Buy it now before it becomes Lion-only.
On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:16 PM, Arnel Tuazon wrote:
On 20/10/10 12:26 PM, Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote:
Lion ?
To be fair Steve did say (regarding the App store), that it won't be the
only place to get software.
However questions I have
(snip) Well you are right that AMD does not do PPC CPUs you could not be more
wrong about the switch to Intel being a smart move. They only did it
to boost lagging laptop sales because they were stuck with the G4
because the G5 ran too hot to stick it in a laptop and they were
loosing clock
Jumper issue?
On Oct 31, 2010, at 6:04 AM, AndersFager wrote:
Folks,
Installed a brand new 500 gig hd in a G5 iMac. The old one had
issues. For reasons unknown Disc Utility has problems even formating
the damned thing. And refuses to partion it. Disc Warrior does not
even see the new
Is the video card a flashed PC version? If it is make sure that pins 311 are
disabled by cutting or taping them.
On Dec 4, 2010, at 12:40 PM, rtows...@aol.com wrote:
Appears to be dead...
No power-up light
Non fans
No chimes
No HD spin
Seem to recall possibilities are power supply
The thing must've had terrible gas milage.
On Dec 12, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Dennis Myhand wrote:
On 12/12/2010 1:34 PM, James Therrault wrote:
My father once pulled the Number 1 plug wire from our '49 Dodge truck and
plugged in my finger to the wire and started the truck. I still remember
the
It is a problem when you live in Texas. When you are driving down I-10 and in
the middle of nowhere there are gas stations every 100+ miles.
On Dec 12, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Paul Stamsen wrote:
Previously, at 4:33 PM -0700 12/12/10, as Alex Barnes so eloquently wrote:
The thing must've had
They have it on Apple's website.
On Dec 16, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Bill Connelly wrote:
On Dec 16, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Paul Stamsen wrote:
Previously, at 9:07 AM -0800 12/16/10, as Daggett Ken so eloquently wrote:
I have a hard time remembering the association of Cat Names with
numerical
Saying that is wrong. That can happen anywhere (ie. the SwapList). It seems to
be a that the problem is the video card. Not because it can't handle the
resolution but because it may be seated wrong in the slot, dirty, or damaged.
On Dec 16, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Jonas Lopez wrote:
This one is
My Quicksilver gets a geekbech score of 1065, on par with the iMac G5.
On Dec 30, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Wayne Stewart wrote:
Since the prices on MDD(Mirrored Drive Door) G4s is almost the same as
a quicksilver now, I'd get a MDD. Any stock MDD is already way faster
than any maxed out Yikes. If
Check in the console to see what process it is that is doing that.
On Jan 3, 2011, at 9:35 PM, PETER WARNER wrote:
On Jan 3, 2011, at 10:30 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Jan 3, 2011, at 9:22 PM, peter wrote:
What could this possibly be?
Something related to Exposé?
It is not when
iWork? I can run Appleworks on my MacBook Pro though. It doesn't even need
Rosetta!
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I think there is an OS X version of OpenOffice.
On Jan 17, 2011, at 6:54 PM, Tina K. wrote:
On 2011/01/17 18:44, Wm. Arnold so eloquently wrote:
I would like to know what replaces Appleworks.
I am using G4 G5 Power PC's with OSX10.4.11
AppleWorks will run just fine on your PPCs running
IMO Appleworks is better than iWork.
On Jan 17, 2011, at 10:42 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
On Jan 17, 2011, at 9:23 PM, Yersinia wrote:
Appleworks rocks, YEAH!! Wow, didn't know it would work with Leopard or on
a Macintel. I've been running 6.2.9 since I was on OS 9, and kept it when I
got
On Jan 20, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
File formats change ... just be glad you're not NASA and have to decipher 45
year old data tapes starting by reconstructing the tape mechanism BEFORE
trying to decipher the data!
Thats why NASA was shut down :)
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Cost?
For 2.5 why no use a SSD?
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I think OWC makes a SSD with a PATA interface.
That particular Mini uses PATA interface instead of SATA. Finding an SSD in
PATA could be problematic.
