internal cdrom eject

2013-02-17 Thread Paolo Tassotti
As suggested by some of you, I've swapped the internal CD burner of my G4 with a Nec DVD burner grabbed from a Lacie enclosure whose power supply is apparently dead. All works fine, but I would be even happier if the eject button on my keyboard would work as it did with the old Sony reader ! I

Re: Digest for g3-5-list@googlegroups.com - 4 Messages in 1 Topic

2013-02-17 Thread Brian Braunschweiger
Check out the World Wide Words info on the subject. Great site for etymologies. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-jur1.htm Basically says the same thing with a bit more research and authority. Brian On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 6:21 AM, g3-5-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Bruce Johnson

Re: internal cdrom eject

2013-02-17 Thread Dana Collins
Hello, Paolo, RE: your first concern, does the eject module (the one that is placed by the OS in the upper task-Menu- bar) work if you click on it? If you don't have it present, and would like it, go to HD/System/Library/CoreServices/MenuExtras - double click on the Eject.menu script and the

Re: internal cdrom eject

2013-02-17 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 17, 2013, at 7:17 AM, Paolo Tassotti wrote: As suggested by some of you, I've swapped the internal CD burner of my G4 with a Nec DVD burner grabbed from a Lacie enclosure whose power supply is apparently dead. You may have old firmware on the NEC DVD burner? My Lacie Porsche Design

Re: Jury/jerry rigging.

2013-02-17 Thread Bill Connelly
Someone else believes thusly: JURY rigged is sailing term, as in Mast. rigging the mast or sails. Jerry rigged is a Slap at German's at the end of WWII, Nazi's to be exact...when they started to run otu of supplies and needed to fix thangs! Thus Jerry rigged, meaning put together crumily..

Re: Jury/jerry rigging.

2013-02-17 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Feb 16, 1:54 pm, JohnV vengbj...@verizon.net wrote: Jerry rig / Jury rig Years ago, on a remote island in the northern Lau group of the Fijian chain, where we did a lot of jury rigging, I thought the term was jerry rig. So, a friend and I conspired that if we ever got back to the main

Re: Jury/jerry rigging.

2013-02-17 Thread Bill Connelly
You know, not all of my responses are getting through to the G3-G5 list ... And my post to Mac Pro aren't getting up on the Mac Pro board ... having been scolded for trying to publish them here ... I believe my posts have been banned by the Nannie, or at least have to be reviewed first ... So

Re: Jury/jerry rigging.

2013-02-17 Thread Kendrick Moton
That's what's up. On Feb 15, 2013 12:11 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Feb 15, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Dan Stobbs autolycus.mercat...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the Wikipaedia definition of both terms. Jury rigging refers to makeshift repairs or temporary

Re: internal cdrom eject

2013-02-17 Thread Paolo Tassotti
RE: your first concern, does the eject module (the one that is placed by the OS in the upper task-Menu- bar) work if you click on it? If you don't have it present, and would like it, go to HD/System/Library/CoreServices/MenuExtras - double click on the Eject.menu script and the little

Re: Need info on Interarchy please

2013-02-17 Thread Brian Christmas
G'day, thanks Robert I've got a 2010 i7 iMac with 16GB ram, running 10.8.2. It looks to me like Matthew Drayton (the author of interarchy) has simply used the same layout in Interarchy 10 as in Interarchy 9, but disabled the Scheduled Bookmarks feature. Regards Santa On 18/02/2013, at

Re: Sleep issue

2013-02-17 Thread Charles Lenington
On 2/13/13 6:04 PM, diane wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:10 AM, No No grizzledgia...@gmail.com mailto:grizzledgia...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Diane: One, I assume you have set the energy control panel to never sleep, closed Preferences, open Preferences, reset sleep setting.