Email issues (was Re: Big Sur crashes etc)
Hi Michael, What email app are you using? IMAP or POP3 accounts? How many accounts? If IMAP on Apple Mail, try rebuilding the indices to your Inbox(s). Do this by: Click the arrow to the left of Inbox so it shows the individual accounts. One at a time, right-click each of those account items selecting “Synchronize” from the pop-up menu. Then … wait … for Mail to coordinate with the mail server. Fwiw, last rebuild I did took about 20 mins for Mail to vomit the correct results. HTH, - Dan. On Jul 1, 2021, at 09:26 PM, Michael Angell wrote: > > And I thot it was only y e-mail re-loading - constantly. > > Michael Angell -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/imaclist/28A7389A-ABB7-48F1-977A-F0DD2A43136D%40gmail.com.
Re: Big Sur crashes etc
Hi Bill! FWIW, I’ve got a few friends on Big Sur that complain to me daily about system panics and such. Heck, I’ve got some of the same types of problems on my home Mini (Catalina). Please run Disk Utility on each disk volume/partition to make sure the file system is clean, then reset the nvram, and perhaps reduce the number of external devices and apps running all the time. If that doesn’t improve things: Provide a description of your environment… Stock iMac? RAM? Network setup? VPN? etc Maybe hit me off-list with a zipped system.log (be sure to tell me when the crash occurred). - Dan. On 05/11/2021 5:06 AM William Spencer wrote: > > Hi there: Ever since installing Big Sur/11.3/11.3.1, I have been having big > problems with the machine crashing and restarting randomly, taking forever to > shut down, refusing to shut down altogether, even spontaneously powering on > from being off. Anyone else seeing this behavior? Suggestions for how to deal > with it other than getting another drink and waiting for the next update? > > I’m also finding that Music and Podcasts are moody about synching with my > trusty old iPod Classic…I have to wait for the iPod to eject, then select it > again in Music before it fully syncs, and even then the podcasts don’t > necessarily always get synced—plus podcasts that I want to save don’t > necessarily get saved once they’re played. Annoying. > > *** > Bill Spencer in Maryland > Mac Mini (2014) 2.6 GHz i5/11.3.1 -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/imaclist/EEB158A9-3627-4B38-A0C0-7142ABA5EC66%40gmail.com.
Re: Logitech trackball weirdness
On Oct 23, 2019, at 07:00 AM, William Spencer mailto:wspence...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > My M570 wireless trackball began making a single click behave like a > double-click a while ago. It’s very maddening. The Logitech site only seems > to talk about this in the Windows world. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance! What vers macOS? What vers LCC? Clean the contacts/wheels as best you can, and replace the batteries. I’ve had this double-click behavior on several devices. The fix was usually cleaning or fresh batteries. - Dan. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/imaclist/9EA5F33A-A2F4-4012-B957-D806854B43CE%40gmail.com.
Re: Touch-screen monitor question
> On Mar 31, 2017, at 12:32 PM, Bill Spencer <wspen...@jhu.edu> wrote: > > What choices are there for a 19" 5:4 (or could be 4:3...) touchscreen monitor? *blink* Touchscreen *blink blink* for a Mac I thought there was no support for that in macOS.!? How exactly does that work? - Dan. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Blu-Ray & DVD media
Hey all… I’m getting ready to buy some blu-ray blanks for myself; shopping around, looking at the quantity prices, etc. What brand & type of media do you use / like best? Are there any brands that I should avoid? If I were to order in quantity,,, should I offer some on LEM Swap? - Dan. (Still in South Jersey) -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Printer recommendations?
> On Oct 23, 2016, at 11:06 AM, Russell Courtenay <unknownid...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I have been thinking about color laser printers because of our great > experience with our old Brother printer, have you tried printing photos with > it? I hear laser is not good for photos. First print on it was a photo. mid-range jpg, regular paper, standard print mode - came out quite nice. Still need to get some harder paper to do a high-res print. - Dan. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Printer recommendations?
I was looking at the Epson Expression ET-2550. All-in-One, AirPrint, MSRP $400, Costco $269. EcoTank - 2yr supply of CYMK ink, ~20cart sets. Tank refill set is aro $58. 4000-6500 color, 8000 black pages per set. But while surfing on Amazon, I found a refirb HP Color LaserJet Pro M452dn for $127 (incl tax and free shipping). Couldn’t resist. Big sucker. But the color prints are beautiful. - Dan. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Feeling very stupid about printer setup...
> On Oct 4, 2016, at 12:43 PM, Bill Spencer <wspen...@jhu.edu> wrote: > A quick word of advice on how to get the printer onto the new network will be > much appreciated. Apologies, and thanks! > Put the printer on the network. Wait a few mins for its name to broadcast. On your Mac, print a document. In the print dialog, look in the bonjour list. Select the new printer. Print! Then you can view the printer in the sysprefs, clean up its name etc. hth, - Dan. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: eMac with blank HD won't boot from CD
On Jun 29, 2015, at 03:00 PM, Jack jhs...@gmail.com wrote: 10.3 on CDs, but it won't recognize them, displays the missing system folder icon. I reset the PRAM, it has a new battery, I've tried Option C... any suggestions...? To boot from a CD/DVD, hold down the c key. Not option-C - Dan. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups iMac Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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Re: Another DVD-conversion question
On Jan 25, 2015, at 05:15 PM, William Spencer wspen...@jhu.edu wrote: I have a single copy of a non-commercial and unavailable DVD that appears to be copy-protected. I want to make a copy for myself that I can watch on both the TV and the computer just as though I’m looking at the original, meaning including whatever chapters might exist. To do this, I think I have to go through a conversion process…Disk Utility refuses to make a disk image (this is why I think the disk is copy-protected). So what’s the simplest way to do this? Simple is relative. The key is in understanding the individual steps required, I think. 1. Physically clean the DVD with water and a soft cloth! Better to make a clean rip than waste time listening to the DVD drive re-read track after track after track, hoping to get it right. 2. Prepare to break the encoding/protection. Until this is done, other tools will simply t-rex (flap their wee hands uselessly). Do this by installing and launching Fairmount. https://github.com/pmetzger/Fairmount https://github.com/pmetzger/Fairmount 3. Mount the (now dry) DVD and wait a minute or three for Fairmount to do its magic. 4. Rip the whole DVD using MacTheRipper. 5. Test the rip by opening and playing the resulting Video_TS folder with VLC. 6. (optional) Transcode the desired title(s) in the Video_TS to something else. An mkv file containing h.264 is usually preferred because it supports chapters and embedded subtitles etc. My current fav tool for this is Handbrake, but sometimes I wing it with raw ffmpeg commands. http://handbrake.fr/ http://handbrake.fr/ Technically, you should be able to skip steps 4 5, going directly to 6 and transcoding right off the optical media, but I’ve not had good luck with that. Handbrake and Fairmount don’t always seem to get along; Handbrake crashes etc. So I’ve found that doing things one step at a time works best. Also, transcoding with Handbrake from a Video_TS folder on your hard drive is much faster than re-reading the DVD. That makes it easer to re-transcode after changing settings and such. HTH, - Dan. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups iMac Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Fan noise
On Nov 20, 2014, at 09:23 AM, Richard Meyeroff wrote: I have an iMac model 9,1 which is producing what I believe is fan noise. How can I check to see if I am correct and if so how to correct it? Fan speed vs Power Manager vs dying bearings vs dust... Fan speed is controlled by the Power Manager, as a function of the temp sensors. Install something like iStat Menus or MenuMeters, so you can view the temps. If they're climbing, that's a possible sign of fan issues. Check your system log for thermal warnings / shutdowns. Try resetting your nvram. Could be that the Power Manager is confused. Try sucking out the dust (a must if you have shedding pets!). Find the vent holes and apply the business end of a vaccuum cleaner hose. Depending on the Mac model, opening 'er up and doing a full vaccuum job is often a good plan. HTH, - Dan. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups iMac Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Slightly OT: File-sharing services?
