G5 DUAL 1.8 STARTUP

This machine has been off for over a year. It is mated to the ?cinema display that pulls all power through the umbilical. Is there anything to worry about vefore trying to fire it up? JV -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G

Re: LOG IN brainlock

all the keychain stuff working? Or am I missing something (highly likely) On Apr 24, 2013, at 10:41 AM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 24/04/13 16.19, "JohnV" ha scritto: Just restarted and Even with the hint I used, I can NOT recall what the password is. Google "reco

LOG IN brainlock

Apologiy but It's not teh G5 but the iMac 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo 10.6.8 It's been running for weeks and seems the last time I changed the opening password for starting the machine, I was too clever by half. Just restarted and Even with the hint I used, I can NOT recall what the password

AWORKS oddity

AppleWorks 6.2.9 has started doing something different. When I highlight text, instead of shading it, it surrounds it in a line-box. THen, if I single-click anywhere else on the page, it will NOT un- select the text. John V 10.4.11 Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Machine Model:Pow

Re: cross-machine synch and joining the 21st century

On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:03 AM, JohnV wrote: .. any suggestions, tutorials, guidance or kick-in-the-butt pep talks would be hugely helpful. Meant to add on or off list... thanks John V -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4

cross-machine synch and joining the 21st century

Much of this is likely mundane and searchable in archives... wherever they might be... Machines in play: == a G5 (should be just for audio and graphic work, not web or mail or other outside communication) == an INtel Core duo (should be for most office, regular communications and func

Re: Laptop skype problem

On Apr 4, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: -- Original message -- Subject: Laptop skype problem Date:Thursday, 04. April 2013 From:JohnV To: "G-Group List" Passing this on for a Close Family Member if that;s ok... Would be, but this is

Laptop skype problem

Passing this on for a Close Family Member if that;s ok... Model Name:MacBook Model Identifier:MacBook4,1 Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed:2.4 GHz Number Of Processors:1 Total Number Of Cores:2 L2 Cache:3 MB Memory:2 GB Bus Speed:8

Re: teach yourself illustrator CS3

Sketchup is indeed used in many many MANY real-world-work situations for cross-platform design work, On Mar 28, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Bruce Ryan wrote: 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

Re: New Forums

On Mar 26, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Jim Scott wrote: Based on the continuing soap opera LEM has presented concerning its financial woes over the years, you're probably right. Dan Knight has created a wonderful worldwide online community for Mac people, but he has not managed to find a way to ma

Re: Max RAM for a G5?

I bought a similar G5 from a video producer. He was hurting for faster render times and moved up to an 8-core intel Mac Pro, My audio needs for this machine are perfectly well-met. I don;t know the comparison data specifics, but your render times may well be what teh machine is capable of. My

Re: New Forums

One mail list I am devoted to occasionally has folks check in about if the moderator/server person needs help or some cash to help keep the machines running... it's never a lot, it's never begged or demanded, it;s just like a neighborhood block party and you chip in to help make it all work

Re: New Forums

I have several mail-list forums I have wprked with for years. It's simple direct and efficient. My experieince currently with YAHOO, which granted is not WORDPRESS, but I have been trying wihtout success to transition to a YAHOO group for a professional recording forum and just an hour ago

Cant Open sound files

Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Machine Model:PowerMac7,3 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (2.2) Number Of CPUs: 2 CPU Speed:1.8 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 2 GB Bus Speed:900 MHz Boot ROM Version: 5.1.8f7 OS 10.4.11 Over the last month or so I

They're Following Me...

Ok, I've always known about the cookies thing and erasing (or not accepting ) them, but things have moved on. How is it that now I am getting several specific singular ads following me around websites, forums and anything else? I clear cookies, caches and went so far as to dump the entire HIST

Re: Molasses response

Just brought home the 2T seagate , will try putting it in sunday... You can do it the hard hard way. Connect MacA to Mac B via FWTarget mode or sharing files over the network you can copy Sara- MacA's files over to Sara-MacB's folders, import the emails, etc.

