Re: Mac Mini G4 with double hard drive a possible solution?

2010/2/24 JOHN CARMONNE > > I miss spelled Windbloze, a nick name for Windows, because I read a post > that stated the unit you have is meant for a Dell. I just got burned on a > wireless Cardbus card for one of my Wally's that was meant for Windbloze but > the guy said works on Macs. Ok! Thank

Re: When Macs go evil

ROFLMAO! Don't forget the G3 iMacs that were always prominently perched on the desks in Drew Carey's office. Those were hard to miss. Also, the British spy series MI-5 features iMacs, too. Scott Birdwell DeFalco's Home Wine & Beer Supplies Houston TX www.defalcos.com On Feb 23, 6:17 pm, Bruce

Research can be confusing.tv or pc monitor for my Dell computer

I want to get a larger monitor for my computer. My lcd is only 19 inches. I have talked to at least 15 people including a Dell tech. Most say a tv is just as good or better than the pc monitor. One man said that the tv can cause a problem by feeding info in the computer faster than the comput

Spring may come?-ot

Three days in a row a bird woke me up. Then we hit a cold snap. This is turning out to be a cold February. yesterday I shoveled 8 inches of snow but that is is only the second big storm we've had and other states have gotten more than that. How is the pet store coming along. How is everyo

Re: Research can be confusing.tv or pc monitor for my Dell computer

Research certainly CAN be confusing, this is a mailing list for support with Macintoshes, not Dells... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a membe

Re: DVI TO VGA MONITOR CONNECTIONS

I just realized that the Mac has square ends. So where does that leave me? This is getting fustrating. On Feb 23, 8:48 am, stevo137 wrote: > I checked the sites. But it seems like the adapters are the the > reverse of what I need. > > On Feb 22, 12:13 pm, Bruce Johnson > wrote:> On Feb 22, 2010,

Re: When Macs go evil

...as did some stupid nurse/hospital comedy back in the 1980's. Oops, just got off topic since those were probably SE(s)... JT On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Da'Birdman wrote: ROFLMAO! Don't forget the G3 iMacs that were always prominently perched on the desks in Drew Carey's office. Thos

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I have a G3 B&W Tower 450 MHz w/ 1GB RAM and SCSI HD, (top of the line, for at least a month at the time right before G4 Mac Tower /:>{{ ) Is this worth using ? I wanna set up a web surfer in another location from my other computers and maybe use monitoring ebay etc. I also have a 10 month old

Re: DVI TO VGA MONITOR CONNECTIONS

On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:30 AM, stevo137 wrote: I just realized that the Mac has square ends. So where does that leave me? If the Mac has square ends, then it has DVI; to use an ADC monitor with a DVI output you need this: However you described

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On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:07 AM, iChet wrote: I have a G3 B&W Tower 450 MHz w/ 1GB RAM and SCSI HD, (top of the line, for at least a month at the time right before G4 Mac Tower /:>{{ ) Is this worth using ? I wanna set up a web surfer in another location from my other computers and maybe use mon

Re: DVI TO VGA MONITOR CONNECTIONS

--- On Wed, 2/24/10, stevo137 wrote: > I just realized that the Mac has > square ends. So where does that leave > me? This is getting fustrating. Yes it is, but it's really very simple. The key is to correctly identify what hardware you have. In and effort to make sure you buy only Apple hardwa

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On 24 Feb 2010, at 18:56, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > That's upgradable (and perfectly viable) with 10.4, you can even install 10.5 > on it with Leopard Assist. > That is incorrect, at least without a G4 CPU upgrade - out of the Box a PowerMac G3 of any form cannot run 10.5 Leopard as it req

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On Feb 24, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Christopher Clarke wrote: On 24 Feb 2010, at 18:56, Bruce Johnson wrote: That's upgradable (and perfectly viable) with 10.4, you can even install 10.5 on it with Leopard Assist. That is incorrect, at least without a G4 CPU upgrade - out of the Box a Po

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At 10:07 AM -0800 2/24/2010, iChet wrote: I have a G3 B&W Tower 450 MHz w/ 1GB RAM and SCSI HD Is this worth using ? I wanna set up a web surfer in another location from my other computers and maybe use monitoring ebay etc. The Smurf, being a G3, is a bit slow for things like Flash and h.264

How Do I Get an MOV File to Play?