At 1:10 PM -0800 11/05/2014, Bill Spencer wrote: recommendation for a more-or-less free file-sharing service that I can (very occasionally) use for sending around files that are too big to send via email? Dropbox is my fav. Apple's new Mail Drop service should work well too. Stay away from the base file sharing servcies. They're havens for the piracy crowd, so they often get shut down and/or blocked without notice. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups iMac Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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Re: Help please: slow iMac
At 4:17 PM -0800 11/25/2013, Clark Martin wrote: On Nov 25, 2013, at 3:54 PM, N. Shani wrote: - What *in particular* is slow? Everything. Trying to launch any application is a long wait. Didn't use to be so. Opening another tab in Safari, saving a document, opening a document, you name it - What' all is running? Typical applications in use are: Word, Excel, iTunes, Safari Is it slow when trying to launch an application with no other apps open? Yea, what Clark said. He's pretty much covered everything I'd reply with. :) - Have you tried clearing your browser and other user caches? Browser: affirmative. What other caches do you have in mind? /Library/Caches ~/Library/Caches There is also one at /System/Library/Caches but I only toss that one with more extreme problems. A tool such as AppleJack or OnyX (both free) will take care of clearing these for you. - Have you tried running the three Apple-provided system maintenance scripts? Please elaborate. I'm going to try AHT soon (once I locate the 10.6 DVD and have the time to scoot to where said iMac resides) In Terminal you type: sudo periodic daily sudo periodic weekly sudo periodic monthly OnyX is useful here too. These maintenance scripts are normally run automatically by OS X - but for it to do so you have to leave your Mac running overnight. Since they probably haven't been run in a long time, they'll may take quite a while - so be patient. I'll be happy to learn about your thinking Think horses not zebras. Do the basics first - general maintenance, cache cleaning, etc. And check your system.log (use Console.app) for obvious failures, before jumping to things like HD failures. Valter mentions AppleJack in his reply. Great tool!... Note that, in general, AppleJack is an emergency tool, a sledgehammer for when when all else fails and your Mac won't boot or run normally. It runs in Single-User Mode (cmd-S held down during boot) - an environment when very little except OS X's Unix core/underbelly is running. DO NOT use it for general maintenance. For general *disk* maintenance, run a Verify Disk pass with Disk Utility once a month. Also a good idea to do this before installing Apple stuff. For general *system* maintenance use OnyX, perhaps once a month or so, at most, to run the three system maintenance scripts (daily, weekly, monthly). And if your system is running slowly, use it to clear the kernel, system, and applications caches. OnyX also lets you enable some nice hidden interface stuff. fwiw, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups iMac Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Help please: slow iMac
At 7:38 AM -0500 11/24/2013, N. Shani wrote: - late 2006 17 [iMac] - OS is 10.6.8, with current updates - stock HD 160 GB, ~1/2 full - 2.5 GB RAM (stock was 2x 512 MB, so one 512 MB stick was exchanged with 2 GB stick) what is causing the above to slow down. - monitoring active CPU processes doesn't show any process hogging the CPU beyond a few % (not even M$-related, such as Excel or Word) What *in particular* is slow? What'all is running? Have you tried clearing your browser and other user caches? Have you tried running the three Apple-provided system maintenance scripts? Have you tried rebooting? Have you tired rebooting into Safe Mode (which clears a bunch of system caches), then rebooting normally? Thanks to anyone who can assist with ideas on how to speed this iMac, which is otherwise running fine. otherwise?? At this point, we have only an incomplete report from you: You haven't actually said what tasks are slow. My car is running slow -- Can't tell if your car is slow because the driveway is knee deep in dead frogs, if you've left the garage door closed, or if you broke your foot so pushing on the gas pedal is a problem, or if you unbolted the engine and left it on the floor... Before you jump off the deep end with the disk maintenance described in the other thread forks,,, do the basics as described above and provide some detailed information. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups iMac Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: HD lifespan statistics
At 10:02 AM -0800 11/14/2013, Bill Spencer wrote: In case anyone had any doubts... http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/how-long-can-you-reasonably-expect-your-hard-drive-to-last which links to http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/11/12/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/ Interesting reads, but they don't mention specific manufacturers or drive models. The picture they give of the drive market *as a whole* is about what we'd expect: some infant mortality, a decent mid life, then a slide into death... But without manufacturer specifics, what does that information mean? We know that Backblaze buys consumer grade drives in bulk. But that's all we know. We don't know what grade drive, warranties, etc. It would be much more useful to have a breakdown by manufacturererer etc. Then we could draw some real conclusions, to make better purchasing choices. :\ - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups iMac Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Moving to WordPress
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Re: Moving to WordPress
We're learning as we go. You should be able to use the same login ID and password for forums and for comments on the rest of the site. I have no idea why verification is taking some of you to PayPal and will investigate. Dan Knight, LowEndMac.com -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups iMac Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Moving to WordPress
Should have that PayPal thing fixed now! On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 5:56:22 AM UTC-4, Dan Knight, LowEndMac.com wrote: We're learning as we go. You should be able to use the same login ID and password for forums and for comments on the rest of the site. I have no idea why verification is taking some of you to PayPal and will investigate. Dan Knight, LowEndMac.com -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups iMac Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Moving to WordPress
At 3:39 PM -0700 03/11/2013, Dan Knight, LowEndMac.com wrote: Low End Mac has made the transition to WordPress, which allows our writers to submit content online, allows our readers to add comments, and now allows us to run our own forums. Once upon a time there were only G3 iMacs, and that's when this group began. With the new forum system, I've set up separate groups for PowerPC (G3, G4, and G5) iMacs (and eMacs) and Intel iMacs. PPC: http://lowendmac.com/forums/forum/mac-hardware/powerpc-macs/imacs-ppc/ Intel: http:http://lowendmac.com/forums/forum/mac-hardware/intel-macs/imacs-intel/ Follow the link(s), create an account, and let's see how all of this works. You're the first group to try out the new system. The ppc page takes about 45 secs to load (Safari, Leopard, QuickSilver, with a 15/5 fiber connection). The right hand column - mostly ads, keeps flashing then redrawing, making the whole page distractingly unreadable. Looks like this is site-wide? I hit the Login link and was quickly taken to a login page. My old LEM login doesn't work, so I hit the register link. Took me a while to realize that there is a field next to the captcha graphic -- it has no outline, so it's basically invisible. And no matter what I do, the captcha fails. Now, I'm really confused as to the whole point of this. Are you saying you're removing us from Google Groups? You're maintaining the bazillion group split? What about archives? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups iMac Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Moving to WordPress
Low End Mac has made the transition to WordPress, which allows our writers to submit content online, allows our readers to add comments, and now allows us to run our own forums. Once upon a time there were only G3 iMacs, and that's when this group began. With the new forum system, I've set up separate groups for PowerPC (G3, G4, and G5) iMacs (and eMacs) and Intel iMacs. PPC: http://lowendmac.com/forums/forum/mac-hardware/powerpc-macs/imacs-ppc/ Intel: http:http://lowendmac.com/forums/forum/mac-hardware/intel-macs/imacs-intel/ Follow the link(s), create an account, and let's see how all of this works. You're the first group to try out the new system. Dan Knight, publisher, Low End Mac -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups iMac Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: (Intel) iMacs reliability
At 10:45 PM -0700 10/09/2012, ValterV wrote: pondering about getting an used Intel iMac I am interested in the 24 models, but I did a little Googling and it seems the 24 models were problematic Your search terms are so generic I'm not surprised you got bazillions of results. Does it mean the 24 iMacs were quite troublesome? Go by model release/year, not screen size. The technology used in the screens has improved by leaps and bounds, to the point that screen sizes from differing years rarely have much in common. FWIW, I've run across quite a few late 2006 models with video problems. And anything before 2009 is about due for HD issues. Buy a set of suction cups! As with buying any used machine, try to get its history and avoid ashtrays. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Crash when I opened Mail
At 7:52 PM -0700 9/1/12, druidygal wrote: Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) Exception Codes: 0x, 0x Crashed Thread: 3 Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-priority Application Specific Information: -[MailAddressManager fetchImageForAddress:] -[MessageContentController _fetchContentsForMessage:fromStore:withViewingState:] *** error for object 0x10c351998: incorrect checksum for freed object - object was probably modified after being freed. Is there anything glaring that I should be aware of, or do something for? Run a Verify Disk pass on your boot volume, using Disk Utilty. If it finds any errors, fix 'em. Then try Mail again... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Get Info for lots of files?
At 6:56 AM -0400 8/30/12, William Spencer wrote: Hi there: I have a boatload of PDFs that all show the .pdf extension. Is there a way to hide the extension on all of them at once instead of getting info for them one by one (which is pretty tedious)? As always, my thanks in advance! In Finder's preferences, you can set it to hide the extensions. But that's a Bad Idea... Consider - what's the difference between these two files: Report-1.pdf Report-1.app If you've hidden the extensions, or removed them, then you may not be able to tell which file is the pdf and which is the application, especially if the icon has been pasted. That is EXACTLY how trojans work!!... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Low bandwidth DSL or the Mac?
At 2:33 PM -0700 7/12/2012, Al Poulin wrote: A member of our Mac user group says her machine is getting slower to websites and has YouTube videos stopping and restarting all the time. Apparently, there are no other performance problems. iMac Core 2 Duo 2.4 20-Inch (Early 2008) with 1 GB RAM OS X 10.5.8 Leopard and what browser is involved? Does the problem occur with other browsers? Has she done the basics -- cleared caches, cookies, etc? Does the machine have any other speed issues not involving the web? Internet access is via Verizon DSL. Speed test shows: Last Result: Download Speed: 1017 kbps (127.1 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 375 kbps (46.9 KB/sec transfer rate) and later: Yeah, kind of slow, I know. The Verizon DSL website shows their basic package at Verizon High Speed Internet .5 to 1 Mbps. If that's the service to which they've subscribed, then the speed test is good. wrt YouTube make sure you're not trying to view the higher definition versions of the videos. At 1 Mb, one should expect those to be glitchy. Maybe need to boost both the Internet bandwidth and the RAM?? Perhaps. But eliminate cache issues and such first. Run Activity Monitor, to monitor the memory usage, etc. While 1 GB is pretty much a minimum for Leopard, it should be enough to do surfing and such. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Low bandwidth DSL or the Mac?
At 8:57 AM -0700 7/14/2012, Al Poulin wrote: wrt YouTube make sure you're not trying to view the higher definition versions of the videos. At 1 Mb, one should expect those to be glitchy. Thanks, I'm passing this on to her. So the 1 MB RAM is rather minimum for some downstreaming. Do not confuse 1 Mb -- 1 megabit per second -- DSL speed, with the 1 GB RAM in her iMac. 1 GB RAM is *certainly* enough to play video. Few apps require more than 40 to 80 MB RAM to play a video, including buffers. Safari bumps its memory usage by only about 30 MB when playing a video on YouTube. The issue of 1 GB RAM being a minimum is wrt to the system as a whole - all the processes Leopard runs, plus Dashboard, Spotlight, and the user apps that all tend to be piggy - it adds up. But again, a GIGABYTE of memory is a LOT -- that amount of memory DOES NOT restrict video playing IN ANY WAY. The slow DSL speed can be quite restrictive, however. For example, when I play a YouTube video in Safari, it spikes to up around 3 Mbps as the buffers initially load (I have 15 Mbps service), then levels out to around 700 Mbps for a while, then spikes back to 1.5 to 2 Mbps as it rebuffers. If you view the network throughput using Activity Monitor, or even iStat Menus, while playing such videos, she should get a better idea if that's the bottleneck. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Low bandwidth DSL or the Mac?
