Re: OT; Apple in negotiation with AMD ?

2010-04-17 Thread Kasey Smith
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:23:42 -0500, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com wrote: Apple going to AMD? That is a very close possibility that could happen in the next 5 years, but i won't like that at all. I liked it when Apple Macs still were made with the good ol' PowerPC processor. If

Re: How do i connect a network printer?

2010-04-17 Thread Kasey Smith
Well, if your print 'server' (the comp with the printer is plugged into) is a Mac then just go into th eprinter prefs on the other Mac and hit add printer. It should show up in the list. On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:58:48 -0500, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com wrote: I already have setup

Re: OT; Apple in negotiation with AMD ?

2010-04-17 Thread Kasey Smith
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:06:44 -0500, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 3:45 PM -0400 4/17/2010, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: I was just curious on how this is possible. Mac == a PC standard mb + EFI + a specific selection of processors, buses, and peripherals. To slap Mac OS X on a PC, you

Re: How do I get Safari to display in wide screen?

2010-04-16 Thread Kasey Smith
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:30:03 -0500, ll mlitwin3...@att.net wrote: I just replaced the 19 inch lcd monitor I used for my windows with a 25 incher. I switched the 19 inch monitor to my Quicksilver 933 with Leopard. Safari won't display in a full screen for me but I'm sure the fix must be

Re: labs and wireless mice

2010-04-16 Thread Kasey Smith
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:35:50 -0500, Charles Lenington macso...@brightok.net wrote: Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 16, 2010, at 6:37 AM, flags wrote: New 20-30 iMac lab w/ wireless mice. Problem: Imac 1's mouse controls iMac 7, etc. is there a quick/simple fix? Sounds like someone moved all

Re: G5 Disk restore

2010-04-16 Thread Kasey Smith
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:53:30 -0500, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Apr 14, 2010, at 2:54 PM, John Carmonne wrote: I obtained another Leopard install disk and reinstalled the sysem on the G4 and G5 PPC and the Disk Utility is not workig with the restore function. The original one

Re: OT; Apple in negotiation with AMD ?

2010-04-16 Thread Kasey Smith
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:39:43 -0500, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: Some here will not like this. Some will dismiss it. Just as Intel rumors were often dismissed. http://blogs.zdnet.com/computers/?p=2162tag=nl.e589 Oh i would love Apple to go to AMD. Really it isn't

Re: Tempermental PowerMac G3

2010-04-13 Thread Kasey Smith
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:05:06 -0500, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com wrote: Why are you using a 40GB HDD when the limit is 32GB? is this PM G3 BW or beige? I have a beige PM G3 and it works ok with a 30GB HDD, and i installed tiger on it though a PM G4, and i plugged in the HDD. The bong

Re: OT: Wifi antenna - help please!

2010-04-13 Thread Kasey Smith
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:19:07 -0500, Jonas Ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get a wireless connection to go about a mile. There will be no trees or anything in the way, I will have the antennas up high enough. I know nothing about this really, so any advice would be

Re: BW G3 Rev 1: Main HD in Zip slot?

2010-04-12 Thread Kasey Smith
On Apr 11, 9:44 am, Ruffin rufw...@gmail.com wrote: ... but having that slave hard drive in the zip slot being my boot drive? Let's go ahead and assume I don't care about hard drive speed at all. Anything wrong (or better?) with putting the HD on master and moving the optical drive to slave?

