Re: AGP vs PCI On Sawtooth

2008-10-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 20, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Simon Royal wrote: All I can find on eBay is a small handful of cards mainly AGP Rage Pros. Yeah, I'm only seeing about 300 listed in the UK. Bummer, we've got about 600+ listed here in the states (Radeon AGP). Still, you might look through the list of 300 UK

Re: AGP vs PCI On Sawtooth

2008-10-21 Thread Simon Royal
Kris Out of those 300 how many are Mac compatible? I'm looking through them now. Try this http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/_W0QQ_dmptZUKQ5fComputingQ5fComputerQ5fComponentsQ5fGraphicsQ5fVideoQ5fTVQ5fCardsQ5fTW?_nkw=Radeon+AGP+mac_sacat=0_fromfsb=_trksid=m270.l1313_odkw=Radeon+AGP+mac_osacat=0

Re: AGP vs PCI On Sawtooth

2008-10-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 21, 2008, at 3:58 AM, Simon Royal wrote: Out of those 300 how many are Mac compatible? I'm looking through them now. Probably none, but most (perhaps 200) are easily flashed to Mac. For information and ROMs for converting to Mac, see: http://themacelite.wikispaces.com/ I'm sure

Re: AGP vs PCI On Sawtooth

2008-10-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 21, 2008, at 4:49 AM, Simon Royal wrote: So let me get this right. I could get a PC Rage Pro 128 or other card and flash it for the Mac on a Mac? I don't know anything about flashing Rage cards. These were so old I think some didn't have flash ROM, they had fixed firmware. I know

Re: AGP vs PCI On Sawtooth

2008-10-21 Thread Simon Royal
Kris. Sorry its been a long and stressful week. :)--- www.simonroyal.co.uk and www.nmug.org.uk (sent using Nokia E71) -original message- Subject: Re: AGP vs PCI On Sawtooth From: Kris Tilford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 21/10/2008 11:03 On Oct 21, 2008, at 4:49 AM, Simon Royal wrote: So let

Re: AGP vs PCI On Sawtooth

2008-10-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 21, 2008, at 5:28 AM, Simon Royal wrote: Sorry its been a long and stressful week. :) No joke. It's a stress wave and we little particles all rise and fall together. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End

Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

2008-10-21 Thread insightinmind
Is it an option to partition free space on an external firewire drive, using OSX 10.5's Disk Utility, without losing a current partition(s) structure and/or data on the same harddrive? Maybe only decrease the original partitions size, without losing any original data and accessibility? It

Re: Scanner software works in 10.3 but not 10.4--how come?

2008-10-21 Thread Tom
Thanks Mel. It ain't a stupid question at all. Well, the thing is, I make videos with Final Cut that consist largely of pans and zooms on photos. I made one recently about art that showed a lot of paintings that were scanned from slides (you can see it on YouTube at http:// tinyurl.com/6e698m).

Re: mds mdworker eating up the processor?

2008-10-21 Thread Richie
Just curious using an external FW800 drive to boot from, when the system boots, activity monitor say's that mds (root) and mdworker (user) eat up 50-90 percent of my processor? what with that? thanks, Jeff june 2004 dual 2.0 G5 powermac tower, 2gb ram 300gb hd internal. Have had this

Re: mds mdworker eating up the processor?

2008-10-21 Thread insightinmind
On Oct 21, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Just curious using an external FW800 drive to boot from, when the system boots, activity monitor say's that mds (root) and mdworker (user) eat up 50-90 percent of my processor? what with that? thanks, Jeff june 2004 dual 2.0 G5

RE: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

2008-10-21 Thread Simon Royal
Hi. You can with iPartition. Simon --- www.simonroyal.co.uk and www.nmug.org.uk (sent using Nokia E71) -original message- Subject: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space From: insightinmind [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 21/10/2008 16:50 Is it an option to partition free space on an external

Re: mds mdworker eating up the processor?

2008-10-21 Thread Jeffrey Engle
could be..left on for an hour and she calms back down On Oct 21, 2008, at 9:02 AM, insightinmind wrote: On Oct 21, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Just curious using an external FW800 drive to boot from, when the system boots, activity monitor say's that mds (root) and

Re: mds mdworker eating up the processor?

2008-10-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 21, 2008, at 8:56 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Just curious using an external FW800 drive to boot from, when the system boots, activity monitor say's that mds (root) and mdworker (user) eat up 50-90 percent of my processor? what with that? thanks, Jeff mds and mdworker are the two

Re: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

2008-10-21 Thread insightinmind
I believe 10.5's Disk Utility is letting me do just that. Will report back after I complete my experiment. And its free, too ... relatively. Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio

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2008-10-21 Thread George Hozendorf
Ha sanyone tried the latest version of Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1.2? On my machine it's incredibly faster. George Mac OS X 10.5.5 Mac Mini 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: Scanner software works in 10.3 but not 10.4--how come?

2008-10-21 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 21-10-2008 17:59, Tom, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: snip What I wanted was the speed and convenience of being able to run Final snip to the Mac that's running Final Cut. Just looking for convenience and speed, an efficient workflow I snip between computers. So it goes, as computer

USB hub form factor

2008-10-21 Thread Steve R
Has anyone used a USB cable hub similar to the one pictured here: http://www.petfetcet.com/ebay/octopus/white.jpg Good experience? Bad experience? It would be nice to not have to give up desk space with cabling, etc, but I'm wondering if there might be too much weight pulling on the USB

Re: USB hub form factor

2008-10-21 Thread Steve R
At 3:05 PM -0700 10/21/08, Ken posted: To me it looks like something more suitable for a laptop where the ports would be close to the desk. It also seems to lack a power supply so I would suggest being very careful what type of things you plug into the thing. With 4 ports it would be

Re: mds mdworker eating up the processor?

2008-10-21 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Oct 21, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Oct 21, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Just curious using an external FW800 drive to boot from, when the system boots, activity monitor say's that mds (root) and mdworker (user) eat up 50-90 percent of my processor? what

The application SyncServer quit unexpectedly

2008-10-21 Thread Marty Levine
I am now regularly getting the error message that SyncSever app is quitting unexpectedly. I believe the exact wording is The application SyncServer quit unexpectedly It is annoying but does not seem to be causing a problem. Something going bad? I am running 10.5.5 on a Sawtooth G4 450mhz

Fwd: Sawtooth desktop moves

2008-10-21 Thread Jim McGee
Sent this in error to the Swap List Begin forwarded message: From: Jim McGee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 21, 2008 5:54:49 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sawtooth desktop moves Hi Folks Got this Sawtooth 400 with OS X.4.11 installed that I've been learning OS X

Re: Leopard Question: Re-partioning Free Space

2008-10-21 Thread Dan
At 10:27 PM -0400 10/21/2008, insightinmind wrote: What I have done is ADD 4 partitions at the end of the 750GB FW hard drive So you had a large empty space that was unpartitioned? If not, then you didn't just add... you did a massive data move to create the contiguous free space, then

Re: USB hub form factor

2008-10-21 Thread Paul
The 4-port USB hub I have uses a 5V 2.6A AC adapter, which is a fair amount of power. With a hub powered by the computer, I think you'd need to be cautious with devices that are powered by the USB plug, so a printer is probably low-draw, but charging an iPod would need more juice. It also depends

Re: USB hub form factor

2008-10-21 Thread Paul
The 4-port USB hub I have uses a 5V 2.6A AC adapter, which is a fair amount of power. With a hub powered by the computer, I think you'd need to be cautious with devices that are powered by the USB plug, so a printer is probably low-draw, but charging an iPod would need more juice. It also depends

Re: Formatting Mac Disk for a PC

2008-10-21 Thread Paul
I'm not sure what Windows formatting options you get with a Mac. Can it format a drive as NTFS, for instance? The consensus in the Windows world is to use NTFS to format NT, Windows 2000, XP, and Vista boot disks. You can't use NTFS for DOS or Windows 98/95/ME. You can't even read NTFS disks

Re: USB hub form factor

2008-10-21 Thread Clark Martin
Paul wrote: The 4-port USB hub I have uses a 5V 2.6A AC adapter, which is a fair amount of power. With a hub powered by the computer, I think you'd need to be cautious with devices that are powered by the USB plug, so a printer is probably low-draw, but charging an iPod would need more