Re: Molasses response

THIS all starts to make sense from what I was reading... what -I- want to do is not what it's set up to do... thanks. You cannot use MA to *merge* two user accounts. You can do it the hard hard way. Connect MacA to Mac B via FWTarget mode or sharing files over the network you can copy Sa

Re: Molasses response

On Feb 28, 2013, at 11:43 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 28, 2013, at 9:03 AM, JohnV wrote: thanks Bruce, from what little I've read, doesn;t MA also REMOVE that stuff from the originating system? No, MA is a read-only process, nothing is removed from the old system. are exi

Re: Molasses response

Bruce (and all of you...!) thanks again for patience and guidance. Onwards... On Feb 28, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: did this, DIsk Utility stops and says the volume has problems Ok you've either got disk hardware issues or it's a corrupted volume. If it's the latter DiskWarri

Re: Molasses response

On Feb 28, 2013, at 10:17 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: So long as you do not try to import a user with the same name as an existing one, this is what Migration Assistant is for. You can specify in the dialog whether you want users, applications or 'other files', and you can select users indi

Re: Molasses response

I really hope this isn;t annoyingly verbose, and that my ignorance- based concerns about process here may look like I'm somehow arguing with your recommendations which is COMPLETELY not the case. There is , I think, something I failed to make clear. This is a long- overdue clean up of severa

Re: Molasses response

ew days. I want to keep this G5 at 10.4.11 and will check, but should have all the install disks. THanks for the help John Vengrouskie On Feb 25, 2013, at 8:55 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 25/02/13 23.09, JohnV ha scritto: several USB and FW external drives hanging off it. F

NAS try again

a couple years back I bought a typical 4-bay NAS box adn found out quickly that Macs don;t play-nice with them. I read an article this morning about using a NAS box as a direct one-wire LAN on a single Mac adn wondered if this indeed might actually work. Other than this, I figure the NAS is

Odd spam emails

I've been getting spam emails (that make it through Verizon;s otherwise pretty brutal filters) that have the NAMES of people I have email and facebook contact with, but the EMAIL ADDRESS is -not- from them. these are typical one-line come-on messages like "hey! you need to look at this!" li

Molasses response

Machine Model:PowerMac7,3 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (2.2) Number Of CPUs: 2 CPU Speed:1.8 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 2 GB Bus Speed:900 MHz Boot ROM Version: 5.1.8f7 OSX 10.4.11 several USB and FW external drives hanging off it. I d

Re: Jury/jerry rigging.

I'm a long time fan of Evan Morris' WORD DETECTIVE columns... http://www.word-detective.com/about/ from which I extract the following: "Jerry rig / Jury rig Caught in the rigging. Dear Word Detective: I’m curious about the word “jerryrig,” as in to make do with materials on hand. I recentl

Re: can *anyone* advise on Flash PPC problem??

functions and relegated to it's work as an editing system. The intel is the home workhorse. John V. On Feb 9, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: JohnV wrote: Never having done it correctly, what;s the procedure for transitioning getting all email, passwords for websites an

Re: can *anyone* advise on Flash PPC problem??

How bad is this and are there symptoms of being invaded? Running a G5 dual under 10.4.11 for sound work, Am I right in that I think I need to lock this back to completely isolated use exclusively? I WOULD like to keep it connected to the LAN for access top and from other computers for file t

Re: Video flicker

OK, this will take some wrangling... a day or two to get at it. Swap the port connections at the back of the G5 observe, then Swap the cables where they go into each monitor observe will do On Jan 19, 2013, at 2:56 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 19/01/13 20:34, Kris Tilf

Re: Video flicker

flicker stays with the Westinghouse monitor On Jan 19, 2013, at 2:34 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jan 19, 2013, at 12:02 PM, JohnV wrote: Where should I be looking for if it's the machine, the card, a cable or the monitor? Switch the monitors to each other's video port and see if

