Re: Trouble reading certain DVD's in SR-8585F DVD-ROM drive

I think I did update the firmware to the latest one I could find. It's not even a burner, just a DVD-ROM drive. I suppose the first thing is to try a cleaning disc, since it might just work. Failing that, it's not that expensive to get a DVD reader or even a burner. What's much more painful is d

Re: A take on Apple Inc

On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:35 PM, Brian Christmas wrote: > G'day listers > > The following makes for an interesting read.. > > http://tinyurl.com/8ewuko > > Regards > > Santa > Interesting article. "Funny how they assume that if Mac was to go out of business, That I myself would even recognize

Re: Newbie window problem

On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:17 PM, Arthur Dirks wrote: > if the cursor wanders off the app window all of them suddenly pop up > tiled. This sounds like the OS X feature "Exposé". You can change this behavior in System Preferences>Exposé. Likely you've got a "hot corner" as a default and the curs

Re: Mac printing on a PC network

On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Arthur Dirks wrote: > On the HP site for the HP4 I find all the MS drivers and OS/2 and > Unix, and for the Color Laserjet 1600 I find all the MS drivers and > Linux. You'll want to download the GutenPrint drivers and use them:

Newbie window problem

This is a small but annoying thing. I'm new to Macs, using a G3 with OS 10.3. I'm accustomed to working with a half-dozen open windows, none full screen, but on this machine if the cursor wanders off the app window all of them suddenly pop up tiled. I'm wading through Mac OSX Bible and the Miss

Mac printing on a PC network

I have a 400 mhz G3 B&W with 640 mb of memory running 10.3.9. I'm a long-term PC gearhead but new to the Mac, and struggling with networking for printing. I have 2 PCs - and now this G3 - on a home network through a Linksys router fed by Verizon broadband. This is functional out of the box - th

Re: Backlit Keyboard

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/keyboards/keyboard/devices/4740&cl=US,EN - Original Message - From: R. A. Cantrell To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 12:31 PM Subject: Backlit Keyboard Can anybody recommend a generic (doesn't have to be App

Ownership & Permissions on Other Partitions

I've carried over several partitions that I have changed OS X use of several times: other partitions originally used by Panther 10.3.9 and now used by Leopard ...10.5.5, 10.5.6, back to 10.5.4. All on a Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1GHz Native G4. I have used different computer user names ... origi

Re: Backlit Keyboard

I swear by my Logitech G11 keybord. :) On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:31 AM, R. A. Cantrell wrote: > Can anybody recommend a generic (doesn't have to be Apple) USB keyboard > that features backlit keys? > > -- > All the best, > > R.A. Cantrell > > > > -- " ' With the first link, the chain is forg

Re: Lombard DVD card in OSX??

On Dec 21, 12:14 am, "jonas ulrich" wrote: > Hi. I just bought a DVD card for my PowerBook G3 Lombard 333MHZ. I can play > DVDs great in OS9, but I would like to find a way to play them in OS10. Does > anyone know of any programs that will do that? Thanks!-Jonas IIRC, I THINK that MPlayer can us

Re: New Aluminium Keyboards

Brian Durant wrote: > I have experienced this on my G5 as well, but there was a firmware > update a while ago that took care of this issue. It only crops up > these days if I need to reinstall the system. > > Go for it :-) > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Bruce Johnson > mailto:john...@phar

Backlit Keyboard

Can anybody recommend a generic (doesn't have to be Apple) USB keyboard that features backlit keys? -- All the best, R.A. Cantrell --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4,

Re: Hard drive removed? NO way!

At 8:45 AM -0800 12/21/2008, Jeffrey Engle wrote: >On Dec 21, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > >> Here's the deal >>> >>> I have a 160gb hard drive external that I needed to partition then do >>> a secure erase not even 15 m

Re: New Aluminium Keyboards

I have experienced this on my G5 as well, but there was a firmware update a while ago that took care of this issue. It only crops up these days if I need to reinstall the system. Go for it :-) On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Ted Treen wrot

Re: Trouble reading certain DVD's in SR-8585F DVD-ROM drive

At 8:13 AM -0800 12/21/08, PeterH posted: > On Dec 20, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Paul wrote: > >> The Matsushita SR-8585F is labeled "Apple" and came with some G4's and >> possibly other Macs. I've tried a few rewritable DVD's without luck >> reading them, even though they're known to be good, since

Re: Hard drive removed? NO way!

On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: >> >> Something caused the drive to drop off the bus. Flaky USB interface >> in >> the drive? >> >> > > Just curious, the drive enclosure has a Y-usb cable for power from the > usb ports on the macbook, if the "power side" was not plugged in, >

Re: New Aluminium Keyboards

On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Ted Treen wrote: > > However, I have heard (can't recall where) that if they're used with > systems that they were not the original equipment for, the modifiers > at > bootup don't work, and there were other problems. > Maybe here, I mentioned it a while back. >

Re: Hard drive removed? NO way!