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I think that there is a copy on macintoshgarden.org
On Jan 24, 2011, at 4:42 PM, ah...clem wrote:
another lister mentioned wanting to run some vintage apps, and it
brought to mind one VERY vintage app - After Dark. tho it's a stoopid
waste of time and resources, i just have to ask - does
I know Viewsonic makes a great 22 LED monitor that has a max res of 1920x1080.
That's what I suspected.
I think that a 27 might be a limiting factor but still, it would provide a
good deal more real estate...
Thanks,
JT
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A good Mac card (no flashing needed) would be an ATI Radeon X1600 with 256 MB
of RAM.
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Oops... I ment the X1900 card. It only works with PCIe G5s though.
On Feb 2, 2011, at 10:42 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Feb 2, 2011, at 11:28 PM, Alex Barnes wrote:
A good Mac card (no flashing needed) would be an ATI Radeon X1600 with 256
MB of RAM.
You sure about this? PPC Macs are very
Most GPUs can display 1920x1080. I have an ATI Rage 128 with 16 MB of memory
that could display 1920x1080.
On Feb 3, 2011, at 3:48 AM, Jeremiah Stevens wrote:
Once I had a card that put out full 1080p resolution in my PowerMac G4
Quicksilver Single 800mhz. It was a great card but I cannot
First, sorry I'm posting this to this group. I can't seem to join the G-books
group without going to the Apple II list and the PowerBooks list nanny takes
forever to approve my posts (I posted stuff a month ago and it hasn't been
approved yet).
I recently got a Pismo and it is refusing to boot
I would get a RAID docking station, 5, 1 or 2 TB HDDs and an eSATA card for
your G5. 5 or 10 TB of storage should be plenty for anything you need. Or you
can get a data center grade tape drive but that would be slow and
expensive.
I'm wondering if someone has subscribed to one of
The maximum res the monitor supports.
On Feb 8, 2011, at 12:01 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote:
I am using the ATI Radeon Pro 9000
Wgat resolution should I set it to for best results?
My monitor is an NEC MultiSync M500
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I'd say that the GeForce would be better at games when you play at a lower res.
but the Radeon can drive bigger monitors.
On Feb 10, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Bruce wrote:
Hello,
I have two video cards:
GeForce FX5200 AGP 8X 64MB Video Memory.
Radeon 9200LE PCI 128MB Video Memory.
Which
The first try unmounts the ZIP disk the second try ejects it? What it means
when it says it is in use is that it is mounted.
On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
I have a dual 500 Mhz Snakebite that is running 10.4.11.
I am noticing some unusual behavior recently with my
Just use your OS X install disk.
On Feb 13, 2011, at 4:25 PM, AndersFager wrote:
Folks,
Printer Utility is supposed to be in OS X.4, yeas. Any idea if one can
find a stand alone installer for it somewhere?
Anders
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He is a good seller. I bought a 1.3 dual G4 upgrade for $150 and he mailed it
by DHL and it arrived in 3 days.
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I have a dual 1.3 GHz Sonnet Encore ST/G4 duet that you can have for $100.
On Feb 18, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Bruce - in Orlando wrote:
It's good to hear from LEM people who have had good experiences with
this seller. That makes me feel better than a thousand ebay
comments. I didn't mean to say
It's the ALT key.
On Feb 18, 2011, at 8:27 PM, Dale Hoffman wrote:
Hi!
I've set up a G4 to dual boot from a Jaguar drive and a Ubuntu drive - both
internal.
No problem using a Mac keyboard to choose which volume to boot into, just
hold down the Option key.
The problem is what to do with a
A dual 1.8 G4 in 9.2? I can't even imagine how fast that would be.
Well IMHO In defense of the Dual 1.8 upgrade, some of us Mac addicts like to
get the old dogs dancing in the alley. Theres something to be said about the
wind up of the PM G4 fans not to spaek of being able to boot OS 9.2.2
You can actually get cheap power supplies from CompUSA. I got an Ultra 500 watt
supply for a gaming PC (sorry I'm not paying $1200 for an iMac with an old GPU)
and it has lasted 1 year and it is still going good.
