On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Jonas Ulrichjonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote:
USB sucks on mac. Firewire is definately the way to go.
While I wouldn't completely agree that USB 2.0 sucks compared to
Firewire, I have no problem asserting that USB 2.0 is definitely a lot
less special than
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Isaac Smithsmith...@sprynet.com wrote:
I have a camera that takes a USB connector to connect it to my Mac.
The problem is I need a Male to Male connector.
One of the reasons I have always disliked the USB protocol is that the
designers seemed to have a
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:41 PM, insightinmindbillycarm...@verizon.net wrote:
On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:35 PM, irrational john wrote:
A Safari Version 4.0.1 update is now available.
i don't see it with my Tiger Software update ...
My apologies ... I'm not sure if it IS available for Tiger yet.
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Dandantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At 8:35 PM -0700 6/18/2009, irrational john wrote:
Elaborate please - exactly what isn't working? I've played with just
about everything in the GMail web interface and it seems to work
quite well with Safari 4.0.
When I use
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Arnel Tuazona.tua...@gmail.com wrote:
On 19/06/09 10:01 AM, Jason deftone...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello there. I just put an aftermarket pci wireless card into my sons dual G4
450 powermac. It is very stable, no drivers were needed and he gets fast
internet
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:11 PM, ah...clemboneheads...@gmail.com wrote:
new to this topic. perhaps i missed it in the deluge of replies, but
it seems no one addressed the point of cost vs protocol (b or n).
if all you are doing
is connecting the base station to a DSL modem or a
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Dandantear...@gmail.com wrote:
What inputmanagers, plug-ins, etc have you installed?
Does the problem still occur when you eliminate them?
Does this help? If you see something you think is worth taking the
time to try omitting I might try it. But I'm not
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Dandantear...@gmail.com wrote:
Think isn't good enough. Be specific. Try it. You're talking about
a GMail function failing on two totally different platforms
(Safari/WebKit vs Firefox/Gecko), and to be frank, that just doesn't
make sense.
I'm sorry that
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Lawrence David Edenlde...@comcast.net wrote:
Can anyone give me an idea of what to look for in a new monitor? Specs?
I don't consider myself very knowledgeable about monitors ... I'm
partially color blind for one thing ... so I wasn't going to say
anything.
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Po-en Tsaipoen.t...@gmail.com wrote:
Download the utility called 'Disk Inventory X' and run it on your OSX HDD.
It will tell you what is taking up space on your computer, and where it is.
Then you can delete whatever you dont need.
Disk Inventory X:
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Mullin9ddavidmul...@inbox.com wrote:
Will Apple return to PPC processors?
I experienced smoother Game Graphics on a 2 GHz G5 Mac with 256 MB of
VRAM,
than I had on a 2 GHz Intel Mac, with 256 MB of VRAM,
both my Macs have 2 GB of RAM.
Could you provide a
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Wallace Adrian
D'Alessiofluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote:
But Nanny, how is running OS X on a Playstation 3 any less of a violation
of the Apple EULA than running it on an Intel or AMD machine i.e. a (
non- Apple ) PC? Even that running under emulation?
Or, I
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:17 PM, tortoisecymraeg...@gmail.com wrote:
In this case I am not sure what the strategy means. It could mean the
end of ppc support, it could mean that the project as a whole is
considered complete and the team is breaking up, in which case someone
may do minor
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Dandantear...@gmail.com wrote:
Don't NAT your NAT.
Use the AEg as your WAN connection.
Plug the ARn into your LAN, as you would any wired computer.
Disable NAT and DHCP in it.
Then you can connect to the ARn's wi-fi, and it will route you out
thru the AEg,
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Chris Fernegoo...@pelorus.co.uk wrote:
The two computers are also individually connected by wifi to a
separate router/modem at the other end of the house.
Not sure I understood that correctly. Are you saying you have two
systems which are connected to two LANs
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:09 PM, George R. Hozendorfghoze...@gmail.com wrote:
CCC is much more reliable.