On Dec 21, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > >> >> Here's the deal >> >> I have a 160gb hard drive external that I needed to partition then do >> a secure erase not even 15 minutes into the erase, the warning >> window comes

Re: Hard drive removed? NO way!

On Dec 21, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > >> >> Here's the deal >> >> I have a 160gb hard drive external that I needed to partition then do >> a secure erase not even 15 minutes into the erase, the warning >> window comes

Re: Hard drive removed? NO way!

On Dec 21, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > > Here's the deal > > I have a 160gb hard drive external that I needed to partition then do > a secure erase not even 15 minutes into the erase, the warning > window comes up saying that I disconnected the drive! aAAAH! I Something ca

Re: Ways to clean up old Macs, environmentally.

At 8:37 PM -0800 12/20/2008, Mullin9 wrote: >Ways to clean up old Macs, environmentally. >1 way to clean up an old Mac is to recycle a CRT monitor, and buy an >LCD, especially a LED backed LCD. >another way to do it is to upgrade to new/newer environmentally clean Macs. This makes sense IFF the

Hard drive removed? NO way!

Here's the deal I have a 160gb hard drive external that I needed to partition then do a secure erase not even 15 minutes into the erase, the warning window comes up saying that I disconnected the drive! aAAAH! I'm using a new (unibody) macbook with fresh install of 10.5.5 on it

New Aluminium Keyboards

Hi All, Ihave been considering one of these to go with my new (to me) G5. I use one occasionally at work on a MacPro and rather like them. However, I have heard (can't recall where) that if they're used with systems that they were not the original equipment for, the modifiers at bootup don't

Re: Trouble reading certain DVD's in SR-8585F DVD-ROM drive

On Dec 20, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Paul wrote: > The Matsushita SR-8585F is labeled "Apple" and came with some G4's and > possibly other Macs. I've tried a few rewritable DVD's without luck > reading them, even though they're known to be good, since other DVD > readers on other machines can read them

Re: External FW 800 drive won't mount

On Dec 21, 4:14 am, Clark Martin wrote: > Tom wrote: > > I was given a 500-gig FireWire 800 external drive (generic, I guess; > Even if the drive wasn't mounted Disk Utility would show it.  If it > doesn't show the drive at all it means the OS isn't seeing it as a drive. > > > > What do you do w

Re: mds 99%

At 7:21 PM -0800 12/20/2008, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote: > > I have always, since moving to OSX, selected MacOS Extended (Not >Journaled) Not a good choice. Journaling is THE main mechanism that HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) now depends upon to maintain much of its integrity across bad crashes. It is

Re: Burning Audio CD

On Dec 20, 2008, at 6:58 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: > > On Dec 20, 2008, at 5:14 PM, George Hozendorf wrote: > >> Using iTunes 8.0.2 under OSX 10.5.6 I can't get a playable CD to >> burn. The files come out MP4 not aiff. Toast Titanium will only >> burn four of 14 selected songs from my iTunes pl

Re: upgraded to 10.4.11 -old file linkage issue

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Yersinia wrote: > > Del writes, > > course, > the original program still points to a different HD and partition. I am > grossly ignorant of such goings on, but hope some of the great minds on > this > forum know some sensible workaround that I can do, or way to t

Re: Booting old Macs, using just an ethernet.

Mullin9 wrote: > Booting old Macs, using just an ethernet. > I have a Beige G3 Powermac, without a working CDROM, > no FW 400, but a freshly installed HDD, > and a G4 running OS 9, can I boot (net boot) a beige G3 off an OS 9 > running on a G4, using just the ethernet.? > > Target mode is fine for

Re: upgraded to 10.4.11 -old file linkage issue

D Stubbs wrote: > Aloo, this week I happily left behind my 30 gig HD ( with the Dark > Matter 10.3.9 OS) and transferred every thing to my new Seagate 160 > and upped to Tiger. ( 30 gig is still hooked up in our Sawtooth) > We run our sizeable family biz website with the friendly old > Pagemi

Re: Can I add content after burn?

Jeffrey Engle wrote: > Is there a way to add files to a disk that's already burned? I thought > I saw somewhere how you could do that, but not sure. Google came up > with a blank. Jeff > > Requires third party software that allows multisessions. Apples software doesn't (the last time I tri

Re: External FW 800 drive won't mount

Tom wrote: > I was given a 500-gig FireWire 800 external drive (generic, I guess; > no logo on the metal case) as part of the deal when I bought my G5 on > eBay, but when I plug the drive into the FW 800 port of my G5, it does > not show up on the desktop, even with restarts. I tried a different F

External FW 800 drive won't mount

I was given a 500-gig FireWire 800 external drive (generic, I guess; no logo on the metal case) as part of the deal when I bought my G5 on eBay, but when I plug the drive into the FW 800 port of my G5, it does not show up on the desktop, even with restarts. I tried a different FW cable, and tried