Have at least a DVD CD burner combo drive, so you can use it as a music center.
Also make sure you have the DVD decoder daughter-board on your video card! It
plays DVD's better than a faster processor would.
Get 1Gb of ram.
--- On Thu, 5/27/10, Jasiu johnschiavone...@gmail.com wrote:
Any
John, I don't know anything about cubes, but the CPU modules get their clock
speed by multiplying the bus speed so 133 x 4 = 533. If you use it with a
100MHz bus then it will operate at 400MHz!
Will the cube take a dual? I have a spare dual 450MHz.
Sent from my iPad
On May 23, 2010, at 7:58
--- On Thu, 4/29/10, John Niven sense...@yahoo.com wrote:
I just pre-ordered a 3G iPad and find it annoying that I
HAVE to have Leopard to use it with a Mac (I'm currently
still using Tiger) but I can use it with Windows XP if I
want.
This clearly illustrates Apples marketing strategy
--- On Thu, 4/29/10, JOHN CARMONNE carmo...@aol.com wrote:
Windbloze does it and anything you install on a PC normally
will try to shake you down.
In the Windows case you HAVE to register with MS after an initial period since
the install. The difference between MS and Apple is MS makes its
--- On Fri, 4/23/10, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote:
A lot of companies are blocking access to various sites
that employees
hit a lot but don't have any business purpose. Funny
how companies want
their employees to work for them. :)
Even cows get some music when they are being milked
I have a phone (not an iPhone). I use it to speak to people. It's not fancy but
I like the fact that it is shockproof, dustproof, and waterproof! I've dropped
it a couple of times and it's still working. I spilt a cup of coffee on it:
it's still working.
I have a nice Mac (actually several
This is the trouble. Most people already have something that overlaps with iPad
space:
I already have 3G
I already have a netbook/laptop
I need usb Why?
I need BT I think it has that.
I need Mac OS mobile
I don't. I want something as light as possible that I can pop in my messenger
bag and be
Yes I have one of those, but it's slow these days and lasts less than 2 hours
on battery. It doesn't offer 3G built in. I'm planning on replacing it with an
iPad. I have other (non-mobile) Macs for more extensive computing.
It's like saying why do you need a cell phone, you can just carry $0.25
It probably only works on Intel Macs ???
Who would want to take over my G4s (a good reason to keep them)!
--- On Fri, 4/16/10, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
A great take on the FUDness of
things...
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--- On Sun, 4/4/10, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
I have a G4 MDD Dual 1.25 the Bus speeds are 100, 66 and 33
if I put a 133 card in it will the machine run any faster
or is it not worth it?
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP63 says that you have a bus speed of 167MHz
(really just
http://www.weirdomatic.com/funny-mailboxes.html
Check out the very last photo for your next G4 project!
:-)
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I'm reasonably confident I could network to my Mini G4
Tiger
but I'm wondering if there is a way that I could actually
see his
screen
and thereby direct him what to do,
or even better
With four drives and Tiger you can do a RAID 0+1. Make two stripes, then mirror
them. It's not as efficient, but works. I use it on a G4 Xserve with four 500Gb
drives.
The other idea that occurs is to get one of the RAID pci cards that were made
for the G5 Xserves. I think they might do what
I believe that RAID 5 would be more efficient in it's use of disk space yet
still retain the data protection. Basically my RAID 0+1 uses 2Gb of space to
provide 1Gb usable, and yes, it's setup as one boot volume.
I keep my mp3 and video collection on it.
Frankly, I'm not sure you would notice
http://www.geekologie.com/2010/02/no_computers_in_class_professo.php
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--- On Wed, 2/24/10, stevo137 stevo...@hotmail.com wrote:
I just realized that the Mac has
square ends. So where does that leave
me? This is getting fustrating.
Yes it is, but it's really very simple. The key is to correctly identify what
hardware you have.
In and effort to make sure you buy
--- On Wed, 2/24/10, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote:
Or you could buy one of those DVI-to-ADC adaptors. They
plug into the
DVI plug and a USB plug on the computer and then plug into
the wall to
for the power.
Yeah, but realistically, are you going to spend ~$100 on a dongle, that just
Have you noticed that the finally fast ads feature Macs even when they are
busy fixing registry errors.
I guess Macs are what the add people have lying around.
--- On Tue, 2/23/10, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
Saw two other Macs on the tube last night. They were
both al type
I think you mean the original G4 1GHz Xserve. They are just constantly loud.
The latter 1.33GHz G4 are MUCH better. The G5 is only loud at start-up.
--- On Thu, 2/18/10, McGrude mcgr...@gmail.com wrote:
The only Apple system that I've used that was worse was a
G5 XServe.
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OK long shot. I'm using a G5 2.3GHz Xserve, running 10.4.11 (server) as my work
desktop. Unusual I know, but actually quite practical (and cheap) since I don't
do graphics, or sound (though I have a usb iMic for that).
Just recently I have come into work and found it shutdown. I got paranoid
--- On Tue, 2/16/10, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
Did it seem to go thru a shutdown sequence, or just drop
suddenly?
Look in the system log for error messages...
The time I witnessed it shutdown I wasn't actually using it but it seemed to
happen suddenly. I looked at the system logs
I concur. I have both the short one and the longer one and only the longer one
works with Tiger. I still use the short one on my server but you don't get the
full functionality. Such a shame. I can't imagine there is a REAL reason for
Apple doing this.
--- On Tue, 2/16/10, Jeffrey Engle
Thanks John but I've never set that and it doesn't show anything now. I've been
using this machine for about a year in this location and it hadn't happened
before. I suspect something is going bad. I guess I can wait for it to go belly
up.
--- On Tue, 2/16/10, John Musbach
I have a working Quadra 950 (33MHz 68040 !!!) equipped with the standard
internal floppy drive and with a SCSI cd burner I installed in it. It runs OS
7.6.1 and is just the sort of thing you'll need.
Email me and I'll do it for you :-)
Are you sure you can run that old s/w on a G4?
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I just downloaded Camino. Seems to work ok (I've been using Firefox 3.5.7 or
iCab).
I am not getting any music to play on www.myspace.com though. Any suggestions?
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Subject: Question: What Are They?
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--- On Sat, 1/23/10, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Dan dantear...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 9:30 AM
At 2:45 PM -0800 1/22/2010, John
Niven wrote:
Like all good rumor
--- On Fri, 1/22/10, Da'Birdman sa...@defalcos.com wrote:
Why would anyone join a group dedicated to Power PC G machines and ask why you
are still using them?
Ha Ha!
Always trust a Texan NOT to trust anybody. I think your answer is the huge
number of replies it generated.
Personally I think
Like all good rumor there is truth in some of this.
Semiconductor line widths have become so small that the operating voltage has
had to be reduced constantly to combat leakage and NBTI effects. Having a
overvoltage condition is VERY hazardous to a cpu's life. We in the
semiconductor industry
--- On Thu, 1/21/10, PM7500 jburke...@comcast.net wrote:
I'd suggest skipping the G4's and go
for an early G5 model.
My experience is different. Maybe worsened by the fact that my G5 is an Xserve
so does not excel in the video department. My Dual G4 1.33GHz Xserve seems to
be much more
--- On Wed, 1/6/10, Mac User #330250 macuser330...@gmx.net wrote:
Try putting the video card in a different slot.
The slot for the video card is somehow different than the other PCI slots. I
don't really understand it, but I'm confident further internet research will
help to clarify this
I have a couple of points to add to this thread:
In my experience with a Sonnet Sata card you can boot both G3 BW and G4 AGP's
from it (panther and tiger), BUT in the case of the G3 only if its a simple
volume. I tried to boot from a raid0 pair and it didn't work, but it does on a
G4.
The
I don't know why this started, but all my wed browsers hung up when a site
requiring flash was accessed.
Eventually I went here and downloaded this s/w:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/
Then:
1. Uninstalled Flash
2. Restarted
3. Reinstalled Flash
The problem disappeared.
--- On Tue, 12/15/09, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
system to 10.4; it turned out to be the flaky external dvd
drive I was
using to install it.
Doesn't the install disk do a media check first? I know you can bypass that but
I always thought that was a good idea. then you
--- On Thu, 12/10/09, glen glenst...@yahoo.com wrote:
iLife '05 will work.
From what I've seen on eBay it looks like iLife '06 would be the latest that a
867MHz G4 12 AL PB with Tiger could handle. Anybody got the system
requirements for that?
Thanks
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I have so far ignored this application, but may have to use it.
Is there a version that would run on a G4 12 AL PowerBook (867MHz)?
Or even a dual 1.33GHz G4 Xserve?
Thanks.
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--- On Thu, 12/10/09, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
I have so far ignored this application, but may have
to use it.
Is there a version that would run on a G4 12 AL
PowerBook (867MHz)?
Or even a dual 1.33GHz G4 Xserve?
Any version. Both systems meet the
--- On Thu, 12/10/09, Mark chris...@fuse.net wrote:
Some older verions will work. Your RAM HD limitations
will be
important. Jampacks may not work with older versions or may
have more
taxing memory/HD requirements.
I know there were earlier versions of iLife '09, and people sell them on
Mike,
the iMic is, in my experience, a great item. It will provide one stereo input,
and one stereo output, but then most Macs have that built in! I have used my
iMic to provide a way of connecting headphones to the keyboard (via usb), while
the CPU was hidden under the desk. Also to use with
--- On Tue, 11/24/09, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote:
An AGP card is also a lot faster than its PCI
equivalent as well.
Not all AGP cards are faster, a
AGP 1x (never used by Apple) is equivalent to the
33MHz, 64-bit PCI slot used in the PowerMac G3 BW and
the early G4s
The BW has a
-- On Tue, 11/24/09, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a second Rage 128 in my
PowerMac G3. I kinds got mixed up
there, but oh well.
So the question is: do you get different performance from the two cards.
I.E. is the speed of the PCI slot the limitation?
I think the 66MHz PCI
Your title says G3, your software says G4.
Hence your problem.
--- On Tue, 11/24/09, Gary Conrad kc7...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Gary Conrad kc7...@gmail.com
Subject: Installing an OS on my G3
To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 3:54 PM
I was given 4
--- On Thu, 11/19/09, MacDiva newri...@gmail.com wrote:
It is a router, NOT a switch. It is a DYNEX 10/100M Router.
Looks like that has one WAN port and four LAN ports. Your computers should be
plugged into the LAN ports and the WAN should be empty.
You might want to do a factory default reset
WAN = wide area network (the internet)
LAN = Local area network (your home network)
Both can be wireless or hardwired.
--- On Thu, 11/19/09, MacDiva newri...@gmail.com wrote:
I do not want to connect to the
DSL... wireless. I want to create a
physical LAN
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can only see FAXES and PRINTERS. The
setting of the Imac
allows it to be seen by the G4, and I don't see anything
else I can
change in the iMac or the XP to make it ”shareable“.
On Nov 19, 1:48 pm, John Niven sense...@yahoo.com
wrote:
WAN = wide area network (the internet)
LAN = Local
--- On Wed, 11/18/09, MacDiva newri...@gmail.com wrote:
I want to make a physical LAN by
wiring 3 computers to a network
router.
Is it a router or a switch? If you don't know the answer then tell us the
make/model number.
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--- On Wed, 11/4/09, Sam Macomber s...@macomber.com wrote:
so we've got a G4 xserve, pair of G5 xserves, (dual 2 and
dual 2.3)
all xserves have fiber channel cards, and all xserves have
full
drivebays(G4 has three 750GB and an 80, G5s have triple
250GB) two
xserve RAIDS (one has
--- On Tue, 11/3/09, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
Can I use a newer keyboard with my G4?
Yes, but note that Apple's current keyboards require OS X
10.5.6 or newer.
I use a wired Aluminum full length keyboard with Tiger. There is a keyboard
software up date. Works fine. I like the feel
--- On Tue, 10/27/09, Dana Collins dlcatft...@verizon.net wrote:
Atari 1040ST - yumm! I remember seeing one of them handling
Master-Tracks Pro (I think that was it) which was available only for
Atari and Mac.
Yes my first real computer was a 1040STe. It had built in midi ports. At the
time I
--- On Wed, 10/28/09, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote:
Well yes, but it sucked pretty well, no bars. Could
be that an
extension to the modem would work by keeping it at the
window that it
now resides. Unfortunately, that area is too confined
to move the
desktop there.
--- On Sat, 10/24/09, Dana Collins dlcatft...@verizon.net wrote:
On 10/24/09 11:57 AM, Geoff Black of bla...@telkomsa.net
For what its worth,
PreSonus and M-Audio are your best bets for a small FW
interface,
Thanks Geoff and Dana.
There was some confusion. My basic problem is that my
--- On Tue, 10/27/09, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote:
Well, I use an M-Audio 2496 Delta Audiophile PCI card, but
its in a Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1GHz under 10.5.8 ...
Actually This is the kind of feedback I was looking for. I do have the same PCI
card (got cheaply from local
--- On Sat, 10/24/09, Paul Kemner zkem...@gmail.com wrote:
Midi would be faster.
This is a timely reply, Paul. I was just going to ask a question.
I'm an Ableton Live user. My studio setup is XP PC based because it was
available, and I needed something that would take the 5V PCI interface
--- On Tue, 10/20/09, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
You might try reading what they are used with. As far
as I know an LCD
will not work on a Apple IIc or a Apple
II/II+/IIe/IIgs which is what
the second monitor sounds like.
Opps! You're right, but then this topic doesn't
That is a feature in iCab as well (free trial).
--- On Tue, 10/13/09, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote:
However, a handy feature in Safari (version 4.0.3 in
10.4.11) is the
ability to tell web sites it is another browser. I am
99.99% certain
that Safari under 10.5 can do the same
My guess..
One for the cable modem, and one for sharing the connection?
--- On Mon, 10/5/09, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
From: Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net
Subject: Re: G5 problem?
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Date: Monday, October 5, 2009, 3:09 PM
On Oct 5, 2009, at
I don't know if you lose QE by installing a pci video card, but I suspect not.
However there is a software patch (non-apple) that is supposed to enable QE in
PCI but it has warnings and when I tried it I didn't see any improvement.
Why not just get an APG video card that will support two
--- On Sun, 9/20/09, ah...clem boneheads...@gmail.com wrote:
while the PCI bus IS slower than the system bus, it is NOT
the limiting factor in data transfer to and from the HD.
in a sawtooth, the PCI bus speed is 33 MHz and the data path is 64 bits
wide. multiply (33,000,000 cycles/s) times
Yes.
--- On Sun, 9/20/09, John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com wrote:
From: John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com
Subject: PlainTalk Microphone?
To: G3-5 List g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Cc: John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com
Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 3:21 PM
Will a PlainTalk
--- On Fri, 9/18/09, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
10K enterprise SCSI drives hooked up to UWSCSI interfaces
can blast
data at astonishing rates...until, that is, they hit the
congested two-
lane road that is the Yike's 100Mhz bus.
I thought the PCI bus was 33Mhz.
--- On Fri, 9/18/09, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
I thought the PCI bus was 33Mhz. Isn't that the
bottleneck?
Just for comparison:
A 33-MHz PCI bus, 32-bits wide, does aro 132 MB/sec.
A 50-MHz System bus, 32-bits wide, does aro 200 MB/sec.
So a 33-MHz PCI bus, 64-bits wide, does
--- On Fri, 9/18/09, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
yes. Just pointing out the diff, so folx don't get
confused about
you adding stick bandwidth to the thread.
So to sum up, the 100MHz system (and memory bus) bandwidth is NOT the limiting
factor for a scsi disk connected via a PCI card,
-- On Fri, 9/18/09, Mike mike.dogho...@googlemail.com wrote:
So in my fw800, a drive connected to the
ata100 bus would
read/write faster than one connected via a pci card?
The fw800 only has 33MHz PCI slots but they are 64bit capable.
That means that a 32bit PCI card would clock a maximum
--- On Fri, 9/18/09, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
And they'll have the added benefit of substituting for a
space heater.
I had this setup in my works 450Mhz dual sawtooth. I didn't think they were
noisy. On the otherhand I'm not saying it's the most practical compromise
I seem to remember something about the power management chip getting itself
into a high current mode which drains the battery. Can't really remember.
Can you check for a good voltage on the battery you have? Find out if it has
been discharged. I would try removing the power cord AND the
--- On Wed, 9/9/09, ah...clem boneheads...@gmail.com wrote:
Bruce Johnson wrote:
Len and Andreas clearly have more recent experience
than I on this
subject; I'd go with their recommendations and stick
to the Dual 1 Gig.
i can only add my personal experience. i do not use
the apps you
That was my point. Apple DID make multiprocesser Macs BEFORE they had an OS
that would use them, which is why this single/dual question was previously
subjective. It depended on what apps you were going to use.
OSX changed that.
--- On Wed, 9/9/09, falst...@46 paulall...@cox.net wrote:
--- On Mon, 9/7/09, Dana Collins dlcatft...@verizon.net wrote:
The second would be to add an audio interface card, a
little harder with
PCI-X, but can be found (regular PCI there are many
options, like an M-Audio
2496 PCI audio card)-anticipate a bit more $$ for PCI-X
since everyone has
In essence, I am wondering how you can use multiple older ppc computers to make
things happen faster?
I have occasion to run unix based programs via X11 at work. I am not a
knowledgeable unix person but actually OSX is educating me in that direction.
It's possible for me to use ssh to connect
--- On Tue, 9/8/09, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
You could run multiple Apple Remote Desktop sessions to
each of the
other computers, but frankly, that won't work all that well
either.
Actually I already have that and it works quit well for controlling your other
--- On Fri, 9/4/09, Charles Lenington macso...@tds.net wrote:
I keep getting invites to fagbook. What is it, is it
secure, why do i
want it. does it run on macs?
I'm not sure you want fagbook, but facebook can be fun :-)
I've re-connected with quite a few old friends with it. It is a web
--- On Fri, 9/4/09, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote:
First, stop using degrading terms like fag.
Bill Connelly, Artist Who's Offended by Racism
Firstly the real Billy Connelly has a better sense of humour, and secondly I
don't think that's racism. Lighten up.
-- On Fri, 9/4/09, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
A browser just sitting there isn't going to do anything.
You can get
autorefresh going, then there's the remote possibility that
some
malicious site could cause a problem with the 3rd or 4th
refresh, but
that's a
Ian,
I might be one of the few here with Xserve experience! I have a closet next to
my hobby room. I installed a plastic pipe joining the two spaces big enough to
pass cabling through. I got a used open four post 19 rack and put it in the
closet. Somehow I started filling the rack :-) I
Hey! I'm trying iCab 4.6.1 on my G5 Xserve and it seems stonkingly fast!
I'll have to play with it some more. I haven't used iCab since trying it on my
Quadra 950 (33MHz, 68040). Maybe that explains it :-)
John
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ATTO UL3D are still plentlfull on eBone. Costing a lot less than I paid for
mine :-)
These are dual channel U160 units. They are 64 bit PCI cards so they make a
33MHz G4 towers PCI slot as fast as a more modern 66MHz 32 bit PCI slot. They
have internal and exernal connectors.
Until recently
--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Lawrence David Eden lde...@comcast.net wrote:
I have an Adaptec AHA-2930B(Mac) that prevents my G4 from
waking from
sleep. I have removed the card and the Mac sleeps and
wakes on
demand.
I prefer ATTO pci cards. They are natively supported in OSX but also ATTO have
--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Mac User #330250 macuser330...@gmx.net wrote:
The software system I'm using for about a decade now is
Linux. I grew up with
it since Kernel 2.2 ended and 2.4 started. Now we have 2.6
and a completely
different developement model, so I doubt I'll see 2.8
anytime soon.
As for power, well, Excel still hasn't caught up to Wingz.
Actually a quick scan of this reference indicates that most of the claimed
advantages over Excel have been fixed, except the spread sheet size limitations.
Most of the power of Excel comes from having used it for a
long time, not
Such trimming also works on Entourage (which I use for business) also but
that's not the point, or rather trimming was never the issue. The requirement
for bottom posting was. It is NOT mentioned as a requirement in the the
netiquette rules, and in my experience is not usual practice in
I absolutely agree with this, plus if you buy a new machine you still have
your old one to sell/donate/pass-on to somebody else. If you replace the
processor, the old one just goes in the bin!
Computer speed is not just about possessor clock speed but also bus speeds,
ram, disk size limits
I think you will see only 128GB on your new harddrive (you can still use it).
Much better to buy a SATA pci card and then you can use a modern large HD.
--- On Mon, 8/24/09, joan jn...@q.com wrote:
From: joan jn...@q.com
Subject: Installing new internal hard drive on G4
To: G3-5 List
I've used HandBrake to convert DVD's to a format that went onto my iPod nano,
but I couldn't see how to convert other files. I ended up buying MP4
Converter which seems to do the job, though I have had some audio sync
problems which I haven't tracked down yet.
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