I can't refute or confirm that because I only have experience using
the Leopard Disk Utility on an Intel MacBook. In my case, I connected
the drives, did the copy, then booted from the
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:38 PM, McGrudemcgr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:32 PM, iJohnzjboyguard-ggro...@yahoo.com wrote:
Yet another reason to move to Snow Leopard this fall ...
No need to wait. Download monolingual...
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'll wait. I'm still
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Richard
Geromeonecoolka...@earthlink.net wrote:
Also with FireFox it doesn't open another window it uses tabs in the same
window
and you can click from tab to tab to tab without trouble of any kind!!!\
Actually, you can use tabs with Safari as well ... which
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Jonas Lopezjonaslo...@yahoo.com wrote:
... so you tug the window off to the side and open a new window, search
Google,
get the info you wanted and now move the email window back to the main
position
and paste it into the email.
Slightly off topic (again)
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Mac User #330250macuser330...@gmx.net wrote:
I guess Apple is going the Intel-only path because for Apple this means that
people will _have to_ buy a new Mac.
Of course, I don't actually know anything about why Apple went with
Intel CPUs. But IMO it had little
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Tomtba...@nmia.com wrote:
How 'bout this plan, then: I put the first of the new drives in the G5
alongside the old drive that's still working, and clone the old to the
Then I toss the old drive and put in the second new one, install
OS 10.5 on it, and let Time
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Tomtba...@nmia.com wrote:
So, with two drives backed up in Time Machine, I should be able to
boot from the OS installer disk twice, and each time restore the
contents of an old drive to its new replacement drive.
Yes, you should not need to install OS X to a
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Stephen Conradkhel...@gmail.com wrote:
So, I plugged in (via USB) my USB Hub and I plugged in 2 USB Thumb
Drives (a 2 GB and a 247 MB one (according to the Get Info command)
but when I tried to plug in a 3rd (512 MB drive) it gave me a Low
Power Warning.
If
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote:
Thanks John, but in this case it's pretty easy to tell when these
drives were made; they both have July 2009 printed right on them, in
big red letters! (Must be something new?).
Yes, that works too. :-)
The point I had in the back
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:27 AM, lyne chelyh...@gmail.com wrote:
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX:
... (snip) ...
It isn't more than a year old. Could it be outdated already?
Less than a year old???
OK, now I'm confused. The NVIDIA GeForce4 series is around 7 years
old. According to the
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Charles Lenington
macso...@brightok.net wrote:
Oh
I didn't catch the wireless part of wireless router. That's (wireless)
over my head although there are a dozen or so laying around here. I have
wireless disabled on the actiontec and the speedstream
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Jasiu johnschiavone...@gmail.com wrote:
How far can I expect wireless coverage without the use of a repeater?
My father has a cabin approximately 80 yards from his house. He would
like to have internet reception there as well. Anyone know what range
I can
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote:
And they won't blow away your WiFi, necessarily. A 2.4 GHz phone will
interfere with your WiFi if it's on the same frequencies. How much is
problematic. The biggest problem is that the phone will change
frequencies as
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Lawrence David Eden lde...@comcast.net wrote:
I was given an old USB 1 card. UH-275 Part # BG-3800-00 made by OPTI.
Is this card Mac compatible?
Out of curiosity, what do you intend to use the USB 1.1 ports for?
(I'm assuming you meant USB v1.1 since AFAIK
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:44 PM, dorayme dora...@optusnet.com.au wrote:
Maybe you don't have them in US? In Australia, TV is moving away from
analog and the free to air stations are broadcasting in Digital and
HD Digital.
The TV conversion to broadcasting in digital happened in the United
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:25 AM, lyne chelyh...@gmail.com wrote:
... what is VLC?
From the website for VideoLAN - VLC media player
VideoLAN is a project, run by volunteers, backed-up by a non-profit
organisation, which produces free and open source software for
multimedia, released under the
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote:
OK, according to Apple techs I should be able to put an HD on the same
cable as my Super Drive.
I the HD and it never shows up. I was told to set it Cable Select and
I did this. No Luck.
