Re: sync iTunes Music

2010-07-14 Thread John Carmonne
On Jul 13, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: On Jul 13, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: 10.4.11 now with more HD space, I'd like to synce iTMF 1 with iTMF 2 On Jul 13, 3:17 pm, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: I just did exactly this with ChronoSync It works like

Re: Big screen TV for PM G5

2010-07-14 Thread pdimage
On 13/7/10 12:29, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: OK. simple you say? I'm sure going to try to. I guess the trick here is getting the right cable. So to start how can I check positively the capability of my two DVI ports on my Radeon 9600 card? Then from there I should have part of the

Re: Big screen TV for PM G5

2010-07-14 Thread pdimage
On 14/7/10 08:45, pdimage pdim...@btinternet.com wrote: On 13/7/10 12:29, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: OK. simple you say? I'm sure going to try to. I guess the trick here is getting the right cable. So to start how can I check positively the capability of my two DVI ports on my

G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-07-14 Thread Richard Gerome
I have a friend who has this G4 Power Mac M5183 tower and keyboard she doesn't have the monitor, she wants to upgrade this machine to it's full capacity and run Tiger 10.4.11 so she can do her web design work and it needs to be dual boot OS9.2.2 too... She can't afford a new one and she is

Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-07-14 Thread john CARMONNE
On Jul 14, 2010, at 8:20 AM, Richard Gerome wrote: I have a friend who has this G4 Power Mac M5183 tower and keyboard she doesn't have the monitor, she wants to upgrade this machine to it's full capacity and run Tiger 10.4.11 so she can do her web design work and it needs to be dual

Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-07-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 14, 2010, at 8:20 AM, Richard Gerome wrote: I have a friend who has this G4 Power Mac M5183 tower and keyboard she doesn't have the monitor, she wants to upgrade this machine to it's full capacity and run Tiger 10.4.11 so she can do her web design work and it needs to be dual

Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-07-14 Thread john CARMONNE
On Jul 14, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jul 14, 2010, at 8:20 AM, Richard Gerome wrote: I have a friend who has this G4 Power Mac M5183 tower and keyboard she doesn't have the monitor, she wants to upgrade this machine to it's full capacity and run Tiger 10.4.11 so she

Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-07-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 14, 2010, at 9:54 AM, john CARMONNE wrote: (The 10.5 installer looks at the speed of the CPU, so with an upgrade faster than 867 MHz, it installs 10.5 out of the box, no helper programs needed.) What CPU upgrade is availible for these DA's? Will a QuickSilver MOBO fit? This is

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:42 PM, t...@io.com wrote: Does the Mac OS X included RAID feature work with USB2 external drives? Would it be usable (not too slow). I'm building a home music server out of a G4 Mac Mini running Tiger and was going to get one external 2 GB drive to sit under it in a

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:42 PM, t...@io.com wrote: Does the Mac OS X included RAID feature work with USB2 external drives? Would it be usable (not too slow). I'm building a home music server out of a G4 Mac Mini running Tiger and was going to get one external 2 GB drive to sit under it in a

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 14, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I'm really hoping that somebody chimes in on this because I have the same question. Software RAID works on any matched pair of HDs, internal, external, whatever you have. Mirroring is mirroring, so this means if you screw up the software

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread Albert Carter
All, I got interested so I started googling. Here's something that I found that may or may not be helpful: http://66.49.144.193/C2011481421/E20060221212020/index.html Albert From: Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent:

Is a power inverter safe for laptops and iPods?

2010-07-14 Thread Tom
During an upcoming vacation in an RV, our family will want to charge their Apple laptops and iPods as usual, but of course there won't be any wall outlets like there are in a house. Instead, we have a little gadget called a power inverter from Radio Shack, made in Taiwan by Enercell, that can be

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Jul 14, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: which has the advantage of going backwards in time to get to a state that was known good. Theoretically this makes a Time Machine backup more robust and preferable to a mirror RAID backup. I like both. RAID and TM backups. Jeff Engle --

Re: Is a power inverter safe for laptops and iPods?

2010-07-14 Thread Dan
At 10:51 AM -0700 7/14/2010, Tom wrote: During an upcoming vacation in an RV, our family will want to charge their Apple laptops and iPods as usual, [...] power inverter from Radio Shack [...] Anybody see a problem with plugging a Powerbook, a MacBook, or an iPod into this thing? (Not all at

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread Dan
At 12:42 PM -0700 7/13/2010, t...@io.com wrote: Does the Mac OS X included RAID feature work with USB2 external drives? Would it be usable (not too slow). I'm building a home music server out of a G4 Mac Mini running Tiger and was going to get one external 2 GB drive to sit under it in a

Re: Is a power inverter safe for laptops and iPods?