Video flicker

G5 Dual 1.8G 10.4.11 GeForce FX 5200 2 monitors Westinghouse CMC17 1280x1024 DELL E207WFP 1680x1050 These 2 monitors played-nice for months, then the CMC-17 suddenly developed a flickering series of maybe 10 horizontal bands that slowly move down the screen. They are not apparent at all

PPC and Intel Lists (was :Mac Pro Testing Suggestions)

On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Charles Lenington wrote: On 1/10/13 08:09 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: Dear Listers, I would like our Group to start including Intel Macs. I think that many of us are using old G3s, 4s and 5s as well as Intel models. Why, (when) there is an intel group?

Re: That Thin Line

On Dec 30, 2012, at 9:33 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Dec 30, 2012, at 6:25 PM, Jim Scott wrote: You didn't say, but I'm guessing it's a 17" iMac. That particular form factor is notorious for LCD failure, which begins with one row of stuck pixels and progresses to the point where there a

Re: That Thin Line

sigh... it's a 17"... is the temp answer, with 2 screens running, to make the internal screen the secondary screen? On Dec 30, 2012, at 9:25 PM, Jim Scott wrote: On Dec 30, 2012, at 5:47 PM, JohnV wrote: Just started having a very thin purple vertical line, seemingly d

That Thin Line

iMac 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo 10.6.8 second monitor screen running Just started having a very thin purple vertical line, seemingly dead- center of the main screen... what portends? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 deskt

Re: In the Market for a G5, maybe ...

not hardly specific to teh G5 quads, but I think all these suffer from the dread Capacitor Plague form the period they were manufactured... while it's a singular cause (really bad quality power suppky capacitoers from a specific vendorfor severakl years) the SYMPTOMS, as some/all/none of th

Re: Folder access

ed to play pops up a LOST IT dialogue and the exclamation pops up. On Dec 21, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 20, 2012, at 2:02 PM, JohnV wrote: Following you as best I can here's what I got: Last login: Thu Dec 20 13:58:45 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin

Re: Folder access

: On Dec 20, 2012, at 12:11 PM, JohnV wrote: CORRECTION. Apologies I inadvertently opened the internal boot drive window, not the second internal drive, and it of course showed no red signs adn I was all-too-ready to see that. Second internal drive still shows same red-symbol nonsense.

Re: Folder access

CORRECTION. Apologies I inadvertently opened the internal boot drive window, not the second internal drive, and it of course showed no red signs adn I was all-too-ready to see that. Second internal drive still shows same red-symbol nonsense. 7 of the ten folders show red, 3 don't. JV -- Y

Re: Folder access

Just did teh Terminal thing, using your guide... sweatingly checking my typing 3 times at every step. System warned me of where I was fearing to tread, put in requested password and absolutely NOTHING seemed to happen. re-opened finder window on the second internal drive and ... voila! no sym

Re: Folder access

If any of this sounds contentious, by no means should it be taken so, just being terse and clear to help focus. On Dec 20, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: What is now on the internal 2T is all of the A partition but a bunch of the folders have a red " - " symbol on them. what is t

Folder access

replaced a second internal 300G HD in a G5 (dual 1.8 10.4.11) with a Seagate 7200 2T drive as part of reorganising a mess of scattered externals. One being a 3Tb seagate external, partitioned as 3 1T drives, that is geting odd with partition A not showing up on all finder windows. USed

Monitor traveling band flicker

G5 1.8 dual running 10.4.11. 2 monitors DELL wide and a Westinghouse 1.33 It's all ben real stable but today I see that teh square Westinghouse monitor has very slight repeating lighter and darker horizontal 1' bands that slowly drift from top to bottom with a little bit of a flicker to the