I'm not clear on all of the
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
Still doesn't change the fundamental issues: IBM does not desire
Apple's business sufficiently to provide chips Apple needs; they
cannot or will not produce a version suitable for laptop use.
There's that ...
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Richard Gerome
onecoolka...@earthlink.net wrote:
And when he contracted them they had to agree not to make PC's
with the ability to run OS 10 Tiger and Lep only Apple...
Not sure I understand what you're saying here. I've heard that there
are folks who *do* run
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote:
The USB connector is rather small (looks like 5 pins in it)
And what will such a card cost me?
Don't you already have a mini-USB B cable sitting around for use with
a cell phone, camera, MP3 player, or whatever?
If you
In Leopard I can access an NTFS formatted drive in read-only mode. The
only reason to bother with NTFS-3G is if this feature is not available
in the version of OS X you are using or if you want to be able to
write to the NTFS formated drive from your Mac. No?
In other words, I'd check to see if
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Nestamicky nestami...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to be able to mount ntfs hds on
the mac from other machines and write to them.
Are the different machines on the same local network (LAN)? If so,
then couldn't you also just R/W share the drive via the network?
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
Installing NTFS-3G will give you read/write access; I'm pretty sure
that 10.6 alos does read/write out of the box.
Nope. NTFS partitions still show up in Snow Leopard with permissions
of You can only read. I
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
IN the mean time You might want to switch to a more reliable
provider. My fav these days is Gmail...
I actually have my gmail account read (via POP) my mail from my Yahoo
account. That way I didn't have to immediately track
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
Well, let's hope they have backups. T-Mobile customers just learned
THAT lesson the hard way.
http://tinyurl.com/yzfnwtz
I worry a lot less about backing up with google than I would if the
data were on one of
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Ted Treen ted.tr...@btinternet.com wrote:
Use any old PC USB mouse you can assign the right-hand button to Right
click.
I never had to assign anything when using a mouse. The right-hand
button automagically brings up the same context menu that
control-click
If I recall correctly, you are working with the PPC/G4 flavor of the
Mac Mini, correct?
Whether or not you buy from OWC their site usually does have
reasonably good videos of the steps you'd have to go through to
upgrade things like memory or hard drive. I suggest you take a look at
the process
I just finished watching the OWC video I pointed towards in my last link.
It looks like if all you want to do is replace the RAM then you can
skip almost everything in that video. I'm just guessing, but it looks
like all you'd need to do is get the cover off to swap the DDR DIMM.
The video goes
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Ralph Green sfrea...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
The higher RPM drives are definitely faster. It does not always make
sense to use them.
Another aspect of upgrading a hard drive that is usually overlooked is
the bit density of the platters. Roughly speaking the
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:54 PM, yawg yaw...@gmail.com wrote:
I use these adapters:
http://www.nowthatsit.nl/?itemtype_id=4233categorie_id=61
Regards, Jörg.
I think Jörg meant to include a link pointing towards something like this:
http://www.nowthatsit.nl/categorie.asp?categorie_id=629
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Norm Rowe nrow...@roadrunner.com wrote:
External Hard drive has the ability to use Firewire or USB 2. I was using
the firewire connection to use as a start up disk if needed. I was told by
this group that this would not work on my PPC G4 mac so I changed to
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
Glad it worked. I've had similar issues with other HP scanners, but
they were older than yours predating OS X, I hoped HP's scattering of
files all over were limited to their very earliest OS X scanner drivers.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
Carbon Copy Cloner (and the very similar Super Duper) makes it very
easy to recover form a failed HDD: just boot from your backup.
To create a bootable clone copy of an OS X partition I've always just
used
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote:
I would go with the 7200RPM, going from a 5400 to a 7200 even with an
IDE drive is a big difference.
It used to make a bigger difference than it does now with the newer,
higher bit density platters.
