Re: For the "Dayum, yah learn something every day" file

[Bruce Johnson]

On Jul 23, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Al Poulin wrote:

>>
>> treated as such. If you delete files that way, you'll probably screw
>> up Time Machine's indexing. It would have been smart for Apple to not
>> make a TM volume even visible on the desktop.
>
>>> And you saved '20-25 Gb' ?
>
> Oh, well, I was wondering about the lower case "b" .

Oh, I'm lazy, rarely make the distinction. If I say GB, gb or Gb in  
relation to file or disk sizes assume it's gigabytes, if I'm talking  
about networking and comms, it's gigabits. :-)

My backup drive went from 9 gigabytes free to 34 gigabytes free.

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Re: I forgot....

[Bruce Johnson]

On Jul 23, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Al Poulin wrote:

> But will this make the browser, Safari or whatever, also default to
> Preview for the .pdf files not being saved locally while Adobe Reader
> still has itself set to be the default?

Safari should open PDF's in the browser, since 3.0. It will either use  
it's built in plugin or Adobe, depending on whether Adobe has butted  
in or not.

I actually prefer PDF Plugin, from SchubertIT 
, much faster than Acrobloat, much more flexible than the built-in  
one. It lets you open forms in Acrobat when needed, preserving the  
various automatic stuff you lose by saving it and opening it in  
Acrobat form the desktop.

We have a LOT of such forms here on campus that require you to open  
them up in the browser to work; Apple's own QT PDF stuff (which the  
ShcubertIT plug-in uses) opens some of the forms, but others are  
messed up; in the SchubertIT plugin, you can click on the gear button  
and open the form in any other program that handles PDF's.


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Re: I forgot....

[Dan Auerbach]

On Jul 23, 2009, at 7:43 PM, Al Poulin wrote:

> But will this make the browser, Safari or whatever, also default to
> Preview for the .pdf files not being saved locally while Adobe Reader
> still has itself set to be the default?

When I download a pdf file and click on it, it opens in preview.  
After you do what I previously described, try it out.

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Video card HELP

[Allan Castleberry]

I am trying to hook up my Gigabit G4, to my Magnavox lcd hdtv, with a DVI to
HDMI cable. So far, radeon 7000 and radeon 9000 aren't working. Any
suggestions?
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Re: Video card HELP

[Bruce Johnson]

On Jul 24, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Allan Castleberry wrote:

> I am trying to hook up my Gigabit G4, to my Magnavox lcd hdtv, with  
> a DVI to
> HDMI cable. So far, radeon 7000 and radeon 9000 aren't working. Any
> suggestions?


Have you tried the VGA port on the TV? I know that when I connected  
mine (with a Radeon 9000) to my tv it didn't work at first because the  
video was set wrong. I was able to use VNC (I'd previously set it up  
for remote control) from my laptop to change the video output to what  
my TV (Proscan) used (which is 1024 x 768...the computer detected a  
widescreen resolution 13nn x something, iirc, I only saw it flash for   
brief moment.)

I was going to try a DVI-HDMI solution when I got around to getting a  
cable. Maybe I'll wait to see if you get it working ...



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Re: I forgot....

[Lawrence David Eden]

Many thanks to you all for helping me with a problem.  I followed 
your directions and now my .pdf files open with Previewregardless 
of browser.

Larry




>On Jul 23, 2009, at 7:43 PM, Al Poulin wrote:
>
>>  But will this make the browser, Safari or whatever, also default to
>>  Preview for the .pdf files not being saved locally while Adobe Reader
>>  still has itself set to be the default?
>
>When I download a pdf file and click on it, it opens in preview.
>After you do what I previously described, try it out.
>
>dan_A
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Very useful Applescript

[Bruce Johnson]

Cleans up a Mac of user files, and sets it up to run Setup Assistant  
when restarted.

This lets you set up a Mac, update it and/or add programs, then hand  
it off as 'clean' with no users. Better than simply nuking and paving  
it. for institutional or corprate use this is how to pass on a Mac...