Re: screen saver photos

On Sep 26, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Dan wrote: At 2:39 PM -0400 09/25/2012, JohnV wrote: G5 1.8 dual running 10.4.11 on 2 monitors I have a folder of pictures that cycle through the screensaver slideshow thing. Why do some of them still show up sideways (which is indeed the way they were shot

Ipod/phones and apps confusion

I have 2 original IpodTouch devices, one Iphone4 a G5 dual 1.8 GHz running 10.4.11 this machine has the hard rives from my original dual 2.7 G5 that crashed severely and is waiting resurrection. It was a problematic transition and I'm surprised it's working as well as it is, but it seems st

Re: screen saver photos

Thanks for the suggestion, but I chose a different folder. left SYST PREFS and then went back in and reset to teh one I want no difference, On Sep 26, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Dan wrote: At 2:39 PM -0400 09/25/2012, JohnV wrote: G5 1.8 dual running 10.4.11 on 2 monitors I have a folder of

Re: screen saver photos

so trying a rotate and save in PREVIEw might work ? On Sep 25, 2012, at 5:30 PM, John Laughlin wrote: Could also be that GraphicConverter isn't saving the EXIF data properly. I've run into this issue before, especially if my digicam is set to autorotate. -J -- You received this message beca

Re: screen saver photos

e and see if it still displays un-rotated. On Sep 25, 2012, at 11:39 AM, JohnV wrote: I have a folder of pictures that cycle through the screensaver slideshow thing. Why do some of them still show up sideways -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for tho

screen saver photos

I have a folder of pictures that cycle through the screensaver slideshow thing. Why do some of them still show up sideways (which is indeed the way they were shot)? Yes, I've gone through and rotated those of them rightside-up, and indeed those DO show up correctly-oriented when viewed in

G5 monitor extensions

I want to have the G5 moved a ways away from where I want to have the 2 monitors for work. Am I looking at DVI-D dual link cables for this? What is the limit for length? I can see wanting to run these around the corner involving 25' or more if that's workable. John V -- You received this m

Re: Selling software?

This is a thornier issue than it would first appear. Absent DRM, the right of first sale is impossible to enforce equitably. Applied to a book or physical recording (record, tape, CD, etc) this line is clear...if you sell the thing, you no longer have the thing. Selling the thing while re

Re: Security

it. John Vengrouskie On Aug 16, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Aug 16, 2012, at 8:19 AM, JohnV wrote: iMac intel In playing with security/firewall settings while reading aricles on Mac vulnerabilities, I changed a setting and now, when I fire up the iMac (10.6.8

Security

iMac intel In playing with security/firewall settings while reading aricles on Mac vulnerabilities, I changed a setting and now, when I fire up the iMac (10.6.8) , after logging in, I get a stacked set of identical windows, each asking if I want to ALLOW or DENY a named application to hav

Re: Music stream capture app?

My only take on AUDACITY is that, while it seems (both on looking and its reputation) to be very functional, I found it completely at odds with my idea of something even remotely intuitive or ergonomically sensible. I couldn;t mange to get ANYTHING done easily, or instinctively. On Aug

Re: Music stream capture app?

(legalities aside...) Soundflower? On Aug 6, 2012, at 2:24 AM, Tom wrote: Our local classical music station now streams music over the web. Is there any way I can capture this pretty music to disk, to listen to later? (I have a G5 running 10.5.8.) -- You received this message because

Re: Eudora replacement

On Jul 23, 2012, at 8:42 AM, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote: Contrary to popular belief - not everyone has or even wants facebook. I concurr, but FB is a good tools to get figures. In this case we are trying to see if the number of potential users is worth the effort of improving MailForge or

Re: What's going on? I just got 967 emails from the group today.

not so, here. maybe 15 msgs today On Jul 20, 2012, at 10:36 PM, smac0031 wrote: The title says everything. My inbox is an incoherent mess, Mark Murphy -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particu

