7.5.3

2002-12-30 Thread PastorScott02
In a message dated 12/29/2 7:21:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there serious improvements in 7.5.5 compared to 7.5.3? Yes! 7.5.5 is much more stable and a little faster than 7.5.3 on my LC 580. As for real life test. It's worth the upgrade. -- Quadlist is sponsored by

Re: A/UX Boot Problems

2002-12-30 Thread Sque
Rob wrote: So I was finally able to get A/UX 3.01 installed on my Q700. It seemed to install fine and when the machine is booted, it enters the A/UX launcher. But when trying to boot, it comes up with an error message: Open on 'newunix' failed. I tried changing the limited settings in the

Re: boot disk

2002-12-30 Thread Sque
Dan Palka wrote: Search for a program called SystemPicker. Its a control panel that you can use to bless a system folder, no matter where it is. Thanks for the tip Dan. Works well enough. -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Using an *40 AV to edit VHS video

2002-12-30 Thread AylmerQuebec
Hi I bought a used Quadra 840AV with lots of installed software from someone clearing out his basement. Unfortunately I've never worked with a Mac before. It didn't come with any books of any sorts and I'm wondering if any of you have any experience using this Mac for editing, if there's any

Re: A/UX Boot Problems

2002-12-30 Thread Rob
Thanks for the reply. I've installed it three times, once as is written on this web page. Once as a default easy install and once as the way that I would do it. None of them will boot. It seems as though the directory structure is fine, so I'll have to keep working on it. Now that I have

System 7.1.1 slowness?

2002-12-30 Thread Dan Knight
Dan Palka writes: System 7.1.1 proved to be not just slower, but significantly slower in several key areas, the biggest being disk access. Speedometer reported that disk access records were 143% in favor of 7.5.5. How could this be true? Two words: Disk Cache. As Apple evolved the Mac OS,

Re: Re(2): 7.1.1 Slowness Revealed! See the light!

2002-12-30 Thread Derek Morton
I haven't seen anybody mention it, but what about the benefit of SCSI manager 4.3? A Quadra 800 will definitely benefit from it, and the performance boost MIGHT be as great as 50%. Try removing the SCSI Manager extension and see if the performance drops down to 7.1.1 levels. Also, don't

Re: A/UX Boot Problems

2002-12-30 Thread Sque
The documentation is wonderful. :) if you could find some. Half way through a network install of Debian on what was my Q800 now C650. Have you taken the long walk through http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aux-faq/part1/ maybe you'll find something in the 4 pages, probably seen that one too. Good luck.

Re: System 7.1.1 slowness?

2002-12-30 Thread Dan Palka
It seems people on this list don't have faith in me. Yes of course I already thought of that. They were both set exactly the same. on 12/30/02 10:26 AM, Dan Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Palka writes: System 7.1.1 proved to be not just slower, but significantly slower in several

Re: 7.5.3

2002-12-30 Thread Kyle Kinsey
Are there serious improvements in 7.5.5 compared to 7.5.3? Yes! 7.5.5 is much more stable and a little faster than 7.5.3 on my LC 580. As for real life test. It's worth the upgrade. As a contrary point I would like to say my C650 crashed a lot more with 7.5.5 than with 7.5.3, though maybe

Re: 7.5.3

2002-12-30 Thread Frederick Silliman
Kyle Kinsey wrote: Are there serious improvements in 7.5.5 compared to 7.5.3? though maybe that was just me ;-) k. Kyle Kinsey That's a good possibility Kyle... 8-) Really, in order to get 7.5.5 stable, one must slim it down to what THEIR computer needs to run the software that

Re: Using an *40 AV to edit VHS video

2002-12-30 Thread E McCann
At 08:10 AM 12/30/2002, AylmerQuebec typed thusly: A quick aside: What is Macromedia Flash, what is it used for? I see it mentioned every so often Many websites with animation (either full animated sites, or things like rollovers) use Flash. It's reasonably compact, but you do need a plugin