Re: UPnP/DLNA client

2013-12-23 Thread joe duran
figuring out the options! Joe -- -- 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/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http

USB problem

2013-05-03 Thread joe duran
Hi All, Have a G5 2.0ghz DP (A1047) running Leopard 10.5.8. Recently it developed a strange bug which I think must be hardware related. The mouse is plugged into the keyboard and the keyboard is plugged directly into one of the rear USB ports. When booting with the Option key held down to

Re: New Forums

2013-03-13 Thread joe duran
I won't be moving to the forums. I think Wordpress stinks. And I really enjoyed getting my info via email lists. Really sad about the change. Bye all. -- -- 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

Re: Leopard on an 800MHz eMac (ATI)? (... and stuff)

2011-03-26 Thread Joe Duran
had good experience with them in the past. The batteries arrived in a couple of days. joe -- 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/lists

Re: Power Supply

2011-02-10 Thread Joe Duran
As long as the specs are the same it's a non-issue. Just be sure that the new battery fits snugly in the holder. I just had the same experience with a new battery for my eMac. The new battery had a shorter + terminal than the old one. But it fit quite snugly so no worries! It's working

Re: how do i stop these emails?

2010-11-30 Thread joe duran
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FW: Half time event

2009-10-26 Thread Joe Dokes
Amazing performance! Subject: Fwd: Half time event Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:30:13 -0400 From: don1...@aol.com THIS IS AWESOME Video: A Physical Education teacher, Lynn Kelley who founded the Kings Firecrackers 13 years ago, said the video

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-10-09 Thread joe
and a GeForce FX 5200 AGP card) Not a big deal, but fewer and fewer stories are being offered as text. Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http://joethejuggler.com

desktop folder downloads

2009-07-03 Thread joe
them out of my user folder and cleared Safari's Downloads window. Anyone heard of such a thing? Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http://joethejuggler.com

SATA card for a G4 AGP?

2009-06-15 Thread joe
Just looking at harddrive prices for larger drives, it seems that it might be worth my while to get a SATA controller card. I don't know anything about them, though. Is there anything in particular I should look for? Can I buy any SATA card, or does it have to specify for Mac? TIA, Joe

Re: DVD/CD master?

2009-05-26 Thread joe
come up? what did I do wrong? I also tried it with a new tiger test volume, and no dice... strange. Jeff It sounds like you made a data DVD with a copy of a dmg file on it. You want to make a movie DVD with the VIDEO_TS folder--that is if you want something that will play by DVD Player. Joe

Re: 10.5.7

2009-05-24 Thread joe
to me like he has 10.5.7 on one partition and 10.5.6 on another. The 10.5.7 system is messed up and not bootable, and now it's starting up from the other one. Joe --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List

Re: Bigger Internal HDs Bigger External Firewire/USB HD

2009-05-22 Thread joe
text cap I think you mean hi cap kext. I only know of Intech's high capacity driver. I use it on my older AGP G4, and I've never had problems with it. Joe --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List

Re: iTunes needle stuck

2009-05-20 Thread joe
.) No biggie, though. I've got the CD these tracks came from. I was mostly confused by what iTunes was doing (where the timer toggled between two seconds). At first I didn't know the files were bad, but thought it was some problem with iTunes. Joe == Joe

iTunes needle stuck

2009-05-19 Thread joe
wanted to see if anyone has even heard of such a thing. I think I have dust on my virtual needle! I'm using the latest version of iTunes 8 on OS 10.4.11 with everything up-to-date. Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116

Re: iTunes needle stuck

2009-05-19 Thread joe
On May 19, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On May 19, 2009, at 10:29 AM, joe wrote: I've been having the weirdest iTunes problem. On certain songs, it sticks --it will literally play the same roughly 1 second part of a track over and over again. The timeline display toggles back

Re: Which OS for 2 Handme down Machines - which one(s)? and are they worth it?

