Repair tiger disk from leopard?

2010-08-04 Thread Mike Linnett
Howdy all, Is it advisable to use leopards disk utility to repair a drive with tiger installed on it, or is that likely to mess things up on the tiger volume? Backstory is that I'm visiting my grandmother who has an iMac g3 running tiger, and I thought I'd run through onyx's maintenance stuff w

Re: Repair tiger disk from leopard?

2010-08-04 Thread Clark Martin
On 8/4/10 1:02 AM, Mike Linnett wrote: Howdy all, Is it advisable to use leopards disk utility to repair a drive with tiger installed on it, or is that likely to mess things up on the tiger volume? Backstory is that I'm visiting my grandmother who has an iMac g3 running tiger, and I thought I'd

Re: Repair tiger disk from leopard?

2010-08-04 Thread Mike Linnett
On 4 Aug 2010, at 09:34, Clark Martin wrote: > On 8/4/10 1:02 AM, Mike Linnett wrote: >> Howdy all, >> >> Is it advisable to use leopards disk utility to repair a drive with >> tiger installed on it, or is that likely to mess things up on the >> tiger volume? >> >> Backstory is that I'm visit

Re: Repair tiger disk from leopard?

2010-08-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 4, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Mike Linnett wrote: On 4 Aug 2010, at 09:34, Clark Martin wrote: Using Disk Repair should be fine. But don't try Repair Permissions that way, that will mess things up. I think it must've been the "don't cross pollinate repair permissions" thing that I'd rememb

Re: Revisited: Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-08-04 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Revisited: Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!! Date:Mittwoch 04 August 2010N From:Richard Gerome To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com >Thanks for that info Andreas!!! I was planning on getting a new one... I > also have another ques

Re: all them Apple's?

2010-08-04 Thread John Carmonne
On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:31 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > is there a good software application out there that tells me about all the > "apple's" ever produced? > > Jeff Engle > Kamiah, Idaho 83536 Mac Tracker is good and I like EveryMac also. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP -- Y

Re: OS 9 Apps on G5

2010-08-04 Thread John Carmonne
On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: > Yeah, like I said there is almost no way you'll be able to get OS 9 to work > on a G5. Even if you install on a G4 or a G3 and transplant the HDD to a G5, > it still won't boor because a G5 is 64-bit, and OS 9 only has 32 bit code in > it.

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-04 Thread Jason Brown
On 8/3/2010 9:42 PM, glen wrote: The Dell started having a problem with the screen image rolling down (or up depending on your reference). Sort of like the very old CRT TV's that needed the horizontal hold adjusted. I'm talking about 1950's or 60's TV's. Don't know if you are old enough to kno

Re: all them Apple's?

2010-08-04 Thread Bill Connelly
On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:32 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Aug 3, 2010, at 11:31 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: is there a good software application out there that tells me about all the "apple's" ever produced? MacTracker is fairly comprehensive. http://www.mactracker.ca/ Not an app, but I also get

Re: Repair tiger disk from leopard?

2010-08-04 Thread Al Poulin
On Aug 4, 4:02 am, Mike Linnett wrote: > Howdy all, > > Is it advisable to use leopards disk utility to repair a drive with tiger > installed on it, or is that likely to mess things up on the tiger volume? > > Backstory is that I'm visiting my grandmother who has an iMac g3 running > tiger, an

Re: all them Apple's?

2010-08-04 Thread Al Poulin
On Aug 4, 12:34 am, John Carmonne wrote: > On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:31 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > > > is there a good software application out there that tells me about all the > > "apple's" ever produced? > > > Jeff Engle > > Kamiah, Idaho 83536 > > Mac Tracker is good and I like EveryMac also. A

Re: Repair tiger disk from leopard?

2010-08-04 Thread Mike Linnett
On 4 Aug 2010, at 15:13, Al Poulin wrote: > > > On Aug 4, 4:02 am, Mike Linnett wrote: >> Howdy all, >> >> Is it advisable to use leopards disk utility to repair a drive with tiger >> installed on it, or is that likely to mess things up on the tiger volume? >> >> Backstory is that I'm vis

Re: Power Mac G5 – to buy or not to buy?

2010-08-04 Thread Austin Leeds
After evaluating the options, I'm still going with my rebuilt Compaq Presario as an HTPC. However, my iMac G4 will be getting a sweet upgrade (1 GB maxed out RAM + 500 GB hard drive + Mac OS X Tiger Server) to turn it into a server. In the meantime, my school's G5 DUAL (found out its not a liquid-

Re: Repair tiger disk from leopard?

2010-08-04 Thread Gus
I don't have a panther disk, So I thought I would just ask. Is the disk utility on panther the same version as is on Tiger? Can you run Tigers Disk Utility under Panther? Glad it worked out out for you! Gus. On Aug 4, 9:21 am, Mike Linnett wrote: > On 4 Aug 2010, at 15:13, Al Poulin wrote:

Re: Revisited: Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-08-04 Thread Geke
Hi Rich, I have 3 harddisks in my Digital Audio: 2 are 3,5" and 1 is 2,5" (connected with an adapter). So having several HDs is no problem. But could someone in the know post a clear answer to this question: Do large HDs work in the Digital Audio, with Tiger and/or Leopard? I’m still doubtful whe

Re: Repair tiger disk from leopard?

