Re: G5 Damaged in Shipping
On Jan 28, 2013, at 1:01 AM, Richard Gerome wrote: That doesn't look to me like damage from shipping??? I agree. I saw those HD jumper pins all bent that are recessed down into a hole and thought looks like someone bent these pins on purpose because I can't see anyway these get bent in shipping. I own a similar G5 and to me this damage looks beyond anything you could do by dropping. I think someone mangled this computer purposefully. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: G5 Damaged in Shipping
On Jan 27, 2013, at 11:06 PM, glen wrote: G5 dual 2.5Mhz, June 2004, Radeon 9800 XT video. Model #A1047 EMC# 1969. M9457LL/A, liquid cooling. Curious who the Shipper was ... I had a similar G5 model (Quad Core) machine shipped to me by FedEx Ground, and even though the computer case showed no damage, the box and styrofoam formed around the machine was punched in on one end, and the G5 did not work as expected and claimed by the Seller. Other damage to the box included scrapes and dented corners. All was sent back including the display that was in the ebay deal ... the display box had grappling hook holes in one side of the box and styrofoam, and scrapes and dented corners. I decided I did not want to try and fix a liquid cooled system ... probably too expensive and beyond my level of expertise. I'm now enjoying an air-cooled Mac Pro 2 x quad core 3.0 GHz under Snow Leopard ... running my Power PC apps under Rosetta. Also decided not to buy / ship much else over the December / January holiday season ... -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Twitter on a G4 or a G5
On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:39:14 PM UTC-7, Cameron Kaiser wrote: Mostly all I have heard about Twitter involves apps where you have to go to the app store. Twitter apps are just clients; Twitter is ultimately a web service. Given that Twitter is cracking down on clients, it would probably be better to use a web browser anyway. What does Twitter is cracking down on clients mean? http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-api-changes-chart-2012-8 -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * cka...@floodgap.com javascript: -- No good deed goes unpunished. -- Clare Boothe Luce - Now I understand! Twitter wants to become irrelevant like MySpace by going the way of Apple. Twitter will decrease it's market relevance the way Apple did in the 80's by ending the manufacturing relationship they had with companies like Franklin Computer. The result of which was the decline of Apple's business market share and giving almost the entire business market to the PC. Glad to see that Apple's lesson has not been affected Twitter! -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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hard to believe this lol http://bit.ly/122FaCx PETE -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: OT redirected to l. yimg.com on Mac G4
At 10:19 PM -0800 01/22/2013, Jonas Lopez wrote: [HTML removed] when reading items from Yahoo on my G4 10.4.11 a new endless problem with script. redirected to l. yimg.com. Yes, for tracking, Yahoo often uses a redirection. Just like a bazillion other sites. What specifically is the problem? Please provide a specific url that shows the problem - steps to reproduce, etc. What browser? Have you tried clearing caches etc? Is JavaScript enabled? What other plug-ins, add-ons, extensions, etc are involved? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Prepping a G4/10.5.8 for sale
Questions: 1. Can I do this from Disk Utility or do I need other software to proceed? 2. What are the steps I need to follow to proceed? Should you want to prepare the machine for a new user, so s/he has to go through the process of adding a user and password, the following process may be used (this also works should you forget your own password): 1) boot the machine into single user mode using CMD-s, 2) enter the command fsck -fy 3) enter the command mount -uw / 4) enter the command rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone 5) enter the command shutdown -h now The machine will power itself off. The next time the machine is powered on, OS X will enter the user and password setup process, through the usual Willkommen dialog. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Prepping a G4/10.5.8 for sale
Check this site. The step for giving the next user the new mac feel with their very own Welcome Screen is quite simple. http://hivelogic.com/articles/how-to-prepare-a-mac-for-sale If you’ve installed Mac OS X before, you may recall that after the installation is complete and the Welcome video is finished playing, you’ll be prompted to create a new user account, and it seems that there’s no other choice but to continue the process and create a user. You’d then have to jot this information down for the recipient of the new system. That’s a bit of a tacky solution, and there’s a better way. After installation, when you’re prompted to create a new user, just press Command-Q. DaleH On Jan 28, 2013, at 2:24 PM, kimtoufectis wrote: I'm getting a G4 iMac ready to sell (I'm not willing to give up the G4 Sunflower form factor so I found a faster one with a larger display). You'd think a 10-year old mac user would know what to do, but no dice; as a non-techie I need some step-by-step guidance. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Prepping a G4/10.5.8 for sale
On Jan 28, 2013, at 12:24 PM, kimtoufectis kimtoufec...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting a G4 iMac ready to sell (I'm not willing to give up the G4 Sunflower form factor so I found a faster one with a larger display). You'd think a 10-year old mac user would know what to do, but no dice; as a non-techie I need some step-by-step guidance. I bought it used 18 months ago with 10.5.8 installed. The prior user swept it pretty clean beforehand and set up a 15 GB bootable Recovery partition on the hard drive in addition to the 105 GB OS X partition from which it boots. I imagine this is the key to putting the machine back the way I got it. I think what I want to do is boot from the Recovery partition, then overwrite the current main partition with another version of the recovery partition. Questions: 1. Can I do this from Disk Utility or do I need other software to proceed? 2. What are the steps I need to follow to proceed? You're on the right track: 1) Boot from your recovery partition by holding down the Option key while starting up. 2) Start Disk Utility and erase the larger partition. 3) Presuming that the recovery disk was set up with the OS X installers, install OS X on the freshly erased drive. 4) To leave it ready for the next users, just quit the new user dialog like Dale says.. To install the Ralink drivers and have them work 'Out of the box' is a little more complex, maybe. First thing to try is run the installer and see if it will let you select the new Main drive as the place to install them; if it does, then just install and go. If it does not, then you'll have to actually boot from the new drive, create an admin user, install the drivers, then delete the user as described in this hint: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071030151739791 The warning here about being careful with dscl is correct, and all those dots and spaces in the command are important. It may well be far simpler to save the installer on the newly formatted disk after installing OS X and give the new person a note saying Run this thing first! to install the drivers. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: G5 Damaged in Shipping
G5 dual 2.5Mhz, June 2004, Radeon 9800 XT video. Model #A1047 EMC# 1969. M9457LL/A, liquid cooling. Conerns; 1. Damaged/Leaking LCS -- how to inspect it. The only way to thoroughly inspect for LCS problems is to completely disassemble the CPU modules from the mobo and check the area where the O-rings are located, which you can't see without pulling the CPU's from the mobo. This is where the corrosion will begin if a leak is too slow to cause catastrophic leakage. Even if there is no leakage, I strongly suggest that you replace those O-rings with new ones, to insure that they do not begin leaking in the near future. 2. Hard drive cables and connectors -- no_ SATA drive at hand to test (one cable was found disconnected from the motherboard. Not sure why Cameron says that this will be difficult to replace, as SATA hard drives are the easiest to find replacements for nowadays. If you are going to keep the computer, you need a SATA drive anyway, so just buy a new one. If it is the HD sled you are worried about finding, the G5 PowerMac does not have any sled IIRC, but it does have specially rounded screws that fit on the sides of the HD and guide the HD into the proper spot, with a flip down retaining tab that holds the HD in place. Questions: 1) Would anyone want to use this as production computer? All my production software is Mac PCI based. See my private email to you regarding potential buyers for this system, now that the port of MorphOS3.x supporting G5 PowerMac's with AGP slots and Radeon video cards will soon be finished. 2) How hard is it to take all guts out of this G5 and reassemble in a new case? Any propriety tools needed? And how to find_ take a part instructions? I'm up for a challenge --but is it worth it ??? I have done it and it is not too difficult. There is a guide at iFixIt.com that takes you step-by-step through the process. Like Cameron, I suggest that you take the money from the seller and then decide if you want to keep the G5, or sell it to someone else who is interested in the operation and not the looks of your system. A new case is going to be expensive for the seller to find and buy for you, so if you want to keep it for yourself and looks are important, you might want to ask for the new case. Good luck. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: OT redirected to l. yimg.com on Mac G4