Re: OT - How do you get a TextEdit file with half inch margins? - iText

just tried to downlad this and SAFARI crashed... ? On Jul 10, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 10-07-2012 4:10, Jonas Lopez ha scritto: How do you get a TextEdit file with half inch margins? I have tried everything and did get a 1 inch margin, but no half inch, can you h

Re: G5 STUTTERED VIDEO

On May 17, 2012, at 1:04 PM, David W. Morris wrote: On May 17, 2012, at 6:44 AM, JohnV wrote: Where should I look for solving the unwatchable jerky video on this G5? DVD"s work fine but anything coming in from youtube is a stuttering jerky mess. Try switching from Flash versio

Re: G5 STUTTERED VIDEO

On May 17, 2012, at 4:32 PM, Douglas Mencken wrote: anything coming in from youtube is a stuttering jerky mess Indeed it is. Unless you switched to HTML5 mode. This has me buffaloed. was running SAFARI 4.1.3 went and got tenfourfox and swapped in the modified plugin. (but isnt that still F

G5 STUTTERED VIDEO

Where should I look for solving the unwatchable jerky video on this G5? DVD"s work fine but anything coming in from youtube is a stuttering jerky mess. Hardware Overview: Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Machine Model:PowerMac7,3 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (2.2) Number Of CPUs:

Re: NOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

On May 16, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: I run into weird formats all the time Yes, but generally you run into the *same* weird formats; i.o.w, relatively few new formats of significant import are being established, let alone actual codecs. MS's whacked WMV format (and do

Re: Installation laptop setup

playing, but no sound comes out and no meters on the screen are bouncing. Stopping and restarting it doesn;t fix it. what DOES fix it is to click on the green REGION marker bar at the top of the screen and then sound comes back. On May 10, 2012, at 7:27 PM, JohnV wrote: Thanks a bunch

Re: Installation laptop setup

Thanks a bunch Bruce. Exactly what i'd hoped was possible. JV On May 10, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On May 10, 2012, at 2:43 PM, JohnV wrote: Should I be thinking about things like ENERGY settings or other system prefs that either might interfere with LOGIC and cause it

Installation laptop setup

On the topic of this sound installation in a sculpture exhibition, Thanks for teh suggestion to do the 4-chanel subwoofer feed derivation in LOGIC, with an aggregate-device 5 channel output, which I accomplished. the amp rig, using the gear I jhave on hand (larger stuff) was still way more

Re: HD remounts and Ipod Touch issues

while another one did Now BOTH are working fine... maybe one was so far discharged it wouldn;t function until it got restored to some level? On 4/26/12 12:50 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 25, 2012, at 6:33 PM, JohnV wrote: When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after

Re: HD remounts

On Apr 25, 2012, at 8:07 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 25, 2012, at 4:33 PM, JohnV wrote: When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going to sleep) how does one get it to re-mount? John V There may be utilities to do this, but you can fire up Disk Utility, select it

HD remounts

When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going to sleep) how does one get it to re-mount? John V -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at h

Re: G5 and lack of ipod connection

On Apr 25, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 25, 2012, at 2:56 PM, JohnV wrote: I know... they've been running hard drives just fine! hence my confusion here! When you plug the iPod in does it show in System Profiler>USB? nope... looked! -- You received this message

Re: G5 and lack of ipod connection

On Apr 25, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 25, 2012, at 2:51 PM, JohnV wrote: Interestingly it SEES and CHARGES onthe iMac but neither on the G5... Well that means the cable and iPod are probably OK. Better check those USB ports on the G5. I know... they've been running

Re: G5 and lack of ipod connection

On Apr 25, 2012, at 3:44 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 25, 2012, at 9:08 AM, JohnV wrote: For some reason this G5 won't see (my iPod Touch). Wrong version of iTunes perhaps? or charge my iPod Touch... thoughts? Bad cable? Bad USB ports? Bad iPod Touch? Should always "ch

Re: G5 and lack of ipod connection

ight know a way around it to get it to work??? -Original Message- From: JohnV Sent: Apr 25, 2012 10:08 AM To: G-Group Subject: G5 and lack of ipod connection For some reason this G5 won't see or charge my iPod touch... thoughts? Hardware Overview: Machine Name: Power

Re: G5 and lack of ipod connection

wrote: I'm pretty sure the new iPods won't work on PPC'c, only Intel??? I can't get my brand new Ipod to work on my G4 TiBook but it works on my MacBook... Maybe someone on here might know a way around it to get it to work??? -Original Message- From: JohnV

G5 and lack of ipod connection

For some reason this G5 won't see or charge my iPod touch... thoughts? Hardware Overview: Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Machine Model:PowerMac7,3 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (2.2) Number Of CPUs: 2 CPU Speed:1.8 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 2 GB Bu

Re: News: half a million Macs now infected with malware?

On Apr 5, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Tom wrote: According to this news story on the Drudge website tinyurl.com/ 6wgysep>, half a million Apple computers are infected with malware, a trojan disguised as a flash update, that allows other people to hijack the computer. They don't say what OS is involved, o

Re: File Handling

On Mar 19, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 19, 2012, at 2:56 PM, JohnV wrote: Where are the settings (if they;re even in one comprehensive place...) for how file saving and such is handled? Is it global or aplication-specific? This is typically managed by the application

File Handling

Where are the settings (if they;re even in one comprehensive place...) for how file saving and such is handled? Is it global or aplication-specific? Example: I open a program, call up a document or image to work on that is stored in a specific folder where it belongs. I change it some and w

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

On Mar 19, 2012, at 5:29 PM, Dan wrote: this worked great... or seems to be in the process of doing so. Inside the SPOTLIGHT preferences I 'prevented' all the attached and internal drives, then undid that. It is now indexing, the SPOTLIGHT icon is active, and when I click on that icon it i

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote It sounds as though your spotlight indexes are corrupt. Here's a good site for fixing problems like that: this worked great... or seems to be in the process of doing so. Inside the SPOTLIG

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: It sounds as though your spotlight indexes are corrupt. Turning off Spotlight can be done, but then it disables the Finder's Find command as well. I wouldn;t think I'd WANT to disable SPOTLIGHT if it can work right. As Dan mentioned, the

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Paul Cefola wrote: Does such constant HD activity happen with external HD's attached to Windows laptops? no idea. However this machine -IS- usually networked with the iMAC (I. 83GHz INtel Core Duo 10.6.8) and both have several HD's attached. If it is yo

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

On Mar 18, 2012, at 12:45 PM, gifutiger wrote: John, If it is your "Spotlight" then click on the "Spy Glass" in the upper right corner and you should see a message that "Spotlight" is indexing your system. If you have more than one drive then the message will say which drive is being ind

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

mdimport seems to be the one... thanks. On Mar 18, 2012, at 12:03 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 17, 2012, at 8:16 PM, JohnV wrote: When I have the system on, why would the HD be constantly quietly chattering away to itself? It'll pause and be quiet for 10 sec or so and then sta

G5 Constant HD activity

When I have the system on, why would the HD be constantly quietly chattering away to itself? It'll pause and be quiet for 10 sec or so and then start up again. G5 Dual 1.8 GHz 2GB SDRAM 10.4.11 RUNNING APPS: MAIL CALENDAR TEXT EDIT APPLEWORKS 6 ITUNES 8.2.1 -- You received this message be

Re: Where's Waldo?

On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:30 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 29-02-2012 4:20, JohnV ha scritto: ah, sorry... forgot... getting GC -ONTO- the dock is what I'm trying to accomplish! When you open GC (or any app), its icon APPEARS in the dock. At this point, you can right-clic

Re: Where's Waldo?

On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:30 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 29-02-2012 4:20, JohnV ha scritto: ah, sorry... forgot... getting GC -ONTO- the dock is what I'm trying to accomplish! When you open GC (or any app), its icon APPEARS in the dock. At this point, you can right-clic

Re: Where's Waldo?

