Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread Po-en Tsai
If you look on the downloads page, there is also a older version of Disk Inventory X, for Mac OSX 10.2. It is version 0.8 if I recall. http://www.derlien.com/downloads/index.html - Disk Inventory X for 10.2 later. Thanks, Po-en Tsai -- Sent from a PC. --~--~-~--~~~-

Re: [G3-5]Re: Return to PowerPC?

2009-07-05 Thread MaGioZal
On 7/6/09 2:52 AM, PeterH at wrote: > On Jul 5, 2009, at 10:27 PM, MaGioZal wrote: > >> The RISC had a lot of promises, but many times hadn't delivered them. > > It's not the processor, it's the implementation. > > IBM is making huge quantities of PPC RISCs. > > Sun is still making its RISCs

Re: Return to PowerPC?

2009-07-05 Thread PeterH
On Jul 5, 2009, at 10:27 PM, MaGioZal wrote: > The RISC had a lot of promises, but many times hadn't delivered them. It's not the processor, it's the implementation. IBM is making huge quantities of PPC RISCs. Sun is still making its RISCs. Intel's CISCs are doing well. And, perhaps the old

Re: Return to PowerPC?

2009-07-05 Thread MaGioZal
On 7/6/09 2:19 AM, PeterH at wrote: > However another product which is based upon PPC, or another processor > which can make effective use of the power-saving technology which was > acquired in that Apple purchase of a PPC company seems likely. And we must admit now: the 1994-2006 PowerPC era

Re: Return to PowerPC?

2009-07-05 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Mullin9 wrote: > > Will Apple return to PPC processors? > I experienced smoother Game Graphics on a 2 GHz G5 Mac with 256 MB of > VRAM, > than I had on a 2 GHz Intel Mac,  with 256 MB of VRAM, > both my Macs have 2 GB of RAM. >

Re: Return to PowerPC?

2009-07-05 Thread PeterH
On Jul 5, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Mullin9 wrote: > Will Apple return to PPC processors? A year or so ago, Apple purchased a fab-less designer and manufacturer of multi-core PPC processors. It is conceivable that Apple may use PPC processors in some future products, but the investment in Intel-ba

Re: Return to PowerPC?

2009-07-05 Thread iJohn
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Mullin9 wrote: > Will Apple return to PPC processors? > I experienced smoother Game Graphics on a 2 GHz G5 Mac with 256 MB of > VRAM, > than I had on a 2 GHz Intel Mac,  with 256 MB of VRAM, > both my Macs have 2 GB of RAM. Could you provide a little more detail?

Return to PowerPC?

2009-07-05 Thread Mullin9
Will Apple return to PPC processors? I experienced smoother Game Graphics on a 2 GHz G5 Mac with 256 MB of VRAM, than I had on a 2 GHz Intel Mac, with 256 MB of VRAM, both my Macs have 2 GB of RAM. thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because y

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread Stephen Conrad
On 7/5/09, iJohn wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Po-en Tsai wrote: >> Download the utility called 'Disk Inventory X' and run it on your OSX HDD. >> It will tell you what is taking up space on your computer, and where it >> is. >> Then you can delete whatever you dont need. >> >> Disk I

Powermac MDD crashing

2009-07-05 Thread Jonas Ulrich
My friends 1GHZ MDD isn't working. First safari randomly quits. So I did all the updates and installed safari 4. So Safari seems to be working and I'm downloading something and the crash thing comes up and says "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds or pr

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread iJohn
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Po-en Tsai wrote: > Download the utility called 'Disk Inventory X' and run it on your OSX HDD. > It will tell you what is taking up space on your computer, and where it is. > Then you can delete whatever you dont need. > > Disk Inventory X: http://www.derlien.com/

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread Po-en Tsai
Download the utility called 'Disk Inventory X' and run it on your OSX HDD. It will tell you what is taking up space on your computer, and where it is. Then you can delete whatever you dont need. Disk Inventory X: http://www.derlien.com/ Po-en Tsai -- Sent from a Bill Gates machine. --~--~--

Re: Flashing PCI video cards for G4's - tape pins?

