Re: Lock your doors....

2011-04-26 Thread Yersinia
On 4/25/11 11:21 PM, Dan wrote: At 4:37 PM -0700 4/25/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: Kind of obvious advice for most folks, but they still leave the electronic ones open all the time. http://tinyurl.com/3nvokkh ROFLMAO People here in South Jersey still leave their doors and cars unlocked.

Re: Lock your doors....

2011-04-26 Thread Bill Connelly
On Apr 26, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Yersinia wrote: On 4/25/11 11:21 PM, Dan wrote: At 4:37 PM -0700 4/25/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: Kind of obvious advice for most folks, but they still leave the electronic ones open all the time. http://tinyurl.com/3nvokkh ROFLMAO People here in South

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-26 Thread t...@io.com
On Apr 24, 6:14 pm, Dan Ziegler d.ziegle...@gmail.com wrote: I have recently bought an iMac G4 (iLamp) off craigslist-it's the original 17 model (800 MHz, SDRAM, 80 GB). Just an aside, as your main questions have already been addressed by others... There were two extremely similar models of

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-26 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/04/26 09:41, t...@io.com so eloquently wrote: There were two extremely similar models of 800MHz G4, 17 iLamp. The first one will boot into OS 9.2. The second one will not.It's a bit like the difference between a regular MDD and a FW800 MDD, except harder to tell apart. Yours is

Re: Lock your doors....

2011-04-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 26, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 8:04 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: Thanks for the article ... and I love the ROFLMAO ... you used it b4, and I like it as much now as then ... although it does imply a

Re: Carbon copy slow on G5 PM

2011-04-26 Thread John Carmonne
On Apr 25, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 24, 2011, at 5:19 PM, John Carmonne wrote: I have a G5 PM Dual 2.7 and I'm copying a 1.1 TB folder from an internal 2TB drive to an external eSATA 2 TB drive it seems as though according to the progress bar that this will take 25

Re: Lock your doors....

2011-04-26 Thread James E. Therrault
On Apr 25, 2011, at 6:37 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Kind of obvious advice for most folks, but they still leave the electronic ones open all the time. http://tinyurl.com/3nvokkh Can you say, Wired only!??? JT -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: Lock your doors....

2011-04-26 Thread Stephen Conrad
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Kind of obvious advice for most folks, but they still leave the electronic ones open all the time. http://tinyurl.com/3nvokkh And then we throw THIS monkey wrench into the cogworks...

Re: OK, I'll Try This Again. Locksmith Wanted (wifi).

2011-04-26 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/04/26 12:26, Yersinia so eloquently wrote: So there IS an easy way to name and secure my little network? If so, I would greatly appreciate it if one of you wifi locksmiths could provide me with step-by-step instructions. Here is the equipment list: Router: US Robotics MAXg, Model 5461.

Re: OK, I'll Try This Again. Locksmith Wanted (wifi).

2011-04-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 26, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Yersinia wrote: So there IS an easy way to name and secure my little network? If so, I would greatly appreciate it if one of you wifi locksmiths could provide me with step-by-step instructions. Here is the equipment list: Router: US Robotics MAXg, Model

Re: OK, I'll Try This Again. Locksmith Wanted (wifi).

2011-04-26 Thread Len Gerstel
On Apr 26, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 12:23 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: Just select the defaults of WPA2 and WPA (PSK), and TKIP AES. Choose a good passphrase mixing letters and numbers: Hey it's sn0w1ng Macintoshes outside! OTOH, use a

Re: OK, I'll Try This Again. Locksmith Wanted (wifi).