At 1:09 PM -0400 7/14/2012, Dan wrote: levels out to around 700 Mbps for a while, then spikes back to 1.5 to 2 Mbps as it rebuffers. 700 Kbps. :) - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Hardware test error 4SNS/1/40000001:VDOR
At 9:04 PM -0700 7/11/2012, druidygal wrote: It's me again. The gal with the kernel panic a couple of weeks ago. I took out the bad RAM that I had recently put in the machine, and it helped stabilize things (no crashes or kernel panics). I ran Applejack as per Bruce and Dan's instructions. But Tech Tool Deluxe is still showing the same failures. (Format Check, Directory Scan, and Volume Structure). Quit all apps. Run Disk Utility. Do a Verify Disk pass on each disk volume. Does it report any errors? It has been slow loading pages, and sometimes it won't load a page, so I have to refresh it once or twice to get it to load (this would be web pages like Amazon or Facebook mostly). I also get the spinny beach ball quite often. How much free space is available on your HD? Are you having any difficulties with the machine with other apps - things NOT involving the 'net? What browser are you using? Have you tried clearing its caches and cookies? When it has problems loading a page, is it just pages from that one site or do all sites fail? ...Quite often, having to refresh pages to get all the elements to load, is an indication of a network or site problem. This evening I ran the Apple Hardware Test, and in the first pass it detected the error, so I ran the extended test, and it came up with the same error. 4SNS/1/4001:VDOR Could just be a power manager issue. But at this point, you're talking about three errors; can't tell if one is caused by the other or - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Hardware test error 4SNS/1/40000001:VDOR
At 5:52 PM -0700 7/14/2012, druidygal wrote: Okay, I ran Disk Utility, selected mac HD and had it Verify, and it found no errors. (appears to be OK). Cool! Good. Of the 160 G on my hard drive, I have 132.76 G of free space. Good. I use Safari for browsing, and I cleared caches and cookies a few weeks ago. Do it again. Safari tends to get slower and slower as its cache grows. Ditto for its cookie and web site icon databases. Another thing to try is to enable the Develop menu in Safari (via Safari's Preferences). Therein are items to quickly enable/disable various features. I've found that sites are often linking to the likes of facebook -- which causes their pages to take forever to load. If you turn off JavaScript then visit those pages, *bam* they load at warp speed! I do get the spinny beach balls when opening iTunes app. Yea, that's normal. iTunes does a lot of farking around when it launches. It checks the integrity of its data on your HD, then it talks to Apple quite a bit. It can take quite a long time for the SPOD to clear if your iTunes library is large. I don't have to refresh every single webpage I go to, no. So maybe it's just those aforementioned websites then. Try to note which sites give the most pain. I also ditched the Ad Block extension today, since I read in another post that that can cause big lags in pages loading. Yea, but it might just be some of its settings too. ...In the mean time, to get back to the errors from TT and AHT, it might be a good idea to update your backups, just in case. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: kernel panic
At 2:50 PM -0700 6/29/2012, druidygal wrote: I wasn't able to install Applejack yesterday. I downloaded it and installed it, but then it wasn't there. I'll try again. To elaborate on Bruce's reply... AppleJack is a special shell script that is run from Single User Mode. It is NOT a normal app -- so it won't be there where you expect. (Technically, it lives within OS X's Unix underbelly, in /private/var/root/Library/Scripts/, instead of /Applications). To run AppleJack, get into Single User Mode by holding down cmd-S while restarting your Mac. You'll see the Unix kernel of OS X load, then it will drop you at a command prompt. Type applejack, without the quotes, and hit return. It's pretty self-explanitory after that. At this point, just tell it to repair the disk. DO NOT run all the other tasks [*see below]. When AppleJack is done, reboot. That boot will take a bit longer than normal, as it has to rebuild the kernel caches. I pulled the new RAM this morning and put the old back in, which so far is an improvement, good. but so far today, no crashes (fingers crossed). great! Tech Tool showed the same failures when I redid the scan. My next step is to do a clean install of Snow Leopard. Why would your next step be to reinstall the OS? You are not running Windows. OS X does NOT corrupt itself normally. It would be better if you worked to determine the actual cause of the problems - hardware or software - THEN take the appropriate action. Otherwise, reinstalling - that's the equivalent of replacing the oil in your car when the problem is that you have flat tires! It's the type of thing that really poor tech support people tell you to do, just to get you off the phone. [*] Seriously. Think about what you're doing. You have an unstable system, so you need to do as little as possible. You DO NOT want to make things worse. DO NOT repair permissions, for example. That just makes no sense - in an unstable system you want to run around making changes to the operating system's files No. Keep it simple. JUST repair the file system itself. At this point you have TWO potential problems. 1) Memory failure. 2) corrupted HFS+ file system on your HD. While the memory is borked, you don't want to muck with the HD, because to fix the HD, the computer has to read data into that potentially failing memory! oops.Ok. You put in the old memory and things seem more stable. That's good. You addressed (1) first. If the machine really seems more stable, then Ok, NOW it's probably safe to repair that drive. Do that with AppleJack. Then see how things run. If things seem better, AppleJack it again, telling it to do everything. Then see how things run. THEN make a good backup. THEN consider trying that new memory again... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: kernel panic
At 6:02 PM -0700 6/29/2012, druidygal wrote: 6/26/12 Jun 26, 20129:17 PM SubmitDiagInfo[151] Submitted panic report: /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Kernel_2012-06-26-211515_catherine-torellis-computer.panic Okay, that's probably enough, and maybe some of this isn't as ominous as it looks to non-Tech me. Does any of this tell us anything useful? The errors that refer to iPhoto and Safari were just routine blither. The key is the panic report. Open the folder /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ Drag the file Kernel_2012-06-26-211515_catherine-torellis-computer.panic to your desktop. Email that file to me, or paste it into your reply here. Hopefully it will have something definitive in it. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: kernel panic
At 7:27 AM -0700 6/27/2012, druidygal wrote: [2 GHz iMac Core2Duo, 4GB RAM, 160GB HD, OS X 10.6.8] I had my first ever kernel panic. I ran TechTool Deluxe after restarting the machine, and 3 things came up as a Fail. I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard, and I just installed the 4 G's of RAM this past weekend. [snip] I can't imagine that would cause a kernel panic. Most panics are caused by hardware issues. Can't tell exactly what happened in your case, without seeing the log. Since you installed new memory - that's the best place to start. Pull it. Clean the slots and DIMMs. Reinstall it firmly. Be sure to be properly grounded when doing any hardware work! The things that failed in the Tech Tool report are: Format Check , which says that this test result most likely indicates an actual hardware problem, and to try backing up, reformatting, and replacing data and testing again. Directory Scan, which says that media defects cause this test to fail, and they recommend the above. Volume Structure, which it says can be a minor issue or indicative of a more serious problem. Repair the disk volume with Disk Utility. If you've installed AppleJack, then you can use it to run the repair, without needing to boot on something else (OS X DVD, external backup, etc). I printed out the kernel panic report, but can't find it on the computer to copy/paste it here. Is there a segment of it that would be useful for me to type here? Or, where do I look for it to try and copy/paste it? Use Console.app (It's in /Applications/Utilities/) to view all system type logs. View the log list; it will be in there. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Question about Finder Copy
At 8:47 PM -0700 5/30/2012, emelvy wrote: in Mac OS X I chose (in Finder Preferences/Advanced) to let them remain hidden, which is Apple's default for most Kinds of files. Tell Finder to display extensions. OS X no longer depends completely on the internal file creator type code - it uses those extensions. By hiding them, beside the name collision issues, you create opportunities to accidentally run trojans. Next time a filename disappears during a Finder Copy, I will try harder to find out what Kind of file is showing the problem among the many others created in a similar way that don't behave this way. Use Disk Utility to run a verify disk pass on each volume. Make sure the file systems are clean. And next time it happens, check your system log for errors. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Question about Finder Copy
At 12:16 AM -0400 5/27/2012, Melvyn Edith Halbert wrote: I often use the Finder to Copy a bunch of files from my iMac's internal hard drive to some external device. Occasionally an error message pops up that says 'An item named already exists in this location. Do you want to replace it with the one you're moving?' The error message sometimes includes a dot for the name of a problem file (.). When this error occurs with a bunch of files, I have found no easy way to determine what the real filename is or which application created that file. Some of the files being copied were created from webpages saved from Safari, but most of them are text files created by Text Edit in its rtf mode (but without the extension .rtf). I never saw this error before I started using Lion. Has anyone seen similar behavior in Finder Copy? Does anyone know what to do about it? Could be that you're grabbing some invisible files too. You can set Finder to display most invisible files using a tool such as OnyX. Or you can just use the ls -al command in Terminal to view them all. In Finder's preferences, set it to show all file extensions. If you haven't been giving files appropriate extensions, get in the habit of doing so. This will reduce the possibility of odd name collisions. And Apple has depreciated the old creator/type code system anyway. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Position of TextEdit window
At 2:20 PM -0400 5/26/2012, Melvyn Edith Halbert wrote: On re-opening a file created or edited with Apple's TextEdit, its window appears on screen at a standard position -- it's always in the upper left. Sometimes I drag a window to a more convenient position before I close that file, but the next time I open the same file it appears at the standard position. heh. I'm having a like problem with TextEdit... It's remembering the size of the windows, but files are being opened a bit to the right and down, so that the bottom of the window is below the bottom of my screen! It doesn't automatically reize or anything. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: vintage-2000 G4 in trouble - wont start
At 1:29 PM -0400 5/7/2012, dect...@earthlink.net wrote: Thanks Dan, wish I'd known about the voltmeter test Always a good idea to have an xtra PRAM battery laying around. As Bruce mentioned in his reply, they're standard 1/2 AA 3.6v lithiums. Google lists quite a few sources. Don't you agree that your own ideas are getting tired of paying through the nose so that we can just follow orders of some expert who doesn't do things like he tells you to do them before you decide to try his expertise once your own testing at his instruction does fail...?? huh? For example, EVERY instruction page, online or in print, says not to open the box until you've pulled the plug out of the wall and made certain that the power is off... Don't you agree? So why was it that the high-priced tech that I trusted to get me my answer once the power supply idea turned sour, was telling me over the phone later that he was seeing those legendary clicks as sparking on the motherboard as he was working on the G4 The average consumer should never ever hack around inside a computer while it is plugged in. That's a trip to the emergency room that should never be necessary. People that do so either have dominant stupidity genes or (hopefully) know what they're doing and where NOT to put their fat fingers. Murphy weeds the former out quite well, I expect. Nothing like waking up on the floor, or not waking up at all, to teach that lesson. Ditto for people that don't bother to ground themselves before sticking their fingers in their computer. Static really does damage things, especially memory and processors. I'd assume that the PMU is the cuda button, which we did try, a couple of times, before and after the new power supply unit (guaranteed to be functional) was installed. The PMU (Power Management Unit) is a specialized processor that runs the motherboard. The CUDA button is the PMU's boot trigger. Press it *ONLY* ONCE after making major changes to the motherboard (like installing the power supply). If you press it more than once, you risk it crashing or improperly booting, then draining off the PRAM Battery. what's the difference between the interior cuda and that button on the outside of the G4 that's right alongside and below the power-on button... The CUDA resets the PMU. The external reset button forces a hard reset on the main processor (CPU) - which causes the Mac to reboot. As for the motherboard, I'd wonder just what ideas you have on where to go to get such a vitally needed item which is trustworthily decently refurbished, assuming that's better than just used but functional, or is that the case? Use but functional is better? Given the age of the beast... I wouldn't bother buying a refirb. Too expensive. Better to buy something off of LEM Swap, parts or a whole machine to cannibalize. Yeah all the peripherals were pulled just so we could get the machine someplace safe and static-free and that made a better working place... what sort of internal peripherals would there be in a G4, maybe an internal modem? In an iMac - the internal HD and DVD and the airport card. The point there is that a farked peripheral can cause the IDE or SCSI or SATA bus to hang, which can cause the machine to not boot, not complete the self-test (the BONG), etc. When debugging a complex system, it's better to simplify, to eliminate variables. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: vintage-2000 G4 in trouble - wont start
At 9:37 PM -0400 5/6/2012, dect...@earthlink.net wrote: Well the new power supply didn't do it. The G4 just sits quietly and just makes a faint clicking noise a few times or so til I turn it off. Haven't really been following this thread, and don't know exactly what iMac you have, but Did you replace the PRAM battery? Physically replace it with a new one. Don't just check its voltage - quite often lithium cells give good voltage readings, but they're actually so weak they can't carry the load. Then reset the PMU. Must be the motherboard. Perhaps. Or it could be the Power Manager needs rebooting (see above). Also... Have you disconnected all the peripherals, both internal and external, and pulled the memory? The idea is to boot the stripped down machine and see if you can get proper error beeps out of the self-test run by the PMU. Once you get that much, start plugging things in one at a time. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Flashback Malware Hits 600,000 Macs???