2009-07-05 Thread joplinfan
Thanks guys for the info! I got the PCI cards super cheap on our local Craigslist... and I'd like to keep the original Mac AGP cards in them since they have ADC ports for my Apple LCD monitor... so that's my reasoning. I'll flash them and give it a go. Thanks again. Steve --~--~-~--~--

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread Stephen Conrad
On 7/5/09, Dan wrote: > > At 5:37 PM -0600 7/4/2009, Stephen Conrad wrote: >>B&W G3 (Smurf) and it had 1.53 GB left on the HD OS X 10.2.8 >> >>I only have the following open: Opera, Safari, Terminal and TextEdit >>Suddenly I get a message saying I have no more HD space free (it is >>down to 40.8

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread A.McCullough
If I'm not mistaken, I've read that the Smurf G3 can accept drives natively up to 128 gigabytes - and these are not proprietary drives. So any standard PATA IDE drive off the shelf (not SATA!) under that drive size limit should work just fine. I can vouch personally for the cloning software Su

Re: HD Question

2009-07-05 Thread A.McCullough
Look at the rear of the drives. Then look here: http://www.ufsexplorer.com/inf_connect_hdd.php Given the apparent age of the drives in question (a fast Google lookup shows none of 'em as "currently available", hence they're older drives and not currently in production) I'd say it's dang near a

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread Dan
At 5:37 PM -0600 7/4/2009, Stephen Conrad wrote: >B&W G3 (Smurf) and it had 1.53 GB left on the HD OS X 10.2.8 > >I only have the following open: Opera, Safari, Terminal and TextEdit >Suddenly I get a message saying I have no more HD space free (it is >down to 40.8 MB) Perhaps pages you visited w

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread Stephen Conrad
On 7/5/09, Clark Martin wrote: > > Stephen Conrad wrote: >> On 7/4/09, Clark Martin wrote: > >>> 50% would be an absurd amount. A percentage value isn't relevant, the >>> amount is principally tied to virtual memory which depends on what >>> programs are open. A better figure is to not let fre

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread John Martz
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Peter wrote: > 6GB pretty much is the low end for running OSX. Get a bigger HD and > copy the content from the 6GB with CCC to the new HD. My sentiments exactly! Although ... before leaping into getting a bigger drive it might be wise to walk through what your opt

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread Peter
On Jul 5, 2009, at 7:32 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Stephen Conrad > wrote: >> >> OK, I am on a B&W G3 (Smurf) and it had 1.53 GB left on the HD >> OS X 10.2.8 (new computer is going to be here soon) >> I only have the following open: Opera, Safari,

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: > > OK, I am on a B&W G3 (Smurf) and it had 1.53 GB left on the HD > OS X 10.2.8 (new computer is going to be here soon) > I only have the following open: Opera, Safari, Terminal and TextEdit > Suddenly I get a message saying I have no more HD

Re: Flashing PCI video cards for G4's - tape pins?

2009-07-05 Thread pdimage
On 4/7/09 23:48, "joplinfan" wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm getting ready to flash a BFG / Geforce 6200 and a Radeon 9250... > both standard PCI cards... to use in my MDD G4 1ghz towers. Been > studying up on the process at The Mac Elite website where it mentions > that AGP cards require tape to be p

Re: Flashing PCI video cards for G4's - tape pins?

2009-07-05 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 5, 2009, at 2:10 AM, Will S wrote: > It is possible to flash some PCI cards and have both Quartz Extreme & > Core Image. No need for PCI extreme or special hacks. I'm running a > B&W machine upgraded to G4 600 Mhz. It's got a flashed Nvidia 5500 PCI > card. I'm running Tiger and the Mac OS

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread Clark Martin
Stephen Conrad wrote: > On 7/4/09, Clark Martin wrote: >> 50% would be an absurd amount. A percentage value isn't relevant, the >> amount is principally tied to virtual memory which depends on what >> programs are open. A better figure is to not let free space drop below >> about 5Gb. > > Wel

Re: Flashing PCI video cards for G4's - tape pins?

2009-07-05 Thread Will S
On Jul 4, 10:32 pm, Kris Tilford wrote: > On Jul 4, 2009, at 5:48 PM, joplinfan wrote: > > > I'm getting ready to flash a BFG / Geforce 6200 and a Radeon 9250... > > both standard PCI cards... to use in my MDD G4 1ghz towers. Been > > studying up on the process at The Mac Elite website where it

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-05 Thread Clark Martin
Stephen Conrad wrote: > On 7/4/09, Bill Connelly wrote: 40.8MB >> ??? >> >> What I was trying to get at is ... >> >> Is the hard drive that full? or is he running out of available memory, >> and thinks the message pertains to the HD in lieu of actual RAM? > > No, the HD actually has 1.52 GB