Re: Change machine specific installer requirements

2010-07-17 Thread Tina K.
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:33:17 -0700, John Carmonne wrote: Pirating? I bought and paid for and own this stuff plain and simple. Legally you do not own the software, you have a license to use it within the bounds of Apple's user agreement. Unfortunately Apple's user agreement prohibits using

Re: Disc Burning

2010-07-18 Thread Tina K.
JOHN CARMONNE wrote: On Jul 17, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Peter Haas wrote: On Jul 17, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Amanda Ward wrote: Any recommendations for an external disc burner for an iMac G5 (maybe Intel iMac) to do DVD/DL and lightscribe? Buffalo, which has a Sony Optiarc super multi-burner inside a

Re: plain text please

2010-07-18 Thread Tina K.
Dan wrote: HTML email is often done by hardcoding the font sizes. That means your email will ALWAYS be unreadable to someone. HTML email ONLY looks good if the receiver has the SAME type of mail client you do. That means your email will ALWAYS be unreadable to someone. I'm curious, how does

Re: Disc Burning

2010-07-18 Thread Tina K.
Eric Herbert wrote: On Jul 18, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jul 17, 2010, at 9:07 PM, Tina K. wrote: IIRC, non-oem ODDs don't function with the iLife apps. At least I think it used to be that way, haven't heard it mentioned in a long time. I think there used

Re: Change machine specific installer requirements

2010-07-18 Thread Tina K.
Kyle Hansen wrote: Sorry. Mistyped that last one. To follow up on my message, I was thinking of Leopard. Too many felines… Tina -- 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: G5 Video card upgrade

2010-07-19 Thread Tina K.
Jeffrey Engle wrote: I currently am using the below stock video card OEM. I'd like to have a card that would support a 30 display (not a flashed card please) What card (Apple please) would be a nice upgrade for my early 2005 G5 power Mac? Jeff My June 2004 2.0 DP is nearly identical except

Re: G5 Video card upgrade

2010-07-19 Thread Tina K.
Sorry, I thought you had a 2.0 GHz DP. The correct expansion slots for your 2.3 GHz DP are two 100 MHz 64 bit PCI-X, one 133 MHz 64 bit PCI-X, and one 8x AGP Pro. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2, PPC 7455 @ 1.25 GHz, 2 GB PC 2700 RAM, GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64 MB DDR VRAM PowerBook 15 DL-SD, PPC 7447B

Re: G5 Video card upgrade

2010-07-19 Thread Tina K.
Mac User #330250 wrote: There is a ATI Radeon X800 Mac Edition, but it costs quite a large amount of $$$ on eBay, so I'd reconsider twice. Also, I'm not sure about the screen resolution it supports for your proposed Apple display. Your post caused me to look around and I too found the ATI

Re: Plain text format

2010-07-19 Thread Tina K.
Amanda Ward wrote: Wasn't this supposed to go away? Yes, this thread has been killed twice now. PLEASE STOP! Take it off list if you must. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2, PPC 7455 @ 1.25 GHz, 2 GB PC 2700 RAM, GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64 MB DDR VRAM PowerBook 15 DL-SD, PPC 7447B @ 1.67 GHz, 2 GB

Re: Plain text format

2010-07-19 Thread Tina K.
Dan wrote: At 4:20 PM -0600 7/19/2010, Tina K. wrote: Amanda Ward wrote: Wasn't this supposed to go away? Yes, this thread has been killed twice now. PLEASE STOP! Take it off list if you must. This is not that other thread. Do you have an objection to a reasonable discussion about how

Re: New install of OS 10.4 on G5 iMac

2010-09-09 Thread Tina K.
Iamanamma wrote: if in the time you've had these iMacs, they have had any firmware updates through Software Update, that might render their original O/S cds not installable... Ted Hi Ted: Of course I did updates, because Software Update demanded it. FYI, firmware updates and

Re: proper mic for iMic on a G5

2010-09-12 Thread Tina K.
Charles Lenington wrote: I am trying to use iMic on a G5 with a headset w/ mic. All the sets I find so far, have a stereo mic plug. Has anyone seen a headset w/ a mono plug. Or will a stereo to mono adapter work? Why do you want a mono headset? A stereo headset can be very helpful in a game

Re: VersionTracker folds

2010-09-19 Thread Tina K.
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:32:54 -0700 (PDT), Cliff Rediger wrote: Did you notice where VersionTracker has been folded into CNET download.com ? Now the noise of all those advertisements and the general feel isn't as simple. so it goes I came across that the other day when I was looking for

RE: External Fax Modem for G5

2010-09-23 Thread Tina K.
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:31:38 -0400, Arnel Tuazon wrote: Hey folks, I have a late 2005 2.3GHz dual core G5. I wanted to get a fax modem for it and was told that my only option was for an external USB modem. However, I have read that my current OS (10.5.8) does not play well with external

Re: MDD 867 vs 1.0

2010-09-27 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/09/26 22:50, Bequette Jeff wrote: I have 2 machines, both MDD, 1 an 867ghzdp the other a 1ghzdp. The 1ghz machine has a dead mother board. Can I swap the processors 1.0 the 867 machine? Or should I look at swapping the motherboards? Sometimes Apple used the very same CPUs and MBs on

Re: Mail address export import

2010-09-28 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/09/28 10:05, Bruce Johnson wrote: To synch everything between multiple macs, the simplest is via MobileMe's synchronization function. If you are running 10.5 or above there is also the free synch application/service fruux: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/28750/fruux fruux

Re: G5 coolant leak

2010-09-28 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/09/28 13:59, Kyle Hansen wrote: I have horror story pictures of leaky G5's if you want to see them... Mixing liquid with high temperatures and electronic components just never appealed to me. Tina -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: Cube USB 2.0 possible?

2010-09-29 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/09/29 10:39, John Markowitz wrote: I read on another post that the AirPort original card is a PCMCIA card if so than the Airport slot would also be a PCMCIA connection? So can I plug in one of my PIMCIA USB 2.0 cards in The Cube and have 2.0 ports? The Cube uses an Ethernet connection

Re: Cube USB 2.0 possible?

2010-09-29 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/09/25 10:41, John Markowitz wrote: Is there a way to have USB 2.0 on a Cube G4 with some type of addition? I've never used or even inspected a Cube but looking at Mactracker I'm guessing no. I think there is one or more Cube enthusiast sites around, maybe they have a work around.

Re: Another Quicksilver Question

2010-09-30 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/09/29 22:51, Stephen Conrad wrote: Whenever I put in a CD with stuff on it (NOT a CD you buy with music on it) it is a crap shoot if the machine will recognize it. Some it gives me two options (Ignore or Eject) and some it never says anything nor do they show up on my desktop. I have a

Re: Camino

2010-10-05 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/05 00:46, Mike Linnett wrote: Agreed, camino seems to have lost something lately. I did stumble upon omniweb last night and it seems pretty good, but then I only used it for half an hour! I've been using OmniWeb since v4 for it's features, it can use a lot of RAM too but then I

Re: Quicksilver CD-ROM

2010-10-05 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/05 03:50, Eric Herbert wrote: When it's asking if you want to Initialize, Ignore, or Eject, it means that either there is no data on the disc (never was burned), or if there is data on the disc, it's in a format the computer flat out doesn't understand is actually data (a corrupted

Re: Just got my first apple desktop!

2010-10-05 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/05 16:20, JoeTaxpayer wrote: I am a big MDD G4 fan myself, beautiful machine. Are the MDDs really as loud as their 'Wind Tunnel' nickname would suggest? How loud are they compared to a PM G5 with fans at full speed? Tina -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: Just got my first apple desktop!

2010-10-05 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/05 16:58, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/10/05 16:20, JoeTaxpayer wrote: I am a big MDD G4 fan myself, beautiful machine. Are the MDDs really as loud as their 'Wind Tunnel' nickname would suggest? How loud are they compared to a PM

Re: How to change the serial number?

2010-10-05 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/05 18:32, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I have a Mdd G4 that I want to change the serial number on? can I do that? and if so, how? I can't say for sure, but I can tell you this much. My USB 2 iMac was a refurb that was flashed with bad ROM or something that prevented the display from

Re: MDD G4 Power Supply variations

2010-10-07 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/07 12:11, Dan wrote: Unless the repair is very simple and inexpensive, I'd just replace 'em. Can MDD PSUs be replaced with a common ATX PSU with nothing more than a connector swap, or do they have a specialized output like the G3 iMacs did to power the sound? Tina -- iMac 20

Re: Thinking of buying a G5 dual for PR but quick question

2010-10-07 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/07 18:52, bryan adkins wrote: I am thinking of scooping up locally a powermac G5 2.0 DP PCI-X 2 with bad cpu it has been tested at apple and thats what the tech told the owner. My question is can I purchase a different CPU like a 1.8 and install it? Any help would be useful and if

Re: Over clocking G4

2010-10-08 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/08 10:09, stevo137 wrote: I have a G4 Power PC and I am wondering if you can over clock it and how safe is it? That depends. If you are thinking of adjusting voltage and clock timings in 'BIOS' the answer is no. Certain models used resisters on the logic board to set CPU speed,

Re: How to burn VIDEO_TS

2010-10-11 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/11 14:35, Brian Fuelleman wrote: Is there a way to adjust the volume on files prior to burning them to DVD? You can boost audio in an audio editor such as Audacity, Peak, Sound Studio, Amadeus Pro, WavePad, etc… (Audacity and WavePad are free) There is a learning curve with audio

Re: Intall syetem using DMG

2010-10-13 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/13 03:26, Gottick International wrote: I'm trying to install X5 on a machine that won't accept the newer, larger, DVDs. I have moved a X.5 .dmg to the computer's hd and now I'm trying to reboot the whole machine from the dmg. Is that even possible? Iv'e been told so. As Kris said,

Re: Hardware test results on my G4 eMac - Memory issue?

2010-10-13 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/11 16:37, wren so eloquently wrote: Last week, I got my first ever kernel panic. Screen said, you must shut down ... etc. I ran everything I knew how to for diagnostics - which was only the Utilities and then Onyx to clear all caches and tidy up stuff. It ran smoothly after this so I

Re: How to burn VIDEO_TS

2010-10-13 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/11 16:40, Drew Anderson so eloquently wrote: I use MPEG Stramclip. http://www.squared5.com/ (for the free download) I also purchased the QuickTime plug-in that expands MS's capabilities. I really don't remember anymore what features you can't do without the plug-in. I believe the

Re: Sort of Off Topic... SeaMonkey on G4 Gigabit

2010-10-16 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/16 10:50, James Therrault so eloquently wrote: This question is regarding a certain newsgroup, (I subscribe to Giganews), that I can no longer connect to. I know that the group is still alive as you can pick it up on google but that really sucks. I subscribe to twelve groups,

Re: [Manager Comment] Re: Forgotten how to change my digest mode

2010-10-17 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/17 00:42, Fabian Fang so eloquently wrote: I do not believe that it was the OP's intention to unsubscribe from the group. A while back the Group Owner informed all group members that, because the unsubscribe link did not always work reliably, he removed it, and asked members to make

Re: [Manager Comment] Re: Forgotten how to change my digest mode

2010-10-17 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/17 10:53, Fabian Fang so eloquently wrote: On Oct 17, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/10/17 00:42, Fabian Fang so eloquently wrote: A while back the Group Owner informed all group members that, because the unsubscribe link did not always work reliably, he removed

Re: HDD Disposal Data Security

2010-10-17 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/17 10:31, Baha Ata so eloquently wrote: lol... when u touch surface even without magnet it is already gone! :) Great, looks like I've got a new handwarmer! ;-) Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2, 1.25 GHz G4, 2 GB RAM, GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64 MB DDR Power Mac June 04, 2 GHz G5 DP, 8 GB RAM,

Re: iTunes De-authorize issue on a G5

2010-10-17 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/17 15:26, DLC so eloquently wrote: Does anyone know how to de-authorize only one computer (out of the 5- station quota) on an iTunes account? My wife reached her limit with a new netbook a while ago - I bumped up her home office with a new (to her) G5, which needs authorizing. So far,

Re: MDD won't start after cloning

2010-10-17 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/17 17:07, yawg so eloquently wrote: I get the login screen even though I am admin and never see that screen normally. The same if I start up in Tiger or Panther. That's just a setting in System Preferences, the Security pane I believe though it might be in a different pane for

Re: Just purchased used g5 mac

2010-10-19 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/18 21:57, R 2 so eloquently wrote: I just bought a used g 5 mac! Congratulations! It has Leopard os, lists as 7.3? (what's this mean) Nothing much, just a unique identifier Apple assigns. with 2 GB Ram and dual ppcs at 2.0 Ghz. Also,2 HDDs with 250 GB each. Is this a good

Re: Just purchased used g5 mac

2010-10-20 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/20 06:10, Dana Collins so eloquently wrote: Generally I would agree, PCI-X is supposed to be backward compatible. I had several experiences with M-Audio My M-Audio Revolution 5.1 fits just fine in my Power Mac (see sig), do you perhaps have the Late 05 with PCI Express? I wish I

Re: Thanks to Everyone for g5 info!

2010-10-20 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/20 17:34, R 2 so eloquently wrote: is there also PCI or PCI E or X in this machine-g5 power mac 7,3? The Power Mac G5 (Early 2005) has different configurations: 2.0 GHz DP - Three 33 MHz 64 bit PCI 2.3 2.7 GHz DP - Two 100 MHz 64 bit PCI-X one 133 MHz 64 bit PCI-X All - 8x AGP

Re: Where is Flash 10.1

2010-10-21 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/21 09:30, Cliff Rediger so eloquently wrote: On Oct 21, 7:09 am, Len Gerstellgers...@gmail.com wrote: Do you mean you can't find the installer to run? Or are you looking for an actual Flash Player program? If the latter, there is no program, it is (I think) a plug in deep

Re: Where is Flash 10.1

2010-10-21 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/21 10:26, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Tina K. wrote: What's really fun is when you migrate to a new drive, or rename the current drive, and finding your downloads buried in /Volumes, which is invisible by default. /Volumes is not invisible

Re: Where is Flash 10.1

2010-10-21 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/21 10:45, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Tina K. wrote: Moreover, migrating to a new drive, or renaming the current one does NOT move where your downloads folder is, unless you're doing something else weird to the system, because your Downloads

Re: Where is Flash 10.1

2010-10-21 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/21 14:47, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/10/21 10:45, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Oct 21, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Tina K. wrote: Moreover, migrating to a new drive, or renaming the current one does NOT move

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-23 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/20 17:03, Eric Herbert so eloquently wrote: This sounds awful since I've been an Apple user since birth (Parents bought their first Apple 2 weeks before I was born!) but if Apple goes ahead with this kindergarten approach they show on Lion, I may consider running Windows. Don't do

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-23 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/20 10:50, john Carmonne so eloquently wrote: On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Fluxstringer wrote: Lion ? Will Lion be compatible with PPC G5? Don't we wish. On second thought, maybe not. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2, 1.25 GHz G4, 2 GB RAM, GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64 MB DDR Power Mac June

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-23 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/20 12:55, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: I went to the Apple site to watch the streaming video of the presentation and was rudely greeted with this: Streaming video requires Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Safari on iOS 3 or later. I'm on a PPC G5 with 10.5.8 and

Re: Max HDD size for G3 Clamshell

2010-10-24 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/24 04:05, Scotty so eloquently wrote: Does anyone know what the max internal HDD size is for a G3 Clamshell 366 mhz/FW400? I put a 120 GB drive in a Tangerine iBook and it worked fine without partitioning it. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2, 1.25 GHz G4, 2 GB RAM, GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-24 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/24 00:35, Brian Christmas so eloquently wrote: The end of this race is a long way away yet. The finish line is constantly being moved, there is no end. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2, 1.25 GHz G4, 2 GB RAM, GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64 MB DDR Power Mac June 04, 2 GHz G5 DP, 8 GB RAM, GeForce

Re: G3 DEAD

2010-10-25 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/25 00:45, MichaelP so eloquently wrote: Ive been using a Imac ruby very efficiently as a backup firewire connected to a G4 via statrtup command T Please do not hijack a thread by changing the subject line in a reply to an existing topic, instead create a new message with a new

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-25 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/25 14:48, Andrew Liu Anderson so eloquently wrote: Sorry in advance if this is a bring-down for some folks. It's just time that our world, Apple fans included, do a little slw-dn, back-up re-evaluate our values. Not at all. I'm very happy with my PPC Macs (except for

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-26 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/26 10:19, Bill Christensen so eloquently wrote: Just as long as we don't have to deal with Schroedinger's Cat... Every time you try to use it, it's either dead or not dead. Wouldn't it be simultaneously dead and alive? And if so, what would you feed it??? Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2,

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-26 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/26 12:07, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Oct 26, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/10/26 10:19, Bill Christensen so eloquently wrote: Just as long as we don't have to deal with Schroedinger's Cat... Every time you try to use it, it's either dead or not dead

Re: Flash only? WAS:Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/26 13:14, Dan so eloquently wrote: Why do it that way? Well, it reduces the number of writes to the flash memory by quite a bit. This gives the brick a longer life. ... Remember, the goal is to make this thing work at least one day beyond the warranty period. (Seagate is doing a 5

Re: Flash only? WAS:Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-27 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/25 11:12, John Martz so eloquently wrote: At the moment the only one I know of is Seagate's Momentus XT which I understand to be a 7200 RPM 2.5 drive with the traditional 32MB RAM cache but also a 4GB SSD. The pertinent difference here is probably not so much the 4GB of SSD but

Re: back up generator question

2010-10-30 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/30 18:43, Cliff Rediger so eloquently wrote: not knowing too much about electricity 800 watts seems like a lot for our use. How much juice does a mac mini and external HD pull? My Power Mac draws about 500 watts, a Mac Mini is going to use significantly less, and external HDDs use

Re: back up generator question

2010-10-31 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/30 20:26, Clark Martin so eloquently wrote: On Oct 30, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Tina K. wrote: My Power Mac draws about 500 watts, a Mac Mini is going to use significantly less, and external HDDs use very little. 800 watts is more than enough for those two devices. It's unlikely your PM

Re: Mac OS X Lion Is a Must-Have: 10 Reasons Why

2010-10-31 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/10/31 12:03, Dan so eloquently wrote: Nice fandom article with no real facts. *shrug* Sorry, no OS is a must have for me. Unless it's going to make me breakfast in the morning and then go to work for me while I shop, and clean my house while I sleep I can do just fine without it.

Re: Awesome mod...

2010-11-01 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/01 11:45, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: http://hackaday.com/2010/10/30/building-the-banana-jr-6000/ That is awesome! I love to see old Mac hardware brought back to life. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR Ubuntu 10.10 Power Mac June 04

Re: Mac OS X Lion Is a Must-Have: 10 Reasons Why

2010-11-01 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/01 02:51, Ted Treen so eloquently wrote: Tina, you must be related to my wife... If she is astonishingly brilliant and stunningly gorgeous than we just might be related. ;-) Seriously though, great minds think alike! Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200

Re: USB 2.0 for a G4 MDD?

2010-11-01 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/01 10:11, t...@io.com so eloquently wrote: The trick, then, is to find the proper chipset. This applies to firewire enclosures as well, probably a lot of other things too. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR Ubuntu 10.10 Power Mac June 04

Re: Awesome mod...

2010-11-01 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/01 23:43, Jeff Bequette so eloquently wrote: Now if we could just squeeze a macbook into a clamshell... That would be too cool for school! Imagine the reaction you would get when you are working on a Tangerene MacBook. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200

Re: Dead Drive? - Group Reply.

2010-11-02 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/02 11:55, Ted Treen so eloquently wrote: The jumper on a SATA drive restricts it to 1.5Gbs (SATA 1) speed. It won't have any other effect. What would be the purpose of even doing this? I have 3GBs drives in my P M and it only supports 1.5GBs, so the end result is they do not exceed

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-03 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/02 09:48, Dan so eloquently wrote: Clam and ClamXav were just recently updated... (get the version 2 beta - it's stable, not java, works well) http://www.clamxav.com/ And now Sophos is offering a free version of their anti-virus tool

Re: Thermal Compound Question

2010-11-03 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/02 23:21, Jonas Ulrich so eloquently wrote: Hi all, quick question here, I'm looking to buy some thermal compound, and am wondering if all is the same? Or if there is a better brand I should buy. I'm just looking on ebay, and the stuff is cheap. Just wondering, is there varying

Re: Dead Drive? - Group Reply.

2010-11-03 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/03 09:17, t...@io.com so eloquently wrote: I tend to stick with Seagate these days. Their five year warranty won't save my data, but it means they have more motivation to put effort into quality control than a company offering a three year warranty. The last time I looked,

Re: Thermal Compound Question

2010-11-03 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/03 12:39, John Carmonne so eloquently wrote: I have noticed that Apple used a thick paste on the G4 PowerBooks, I assume this is because the possible flexing and ambient temperature changes of the components could break the thermal contact That might not be the case, I do remember

Re: Thermal Compound Question

2010-11-04 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/04 10:59, Albert Carter so eloquently wrote: Remove the heat sink remove what you can with a lint free paper towel and then clean the rest off using a 85% or better isopropyl alcohol. Seconded. Use isopropyl alcohol, not rubbing alcohol. It's still dirt cheap. Tina -- iMac 20 USB

Re: G5 Shutdown issues

2010-11-07 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/07 19:49, DLC so eloquently wrote: I have two G5 towers in our lab (1.8GHz DP-late 2004 models) running 10.5.8. They have both suddenly acquired the habit of not wanting to shut down. When instructed, the Desktop dismounts, the Dock folds down and then they just sit there. A force

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-09 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/08 17:08, Bill Connelly so eloquently wrote: Aren't all files with .exe reported as suspect virus files? Not all of them, just the malicious ones. Which might be construed as most of them. ;-) Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR Gnome/Ubuntu

Re: PowerMac G3 AIO 'snapping/popping'

2010-11-09 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/09 10:11, Jim Scott so eloquently wrote: It is possible to replace the flyback transformer. I'm not familiar with a Power Mac AIO, is it similar to a G3 iMac? If so, isn't there a potentially large jolt of current waiting to shock someone if they don't discharge it first? Tina

Re: PowerMac G3 AIO 'snapping/popping'

2010-11-09 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/09 10:50, Jim Scott so eloquently wrote: It's the Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One, and it is similar to the first-generation G3 iMac, except it has a bland beige case with a perforated white top that looks like a dental molar, hence the nickname G3 Molar. It also has a case of

Re: initializing Hard drive

2010-11-09 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/09 13:32, MichaelP so eloquently wrote: I've been learning my way around adding a second harddrive to a G4 sawtooth, -- in the process of using Disk Utility and carbon clone copy sodtware I seem to have turned a working HD into one with problems. The first HD is working reliably as

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-10 Thread Tina K.
Today on the Price Is Wright they had a MacPro in the showcase showdown, it came equipped with a 1TB hard drive… … and anti-virus software. I almost choked on my soda. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR Gnome/Ubuntu 10.10 Power Mac June 04 2GHz G5DP

Re: hijacking

2010-11-10 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/10 10:00, Doug McNutt so eloquently wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Header_fields http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html Section 3.6.4 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4685.txt Note the In-Reply-To: header that contains the Message-ID: information from the message being replied

Re: Trying to bring a partition back to life

2010-11-10 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/10 08:08, Joshua Juran so eloquently wrote: How much is your data worth? If it's worth nothing, just cut your losses. If it's worth the cost of DiskWarrior, get it. DiskWarrior is an excellent repair utility, but recovery is safer than repair An often over-looked ability of

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-11 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/10 23:03, Richard Gerome so eloquently wrote: You need a virus software program if you run Windows on it... Since it is a brand new Apple product I think it's safe to say the included A-V is for OS X. Which does you no good when you are running Windoze. And it's probably Norton

Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-12 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/12 09:04, Ted Treen so eloquently wrote: it does have 2 x DVD connectors (one is dual-link) How can you tell that one is dual-link and the other is not? I have a 6800 Ultra that is dual-link but I don't know if it's just on one port or both. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4

Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-12 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/12 09:42, Charles Lenington so eloquently wrote: On 11/12/10 10:26 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/11/12 09:04, Ted Treen so eloquently wrote: it does have 2 x DVD connectors (one is dual-link) How can you tell that one is dual-link and the other is not? I have a 6800 Ultra

Re: Which used Mac to buy?

2010-11-13 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/13 12:33, Tom so eloquently wrote: If I stick with a G5, I'd like to get a faster one than my 2.0 GHz DP, just to reduce all those long rendering times in Final Cut a little. I don't think you are going to get a whole lot of improvement in rendering times with even a G5 DC 2.3, it

Re: G5 Shutdown issues

2010-11-13 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/07 23:35, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: I'd try doing a Safe Boot to reset the System cache files, and see if that helps? I ran into this issue again today and the Safe Boot seemed to resolve it, though I don't expect it to be a permanent fix. Thank you for the suggestion

Re: G5 PM temps

2010-11-15 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/13 11:48, John Carmonne so eloquently wrote: Now that all's well on my PM G5 Dual 2.7 with new heat sink I want to know what to think about temp ranges on the CPU's. The limit says 181.4F they are running at 141.F to 162.F CPU A is currently running at 52° C, and CPU B is at 62° C

Re: Which used Mac to buy?

2010-11-15 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/15 09:04, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: the only Intel systems that ARE NOT supported for 64-bits are the original CoreDuo Intel iMacs. Not to be nit-picky but wouldn't the CoreSolo and CoreDuo Mac Minis fall into the same category? Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB

Re: WinZip

2010-11-15 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/15 15:43, M Christol so eloquently wrote: Is there any reason to get WinZip for Mac? http://www.winzip.com/mac/en/index.htm Not when there are better free alternatives. If you only need to decompress files The Unarchiver is the Swiss army knife of Mac unarchivers

Bug Reporting

2010-11-16 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/16 09:12, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: I'd report this as a bug to Apple I've tried to report bugs in security updates but I could never find a PoC. How do you report a bug to Apple? Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR Gnome/Ubuntu

Re: Time Zone setting ???

