Re: LCD screen flickering and going black.

On Dec 4, 5:58 am, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 3, 2008, at 11:56 AM, dorayme wrote: > > > I looked up the model > > on Google but have difficulty knowing what technology it really > > employs re fluro or LED? > > If you didn't buy in in the last six months or so it's a fluore

Re: LCD screen flickering and going black.

On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:36 AM, dorayme wrote: > I have been looking at: > > http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/shorts/overview.aspx > > to prepare myself! You folks might like to know this url. I will buy a > new monitor and consider fixing this one at my leisure. I like the > sound of $20 for parts

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:37 PM, AIM Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have too many thoughts on this subject to list right now, but I have > a feeling that Apple actually is behind this in a way...I will post > more later, but who else has noticed that since they've hit the scene, > the Mac m

Display card and resolution support

In my G4 QS 933 I have: Chipset Model: GeForce4 MX Type: Display Bus: AGP VRAM (Total): 64 MB Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de) Revision ID: 0x00a2 ROM Revision: 1091 Wondering if it will be able to run an LCD screen of 24" at the native res of 1920 x 1200px ok? Appreciate any advice.

Re: LCD screen flickering and going black.

On Dec 4, 8:55 pm, Kris Tilford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:36 AM, dorayme wrote: > > > I have been looking at: > > >http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/shorts/overview.aspx > > > to prepare myself! You folks might like to know this url. I will buy a > > new monitor and consid

Re: Display card and resolution support

On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:01 AM, dorayme wrote: > In my G4 QS 933 I have: > > Chipset Model:GeForce4 MX > Type:Display > Bus: AGP > VRAM (Total):64 MB > Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de) > Revision ID: 0x00a2 > ROM Revision:1091 > > Wondering if it will be able to run

Pixels and card capacity.

In my G4 QS 933 I have: Chipset Model:GeForce4 MX Type:Display Bus: AGP Slot:SLOT-1 VRAM (Total):64 MB Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0171 Revision ID: 0x00a2 ROM Revision:1091 Wondering if it will be able to run an L

Re: Pixels and card capacity.

On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:57 AM, dorayme wrote: > > In my G4 QS 933 I have: > > Chipset Model: GeForce4 MX > Type: Display > Bus:AGP > Slot: SLOT-1 > VRAM (Total): 64 MB > Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de) > Device ID: 0x0171 > Revision ID:0x00a2 > RO

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > Motorola is pretty much out of the picture for CPUs and IBM? Haven't > heard of them making CPUs since the G5 passed on. Motorola's CPUs are now made by its spin-off, Freescale. IBM is still among the largest semi houses in the worl

AirportExtreme+HardDrive=TimeCapsule?

The Time Capsule is appealing to me but the terrabyte version is expensive and I might need more storage than that. Is there a difference in functionality between an Airport Extreme with a usb hard drive (or two) and a Time Capsule? Rich --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

G4 Problem Booting OS 9

Howdy Listers, Originally I brought this problem to the OS 9 List, someone there helped me but it turned out to be more than what I suspected, and after around two weeks of waiting for someone to get a chance to respond to my last post (how what I thought was an obvious fix turned out not to s

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > > You may want to read up on How Bill gates got his start. Bill Gates got his start by dropping out of Harvard and with his Harvard room mate, selling a version of Basic for the Altair and other early computers. > And who gave

Re: Display card and resolution support

On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:01 AM, dorayme wrote: > > (btw. I am finding that a new post to this list from my Mail.app never > gets through. That's weird, I never use the GG web interface, just Mail. Is it only this list or is it all GG lists? Are you subscribed under this email address or do you

Re: Dead or Alive

I run this model- must have memory in pairs, 1 either side , goes from 4g to 8 gig max, 2 drive bays, but should be able to plug in external for testing. Great machine! Size:1 GB Type:DDR SDRAM Speed: PC3200U-30330 Status: OK Jeff Bequette [EMAIL PROT

Re: Display card and resolution support

On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:01 AM, dorayme wrote: > > (btw. I am finding that a new post to this list from my Mail.app never > gets through. For some reason Google Groups has ratcheted up their spam filtering and we are getting slightly more group messages that need approval because they might be

