Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Dan
At 4:00 AM + 6/14/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Dan mailto:dantear...@gmail.comdantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 9:01 PM + 6/13/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Why there is not a basic computer practices class I do not understand. Be

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:08 AM, Dan wrote: At 4:00 AM + 6/14/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Dan mailto:dantear...@gmail.comdantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 9:01 PM + 6/13/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Why there is not a basic computer

Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread James Therrault
Living in the sticks has its drawbacks of which one is the nearly absent availability of broadband After sufferin' years with erratic dial up, Cricket, (USB Modem), started covering the area last November of 2009. Best signal strength was two and sometimes three bars. Service was pretty

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Ted Treen
From: Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, 14 June, 2010 4:45:38 Subject: Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Dennis Myhand dmyh...@suddenlink.net wrote:

Re: stream movies? no-can-do!

2010-06-14 Thread Kris Tilford
I'm not clear on what you mean by stream movies? I have a very similar setup, an overclocked 1.58 GHz G4 Mini w/10.4.11 1GB RAM attached to 42 Samsung LCD TV attached to an 802.11n Time Machine. I can stream wirelessly movies that are stored on my G5 as MOV, MPEG, or other common video

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Ted Treen ted.tr...@btinternet.com wrote: ___ You're right in what you say, but at least here in the UK, stereotypes - at least in the bosses' eyes - still rule. I was a techie/systems programmer back in the

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:46 AM, James Therrault wrote: So, am I on the right track thinking that somehow this modem was not put away properly on the Powerbook? If so, what steps might I take to recover it? It's a software issue, and AFAIK put away has nothing to do with it. I've not used

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:33 AM, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.comwrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:08 AM, Dan wrote: At 4:00 AM + 6/14/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Dan mailto:dantear...@gmail.com dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 9:01 PM +

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-14 Thread Justin The Cynical
On 6/13/10 6:42 PM, Albert Carter wrote: Mark, Since you are going to re-do the video to prove this I have one further suggestion. Do this as one complete video, do not segment it and do not turn off or pause the video camera. This will lead to further validate your proof. Albert

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Dennis Myhand
Dan wrote: At 9:01 PM + 6/13/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Why there is not a basic computer practices class I do not understand. Be comforted, that in the face of all irridity and disillusionment, and despite the changing fortunes of time, there is always a big future in

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Dennis Myhand
Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: I can understand that in an office drone paper shuffler who is on the IT lockout track. But media types of all persuasions who enter small or freelance operations and ignore the need of CPU and network system practices will be a burden to their bosses and

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I will re do the cideo, but because of the 4GB of RAM change, the Jaguar system constantly tells me to restart the system over and over again. I tried reverting back to 2GB of RAM, and still, it tells me to restart. i don't know what is going on. Any suggestions? --  Sent from my Power mac G4

Re: Jaguar not booting up

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I zapped the PRAM already. It goes like this. I turn it on, the Apple logo shows up. The grey wheel spins until the Mac OS X window with a light blue Apple ahows up and says Loading Mac OS X and after the window disappears or is done loading, the screen turns a darker shade of blue and it says you

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 14, 2010, at 3:59 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:46 AM, James Therrault wrote: So, am I on the right track thinking that somehow this modem was not put away properly on the Powerbook? If so, what steps might I take to recover it? It's a software issue, and AFAIK

Re: Beige G3, Apple Fast Ethernet Card compatibility problems

2010-06-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 13, 2010, at 9:34 PM, James Chapel wrote: Switching both to DHCP, then restarting the mac with the standard apple enet driver enabled, brought the card back to life in Mac OS 9.2.1, indicating network activity on both the switch and Apple PCI card. As an experiment, I thought I'd

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 13, 2010, at 11:46 PM, James Therrault wrote: A call to tech support resulted in speaking with a Indian drone, Martha to no avail. Modem would not mount as a CD on the Powerbook G4 1.25MHz. After hanging up, decided to try it on the desktop, G4 400MHz Gigabit and yep, it mounted

Re: Jaguar not booting up

2010-06-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 14, 2010, at 5:33 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: I zapped the PRAM already. It goes like this. I turn it on, the Apple logo shows up. The grey wheel spins until the Mac OS X window with a light blue Apple ahows up and says Loading Mac OS X and after the window disappears or is done

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread iJohn
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here. And whether you can hear it or not, The universe is laughing behind your back. For some reason the part that always stuck in my mind was Take heart in the deepening