On Feb 28, 2012, at 9:28 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 28, 2012, at 8:12 PM, JohnV wrote: What's my next move? Go to the open GraphicConverter icon in the Dock and right-click (Ctl-click) on the icon and when the contextual window opens click "Show in Finder".

Where's Waldo?

This will likely be a real ignorant question but... I can start up a program (GRAPHIC CONVERTER) by clicking on a jpg or other picture file. this is all nice and such but I have NO idea -where- GC is residing on the drive... It doesn;t seem to be in the APPLICATIONS folder and a SEARCH do

Re: G5 1.8 dual as server?

On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Douglas Mencken wrote: It's slower than I need for real work Don't you miss your internet bandwidth with the capabilities of a server machine's hardware? Not following you here (surely due to my ignorance!) help? JV -- You received this message because you

Re: G5 1.8 dual as server?

As some may note, I've been haphazard at this, and this server is about the first chance I've had here to Ask First. I have mess of desktop HD's (and a 4-drive NAS that I found to be useless with the macs) with a mess of duplicates of duplicates of random attempts at 'backing things up" ,

G5 1.8 dual as server?

It's slower than I need for real work, but can it be a main server for a string of hard drives to archive to? Machine Name: Power Mac G5 Machine Model:PowerMac7,3 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (2.2) Number Of CPUs: 2 CPU Speed:1.8 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Mem

Re: G5 service

horized repair place? On 2/16/12 1:19 PM, JohnV wrote: I'm about to dive in and replace the power supply in a G5. Caveats? suggestions? warnings? JV -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a parti

G5 service

I'm about to dive in and replace the power supply in a G5. Caveats? suggestions? warnings? JV -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com

Re: G5 issues

On Feb 6, 2012, at 9:54 AM, Jeff Bequette wrote: Sorry to hear about the (forced) downgrade, but having the mentioned underpowered video card in my 1.8 DP, I was curious, when swapping the video card, did you reset your pram also? (cuda button)

Re: G5 issues

d the loaner 1.8 run 10.4.11 On Feb 5, 2012, at 6:43 PM, Dan wrote: At 1:54 PM -0500 2/5/2012, JohnV wrote: When a wonderful 2.0GHz G5 (8G mem) failed. I moved the drives into a 1.8GHz G5 (2G mem) Did you clear and rebuild the kernel and system caches after you moved the drives? a

Re: G5 issues

The video-card swap was a no-go. Don;t know why, but the machine would not boot past Blue Screens. Put original card back and it's fine. On Feb 5, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: Other question is can I swap the power supplies, even short term, to see if that is the real propblem with

Re: G5 issues

On Feb 5, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 5, 2012, at 1:25 PM, JohnV wrote: SORRY... IS AS FOLLOWS The FX5200 is a minimal 64MB video card, while the Radeon is at least 128MB, perhaps 256MB, and a little faster also. Swap in the Radeon video card. and since they both use

Re: G5 issues

On Feb 5, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: You need to max out both the RAM and the video card on the new one. Hopefully you can move the RAM & video card from the dead 2.0 over to the 1.8 without issues. If the 1.8 is a single, you may be able to upgrade to a dual CPU, but that migh

G5 issues

When a wonderful 2.0GHz G5 (8G mem) failed. I moved the drives into a 1.8GHz G5 (2G mem) and am really surprised at what seems to be its lack of performance... just doing youtube stuff, even without enlarging the playback, it stutters every 3sec or so on playback. Making it larger makes i

Re: new to the MAC universe.

Weren;t the liquid-cooled G5 quads double dual-core? On Feb 3, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 3, 2012, at 7:40 AM, fickit1time wrote: That was weird, i posted a reply yesterday and it never got posted. anyhow here goes: The last part of my serial is MMA and according to that

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