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

At 5:01 AM -0500 12/4/2008, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >Motorola is pretty much out of the picture for CPUs and IBM? Haven't >heard of them making CPUs since the G5 passed on. What Peter said. Plus... Don't forget IBM's Power processors. The current batch from IBM are very nice, and in ma

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> Motorola is pretty much out of the picture for CPUs and IBM? Haven't >> heard of them making CPUs since the G5 passed on. > > Motorola's CPUs are now made by its

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> >> You may want to read up on How Bill gates got his start. > > > Bill Gates got his start by dropping out of Harvard and with his > Harvard room mate, sel

Re: AirportExtreme+HardDrive=TimeCapsule?

On Dec 4, 2008, at 5:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The Time Capsule is appealing to me but the terrabyte version is > expensive and I might need more storage than that. Is there a > difference in functionality between an Airport Extreme with a usb hard > drive (or two) and a Time Capsule

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> Microsoft paid $150 million for (non-voting) stock (with a "cannot >> sell prior to" date on the transaction) and guaranteed the >> continuation of MS Office for five years because they got caught >> stealing patented Quicktime code for WMP. >> >> That was a cour

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Dec 4, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > We may be talking about two different events. I'm talking about the 1997 MacWorld, where Bill's Giant Head appeared on stage to announce Office 98. The sett

Re: AirportExtreme+HardDrive=TimeCapsule?

On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > I have an Airport extreme with an external usb drive, I'm curious to > know if the "USB" is the bottleneck? would I be better off using an > ethernet storage solution instead? which is faster? USB or ethernet? Airport: 58mbit/s at best Ethernet

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

At 10:47 AM -0500 12/4/2008, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >> Motorola is pretty much out of the picture for CPUs and IBM? Haven't >>> heard of them making CPUs

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Dan wrote: > ...Of course, no decision gets made without a down side. Shortly > after Intel released Core, AMD leapfrogged over 'em, then the PowerPC > chips leapfrogged over 'em, then... Then Intel leapfrogged 'em both. [Ars Technica]

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Dec 4, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Dan wrote: >>> IBM is still among the largest semi houses in the world, although a >>> lot of it is "captive". >> >> Embedded industrial drones I presume. > > IBM has targeted Power toward the high-end server and > supersupercomputer markets. PPC is a winner, even

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

At 9:42 AM -0700 12/4/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: >On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Dan wrote: > > ...Of course, no decision gets made without a down side. Shortly >> after Intel released Core, AMD leapfrogged over 'em, then the PowerPC >> chips leapfrogged over 'em, then... > >Then Intel leapfrogge

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9-problem with printer

I am very new to Apple but have you tried the gimp drivers for printers? perhaps this group can tell you if one of them would work. I wanted my G3 and G4 to use the same printer,an Epson stylus Color 880. There was no problem with the G4 but the only driver that worked on the G3,usin

Re: My Power G3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is in panic mode.-new to Apple

One should never assume that a "newbie" is doing the simplest,basic thing. The article I read about getting rid of the error said I should reboot and push three keys ,one of them being h. Thanks to you I pushed c while rebooting and now have 10.3.9 on my G3. I was never able to

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

Dan wrote: > At 5:01 AM -0500 12/4/2008, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >>Motorola is pretty much out of the picture for CPUs and IBM? Haven't >>heard of them making CPUs since the G5 passed on. > > > What Peter said. > > Plus... Don't forget IBM's Power processors. The current batch from

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

Dan wrote: > At 10:47 AM -0500 12/4/2008, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > >>On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> >> Motorola is pretty much out of the picture for CPUs and IBM? Haven't >> hear

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Dan wrote: > > Which brings me back to my believe that Apple should do an open Mac > OS X, That's an underpants gnome business plan 1) Offer Open Mac OS X 2) ? 3) Profit! Selling OS'es is only profitable when you're getting manufacturers to install it on the com

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:54 AM, James E. Therrault wrote: > To me, I would have favored an alliance with AMD rather than Intel. > Apple could have become part owner etc. The difference between you and Apple is that you're not privy to Intel's private development roadmap and skunkworks. If people

