Re: hacking for a slimmer world

2011-11-15 Thread dc
On Nov 11, 2:09 am, Jesse St.John jesselorenstj...@gmail.com wrote: alright everyone i am using leopard 10.5.8 on a dp 1.25mhz mdd with 2 gigs of ram, any tweaks that you would suggest, any ways to go about kernel hacking and trimming my system? The easiest, cheapest and safest things to do

Re: hacking for a slimmer world

2011-11-15 Thread Bruce Godfrey
dc, do you have any data on how much difference a fast SCSI drive makes in a MDD or similar G$ Mac? I just installed one and I have used Disk Speed Bench X to test the transfer speed. I find 80MB/sec. My original IDE Hitachi Deskstar on the ATA100 bus is only moving about 50MB/sec.

Re: hacking for a slimmer world

2011-11-15 Thread David W. Morris
I think that the advantage of using SCSI drives is not only in the transfer speed, which as you say is equal to one of your newer IDE drives, but IDE uses more CPU DMA to run than using SCSI which frees the CPU up from managing the data transfer. I don't know all the details as I am not a

Re: hacking for a slimmer world

2011-11-15 Thread Jesse
So what are the best drives and cards for scsi? Am I able to find larger drives in scsi? Seems as though, looking at the Mac swap list that,sadly, that a used option would be as expensive as a new one? Ne deals ne one? Sent from my iPhone 4 On Nov 15, 2011, at 10:45 AM, David W. Morris

Re: hacking for a slimmer world

2011-11-15 Thread David W. Morris
I have a box full of SCSI-3 drives, but they are all smaller sizes, only 18gb, 36gb 73gb drives. I would suggest if you are going to do this to have a faster system, put MacOSX on the faster SCSI drive and use a larger IDE drive for storage of your large files, like videos and huge

Re: hacking for a slimmer world

2011-11-15 Thread Dan
At 7:21 AM -0800 11/15/2011, Bruce Godfrey wrote: do you have any data on how much difference a fast SCSI drive makes in a MDD Multiple factors. The drive has to be able to throw data at x speed. (read and write cycles are usually quite different)! The drive's hardware cache has has be

eSATA speed G5

2011-11-15 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
I'd like to know why my eSATA card on my PM G5 dual 2.7 transfers files no faster than my F/W400 or F/W 800. Can it be the enclosure? I get the same results on my Mac Pro. John Carmonne Yorba Linda CA 92886 From iMac Core Duo 2.0 -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: eSATA speed G5

2011-11-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 15, 2011, at 12:52 PM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: I'd like to know why my eSATA card on my PM G5 dual 2.7 transfers files no faster than my F/W400 or F/W 800. Can it be the enclosure? I get the same results on my Mac Pro. It's the physical limitation of a single HD, mostly determined by

Re: eSATA speed G5

2011-11-15 Thread peterhaas
I'd like to know why my eSATA card on my PM G5 dual 2.7 transfers files no faster than my F/W400 or F/W 800. Can it be the enclosure? I get the same results on my Mac Pro. Which eSATA card? The LaCie card and the very similar OWC card are based upon the Initio chip set and that chip set is

Re: eSATA speed G5

2011-11-15 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 15, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Nov 15, 2011, at 12:52 PM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: I'd like to know why my eSATA card on my PM G5 dual 2.7 transfers files no faster than my F/W400 or F/W 800. Can it be the enclosure? I get the same results on my Mac Pro. It's the

iPad on New Laptop

2011-11-15 Thread JoeTaxpayer
An iPad has been synced with a G4, the user is my daughter, she has her own iTune account. She has a MacBook, and has iTunes on it as well, so I suggested she move from the (family room) G4 to her own computer for syncing. What is the risk in syncing with a different computer? Will the laptop

Re: iPad on New Laptop

2011-11-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 15, 2011, at 3:13 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: An iPad has been synced with a G4, the user is my daughter, she has her own iTune account. She has a MacBook, and has iTunes on it as well, so I suggested she move from the (family room) G4 to her own computer for syncing. What is the risk

Re: iPad on New Laptop

2011-11-15 Thread JoeTaxpayer
On Nov 15, 5:59 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: This will work just fine. iTunes purchases (apps, music, video, books) will transfer just fine, photos,non-iTunes store movies, synched addresses, and non-iTunes store music will be lost. Some non-itunes music from

Drive Genius 2.2 touchy?

2011-11-15 Thread JohnCarmonne
I have a Drive Genius 2.2 disk and it installs on all my machines from G4 Cube to Mac Pro and it will boot all of them but if I try to boot it on My G5 dual 2.7 It does a Kernel Panic internal optical or external. However I can install it on the machine and run it normal. Why does the G5 do

Re: Drive Genius 2.2 touchy?

2011-11-15 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 16-11-2011 1:25, JohnCarmonne ha scritto: I have a Drive Genius 2.2 disk and it installs on all my machines from G4 Cube to Mac Pro and it will boot all of them but if I try to boot it on My G5 dual 2.7 It does a Kernel Panic internal optical or external. However I can install it

Re: hacking for a slimmer world

2011-11-15 Thread Stephen E. Bodnar
I'll keep my ears open. We live up on Purtov now and have a pretty active feeder, but Switgard and Lars will be over in Germany for Christmas. If somebody wants to sit in our kitchen drinking hot buttered rums and counting birds, that's OK too. Stephen On 11/15/11 9:51 AM, Dan wrote: At

Re: iPad on New Laptop

2011-11-15 Thread Charles Lenington
On 11/15/11 4:13 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: An iPad has been synced with a G4, the user is my daughter, she has her own iTune account. She has a MacBook, and has iTunes on it as well, so I suggested she move from the (family room) G4 to her own computer for syncing. What is the risk in syncing with

Re: Drive Genius 2.2 touchy?

2011-11-15 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Nov 15, 2011, at 5:13 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 16-11-2011 1:25, JohnCarmonne ha scritto: I have a Drive Genius 2.2 disk and it installs on all my machines from G4 Cube to Mac Pro and it will boot all of them but if I try to boot it on My G5 dual 2.7 It does a Kernel Panic

Fed up with Google changes on browsers in Tiger

2011-11-15 Thread a1
I use Panther and Tiger on my G4 and other macs, usually switching between Omniweb, Camino and sometimes Opera. I gave up on Firefox and 10.4 Fox simply because I dont want to do jumping jacks simply in order to watch youtube or facebook videos. I am utterly fed up with what Google did to Reader,

Re: Fed up with Google changes on browsers in Tiger

2011-11-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 16, 2011, at 12:57 AM, a1 wrote: I really need an email program I can suck my gmail out of Google without bothering anymore with their webmail. Use OS X Mail.app. There are several tutorials for setting up Gmail on Mail.app: