Re: g4/500 fan doesn't turn off?

2010-04-22 Thread Clark Martin
On 4/22/10 3:50 PM, Jack Countryman wrote: I'm tinkering with a g4/500 that started life as a server. A friend got it at some sort of auction, along with other gear...no history available. It seems to have come with no ram, hard drive, etc. I have it running, but find that the internal fan doe

Re: MySpace.

2010-04-22 Thread Clark Martin
On 4/22/10 10:30 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 22, 2010, at 9:15 AM, John Niven wrote: I think my companies @#$%^& IT guys are spoiling my fun! Yep, it's what we IT folks live for. :-) I used to be able to listen to mine and others musical efforts on myspace at work. Now the music just

Re: Is there usenet interface possible for this group?

2010-04-22 Thread dorayme
On 23/04/2010, at 3:25 PM, g3-5-list+nore...@googlegroups.com wrote: Topic: Is there usenet interface possible for this group? Bruce Johnson Apr 22 10:27AM -0700 ^ On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:41 AM, dorayme wrote: > Would that help with the digest I get? As for not getting digest and > getting all

Re: g4/500 fan doesn't turn off?

2010-04-22 Thread John Carmonne
On Apr 22, 2010, at 7:29 PM, Jack Countryman wrote: > Those aren't the problem. To test it, I stuck in a working 40 gig hard > drive with 10.4.11 setup, airport card, 4 pieces of 256 ram, etc. The fan > still doesn't shut down when the machine is turned off. So, the fan issue is > not related t

RE: I can't format this new hard drive???

2010-04-22 Thread Stewie de Young
> > I'm not sure but I did have my old 466MHz clamshell upgraded to a > similar drive so it should be a doable task. > > I didn't do the installation myself but instead conned a Mac guru > friend to do it. Replacing a HD in a clamshell is a daunting task > not to be attempted by people l

Re: Is there usenet interface possible for this group?

2010-04-22 Thread Will S
I go to google groups and read the lists online with my web browser. Works well and I like the way all the posts are available and listed by time posted though you may be able to adjust how they are listed not sure. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for th

RE: I can't format this new hard drive???

2010-04-22 Thread Stewie de Young
> > >I got this 60g 7200rpm HD for my 466mhz Clamshell, I found a detailed > directions to format a new HD and the drive still doesn't show up anywhere??? > I even tried hooking up a firewire cable to my Powerbook just to see if it > showed up and I got it to the point to format it (in O

Re: I can't format this new hard drive???

2010-04-22 Thread James Therrault
On Apr 22, 2010, at 10:35 PM, Richard Gerome wrote: I got this 60g 7200rpm HD for my 466mhz Clamshell, I found a detailed directions to format a new HD and the drive still doesn't show up anywhere??? I even tried hooking up a firewire cable to my Powerbook just to see if it showed up

I can't format this new hard drive???

2010-04-22 Thread Richard Gerome
I got this 60g 7200rpm HD for my 466mhz Clamshell, I found a detailed directions to format a new HD and the drive still doesn't show up anywhere??? I even tried hooking up a firewire cable to my Powerbook just to see if it showed up and I got it to the point to format it (in OS 9) and the dr

Re: g4/500 fan doesn't turn off?

2010-04-22 Thread Jack Countryman
Wiring from the fan runs through a metal channel that¹s part of the frame in the back of the case. I can¹t tell yet where it goes. I don¹t see anything that looks like where the fan plugs into the motherboard, but can¹t be sure. Anyone have tear-apart diagrams etc. for the g4 machines? On 4/22/

Re: g4/500 fan doesn't turn off?

2010-04-22 Thread Albert Carter
Jack,     I'm not too sure of the configuration so I have a question: Does the fan plug into the PSU or into the LogicBoard? If it plugs into the PSU than you probably have a faulty PSU. If it plugs into the LogicBoard then you probably have a faulty LogicBoard. You can test this out by putting

Re: g4/500 fan doesn't turn off?

2010-04-22 Thread Jack Countryman
Those aren't the problem. To test it, I stuck in a working 40 gig hard drive with 10.4.11 setup, airport card, 4 pieces of 256 ram, etc. The fan still doesn't shut down when the machine is turned off. So, the fan issue is not related to the parts that were missing. I've used the same ram, hard d

Re: g4/500 fan doesn't turn off?

2010-04-22 Thread Michael G.M.
Hi, Sounds like you already found out what it needs: RAM, hard drive, etc. If the computer doesn't have these things, it will not run or run properly. Find the model # and the specifications of what it needs and start shopping around. Do you have an OS X retail install disc? If not, Mac OS X 10.3 i

g4/500 fan doesn't turn off?