Tempermental PowerMac G3

2010-04-11 Thread Kasey Smith
My PowerMac here is going crazy. First thing that happened was i couldn't boot into OS9, so i tried booting the OS9 CD i have (that i installed with) and it wouldn't boot. Then it started being really unstable in OSX (kernelpanics, but i couldn't find a kext in the crash log) so I tried

Re: Tempermental PowerMac G3

2010-04-11 Thread Kasey Smith
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:47:16 -0500, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: How old is your PRAM battery? Brand new -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3,

Re: Tempermental PowerMac G3

2010-04-11 Thread Kasey Smith
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:13:30 -0500, JOHN CARMONNE carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Apr 11, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Kasey Smith wrote: Can you boot the machine with TDM or an external drive? Nope, the BW G3s cant do TDM. If not I would disconnect every cable and remove the PRAM battery along

Re: Tempermental PowerMac G3

2010-04-11 Thread Kasey Smith
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:40:32 -0500, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: Did someone ask if you can boot from the OS 9 CD? No, i said that i couldn't. The machine booted from the CD before and my two iMacs and the G3 AIO can boot from it. I'll have to mess with this more

Re: Ext 500 Gb USB Drive Issues on 450 MHz G4

2010-04-10 Thread Kasey Smith
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:12:31 -0500, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: BUT as you pointed out, a USB XHD will not start up. NOW, is there any USB XHD that does NOT have their own power supply and so can start up? These external USB HDs

Re: what internet browser to use.

2010-03-08 Thread Kasey Smith
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:02:23 -0700, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Mar 8, 2010, at 3:07 AM, James D. Pritchett wrote: I just got a G3 imac 333Mhz. 288Mb loaded with software for $5.00. Run's great but no software to get on the web, up's my best op. You're going to have a poor

Re: iMac G5 Capacitor Replacement?

2010-03-07 Thread Kasey Smith
BadCaps.net seems to be good, they carry a kit for the iMac G5. Unfortunately they dont carry one for the eMac . On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:38:26 -0600, Jonas Ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I got another 20 iMac G5. This one is the powermac 8,1 model running at 1.8GHZ. After

Re: Need help with setting up G4 for internet

2010-03-05 Thread Kasey Smith
Our Internet here in rural Idaho is symmetrical. Its our local ISP's wireless service, the DSL here is asymmetrical though, but that doesn't matter as we cant get DSL at our house, but people no more than a quarter of a mile away can. On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:22:11 -0600, Dan

Re: Need help with setting up G4 for internet

2010-03-05 Thread Kasey Smith
Well, im glad i dont have DSL anyway, my download is only half as fast as DSL (it has 768, i have 512k) but my upload is twice as fast (256k vs 512k) so I'm happy :D On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:12:33 -0600, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Mar 5, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Kasey Smith wrote: we

Re: Need help with setting up G4 for internet

2010-03-05 Thread Kasey Smith
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:54:18 -0600, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 7:12 PM -0600 3/5/2010, Kris Tilford wrote: On Mar 5, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Kasey Smith wrote: we can't get DSL at our house, but people no more than a quarter of a mile away can. The phone companies can tell you

Re: iMovie 6

2010-03-03 Thread Kasey Smith
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:16 AM, icanswing icansw...@aol.com wrote: Can you run all three versions of ilife on your computer as separate programs or does the newer version upgrade the older version? I'm wondering because iweb 6 can be used for ebay listings but ilife 9 has style sheets and

Re: Need help with setting up G4 for internet

2010-03-03 Thread Kasey Smith
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: The VAST MAJORITY of broadband access in this country is about 7 MB/s. In most of the country Broadband tops out at 12 mbps. The fastest I can get here at my house in rural Idaho is 4mb, currently we have 512kb

Re: Wireless network?

2010-03-03 Thread Kasey Smith
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: You'll need a wifi router, or connect the ethernet port of one of the desktops to the internet, and share the internet via that computers wifi. Apple's Airport Extreme Base Station is really nice and allows

Re: I've never seen this before??

2010-03-01 Thread Kasey Smith
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote: The only ones I'm familiar with have a big clunky white brick. This one in the picture appears to be completely different? Jeff Its the official Apple one, thats why it has the clear cables and rounded plug shrouds. --

Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-28 Thread Kasey Smith
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:45 PM, PETER WARNER pe...@petermwarner.com wrote: Austin Leeds Well, I suppose this would be an article better addressed to one of the LEM groups for older Macs. Thanks for your input, FFF And you tried to Hijack a thread ;) ??? He was the OP... Oh, whoops!