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

At 10:57 AM -0700 12/4/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >Apple will never make more money letting Dell sell OS X computers than >Apple selling OS X computers. This is the Clone Lesson. This is where we're going to have to disagree forever, I guess. Dell et al are going to sell those computers, no m

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

At 10:59 AM -0700 12/4/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: >On Dec 4, 2008, at 10:54 AM, James E. Therrault wrote: > > To me, I would have favored an alliance with AMD rather than Intel. >> Apple could have become part owner etc. > >The difference between you and Apple is that you're not privy to >Intel

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > Apple's competitors are companies like Acer, HP and Dell, NOT MICROSOFT. > > The competition is actually a weird combination of hardware and OS. I love the fact that Dell's Linux packages are the same price as their Windows packages. --~--~-~--~~

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

First off, you can't swap a drive from a beige G3 into a G4 an expect it to boot; it won't have the proper drivers/extensions for a G4. It doesn't mean there was anything wrong with the hard drive. You didn't really get a good "clean install" because your Mac found an old printer you no longer use

TOPIC: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

Running any form of Windows or Microsoft software on my Mac is not the issue - not because I dislike MS software, but because I prefer Apple and Mac software. Plus, I don't want to have any pesky bugs to deal with - that's the main reason I switched to Apple - afterwards I discovered what

Please, G4, Spit out that CD for me...?

Hi again Listers, :blush: U...let's hope my Powerbook 5300 comes to my rescue again (it's the only way I have right now to send or receive email...) -- My experimenting with Charles's suggestion of removing certain extensions (and some obviously erroneous ideas of my own) to fix

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> To me, I would have favored an alliance with AMD rather than Intel. >> Apple could have become part owner etc. > > The difference between you and Apple is that you're not privy to > Intel's private development roadmap and skunkworks. If peopl

Re: Please, G4, Spit out that CD for me...?

On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Yersinia wrote: > Having tried to boot from a copy of my "original" OS 9 system folder > which I'd put on the OS X HD for safekeeping just prior to doing the > OS 9 > reinstall Sat night (and which my G4 had also been running Classic > Mode > from since then when

TOPIC: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

Only those close insiders know how Steve and Bill actually get along - perhaps now as friendly competitors. After all, Microsoft didn't crush Apple like it is rumored to have Commodore, Amiga and others. Or perhaps those companies crumbled from the sheer lack of user support. Perhaps, A

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:54 AM, James E. Therrault wrote: > It's a shame that IBM was not up to the task of delivering low power > Power PC chips for laptops. But this is nothing new, IBM failed to > adapt > their (PS 2) OS to the Power PC maintaining compatibility with earlier > versions of the O

Re: AirportExtreme+HardDrive=TimeCapsule?

On Dec 4, 2008, at 8:27 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > >> I have an Airport extreme with an external usb drive, I'm curious to >> know if the "USB" is the bottleneck? would I be better off using an >> ethernet storage solution instead? which is

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

dc writes, Actually, this "nuke and pave the 20 GB HD" approach did occur to me, although only as a last resort. However, now that you explain it this way (makes sense) -- as soon as I can get my G4 to spit out that CD/I restore my ability to boot in Tiger, yeah, looks like "nuke and pave"

Re: AirportExtreme+HardDrive=TimeCapsule?

On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > If that ethernet network storage is connected to the > Airport Extreme and then accessed with my macbook via wireless, I'm > back to that 58mbit/s at best right? > So, If i'm hearing you correctly, > the wireless is going to slow me down to 58mb

Re: Reading this group

nestamicky wrote: > I have T-bird set up now. But still have a problem. This is what I > want. I want to follow the conversation in T-Bird just as they will > appear on the web-page of Google. Can I do that? Please! > At the very top would be the original poster, and at the very end, the > last

Re: AirportExtreme+HardDrive=TimeCapsule?

On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > >> If that ethernet network storage is connected to the >> Airport Extreme and then accessed with my macbook via wireless, I'm >> back to that 58mbit/s at best right? > >> So, If i'm hearing y

Re: Please, G4, Spit out that CD for me...?