Mavens of Malus Domestica: I have a CD that comes with the textbook that I use in a class that I teach that has MOV files that I need to play for the class. When I double-click on them on my Ubuntu machine, they play very well. When I put the CD into my G4 with 10.4.11, it mounts the CD, but does n

Re: How Do I Get an MOV File to Play?

On Feb 24, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Michael B. in Cincinnati wrote: Am I missing a file, or is this cockpit error? I think it's a cockpit error. The fact that it's opening Classic shows that your preferences for the .mov filetype are wrong and you're preference for .mov is an OS 9 application. Yo

Re: How Do I Get an MOV File to Play?

On Feb 24, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Michael B. in Cincinnati wrote: I click on "Play Quicktime", but the dialog box disappears and nothing happens. Am I missing a file, or is this cockpit error? Any suggestions are welcome, and thanks in advance. The experts know more, but I was wondering if ins

Re: Large HD in a Sawtooth

Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 22, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Dale Hoffman wrote: Another solution is the freeware Overdrive A third is to manually tweak the firmware

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Dan wrote: > At 10:07 AM -0800 2/24/2010, iChet wrote: >> >> I have a G3 B&W Tower 450 MHz w/ 1GB RAM and SCSI HD >> >> Is this worth using ? I wanna set up a web surfer in another location >> from my other computers and maybe use monitoring ebay etc. > > The Smurf

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>>> >> >> The Smurf, being a G3, is a bit slow for things like Flash and h.264 video, >> but otherwise it's a great machine! >> >> - Dan. (on a 300-MHz Smurf). >> -- >> - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. > > Slow? more like unuseable... Actually it depends on the content, the

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Christopher Clarke wrote: >>> >>> The Smurf, being a G3, is a bit slow for things like Flash and h.264 video, >>> but otherwise it's a great machine! >>> >>> - Dan.  (on a 300-MHz Smurf). >>> -- >>> - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. >> >> Slo

Re: When Macs go evil

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Da'Birdman wrote: > ROFLMAO!  Don't forget the G3 iMacs that were always prominently > perched on the desks in Drew Carey's office.  Those were hard to > miss.  Also, the British spy series MI-5 features iMacs, too. Those were G4s lol, probably a typo ;) -- You

Re: DVI TO VGA MONITOR CONNECTIONS

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:03 PM, John Niven wrote: > --- On Wed, 2/24/10, stevo137 wrote: > Your choices are to find a Mac ADC video card (if your Mac was designed for > one), or buy a non-Apple LCD with a DVI connector. Or you could buy one of those DVI-to-ADC adaptors. They plug into the DVI

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>> > > Well, my Smurf here cant handle youtube even at 1024x768, same with > H.264. It has Tiger on it and 867MB RAM, with a 40GB 7200rpm hard > drive. > What version of Flash Player are you using, because everyone knows what a putrid pile of crud Adobes Flash code for Macs is. I tend to use 1

Re: DVI TO VGA MONITOR CONNECTIONS

--- On Wed, 2/24/10, Kasey Smith wrote: > Or you could buy one of those DVI-to-ADC adaptors. They > plug into the > DVI plug and a USB plug on the computer and then plug into > the wall to > for the power. Yeah, but realistically, are you going to spend ~$100 on a dongle, that just adds wires to

Re: DVI TO VGA MONITOR CONNECTIONS

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:04 PM, John Niven wrote: > > > Yeah, but realistically, are you going to spend ~$100 on a dongle, that > just adds wires to your system? > > Frankly you pick up a used ADC mac video card for a lot less (most people > will be trying to get rid of them), or any old ex pc l

Re: When Macs go evil

On Feb 23, 2010, at 5:40 PM, James Therrault wrote: On Feb 23, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:43 PM, James Therrault > wrote: On Feb 23, 2010, at 12:55 AM, Dan wrote: Over the years, I think we've all taken note of Mac product placement in TV

Connector identification assistance needed

Connector identification assistance needed Sorry to bother you all, but I am in need of a simple connector converter to go from our older G3 keyboard and mouse round connectors to the new G4 flat connectors for same. I have one, but it is wrong gender. The older one was 6 pin round and the new

MDD problems - questions

I have an 867 dual and recently it has been giving a bad ram beep either at post or randomly during use. I believe the motherboard is starting to go. The ram is just fine in another machine. I was wondering if I could swap in a motherboard from a MDD 1.42 dual and use everything from the 867 includ