2010-11-16 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/16 07:22, Charles Davis so eloquently wrote: Yeah!! Wracking the brain to remember the keystrokes --- it's been a while since I needed to try that. [Apple-Option-P- R hold for three or more chimes!!] OR [Ctrl-Option-P-R hold fore multiple chimed] One of those will do the trick,

Re: Bug Reporting

2010-11-16 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/16 15:13, Dan so eloquently wrote: And keep around full documentation to the bug - text files, screen shots, etc. Be prepared to hear little to nothing from Apple for days, weeks, or even months. Then, when you do get a reply, realize it's a horrible automated system, where the

Re: Getting there

2010-11-17 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/17 15:06, Paul Stamsen so eloquently wrote: I had no problem in the past using those same discs and no, I don't recall which way you spell disxs. My impression is that optical media is disc, as in Compact Disc, and that hard drives use disks. But then I could be wrong too. Tina

Re: Getting there

2010-11-17 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/17 18:05, Andrew Liu Anderson so eloquently wrote: Both are variants of the same word, like Grey and Gray. I hate that. I always feel like I am mis-spelling it regardless of which spelling I use. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR

Re: USB stick read only

2010-11-20 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/20 06:06, Geke so eloquently wrote: It’s true, the stick is not the newest. But shouldn’t it last for quite some years if I use it only a couple of times a week? I guess that depends on your definition of quite some years and exactly how much data you are writing those couple times

Re: How should a family of five share one computer?

2010-11-22 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/22 20:35, Charles Lenington so eloquently wrote: you forgot an important step. They need to lock up the OS X disk, away from kids. And set a firmware password. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR Gnome/Ubuntu 10.10 Power Mac June 04 2GHz

Re: How should a family of five share one computer?

2010-11-22 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/21 10:37, Ashgrove so eloquently wrote: The simplest, less convolute way to do this would be to set a single user account for all Simple initially but in the long run it could become far more trouble as one user sets something (such as a home page, iTunes setting, etc…) and

Re: OpenOffice vs Oracle

2010-11-23 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/23 08:32, Dan so eloquently wrote: hum. Things are getting messy. Corporate America has peed in the pool yet again. Feels like Oracle wanted to play rock-paper-scissors, but has come up lizard. Couldn't have said it better myself. Not sure that I could say it at all without

Re: DVD, Webcam, Pix, and Images: why are they soooo different

2010-11-23 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/16 09:18, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: DVD's are encoded via MPEG2, which is an asymmetric codec: it's significantly less computationally intensive to decode versus encode. (this is how it was developed to be, to allow cheap DVD players. Also why it takes iDVD all night to

Re: DVD, Webcam, Pix, and Images: why are they soooo different

2010-11-24 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/24 07:55, Dan so eloquently wrote: This has NOTHING to do with the media format. CD, DVD, Blu-Ray... those are just media, plastic discs that basically emulate random-access r/o hard drives. It's the codec used to encode/decode the video and audio data ON the media that's

Re: How should a family of five share one computer?

2010-11-25 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/25 09:19, Michael Emery so eloquently wrote: On Thanksgiving Day, I would like to thank everybody who gave my query their consideration and time. I hope that you give your families your love and attention today as well. Thank you for your thoughtful words Michael. I hope that you

Re: Putting 17 screen on a 15 g4 iMac?

2010-11-28 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/24 19:48, Jonas Ulrich so eloquently wrote: I have a working 800mhz 15 iMac g4, and a broken 17 g4 iMac. Would it be possible to put the 17 screen on the 15 iMac? Even if this is possible I would be concerned about the counterweight in the base. Is the 15 notably lighter than the

Re: iMac G4 800, OS X Panther vs Tiger

2010-11-28 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/25 21:25, Mullin9 so eloquently wrote: iMac G4 800, one that is made in 2002, it came with Mac OS 10.2.4 it have 256 MB RAM, I added 512 MB RAM for the Total of 768 MB RAM. Should I use OS X.3 Panther (32 bit), the one that i already have. or X.4.11 Tiger (64 bit)? IMHO Tiger is

Re: Cube immediately shuts down with 10.5

2010-11-28 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/26 17:39, Andrew W. Hill so eloquently wrote: I recently installed 10.5 on my G4/450 Cube using the open firmware hack That sounds like a recipe for sllooo. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR Gnome/Ubuntu 10.10 Power Mac June 04 2GHz

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