Re: Pesky hardware problem

[Joshua Juran]

On Oct 18, 2011, at 12:47 AM, QuoVadis wrote:


I too use an eMac as my daily machine. It's the 1.25Ghz G4, has 2GB of
RAM. Everything else is standard (40GB disk, Radeon 9200 32MB).

If I want to play YouTube films on this machine, I need to select 360p
or 240p. In case of 360p I need to let it load the entire film before
playing, if I am to get a smooth framerate.
However, since YouTube is full of ads, I somtimes get an unacceptable
framerate because of one of the ads being an animated ad. To fix it, I
installed an ad-block extension to Safari to give some CPU time back
to the films instead of the ads.


Try FireFox with the Video Download Helper extension.  The Medium  
resolution download gives you a .mp4 file which you can play in  
QuickTime Player.  I do this on my 2GB iMac to avoid loading the  
Flash plugin at all.


Other bonuses:
* you have an offline copy so you can watch it without Internet access
* you have a permanent copy in case it gets taken down
* you can play the movie without a Web browser running at all
* the Play/Pause key works
* you can go frame-by-frame
* you can double the dimensions of the movie
* you can make the movie any size and arrange it so you can see it  
while you work on something else
* you don't have to worry about YouTube's player becoming even more  
annoying

* you're not seeing YouTube users' comments

Josh


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Re: My computer has a strange smell

[cheryl]

Right now I'm using it as little as possible, just long enough to
check emails and take care of my online business. My new computer
should be here on Tuesday.

On Oct 17, 10:35 pm, Frank Rojer frankro...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello:

 Is the fan running? I got a smell too years ago! I have a Quicksilver 2000
 (OEM) with a clock rate of 1 Ghz from an American friend in the Netherlands.
 I let a University use my computer while I was sleeping and
 I was using a defragmenting program. The university did a lot of
 calculations and my microprocessor's temperature went over 50 degrees
 Celsius. I got a warning from the defragmenter which stopped!!!
 Use a program to check if your processor is getting too hot!
 A smell is some warning!
 Give your computer a rest!
 My computer was constantly online for 8 years till that University incident

 On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:08 AM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote:

   You guys will think I'm nuts but here goes. My Quicksilver 2002 has a
   smell coming out of it. It doesn't smell like it's burning but it's
   definitely not normal. I've cleaned it with canned air and vacuumed it
   and I'm using it now. The smell is there but I can't find anything
   hot, I don't see any smoke. It's coming straight out of the exhaust
   fan. Right now I'm running it with the case open so I can keep an eye
   on it. Any ideas as to what it could be?

  Bad caps in the PSU.

  Alas, these are not easily replaced.

  Replacements, when available, are usually rated 85ºC, whereas the
  originals are usually rated 105ºC.

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