2010-07-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 14, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Dan wrote: At 10:51 AM -0700 7/14/2010, Tom wrote: During an upcoming vacation in an RV, our family will want to charge their Apple laptops and iPods as usual, [...] power inverter from Radio Shack [...] Anybody see a problem with plugging a Powerbook, a

Re: Is a power inverter safe for laptops and iPods?

2010-07-14 Thread Doug McNutt
At 14:08 -0400 7/14/10, Dan wrote: Best to try things in advance... Yep. And it would be pretty hard to find a power converter that would damage any of today's computer power converters. If it doesn't work don't leave it hooked up too long and pay attention to hot spots that shouldn't be.

Re: Is a power inverter safe for laptops and iPods?

2010-07-14 Thread Jonas Lopez
I have for several years used inverters, for the most part all is well, BUT here are some issues: The output of all under $500. inverters is a simple square wave -(1 step)  not even a modified sine wave. Above this price range you may find a stepped sine wave output - the number of steps

Re: Is a power inverter safe for laptops and iPods?

2010-07-14 Thread Clark Martin
On 7/14/10 11:41 AM, Doug McNutt wrote: At 14:08 -0400 7/14/10, Dan wrote: Best to try things in advance... Yep. And it would be pretty hard to find a power converter that would damage any of today's computer power converters. If it doesn't work don't leave it hooked up too long and pay

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread t...@io.com
On Jul 14, 12:40 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Jul 14, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I'm really hoping that somebody chimes in on this because I have the   same question. Software RAID works on any matched pair of HDs, internal, external,   whatever you have.

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread t...@io.com
On Jul 14, 12:43 pm, Albert Carter slvrmoonti...@yahoo.com wrote: All,     I got interested so I started googling. Here's something that I found that may or may not be helpful: http://66.49.144.193/C2011481421/E20060221212020/index.html Ah, good link. Thank you. That was just what I

RE: Best DVD burners?

2010-07-14 Thread Stewie de Young
Subject: Re: Best DVD burners? If I relegate a Genesys Logics enclosure to a housing for an opical drive will it also take a crap like it did with a HDD insie.?? I will be buying a Lite-On, LaCie or LG for my PM G5 and so it will leave me with a Pioneer 118L with out a box. John

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread glen
Software RAID works on any matched pair of HDs, internal, external, whatever you have. Mirroring is mirroring, so this means if you screw up the software so that it won't boot, the mirror will also be screwed up. This should not be an issue, as the only thing on the mirrors

Re: Goodbye Power Macs! Or: Linux on Power Macs

2010-07-14 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Goodbye Power Macs! Or: Linux on Power Macs Date:Mittwoch 14 Juli 2010N From:Michael G.M. michaelgm717...@gmail.com To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Andreas, Big congrats on getting your new Linux Box running well!!

NO artwork on a shared library using front row

2010-07-14 Thread Jeffrey Engle
ok, I've got my movies all coming from the mac in the other room via ethernet to the mini in the front room... front row on that mini, a shared library gives me no artwork? no pretty goodies in the info window to look at? why? any chance I could get some kind of plug-in for that? Jeff

Re: FF and NoScript

2010-07-14 Thread Dan
At 6:47 PM -0500 7/12/2010, Stephen Conrad wrote: I just updated my AddOns and Themes then restarted it. I went to the Club Pogo page for my profile and got this: (NoScript said there was a script not responding) Script: Chrome://flashgot/content/XPCOM.js:54 I have no pictures in my profile

Re: Goodbye Power Macs! Or: Linux on Power Macs

2010-07-14 Thread Eric Volker
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 15:19 -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote: You can set up each and every one of those services (indeed they're INCLUDED) with Leopard client. The ONLY differences between OSX Client and OSX Server are: AFP connections are limited to 5 simultaneous connections in OS X Client.

Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-07-14 Thread JoeTaxpayer
G4's are not really the sweet spot for upgrades they were several years ago, and the Sawtooth is the very base model of those. Bruce Johnson I don't know what hers runs at, but my G4 Dual 1.25 MDD would take on a couple $20 512K ram sticks and max at 2GB, a $10 USB 2.0 card, and whatever

Re: Goodbye Power Macs! Or: Linux on Power Macs

2010-07-14 Thread Eric Volker
On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 01:12 +0200, Mac User #330250 wrote: Also, How did you migrate your data to Linux? and any suggestions on how to do so? I think you got me wrong here. I used Linux all the way. I started off on a PC running Gentoo Linux. I then migrated to a newer PC. Then I got

Re: Goodbye Power Macs! Or: Linux on Power Macs

2010-07-14 Thread Eric Volker
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 17:48 -0500, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jul 13, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Eric Volker wrote: I want a server class OS that I can set up services like NFS, Samba, rsync, DHCP and DNS without paying Apple for the privilege of loading Leopard Server... I've successfully loaded

Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-07-14 Thread onelucent
I would look for a dual Quicksilver machine. -- 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