Hello ! !

2010-07-03 Thread Chris House
I have recently become the owner of a 4 x 2.5 Ghz PowerPC G5 Mac. Running os 10.5.8 Could anyone help me with advice on Java, there are some applications that won't run on this machine at present, due, it seems to out of date software. Is there any guide to the most up to date s/ware I can run on t

Re: Hello ! !

2010-07-03 Thread DAN A CURRIE
Chris House wrote: I have recently become the owner of a 4 x 2.5 Ghz PowerPC G5 Mac. Running os 10.5.8 Could anyone help me with advice on Java, there are some applications that won't run on this machine at present, due, it seems to out of date software. Is there any guide to the most up to date

Re: Hello ! !

2010-07-03 Thread Illirik Smirnov
Java has good support for PPC. Just download the latest version from sun.com . The Quad G5 is a very fast machine, and should be able to run any Java app. It is a bit faster than the current Macbooks, so it should do just fine. Sent from a computer running either the SPARC, Itanium, or PowerPC arch

Re: Hello ! !

2010-07-03 Thread Richard Gerome
I've heard of some people partitioning the HD and install Tiger 10.4.11 on it too because some software programs won't run with Leopard 10.5.8... -Original Message- >From: Chris House >Sent: Jul 3, 2010 10:45 AM >To: G-Group >Subject: Hello ! ! > >I have recently become the owne

Re: CD Music

2010-07-03 Thread gifutiger
Greetings All I was sure that this was the answer to my problem of not being able to write CD's that would play on my Toshiba SD-6109C integrated CD/DVD player, Amplifier. Well yesterday I received a spindle of 25 650MB CD disks that I ordered, however still no luck. Made a disk from iTunes and i

CCC and backing up iCal, Address book, Safari

2010-07-03 Thread Jeffrey Engle
We all know that I can back up iCal, Address book and safari bookmarks "within" the applications themselves, BUT I would like to set up CCC to do backups of iCal, Address book and Safari bookmarks ( and no, I don't want to clone the whole user) Question is, where are the files that are

CCC and backing up iCal, Address book, Safari

2010-07-03 Thread Jeffrey Engle
Stink, I can "increment backup" the "source", but not the "destination" so I can't do what I wanted to anyway... :-( Jeff earlier. We all know that I can back up iCal, Address book and safari bookmarks "within" the applications themselves, BUT I would like to set up CCC to do

Re: CCC and backing up iCal, Address book, Safari

2010-07-03 Thread Dan
At 11:48 AM -0700 7/3/2010, Jeffrey Engle wrote: We all know that I can back up iCal, Address book and safari bookmarks "within" the applications themselves, BUT I would like to set up CCC to do backups of iCal, Address book and Safari bookmarks ( and no, I don't want to clone the whole us

Re: CCC and backing up iCal, Address book, Safari

2010-07-03 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Jul 3, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Dan wrote: At 11:48 AM -0700 7/3/2010, Jeffrey Engle wrote: We all know that I can back up iCal, Address book and safari bookmarks "within" the applications themselves, BUT I would like to set up CCC to do backups of iCal, Address book and Safari bookmarks

Re: CCC and backing up iCal, Address book, Safari

2010-07-03 Thread Dan
At 12:16 PM -0700 7/3/2010, Jeffrey Engle wrote: IMO, you'd be much better off making a CCC of /Users, then creating a job to update it incrementally. Mine runs every day at 5:02. Takes between 10 and 30 mins (depends on how active I've been that day). Oh, tell CCC to ignore "Library/Caches"

Re: CCC and backing up iCal, Address book, Safari

2010-07-03 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Jul 3, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Dan wrote: At 12:16 PM -0700 7/3/2010, Jeffrey Engle wrote: IMO, you'd be much better off making a CCC of /Users, then creating a job to update it incrementally. Mine runs every day at 5:02. Takes between 10 and 30 mins (depends on how active I've been that

Re: Hello ! !

2010-07-03 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 3, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Illirik Smirnov wrote: Java has good support for PPC. No, this isn't correct. Java support for the PPC was cut-off completely over a year ago. Starting with Java Update 4 for Leopard 10.5 the Java updates were "Intel only". The consequence is that all PPC Mac

Re: Hello ! !

2010-07-03 Thread Stephen Conrad
> > If you want to test your Java version, you open Terminal and type the > command: "java -version" without the quotes. > I have OS X 10.4.11 I did as you said and got this java version "1.5.0_19" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_19-b02-306) Java HotSpot(TM) Client

iMac G5 STILL Overheating

2010-07-03 Thread Jonas Ulrich
Ok I though it was fixed, but my 17" 1.8GHZ iMac G5 overheats and the fans rev way up if I even check my e-mail. If it just sits with nothing open it's fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Jonas -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for thos

Re: iMac G5 STILL Overheating

2010-07-03 Thread Jim Scott
On Jul 3, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: > Ok I though it was fixed, but my 17" 1.8GHZ iMac G5 overheats and the fans > rev way up if I even check my e-mail. If it just sits with nothing open it's > fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It sounds as if your iMac's thermal sensor(

time machine back ups

2010-07-03 Thread Linda
I just checked the space on my large HD (I have two in my MDD G4) was was surprised to see I only had 25G free on a 200G HD. Then I saw all these files from backups.backupdb. Are these the time machine files and do I need to keep them all or can I trash the ones that are over a year old?

Re: time machine back ups

2010-07-03 Thread John Carmonne
On Jul 3, 2010, at 7:48 PM, Linda wrote: > I just checked the space on my large HD (I have two in my MDD G4) was was > surprised to see I only had 25G free on a 200G HD. Then I saw all these files > from backups.backupdb. Are these the time machine files and do I need to keep > them all or can

Re: time machine back ups

2010-07-03 Thread John Carmonne
On Jul 3, 2010, at 8:48 PM, John Carmonne wrote: > > On Jul 3, 2010, at 7:48 PM, Linda wrote: > >> I just checked the space on my large HD (I have two in my MDD G4) was was >> surprised to see I only had 25G free on a 200G HD. Then I saw all these >> files from backups.backupdb. Are these the

Re: time machine back ups

2010-07-03 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jul 3, 2010, at 11:48 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Jul 3, 2010, at 7:48 PM, Linda wrote: I just checked the space on my large HD (I have two in my MDD G4) was was surprised to see I only had 25G free on a 200G HD. Then I saw all these files from backups.backupdb. Are these the time ma

Re: time machine back ups

2010-07-03 Thread Chance Reecher
NO! Never trash anything from a TM volume. Those "old" files are data that TM backed up originally, and most likely include things like the OS. Let TM do its own thing space-management wise. Chance On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:48 PM, John Carmonne wrote: > > Trash whatever date and back that you fe

Re: time machine back ups

2010-07-03 Thread John Carmonne
On Jul 3, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Chance Reecher wrote: > NO! Never trash anything from a TM volume. Those "old" files are data > that TM backed up originally, and most likely include things like the > OS. Let TM do its own thing space-management wise. I never thought of that. I thought the OS remain