THANK YOU KRIS!!! Yes, that started me up (although it was weird not seeing the "Welcome to Mac OS, Extensions Off" notice), I got into OS 9 OK that way. The G4's eject button didn't work in getting it to spit out the CD but I was able to change the startup back to Tiger, and in Tiger, the e

Re: TOPIC: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Dec 4, 2008, at 12:20 PM, lampbay wrote: > After all, Microsoft didn't > crush Apple like it is rumored to have Commodore, Amiga and others. It's easy to crush competitors who shoot themselves in the foot with machine guns first. Commodore squandered the lead they had by thinking it was

Re: TOPIC: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

Bruce Johnson wrote: > The closest Microsoft ever came to 'crushing' anyone was their > Internet coup against Netscape, and lordy, we're STILL paying for that > decision with every spam we get. > > Well, AOL helped that one, too. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You re

Re: AirportExtreme+HardDrive=TimeCapsule?

Jeffrey Engle wrote: > I was talking with the guy's at Quickertech the other day and the lady > was talking about how that an "N" network was limited to 2.4ghz? I > guess I'm still learning about this stuff, and it is only an 802.11a > network that gives me the 5.0-5.8ghz networks? I'm assu

Re: PowerMac G5 1.6 Single Processor wonky issues

I have had a similar problem with my G5 single and 10.5.5. I don't think there was a kernel crash, I couldn't find it in the logs at any rate. I ran Disk Utility from my system with no errors. Big hit on performance continued. Checked the activity monitor, but I couldn't find anything out of the or

Re: Display card and resolution support

On Dec 5, 1:58 am, Len Gerstel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 4, 2008, at 3:01 AM, dorayme wrote: > > (btw. I am finding that a new post to this list from my Mail.app never > > gets through. > > For some reason Google Groups has ratcheted up their spam filtering   > and we are getting slight

Re: TOPIC: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

lampbay wrote: > Running any form of Windows or Microsoft software on my Mac is not > the issue - not because I dislike MS software, but because I prefer > Apple and Mac software. Plus, I don't want to have any pesky bugs to > deal with - that's the main reason I switched to Apple - afterwa

Re: Display card and resolution support

On Dec 4, 9:07 pm, Kris Tilford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:01 AM, dorayme wrote: > > > In my G4 QS 933 I have: > > > Chipset Model:     GeForce4 MX > >  Type:     Display > >  Bus:      AGP > >  VRAM (Total):     64 MB ... > > Wondering if it will be able to run an LCD scree

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

PeterH wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:54 AM, James E. Therrault wrote: > > >>It's a shame that IBM was not up to the task of delivering low power >>Power PC chips for laptops. But this is nothing new, IBM failed to >>adapt >>their (PS 2) OS to the Power PC maintaining compatibility with ear

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9-problem with printer

mlitwin writes, 1. Welcome to our List, and to the (almost) always wonderful world of Mac. :-) 2. Thanks, but no, it's not actually a printer problem I'm having. I mentioned a printer driver issue (which doesn't actually affect my ability to print: my LaserWriter 4/600 PS works very well in

Re: Upgrading to 10.4 - No DVD Drive

Kris, It worked like a charm! Thank you! On Dec 3, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: > You do the same. Place the DVD into the optical drive of the Intel > iMac. Shutdown and restart holding the "T" key until you see the > Firewire symbol on the iMac display. With the G4 shutdown, attach it

Re: TOPIC: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 12:20 PM, lampbay wrote: > >> After all, Microsoft didn't >> crush Apple like it is rumored to have Commodore, Amiga and others. > > It's easy to crush competitors who shoot themselves in the foot wi

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:47 PM, dc wrote: > > First off, you can't swap a drive from a beige G3 into a G4 an expect > it to boot; it won't have the proper drivers/extensions for a G4. It > doesn't mean there was anything wrong with the hard drive. Unfortunately, this statement is INCORRECT. The con

Re: Please, G4, Spit out that CD for me...?