On Feb 19, 2011, at 7:53 PM, Brielle wrote:
Hello All,
I'm actually a member
The bootloader that comes with Linux mint is excellent. Too bad it's Intel only.
On Feb 20, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Tina K. wrote:
On 2011/02/20 09:00, Nestamicky so eloquently wrote:
Is there a better way of getting the option to select which OS to boot
to, in a dual boot (OS X 10.5 and Server)
But you'll have to get used to the fact that it only has one chime. The iEgg
has 10 different sounds and the iEgg Pro has MacInTalk (remember that?)
installed so you can choose your favorite voice to tell you when times up!
Two dollars for an egg timer!?
You must be using an Apple iEgg or
On my Quicksilver dual 800 it took actually gave it better Geekbench scores.
It took a hit on the graphics performance though it was using a Rage 128.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 2, 11:20 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
On Mar 2,
Is it Flash video? My Dual 1.3 Quicksilver can barely play Flash video even
with a Radeon 9800.
I would like to be able to watch streaming TV shows from the network
websites, but the videos are really choppy.
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You should get a processor upgrade (preferably a dual), a better GPU (Radeon
9800 Pro), Leopard, and maybe a USB 2.0 card.
On Mar 6, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Baldassare Guzzo wrote:
Yeah Yeah! What hardware should I install
On Feb 25, 2011, at 10:41 PM, Dan wrote:
At 7:00 PM -0800
Please post in english.
On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:12 PM, ricardo ferreira wrote:
http://www.flixxy.com/my-blackberry-is-not-working.htm
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Disk Utility in Mac OS X does the same thing (zeroing out drives) but you don't
need a PeeCee.
On Mar 13, 2011, at 5:19 AM, faithie999 wrote:
i rebuild old PC's and give them to a social worker to give to her
clients. i found this program
http://www.dban.org/Boot n Nuke
which yes, is a
Disk Utility in Mac OS X does the same thing (zeroing out drives) but you don't
need a PeeCee.
On Mar 13, 2011, at 5:19 AM, faithie999 wrote:
i rebuild old PC's and give them to a social worker to give to her
clients. i found this program
http://www.dban.org/Boot n Nuke
which yes, is a
You should use TenFourFox. It is designed for G4 processors and will run better
than Safari. It can also use all the FireFox add-ons.
He would probably have better luck using YouTube's HTML 5 option, perhaps
even uninstalling Flash and using Safari with the browser ID set to Safari
iPad.
Why does anyone care about rich text/plain text. This isn't the 90's anymore!
If your computer can't read rich text then you need to do some serious updates!
My PowerBook 1400 can read rich text on Gmail's website!
Why can't the list managers make some kind of a rich text block on the lists
Oh. So is that why the nannies say no to rich text?
http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/ihatehtmlmail.pdf
If you can't state your problem with your words, all the ransom-note
typography and hopping smileys will not help your case.
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I use Mail in 10.6 but I have it set to display rich text. Now I see why it's
hated.
On Mar 17, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Mar 17, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Alex Barnes wrote:
Oh. So is that why the nannies say no to rich text?
You'll have to ask them. It's a long-standing
Ok... I won't use read I'll use display.
Sounds like you've done some serious updating if your PowerBook 1400 has a
consciousness and can read. My computers lack consciousness and are limited
to dumb tricks like being able to display rich text, or synthesize speech
from text. I'd love to
Here's the URL http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
If you want there is another browser by the same group called Classilla
(http://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/). Classilla is for Mac OS 9 to Mac
OS 10.3. It runs well on my RAM challenged iMac 333. And it should run like the
At least there's not flash emails going around (although I can see us headed
there)!
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I like it. Do you mind if I use it?
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Snarky political comments are NOT appropriate to this list.
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Probably not...
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Speaking of LBA48... Yellow Dog Linux and Debian Linux both report and use the
full 250 GB (because that is the size of my HD) in my QS 2001. But Mac OS 10.5
sees it as a 128 GB drive. I know this has nothing to do with the thread. But
good info none the less.
