Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Dan
At 7:46 PM -0700 10/21/2010, ah...clem wrote: a HD's reliable life is still more than one order of magnitude greater than the best (most expensive) SSD currently available. SSD's have a finite number of read/write cycles that just doesn't compare to a well-built HD (quantum, seagate, maxtor).

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:48 PM, glen glenst...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com Content with prettier eye candy sells ideas If you cannot keep up with the current style your content looks flaky and suspect. Think here of mimeographed political

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Sri Gupta
On Oct 21, 9:46 pm, ah...clem boneheads...@gmail.com wrote: translation, not anytime soon.  tho' a mechanical device, a HD's reliable life is still more than one order of magnitude greater than the best (most expensive) SSD currently available.  SSD's have a finite number of read/write cycles

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
Yeah, NAND cycles and SD vs HD is what this thread is about and not the factthat I was inspired by LION and Apple/Jobs going deep to the dark side is what this is about -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Sri Gupta srigu...@tulanealumni.netwrote: On Oct 21, 9:46 pm, ah...clem boneheads...@gmail.com wrote: translation, not anytime soon. tho' a mechanical device, a HD's reliable life is still more than one order of magnitude greater than the best (most

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Sri Gupta srigu...@tulanealumni.netwrote: On Oct 21, 9:46 pm, ah...clem

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 22,

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 22,

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Dan
Title: Re: IS the world about to change ? At 3:24 PM + 10/22/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Yeah, NAND cycles and SD vs HD is what this thread is about and not the fact that I was inspired by LION and Apple/Jobs going deep to the dark side is what this is about I think Apple is

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Illirik Smirnov
This is the reason that I really don't care about new Apple products. I use what I use, and when something of mine breaks I look for the thing that does what it used to do in the nicest, cheapest, and fastest way possible. New apple products don't do things that my old Apple (and other

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 3:24 PM + 10/22/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Yeah, NAND cycles and SD vs HD is what this thread is about and not the fact that I was inspired by LION and Apple/Jobs going deep to the dark side is what this is

choosing the monitor?

2010-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Engle
Here's my problem.. I have my powermac w/24 monitor located in the office then I have another smaller 19 monitor I'd like to watch video's off of in the living room. Both are connected to the powermac (G4 MDD)... is there a way to select the front room monitor to play movies on? I've tried

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Illirik Smirnov illir...@gmail.com wrote: This is the reason that I really don't care about new Apple products. I use what I use, and when something of mine breaks I look for the thing that does what it used to do in the nicest, cheapest, and fastest way

Re: choosing the monitor?

2010-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Oct 22, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Here's my problem.. I have my powermac w/24 monitor located in the office then I have another smaller 19 monitor I'd like to watch video's off of in the living room. Both are

Re: choosing the monitor?

2010-10-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 22, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Here's my problem.. I have my powermac w/24 monitor located in the office then I have another smaller 19 monitor I'd like to watch video's off of in the living room. Both are connected to the powermac (G4 MDD)... is there a way to

Interesting Vintage Website

2010-10-22 Thread Bill Brown
Wow!! Take a look at this stuff!! A little expensive for a hard drive, eh? Bill http://www.oddee.com/item_97232.aspx?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=Feed%3A+Oddee+%28Oddee%29 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4,

Re: choosing the monitor?

2010-10-22 Thread Bill Connelly
On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Can't you just drag the DVD player window to the second monitor? When it's there you should be able to tell it 'full screen' and it'll fill the current screen it's on, I'd think. The problem with this scenario is that for one, you

Re: choosing the monitor?

2010-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Can't you just drag the DVD player window to the second monitor? When it's there you should be able to tell it 'full screen' and it'll fill the current screen it's on, I'd think.

Re: Interesting Vintage Website

2010-10-22 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 22/10/10 4:14 PM, Bill Brown thunder...@mindspring.com wrote: Wow!! Take a look at this stuff!! A little expensive for a hard drive, eh? Bill http://www.oddee.com/item_97232.aspx?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=emailut m_campaign=Feed%3A+Oddee+%28Oddee%29 I remember watching a

Re: Lacie disappearance

2010-10-22 Thread joan
Oh I'm so sorry that I haven't responded! I couldn't figure out why I didn't see my post in the Topic summary. So I came back to the group and now see your suggestions. I'll try what I can and get back. thanks so much! On Oct 21, 4:58 pm, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: On Oct 21,

Re: Lacie disappearance

2010-10-22 Thread joan
Have used Disk Warrior to no avail. Now trying Bill's suggestions. On Oct 21, 5:28 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 3:53 PM -0700 10/21/2010, joan wrote: Have just reorganized my office and in the process of cord management, unplugged the LaCie and Maxtor backup HD's accidentally.

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread glen
From: Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com When you have done it all your life, make dos, work arounds, Goldberg and McGivering get very old and tiresome. PCs promise a lot and deliver headaches whether 'Nux or Winslowz. I am tired ... LOW END to me means poor. People too

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Jeff Bequette
On Oct 22, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Dan wrote: At 3:24 PM + 10/22/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Yeah, NAND cycles and SD vs HD is I think Apple is simply responding to customer desires, good or bad. People want laptops that are more rugged and have better battery life. Currently,

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:59 PM, glen glenst...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com When you have done it all your life, make dos, work arounds, Goldberg and McGivering get very old and tiresome. PCs promise a lot and deliver headaches whether

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Chance Reecher
I like the way everyone keeps complaining about not being able to watch the Keynote... Apple does have an H.264 Apple Events podcast in iTunes, you know. On 10/22/10 8:36 PM, Jeff Bequette wrote: It was kinda annoying I could watch the speech on the iPhone, but not on my Mac... Jeff

Re: Interesting Vintage Website

2010-10-22 Thread Vic
On Oct 22, 3:48 pm, Arnel Tuazon a.tua...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/10/10 4:14 PM, Bill Brown thunder...@mindspring.com wrote: Wow!! Take a look at this stuff!! A little expensive for a hard drive, eh? Bill http://www.oddee.com/item_97232.aspx?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium...

Thanks, Bruce.

2010-10-22 Thread Max
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll get on them right away. I did check with Comcast and my download speed is supposed to be at around 15 Mpbs, so that shouldn't be a problem. Will therefore check out the other possibilities you mentioned. Tray -- You received this message because you are a

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-22 Thread Richard Gerome
Hey Wallace, Well said!!! I started out with a 1993 Performa 475 I bought used in 1996, it had a modoem you had to put your phone on to get online back then and sometimes it would take as long as 3hrs... I wasn't able to get a new one till Sears closed out their Apple Computers and sold them for