2010-08-04 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Aug 4, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Gus wrote: I don't have a panther disk, So I thought I would just ask. Is the disk utility on panther the same version as is on Tiger? Can you run Tigers Disk Utility under Panther? Glad it worked out out for you! As long as you can boot the Tiger CD or DVD the

Best printer.

2010-08-04 Thread John Callahan
Have a granddaughter who will be traveling often in the next few years and would appreciate recommendations and experiences with traveling with a printer. Thanks so much. 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

Re: Revisited: Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-08-04 Thread Clark Martin
On 8/4/10 11:12 AM, Geke wrote: Hi Rich, I have 3 harddisks in my Digital Audio: 2 are 3,5" and 1 is 2,5" (connected with an adapter). So having several HDs is no problem. But could someone in the know post a clear answer to this question: Do large HDs work in the Digital Audio, with Tiger and/

Re: Power Mac G5 – to buy or not to buy?

2010-08-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 4, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Austin Leeds wrote: In the meantime, my school's G5 DUAL (found out its not a liquid- cooled quad) is having some heat issues. Hmm… We've touched on this before, the term "dual" for G5 is ambiguous. The problem is that there a two types of "dual" G5's. One has a

Re: Revisited: Re: G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades!!!

2010-08-04 Thread James Therrault
On Aug 4, 2010, at 2:13 PM, Clark Martin wrote: On 8/4/10 11:12 AM, Geke wrote: Hi Rich, I have 3 harddisks in my Digital Audio: 2 are 3,5" and 1 is 2,5" (connected with an adapter). So having several HDs is no problem. But could someone in the know post a clear answer to this question:

Re: Repair tiger disk from leopard?

2010-08-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Gus wrote: Is the disk utility on panther the same version as is on Tiger? No, they're different versions. Can you run Tiger's Disk Utility under Panther? No, it won't run. But you can boot a Tiger CD/DVD and run Tiger's Disk Utility from the disc on any Pan

Re: Power Mac G5 – to buy or not to buy?

2010-08-04 Thread John Carmonne
The only liquid-cooled are the "late 2005" G5's with PCI-e slots. All the earlier G5's that have either PCIx or normal PCI slots are air-cooled. > > > All the earlier G5's that have either PCIx or normal PCI slots are > air-cooled. The "quad" is actually a "dual dual", and is the only 2.5GHz

Re: Power Mac G5 – to buy or not to buy?

2010-08-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 4, 2010, at 2:44 PM, John Carmonne wrote: My PM G5 Dual 2.7 early 2005 is liquid cooled and has PCIx slots Yes, I forgot about that one, so that means there are three of the four possible combinations, the absent one being the single "dual- core" air-cooled. -- You received this m

Re: G5 Question

2010-08-04 Thread dc
On Aug 3, 6:10 pm, Dana Collins wrote: I presume that this " Expansion Slot Utility" is an app found in the > Utilities folder? Out of curiosity, is this utility installed on the Mac > Pros as well? It is on my MacPro running 10.6, now that you mention it I don't think the utility is on PPC vers

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-04 Thread glen
> > Recently the rolling started an hour or two after the monitor warmed up > > and >was > > stable. This made for a difficult if not impossible to be useful in a work > > environment -- s time for a new monitor. > > > > The new monitor is definitely sharper than aged Dell -- but if a

Combo updating made easy?

2010-08-04 Thread John Carmonne
Hi All Does anyone know of an application that can install all the Java updates with one click? I have the Combo and all the Java stuff including iTunes and QuickTime on one DVD and it would be nice to just drag all those files to an installer if possible. The process is such a drag. John Carmo

Re: Best printer.

2010-08-04 Thread ThisOldMacSupport
You didn't mention what version of Mac OS she is running - this could help other users give useful specific feedback for similar situations You might want to check with her and get back to the list with a little more info Cecile Santa Clara On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:28 AM, John Callahan wrote:

Mysterious bump in transfer speed?

2010-08-04 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Hello, everybody I have an external 2.5" drive sitting inside my PM G4 plugged in through USB 2.0 (A PCI card) and normally, whenever I transfer things between the Main system HDD and the external 320GB HDD, the transfer speed is literally 500Kb/s. For some reason, yesterday, when I restarted,

Re: Mysterious bump in transfer speed?

2010-08-04 Thread Eric Herbert
On Aug 4, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: > Hello, everybody I have an external 2.5" drive sitting inside my PM G4 > plugged in through USB 2.0 (A PCI card) and normally, whenever I transfer > things between the Main system HDD and the external 320GB HDD, the transfer > speed is l

Re: Best printer.