2011-04-26 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/04/26 13:39, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 12:23 PM,peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: Just select the defaults of WPA2 and WPA (PSK), and TKIP AES. Choose a good passphrase mixing letters and numbers: Hey it's sn0w1ng Macintoshes outside! OTOH, use a passphrase

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-26 Thread John Carmonne
On Apr 26, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2011/04/26 09:41, t...@io.com so eloquently wrote: There were two extremely similar models of 800MHz G4, 17 iLamp. The first one will boot into OS 9.2. The second one will not. It's a bit like the difference between a regular MDD and a

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-26 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/04/26 14:28, John Carmonne so eloquently wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Tina K. wrote: According to Mactracker both of the USB 1 17 iMacs use the GeForce4 MX but the earlier one came with 32 MB of VRAM whereas the second one came with 64 MB VRAM. Tina IMO EveryMac.com gives

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-26 Thread John Carmonne
On Apr 26, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2011/04/26 14:28, John Carmonne so eloquently wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Tina K. wrote: According to Mactracker both of the USB 1 17 iMacs use the GeForce4 MX but the earlier one came with 32 MB of VRAM whereas the second one came

Re: OK, I'll Try This Again. Locksmith Wanted (wifi).

2011-04-26 Thread Yersinia
On 4/26/11 3:03 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Yersinia wrote: So there IS an easy way to name and secure my little network? If so, I would greatly appreciate it if one of you wifi locksmiths could provide me with step-by-step instructions. Here is the equipment list:

Re: OK, I'll Try This Again. Locksmith Wanted (wifi).

2011-04-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 26, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Tina K. wrote: It doesn't have to be complex. Using a random generator such as RPG and an *encrypted* password repository such as Pastor, PasswordWallet, Keychain Access, 1Password, etc… provides good security without having to resort to memorizing or writing

Re: Fan issue on Powermac g3 400mh, 640 ram

2011-04-26 Thread crumvoc
Thank you to all! That makes me feel a lot better. I guess I'll just try to monitor in case of a fan failure. I really like this old Mac. It always makes me smile when I open the case and see the amazing interior. Giving it to my elderly parents and will try to teach them how to do email. I

Re: USB 2 pci card for powermac G3

2011-04-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 26, 2011, at 3:21 PM, crumvoc wrote: Hi again. Does anyone know if any ol' off the shelf windows PC USB2 PCI card will work in my g3 powermac? I'd like to upgrade it to USB 2 if possible. Yes, USB2 in Windows also required OHCI so they're pretty much all compatible. Note that USB2

Re: OK, I'll Try This Again. Locksmith Wanted (wifi).

2011-04-26 Thread iJohn
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Yersinia yersi...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Anyway, I decided I didn't want those defaults. I want to use WEP open because it's best for my Trailing Edge equipment. I don't want to even try WPA2  because I'm scared sh*tless I'll end up locking myself out of my own

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-26 Thread Dan Ziegler
Thanks for all the insight... now I'll have to check and see what GeForce it has!! ;-) This screen has plastic on the top as far as I can tell, the shame is all the pixels are nice and bright, only the top layer is scratched. Might just have to keep an eye out for dead iMacs with good screens. As

A couple of useful hints and a tale of my day...

2011-04-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
How to open a finder window as root: http://yourmacguy.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/snow-leopard-root-finder/ 10.6 http://yourmacguy.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/finder-with-root-access/ 10.5 and lower Saved my butt today, fixing a department head's munged Powerbook...something ate his home directory,

Re: A couple of useful hints and a tale of my day...

2011-04-26 Thread Albert Carter
I agree this is a great tale and awesome and useful information. I'm not nitpicking here but wouldn't it have been quicker and easier to just restore from backup? Albert From: Jim Scott jesco...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April

Re: A couple of useful hints and a tale of my day...

2011-04-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 26, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Albert Carter wrote: I agree this is a great tale and awesome and useful information. I'm not nitpicking here but wouldn't it have been quicker and easier to just restore from backup? Yes it would have been, had there been backups to restore from... His

Re: OK, I'll Try This Again. Locksmith Wanted (wifi).

2011-04-26 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/04/26 16:35, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Tina K. wrote: It doesn't have to be complex. Using a random generator such as RPG and an*encrypted* password repository such as Pastor, PasswordWallet, Keychain Access, 1Password, etc… provides good