Home Theater PowerPC Takeover?

2011-03-15 Thread t...@savingus.org
One of my (too many) side projects was a not-yet-ready to be published website for Home Theater PowerPC - using a G3, G4, or G5 Macintosh and various audio and video equipment to (inexpensively) make a home theater, audio/video jukebox and/or legacy gaming system. I've got several mostly

Re: Motherboard and Memory Questions on recovered DAFir

2011-03-15 Thread Geke
@Albert: The Digital Audio has this quirk that it has 3 physical RAM slots but 4 logical ones. @Mark: The DA does need 133MHz. What you can do from here is swapping the modules in slot 2 and 3 and see how they are reported then. If slot 2 is reported empty after the swap, you know the module has

Powermac G4 VS Original Emacs

2011-03-15 Thread Harris Leen
I have a Emac G4 700Mhz 40Gig 5400RPM hard disk. How much faster is the Sawtooth models and the Digital audio models and quicksilver models and the MIrror drive door models. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs -

Re: Powermac G4 VS Original Emacs

2011-03-15 Thread Albert Carter
Harris, Anything with a fast speed processor is going to be faster. Also, the Emac is limited to 1 GB of RAM where the others can use at least 1.5 GB RAM. If your using applications that are memory intensive you will notice a difference with that. if you go to http://www.everymac.com it

Re: Motherboard and Memory Questions on recovered DAFir

2011-03-15 Thread peterhaas
The Digital Audio has this quirk that it has 3 physical RAM slots but 4 logical ones. System buses have a finite load capacity. The trade-off was the sum of slots on the associated LSI chip is seven. Earlier models had three PCI slots and four RAM slots, for a total of seven. DA and QS

Re: Motherboard and Memory Questions on recovered DAFir

2011-03-15 Thread Mark Murphy
I've tried swapping the sticks and the empty slots change depending on where I move them. Thanks. Mark Murphy On Mar 15, 2011, at 8:01 AM, Geke wrote: @Albert: The Digital Audio has this quirk that it has 3 physical RAM slots but 4 logical ones. @Mark: The DA does need 133MHz. What you can

Re: Good time machine alternative for Tiger on a DA 733

2011-03-15 Thread Dan
At 8:48 PM -0700 3/13/2011, John Carmonne wrote: On Mar 13, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Scotty wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion for a good alternative to time machine that will run on my DA 733mhz Power Mac? My old quicksilver ran 10.5 and I am just looking for something that can perform a

Re: Motherboard and Memory Questions on recovered DAFir

2011-03-15 Thread Bill Connelly
On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: I've tried swapping the sticks and the empty slots change depending on where I move them. Thanks. Mark Murphy On Mar 15, 2011, at 8:01 AM, Geke wrote: @Albert: The Digital Audio has this quirk that it has 3 physical RAM slots but 4 logical

Re: Good time machine alternative for Tiger on a DA 733

2011-03-15 Thread Judith Berkowitz
I think a good time machine would be a perfect thing to have! Think of what you could do with it! (Thank you. Thank you very much.) -- 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: Good time machine alternative for Tiger on a DA 733

2011-03-15 Thread Dennis Myhand
On 3/15/2011 3:03 PM, Judith Berkowitz wrote: I think a good time machine would be a perfect thing to have! Think of what you could do with it! (Thank you. Thank you very much.) Will you be here all week? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: problemas com o blackberry e apple

2011-03-15 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
Actually, it's not spam really. It's a very funny bit from the BBC. There's an apple in it. Also a blackberry, mouse, desktop, windows, dongle and a date. Oh, and an eggsbox. Orange is a British cellphone network. And come on now buds, you understood what he meant. Spanish and English

Re: problemas com o blackberry e apple

2011-03-15 Thread Baldassare Guzzo
Very funny On Mar 15, 2011, at 10:21 PM, Anne Keller-Smith earth...@ptd.net wrote: Actually, it's not spam really. It's a very funny bit from the BBC. There's an apple in it. Also a blackberry, mouse, desktop, windows, dongle and a date. Oh, and an eggsbox. Orange is a British cellphone

Safari 4.1.3 for Tiger: Fast, but Not Perfect

2011-03-15 Thread Dan
I'm rather disappointed with Charles Moore's latest article (yesterday) on LEM. http://lowendmac.com/misc/11mr/safari-4.1.3-for-tiger.html Safari 4.1.3 for Tiger: Fast, but Not Perfect Charles Moore - 2011.03.15 Apple takes a lot of stick from users of older Mac hardware for dropping

Re: Safari 4.1.3 for Tiger: Fast, but Not Perfect

2011-03-15 Thread Sean Carroll
Folx, can you please double check me on the version of Safari? Well, I with Safari 4.1.3 just ran Software Update and was only told (as usual) that all my software appears to be up to date. Sean Carroll slcarr...@me.com Power Mac G4 AGP Sawtooth 1.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 1 each SATA (750 GB)

Re: Which would be the better Mac?

2011-03-15 Thread Mel
I can't answer your question as to which CPU would be better but are you not aware that SDRAM  512 RAM 133 buss speed is very inexpensive for the DA - and can be bought for between $10.00 and $15.00 a stick?  Try the LEM list. Mel --- On Tue, 3/15/11, Scotty daniel.stewart...@gmail.com wrote: