Re: Entourage onMac - identity crisis

2009-12-01 Thread pdimage
On 30/11/09 12:49, Geoff Black bla...@telkomsa.net wrote: Microsoft Entourage had built up a 16 Gb Identities folder in Entourage office 2004. I upgraded to MSO 2008 and it transferred the identity to the new version. None of the mail wants to open. It reccomends a rebuild of the

Re: G3 9200 dying?

2009-12-01 Thread bkprolix
One of the reasons for the upgrade to the G-4 was the inability of the G-3 to do multiple processors... It was intended to be a consumer level chip as opposed to a pro level processor... Consequently it's long life in the iMac iBook lines. On Nov 30, 1:10 pm, Michael G.M.

Fantom Drives

2009-12-01 Thread BlackShark Films
Does anyone have an opinion on Fantom Drives? Sincerely, André Stark BlackShark Films Inc. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at

Re: Fantom Drives

2009-12-01 Thread Michael G.M.
They've always looked like a budget line HD case to me, at least in the past. That's just the taste of the cosmetics tho'. They appear to be well made and getting good reviews on at least newegg.com. I've only ever gotten OWC drives and a G-Tech Q. The OWC drives are generally on of the best deals

Re: Fantom Drives

2009-12-01 Thread John Martz
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Michael G.M. michaelgm717...@gmail.com wrote: IDE drives are getting a little more hard to find but not impossible to find by a long shot. I'm confused. Why would you even *want* to seek out an IDE/PATA drive for use in an external enclosure? When attaching via

Re: Fantom Drives

2009-12-01 Thread Fabian Fang
On Dec 1, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Michael G.M. wrote: They've always looked like a budget line HD case to me, at least in the past. That's just the taste of the cosmetics tho'. They appear to be well made and getting good reviews on at least newegg.com. On Dec 1, 9:02 am, BlackShark Films

Re: Fantom Drives

2009-12-01 Thread Michael G.M.
I have a literal pile of IDE drives which is why I've been having this long debate with myself on when to go to SATA and which route I take to get there. If I ever make one of my Macs a BBS server that will be the tipping point on the countdown. I agree though that going to SATA interface is no

Re: Fantom Drives

2009-12-01 Thread Clark Martin
Michael G.M. wrote: I have a literal pile of IDE drives which is why I've been having this long debate with myself on when to go to SATA and which route I take to get there. If I ever make one of my Macs a BBS server that will be the tipping point on the countdown. I agree though that going

Re: Fantom Drives

2009-12-01 Thread John Martz
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Michael G.M. michaelgm717...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think the SATA drives support SMART do they? Yes, they do. Or I suppose to be more precise I should say all the SATA drives which I am familiar with support SMART. On a more general note, there seems to be

Re: Fantom Drives

2009-12-01 Thread Lawrence David Eden
Does anyone have an opinion on Fantom Drives? I own 2 Fantom Drives. I am pleased with both. My first Fantom was USB onlyso it was not bootable. The second is FW and USB 2, is bootable and I use it to back up my main Mac and also have several disc repair programs on this drive. Both

Anybody tried this card in 10.5.8??

2009-12-01 Thread Jeffrey Engle
SYBA SD-PCXSA2-2E2R PCI-X 2X eSATA + 2X INTERNAL SATA II Card softRAID with SILICON IMAGE SIL3124 CHIPSET Please let me know as I don't want to return the card if it will work fine in 10.5.8 Thanks, Jeff My Machine: Hardware Overview: Model Name: Power Mac G5 Model Identifier:

Re: FAX from a Mac under OS X 10.5.7?

2009-12-01 Thread George R. Hozendorf
Where can one find an Apple USB to Phone connector? An internet search didn't produce anything. I (forgive me Nanny) have a new Mac Mini that I'd love to be able to fax from through my modem. Thanks, George On Sep 9, 2009, at 9/9/09 - 11:22 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Sep 9, 2009, at

Re: FAX from a Mac under OS X 10.5.7?

2009-12-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 1, 2009, at 3:12 PM, George R. Hozendorf wrote: Where can one find an Apple USB to Phone connector? An internet search didn't produce anything. I (forgive me Nanny) have a new Mac Mini that I'd love to be able to fax from through my modem. US Robotics sells one:

Re: FAX from a Mac under OS X 10.5.7?

2009-12-01 Thread George R. Hozendorf
Thanks, Bruce. Man, they think a lot of them. George On Dec 1, 2009, at 12/1/09 - 4:19 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 1, 2009, at 3:12 PM, George R. Hozendorf wrote: Where can one find an Apple USB to Phone connector? An internet search didn't produce anything. I (forgive me Nanny)

Re: FAX from a Mac under OS X 10.5.7?

2009-12-01 Thread Len Gerstel
On Dec 1, 2009, at 5:12 PM, George R. Hozendorf wrote: Where can one find an Apple USB to Phone connector? An internet search didn't produce anything. I (forgive me Nanny) have a new Mac Mini that I'd love to be able to fax from through my modem. Thanks, George Do you have a USB

Re: Anybody tried this card in 10.5.8??

2009-12-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 1, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: SYBA SD-PCXSA2-2E2R PCI-X 2X eSATA + 2X INTERNAL SATA II Card softRAID with SILICON IMAGE SIL3124 CHIPSET Please let me know as I don't want to return the card if it will work fine in 10.5.8 I've used the SYBA card with the SIL3124

Re: Anybody tried this card in 10.5.8??

2009-12-01 Thread Michael G.M.
The Serial # needs to be removed from this post. It's not in good practice to give it on message boards model # is OK. Serial # is a major no no as pirating from Apple and benefits from them could possibly be taken un-rightfully. This hurts us all in the end. ~Mike On Dec 1, 4:28 pm, Jeffrey

Re: Anybody tried this card in 10.5.8??

2009-12-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 2, 2009, at 12:51 AM, Michael G.M. wrote: The Serial # needs to be removed from this post. It's not in good practice to give it on message boards model # is OK. Serial # is a major no no as pirating from Apple and benefits from them could possibly be taken un-rightfully. This hurts us

Re: Anybody tried this card in 10.5.8??

2009-12-01 Thread Michael G.M.
On Dec 2, 2:02 am, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: Huh? The serial # isn't a system software serial, it's the hardware serial   to the specific Mac you own. Exactly. And that's where the problem is because someone can call up Apple and request support and software restore disks for

Re: G3 9200 dying?

2009-12-01 Thread Michael G.M.
On Dec 1, 8:30 am, bkprolix bkpro...@yahoo.com wrote: One of the reasons for the upgrade to the G-4 was the inability of the G-3 to do multiple processors... It was intended to be a consumer level chip as opposed to a pro level processor... Consequently it's long life in the iMac iBook