At 9:10 AM -0700 4/6/2012, Bruce Johnson wrote: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Java is a dying language like C++ is a dying language. Ed Bott's latest. In short, Java is easy to avoid, except when you can't. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/how-big-a-security-risk-is-java-can-you-really-quit-using-it/4749 Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a... http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/new-targeted-mac-os-x-trojan-requires-no-user-interaction/11545 - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Flashback Malware Hits 600,000 Macs???
hum. Apple Snubs Firm That Discovered Mac Botnet, Tries To Cut Off Its Server Monitoring Infections http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/04/09/apple-snubs-firm-who-discovered-mac-botnet-tries-to-cut-off-its-server-monitoring-infections/ The comments after the article are good too. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Flashback Malware Hits 600,000 Macs???
Some more articles: http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/its-time-run-java-out-of-town-190525 http://blogs.computerworld.com/20012/the_flashback_attack_its_time_mac_users_got_security_aware http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/041012-security-firm-offers-more-flashback-258125.html http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2012/04/poisoned-coffee.html http://www.macworld.com/article/1166254/what_you_need_to_know_about_the_flashback_trojan.html - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Flashback Malware Hits 600,000 Macs???
At 12:56 PM -0700 4/11/2012, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 11, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Christopher Satterfield wrote: Just wondering, I can't seem to find any documentation of this, but does this malware effect PowerPC Macs or Intel only? So far as I've read, it's targeting Intel-based systems only; what's unclear is whether the Java exploit being used is present in older versions of Java or not. If they are, the targeting PPC macs is relatively simple for the bad guys. If not then PPC macs are ok. The vulnerability *IS* present in older versions of Java. http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2012/04/poisoned-coffee.html By not releasing Java updates for Leopard and older, Apple has screwed both ppc and x86 users. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Flashback Malware Hits 600,000 Macs???
At 2:25 PM -0700 4/11/2012, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 11, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Dan wrote: Some more articles: http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/its-time-run-java-out-of-town-190525 Might as well write an article C++'s done, time to stick a fork in it. This idiot hasn't got a clue of just how widespread Java is in enterprise programming. http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/java-loses-top-spot-in-language-index-190635 *smirk* Perhaps it's time to stop allowing java applets to run unchallenged in web browsers yup. , but fer crying out loud, this is like blaming Ford for drunk driving deaths... No. Ford builds cars with good quality *debugged* safety features. From the number of vulnerabilities reported in Java, over the past year or so, it seems that Sun/Oracle can't be trusted to either design or debug their own code. Perhaps they've been hiring exAdobe peeps? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAbreaathe HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA If I had a nickel for every damn time I watched a Windows user just blindly click on OK Yea. People will always be people. Also, Apple's solution is coming in Mountain Lion, and you all are going to howl like stuck pigs about it, because it's Application Signing, the App store on steroids, where only approved apps will run on OS X. Gatekeeper *by default* will require app signing, but it's all overrideable. Goto blindly click. And ML... That's the OS that will run on only 1/4 of the Mac userbase? Yea. That's a good solution. Fragmenting the userbase always works in the long term. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Anti-Virus Software for Mac
At 6:04 PM -0700 4/10/2012, Al Poulin wrote: In view of the Flashback trojan, is now the time for average home and student users to install an anti-virus package? I notice that there are two free pachages, ClamXav 2 and Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition. ClamXav 2 is donationware and the Sophos seems to be a total freebie. Does one have particular advantages over the other? We've covered this a number of times over the past year on the various LEM lists. ClamXav and Sophos are our two favs. Currently, I prefer Clam. It seems less intrusive. (Yes, both have a full set of definitions to catch all the Flashback variants). But keep in mind... 1. All these AV products work by sniffing at files as they're dropped onto the HD. If the browser keeps the object in memory - eg: a tiny cached java object, no AV will see it. So just because you have an AV installed doesn't mean you're actually protected. 2. No AV catches things for which it doesn't already have definitions. So just because you have an AV installed doesn't mean you're actually protected, even if you just updated it! 3. Even tho there are a few trojans out there that target OS X, the majority of malware still targets Windoze. So the main reason for using an AV on your Mac is to identify Windoze malwarez so you don't pass them on to a friend that uses Windoze. 4. Right now, the primary vectors for OS X-targetting malware are Flash, Java, and MS Office. So glove up and pay attention. Crush Flash. Kill Java. Destroy MS Office. Then date the sexy robot. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Flashback Malware Hits 600,000 Macs???
At 9:10 AM -0700 4/6/2012, Bruce Johnson wrote: Android is coded in Java. I thought Android and its apps are coded in a Google-perverted Java. Isn't that why Oracle is suiing? :P Apple is no longer including it with OS X by default. That's because they used to have Apple's Own *Almost* Compatible With The Rest Of The World Java Port, but now the standard JVM works on OS X, so they're no longer including it. Yea. But the point is that Java is no longer on *every* Mac. And since most people won't bother installing it unless they need it... Now, first, I'll withhold judgement on this 600K infections until some source more reputable than some russian AV company no one's ever heard of confirms it, and second, 600,000 macs infected *sounds* like a big, big number, until you realize that since 2006 Apple's sold probably around 55-60 MILLION Macs. yea. Some of the articles posted today are backing off on that number. Apparently it's total Flashback infections, not just this particular variant, and some of which are Windoze. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Flashback Malware Hits 600,000 Macs???
A nice article on TidBITS about Flashback... How to Detect and Protect Against Updated Flashback Malware http://tidbits.com/article/12918 - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Mice
At 10:00 PM -0700 3/28/2012, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 28, 2012, at 8:23 PM, Dan wrote: some brands of Pee-Sea mice (USB) will work fine for a few seconds, then freeze the computer so severely that the only way to get things working again is to force restart Sounds like a driver issue. Many vendors provide awful software for their peripherals. It could also be a problem with dueling drivers. Check your system.log for error messages. I have never, ever had to install a driver for any PC OEM mouse, and they have always worked perfectly, out of the box. Well, yes, most mice should work out of the box. But the driver software is needed to get the better speeds and enable functionality of the other buttons and controls on the mouse, beyond the two buttons and one scroll wheel. As time goes by, people install things then forget. Kensington's MouseWorks and Logitech's LCC, for example, conflict nicely - resulting in mouse freezes and even kernel panics. Some version combinations are worse than others. And that's before adding SIMBL to the mix. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Mice
At 6:14 PM -0700 3/28/2012, Andrew Liu Anderson wrote: [moved from mid-message] eMac G-4 w/OS 10.4.11 Please always put config details at the TOP of your message. That way we have a context to work from. Burrying the information at the bottom of the message, or in the middle, just means that we have to go back to the top to re-read what you wrote... I have a couple of USB Pee-Sea mice that I like to use. make/model? Details count! The left button works like a regular MacMouse. The right button brings up contextual menus like Control+Click. This is handy. Normal default operation for a mouse. I have notice though, that some brands of Pee-Sea mice (USB) will work fine for a few seconds, then freeze the computer so severely that the only way to get things working again is to force restart the computer. (Must change the mouse first) This also happens with the same mice on G-4 Sawtooth, G-4 Quicksilver and G-4 iBook, all running OS 10.4.11. Sounds like a driver issue. Many vendors provide awful software for their peripherals. It could also be a problem with dueling drivers. Check your system.log for error messages. When you say the system freezes - do you mean that the mouse cursor stops moving and all menus become unresponsive to the mouse and to the keyboard? If you unplug the mouse then plug it back in, is functionality restored? If you plug in a different mouse? What else is plugged into that USB bus? Definately check the system.log for errors -- USB devices rarely cause problems without being noisy. Try the mouse without whatever software you installed. Then try a real driver, such as USB Overdrive. SteerMouse and MouseZoom are also quite useful. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Cloud shadow over Me.com?
At 4:22 PM -0400 3/25/2012, Don Hinkle wrote: THe catch is that her's is an older iMac that won't take 10.7, so it seems they've screwed us. iTools, .Mac, MobileMe, and now iCloud. This is Apple's 4th go at a cloud type services. heh. This too shall pass. Gmail, Dropbox, CCC ... these are a few of my favorite things. It's not easy being free. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: DVD Issues
At 10:32 PM +0200 3/25/2012, Anders Fager / Gottick wrote: But this http://www.netcomdirect.com/pamauj8xdula.htmlhttp://www.netcomdirect.com/pamauj8xdula.html says the thing can Write up to 8.5GB onto a single side of dual-layer DVD media. What am I not undertanding? Not sure what you're quoting. That page says: The additional storage capacity of the DVD+R Double Layer disc enables you to record up to 4 hours of DVD-quality video or 16 hours of VHS-quality video, without the need to turn over the disc. You can now archive up to 8.5 Gbytes of computer files on a single disc, which almost doubles the storage capacity compared with the 4.7Gbytes for the single-layer DVD-recordable discs currently available. There is a difference between double *layer* and double *sided*. The former is a single-sided disc that support two layers of data. The burner changes the frequency of the laser, to reach the other layer. The latter is a single layer disc that has writable substrait on both sides - so it must be turned over to reach the other 4 gigs. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Cannon Scanner vs IntelMac
At 10:51 PM +0200 3/25/2012, Anders Fager / Gottick wrote: I'm trying to get a Cannon CanoScan n676u to work on a intel iMac running X.6.8. All the drivers and things for the thing is pre-intel and will not play ball. Any suggestions on how to work around this? Ancient scanner. Double check the latest CanoScan Toolbox... I'm pretty sure it's fat, ppc and x86. Vuescan supports it. http://www.hamrick.com/ - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Problem with Toast
At 5:45 PM +1100 3/8/2012, Brian Christmas wrote: Running Lion 7.3 with Toast 11. One of my granddaughters put an SD card into the CD slot, and by the time we managed to retrieve it, I needed a new drive. Well, better an SD card than oatmeal. Toast will only burn DVD's at 2x now, whereas the old drive burnt at 5x. This new drive - exactly what make/model is it? Check the drive's capabilities - both by its actual specs and by looking at it with System Profiler. Does Toast explicitly support that particular drive at the higher speed? Does it burn at faster speeds if you use a different tool, such as Finder or Burn? Try different media. Try cleaning it... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Insomniac iMac
At 8:19 PM -0600 3/3/2012, Fred Thiel and Janet Thiel wrote: My mid 2011 Intel 3.1 Ghz. Snow Leopard OSX 10.6.8 iMac will not sleep anymore unless I make it sleep by manually pressing the power button. I recently tried to install Linux Mint 12 without success, and in doing so I believe that is the cause of the problem. I tried to install on a free partition I previously made for such purposes, but was not able to do so. Since then, I have tried numerous things including a complete re-format of the original drive with Drive Genius and then ran AppleJack after restoring from my backup. The only option I can think of right now is to re-install the system software. I'd rather not do that if I can help it. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. What external peripherals do you have connected? If you disconnect them, does the system sleep? Launch Console.app and set it to view your system log. Let the machine sit there, beyond the time when it should sleep. Check the messages that are thrown into the log. Typically, there will be something there indicating what woke it, or refused the sleep order. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: uTube videos not playing continously.
At 9:24 PM -0500 2/4/2012, John Callahan wrote: Flash or h.264 - http://youtu.be/7NJqUN9TClM When I play this video in Safari, YouTube works hard to push it out as Flash. It then stutters and the audio often goes out of sync with the video. When I play this video with MacTubes, it does the same thing when I use the Flash player. But when I switch it to html5 (h.264) it becomes absolutely smooth and stays in sync. Feels to me like this particular video has a bad conversion or buffering issue. Did you try clearing all related caches?- No Clearing caches should always be the FIRST thing you do to try to diagnose problems. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: uTube videos not playing continously.
At 6:59 PM -0500 2/3/2012, John Callahan wrote: iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz 3 GB [snip] I recently added a two gigabyte memory card. Previously I had two gigs total now I have three gigs. When I had two gigs a U tube video played continuously, now it pauses to catch up very often. Does anyone have any idea of why this is happening? You've given few real details. You've focused on memory - Are you specifically saying that the problem goes away when you remove the new stick? If that's the case, are there any errors being thrown into the system log? If that's not the case then we need some further information... What OS? With what app are you viewing the video? What version of said video - Flash or h.264 or something else? Please provide a sample url. Did you try clearing all related caches? What else is running? What type speed is your internet connection (caps and speed test results). Do other video sources, local or streamed, show difficulties?... Lots of variables And, finally, is this something from utube.com, or do you mean youtube.com? Two very different sites... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Mackeeper Info Thread
At 12:43 PM -0500 1/23/2012, Kim wrote: Kim... 1) please keep in mind that these LEM lists *require* that you post in PLAIN text. Your use of all but unreadable HTML blue whatevertheheck font that be is unacceptable. 2) While we don't enforce bottom posting on these LEM lists, it is *extremely* bad netiquette to top post on an already bottom posted message. Emails should NEVER had gotos in them. [Kim's HTML and fonting stripped] I still recommend MacKeeper until I hear what problems Beverly has encountered. Over the past year or two, I've received more than a dozen complaints regarding MacKeeper. Everything from it skipping files it should have deleted, deleting files that it shouldn't have, to it crashing, etc. And over the years, MacKeeper HAS NOT BEEN FIXED. Bottom line: MacKeeper is pretty much a poster child for over-advertized suckerware. It should not be near any Mac. Period. Beverly's polite opin, frankly, is simply the tip of the iceberg... Of course, YMMV. Cap'n Bob McBurney wrote: What I want to do is have a reliable and stable updater for 3rd party software that Apple Software does not update. No such reliable beast. (see below). I want software that will fully uninstall software I no longer use. No such reliable beast. See, here's the problem... Apps do things in different ways. And not all developers follow Apple's guidelines as strictly as they should. So a product that claims that it can manage all your 3rd party installs or uninstalls is simply LYING to you. At best, it can only do so based on those individual apps that for which it was designed *and* for which it has been recently updated. At worst, if it contains bugs, it can damage your system by doing an incomplete install or uninstall. (ObQuibble: To support said uninstalls, the developer must hack into those apps to see what's what. Unless they have permission from the app's author, that's illegal!). Most apps include their own mechanism to apply updates (eg: Sparkle). Many are also beginning to offer updates via Apple's app store system. So just... let the app check for updates when you launch it, then do whatever it tells you to do. Easypeasy. As for uninstalling... Most app uninstalls are trivial. Toss the app. Toss the prefs. Done. Apps that are any more complicated than that usually provide an uninstaller function or app. No big deal. And an uninstaller provided by the app's developer is 100% more reliable than some 3rd party general uninstaller that may or may not have been updated and may or may not be buggy... fwiw, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Mackeeper Info Thread
At 5:35 PM -0500 1/23/2012, Amato Michael J. wrote (in the subject broken thread fork): AppZapper's info and strong point is that it removes all material associated with an app. Insert here all the stuff I said about MacKeeper in the other thread fork. AppZapper ONLY works on the apps it actually knows of, has been updated for, or that *only* follow the simple Apple guidelines. Beyond that, AppZapper is a FAIL - and should NOT be depended upon. At 6:19 PM -0500 1/23/2012, Amato Michael J. wrote: How about using a search find and spotlight I've used both successfully. Splotchlight can be useful to find the ancillary files. But you cannot depend on it to find 'em all ... not every file you need to trash will contain the app's name or domain's name or company's name, or be set so it can be seen by the user, plus quite often people exclude certain folders and such from its index... Bottom line: There is NO substitute for putting some thought into it. And always try the product's uninstall feature first. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Copyright 101 (was Re: Mackeeper Info Thread)
At 7:47 PM -0800 1/23/2012, Joshua Juran wrote: (ObQuibble: To support said uninstalls, the developer must hack into those apps to see what's what. Unless they have permission from the app's author, that's illegal!). What do you mean by hack into, and how is it illegal? Most licenses prohibit product disassembly. Could I have been sued because I used ResEdit to hack into the Finder and modify the Trash icons and change Empty Trash to Flush Toilet? Technically, yes. Most licenses, Apple's included, prohibit the creation of a derivative work without the copyright owner's explicit permission. When you modified (hacked) Finder, you created a derivative work without being licensed to do so. Aren't you lucky that less-evil companies like Apple aren't dedicated to hunting your a** down? Last I checked, reverse-engineering for the purpose of interoperability was fair use. Reverse engineering is the process of examining the input and output of a thing, then producing a NEW thing that offers the same output from the same input. It DOES NOT mean digging into the guts of a thing then simply making modifications (hacks) therein. That would be the act of creating a derivative work -- which is NOT fair use (see above). Authors don't get automatic dictatorial control over everyone who comes into contact with their works. ROFLMAO. :) - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Administrator question
At 5:16 PM -0500 1/16/2012, William Spencer wrote: Is there a way to create different administrators with different levels of access? I have a feeling not but would like to know for sure. In general, there be only normal and super(root). The latter can do anything, of course. But if you're just looking to limit file access, then you can do things with group IDs or even with access control lists... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Administrator question
At 7:29 PM -0800 1/16/2012, Bill Spencer wrote: On Monday, January 16, 2012 6:26:00 PM UTC-5, Dan wrote: In general, there be only normal and super(root). The latter can do anything, of course. But if you're just looking to limit file access, then you can do things with group IDs or even with access control lists... The hope is to be able to keep parental controls in place but allow software-update-type actions. Parental Controls can only be activated on a normal user account. If you don't provide the admin id and password, and the user is too stoopid to boot into single-user mode, or from an external, or then they won't be updating anything. OTOH,,, why the need for the restrictions? ...I've never been fond of strapping any user down. Nothing good ever comes from it, IMO. Too often, I've had to deal with the carnage of upset parents, when they discovered that their children had the gall to first learn how to read english, then to use *gasp* Google, and then hack their way around the parental controls, nanny products, etc etc etc. There's just no substitutes for building trust and sharing ice cream sandwiches. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Burning video
At 11:44 AM -0800 12/28/2011, Dale Goodvin wrote: I am using OSX 10.5.8 and cannot figure out how to burn a video file that I've downloaded onto my my hard drive onto a dvd. The file is in the following format: name of file.flv and plays via Adobe Media Player. If I just burn the file itself onto a dvd, of course it is unrecognizable to the dvd player, so I need to know how to do convert it into a recognizable video format. FLV is a container file (like .mov, .avi, .mkv, .mpg) that can contain a number of different data streams, in various formats. DVD-Video requires MPEG 2 video and MPEG 1 layer 2 audio, broken up into a special layout. Some DVD Players also support playing certain container files, of varying formats. Mine, for example, will do AVI files that contain certain MPEG4 codecs and MP3 audio. You need to transcode your flash media file into something your DVD Player can handle. One of my fav tools is Burn.app. Set Burn to do a DVD-Video, drag the container file onto it, and it automagically handles the transcoding then the reformatting, then burning process. http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: your daily dose of 'Arrrrrgggghhhh' from the support trenches...