Hi Yersinia; Never heard of the 'mouse & power button' = eject. What works for me is 'mouse button' ONLY --- while booting. of course. Chuck D. On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Yersinia wrote: > > Hi again Listers, > > :blush: U...let's hope my Powerbook 5300 comes to my > rescue > a

Re: TOPIC: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

lampbay wrote: > Running any form of Windows or Microsoft software on my Mac is not > the issue - not because I dislike MS software, but because I prefer > Apple and Mac software. Plus, I don't want to have any pesky bugs to > deal with - that's the main reason I switched to Apple - afterwa

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:44 PM, Yersinia wrote: > snip > > If I have a deliberately unblessed OS 9 system folder, how is it > going > to be able to boot my Mac in OS 9 when I want it to? If the act of > choosing a system folder in System Preferences to be used for > Classic is > what blesses i

Re: LCD screen flickering and going black.

Sometimes the problem can be a bad power supply, and the symptom is probably no picture rather than flickering. But sometimes a failing power supply can goof up the backlight, too. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Ma

Re: What wireless cards can you use in a Pismo?

I discovered that my Belkin PCMCIA wireless card has a Ralink chipset. Belkin only offers a driver for 10.3, but Ralink has a 10.4 driver: http://face.centosprime.com/macosxw/macfixit-troubleshooting-solution-for-the-macintosh/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received thi

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 10:47 AM -0500 12/4/2008, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >>On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:29 AM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> >> Motorola is pretty much out

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:21 PM, PeterH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> >>> To me, I would have favored an alliance with AMD rather than Intel. >>> Apple could have become part owner etc. >> >> The difference between you and Apple is that you'r

Re: TOPIC: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:54 PM, lampbay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Running any form of Windows or Microsoft software on my Mac is not > the issue - not because I dislike MS software, but because I prefer > Apple and Mac software. Plus, I don't want to have any pesky bugs to > deal with - that

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

Charles Davis wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:44 PM, Yersinia wrote: > > snip > >> If I have a deliberately unblessed OS 9 system folder, how is it >> going >> to be able to boot my Mac in OS 9 when I want it to? If the act of >> choosing a system folder in System Preferences to be used for

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

Charles Davis wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:47 PM, dc wrote: > >> First off, you can't swap a drive from a beige G3 into a G4 an expect >> it to boot; it won't have the proper drivers/extensions for a G4. It >> doesn't mean there was anything wrong with the hard drive. > > Unfortunately, this

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:24 PM, Charles Davis wrote: > "deliberately unblessed' ? I've never heard of doing that for > any reason. > > The OS9 installations are 'blessed' as a part of the installation > process. No special effort needed. > > The having 2 instances of 'OS9 installation' doesn't

Re: USB modem speed

USB modems in general are considered to be kind of mediocre. Unfortunately, I don't think there's another way to communicate with an external modem. All those nice old reliable US Robotics modems, and no way to connect them to a Mac without those round modem/printer ports. --~--~-~--~~

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:12 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >> IBM has targeted Power toward the high-end server and >> supersupercomputer markets. >> > > > Cool, I can get one by trash picking in 10 years! LOL :) Perhaps zero cost for the hardware, but IBM will charge you one hundred thousan

Re: Apple & Psystar Come To A Settlement!

On Dec 5, 2008, at 1:16 AM, PeterH wrote: > Perhaps zero cost for the hardware, but IBM will charge you one > hundred thousand dollars PER MONTH, or more, for the software license. I thought IBM was pushing Linux now? I thought they're a "service" company, not a "software" company? --~--~-

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

Kris Tilford wrote: > On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:24 PM, Charles Davis wrote: > >> "deliberately unblessed' ? I've never heard of doing that for >> any reason. >> >> The OS9 installations are 'blessed' as a part of the installation >> process. No special effort needed. >> >> The having 2 instances

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

On Dec 5, 2008, at 1:33 AM, Clark Martin wrote: > OS X doesn't really have the concept of "blessing" and the term is > usually not used with OS X. That's what I thought until I read the man page for "bless" in Terminal. This is what it says: BLESS(8) BSD System Manager's Manua

Re: USB modem speed

Paul wrote: > USB modems in general are considered to be kind of mediocre. > Unfortunately, I don't think there's another way to communicate with > an external modem. All those nice old reliable US Robotics modems, and > no way to connect them to a Mac without those round modem/printer > ports.