2009-05-13 Thread joe
-nvram and hit return, then type reset-all and hit return. This gave me a lot more battery life once doing this with a Wallstreet. Joe --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3

Re: New to Mac - Just purchased used G4

2009-05-12 Thread joe
with Mac OS X if the disks aren't included. Joe --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ

Re: New to Mac - Just purchased used G4

2009-05-12 Thread joe
On May 11, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Baha Ata wrote: Joe... infact you are right in point of view... but rapidshare and magaupload like sites use that... It is like that you may copy your version on a backup and put somewhere for backup purposes. As long as you do not use illegal way, it is legal

Re: New to Mac - Just purchased used G4

2009-05-12 Thread joe
rapidshare reasoning that owning a Mac entitles you to Mac OS X. What you advised was actually illegal. Debating whether or not a jury would convict someone (the people who own or run rapidshare, for example) is completely irrelevant. Joe

Re: New to Mac - Just purchased used G4

2009-05-12 Thread joe
and is not transferable. Joe --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, 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/lists/g

Re: New to Mac - Just purchased used G4

2009-05-12 Thread joe
it from some sharing site as you advised him to do. I still think his first recourse should be to contact the seller who should have included disks. If the OS wasn't part of the purchase price, then it's up to him to purchase the OS. I catch your point, but you're wrong. Joe

Re: New to Mac - Just purchased used G4

2009-05-11 Thread joe
such a flagrant violator (not even an anonymous pirate, but an e-bay seller) get away with it. This certainly doesn't justify what Baha Ata has been saying. Joe --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group

Re: New to Mac - Just purchased used G4

2009-05-11 Thread joe
them with OS whatever. If that's the case, they're breaking the license agreement if they don't provide a set of disks with each one. Joe --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using

Re: New to Mac - Just purchased used G4

2009-05-11 Thread joe
getting this software. He does not own the software. That's exactly the problem. And I don't think you can make the case that rapidSHARE's motivation is to make a backup of legally owned software. (If so, why do they have share as part of their name?) Joe

Re: Question about suspect email re: my MAC (which is accurately a .mac) account wanting my info

2009-05-08 Thread joe
an acknowledgement of the forward and a few minutes later a confirmation that it was indeed a phishing thing and a promise that they'll do what they can to track do the bad guys. Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116

Re: Strange Downloads While Using Safari...

2009-05-08 Thread joe
who has dialup with her updates. I have her run Software Update and tell me what she needs, then I download them via DSL and put them on a flash drive for her. I used to even mail CDs to help an out-of-town brother with updates. Joe

Re: Strange Downloads While Using Safari...

2009-05-07 Thread joe
stuff (I like to use Onyx to clean all that stuff out). I can't imagine how you'd get automatic downloads, though. You could try looking at the page with JavaScript disabled. Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116

multiple instances of Webkit again

2009-04-29 Thread joe
. Finally try Webkit. This time the problem is persisting. The problem came back after downloading one of the nightly builds. I suppose if no one can tell me what's going wrong, I'll just get rid of Webkit and quit using it altogether. Any ideas? Joe G4 AGP 1.4 GHz, OS 10.4.11

Re: DSL Modem Question

2009-04-29 Thread joe
. I've been using it with ATT DSL for about 3 years now. (I upgraded it from an older model when I had bad DSL performance, and the older modem was suspected. Turns out the older modem was fine too; the problem was outside the house.) Anyway, I've had no problems with it. Joe

Re: Strange mail behaviot

2009-04-23 Thread joe
yet. Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http://joethejuggler.com == --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

iTunes Music Store issue

2009-04-10 Thread joe
play the small handful of tracks I bought from the iTunes Store. This may have been a problem that existed for a long time. Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http://joethejuggler.com

Re: iTunes Music Store issue

2009-04-10 Thread joe
On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 10, 2009, at 11:23 AM, joe wrote: it iTunes reported that some component is missing. Some component? Please, do better. OK a required iTunes component. The exact wording is: We could not complete your iTunes Store request

Re: iTunes Music Store issue

2009-04-10 Thread joe
On Apr 10, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Dan wrote: At 1:56 PM -0500 4/10/2009, joe wrote: We could not complete your iTunes Store request. A required iTunes component is not installed. (-42403) I expect re-installing iTunes will do it Yes. Googling finds a number of people have experienced

Re: iTunes Music Store issue

2009-04-10 Thread joe
On Apr 10, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 10, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Dan wrote: At 1:56 PM -0500 4/10/2009, joe wrote: We could not complete your iTunes Store request. A required iTunes component is not installed. (-42403) I expect re-installing iTunes will do it Yes

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread joe
with plug-ins or inputmanagers that have not been updated. I'm immune. (Already nutz, I suspect.) It doesn't bother me to click continue whenever I start it up. I'm fine with that tradeoff for a much more stable browser! == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread joe
On Apr 7, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Apr 7, 2009, at 11:12 AM, joe wrote: clicking a link from Mail causes a second instance of the browser to start. This is incorrect. You can never run a second instance of the browser. You can only run a second instance of a second

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread joe
part works right---getting rid of WebKit and making Safari the default--clicking e-mail links uses the already open Safari and doesn't make new instances of it.) I'll report on the rest in a moment. . . == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread joe
if that corrected the invisible text thing in Mail also. It was intermittent anyway. At first glance I think it may have taken care of it. Many thanks! == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-07 Thread joe
that was happening (easy enough with that plug-in warning popping up), I avoided using links. It's nice to have it fixed! == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http://joethejuggler.com

Re: Safari 4 beta Problems still?

2009-04-06 Thread joe
, so I don't mind just clicking continue whenever I start up). 3) When I open a link from a Mail message and I already have Webkit/ Safari opened, it opens a second instance of the application. Joe On Apr 6, 2009, at 9:46 PM, MacGuy wrote: been waiting to download the Safari 4 beta till all

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-04 Thread joe
the actual disks of magnetic media inside the drive case. I have no idea if a magnet you might have around the house is capable of this, and if so, if it indeed would make the drive unusable. Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-04 Thread joe
is very sensitive, since she has no way of testing whether the scrambling worked, she would never know if it was successfully erase (or still usable). == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http

Re: Erase a drive to sell

2009-04-04 Thread joe
On Apr 4, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote: I once ruined a Credit Card by putting it in a shirt pocket where I had forgotten I was carrying a small magnet. I used to wear a name tag held on by a small magnet, and I ruined several credit cards that way! Joe

Re: Mail messages containing eBay links don't work (the links)

2009-03-31 Thread joe
then paste it into an empty TextEdit document? Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http://joethejuggler.com

Re: Mail messages containing eBay links don't work (the links)

2009-03-30 Thread joe
of mimicking a paypal e-mail, the link was a dead giveaway. BTW, you should forward those things to sp...@paypal.com and sp...@ebay.com. (I'm sure other big companies have a similar place for reporting them.) Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St

Re: Multiple HDs in Sawtooth

2009-03-25 Thread joe
drive there, though it would probably be difficult to use any other cable but the second IDE bus (the one the optical drive is on) routed to that spot. == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http

Re: Help! I've lost one harddrive and now the main harddrive won't boot!

2009-03-17 Thread joe
would definitely run Disk Warrior first. Good luck! Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http://joethejuggler.com

Re: Can't Delete Mail

2009-03-14 Thread joe
combo updater before I'd do a full archive and install of the entire OS. Or use Pacifist to install just Mail (though if you're like me, the version of Mail on your installer disk is likely to be pretty old, so you'd need to update it anyway). == Joe

HD problems--advice sought

2009-03-09 Thread joe
files and a corrupted disk directory, just a simple erase should make that partition usable again, right? If not, I can't re-format just that partition somehow--leaving the larger partition on that drive untouched? Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming

Re: HD problems--advice sought

2009-03-09 Thread joe
On Mar 9, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Charles Davis wrote: Joe; What I would try [Assuming that you have backups of all the files on the HD (both partitions)]. Keep Re-Running 'Disk Utility repair Disk' until there are no changes from report to report. At that point try and identify the 'culprit

Re: questions....questions

2009-03-01 Thread joe
don't think this should work. The OSX install is hardware specific, and a G4 isn't the same as a beige (even with a G4 upgrade). == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http://joethejuggler.com

Re: Firewire hard drives not mounting

2009-03-01 Thread joe
restarted and ran disk utility, verified and repaired and it mounted fine. I ran DiskWarrior again on the drive and it had one item that it fixed and so far so good. Thanks for your help Wallace and Joe. DW saved my butt on more than one occasion already. I try to keep a current

Re: Firewire hard drives not mounting

2009-03-01 Thread joe
a problem preventing you from doing that? == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http://joethejuggler.com == --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: Safari 4 Public Beta available today

2009-02-28 Thread joe
-- an aging G4 AGP with a 1.4 ghz cpu. Yet it's not at all slow (as I thought it would be). Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http://joethejuggler.com

Re: Firewire hard drives not mounting

2009-02-28 Thread joe
internal and external drives, I rely on Intertech's hi-cap kext. That means whenever I need to run Disk Warrior, it's best if I do it from the FW drive (rather than the disk) so that I can see all my partitions. == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St

Re: Firewire hard drives not mounting

2009-02-28 Thread joe
into the internal FW port on the motherboard. You could also try taking the drive itself out of the FW case and attaching it to one of the IDE buses. == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http

Re: best browser now

2009-02-11 Thread joe
On Feb 10, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Dan wrote: At 3:48 PM -0600 2/9/2009, joe wrote: Ha! No luck at all. Clicktoflash works fine--gives me a box for anything flash and lets me click to load and play them. But Safari just went all crash-happy on me again. I had one window with the JREF forum

Re: best browser now

2009-02-09 Thread joe
At 6:38 PM -0600 2/8/2009, joe wrote: What about stability? Safari 3.2.1 crashes on me regularly because one of the sites I frequent has some funky JavaScript. This crash started with the release of Safari 3. WebKit Nightly has been very very stable for me. It even handles the bad

Re: best browser now

2009-02-08 Thread joe
of this is probably because of the evil flash player plugin. Is there any stable solution (that lets you see flash content)? Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http://joethejuggler.com

Mail question

2009-01-23 Thread joe
on the server, though, and she can get it from a web interface, but not from Mail which apparently thinks it has already received it, even though it's nowhere to be found.) I had no idea what to tell her to try. Any suggestions? TIA, Joe == Joe the Juggler

Re: Suggested online Mac retailers

2009-01-20 Thread joe
, and the auction produced true prices in my estimation since there were multiple bidders for each G4. Ditto. I got a couple of G4 towers from RMartin (on the lemswap list) for right about $50 each shipped not too long ago. == Joe the Juggler 4148

Re: Can't Download iWork '09

2009-01-14 Thread joe
of the download.) I find that very often the .dmg will mount just fine and function just fine if you merely skip the verify step--especially since you've tried it several times. Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116

Re: My computer

2009-01-04 Thread joe
:4.2.8f1 Serial Number: XB022C40J2S Sales Order Number: 0100232123XB022C401234123412341234 == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http://joethejuggler.com

Re: Quitting Safari

2008-12-30 Thread joe
prefs. == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http://joethejuggler.com == --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Re: Power failure-computer won't start

2008-12-26 Thread joe
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Leopard on G4 dual 450 mhz?

2008-12-16 Thread joe
for him to use an older version of Xcode and Panther? I imagine it'll mostly be an educational thing for him, but I wouldn't want it to be so slow that it's a lousy experience. TIA Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO

Re: Leopard on G4 dual 450 mhz?

2008-12-16 Thread joe
for 10.4 at the very least. It does depend on what kind of programming he intends to do. D'oh--I meant Tiger. Thanks, Joe --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5

Re: basic OS X finder question

2008-12-16 Thread joe
. Note that if the document is set for Rich Text Format, it will try and place the actual documents. That's it! Thanks! I tried it with rtf and --since the files in question were images--it pasted the images in. Yup--this works in 10.4. Thanks again! Joe Hmm... Very interesting

Re: Why can't I update?

2008-12-16 Thread joe
you can get the dmg to mount by just skipping the verify process. Otherwise, try to download it again. Joe --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs

Re: basic OS X finder question

2008-12-15 Thread joe
On Dec 15, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: On Dec 15, 2008, at 3:41 PM, joe wrote: I've got a G4 Sawtooth running 10.4.11 Is there a way to copy the filenames in a given directory? I don't want to copy or move the files, but I'd like to get all the file names to put them in a text

keychain G4 question

2008-12-07 Thread joe
--I just want to use it.) Is there any way to get or reset that password short of re-installing the OS? TIA Joe == Joe the Juggler 4148 Wyoming St. St. Louis, MO 63116 (314) 771-3243 http://joethejuggler.com

Re: keychain G4 question

2008-12-07 Thread joe
On Dec 7, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Clark Martin wrote: joe wrote: I just set up a second hand G4 digital audio with OS X 10.3 already installed on it. I used the install disk to reset the admin password, but I didn't realize that the keychain password is also unknown to me. I can't unlock

Re: Mail date question

2008-11-14 Thread joe
Mail connects to my server and receives the messages.) Joe --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