Re: How will my computer run?

2010-02-28 Thread Kasey Smith
People get a kick out of what my PowerMac G3 400MHz can do (867MB RAM) On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Ricardo Sevilla ae86dr...@gmail.com wrote: I love getting a kick out of that as well. Nobody believes me when I show them all that my G4 can do. On Feb 27, 2010, at 10:30 AM, The M wrote:

Re: OS 9 boot CD

2010-02-28 Thread Kasey Smith
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Ray rfy...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello. I have a G4 MDD 1.25 with FW400 and I have been looking for a long time for the original OS 9 CD that came with this computer. I have tried many different OS 9 versions but for this G4, it has to have the exact CD's that

Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-26 Thread Kasey Smith
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Austin Leeds firepowerforfree...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I suppose this would be an article better addressed to one of the LEM groups for older Macs. Thanks for your input, FFF And you tried to Hijack a thread ;) -- You received this message because you are

Re: Connector identification assistance needed

2010-02-25 Thread Kasey Smith
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Jonas Lopez jonaslo...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Caleb S. Cupples calebcupplessocial...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Connector identification assistance needed To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 5:45 AM On 24 February 2010, Jonas Lopez

Re: Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

2010-02-25 Thread Kasey Smith
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Austin Leeds firepowerforfree...@gmail.com wrote:  So, my question is, are there any of you out there that use keyboards in the caliber of the Apple Extended Keyboard and the IBM Model M? How do you like them, and would they be worth carrying around (with a

Re: New to Group with a G3 450 MHz BW

2010-02-24 Thread Kasey Smith
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 10:07 AM -0800 2/24/2010, iChet wrote: I have a G3 BW Tower 450 MHz w/ 1GB RAM and SCSI HD Is this worth using ? I wanna set up a web surfer in another location from my other computers and maybe use monitoring ebay etc.

Re: New to Group with a G3 450 MHz BW

2010-02-24 Thread Kasey Smith
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Christopher Clarke chrisclarke1...@googlemail.com wrote: The Smurf, being a G3, is a bit slow for things like Flash and h.264 video, but otherwise it's a great machine! - Dan.  (on a 300-MHz Smurf). -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.

Re: When Macs go evil

2010-02-24 Thread Kasey Smith
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Da'Birdman sa...@defalcos.com wrote: ROFLMAO!  Don't forget the G3 iMacs that were always prominently perched on the desks in Drew Carey's office.  Those were hard to miss.  Also, the British spy series MI-5 features iMacs, too. Those were G4s lol, probably a

Re: DVI TO VGA MONITOR CONNECTIONS

2010-02-24 Thread Kasey Smith
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:03 PM, John Niven sense...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 2/24/10, stevo137 stevo...@hotmail.com wrote: Your choices are to find a Mac ADC video card (if your Mac was designed for one), or buy a non-Apple LCD with a DVI connector. Or you could buy one of those

Re: MDD problems - questions

2010-02-24 Thread Kasey Smith
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:05 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: If you swap it you'll lose OS9 boot capability. Did you try contact cleaner on the Ram slots? DeoxiT is a good one. Also just because the RAM works in another machine doesn't always mean it's totally good. Do you have

Re: Proof that Apple could not have dropped ADB support in Tiger and Leo

2010-02-22 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 21, 2010, at 11:36 PM, Mike Linnett wrote: Also, for what it's worth, my blue and white g3 running tiger works just fine with an apple extended keyboard (possibly 2) plugged into it's adb port. Same for me with both an ADB Keyboard II, ADB Mouse II and Apple Design Keyboard. --

Re: Hidden Remote Webcam activation is it in Firmware, HD, or PRAM?

2010-02-21 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 21, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Dan wrote: Bottom line: Whenever you get your paws on a used computer or HD, ERASE the HD! -- -- You don't know, and you don't need to care.

