Re: How do I block outgoing connections in Safari?

2011-12-31 Thread dc
On Dec 30, 8:24 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Paranoia is sometimes a bad thing.  Blocking CDNs can destroy your whole surfing experience. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. Thanks for the rational explanation Dan, for a Psychoceramic Emeritus you are

Re: Rotating cam videos on Mac ppc

2011-12-31 Thread turn
MPEG Streamclip should do it. If the current version is not PPC compat. I believe the older versions are. http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html On Dec 30, 9:52 am, Jonas Lopez jonaslo...@yahoo.com wrote: Been videoing using camera from Santa, but made error on side so display

Re: How do I block outgoing connections in Safari?

2011-12-31 Thread Bill Connelly
On Dec 31, 2011, at 7:21 AM, dc wrote: When I shut down Pandora and cleared all website data most of the activity stopped. That makes sense to me, Pandora is constantly running pop-up ads and collecting data about the music I select. Even with just this page open I still get 6 different

Re: How do I block outgoing connections in Safari?

2011-12-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 31, 2011, at 5:21 AM, dc wrote: When I shut down Pandora and cleared all website data most of the activity stopped. That makes sense to me, Pandora is constantly running pop-up ads and collecting data about the music I select. If you're not paying for the service, you're not the

Re: How do I block outgoing connections in Safari?

2011-12-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 31, 2011, at 8:06 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: Brings up a point I've been wanting to ask ... Does Pandora (or could any other site) use computer resources (perhaps your cpu) if you give it permission to? This is a generalized case of rule #3 of computer security: Rule 1) If you let

Re: How do I block outgoing connections in Safari?

2011-12-31 Thread Dan
At 12:25 PM -0700 12/31/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: Learning what's 'normal' is the key. My keyboard has no 'normal' key. I can't even sing that key. sigh. At 10:06 AM -0500 12/31/2011, Bill Connelly wrote: Does Pandora (or could any other site) use computer resources (perhaps your cpu)

iMac G5 won't power on

2011-12-31 Thread faithie999
a friend gave me a dead iMac 17 G5 iSight. the symptom is: when i push the power button, the pilot light comes on for about a second, then the fan comes on at full speed, then about a second later the pilot light and the fan turn off. the screen never lights up and there is no startup chime.

Power Mac G5 “Late 2005” Dual-Core cpu-version

2011-12-31 Thread Mac User #330250
Hi! Happy New Year! Would someone with a Power Mac G5 “Late 2005” model be so kind as to tell me the cpu-version of the PowerPC 970MP processor? Start Terminal, execute the following: ioreg -l | grep cpu-version Thanks in advance! Andreas aka Mac User #330250 Resources:

Re: iMac G5 won't power on

2011-12-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 31, 2011, at 2:45 PM, faithie999 wrote: a friend gave me a dead iMac 17 G5 iSight. the symptom is: when i push the power button, the pilot light comes on for about a second, then the fan comes on at full speed, then about a second later the pilot light and the fan turn off. the

Re: How do I block outgoing connections in Safari?

2011-12-31 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/12/30 16:15, dc so eloquently wrote: After reading over one of the topics in this list I installed Private Eye. What a mistake! Now I'm paranoid! There are scores of outgoing connections, including amazonaws.com. How do I disable or remove them? ClamAV shows the system is clean but there