Actually, the only significant
This seems to be a Leopard bug. That has happened to me several times,
all on Macs running Leopard. A simple downgrade or upgrade fixed the
problem.
On Apr 13, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Bruce - in Orlando wrote:
Can anyone tell me what the real problem is?
It appears the aluminum PowerBook suffers
A cycle is when the battery is drained to 0 percent and charged back up to 100.
If you let it drain to 75% and charge it back to 100% in constitutes only 1/4
of a cycle.
On Apr 20, 2011, at 2:04 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
On Apr 20, 2011, at 1:01 PM, John Callahan wrote:
Hello,
What is the
Open your Wi-Fi network and get FireSheep to see what they are looking at. lol
On Apr 26, 2011, at 11:17 PM, Norm wrote:
I have lived in rural Maine for almost 40 years and never locked my house or
car until this past January. Doors smashed, things taken worth a lot. Prep
took my insurance
You can also go with Linux Mint 10. I prefer it to Ubuntu. You can build a
cheap quad core system for under $500. Just get your parts form CompUSA.
On May 10, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
At 22:36 -0400 5/9/11, admin wrote:
Adobe Flash 10.2 Intel only, I believe. Web sites are
PPC linux has terrible 3rd party support. Most versions of software say linux
but don't specify that it's x86 or x64 only. You can pull it off though. You'll
need Debian Linux as it has the best PPC support.
On May 10, 2011, at 2:08 PM, imrazor wrote:
On May 10, 1:46 pm, Doug McNutt
15:58, Alex Barnes wrote:
PPC linux has terrible 3rd party support. Most versions of software say
linux but don't specify that it's x86 or x64 only. You can pull it off
though. You'll need Debian Linux as it has the best PPC support.
On May 10, 2011, at 2:08 PM, imrazor wrote:
On May
That is thermal paste. It transfers heat to from the processor to the heatsink
(I think you knew that). Do you have a URL where I could see the picture with
the thermal paste?
On May 11, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Roger Dickinson wrote:
I'm about to exchange the 24-fin aluminium heatsink in a G4 MDD
Have you checked the monitor cable?
On May 11, 2011, at 2:59 PM, blindspot-smi...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Yes, Kris
Just to make it clear, taking into account your remarks.
The monitor will eventually fire up - might take two, three, four G5
power-ups,
might have to leave it for hours
The reason why the battery can't be replaced is because it is so large, lasts
10, 7 or 8 hours depending on your model and can take up to 1000 cycles. How
does Steve Jobs decide what runs on Mac OS X??? An iMac with a Radeon 6970
coupled to a Sandy Bridge Core i7 is a bad hardware decision???
I got my Quicksilver dual 800 from FleaBay for $50 shipped. How long ago was
this?
I bought a DA online that someone had put a Dual 533MHz cpu from another DA.
I feel very fortunate to have it ... it was the first G4 I had really wanted
to buy when it first came out, but couldnt afford the
Can you post the pictures of the slot and the card to photo bucket or
something? There is no difference in the slot of an AGP 1x, 2x, 4x, or 8x.
On May 24, 2011, at 7:53 AM, Baldassare Guzzo wrote:
OK Thanks. I thought the slot was the same and I just had to disable the
8x on the card. I
The G4 could eat a higher clocked PIII for lunch.
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10.4.11. You can take it to Leopard but you will need a CPU upgrade as it will
be painfully slow. As for Linux have you heard of MintPPC?
On Jun 5, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Daniel Attard wrote:
I have an old Power Mac G4 and I was wondering what is the best Mac OS
X version.I was also wondering which
If you go to CompUSA you can pick up some nice fans by SilenX. They are really
quiet and will make your G4 less noisy. I'm pretty sure they will work.
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Why are the PCI ports on the PowerMac G4s so long? On PCs they are
about 3 1/2 long but on a PowerMac G4 they are about 5
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It's UNIX. Not Mac OS X. Most OSes have the permissions crud because
they are optimized for multi user systems. The only OS I know of that
doesn't have permissions is BeOS.
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