Re: Hard drive issues with a MDD 1.25

2010-02-21 Thread Kasey Smith
I've heard that the big thing in Leo is Spaces, and its something i wish Tiger had. On Feb 21, 2010, at 4:48 PM, Jake Zeppa wrote: Thanks for the idea. I gave it a try but no luck. I'm also getting a Keys Out Of Order warning now from Disk utility. I also gave the FSCK command trick a

Proof that Apple could not have dropped ADB support in Tiger and Leo

2010-02-21 Thread Kasey Smith
It would be hard for Apple to have dropped ADB because, according to this wikipedia article, the PowerBooks and iBooks up to 2005 (when Tiger was released) used ADB for the keyboard and trackpad. I just posted this because i had read somewhere on a page about the Grififn iMate that Apple

Re: Proof that Apple could not have dropped ADB support in Tiger and Leo

2010-02-21 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 21, 2010, at 7:38 PM, Bob Whiton wrote: At 6:54 PM -0700 2/21/10, Kasey Smith wrote: It would be hard for Apple to have dropped ADB because, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_desktop_busthis wikipedia article, the PowerBooks and iBooks up to 2005 (when Tiger

Re: Hidden Remote Webcam activation is it in Firmware, HD, or PRAM?

2010-02-21 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 21, 2010, at 10:49 PM, Bill Christensen wrote: At 5:01 PM -0500 2/21/10, Samuel Macomber wrote: with a sledgehammer.Actually I usually take the drive apart, those magnets work great on the fridge. Than smash the remains. Found laptop drive are the best for protecting your

Re: Proof that Apple could not have dropped ADB support in Tiger and Leo

2010-02-21 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 21, 2010, at 10:08 PM, Clark Martin wrote: On 2/21/10 7:18 PM, Kasey Smith wrote: On Feb 21, 2010, at 7:38 PM, Bob Whiton wrote: It didn't have an external ADB plug, it was purely to run the *internal* keyboard and trackpad. My G4 iBook running Leopard shows no USB devices

Re: Apple 23 Cinema Display questions

2010-02-20 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 20, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: I have an Dell IN1910N 19 monitor, and it runs fine on a GeForce 6600. It even runs ok on an ATI RAGE128 PRO. Trust me, it is probably the best you can get when it comes to bang for the buck, quality, and size. In my opinion, the

Re: ibook G3 help

2010-02-20 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 20, 2010, at 1:01 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: I have the same exact laptop as you do, and I know what to do. Are you sure it is an apple supported hard drive? Most power macs don't just take any hard drive to run on. It has to be a specific hard drive that is compatible specifically

Re: Remote webcam activation prevention or not if stolen?

2010-02-20 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 20, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Jonas Lopez wrote: I suspect unplug the cam will fix the pix and sound problem, unless your actually using it - then who is watching - will Little Snitch be your friend? Erm, the webcams cable is inside the macbook? I think i piece of tape fixes this ;) --

Re: Seeking editors or contributors for PPC Applications Web Site

2010-02-20 Thread Kasey Smith
Cool site, except for the McAfee antivirus ad. However, this email was what i would consider spam and its also got bad grammar... -- 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

Re: Apple 23 Cinema Display questions

2010-02-20 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 20, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: you are right about the expose thing, casey smith. expose isn't really smooth on my monitor either, unless i get a video card upgrade. Grr, people always spell my name wrong! D: -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: Question: What Are They?

2010-02-19 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:24 PM, Charles Lenington wrote: Kasey Smith wrote: On Jan 31, 2010, at 9:43 PM, Dana Collins wrote: more than likely, your cables were issued with an older PC right at the transition period into USB. Or the device itself, and PC still hasn't made it out of PS/2

Re: Digital Audio upgrades

2010-02-19 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 19, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Austin Leeds wrote: Quad G4 (is it possible to take the two G4s off the other Mac and stack them into the Leopard candidate?) Even if it were possible, Leo still wouldn't run. Only thing i can think of to get a quad G4 is to get three of those dual-CPU

Re: ibook G3 help

2010-02-19 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 19, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Richard Gerome wrote: Did you install any other OS like Jaguar, Panther or Tiger??? What you need to do is hold down the C key before you boot it up and make sure the disc is cleaned off too with no scratches, then try doing the install... I have 3

Re: running OS 9.2 from a folder vs a partition.

2010-02-19 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:26 PM, deadwinter wrote: Oh, I used a Quadra in school. I haven't forgotten (or forgiven) System 7. Anyway, the point (if there is one) of this G3 exercise of mine is to squeeze performance out of this poor thing. I want to establish if the way it's setup now would

Re: Translate an Appleworks file .cwk to iWork on an iMac

2010-02-18 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 17, 2010, at 11:31 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: Excel will also do databases besides spreadsheets. So I was hoping that the same would be true with iWork. I didn't know that, thats what i thought Access was for :\ -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group,

Re: Dark Grey Screen???

2010-02-18 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:31 AM, Richard Gerome wrote: This is a first for me??? When I booted up my computer this morning the whole screen turned a dark grey with a view of my desktop in the back ground and a white window with black letters (everything went black and white) came up

Re: G4 Power Mac OSX10.3 / classic with OS9.2.1

2010-02-18 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Liam Proven wrote: [3] Tiger: I would recommend this strongly. It is a little bigger and slower than Panther, but some of the new facilities, such as Exposé and Dashboard are rather good. Actually, these days, 10.4 is pretty Just some info, but Panther has

Re: G4 Power Mac OSX10.3 / classic with OS9.2.1

2010-02-18 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 18, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Liam Proven wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Liam Proven wrote: [3] Tiger: I would recommend this strongly. It is a little bigger and slower than Panther, but some of the new

Re: PowerMac G5 PMU weirdness

2010-02-17 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Eric Volker wrote: the G5 would get to the spinning wheel (is there an official name for that?) Sorry i can't help with the real issue, but that is called the throbber. (Who knows why?) -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a

Re: DL DVD burning

2010-02-17 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Feb 17, 2010, at 10:02 PM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: You got nothin' to lose:-) Except maybe rendering it useless? or am I thinking too much? I'm now trying to copy the 2 exe files from a CD to my Compaq's harddrive ... lol why

Re: iMac G5 iSight, freezes, kernal Panics, mouse/keyboard goes dead at times

2010-02-16 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 15, 2010, at 11:35 PM, Mullin9 wrote: What causes my iMac G5 iSight to freezes, have kernal Panics, and have my mouse/keyboard goes dead at times? I ve tried resetting PRAM, reinstalling Mac OS 10.4.2, updating to 10.4.11, I still have these problems. I'm assuming wired keyboard and

Re: [G3-5]Re: Beige Desktop Ram Question

2010-02-15 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 15, 2010, at 3:38 AM, MaGioZal wrote: On 2/9/10 7:38 PM, Kris Tilford at ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: Also, in my mind there isn't really room for an ATA card in a Beige. With only three PCI slots, you need one for the Radeon video card, one for a USB card, and one for a Firewire card.

Re: [G3-5]Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-02-15 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 14, 2010, at 9:53 PM, MaGioZal wrote: On 1/23/10 10:41 AM, Mac User #330250 at macuser330...@gmx.net wrote: My experience is different, since all the Macs I have make a lot of noise. The most silent Power Mac I own is the G5 Late 2005 which has liquid cooling (even though it is

Re: [G3-5]Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-02-15 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 14, 2010, at 10:38 PM, MaGioZal wrote: On 1/24/10 1:55 PM, Dan at dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Not crazy about the iMac G4 design (too many with limp necks). But I really like the rest of the iMac designs over the years. Very cool. sigh. Now if only they were easier to repair. Good

Re: printing problem

2010-02-15 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 15, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 15, 2010, at 5:02 AM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote: the cable was in, but not all the way now it works again - big thanks for pointing me to the obvious When stuff I have stops working, I look for my cats. They know exactly what they

Re: [G3-5]Re: Beige Desktop Ram Question

2010-02-15 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 15, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 15, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Kasey Smith wrote: Yeah, I have a USB2 card here in my PowerMac thats all black and has an NEC chipset. Works fine in OS9 on the BW but not on the Molar Mac (beige G3). Yes, and I now remember WHY

Re: Mac Mini G4 with double hard drive a possible solution?

2010-02-13 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 13, 2010, at 2:09 AM, Nicholas Fantuzzi wrote: The chinese seller guaranteed me that this item perfectly works with a C2D Mac Mini 1.83GHz..so I think that the problem is of the G4 system. Now I'm waiting for other adapter that he's going to ship to me. Doesn't the C2D Mini

Re: Slightly OT: Overheating Iomega Minimax

2010-02-13 Thread Kasey Smith
I wouldn't trust it with valuable data. With the enclosure you can put about anything it if its PATA/SATA (whatever the thing has.) You could even put a card reader in it :D On Feb 13, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Eric Volker wrote: For years I used an Iomega Minimax 500GB with my Mac mini. It

Re: Mac Mini G4 with double hard drive a possible solution?

2010-02-12 Thread Kasey Smith
We are talking laptop-style hard drives, not desktop ones. Also, i don't think a PCI card will work in a mini ;) On Feb 12, 2010, at 11:08 AM, carmo...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 2/12/10 9:54:03 AM, pdim...@btinternet.com writes: On 12/2/10 15:54, Nicholas Fantuzzi

Re: Need info

2010-02-12 Thread Kasey Smith
the new versions of Skype will not work on a G3 processor, they wont even launch because they depend on the AltiVec in the G4 CPU. On Feb 12, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Wm. Arnold wrote: Do any of you on this list use or tried Skype ? Will it work between Windoz Mac ? Thanks -- You received this

Re: RAM Upgrade for Quicksilver

2010-02-12 Thread Kasey Smith
Yeah, the M is for Micron. They are actually based here in Idaho :D (i get excited because Idaho is never mentioned.. anywhere) On Feb 12, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Albert Carter wrote: All, I have a Quicksilver it was originally a 733 Mhz one but when I bought it someone had upgraded it to 933Mhz.

Re: SeaMonkey 2.02

2010-02-11 Thread Kasey Smith
I like Opera over here for my windows and linux boxes. I use Safari on my mac because its fast on 400MHz. On Feb 11, 2010, at 12:26 AM, Michael G.M. wrote: Been using SeaMonkey since 1.x (A couple years probably) as my main Mac browser and e-mail client. Yes, I have upgraded to 2.02 and it's

Re: 2 macs-1 monitor?

2010-02-11 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 11, 2010, at 2:49 PM, McGrude wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote: Just a question here... and I believe that I'm right in saying that this will not work, but here goes my monitor has VGA DVI connections, can these be used to hook up

Re: SeaMonkey 2.02

2010-02-11 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 11, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 11, 2010, at 9:10 AM, Michael G.M. wrote: Composer, I don't use half as much as I'd like - Excellent tool! If you like it, check out KompoZer, which is based on the Mozilla Composer code, but extended considerably to a pretty

Re: 2 macs-1 monitor?

2010-02-11 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 11, 2010, at 3:50 PM, McGrude wrote: I wonder if this is possible on a monitor without an input button... My 21 LCD has both inputs but no visible way to swap them, unless its automatic. Unfortunately i dont have a computer with DVI to test my theory... Probably not. Is there an

Re: 2 macs-1 monitor?

2010-02-11 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 11, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 11, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Just a question here... and I believe that I'm right in saying that this will not work, but here goes my monitor has VGA DVI connections, can these be used to hook up 2 macs? and

Re: [G3-5]Re: Removing Open Superdrive from top menu

2010-02-11 Thread Kasey Smith
Navigate to SystemLibraryCoreServicesMenu Extras and double click Eject.menu I'm on tiger myself too! On Feb 11, 2010, at 5:27 PM, MaGioZal wrote: On 1/21/10 10:48 PM, Kris Tilford at ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: Hold the Command key and drag it off the menu bar. It goes poof and disappears.

Re: low density RAM?

2010-02-10 Thread Kasey Smith
Nope, its Dual Density. On Feb 10, 2010, at 6:37 AM, Geke wrote: The bottom line first: If a 512MB PC133 SDRAM RAM module for the G4 Digital Audio has chips on one side of the stick only, can it be low-density? Thanks in advance! Geke History of this case: My G4 DA had 3 RAM sticks: 128, 256,

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-10 Thread Kasey Smith
Nope, we will still use Safari, Opera, Camino... the list goes on. On Feb 10, 2010, at 12:39 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Mozilla announced they will drop tiger for future Firefox releases. So, will Tiger using folks be forced to move up to Leopard? -- Steve Conrad Henrietta, MO 64036 The

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-10 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:50 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Evan Thomas wrote: Very happy with Firefox 3.5.2. You should update to 3.5.7 for the bug and security fixes; or 3.6 which is the current GM version. I think 3.6 has one really nice new feature, that is new

RE: Beige Desktop Ram Question

2010-02-09 Thread Kasey Smith
-Original Message- From: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:g3-5-l...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gorka L Martinez Mezo Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:59 PM To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Beige Desktop Ram Question 768 MB total is the max, three 256 MB sticks of

Re: Transfering files

2010-02-08 Thread Kasey Smith
Firewire or use ethernet. For firewire, you need to boot the G4 into Target Disk Mode (hold T on boot.) The G3 might have TDM if its an iMac, all the other G3s (desktops, not sure about laptops) don't have it. For ethernet, you want to plug them into a router or whatever, turn file sharing

Re: SSD

2010-02-04 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 4, 2010, at 12:14 AM, Robert Towsley wrote: On Feb 3, 2010, at 11:29 PM, Kasey Smith wrote: *snip* Re read the specs. Mac Compatibility Power Mac G4 (all models except Cube and Mirrored Drive Doors) Power Mac G5 (with PCI or PCI-X slots) Mac OS® X Version 10.5, 10.4, or 10.3

Re: SSD

2010-02-04 Thread Kasey Smith
I bet you were thinking of the beige G3, Robert. I have one here thats the infamous all-in-one and its horrible on OSX, so i keep it running OS9. On Feb 4, 2010, at 12:30 AM, Clark Martin wrote: On 2/3/10 11:14 PM, Robert Towsley wrote: Probably because G3's do not natively support anything

Re: Adding a second monitor

2010-02-04 Thread Kasey Smith
Thats not entirely true, my Mac here with dual screens didn't slow down at all, and the second card actually ran faster than the one in the graphics-dedicated PCI slot (both cards are Rage 128 cards, the main one has a DVD decoder) On Feb 4, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb

Re: Plz help with printing over network.

2010-02-04 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 4, 2010, at 6:39 PM, Arnel Tuazon wrote: Hi folks, My setup: Computer 1: PPC G5 running Leopard with an Epson Stylus CX4450 printer. Computer 2: BW G4 running Tiger Airport Extreme Base Station: Brother Laser printer connected to it via USB Network: I was updated by my ISP

Re: SSD

2010-02-03 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: On Feb 1, 2010, at 3:24 AM, Ed Grey wrote: On Jan 31, 10:33 am, iJohn zjboyguard-ggro...@yahoo.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Ed Grey edwg...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any SSD's that plug into a PCI slot? That would be very

Re: SSD

2010-02-03 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:18 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: On Feb 3, 2010, at 11:09 PM, Kasey Smith wrote: On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: On Feb 1, 2010, at 3:24 AM, Ed Grey wrote: Here is the closest I could semi-quickly find. It is for 2.5 pata (not sata). There may be a sata

Re: Question: What Are They?