I try to read the news the attached pix shows that an UNRESPONSIVE SCRIPT keeps showing up every 9 seconds endlessly over and over and after about 10 oks, you can click on the STOP and finsih reading the story. See Google for others, how can we WE kill it? PLEASE it is on all browsers. A yahoo problem. http://news.yahoo.com/nigerian-stole-145m-pays-fine-avoid-prison-172240245.html I'm a designated FREE SPIRIT HITCHHIKING on the Information Super Highway === --- On Mon, 1/28/13, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dan dantear...@gmail.com Subject: Re: OT redirected to l. yimg.com on Mac G4 To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, January 28, 2013, 8:25 AM At 10:19 PM -0800 01/22/2013, Jonas Lopez wrote: [HTML removed] when reading items from Yahoo on my G4 10.4.11 a new endless problem with script. redirected to l. yimg.com. Yes, for tracking, Yahoo often uses a redirection. Just like a bazillion other sites. What specifically is the problem? Please provide a specific url that shows the problem - steps to reproduce, etc. What browser? Have you tried clearing caches etc? Is JavaScript enabled? What other plug-ins, add-ons, extensions, etc are involved? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: OT redirected to l. yimg.com on Mac G4
At 4:46 PM -0800 01/28/2013, Jonas Lopez wrote: I try to read the news the attached pix shows that an UNRESPONSIVE SCRIPT keeps showing up So the problem is not a redirect, per your OP. The problem is a script getting stuck. PLEASE it is on all browsers. A yahoo problem. http://news.yahoo.com/nigerian-stole-145m-pays-fine-avoid-prison-172240245.html This url works just fine for me, in both Safari and Firefox. The main portion of the page loads immediately. A few seconds later, the social media and other scripts finish and show their icons and such. You can read the page. And then about a minute or so later the garbage comments, all 319, show up. Bottom line: When a script returns an error, do some thinking. Recall that 99% of the javascripts on these web pages are for craplets. They have nothing to do with the content you want. So just hit the STOP button. Or better yet --- turn off JavaScript in the first place, then visit the page. You'll be amazed at how fast the web can be when you skip the craplets! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: G5 Damaged in Shipping
2. Hard drive cables and connectors -- no_ SATA drive at hand to test (one cable was found disconnected from the motherboard. Not sure why Cameron says that this will be difficult to replace, as SATA hard drives are the easiest to find replacements for nowadays. I'm not talking about the hard disk; I'm talking about getting the cable back on the board. You can try to reattach it, but if it has to be replaced, you have to clip and destroy the old one and rethread the new one through the hard drive bay. It's not as easy as it looks. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. --- -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: OT redirected to l. yimg.com on Mac G4
Run Firefox use Ghostery plug in. On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 4:46 PM -0800 01/28/2013, Jonas Lopez wrote: I try to read the news the attached pix shows that an UNRESPONSIVE SCRIPT keeps showing up So the problem is not a redirect, per your OP. The problem is a script getting stuck. PLEASE it is on all browsers. A yahoo problem. http://news.yahoo.com/**nigerian-stole-145m-pays-fine-** avoid-prison-172240245.htmlhttp://news.yahoo.com/nigerian-stole-145m-pays-fine-avoid-prison-172240245.html This url works just fine for me, in both Safari and Firefox. The main portion of the page loads immediately. A few seconds later, the social media and other scripts finish and show their icons and such. You can read the page. And then about a minute or so later the garbage comments, all 319, show up. Bottom line: When a script returns an error, do some thinking. Recall that 99% of the javascripts on these web pages are for craplets. They have nothing to do with the content you want. So just hit the STOP button. Or better yet --- turn off JavaScript in the first place, then visit the page. You'll be amazed at how fast the web can be when you skip the craplets! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-**list.shtmlhttp://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtmland our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/**lists/netiquette.shtmlhttp://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** group/g3-5-list http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.comg3-5-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_outhttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out . -- Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/ http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/ -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
