Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-02-03 Thread pdimage
On 02/02/2012 16:30, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: The flashing process does not involve soldering at all, but is accomplished by software on a PC... -- ErrThat's not quite true Bruceflashing from PC to mac bios has always involved soldering since the

Re: pppd/mgetty question for dial-in access question.......

2012-02-03 Thread Jesse
Thx Sent from my iPhone 4 On Feb 2, 2012, at 10:24 AM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Jan 18, 2012, at 11:24 PM, Jesse St.John wrote: alright people here is a question, om a slacker so i get the rtfm and im used to saying it as well, however, this isnt a slack

Re: new to the MAC universe.

2012-02-03 Thread fickit1time
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 site you posted, it looks like my model is the dual proc 1.0 (not the FW800). Although it does have 2 firewire ports, i'm not sure what the differences

Re: new to the MAC universe.

2012-02-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
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 site you posted, it looks like my model is the dual proc 1.0 (not the FW800). Although it does have

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-02-03 Thread t...@io.com
On Feb 3, 3:12 am, pdimage pdim...@btinternet.com wrote:     ErrThat's not quite true Bruceflashing from PC to mac bios has always involved soldering since the introduction of rom locks on the Radeon cards. The hardware lock is achieved with tiny resistors and effectively blocks any

Re: G4 Airport won't log in

2012-02-03 Thread cmmac
On Sun 4:03 AM , Roger Faulkner rfaulkne...@gmail.com wrote: G4 Cube and Quicksilver.  Both came with HD wiped and I installed 10.4. Neither had Airport cards. I ordered and installed cards in both and both recognized the network to join but showed an error message when trying to log

Re: new to the MAC universe.

2012-02-03 Thread Tina K.
On 2012/02/03 09:22, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: There were no dual-core PowerPC cpus ever used in Macs Except this one: PROCESSOR Processor PowerPC 970MP (G5) Processor Speed 2.0, 2.3, or dual 2.5 GHz Number of Cores 2 per processor Cache 64K (instruction), 32K (data) L1, 1MB

Re: new to the MAC universe.

2012-02-03 Thread JohnV
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

Re: new to the MAC universe.

2012-02-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 3, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2012/02/03 09:22, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: There were no dual-core PowerPC cpus ever used in Macs Except this one: PROCESSOR Processor PowerPC 970MP (G5) Processor Speed 2.0, 2.3, or dual 2.5 GHz Number of Cores

Re: new to the MAC universe.

2012-02-03 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 3-02-2012 17:22, Bruce Johnson ha scritto: This one should run up to OS X 10.5 without any hassles, 10.2 is quite old and there'sa lot of stuff liek modern browsers and such that is not compatible. Best option is probably 10.4. It's faster than 10.5 on old Macs, and it's compatible