This article might be of
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
Sadly more likely is that they'll just dry up and disappear, because they'll
stop making them. The IDE- SATA transition hit just as these were coming to
market, so only the very early iterations had IDE
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Ed Grey edwg...@gmail.com wrote:
Are there any SSD's that plug into a PCI slot? That would be very
handy for a desktop machine, and would avoid taking a hard drive
connector. I've seen PCIe, but I don't remember whether or not I've
seen any PCI.
I think what
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
OMG WTF??!! YGAC, ROFL
Alrighty then, YGAC ???
Some of the possibilities Google came back with ...
Young German American Club
You Girls Are Crazy
Yale Genome Analysis Center
Yamba Golf and Country
Youth
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:50 PM, J.M.P.Hissel jo...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Did you try already the best of all ?? No, then go to:
http://www.acronymfinder.com/YGAC.html
Don't know if I tried it or not, but the two suggestions at your link
were in the list I posted. And I'm guessing neither of them is
Did you actually unpack the package file from the zip it is downloaded
in? When I tried running the package file from within BetterZip, it
would not install. After dragging and dropping (i.e. extracting) the
.pkg file to my desktop, it installed fine.
You probably also need to ensure that Safari
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Da'Birdman sa...@defalcos.com wrote:
I just spent 40 minutes on the phone with Uverse tech support, and
as it turns out, the problem is apparently our use of two 2.4 ghz
cordless phones.
Yes. Either never use the phone while also using wireless or replace
And then there's this ...
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100208/adobe-flash-for-mac-is-getting-better-really/
I didn't know what to make of the supposed quote/claim
In Flash Player 10.1 we are moving to CoreAnimation, which will
further reduce CPU usage and we believe will get us to the
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
Sometimes adapters have firmware updates that correct issues, so
you might check for that, but I saw no support pages on the MCE website, so
it appears unlikely.
SATA-PATA adapters don't (in my experience) have firmware
Another question for the OP. I also found this thread on another
board? It sounds like you may have started it.
http://www.123macmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=183287
The reason I ask is because that thread contains the following in one
of the posts:
This is the item that I've bought.
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:14 PM, carmo...@aol.com wrote:
Wow now I'm more confused than I started out. It looks like the adapter is a
WinBloze item.
At the electronics interface level of PATA SATA, there really aren't
Windows versus Mac items. (Well, the further back you go in time,
the less
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Nicholas Fantuzzi snii...@gmail.com wrote:
The chinese seller guaranteed me that this item perfectly works with a C2D
Mac Mini 1.83GHz..so I think that the problem is of the G4 system.
OK, saying the item works perfectly with a C2D Mac Mini strikes me
as not
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
I don't know about Macs, but I tried using a PATA HD on an optical PATA bus
in a PC and was unpleasantly surprised to find no LBA48 support so it was
limited to 128 GB HDs. This was on a relatively new motherboard made in
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
Shouldn't we suspect the NSA has something to do with this?
If you want to fear that the government might invade your privacy, I'm
right there with you ... except I think you've got the wrong
government.
Remember that when
Since so many seem to have missed it and just to set the record
straight, the OP apparently was just joking about the hearing loss.
Note that the second paragraph of that post starts with ...
well, that's not the case, but since so many 'contributors' to this
thread seem more interested in
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
FW can throw about 390 Mbps. That's usually faster
than most single devices can sustain.
That's just under 49 MB/s, isn't it? That strikes me as a tad
optimistic given my experience with firewire. Usually it was somewhere
in the
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:59 AM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
I got a MacBook Intel 13 for a friends daughter on Christmas
for $600.00 and an extra $60.00 on eBay. I put in 2GB Ram and a
120GB HDD. And Snow Leopard, now to me that's a deal.
Out of curiosity, which flavor of MacBook?
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Fabian Fang f...@mac.com wrote:
This OT thread seems to be getting weirder and weirder. First of all, there
are no G4 MacBooks. Secondly, all MacBooks have SATA drives. Please move
further suggestions about acquisition and enhancement of MacBooks to our
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote:
So, here's the deal.. I'd like very much to extend my network. Is there a
way to do this? I use a current Airport Extreme Base Station mounted high on
my wall inside my 14x55 mobile home and I'd like to share my internet
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:00 PM, JOHN CARMONNE carmo...@aol.com wrote:
What is a good reason to have a WPA password for my NETGEAR when all my
machines require an administrator password to connect to them.
