion is :P On Jun 16, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Chance Reecher wrote: Peter Haas wrote: On Jun 15, 2010, at 8:06 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: All in all continuing to make the H word we cannot use here more and more

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-15 Thread Jason Brown
Try creating another user account and log in under that account to rule out issues with the account that you are currently using. Also, what OS are you running? I haven't been following this that long so I am unsure if this was answered previously, however, if you are running an Intel Mac and

Re: Sonnet firmware

2010-06-03 Thread Jason Brown
Always better safe than sorry, however if the system was running, you likely either A: didnt need the update or B: had already done it otherwise the system wouldnt boot or wouldnt even post. On Jun 3, 2010, at 9:06 AM, John Carmonne wrote: On Jun 3, 2010, at 7:00 AM, Jason Brown wrote

Re: G4 MDD RAM

2010-06-02 Thread Jason Brown
I think the ram limit is artificial by firmware. I am not sure on this though. My MDD will recognize 2 1 gig modules for 2 gig, but it ignores anything after that like it doesnt exist. On Jun 2, 2010, at 11:18 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: Sorry - I have these machines and never saw anyone say they

Re: G4 MDD RAM

2010-06-02 Thread Jason Brown
It will recognize 2 of the 1 gig modules for 2 gig, once it hits its max, it stops. There has to be a hack we can do somehow some way to make it recognize the ram, its apparently a soft limit. On Jun 2, 2010, at 2:41 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Jun 2, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Ricardo Sevilla

Re: Slashdot News Story | Google Reportedly Ditching Windows

2010-06-01 Thread Jason Brown
I believe it is spam that is tailored to be aimed at you based on information stolen or obtain about you through other means. On Jun 1, 2010, at 11:22 AM, ===( )8 wrote: Vic Mabus writes, http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/06/01/011203/Google-Reportedly-Ditching-Windows?from=rss by

Re: Cube speed

2010-05-24 Thread Jason Brown
Be sure if you try it on a 450 MHz board that it is a 7410 series and not a 7400. The 7400 has a glitch that prevents it from running at 500 and better. Some you can hit 500 with but I wouldn't trust it due to the flaw. On May 24, 2010, at 2:23 PM, John Carmonne wrote: Can you explain the

Re: What was the last Mac to natively run OS 9?

2010-05-14 Thread Jason Brown
I think he means natively BOOT OS 9. There are a couple of machines, and correct me if I am wrong on this. But the newest machine that will BOOT OS 9 would be the MDD based G4 powermac with standard Airport. The Airport Extreme model will not booth OS 9 and even on the one with the standard

Re: quicksilver 933 fried by power loss

2010-05-13 Thread Jason Brown
If the power supply were weak before the power failure, ie bulging capacitors, it would seem like the power failure caused it. Inversely, if the power surge that hit the system upon power restoration caused a cap to bulge, then that would also cause this, depending on the cap location and what

Re: AirPort card for PowerMac G5 (dual 2.3GHz)

2010-02-25 Thread Jason Brown
On Feb 25, 2010, at 3:35 PM, dc wrote: On Feb 24, 9:53 pm, Herbert Goodfriend bon...@mailforce.net wrote: I would like to install an AirPort Extreme card in a recently acquired PowerMac G5 Dual 2.3GHz. This would be cheaper, easier and faster:

Re: is thermal calibration necessary?

2010-02-20 Thread Jason Brown
On 2/20/2010 1:57 PM, ah...clem wrote: On Feb 20, 10:51 am, Bruce Johnsonjohn...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Why should we feel foolish? because everyone except john musbach assumed i was an idiot who needed to be told how annoying the fans are. everyone else could have just given me

Re: Mismatched RAM in a G5

2010-02-20 Thread Jason Brown
On 2/20/2010 4:38 PM, Eric Volker wrote: I currently have a dual 1.8GHz G5 that I'm in the repurposing. In the process, I removed 1GB (2x512) of DDR400 RAM leaving 1GB in place. I do have 2 extra 256MB sticks of RAM, but one is DDR 400 and the other DDR 333. If I drop the mismatched pair in

Re: is thermal calibration necessary?

2010-02-18 Thread Jason Brown
On 2/18/2010 7:30 PM, McGrude wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:27 PM, ah...clemboneheads...@gmail.com wrote: Have you heard the G5 DP fans run at full speed? I swear it's moved across the desk several inches when that happens. I think you will care about the noise. I lost a cat

Re: is thermal calibration necessary?

2010-02-18 Thread Jason Brown
On 2/18/2010 8:57 PM, Nestamicky wrote: On 2/18/10 7:13 PM, Jason Brown wrote: I lost a cat once to a G5 running full tilt. Sucked it right through the holes in the case. Heck of a mess to clean up... : You're kidding..right? Of course :P -- You received this message because you

Re: is thermal calibration necessary?

2010-02-18 Thread Jason Brown
On 2/18/2010 9:56 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:30 PM, McGrude wrote: When my G5 was repaired by Apple they forgot to do the thermal calibration, and I had to take it back. It cost me another week without it. Needless to say, I decided this was something that I didn't want to

Re: Slightly OT: Overheating Iomega Minimax

2010-02-13 Thread Jason Brown
On 2/13/2010 3:47 PM, Eric Volker wrote: In an interesting twist, I've successively run Disk Utility and SMART Reporter on the drive, and they both pass the drive. Now SMART Utility does give more thorough feedback, but is it being too pessimestic? I think what I'll do is repartition the drive

Re: Slightly OT: Overheating Iomega Minimax

2010-02-13 Thread Jason Brown
On 2/13/2010 4:18 PM, Eric Volker wrote: Actually, I've only seen the statement SMART is impossible applied to Firewire drives, though I probably should've thought to connect my Minimax up with USB instead of 1394. In any event, I'm going to wipe the drive and put it through it's paces on the

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-10 Thread Jason Brown
On Feb 10, 2010, at 9:30 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: At some point updates to software won't run on a given OS. That's life, no? My prized G4 MDDs cannot load Snow Leopard (that I know). At some point, I'd imagine, Firefox will want an Intel chip, and won't run on the G4 or G5 for that matter.

Re: low density RAM?

2010-02-10 Thread Jason Brown
On Feb 10, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Geke wrote: Thanks a lot! That link from Pete is precious; I can mention it to the company so they can check for themselves... (Note that it runs over two lines that should be connected before pasting into the browser.) Geke Yes it is. Here is a link

Re: iMac G5 2GHZ Graphics Problem

2010-02-08 Thread Jason Brown
On 2/8/2010 2:29 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 7, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: FIXED! I shimmed the Graphics Chip using Pennies! I stacked them under the gray cover, and then on top of the cover and then closed the computer up and it works perfectly!!! Thanks for help, you saved

Re: iMac G5 2GHZ Graphics Problem

2010-02-08 Thread Jason Brown
On Feb 8, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: Yeah it does sound stupid, however the pennies are taped together VERY well, and are taped to the surface VERY well, unfortunately the problem is back so I'm thinking of trying to reflow the solder on that chip. Any ideas of how to do this?

Re: iMac G5 2GHZ Graphics Problem

2010-02-07 Thread Jason Brown
On 2/7/2010 4:30 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: What do you mean shimming the GPU? My guess would be to cut out a shim to go around the non core portion of the GPU. When you bolt the heatsink back down, it will put pressure on top of the chip and sometimes make better electrical connection if there

Re: iMac G5 2GHZ Graphics Problem

2010-02-07 Thread Jason Brown
On 2/7/2010 10:27 PM, Jason Brown wrote: On 2/7/2010 4:30 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: What do you mean shimming the GPU? My guess would be to cut out a shim to go around the non core portion of the GPU. When you bolt the heatsink back down, it will put pressure on top of the chip and sometimes

Re: Power Mac G5 (June 2004) crash?

2010-02-05 Thread Jason Brown
On Feb 5, 2010, at 4:12 PM, John Callahan wrote: On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:31 AM, John Martz wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:02 PM, John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com wrote: My G5 crashes when I connect it to the internet. Otherwise it runs fine. What do you mean by crashes? What

Re: G4 processor upgrade

2010-02-02 Thread Jason Brown
Yes, it can. It is the Motherboard that limits the booting, particularly the firmware and drivers in the OS. The processors are still just 7544/7457 series processors. I have seen people do this before. Mine, I just took the dual 1.25 board and overclocked it to dual 1.5. :P On Feb 2, 2010, at

Re: G4 processor upgrade

2010-02-02 Thread Jason Brown
Sigh, please forgive me, had a dyslexic moment. 7455/7457 series. lol On Feb 2, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Jason Brown wrote: Yes, it can. It is the Motherboard that limits the booting, particularly the firmware and drivers in the OS. The processors are still just 7544/7457 series processors. I have

Re: G4 processor upgrade

2010-02-02 Thread Jason Brown
, Jason Brown wrote: Sigh, please forgive me, had a dyslexic moment. 7455/7457 series. lol On Feb 2, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Jason Brown wrote: Yes, it can. It is the Motherboard that limits the booting, particularly the firmware and drivers in the OS. The processors are still just 7544/7457

Re: no video on restart on G5 Quad. Help?

2009-12-28 Thread Jason Brown
On Dec 28, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Hal wrote: Interestingly, I tried the open firmware procedure described above, and when it rebooted, the screen stayed on the grey OF screen with black text while the computer rebooted, with no display. It's almost like it doesn't know the video card and

Re: no video on restart on G5 Quad. Help?

2009-12-27 Thread Jason Brown
On 12/27/2009 8:47 PM, Hal wrote: Thanks for the quick response. I tried replacing the battery, and that seems to have cleared up some other issues I was having (prolonged blue screen on boot up), but it didn't solve the no video on reboot problem. When I log in and share the screen,

Re: no video on restart on G5 Quad. Help?

2009-12-27 Thread Jason Brown
On 12/27/2009 11:50 PM, Kasey Smith wrote: Snow Leopard? On a G5? O_O Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner is not just for Snow Leopard. I know the name implies it, which is a poor choice on their part. It is also compatible with 10.4 and 10.5, maybe others. I use it a good bit at work along

Re: Large format printer

2009-12-23 Thread Jason Brown
On Dec 23, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: On 12/22/09 11:39 PM, Paxton innfo...@gmail.com Spew into the cybertrough: There are good laser printers that do a good job on photos but I don't know of any larger than 11X17. What is she trying to print? This is the largest that I can

Re: Large format printer

2009-12-23 Thread Jason Brown
On Dec 23, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: On 12/22/09 11:39 PM, Paxton innfo...@gmail.com Spew into the cybertrough: There are good laser printers that do a good job on photos but I don't know of any larger than 11X17. What is she trying to print? This printer will do color and is

Re: Large format printer

2009-12-23 Thread Jason Brown
On Dec 23, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: On 12/22/09 11:39 PM, Paxton innfo...@gmail.com Spew into the cybertrough: There are good laser printers that do a good job on photos but I don't know of any larger than 11X17. What is she trying to print? I just noticed that she needs

PCI Wireless Cards

2009-12-18 Thread Jason Brown
Are there any PCI wireless cards that are fully Airport compatible that are 802.11n? If so, which ones have you found that do the trick? If not, which G would you recommend? I have a Newertech wireless card that I just don't like. It has to have special software that is a pain in the neck.

Re: PCI Wireless Cards

2009-12-18 Thread Jason Brown
- Original Message - From: Jeffrey Engle To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 1:43 PM Subject: Re: PCI Wireless Cards your Airport software doesn't support N The Airport drivers built into 10.5 dont support N? How do the newer Macs running

Re: 1Ghz G3 upgrade?

2009-12-15 Thread Jason Brown
10.9.4? Your all set then. :P On Dec 15, 2009, at 11:15 AM, coolr...@comcast.net wrote: FYI... read the fine print. The PowerLogix won't run OS X higher than 10.9.4. I have one in a 400MHz BW and works great. It runs at 1GHz under OS9 and 500MHz under 10.4.11. I have a 10.4.9 partition

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Jason Brown
in the system or is a physically different chip. Someone else that is more knowledgeable may be able to answer that part. Jason Brown --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop

Re: Question about USB ports?

2009-10-23 Thread Jason Brown
Jason, please keep in mind that system profiler only sees those USB ports available to it. Thus, if the keyboard is NOT plugged in, you will not see those ports. So, back to the drawing table. Jeff Ahhh, that is too true. I apologize for misinformation then. Jason

Re: last question re: Orig. Airport card vs. PCI wireless card

2009-06-20 Thread Jason Brown
I have a question on this. Does anyone know of a good pci card that supports wireless N that is recognized as an airport extreme card to os x? If you know it, I would like the make, and model of the card. Thank you in advance. =) On Jun 20, 2009, at 6:02 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jun

Re: MDD Dual 1.42 GHz G4 card

2009-05-11 Thread Jason Brown
On May 11, 2009, at 6:13 AM, Ross wrote: Jason Brown wrote: I have a non firewire 800 MDD system. It is a Dual 1.25 GHz system. I was curious if the Dual 1.42 GHz card from the firewire 800 model will work on this board. Mine is running at 167 MHz system bus. Thank you in advance

MDD Dual 1.42 GHz G4 card

2009-05-10 Thread Jason Brown
I have a non firewire 800 MDD system. It is a Dual 1.25 GHz system. I was curious if the Dual 1.42 GHz card from the firewire 800 model will work on this board. Mine is running at 167 MHz system bus. Thank you in advance. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

Re: Command-option p-r

2008-12-07 Thread Jason Brown
wrote: On Dec 6, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Jason Brown wrote: I just hold down command and option with my thumb and press the p with my pointer and r with pinky and then use my right hand to turn on my machine. Kris Tilford replied: This works for full size keyboards that have Cmd Opt

Re: Command-option p-r

2008-12-06 Thread Jason Brown
I just hold down command and option with my thumb and press the p with my pointer and r with pinky and then use my right hand to turn on my machine. :P On Dec 5, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Ken wrote: My Reply follows quote. On 03/12/2008 19:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: At 2:23 pm +

Re: Command-option p-r

2008-12-06 Thread Jason Brown
The Command and Option i was referring to anyway was on the left side of the space bar :P On Dec 6, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Clark Martin wrote: Kris Tilford wrote: On Dec 6, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Jason Brown wrote: I just hold down command and option with my thumb and press the p with my