At 11:12 AM -0700 12/22/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: Our old orange tabby Buckethead would play fetch with a balled-up cellophane wrapper from a cigarette pack. [url] Pretty cat! Vicky plays fetch with balled-up crinkly things too! I've never seen a cat do that before! Frieda just watches; she's too aloof to participate in such a silly activity. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Replacing the HD
At 10:27 AM -0800 12/22/2011, Bill Spencer wrote: On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:51:29 AM UTC-5, Dan wrote: ...To be honest, farking inside an iMac is such a PITA, I've often told people to just boot/live off a chain of external firewire drives and let the internal spin down. This makes good sense to me. So to be certain I'm following you, a bootable external drive: Requires a Firewire connection, not USB yea. Even machines that can boot USB, I don't recommend it - gratingly slow. (will FW 400 work? I don't think the machine does 800.) yes. Requires being formatted a certain way (which I saw in the Help files last night but I forget right now what the acronym is) Since you're running the more recent versions of OS X, on an x86 Mac, you should be using GUID. Right? Anything else for this part? Next, 1. CCC to your an external. 2. Boot on the external - to make sure its fully functional. I take it I'd zero the internal at this point, and somehow set things up so the machine boots automatically from the external. Will this happen automatically if the internal has been zeroed, or do I need to do something specific to boot from the external automatically? You can pick the boot volume from the system preferences. If you don't, then the bootstrap will do the normal searching, taking its time checking one device after another. Does CCC take all partitions of the internal and put them on the external or do I need to do that some other way? CCC only does one volume at a time. Use Disk Utility to create what you want on the destination then CCC each, to populate them. I plan to set up Time Machine on another external drive...will this setup be OK for that? (And by the way, does Time Machine do OK going onto a USB external or not?) That's fine. Just remember that TM gets confused easily and corrupts itself easily. So it does NOT replace a normal backup made with CCC. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Replacing the HD
[html stripped] At 10:32 AM -0800 11/30/2011, Bill Spencer wrote: Hi there: The 1.83ghz machine below ObQuip: below is a goto. Emails should never have gotos. Top down. Not top, scroll to bottom to find information, then scroll back up to find your place, then re-read and hope you remember all the details of what was below - because it's no longer viewable in the window without re-scrolling. IMac Core 2 Duo 1.83 ghz/2 g RAM/Lion is five years old (the first of the late-2006 core 2 duo machines) and I'm beginning to notice a minor whine sound when it's running. I assume this is the (original 160gb) HD demonstrating some wear Could be the drive. Just as likely to be the fans running at a higher than normal speed because there's 5 years worth of dust bunnies growin in there. 1. Is this replacement something I can do myself or would it be better to pay someone to do so? The ifixit site has a guide but it's marked as moderate for difficulty, so I'm glad to hear other opinions on the task. If you have the suction cups etc and are ok doing your own hardware, go for it. 2. The drive type is 160 GB 7200 rpm Serial ATA drive...so will any drive with these specs work? SATA-I II or III drives will work just fine. The drives with the faster interfaces will match the interfaces lower speed. 3. Are there manufacturers I should seek our or avoid? I've always heard good things about Seagate and Western Digital but beyond that I'm in the dark. At this point, all bets are off. 20%+ of the manufacturing capacity was flooded out in Thailand. While many of us were recommending big Seagates and laptop WDs, it seems they're chopping their warranty if the company doesn't have faith in their own products, why should we???!!! http://www.techspot.com/news/46726-seagate-and-western-digital-announce-reduced-warranties-for-hard-drives.html That being said, currently, I'm doin Hitachi's. 4. About what might I expect to have to pay if I have someone else do the installation? An arm and a leg. To be honest, farking inside an iMac is such a PITA, I've often told people to just boot/live off a chain of external firewire drives and let the internal spin down. 5. Anything else I should keep in mind? Getting that display off cleanly is critical. And keep it clean. The smallest specs of dust are quite visible once you've closed things up and booted. And keep everything properly grounded. Esp in the winter -- static vs those specs of dust... At 11:58 AM -0800 12/19/2011, Bill Spencer wrote: I just thought of something with this. Since Lion is only a download, if I replace the HD (or have someone else replace it) how do I get the OS back? Would it work to use Carbon Copy Cloner or something comparable and then boot from the external drive once the new HD is installed? CCC to your an external. Boot on the external - to make sure its fully functional. Do yer HD replacement. Boot on the external. Use Disk Utility to zero and initialize your new internal. CCC into the new internal. If you have a way of hooking up the new internal drive before you install it, go for it. Get it zero'd, initialized, and cloned first. That way it's ready to go! Yes, I still *strongly* advocate zero'ing ALL new HDs before using them. While drives are properly formatted in the factory, there's no telling what abuse they've been thru since then... freezing or baking in warehouses, being kicked around the floor during the daily USPS/UPS hockey game, the angry spouse tossing it about because it wasn't a gift for her, the wet spot from the dog, etc... hth, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: your daily dose of 'Arrrrrgggghhhh' from the support trenches...
At 11:12 AM -0700 12/16/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: A triple today... [MS machinations] LOL And here I was all stressed out because my fav keyboard was misbehaving ... having to remove the keycaps and vaccuum out the cat hair. Then my Mac's power just suddenly dropped... Was worried the power supply gakked, but then I realized the Vicky was standing over the switch on the power strip, behind the desk, with that I didn't do it! look on her face... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/610326/Vicky%2C%20on%20the%20shelf.jpg - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: your daily dose of 'Arrrrrgggghhhh' from the support trenches...
At 11:20 AM -0800 12/16/2011, Clark Martin wrote: I think it's a global cat conspiracy. They are pissed over Computer Aided Tomography being (originally) called CAT. After that they are all anti-computer. http://thecatscan.tumblr.com/ Amazing how much more responsive my keyboard is now, that I've removed the woven layer of fur. Next up: To discourage Vicky from camping out on my desk and rubbing on the keyboard. sigh. Can't use the 'ole squirt gun trick -- she *likes* water. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: System file not repaired???
At 9:18 AM -0700 12/14/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:16 PM, Dan wrote: By default most AV softwares seem to check too much, I think. That initial long scan is probably what you're seeing. Tell it to stop. Then tell it to just watch your Download and Mail folders (specific places where an incoming file will land). Sadly, unless Sophos has dramatically changed their product (and it's not included with our Campus license) you cannot specify anything below the level of mounted, internal volume to scan. oOo LOL I guess that shows how long it's been since I played with it! Thanks for pointing that limiation out. it's not as usable as ClamXAv. I've gotten very comfortable with ClamXav. I don't even mind ClamXav Sentry's ugly menu bar icon anymore... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: System file not repaired???
At 2:56 PM -0500 12/12/2011, Jean-Claude Touzin wrote: iMac Intel Core i3 3,06GHz OS 10.6.8 While repairing permission? files with Disk Utility (Tool?) I got the following message ATTENTION : le fichier SUID « System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent » a été modifié et ne sera pas réparé. Ignore that message. It's one of very annoying wrong-error error messages that the Repair Permissions feature gives. Apple has known about this problem for a long time and never bothered to fix it. http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1448 (I decide to use Disk Utility because of problems accessing some Web sites in Safari...) You've reached for the wrong tool. This is the equivalent of cleaning the seats inside your car because there are potholes on the road outside. If you could describe in more detail the actual problem with Safari, perhaps we could help. Of course, the first thing to try is to clear Safari's caches. this iMac was rock solid until recently I installed Sophos anti virus. From this moment I notice a lot of hard drive action in the background due to Sophos av (I know this from looking at Sophos Icon in the menu bar). Anyone has more info to shed some light on this... By default most AV softwares seem to check too much, I think. That initial long scan is probably what you're seeing. Tell it to stop. Then tell it to just watch your Download and Mail folders (specific places where an incoming file will land). It is with some redness in my face that I have to say that I installed Sophos AV without any virus problems on my iMac. That's ok. Malware *is* becoming an issue for us. It's time. Best to be prepared. We recommend either Sophos or ClamXav. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Hardrives
At 5:34 AM -0800 11/25/2011, Ben Kernan wrote: I have to replace the drive in my external drive which will be used for backup purposes. I currently have an 80 gig laCie which dates back to the emac g4 era... It is totally inadequate for use today! What is a little confusing to me is the variety of drives out there... ATA, IDE SATA. I am not interested in SSD. I want this for home network backup, not time machine... Besides my 700 gig 24 imac, I also need to backup my wife's new 320 gig Macbook Pro. Are you looking to purchase a bare drive and put it in your existing external box? Or buy a whole new box? If the former, then you need to match the drive's interface to that of the internal one on the box. Office Despot, today, has a 2 TB external drive for $70... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: New to group, love this forum
At 1:40 PM -0800 11/22/2011, RubyRocks wrote: Has anyone else here seen a performance jump after upgrading from a 5400 to a 7200 prm hard drive? Going to a 7200rpm drive should definately be noticeable! It's not just the access speed - those newer drives have bigger onboard caches! And don't forget to do some basic maintenance on OS X now and then. A tool such as OnyX will let you easily run Apple's three maintenance scripts, then clear all your caches, and rebuild the system ones. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Playing DVD movies on G3 Indigo iMac
At 10:07 AM -0800 11/23/2011, Clark Martin wrote: G3 Macs that shipped with DVD drives also had video hardware that decoded the video data. decoded the MPEG-2 video data. A G3 just isn't up to full screen video playback. My Smurf does just fine full screen. Just need to be careful of the source. About the only thing to try is to use hand brake and reduce the video size (width and height), by at least half. Don't tweak the frame size. Change the codec. If you don't have a hardware MPEG-2 decoder, then transcode the source into MPEG-1. That will most certainly play - even full screen. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Playing DVD movies on G3 Indigo iMac
At 10:34 AM -0800 11/23/2011, D. Fabel wrote: Looking at Handbrake, it looks like I can either use an H.264 video codec or MPEG-4 (FFmpeg) codec. Any idea which of these I should be using? I don't see a way to use an MPEG-2 or MPEG-1 codec. DivX, Xvid, and H.264 *are* MPEG-4 variants. Very cpu intensive. MPEG-1 is the video format used on the original Video CD. These will easily play on your G3. MPEG-2 is the video format used on Super Video CD and DVD Video. These may play on your G3, depending on the compression. This is the codec most often done in hardware, on the video card. (newer GPUs now include h.264 decoders also). ffmpeg is an open-source transcoding engine, used by just about everyone to convert from one video format to another. It contains umpteen codecs. When Handbrake tells you FFmpeg, it means it's selecting one of ffmpeg's codecs over QuickTime's. Also, I can output to either MP4 or MKV format. Recommendations? .mov, .avi, .wmv, .mp4, .mkv are container file formats. Any are fine. What counts is the format of the audio and video data streams within the container. For your G3... um... Try ripping the DVD to an avi file with Xvid and mp3 audio. See how well that plays back using QuickTime Player with Perian, and VLC. If it stutters, you can try lowering the bitrate. (I suggest mp3 because it's let cpu intensive to decode than other formats). If that doesn't work... Handbrake is quite limited... Use Handbrake to rip the DVD then use ffmpeg directly to transcode to MPEG-1 or MPEG-2. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Failing router?
At 12:23 PM -0800 11/23/2011, Bill Spencer wrote: Hi there: My son came home from college last night, and almost immediately told me that the router (basic Netgear wireless) is giving off a high-pitched whine or squeal or whistle or something, which he had not heard before. Neither my wife nor I can hear it so I have to take this on faith. They both have complained of pretty frequent and significant Internet slowness, too. 1. Are these two things--noise and speed--related? 2. Is the whine a symptom of something more problematic? Farked power could cause all sorts of issues. Transformers and capacitors make evil noises when dying. Check the wall-wart especially - make sure it's not making any crackling or humming. It should be dead silent. Make sure it's plugged into a surge protector too! 3. Assuming it's much more cost-effective to buy another router than try to have this one fixed, what's the conventional wisdom nowadays for brands and capabilities? (I don't feel the need to spend boatloads of (non-existent) cash so something under maybe $30 would be fine, I think...) Black Friday sales! Amazon, your fav local electronics / computer store, etc... Netgear, Cisco, Linksys (owned by Cisco now), Belkin... it's all good. Avoid D-Link. SMC makes nifty higher powered wi-fi routers, targeted more toward small office use, if you need that xtra punch thru yer walls. I like NAT Routers to include at least a 4 port ethernet hub, 100Mb or 1 Gb (GigE). If you have a need for the newer wi-fi standards, then look for 802.11n. Otherwise 802.11 a/b/g will be cheaper. Match the router to your service. If your service provides an ethernet interface, then don't need a router with a built-in DSL modem, etc. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: iTunes 9.2.1 and 700 Mhz G3 iMac (OS 10.4.11)
At 9:19 AM -0500 11/3/2011, ZEKE wrote: I used a known Internet link to re-grab iTunes 9.2.1 and, now, it says my computer must be a G4 or greater. It worked, before... No, it didn't. iTunes 8.2.1 is the final release that *officially* supports G3 Macs. iTunes 9.1.1 is the actual last release that runs on G3 Macs. http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1036 - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Airport card
At 9:27 PM -0700 10/22/2011, D. Fabel wrote: The router I have is an Actiontec MI-424WR. I was hoping I could get it set up to run WPA with the airport card in my G3 iMac, but I've had no such luck... The 424 works just fine with Airport cards. Start with the basics. Turn on the SSID. Turn off all encryption - both WEP and WPA. Make sure the Mac can connect and talk thru it properly. Then enable WEP, and make sure the Mac can talk. Then disable WEP and enable WPA, etc. One step at a time. If you're unable to do those steps, then show us what you've got. Show us the Airport settings and the router's settings... - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Airport card
At 6:01 PM -0700 10/22/2011, D. Fabel wrote: We've determined we can connect to some, but not all WPA networks. If our Airport Express is hosting the network (or other Apple gear), we are good to go. If the FIOS router is the host, then we are hosed - no mixture of settings in the FIOS router seem to work with AirCard. Strange, but it is what it is. Which FiOS router? AFAIK neither the Actiontec nor the Westel have any difficulties. Be sure to set the encryption type correctly - WEP vs WPA vs WPA2. - Dan. -- - Be Prepared! http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Imac G3 ..browsing problem
At 12:07 PM -0700 10/11/2011, eric salazar wrote: I mac G3 400mhz , with Mac OSX10.3.9 when I try to browse in safari it does not let me do it properly like email or facebook or even youtube , it says I need to update or upgrade my browser but I have no idea how to work it out...! This is an age-old annoyance. Web sites should query the browser to ask it if it supports a specific technology. Instead they just check the overall version of the browser, then tell the user to get lost... Sites such as YouTube require newer versions of Flash or an h.264 codec. Email sites often require better JavaScript or perhaps HTML 5 features. Christopher's suggestion of trying an alternative browser is good. But TenFourFox - a build of the latest Mozilla Firefox that will run on Tiger, won't help you. Instead reach for Classilla - an updated build of WaMCom Mozilla, done by the same guy. http://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/ Here are builds of Camino and more Firefox, that will run on Panther: http://www.rpm-mozilla.org.uk/index.html HTH, - Dan. - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Setting the system date/time to a prior date
At 9:29 PM -0500 10/11/2011, Carrie wrote: I'm wanting to know if there is any danger in setting the system date/time to a prior date. Specifically in Snow Leopard. No problemo. But keep in mind that OS X likes to run the network time daemon, to sync its clock with the atomics out on the 'net. So be sure to disable that in the system prefs. We are dealing with some software digital certificate expiration issues. Until the developer gets them fixed, the only way we can use the software is to set the date/time preferences to a date before the certificate expired. Some users are concerned that this will spell catastrophe for their systems because Unix/Linux based things don't like haivng their dates messed with (their wording, not mine). I maintain that the only things that would be affected are the date/time stamp on files they save while the settings are changed, possibly any iCal events created during the change (which can be overwritten by the user), and that if they use Time Machine the backups might not be dated correctly (and for that reason I've suggested they shut Time Machine off while their date is changed). Yea. Turn off Time Machine and anything else that does things based on a file's time stamps. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Credit Card Security Not Visible
At 5:36 PM -0700 10/6/2011, Al Poulin wrote: Is there technology whereby vendors provide security on credit card checkout transactions with no https or padlock appearing on the browser window, whether Safari or Firefox? Yea. The initial page(s) are unencrypted, but the form's POST operation is done via SSL (https). They do this because driving a whole session via SSL is a much heavier load on their servers. IMO, it's not a very good way to do things, as the initial pages can be spoofed and the user will never know it. :\ Just... use common sense. NEVER click on any link in any email unless you *KNOW* the email is legit. And before clicking, *always* take note of the actual URL, in the tooltip, to make sure it's sending you to the legit site. When in doubt, use your browser bookmarks to get to the site... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Incorrect Number Of Thread Records
At 4:45 PM -0700 9/15/2011, Jasiu wrote: 17 g5 iMac which worked fine til this morning. It shut itself down Was there some sort of power failure? Were things running hot? Has a sudden shutdown happened previously? and when I went to restart I got a reassuring BONG Ok. So your CPU, memory, and buses are probably ok. and the blue background of the desktop popped up sans icons. Mouse doesn't work Perhaps a HD failure. Ran Applejack from Open Firmware No. You ran AppleJack from the root account of OS X, while booted into Single User Mode. and it said something about incorrect number of thread records, invalid volume file count. The files system on your HD has been corrupted, perhaps the data areas also. It also says that there is a missing directory record and Applejack was not able to fix the disc. AppleJack is simply a shell script that runs various utilities. fsck, aka Disk Utility, was unable to repair the disk volume. Any idea of what to do? As others have said, try a different tool. You can try booting on your OS X DVD, or an external drive, and running a Repair Disk pass with Disk Utility -- but I doubt that will work, as fsck has already failed. The next best tool is DiskWarrior. Fsck tries to repair the file system in-place. DiskWarrior is a bigger hammer - it will try to rebuild the file system from scratch, making a whole new one. Of course, this doesn't say much toward the actual cause. If your HD is failing, then the only point of doing the repair work would be to get it to the point you can make a backup... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: OS X on original imac
At 7:07 PM -0700 8/1/2011, Zonebob wrote: Is there an early version of OS X that runs well on a Summer 2000 iMac 350? Sure! Panther or even Tiger will run just fine. If yer memory poor, Panther might be better. If you do Tiger, disable things like the Spotlight indexing and Dashboard - they greatly slow down older Macs. Check the archives here and on our G3-5-List for lots of threads regarding all this. And if so, is it still available to purchase? LEM Swap list. but the browsers that run in OS 9 are not that great. An updated WaMCom Mozilla (aka Firefox) for OS 9: http://www.floodgap.com/software/classilla/ would any version of OS X that runs on this iMac be too old to run good browsers? The choices for Panther and earlier are pretty sparse. But if you update to Tiger, you can run all sorts of browsers. Safari 4, Firefox, etc. Even Firefox 4! http://www.tenfourfox.com/ http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/ - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: You all have probably figured it out by now
At 6:49 AM -0700 6/13/2011, Dennis Swaney top posted on an already bottom posted thread: [top posting moved] On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com wrote: Matt, I just marked it as spam. Bad idea, since the messages all contain posts that you wrote, and marking them as spam will reduce the accuracy of your filter. Just delete them. No, it just marks it based on the sender of the returned email. The spam filter doesn't look at included message quotes, just the headers/subject of the marked email. Well, really, it depends on they type of characterizations (fields, bayesians, etc) the spam filter uses on your particular mail service.. eg: I marked one of the bounces as spam in GMail, and it subsequently put about 1/4 of the legit posts to g3-5 into the spam box. At 5:38 PM -0400 6/12/2011, Dan wrote: 1 got past Gmail, and was nailed by Eudora. The next 801 are sittin my my Gmail spam mailbox! Not sure that's 100% bounces, but the n pages I scrolled thru were all them. Yea, the 801 is all bounces. I actually scrolled thru it all... LOL Here's the top page: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/610326/Fuse-spaz.jpg - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: IMAC G4 Airport Extreme Card Problem
At 12:55 PM -0700 6/2/2011, nanciellen wrote: I bought an Airport Extreme Card and installed it a few times into my IMAC G4. Everytime I booted it, I got a restart message and the computer would not boot. a few times The multi-language restart message is a kernel panic - the core of OS X crashed. This typically means that there is a hardware problem. Perhaps that card is bad. Perhaps it's just not fully seated. A panic.log should have been written, that might further be able to narrow down the exact cause. Use Console.app to view it. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: issues with Core Duo imac
At 2:00 PM -0500 4/5/2011, william wrote: On 05 Apr 2011, at 09.11, Melvyn Edith Halbert wrote: Before you start taking your iMac apart, be sure to vacuum out all external air-circulation vents, particularly the circular inlet on the rear under the support arm. How happy i would be if that turned out to be the problem! It occurred to me that before i grab the ShopVac i should ask is that literally what you mean? Or are you thinking of one of those tiny vacuums just for computers? Any high powered suckolux will do just fine. The idea is to rip the dust out. I actually prefer a good shop vac, with a thin wand, over those silly wimpy made for computers gizmos. The only concern with using such is the static charge it can deliver to the electronics. No big deal when the machine is closed up, shut down, and still plugged in -- it's well grounded and you're not going to be sticking your ungrounded fingers therein. But if the machine is open, please make sure things are properly grounded and be sure to ground yourself *BEFORE* stickin your fingers in! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: issues with Core Duo imac
At 10:33 AM -0700 4/7/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 7, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Dan wrote: How happy i would be if that turned out to be the problem! It occurred to me that before i grab the ShopVac i should ask is that literally what you mean? Or are you thinking of one of those tiny vacuums just for computers? Any high powered suckolux will do just fine. The idea is to rip the dust out. I actually prefer a good shop vac, with a thin wand, over those silly wimpy made for computers gizmos. This is what you want: http://www.harborfreight.com/8-piece-micro-vacuum-attachment-kit-32994.html Stick the shop vac on the back end... oOo Nifty! (and we've avoided all the Spaceballs jokes too!) - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: issues with Core Duo imac
At 10:06 AM -0700 4/4/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 4, 2011, at 9:49 AM, william wrote: My roommate blames the software as no symptoms appeared when i first tried it out. Which makes no sense because the problems you describe are hardware related. What Bruce said, + But i am coming to another conclusion. I shut it off in disgust and rebooted cold just a bit ago. I am typing this on the machine in question and all appears normal, just as it did when i first turned it on. It seems to act normally for awhile, then the video problems start, then the shutdowns. This is clearly a sing of a fialing logic board or possibly a failing cooling system. Try increasing its air flow - point a fan at it. That can very telling. Also install something like iStat Menus, that gives you a temp display. Check the system log for errors. Thermal problems usually get a chance to throw a last-gasp message into the log before gakking the system. Could also be a shipping issue. Things get knocked around. When you open it up to check the fans,vaccuum it out, re-seat cables and such. ... Please be sure to be properly grounded when you open it. You don't want to make the situation worse by frying things with static. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: core duo or core 2 duo?
At 5:39 PM -0700 3/23/2011, Jim Scott wrote: On Mar 23, 2011, at 5:13 PM, william wrote: Basically I'm just wondering whether a 64-bit os is a big deal? My instinct is to get an intel imac as cheaply as possible, but i might change my mind if there is substantial advantage in having the c2d. The biggest advantage is that a Core 2 Duo or better will be required to run OS X 10.7 Lion, due out this summer. That's not gospel, yet, but that's what people who are working with Apple as developers have been saying. It's in the release notes of the Lion preview. http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2011/02/24/mac-os-x-lion-preview-notes-available/ So if that's true, then the advantage is in being able to use the latest OS. There are a lot of Core 2 Duo machines out there that can be had for less than $1,000, so there are lots of options where buying cheaply is concerned, If yer ok with being dead-ended at Leopard or Snow Leopard, a Core processor is fine. It all depends on your particular needs. If you're feeling the need to run the latest and greatest softwares, then you'll need a Core 2 processor or better, so you can upgrade to Lion. Of course, don't foget oddles of memory and HD space... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: core duo or core 2 duo?
At 10:53 PM -0600 3/23/2011, Tina K. wrote: On 2011/03/23 21:37, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: the systems can address more RAM (the core duo systems can only address 3gb of RAM, for which you have to install 4 gb to see.) That sounds very Windozeish. Don't it? lol But in this case it's just lame-a** intel memory controller. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: TechTool Deluxe Froze on Restart
At 4:48 PM -0700 2/19/2011, Tina K. wrote: The OP was using TechTool *Deluxe* that is part of AppleCare, which to my knowledge cannot cause harm. IN general, yes. And I have no problem with the basic diagnostic informations it presents. The problem is that most people reach for it, and things like DiskWarrior, when they have *hard drive* issues. And what do those tools do to hard drives? They WRITE on them! So any life your HD had gets p*ssed away doing some test, instead of being used to make a backup! Tests are ok, but only *after* you've got a good backup. Although from my experience it cannot cause good either ;-) Exactly. 9 times out of 10, a little common sense and googling symptoms will narrow issues down better than any of those tools. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: G4 iMac USB ports dead
On Feb 12, 9:03 am, N.Shani wrote: There is no such thing as dry solder joints. You should perhaps check your facts before making claims. http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=dry+solder+joint While I doubt there is a dry joint (haven't seen one in a Mac in a long time), it *is* a possibility. Most likely the USB controller gave the ghost. Probably. - Dan. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: OT: How to make a solid Mac backup plan
At 6:30 AM -0500 1/24/2011, Tom Coradeschi wrote: At 3:47 PM -0500 01/18/2011, Dan wrote: That's just bad advice, IMO. 1) Cloud storage systems are NOT secure. [bla de bla de bla de bla - we have heard all of this from Dan before] But they're still valid points. A better solution would to be give a copy of your (encrypted or not) backup to a *friend*, for storage in his/her sock drawer. Well, I'll stack up my daily (once per computer) backup to Mozy against your ?how recent? copy at a friend's house. Any day. Refreshed (rotated) just last night. Does Mozy now provide the information as to their procedures and such? Or are you just using Hope, as in you HOPE they do what their sales site says they do to protect your data. Have they changed their system so it retains deleted files? I realize this review is now a few years old. Has Mozy delt with these issues, Tom? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13554_3-9752350-33.html See, I have a backup strategy, you have Hope (as in I Hope that I have the right stuff on the backup and I Hope that I haven't created something I care about since the last time I did a backup Well, SEE, it's good to know that you have a backup strategy. Your assumption is that we don't? Wow. Could you possibly re-word that so it sounds less of an attack? and I Hope that my buddy didn't decide to use the disk to make offline copies of all his child porn so his wife won't find it...). If that's a worry then I'd venture that you need new friends. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: OT: How to make a solid Mac backup plan
At 10:32 AM -0700 1/19/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: The best, most meticulously tested and verified backups in the world do you no good if they burn up in the same house fire as your computer. :-) Software is replaceable; data is not. yea. A complete backup (a la CCC or SD) stored off-site means you're up and running as soon as your hardware is replaced. Ditto for a basic disk failure. A partial backup means you still have hours of pain, locating then reinstalling stuff, ahead of you. A Time Machine backup means... well, assuming it's intact (sorry; I still don't trust TM at all!), that you can restore your system after a few hours of pain and boredom. Folx need to check their various insurance policies. Homeowners, Apt property, etc. Some cover software replacement, many do not. Many use a bizarre depreciation schedule instead of replacement value. Software can cost quite a bit! This is something we have to keep and update plans for here at the College: we literally have to plan for 'What would we do if the whole building burned down'; 'what would we do if a pandemic was declared and the UA Shut down' (we're associated with the University Medical Center so pandemic planning is something we're deeply involved in). We have ALWAYS rotated one full set of backups off site. Guns, lots of ammo, clean underwear. DO NOT go into Atlanta. It's full of zombies and an insane doctor. After that, if you gots a few stashes of snickers bars, you're all set. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: OT: How to make a solid Mac backup plan
At 9:19 AM -0500 1/18/2011, Al Poulin wrote: This article by Christopher Breen at Macworld is the most comprehensive I have seen in a long time. Also, some of the add-on comments are excellent, including the idea of testing the backups. http://www.macworld.com/article/156601/2011/01/what_how_backup.html Overall, a decent article. But I TOTALLY disagree with the use of the cloud storage services, tho: --For the crème de la crème of your data collection-your iPhoto library --and iMovie projects, for example-add an online storage service. That's just bad advice, IMO. 1) Cloud storage systems are NOT secure. ...This isn't about their use of some sort of encryption. This is about their management of the data. NONE of the services give ANY details as to their facilities and procedures. They consider that confidential. IOW, you have no way of knowing if they're actually storing your data redundantly, etc. 2) Your photos and movies are perhaps some of the most *private* data you have, so the *last* place you should be putting them is into the hands of some unknown 3rd party! 3) Those particular types of file libraries tend to be big, which means $ per month! And if you forget to pay, what happens to your data???!!! And if you lose your encryption key, you lose your whole backup! A better solution would to be give a copy of your (encrypted or not) backup to a *friend*, for storage in his/her sock drawer. Cloud services such as Dropbox are nice, for collaborative projects, small non-private stuff, or for when you need a quick way to temporarily safe guard some data when you're on the road. But they are NOT good backup solutions. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: OT: How to make a solid Mac backup plan
At 3:51 PM + 1/18/2011, Jonathan Smith wrote: Excluding system files from your backup can save you a lot of space. Does anybody know how much space roughly (Snow Leopard)? Probably under ten gigs, but it depends on what'all you've installed. You can find out how much is on YOUR particular Mac by using this command from Terminal, in an admin account. sudo du -hcd 1 / Please note that few of us recommend leaving system files or even your applications out of a backup. Sometimes you install products that modify the system. An incomplete backup can mean a lot of pain when it comes time to rebuild. The article specifically recommends leaving out apps. Uh huh. Do you know where ALL the original media for your apps are? Is it stored somewhere such that the catastrophe (fire, etc) that damages your computer won't get them too? This is why we recommend multiple backups, at least one being a *complete* *bootable* clone using Carbon Copy Cloner. If your internal HD fails, just boot on the clone! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Help with second hand iMac G3 with no operating system or disks
Hi, I brought an original imac (Model M5521) as a basic machine for my 4 year old to play on (it was $25) I thought it was a bargain in a state of stupidity really. I love these old looking imacs (have a new one now) My question is how do i get it to run. I have tried a few torrents online to get disks but none of them seem to work. Does anyone have any ideas and does apple sell the original install disks? Cheers Dan -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: Ideas for upgrading?
At 10:39 AM -0800 12/21/2010, Bill Spencer wrote: an unexpected Christmas present of $100, and before it burns too big a hole in my pocket I'd like to solicit suggestions An external HD for backups pay for some shareware. Or take your sweetie out for a nice dinner. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: selling imac late 2006
At 5:01 PM -0800 12/21/2010, Jesslyn wrote: sell the old one which is the imac late 2006, 17, 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB 667 MHz of DDR2 SDRAM. can anyone tell me where to sell this used imac with a good bargain?? These days the best three venues are: LEM Swap Craigslist eBay - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: issues with safari 5.0.3
hum. 1) Please use plain text, not html based emails on these LEM groups. 2) DO NOT include attachments. At 1:17 PM -0800 12/16/2010, Nici Nowlin wrote: [html and attachments stripped] imac os x 183 ghz intel core 2 duo version 10.6.5 safari version 5.0.3 safari now run so slow i have to cut it off and start back to see anything anymore please tell me how to unistall or what to do to get it to work again Launch Safari then select Reset from the Safari menu. In the presented dialog, check the boxes to clear the history, top sites, and empty the cache. Click the Reset button then quit Safari and relaunch. If that doesn't fix it, do the same but check the boxes to clear cookies and website icons. Those are the biggest suspects. If that doesn't fix it, let us know. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
Re: from osx.3.9 to leopard ,snow leopard even ?
At 2:13 PM -0800 12/7/2010, vinman wrote: I am upgrading an emac 1.25ghz from to 1mb ram, You mean 1 GB ram, not mb. and want ultimately to run snow leopard if poss and at least leopard, can this be done? Leopard - yes. Snow Leopard - no. SL requires an x86 processor. eMac is PowerPC G4. Has anyone tried it ? Leopard will run great on your eMac! Can the Leopard version supplied with a mac mini do the trick ? Legally, no. Technically, I think so, if it is a Leopard kit from a PPC Mini. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