The Wireless Access Point (WAP) password on your Netgear router has
nothing (directly) to
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote:
On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:12 PM, Bill Connelly wrote:
My internet provider verizon dsl, has a browser page that gives who's
connected. Input address is http://192.168.1.1 ... maybe yours has one?
I think it would be
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
Companies such as SMC make higher powered WAPs that could be used to bridge
such distances with no problemo.
Perhaps, but what do they cost? My perhaps incorrect assumption is
that once you leave the realm of basic home
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:08 AM, dorayme dora...@optusnet.com.au wrote:
3. Shall I partition the 320GB HD for a planned purchase and installation of
Fusion or Parallels *at this stage* or not worry about it?
I believe that both Fusion and Parallels for the Mac support a
virtual disk mechanism.
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:41 AM, roman...@ideal-access.com wrote:
It was the E in front of IDE that made me wonder, just like the E after
PCI which is probably intel specific? I've been off line for 5 years and
much has changed.
Generally speaking, EIDE = IDE = PATA.
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:21 AM, John Musbach johnmusba...@gmail.com wrote:
Not only that, but IIRC higher power means a thinner broadcast radius
as well--eventually becoming strictly line of sight.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to parse thinner broadcast radius. What
shape (??) results from a
From an Intel MacBook for comparison if anyone is curious:
Safari Version 4.0.5 (6531.22.7)
Process Kind: Intel (64 bit)
%CPU: 8.9
Real Mem: 273.2 MB
Virtual Mem: 321.3 MB
Private Mem: 184.4 MB
Shared Mem: 33.0 MB
I'm guessing that a MB is 10**9 bytes, not 1024**3. Not sure when
Apple decided to
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm seeing it in Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard.
The bug is in Safari 4 or the underlying WebKit.
Part of the reason for my previous post was to implicitly point out
that I do NOT think I am seeing this memory leak in Safari
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Dennis Myhand dmyh...@suddenlink.net wrote:
That is an ATT Video-Phone. We all knew we would all have one of those in
ten years.
It was no lie, at least IMO. I'm sure the telco engineers sincerely
believed they would make it happen. And I'm also sure it all
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
Have Activity Monitor running.
Launch Safari.
Note the VM size.
Open a bunch of pages in tabs or windows.
Note the VM size.
Close the windows.
The VM size should drop to nearly what it was the first time you looked.
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:02 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
I removed the drive and put it in an external enclosure an connected it
to my PM G5 Dual 2.7 and it functioned properly except I can't verify
S.M.A.R.T. because its IDE and the G5 is SATA.
Most likely the reason you can not
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 2:40 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
I have a G4 Dual 1.25 MDD with a sick HDD and I think I should
convert from PATA drives to SATA as suggested by a lister but I
don't know about the SATA cards like which one is good also the
MDD has four HDD bays.
Another
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:31 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
I ran the verify and also the repair with Drive Genius 2. Now I'll run
the integrity Sustained Write test and see what that produces.
It is usally pointed out in situations such as this one that only YOU
know how valuable
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:26 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
I made a request for warranty service from Seagate's
site so maybe I'll get lucky on this one.
Hm, this didn't occur to me before but whenever I've looked at
going down the RMA under warranty path before I've always
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:02 AM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
The seagate site includes Apple and all the OS's as tabbed choices while
filling
out the online form, so the Apple PC issue are no problem
That sounds good, but I'd still appreciate it if you could update this
thread
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:20 PM, carmo...@aol.com wrote:
Also can the SMART be verified via a eSATA external enclosure?
Yes. eSATA is effectively a SATA connection to your computer using
hopefully a better shielded eSATA cable. If you can get your computer
to recognize the eSATA drive then you
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:02 PM, JOHN CARMONNE carmo...@aol.com wrote:
I read some where that a journaled
drive can be slower than one that's just Mac OS extended.
Sure, technically the extra time to journal would slow it down. But I
doubt you could tell the performance difference without some
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:37 PM, JOHN CARMONNE carmo...@aol.com wrote:
The problem we have is as time goes on the Mac takes a long
long time booting, If we disconnect the externals it boots right up.
If HFS+ journaling was the problem then you'd see it all the time
since (I'm guessing) the
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
It's quite possible that the problem with his son's machine Spotlight being
foo - totally re-building the index each time the drive is mounted.
The easiest way that occurs to me ... (possibly there are easier
ways?) ... to check
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:58 AM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
This happens to my Time Warner Cable modem about twice a month. I
have to reset the modem and go through the reconnection process.
Process?? There's a process?? To reset the Motorola SURFboard(c)
SB5100 modem that Time
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote:
now what about that AppleTV?
I've never even been (knowingly) in the same room as an Apple TV so
all I have is a question. Does an Apple TV have a power down cycle
which it goes through when you turn it off? Or when
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Robert Long texasche...@hotmail.com wrote:
some one mentioned to me that I could connect to the G3 by connecting
with an ethernet cable to the G3 and get on the internet.
How would your older Airport connect to the Internet? Not that this
matters in and of
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:12 PM, janespra...@comcast.net wrote:
An ad for Office Max today shows a D-Link Wireless-N 150 Home router for
$39.99. Would this work for her? I'll be doing the set up, so what would I
need to know? (I've only done Airports before.)
The frank truth as I see it is
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Bob Whiton m...@rswhiton.com wrote:
You don't need a router to share an internet connection between two Macs.
Just turn Airport on for both Macs, and enable internet sharing over
Airport on the Mac that's connected to the cable modem.
Yes, but that implies
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:10 PM, slvrmoonti...@yahoo.com wrote:
I leave my computers running 24/7 if they aren't actually being used the
power is minimal.
Not for all of us. Depends on how much you pay for your electricity (
... and I suppose on whether or not you care how much your
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR)
janespra...@comcast.net wrote:
Bob, she doesn't have an Airport. She doesn't have any type of router
at the present time. But are you saying that she can share internet
connection WITHOUT having an Airport? In other words, her iMac,
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Frank Dutra fdut...@gmail.com wrote:
Will I be OK as far as the OEM power supply goes, and if not, would removing
the 2 ATA drives help?
How many drives do you have? I'm only counting four.
OEM 30 GB ATA HD
plus additional internal 40 GB IBM ATA HD
1 Tb
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM, dc dbc...@verizon.net wrote:
If you are no longer using SCSI devices you could pull the old Adeptec
card.
I didn't even notice the mention of the Adaptec OEM SCSI PCI until
your note made me look for it.
I also cannot see why he would keep that installed since
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Stewie de Young stewies...@hotmail.com wrote:
John, I have a Seritek 1S2 in my Digital Audio with a 36Gb Raptor and a
250Gb Seagate attached to it.
I have OS10.4.11 installed on both and they are both bootable.
And as you say not all PCI SATA cards on a Mac can
My personal take on Dan's post is why can't the SAFARI folks at Apple
investigate the problem, verify the source, and, if appropriate, open
up a problem with WebKit. Was some law passed while I was napping
which prevents development organizations from trying to get bugs fixed
in critical external
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com wrote:
I do see a way that I can take the code from Leopard and put it in snow
leopard.
Then integrate Rosetta into the system to run the intel programs.
So you're thinking you are still going to use a lot of the Leopard
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote:
when I buy ram from most other venders, I get a lifetime warranty what
about that Apple ram that I buy with my new apple, let me guess
Applecare runs out, so does my warranty?
That's what I've always assumed. When
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:57 PM, JOHN CARMONNE carmo...@aol.com wrote:
I just never had one so slow, I thought they're all the same in that respect.
No, Non-volatile aka flash memory comes in lots of different speeds.
The reason why a 32 GB Intel SSD can run you around $360 is because it
claims
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