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-14 Thread Dan
At 4:07 AM -0700 6/14/2010, Justin The Cynical wrote: On 6/13/10 6:42 PM, Albert Carter wrote: Since you are going to re-do the video to prove this I have one further suggestion. Do this as one complete video, do not segment it and do not turn off or pause the video camera. This will lead to

Re: Jaguar not booting up

2010-06-14 Thread Dan
At 8:33 AM -0400 6/14/2010, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: I zapped the PRAM already. It goes like this. I turn it on, the Apple logo shows up. The grey wheel spins until the Mac OS X window with a light blue Apple ahows up and says Loading Mac OS X and after the window disappears or is done loading,

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread Dan
At 1:46 AM -0500 6/14/2010, James Therrault wrote: After sufferin' years with erratic dial up, Cricket, (USB Modem), started covering the area last November of 2009. Best signal strength was two and sometimes three bars. Service was pretty dependable up until April of this year. Then it

Re: PowerMac G5 Problems

2010-06-14 Thread Elliott Price
To clarify, this is a dual 1.8Ghz (Late 2004) G5 Model number A1047. It has 8 RAM slots, and yes, I did install it in matched pairs. It seemed like when I reseated the RAM and reset the PMU it would work for a short time, perhaps boot (but power down at login) a few times before it went back to

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete? ? 4GB on G4

2010-06-14 Thread JoeTaxpayer
I don't shout anything just because I can't do it. As many are interested as I am about how/if one can run 4GB RAM on this machine. There was nothing magical about 2GB, 2^32=4G so, it passes the first logical test. 2 to 4 is not the same jump as 4 to anything higher. I'd like to see the exact

Re: MDD or Quicksilver?

2010-06-14 Thread JoeTaxpayer
IOGEAR Hi-Speed USB 2.0 5-Port PCI Expansion Card (faster data transfer for existing peripherals) FirmTek SeriTek/1S2 Serial ATA/150 Dual Channel Mac PCI Controller (to access her G5 iMac hard drive and a future additional drive). Another GB of RAM I'm answering as a G4 MDD lover. USB

Re: stream movies? no-can-do!

2010-06-14 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:37 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: I'm not clear on what you mean by stream movies? Kris, by streaming I mean watching a movie via wi-fi connection from my G5 in the other room via 802.11.n 5ghz. Is streaming the wrong word? and thanks for the great comeback! Jeff -- You

Re: MDD or Quicksilver?

2010-06-14 Thread Dave Bjur
Thanks for the input! I have two drives, an 80 GB Apple-branded which came with the MDD with 10.5, and a 20 GB Seagate with 10.4. The Quicksilver came with no drive. Both boot the MDD but neither will boot the Quicksilver (2002), so for now I'm leaning toward the MDD. In the MDD I'm trying to

Re: G4 MDD RAM

2010-06-14 Thread Dave
I am trying to use a 1 GB PC3200 DDR 400 module in my MDD, installed by itself, but it keeps telling me I need to restart the machine. I see several of you have installed 1 GB modules -- I would appreciate any suggestions! Dave Bjur d...@bjurconsulting.com (208) 305-1514 On Jun 2, 12:48 pm,

Re: G4 MDD RAM

2010-06-14 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Jun 14, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Dave wrote: I am trying to use a 1 GB PC3200 DDR 400 module in my MDD, installed by itself, but it keeps telling me I need to restart the machine. I see several of you have installed 1 GB modules -- I would appreciate any suggestions! Reset CUDA switch make sure

Re: stream movies? no-can-do!

2010-06-14 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Jun 14, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:37 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: I'm not clear on what you mean by stream movies? Kris, by streaming I mean watching a movie via wi-fi connection from my G5 in the other room via 802.11.n 5ghz. Is streaming the wrong

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread John Callahan
On Jun 13, 2010, at 11:45 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Dennis Myhand dmyh...@suddenlink.net wrote: Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Why there is not a basic computer practices class I do not understand. I have tried to teach that very class for

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread John Callahan
I think he meant aridity. On Jun 14, 2010, at 12:00 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: irridity John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com If there are no dogs in Heaven, when I die I want to go where they went. --Will Rogers extreme positive = (ybya2) -- You received this message because you are

Re: stream movies? no-can-do!

2010-06-14 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:03 AM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:37 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: I'm not clear on what you mean by stream movies? Kris, by streaming I mean watching a movie via wi-fi connection from my G5 in the

Re: MDD or Quicksilver?