2010-01-31 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 31, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: 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

Re: Question: What Are They?

2010-01-31 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 31, 2010, at 9:43 PM, Dana Collins wrote: more than likely, your cables were issued with an older PC right at the transition period into USB. Or the device itself, and PC still hasn't made it out of PS/2... -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: G5 dually but only one processor shows up on sys prof

2010-01-28 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:28 AM, ah...clem wrote: hi listers, - i have a G5 dual 2.0 tower (build date 12/04), but system profiler says the computer has one processor, ie, one of them is dead. how do i find out which one is the good one and which one is the bad one? i don't have the AHT disk

Re: G5 dually but only one processor shows up on sys prof

2010-01-28 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 28, 2010, at 7:28 PM, ah...clem wrote: On Jan 28, 5:29 pm, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote: Repeat posing doesn't help you get any more replies. well, i don't assume that no reply means no one knows. maybe the some who knows missed my first post because he/she has a life. so i

Re: Re:

2010-01-28 Thread Kasey Smith
On Dec 29, 2009, at 4:03 PM, John Musbach wrote: This looks like spam, nannies -- Best Regards, John Musbach Yes, where are the nannies here? -- 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

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-28 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 24, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 24, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: Are there any free Mac games out there that will play nicely on my G3 BW? I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger if that matters. Glider Pro:

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-27 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 27, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: -- Original message -- Subject: Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs? Date:Samstag 23 Januar 2010N From:Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com On Jan 23, 2010, at 3:59 AM

Re: wireless connection issues

2010-01-27 Thread Kasey Smith
Go to http://192.168.0.1/ in your web browser and the settings will be there. If that address won't work, try http://192.168.1.1/ Also, turn off Distribute IPs on either the modem or the router, i suggest the router in this case. On Jan 27, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Da'Birdman wrote: I have ATT

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-26 Thread Kasey Smith
Rick On Jan 25, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Kasey Smith wrote: On Jan 25, 2010, at 2:05 PM, coolr...@comcast.net wrote: The only Mac I ever had that was cutting edge was a 512K that I bought new. I've always been behind the times but they're still powerful machines and get the job done. Heck yeah

Re: G4 dual 500 Panther to Leopard upgrade

2010-01-25 Thread Kasey Smith
to install to. I've done it before, it works fine. No need for XPostFacto or Open Firmware modifications. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote: You cant use the MacBook's installer, it is model locked. Also, you will need to do some trickery to get Leo to install

Re: New system, but can you save the old bookmarks and Cookies?

2010-01-25 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 25, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jan 25, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Kasey Smith wrote: Why not just do an upgrade install? Upgrade is what you do from a lower system version to a higher system version, for example you upgrade from any Jaguar version to any Panther version

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-25 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 25, 2010, at 2:05 PM, coolr...@comcast.net wrote: The only Mac I ever had that was cutting edge was a 512K that I bought new. I've always been behind the times but they're still powerful machines and get the job done. Heck yeah I'd like to have a new Mac but what can it do that I

Re: New system, but can you save the old bookmarks and Cookies?

2010-01-25 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 25, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: --- On Mon, 1/25/10, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: From: Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu Subject: New system, but can you save the old bookmarks and Cookies? To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, January

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-24 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Dan wrote: At 3:16 AM -0500 1/24/2010, Miguel Garcia Gell wrote: Every body talk about what's is inside of a PPC's family BUT!...What about OUTSIDE?...I'm a industrial designer and let me tell you... Apple's Power PC are the most beautiful, equilibrating and

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-24 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Dan wrote: At 3:16 AM -0500 1/24/2010, Miguel Garcia Gell wrote: Every body talk about what's is inside of a PPC's family BUT!...What about OUTSIDE?...I'm a industrial designer and let me tell you... Apple's Power PC are the most beautiful, equilibrating and

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