Re: No More iMacs

Hi. No it was a Snow DV. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk (sent using Nokia E71) -original message- Subject: Re: No More iMacs From: Cy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 30/10/2008 01:25 On Oct 29, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Simon Royal wrote: > Well, it is a sad day in my

Re: jpeg and gif coversion problem

On Oct 30, 9:56 am, Doug McNutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 15:30 -0700 10/29/08, dorayme wrote: > > >On Oct 29, 9:59 am, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>  ... Documents have a resource fork attached, and can   > >>  cause problems. If it's an image, open the file in TextWrangle

Re: search in 10.5 server

thank you for the reply! I did it and when I told it to erase, it responded 'Indexing disabled' nothing about erasing.checking Activity viewer after I turned indexing back on there is little to no activity from any 'md' process most I've seen is 0.6 for a second on 'mds' -sam > >

Re: G4 Tiger vs Leopard benchmarks

At 9:27 PM -0500 10/29/2008, Kris Tilford wrote: >ran benchmarks. Sure enough, it appears Leopard 10.5.5 was about 20% >slower than Tiger 10.4.11. Benchmarks were run on a clean system >with nothing else running. What about Spotlight - did you have its indexing disabled on all volumes? - Dan.

Re: malware and web pages

On Oct 29, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Dan wrote: > > 2) Only use a single credit card with a low limit online. And make > sure that card isn't paid automatically from any other account, in > case its number is "stolen". Discover lets you very easily create a 'one-time-use' CC#

Re: G4 Tiger vs Leopard benchmarks

At 9:46 PM -0700 10/29/2008, Paul wrote: > >How does the X86 code in OS 10 get run on a PPC? It doesn't, period. "optimization" is done automagically in the compiler, on a per cpu-architecture basis. Mullin's comments about optimization being the cause of the speed difference is PURE speculat

Re: search in 10.5 server

At 9:49 AM -0400 10/30/2008, Sam Macomber wrote: >thank you for the reply! Please remember to BOTTOM post and TRIM on these LEM lists. Providing tech support with top posting wastes time. >I did it and when I told it to erase, it responded 'Indexing >disabled' nothing about erasing. Then you

Re: System Crash - Spotlight???

On Oct 29, 2008, at 9:35 PM, RediG3-5 wrote: > > I did look for Crash logs before posting but found only reports on > specific software crashes. > Not sure I was looking in the right place. I mislead you by using the word Crash, kernel panic logs are stored in: /Library/Logs/Panic Reporter Th

Re: search in 10.5 server

> > >> I did it and when I told it to erase, it responded 'Indexing >> disabled' nothing about erasing. > > Then you typed the command incorrectly. It should have said 'index > removed'. Redo all three commands. If you have problems, copy the > whole thing and paste it into your reply here so

Re: System Crash - Spotlight???

On Oct 30, 8:17 am, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /Library/Logs/Panic Reporter > > There's a line toward the end that says: > > That will tell you the actual process causing the panic; alas, it's > called a 'kernel panic' for a reason, 90% of the time it will be > 'kernel_task'. O

Re: search in 10.5 server

On Oct 30, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Sam Macomber wrote: > > Tried again, same result. > > xserve2:~ admin$ sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/BiggerMac > Password: > /Volumes/BiggerMac: > Indexing disabled. Here's where you turned off Indexing > > xserve2:~ admin$ sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/BiggerMac > /

Re: search in 10.5 server

> > On Oct 30, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Sam Macomber wrote: > >> >> Tried again, same result. >> >> xserve2:~ admin$ sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/BiggerMac >> Password: >> /Volumes/BiggerMac: >> Indexing disabled. > > Here's where you turned off Indexing > >> >> xserve2:~ admin$ sudo mdutil -E /Volum

Re: search in 10.5 server

At 8:52 AM -0700 10/30/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > xserve2:~ admin$ sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/BiggerMac >> /Volumes/BiggerMac: >> Indexing disabled. > > xserve2:~ admin$ > >It's responding correctly to that command. Can you double-check that? The Macs here, tiger and leopard, say "inde

Re: G4 Tiger vs Leopard benchmarks

On Oct 30, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Dan wrote: > What about Spotlight - did you have its indexing disabled on all > volumes? No. Spotlight wasn't disabled, but it was also not indexing. I should have also commented that the CPU overhead of Leopard was about 2% higher than Tiger. Tiger was about 5%

Re: jpeg and gif coversion problem

On Oct 27, 8:21 pm, Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am curious why a jpeg and a gif file from an OS X user would not open in my > son's Window XP pro computer. Along with the rest of the reasons listed, I found that some applications are more forgiving when they run across a corrupted .gif

Re: jpeg and gif coversion problem

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 27, 8:21 pm, Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am curious why a jpeg and a gif file from an OS X user would not open in >> my son's Window XP pro computer. > > Along with the rest of the reasons listed, I found that

Re: jpeg and gif coversion problem

Ray wrote: > I am curious why a jpeg and a gif file from an OS X user would not open in my > son's Window XP pro computer. They all opened in 10.4 Preview. It was also > strange that the gif file could not be opened by Photoshop CS3 in my G4 > running 10.4; I had to open it in "Preview" and co