Re: DVD won't eject

[Kyle Hansen]

Mercury just went into retrograde. Expect problems. I am not a hippy. I am
an Apple Certified Technician. I have been charting this for years. When
Mercury goes retro, my invoices are higher.

-- Kyle Hansen

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro! --Hunter S. Thompson





On 7/18/12 1:56 PM, "Golden Silence"  wrote:

>Hello All:
>
>I keep a lazy eye on long term weather trends.  Sunspot and cosmic ray
>interference are ramping up with the peak occurring in 2013.  There is
>supposed to be more sunspot activity these next years than for something
>like 1-5 centuries previous.  (Sorry just too lazy to look it up right
>now).  I believe I read about it on the NOAA.gov website.


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Re: [G3-5]Re: Virtual Intel Mac for G multiprocessors

[Jerry]

You are correct.  I didn't read the original question carefully enough.

Please allow me to gracefully bow out now.

Jerry


On 07/18/12 07:49 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>> +1 for Qemu.  I have great hopes for it on other platforms also.
>>
>> Till that comes to pass, I can tell you that I have loaded 10.6 Snow
>> Leopard successfully on top of Solaris/OpenIndiana, using VirtualBox and
>> it worked great.
> 
> Note that VirtualBox virtualizes x86; it does not, per se, emulate it.
> 

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AM/FM radio tuner for OS X

[Jerry]

Does anyone have an AM/FM radio that they would recommend?

I know years back that Griffin had the Radio Shark and Radio Shark II.

http://www.griffintechnology.com/support/radioshark/

I could pick one of those up from eBay or somewhere, but I never saw a
good review for either one of those.

Thanks for any comments.

Jerry

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Re: [G3-5]Re: Virtual Intel Mac for G multiprocessors

[Cameron Kaiser]

> +1 for Qemu.  I have great hopes for it on other platforms also.
> 
> Till that comes to pass, I can tell you that I have loaded 10.6 Snow
> Leopard successfully on top of Solaris/OpenIndiana, using VirtualBox and
> it worked great.

Note that VirtualBox virtualizes x86; it does not, per se, emulate it.

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Re: [G3-5]Re: Virtual Intel Mac for G multiprocessors

[Jerry]

+1 for Qemu.  I have great hopes for it on other platforms also.

Till that comes to pass, I can tell you that I have loaded 10.6 Snow
Leopard successfully on top of Solaris/OpenIndiana, using VirtualBox and
it worked great.

Hardware was my Mac Mini.

Jerry


On 07/18/12 01:56 PM, Douglas Mencken wrote:
>> has anyone really tried to install a post-Tiger, Intel-only Mac
> OS version on VPC
> 
> VirtualPC 7.0 doesn't provide enough emulation for stuff like EFI and such.
> 
> Our faith is QEmu. Help QEmu project as you can, please.
> 

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Re: DVD won't eject

[Golden Silence]

On Jul 17, 2012, at 8:44 AM, Gary D. wrote:


On Monday, July 16, 2012 5:02:24 PM UTC+2, gifutiger wrote:
Here is what you should read and "Bookmark" in case you have this  
problem again.

http://www.macinminutes.co.uk/express_tips/ejecting_stuck_disc.html

It's called 16 Tips on Ejecting a stuck Slot Loading DVD

Cheers

Harry

Thanks, Harry. That is an excellent tip and I have bookmarked it for  
future reference.


But wait...wasn't there a sun magnetic storm last week? Could that  
be the reason my mini striked, my sat reveiver lost some settings  
and a cordless phone did strange things? Anyone else have problems  
or did I just have a bad day?


Gary D.



Hello All:

I keep a lazy eye on long term weather trends.  Sunspot and cosmic ray  
interference are ramping up with the peak occurring in 2013.  There is  
supposed to be more sunspot activity these next years than for  
something like 1-5 centuries previous.  (Sorry just too lazy to look  
it up right now).  I believe I read about it on the NOAA.gov website.


Point is, yes, Gary we _are_ going to have more random problems with  
our electronic equipment for the next 2-4 years.


(AAiieee!  It's not just global warming, it's galactic warming, too!   
OK, solar system, but that's close!)


Bob

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Re: [G3-5]Re: Updates for Mac OS X?

[Brian Christmas]

> On 18/07/2012, at 4:41 PM, MaGioZal wrote:
> 
>  Long are gone the times when a Mac OS version (7.5.5) could run from a Plus
> to a multiprocessed 9600 machine... And this was used as selling point in
> "Why Mac?" brochures!
> 
> But Steve Jobs, despite saving, ressurecting and rebranding Apple, gradually
> killed retrocompatibility. And Tim Cook seems to continue this policy. I bet
> that in 2014 any Apple product bought in 2010 will be unsupported,
> unupgradebable and useless...
> 
> -- 
> MaGioZal.
> 


And I personally wouldn't have it any other way. The main reason we're going 
through an upheaval with Mountain Lion is because of all 64 bit addressing in 
the OS, and more importantly, the requirement of a suitable Graphics card. Even 
then, ML will run on mid 2007 iMacs up, tho sans some features apparently. 

Compare this to the upcoming release of Windows 8, where I've read many PC's 
even less than a year old won't be able to run it.

In 2014 we might see an OS that handles things like touch screens, and 3D 
graphics, and retina displays, that even 2012 Macs won't handle. Who knows? 
It's a complete guessing game.

I'd rather the existing situation than be stuck on Classic OS 9.2.2 forever 
though. Power to the people still using it, but the world moves on. Even OS X 
will disappear one day, and it will be exciting to see the OS that will replace 
it!

I've got an iPad (or rather, my Wife's got an iPad, that I happen to own, and 
see occasionally), and to see how my grandkids, and elderly friends take to the 
iOS like a duck to water makes me realize how important a simple OS is to the 
majority of people. The vast majority can't handle a complex OS like Classic, 
or even OS X, and I can see why Apple seem to be moving to a multi-level choice 
of how an OS behaves; beginner, intermediate, and pro users. Retrocompatability 
with anything existing today will be out the window, and rightly so.

Who on Earth would want to see OS X.8 running on a Tangarine iMac? Talk about 
boringly slow!

Regards

Santa



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Re: [G3-5]Re: VLC (was Re: Flash help??)

[Douglas Mencken]

Try VLC 0.8.6i. If that wouldn't work, try 0.5.3 and vlc-0.2.92-25.01.2001.

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Re: [G3-5]Re: Virtual Intel Mac for G multiprocessors

[Douglas Mencken]

> has anyone really tried to install a post-Tiger, Intel-only Mac
OS version on VPC

VirtualPC 7.0 doesn't provide enough emulation for stuff like EFI and such.

Our faith is QEmu. Help QEmu project as you can, please.

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