2010-08-04 Thread John Carmonne
No printers are any fun to travel with IMHO. I carry a cheap Cannon MP210 all in one flat bed scanner unit. It cost less than $50.00 at WallyWorld and works like a champ. The problem I run into on the road more than anything is the ability to scan. Nowadays with the net printing is not as impor

Re: Combo updating made easy?

2010-08-04 Thread Al Poulin
On Aug 4, 7:25 pm, John Carmonne wrote: > Hi All > Does anyone know of an application that can install all the Java updates with > one click? I have the Combo and all the Java stuff including iTunes and > QuickTime on one DVD and it would be nice to just drag all those files to an > installer

Re: Combo updating made easy?

2010-08-04 Thread John Carmonne
> > I would install the Combo off the DVD. If that works well, I would > then use Software Update under the Apple Menu. You may end up running > Software Update more than once to get all the latest. Why use the DVD > for the smaller items? Would they all be up to date? > > Al Poulin > The

Re: Combo updating made easy?

2010-08-04 Thread Eric Herbert
On Aug 4, 2010, at 8:01 PM, John Carmonne wrote: > The drag is the Java updates, they have to be done one by one, I would like > to have an installer that would do all of them at once. The update needs to > be run 6 times via Software Update. I already have all this stuff on a DVD so > I want a

Re: G5 Question

2010-08-04 Thread Dana Collins
On 8/4/10 6:20 PM, "dc" wrote: > On Aug 3, 6:10 pm, Dana Collins wrote: > I presume that this " Expansion Slot Utility" is an app found in the >> Utilities folder? Out of curiosity, is this utility installed on the Mac >> Pros as well? > > It is on my MacPro running 10.6, now that you mention

Re: Mysterious bump in transfer speed?

2010-08-04 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Is it hotwired or something? I wouldn't lie and post something this stupid just to get attention, because this really happened. -- Sent from Mark's Power Mac G4 Sawtooth PowerPC G4 7400 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G

Re: Mysterious bump in transfer speed?

2010-08-04 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I didn't make an alias It is the full ISO image. -- Sent from Mark's Power Mac G4 Sawtooth PowerPC G4 7400 -- 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 ht

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-04 Thread Doug McNutt
At 16:22 -0700 8/4/10, glen wrote: >Generally, I have no problem taking anything apart including the Dell. > >Should I assume the same danger applies to LCD's as CRT monitors regarding >electric shock from the charge stored in the capacitors? If so, any safe way >to >discharge them? Probably won

Re: Power Mac G5 – to buy or not to buy?

2010-08-04 Thread Robert MacLeay
On Jul 25, 11:25 am, "ah...clem" wrote: > On Jul 25, 1:48 am, Kris Tilford wrote: > > > Anecdotal evidence says that the liquid-cooled G5 need to run   > > 24/7/365, and the more often they're shutdown the quicker they have   > > issues with the coolant causing corrosion and leaks. The coolant ne

Re: Combo updating made easy?

2010-08-04 Thread admin
They used to sell those. I did it all through Jaguar. I recently bought a disk on eBay that had most of the updates for Tiger and Leopard, although it's already out of date in just 2-3 months. Yes, we can clone systems-one of the Mac's retained advantages-but sometimes a clean system ins

Re: Power Mac G5 – to buy or not to buy?

2010-08-04 Thread admin
Great point. But the price jump from mini to iMac is only $500 and you get 2GB more RAM, a keyboard, a mouse and a 21" high quality display. Eventually, I will need an Intel machine, but I believe that entry level Mini should be more like $450-500, not $700. On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:06 PM, R

Re: Power Mac G5 – to buy or not to buy?

2010-08-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:06 PM, Robert MacLeay wrote: If you are paying 13 cents per kilowatt hour, two hundred dollars a year. Every year. This is an excellent point. I think this is one reason why laptops have finally overtaken desktops in sales. When you add in the cost of electricity over

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-04 Thread glen
- Original Message > From: Doug McNutt > To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > Sent: Wed, August 4, 2010 9:46:14 PM > Subject: Re: Monitor Question > > At 16:22 -0700 8/4/10, glen wrote: > >Generally, I have no problem taking anything apart including the Dell. > > > >Should I assume the

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-04 Thread Peter Haas
On Aug 4, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: He was tuning the frequency of the horizontal oscillator. It has to match the rate at which the transmission is sent, about 15 kHz was standard NTSC television. There is also a vertical oscillator which was once 30 Hz. Pre-NTSC, the horizont

Re: Monitor Question

2010-08-04 Thread Ashgrove
Hey Glen, Check this out: http://bit.ly/6nFcHY It hits all the sweet spots, and it's (slightly) bigger than your old Dell. I would get myself it if I had the money right now. Oh, well. Good luck, Felix -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using

rule based firewall

2010-08-04 Thread Nestamicky
Is it possible, friends, that one could apply a firewall setting on one network device and not the other? So you have wireless and wired, and want to apply a rule that enables, say the "Stealth mode" on OS X only one of the those; wired or wireless, is this possible? Thanks. -- You received t