Re: USB Drive Issues

2011-10-25 Thread Michael McMurtrey
By "will not work" I meant "will not mount" when connected through the USB hub. The only activity is a repeated chirp and a flashing yellow light at the back of the drive. I've tried a different USB cord to connect it, but that makes no difference. The drive mounts normally when connected d

what is this card....

2011-10-25 Thread Jonathan Smith
Howdey Group I have just acquired a G5 Powermac 2.5 GHz (june 2004). I booted her up and was intrigued to see if it had either the airport extreme or bluetooth optional extra, system profiler reckoned not. On inspection of the inside, I have found a rather small card, screwed onto the MB which lo

Re: USB Drive Issues

2011-10-25 Thread Lawrence David Eden
It is not uncommon for ports on a powered hub to go bad. Did you connect the drive to a different port on the hub? Larry All of a sudden my Verbatim USB drive (AC320GB) will not work when connected to my Targus USB hub. The hub is powered, and the power supply seems to be working. All othe

Re: Disk image from SD card

2011-10-25 Thread John Carmonne
On Oct 22, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:48 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Oct 18, 2011, at 8:11 PM, John Carmonne wrote: What's the fastest method to create a 8GB video image from an SDHC card from a video camera using a G4 1.25 machine? Toast or disk Utili

Re: Disk image from SD card

2011-10-25 Thread Len Gerstel
On Oct 24, 2011, at 5:09 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Oct 22, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:48 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Oct 18, 2011, at 8:11 PM, John Carmonne wrote: What's the fastest method to create a 8GB video image from an SDHC card from a video

Re: Disk image from SD card

2011-10-25 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Oct 25, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: On Oct 24, 2011, at 5:09 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Oct 22, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:48 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Oct 18, 2011, at 8:11 PM, John Carmonne wrote: What's the fastest method to create

Re: USB Drive Issues

2011-10-25 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: USB Drive Issues Date:Tuesday, 25. October 2011 From:Michael McMurtrey To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > By "will not work" I meant "will not mount" when connected through > the USB hub. The only activity is a repeated chirp and a f

Fwd: Re: what is this card....

2011-10-25 Thread Jack Countryman
That's where the bluetooth card usually goes. The one in the picture is the right size etc. for a bluetooth card, but I can't see enough detail in the picture to match chips/labels to what is on my g5 dual 2.7. If you aren't seeing the bluetooth symbol in the menubar, try going into system pre

Re: USB Drive Issues

2011-10-25 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: USB Drive Issues Date:Tuesday, 25. October 2011 From:Michael McMurtrey To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > A USB 2.0 card, however, sounds like a good idea. Where do I get one? One other card, that worked in one of my Power Macs: Di

Re: what is this card....

2011-10-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 25, 2011, at 10:32 AM, Jonathan Smith wrote: I have just acquired a G5 Powermac 2.5 GHz (june 2004). I booted her up and was intrigued to see if it had either the airport extreme or bluetooth optional extra, system profiler reckoned not. On inspection of the inside, I have found a rather

Re: USB Drive Issues

2011-10-25 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: USB Drive Issues Date:Tuesday, 25. October 2011 From:Michael McMurtrey To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > A USB 2.0 card, however, sounds like a good idea. Where do I get one? Sorry… I didn't answer the “where”… As I'm not from the

Good external hard drive?

2011-10-25 Thread John Callahan
Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive? 500GB to 700GB's, is cost any indication of quality?Need only for back up, speed is not a factor, nor is Firewire important. Something in the $100.00 range. Thanks a lot. -- You received this message because you are a member of

easy over-the-web access??

2011-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Engle
Here's what I want to do I have some friends that I would like to be able to access my computer over the web "easily"... to be able to get at anything they put their minds to... is there an easy way of doing this? without the need for special software or complicated instructions? maybe

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 25, 2011, at 1:29 PM, John Callahan wrote: > Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive? 500GB to > 700GB's, is cost any indication of quality?Need only for back up, speed is > not a factor, nor is Firewire important. Something in the $100.00 range. > Thanks a lot. W

Re: easy over-the-web access??

2011-10-25 Thread Alexander Gomes
There are a lot of ways to accomplish this. First we need to know what you are running though. OS, hardware and the like. -- 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

Re: easy over-the-web access??

2011-10-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > Here's what I want to do > > I have some friends that I would like to be able to access my computer over > the web "easily"... to be able to get at anything they put their minds to... > is there an easy way of doing this? without the need

Re: easy over-the-web access??

2011-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Alexander Gomes wrote: There are a lot of ways to accomplish this. First we need to know what you are running though. OS, hardware and the like. my friends have a dual 1.25 mdd running Leopard and they need to access my power mac G5 late 2005 machine running

Re: easy over-the-web access??

2011-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Here's what I want to do I have some friends that I would like to be able to access my computer over the web "easily"... to be able to get at anything they put their minds to... is th

Re: easy over-the-web access??

2011-10-25 Thread Bruce Ryan
>> Here's what I want to do >> >> I have some friends that I would like to be able to access my computer over >> the web "easily"... to be able to get at anything they put their minds to... >> is there an easy way of doing this? without the need for special software or >> complicated instru

Re: easy over-the-web access??

2011-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Engle
Hey Bruce, is there a step by step out there for this "free" site, all I'm seeing is a pro service that they're asking money for? On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Well it's not dead simple, mainly because you need to get a static or at least knowable IP address, for which I'd

Re: easy over-the-web access??

2011-10-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > Hey Bruce, is there a step by step out there for this "free" site, all I'm > seeing is a pro service that they're asking money for? > On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> Well it's not dead simple, mainly because you need to

Re: easy over-the-web access??

2011-10-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: >> >> Not entirely sure if this is really what you want. >> > > Yup. that is exactly what I want to do:-) as for the messing up, it's > business only for the parents. (not scary) Never EVER EVER underestimate the ability of naive users to

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-25 Thread Jim Scott
On Oct 25, 2011, at 1:29 PM, John Callahan wrote: > Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive? 500GB to > 700GB's, is cost any indication of quality?Need only for back up, speed is > not a factor, nor is Firewire important. Something in the $100.00 range. I very much like

Re: easy over-the-web access??

2011-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Never EVER EVER underestimate the ability of naive users to monkey- click their way to mass destruction of computing systems. That being said, the machine that they would have access to is not my personal machine. (whew!) -- You received t

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-25 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 25-10-2011 22:29, John Callahan ha scritto: > Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive? 500GB > to 700GB's, is cost any indication of quality? I recently got a "G Drive mobile" 750GB, 2,5" (from G-Technology, Hitachi). It has USB 2.0 and Firewire 800 ports (it comes

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-25 Thread peterhaas
> Anyone care to make recommendations for an external hard drive? 500GB > to 700GB's, is cost any indication of quality?Need only for back up, > speed is not a factor, nor is Firewire important. Something in the > $100.00 range. Seagate is selling USB 2.0 external drives (which include, and requi