2010-04-22 Thread Jack Countryman
I'm tinkering with a g4/500 that started life as a server. A friend got it at some sort of auction, along with other gear...no history available. It seems to have come with no ram, hard drive, etc. I have it running, but find that the internal fan does not shut off when you shut the machine down

Re: MySpace.

2010-04-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > We're getting to be more and more mac all the time, in the last three days > two more professors have told us or inquired about switching. > > More and more of our students have nice MacBooks and MacBook pros and > iPhones have become damn n

Re: MySpace.

2010-04-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Here there has long been an Apple Store in the Art department. There are some iMacs mixed with PCs in building labs around campus. the library has a few scattered macs. Mostly for media work. Lots of Macs on campus, and our bookst

Re: MySpace.

2010-04-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > > We manage all computer surplusing for the College. The newest Mac that's > *ever* come through here was a 400 MHz Sawtooth with no drive, memory or > power supply. If a prof decides to get a newer Mac it goes to a student or > instrument

Re: MySpace.

2010-04-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: I have a 4-year-old first-gen Intel iMac that I ONLY got because the faculty member for whom it was purchased had no need or interest in using a Mac, otherwise I'd probably still be using the 800 Mhz upgraded Sawtooth we still

Re: MySpace.

2010-04-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > 2) It's new/different, we're short-staffed, and we don't have time to learn > and support these things on top of all the other things we currently do, and > make sure it doesn't break what we already can barely keep running with the > spit,

Re: MySpace.

2010-04-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 22, 2010, at 10:51 AM, John Niven wrote: To be fair, in one of my previous companies, the IT guy gave me a fixed ip address so I could put my Classic II on the lan (no dchp) via an scsi-to-ethernet converter :-) I used it as a terminal. Cool. But the current bunch won't (offici

Re: MySpace.

2010-04-22 Thread John Niven
--- On Thu, 4/22/10, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > I think my companies @#$%^& IT guys are spoiling > my fun! > > > > Yep, it's what we IT folks live for. :-) To be fair, in one of my previous companies, the IT guy gave me a fixed ip address so I could put my Classic II on the lan (no dchp) via an

Re: MySpace.

2010-04-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 22, 2010, at 9:15 AM, John Niven wrote: I think my companies @#$%^& IT guys are spoiling my fun! Yep, it's what we IT folks live for. :-) I used to be able to listen to mine and others musical efforts on myspace at work. Now the music just never plays (it's Flash based). Is it po

Re: Is there usenet interface possible for this group?

2010-04-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:41 AM, dorayme wrote: Have you tried View > Organize by Thread in Mail? Would that help with the digest I get? As for not getting digest and getting all the posts, I have tried that and I really don't like it (I can explain the reasons if you like). No it wouldn't help

MySpace.

2010-04-22 Thread John Niven
I think my companies @#$%^& IT guys are spoiling my fun! I used to be able to listen to mine and others musical efforts on myspace at work. Now the music just never plays (it's Flash based). Is it possible that they have put a block on it? I checked, and got the same, on my company supplied WinX

Re: Digitizing ?

2010-04-22 Thread Miguel Garcia Gell
*Ooops...sorry you need vectors*... *Mark is completely right. * On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:59 AM, DAN A CURRIE wrote: > Hello All, > > I have an old U S Army patch that I would like to print on t-shirts for our > small group. How do I convert a picture, scan of a cloth patch into a > strictly digi

Re: Digitizing ?

2010-04-22 Thread Miguel Garcia Gell
*If you have a Scanner and Photoshop in your Mac...it's the the easiest wayto do it * On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:59 AM, DAN A CURRIE wrote: > Hello All, > > I have an old U S Army patch that I would like to print on t-shirts for our > small group. How do I convert a picture, scan of a cloth patch

Re: Video convertion

2010-04-22 Thread Miguel Garcia Gell
*Try this*...(work pretty good whit my JVC Everio) * http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html* MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac OS X *MPEG Streamclip is a powerful high-quality video converter, player, editor for MPEG, QuickTime, transport streams, iPod. And now it is a DivX

Re: LEMmings?Re: NANNY! Re: Fwd: Iran war plot

2010-04-22 Thread Richard Gerome
That's probably what he is doing, I have a friend when he wants to fwd an e-mail he ends up sending it to everyone in his address book, some people get really mad about what he is sending... I had to show him how to go through his whole address book and just click on the people who he thinks

Re: Is there usenet interface possible for this group?

2010-04-22 Thread dorayme
On Apr 22, 2:44 am, Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Apr 20, 2010, at 11:17 PM, dorayme wrote: > > > Is there an email client that works so nice as MT-NewsWatcher to read > > and reply to posts by subscribers to  a community of online folk? Can > > you think of any email client that would be better than