MacGroup: Backup suggestions?

2004-02-05 Thread andrew arnold
I have an iMac on a network that serves as our server. It is a 350mhz model with usb and ethernet, no firewire. I have been backing up using a CD-RW burner and Retrospect on the iMac. I know many of you use Retrospect. I am required at work to begin using file vault on all the machines (6). I

MacGroup: G3/Panther?

2004-02-05 Thread John Robinson
Steve, It is gone, I am not sure which it was, one of the first. The fold down door, around a six gig hard drive. It had 128k and I added another 256, and it was running 10.3.2 with all the updates. I was VERY pleased, I felt it might not even run, but it opened Word, Excel, Mail, Quicken

MacGroup: Apple Updates

2004-02-05 Thread Jerry Yeager
Apple has released several more updates, one of which you need a .Mac account for, one of which you need to visit the web-site and at least one is in SUPP iChat AV 2.1 (PUBLIC BETA) -- needs 10.3 http://www.apple.com/ichat/download/ Bluetooth: (Via SUPP) Apple BackUp 2.0.1 (.Mac) -

MacGroup: G3/Panther?

2004-02-05 Thread Rex Baldazo
I've got a 400 MHz G3, it has 256 MB RAM, and it is already running Jaguar. I just wasn't sure if the Panther update would go smoothly but it seems like others on this list have had success with similar configurations. --- Rex. -Original Message- From: owner-macgroup at

MacGroup: G3/Panther?

2004-02-05 Thread John Robinson
Rex, I just put Panther on a Blue White. I added a little more memory and boy it works perfectly. I was amazed, and I can open all the Office Suite, have Mail open, Safari and the performance is VERY good. I wanted to give this to a family that had a missionary brother going to Africa and

MacGroup: Tax Software

2004-02-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What's the groups opinion on tax software for Mac? I am using 9.2. Any ideas? Suggestions? We usually have this done by professional, but need to get a head start because we have to fill out FASFA forms for our daughter who will be going to college. I dare not think that his math challenged

MacGroup: Printers on network

2004-02-05 Thread Harry Jacobson-Beyer
Dan, I have an HP 1200 series printer plugged into my Ethernet network. I have two Macs and a Windows 98 machine on the network and all of them can print to the printer. It's been a while since I set up the printer on the windows machine but I believe I had to input the printer's IP address to

MacGroup: G3/Panther?

2004-02-05 Thread Steven Brown
What blue and white do you have? How much memory? Is this the newest or is it 10.2? Thanks Steve Brown On Thursday, February 5, 2004, at 09:55 AM, John Robinson wrote: Rex, I just put Panther on a Blue White. I added a little more memory and boy it works perfectly. I was amazed, and

MacGroup: G3/Panther?

2004-02-05 Thread Rex Baldazo
Now that it's clear Apple won't be upgrading software on Jaguar (Safari 1.2, for example, is Panther-only) I'm thinking of finally taking the plunge. Now I know my iBook will take the upgrade just fine, I'm wondering about my beat-up old G3 (the one with the semi-translucent blue-and-white

MacGroup: iSync-hotsync

2004-02-05 Thread Harry Jacobson-Beyer
Marta, Sorry to be late with this. I have a handspring visor which I sync with palm desktop on my ibook. I don't have two handhelds but it seems to me if you give both of them the same name and the name is the same as the name on the desktop software, that palm desktop wouldn't know the