Ethernet connection not recognized in PowerMac G5

I recently bought a PowerMac G5 Dual 2.3GHz (late 2005). It is running OS 10.4.11. It is connected directly to DSL modem via Ethernet cable. When I start up the computer or wake it from sleep, I cannot connect to the Internet. The Ethernet connection is not recognized in the Network Status wi

Re: MDD problems - questions

On Feb 24, 2010, at 5:52 PM, A2L1 wrote: > I have an 867 dual and recently it has been giving a bad ram beep > either at post or randomly during use. I believe the motherboard is > starting to go. The ram is just fine in another machine. I was > wondering if I could swap in a motherboard from a M

Re: Connector identification assistance needed

On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 17:50 -0800, Jonas Lopez wrote: > Connector identification assistance needed > > Sorry to bother you all, but I am in need of a simple connector converter to > go from our older G3 keyboard and mouse round connectors to the new G4 flat > connectors for same. I have one, but

Re: Connector identification assistance needed

> From: Caleb S. Cupples > Subject: Re: Connector identification assistance needed > To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 6:03 PM > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 17:50 -0800, > Jonas Lopez wrote: > > Connector identification assistance needed > > > > Sorry to bother you al

AirPort card for PowerMac G5 (dual 2.3GHz)

I would like to install an AirPort Extreme card in a recently acquired PowerMac G5 Dual 2.3GHz. Apple Knowledge Base () says that the machine will only work with a special combination AirportExtreme+Bluetooth2.0+EDR card. I think have located the card for s

Re: AirPort card for PowerMac G5 (dual 2.3GHz)

On Feb 24, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Herbert Goodfriend wrote: I would like to install an AirPort Extreme card in a recently acquired PowerMac G5 Dual 2.3GHz. Apple Knowledge Base () says that the machine will only work with a special combination AirportExtreme+B

Re: MDD problems - questions

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:05 PM, John Carmonne wrote: > > If you swap it you'll lose OS9 boot capability. Did you try contact cleaner > on the Ram slots? DeoxiT is a good one. Also just because the RAM works in > another machine doesn't always mean it's totally good. Do you have TechTool > to c

Re: MDD problems - questions

--- On Wed, 2/24/10, Kasey Smith wrote: > From: Kasey Smith > Subject: Re: MDD problems - questions > To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 10:25 PM > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:05 PM, John > Carmonne > wrote: > > > > If you swap it you'll lose OS9 boot capabilit

Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

I'm a member of several of the LEM groups, as I operate a whole variety of Macs in a variety of situations at a variety of different times. I have my faithful PowerBook G3 Pismo 500 MHz with Tiger that I use for several hours every day; my sister has my PowerBook Duo 230 that I fiddle with every

Re: Ethernet connection not recognized in PowerMac G5

Uninstall the driver for the ethernet card then shut the computer down and remove the card clean the pins off with a pencil eraser and reinstall the card, boot the computer back up and reinstall the drivers and then shut off all the other networks (airport, dailup etc etc etc) then give it

Re: MDD problems - questions

Based on technology it seems feesable but could fry your processor. The bus speed on the 867 is 133 MHz the bus speed on the dual 1.42 is 167 MHz. This would be approximately 20% bus speed increase assuming the 867 processor is capable of running on a 167 Mhz bus this would over clock the proces

Re: MDD problems - questions

--- On Thu, 2/25/10, Albert Carter wrote: > From: Albert Carter > Subject: Re: MDD problems - questions > To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 12:45 AM > Based on technology it > seems feesable but could fry your processor. The bus speed > on the 867 is 133 MHz t

Re: MDD problems - questions

On Feb 24, 2010, at 7:25 PM, Kasey Smith wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:05 PM, John Carmonne wrote: >> >> If you swap it you'll lose OS9 boot capability. Did you try contact cleaner >> on the Ram slots? DeoxiT is a good one. Also just because the RAM works in >> another machine doesn't al

Re: AirPort card for PowerMac G5 (dual 2.3GHz)

On Feb 24, 2010, at 9:16 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 24, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Herbert Goodfriend wrote: I would like to install an AirPort Extreme card in a recently acquired PowerMac G5 Dual 2.3GHz. Apple Knowledge Base () says that the machine will only

Re: How Do I Get an MOV File to Play?

On Feb 24, 4:42 pm, Kris Tilford wrote: > the "Change All..." button beneath to change this preference for   > all .mov files. Kris, Very clever and so, so helpful. Excellent tips! On a related note, I was trying to play a DVD movie tonight on my eMac and for some reason the DVD player would p