2010-06-14 Thread JoeTaxpayer
I can't help with Memory, I have 4x512MB in each. But I can tell you - the SATA drives are bootable with that card. 3TB hanging off it. Transfers between two drives super fast. On Jun 14, 12:29 pm, Dave Bjur d...@bjurconsulting.com wrote: Thanks for the input! -- You received this message

Re: Jaguar not booting up

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Ok, I will try the shift button at start and see what happens. On 6/14/10, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 8:33 AM -0400 6/14/2010, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: I zapped the PRAM already. It goes like this. I turn it on, the Apple logo shows up. The grey wheel spins until the Mac OS X window with a

Mac OS X Tiger commercial idea

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I have an idea that may be 5 years too late. I watched a Mac OS X tiger commercial, and then the next day I happened to run across Eye of the tiger by surviver on my iPod nano. Wouldn't it bee cool if back then they could make a commercial about Mac OS X tiger with the eye of the tiger song in the

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Okay. I will have the video posted on youtube in a while. In the meantime I have to resolve issues with Jaguar not working properly and to re-install Mac OS X SL on Q because i did not back up my info. What a bummer. I will get it running soon. I can handle the problem with SL on a Q emulator, i

Re: G4 MDD RAM

2010-06-14 Thread Dave Bjur
Thanks, John. Pardon my ignorance: 1. What and where is the CUDA switch? I see a PMU reset switch -- is that it? 2. Is the front bay the one under the optical drive? 3. Also, does it matter which RAM slot? Thanks, Again, Dave Bjur d...@bjurconsulting.com (208) 305-1514 On Jun 14, 2010, at

Re: MDD or Quicksilver?

2010-06-14 Thread Dave Bjur
Cool! I'm ordering the card today. -- Dave On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:11 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: But I can tell you - the SATA drives are bootable with that card. 3TB hanging off it. Transfers between two drives super fast. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a

Re: G4 MDD RAM

2010-06-14 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Dave Bjur wrote: Thanks, John. Pardon my ignorance: 1. What and where is the CUDA switch? I see a PMU reset switch -- is that it? 2. Is the front bay the one under the optical drive? 3. Also, does it matter which RAM slot? Thanks, Again, Dave Bjur

Re: stream movies? no-can-do!

2010-06-14 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:03 AM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:37 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: I'm not clear on what you mean by stream movies? Kris, by streaming I mean

Re: stream movies? no-can-do!

2010-06-14 Thread Jack and Karen Peters
At 10:03 AM -0700 6/14/2010, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:37 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: I'm not clear on what you mean by stream movies? Kris, by streaming I mean watching a movie via wi-fi connection from my G5 in the other room

Re: G4 MDD RAM

2010-06-14 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:26 AM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Dave Bjur wrote: Thanks, John. Pardon my ignorance: 1. What and where is the CUDA switch? I see a PMU reset switch -- is that it? Look close to the battery or Google if you don't see it. It's a tiny

Re: G4 MDD RAM

2010-06-14 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:36 AM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:26 AM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Dave Bjur wrote: Thanks, John. Pardon my ignorance: 1. What and where is the CUDA switch? I see a PMU reset switch -- is that it? Look close to the

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-14 Thread ah...clem
On Jun 10, 4:17 am, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: I'm not certain if this article will enable 4GB RAM for you, but I   suspect it will, if this is possible? Instead of reducing the memory,   as the title of this article references, you'd be increasing it instead:

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-14 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:15 PM, ah...clem wrote: On Jun 10, 4:17 am, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: I'm not certain if this article will enable 4GB RAM for you, but I suspect it will, if this is possible? Instead of reducing the memory, as the title of this article references, you'd be

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-14 Thread ah...clem
On Jun 14, 2:24 pm, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote: . . . how and where to get a hold of some of these 1GB PC133 sticks without trolling dumpsters for old Dell servers? Easily and cheaply found on eBay. I just sold 8 1GB sticks for $30   shipped. Problem is that registered sticks

Re: G4 MDD RAM

2010-06-14 Thread Dave Bjur
Thanks, John, That button on my unit is labeled PMU Reset, and that did the trick! I now have a total of 2 GB: 1x1GB, 1x512MB (these recycled from the dead iMac), 2x256MB (these came with the MDD), all working wonderfully. I'm truly thankful. -- Dave On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:40 AM, JOHN

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-14 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 14, 2010, at 3:24 PM, ah...clem wrote: On Jun 14, 2:24 pm, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote: . . . how and where to get a hold of some of these 1GB PC133 sticks without trolling dumpsters for old Dell servers? Easily and cheaply found on eBay. I just sold 8 1GB sticks for $30

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-14 Thread ah...clem
On Jun 14, 2:24 pm, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote: Problem is that registered sticks are keyed differently than regular   SD ram stick and will not fit in the slot. Even if you physically   modify the slot, the contacts will not line up. So they can not work   in a Mac. Len also

Re: weird USB - Firewire bridge

2010-06-14 Thread Manuel Marques
Thank you all for your replies! I'll give the adapter a shot when I find time to do so :). Regards, MM On Jun 14, 12:09 am, Dennis Myhand dmyh...@suddenlink.net wrote: No.  It will run at the slower USB 2.0 speed.  Whenever you are working with devices that work at different speeds your

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-14 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 14, 2010, at 4:21 PM, ah...clem wrote: On Jun 14, 2:24 pm, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote: Problem is that registered sticks are keyed differently than regular SD ram stick and will not fit in the slot. Even if you physically modify the slot, the contacts will not line up. So

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Dennis Myhand
John Callahan wrote: I have tried to teach that very class for the last 7 years. Most of my students could not care less about what I am talking about. Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com Why not start an internet course for a small fee I would be interested.

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:29 AM, James Therrault wrote: Yes, there is an update but every attempt to install it failed. Now that you mention snow leopard, I know why it won't. No, the update isn't for Snow Leopard only. The installer is an .mpkg file, it contains three separate versions for

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete? ? 4GB on G4

2010-06-14 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:57 PM, JoeTaxpayer joetaxpaye...@gmail.comwrote: I don't shout anything just because I can't do it. As many are interested as I am about how/if one can run 4GB RAM on this machine. There was nothing magical about 2GB, 2^32=4G so, it passes the first logical test. 2

Re: Mac OS X Tiger commercial idea

2010-06-14 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.comwrote: I have an idea that may be 5 years too late. I watched a Mac OS X tiger commercial, and then the next day I happened to run across Eye of the tiger by surviver on my iPod nano. Wouldn't it bee cool if back then they

Re: stream movies? no-can-do!

2010-06-14 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:37 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: I'm not clear on what you mean by stream movies? Kris, by streaming I mean watching a movie via wi-fi connection from my G5 in the other room via 802.11.n 5ghz. Is

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Dennis Myhand dmyh...@suddenlink.netwrote: Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: I can understand that in an office drone paper shuffler who is on the IT lockout track. But media types of all persuasions who enter small or freelance operations and ignore the

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 14, 2010, at 9:17 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jun 13, 2010, at 11:46 PM, James Therrault wrote: A call to tech support resulted in speaking with a Indian drone, Martha to no avail. Modem would not mount as a CD on the Powerbook G4 1.25MHz. After hanging up, decided to try it on

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:20 PM, James Therrault wrote: That is unlikely, the 'improperly put away' issue only affects read/write media like flash drives, and is a warning about un-flushed write caches for that volume filesystem, it wouldn't affect the modem hardware. If this was the problem,

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 14, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:29 AM, James Therrault wrote: Yes, there is an update but every attempt to install it failed. Now that you mention snow leopard, I know why it won't. No, the update isn't for Snow Leopard only. The installer is an

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Dan wrote: At 1:46 AM -0500 6/14/2010, James Therrault wrote: After sufferin' years with erratic dial up, Cricket, (USB Modem), started covering the area last November of 2009. Best signal strength was two and sometimes three bars. Service was pretty

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Give 'em a 7 MHz processor and 1 MB RAM and see what they can do ! And no I am not kidding. Uphill both ways, I presume, barefoot in the snow? 8-P My first layered composite image process was done on a machine of that spec.

Beige G3 Upgrade Questions

2010-06-14 Thread James Chapel
I recent have been upgrading my '97 Beige Powermac G3, more out of nostalgia than any particular practical reason. So far, a 400MHz G3 processor, Rage 128 (16MB VRAM, 100MHz clock) graphics card, Orangelink + USB / FireWire card and a Apple 10/100 Fast Ethernet card have been added, giving me a

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Give 'em a 7 MHz processor and 1 MB RAM and see what they can do ! And no I am not kidding. Uphill both ways, I presume, barefoot in the

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Why we had to scratch the bits onto pieces of paper we peeled up from the floor of the butchers shop and wrote on with our own blood! Three graphics artists would die every time we did a layer mask! Those

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Why we had to scratch the bits onto pieces of paper we peeled up from the floor of the butchers shop and wrote on with our own blood! Three graphics artists would die every time we did a layer mask! But it beat getting the

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 14, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:20 PM, James Therrault wrote: That is unlikely, the 'improperly put away' issue only affects read/write media like flash drives, and is a warning about un- flushed write caches for that volume filesystem, it wouldn't

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Why we had to scratch the bits onto pieces of paper we peeled up from the floor of the butchers shop and wrote on with our own blood! Three

Re: Beige G3 Upgrade Questions

2010-06-14 Thread dc
On Jun 14, 5:32 pm, James Chapel dragnero...@gmail.com wrote: 2. What model DVD-ROM drive did the DVD-equipped Beige G3s ship with and what speed did it run at (2x? 5x?) 4. All of my PCI slots are now full, so I won't have any room for a faster IDE controller card. However, would I see a

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Dan
At 9:05 PM + 6/14/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: But I still often hear of the generations raised on computers. I guess that does not mean much. Playing games and sneaking porn does not teach you how to handle system resources We've been toodling around in cars for how long? 100+

Re: Beige G3 Upgrade Questions

2010-06-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:32 PM, James Chapel wrote: Connecting the monitor back to the built-in monitor port re-enables the Wings card, but disables the graphics acceleration from the Rage 128. I always that the Wings card was a killer selling point with the Beige G3s. Is there any way around

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Dan wrote: At 1:46 AM -0500 6/14/2010, James Therrault wrote: After sufferin' years with erratic dial up, Cricket, (USB Modem), started covering the area last November of 2009. Best signal strength was two and sometimes three bars. Service was pretty

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 9:05 PM + 6/14/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: But I still often hear of the generations raised on computers. I guess that does not mean much. Playing games and sneaking porn does not teach you how to handle

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread John Carmonne
On Jun 14, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 9:05 PM + 6/14/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: But I still often hear of the generations raised on computers. I guess that does not mean much.

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 14, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:29 AM, James Therrault wrote: Yes, there is an update but every attempt to install it failed. Now that you mention snow leopard, I know why it won't. No, the update isn't for Snow Leopard only. The installer is an

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread Dan
At 5:44 PM -0500 6/14/2010, James Therrault wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Dan wrote: At 1:46 AM -0500 6/14/2010, James Therrault wrote: After sufferin' years with erratic dial up, Cricket, (USB Modem), started covering the area last November of 2009. Best signal strength was two and

Re: MDD or Quicksilver?

2010-06-14 Thread Sri Gupta
Hi Dave, I got this USB2 card from amazon, for less than $10. It works great on my Dual G4 QS 2002- I've used external hard drives and ipods with it, with no problems. Don't plug your keyboard or mouse into it though, or else you'll have trouble waking it up from sleep mode. Apparently OS X

Re: Beige G3 Upgrade Questions

2010-06-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 14, 2010, at 4:32 PM, James Chapel wrote: 1. After installing the Rage 128 and connecting my monitor to the card, not only are the built-in Rage II+ graphics disabled (as was expected), but the A/V Wings card refuses to give me any video output in the Apple Video Player. Connecting the

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Bill Connelly
This thread be obsolete of PowerPC ... seems like forever ... -- 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 http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 14, 2010, at 6:31 PM, James Therrault wrote: thus the failure since it is not seen on the desktop as a CD. This is starting to sound more like a USB problem. Are you certain your USB is working properly with other devices. Does the modem identify properly in System Profiler? You

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 14, 2010, at 7:03 PM, Dan wrote: At 5:44 PM -0500 6/14/2010, James Therrault wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Dan wrote: At 1:46 AM -0500 6/14/2010, James Therrault wrote: After sufferin' years with erratic dial up, Cricket, (USB Modem), started covering the area last November

Re: Improper Put Away? for USB Modem???

2010-06-14 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 14, 2010, at 8:31 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jun 14, 2010, at 6:31 PM, James Therrault wrote: thus the failure since it is not seen on the desktop as a CD. This is starting to sound more like a USB problem. Are you certain your USB is working properly with other devices. Does the

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-14 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.netwrote: This thread be obsolete of PowerPC ... seems like forever ... Wrong thread Bill. This is a clearly marked spin-off regarding Rich text as a communicative tool and has gotten into a discussion of other subjects. To

Re: Beige G3 Upgrade Questions

2010-06-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 14, 2010, at 11:38 PM, James Chapel wrote: Would something like this do the job? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemItem=220607466243Category=41999_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26its%3DI%26otn%3D2 Yes, this is it exactly. If you're using the Wings, since it shares VRAM with the