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Re: Very useful Applescript

[nestami...@gmail.com]

Bruce Johnson wrote:
> 
>
> Cleans up a Mac of user files, and sets it up to run Setup Assistant  
> when restarted.
>
> This lets you set up a Mac, update it and/or add programs, then hand  
> it off as 'clean' with no users. Better than simply nuking and paving  
> it. for institutional or corprate use this is how to pass on a Mac...
>
>   
I've not even looked at it yet but I feel/know this is going to be good. 
I know macs are not as bad as windows in their need for nuke and pave to 
get them running faster, but this will come in handy.


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Re: Very useful Applescript

[Bruce Johnson]

On Jul 24, 2009, at 1:24 PM, nestami...@gmail.com wrote:

>
> I've not even looked at it yet but I feel/know this is going to be  
> good.
> I know macs are not as bad as windows in their need for nuke and  
> pave to
> get them running faster, but this will come in handy.

Read the articlethis isn't "To make them faster"...this is a  
script to prepare a Mac for sale or transfer to another owner.

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Re: Video card HELP

[Clark Martin]

Bruce Johnson wrote:
> 
> On Jul 24, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Allan Castleberry wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to hook up my Gigabit G4, to my Magnavox lcd hdtv, with  
>> a DVI to
>> HDMI cable. So far, radeon 7000 and radeon 9000 aren't working. Any
>> suggestions?
> 
> 
> Have you tried the VGA port on the TV? I know that when I connected  
> mine (with a Radeon 9000) to my tv it didn't work at first because the  
> video was set wrong. I was able to use VNC (I'd previously set it up  
> for remote control) from my laptop to change the video output to what  
> my TV (Proscan) used (which is 1024 x 768...the computer detected a  
> widescreen resolution 13nn x something, iirc, I only saw it flash for   
> brief moment.)
> 
> I was going to try a DVI-HDMI solution when I got around to getting a  
> cable. Maybe I'll wait to see if you get it working ...

I've used a DVI-HDMI cable both from a couple of MacBook Pros and from a 
G4 Mac Mini.  The latter has a Radeon 9200 as the built in video (I 
believe it is).  In both cases it worked right off with our Philips TV. 
  It does take a while for the TV and computer to negotiate the screen 
size and such but it's no more than 20 seconds.

I agree it could be the wrong video mode and using VNC is the way to 
check it.  If you have a Leopard machine (besides the one in question) a 
VNC client is built in.  The VNC server is built in to recent OSX 
versions and is activated in the Sharing System Preference.






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Re: Upgrading an MDD

[dc]

> I wanted to upgrade my children's (my old) G4 MDD 1.25 Dualie, 2 GB RAM, 
> OS10.5.4 to the 1.42 Ghz Dual processors and heat sink.
>
> The buss speed is 167 so I should have had no problems.
>
> However, when I swapped the processors, heat sinks (big brass one),
> pressed the cuda button and then powered up and I get the "boing" but
> the monitor displays nothing. I tried again and still the same, I have tried 
> using CMD + OPT + P + R and I do get the gray Apple but NO spinning wheel. I 
> again put everything back as it was and it started just fine and continues to 
> run.

Have you tried pulling out all the pci cards and starting up while
holding the shift key for a safe boot?

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Re: Very useful Applescript

[yersinia]

Bruce Johnson writes,



Sounds cool -- I downloaded it. Will use it on my "new" G4 1.5 GHz Mac 
Mini, which I got today and booted up to make sure it works/had the 
specs advertised by the Swap List seller I bought it from. It does, but 
I also found a Home folder from a past user -- nope I don't need or want 
that!

~Yersinia.

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Re: Very useful Applescript

[Charles Lenington]

yersi...@cybernex.net wrote:
> Bruce Johnson writes,
>
>  when restarted.
>
> This lets you set up a Mac, update it and/or add programs, then hand
> it off as 'clean' with no users. Better than simply nuking and paving
> it. for institutional or corprate use this is how to pass on a Mac...>
>
> Sounds cool -- I downloaded it. Will use it on my "new" G4 1.5 GHz Mac 
> Mini, which I got today and booted up to make sure it works/had the 
> specs advertised by the Swap List seller I bought it from. It does, but 
> I also found a Home folder from a past user -- nope I don't need or want 
> that!
>
> ~Yersinia.
>
>   
grats,
Hope you have good luck with it. Have you been reading lem's mini list?

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