Re: new to the MAC universe.

2012-02-02 Thread JoeTaxpayer
Tina, I do know, the hard way. Jane 2.0 and I are at the mall, and she asks to go to the mac store. You know where that got me. :) On Feb 2, 1:38 am, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote: MAC = Media Access Control Mac = PC sold by Apple M‧A‧C = Cosmetics line Mix them up and there's no

Re: new to the MAC universe.

2012-02-02 Thread Tina K.
On 2012/02/02 05:53, JoeTaxpayer so eloquently wrote: Tina, I do know, the hard way. Jane 2.0 and I are at the mall, and she asks to go to the mac store. You know where that got me.:) Smart lady! :) Tina -- Acceleron: HP Presario 2.8GHz Celeron D 2GB RAM Discrete graphics XP Pro Luxo Jr:

Re: new to the MAC universe.

2012-02-02 Thread Dan
At 4:53 AM -0800 2/2/2012, JoeTaxpayer wrote: On Feb 2, 1:38 am, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote: MAC = Media Access Control Mac = PC sold by Apple MÅEAÅEC = Cosmetics line Mix them up and there's no telling what you'll get. ;-) Tina, I do know, the hard way. Jane 2.0 and I are at

pppd/mgetty question for dial-in access question.......

2012-02-02 Thread Jesse St.John
alright people here is a question, om a slacker so i get the rtfm and im used to saying it as well, however, this isnt a slack list it is a macosx list, so how can i, for instance, set up a dial-in with my leopard 10.5 ppc machine with a dial-up modem to receive calls and allow

ways to get scuffs out of powermac g4 case!!!

2012-02-02 Thread Jesse St.John
check this out folks, and you might think this is bizarre but take an unused acrylic cigarette filter out of a cigarette and use that to buff out scratches and dark scuffs from your case, works really well when the scuff or filter is made lightly humid or wet. it works beautifully. this is

Re: Best MacOS x on a G3 BW?

2012-02-02 Thread Jesse
Compromise, is what im going for. Idont really need all the doo dads and all the older software works well rnough to play tunes record tunes rip cds yadda yadda code, and im going to install slackintosh as well Basic stufff. Sent from my iPhone 4 On Jan 21, 2012, at 8:44 AM,

Re: Best MacOS x on a G3 BW?

2012-02-02 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 21-01-2012 15:44, Mac User #330250 ha scritto: Mac OS 8.6 or 9.x is maybe the best choice if you want to go for speed. I second that. MacOS 8.6 gave me the best speedy feeling ever! :-))) (even on the original G3 266 MHz long ago) 9.2 was still way faster than OSX, but not as quick as

Reformatting a Maxtor 160 gig disk

2012-02-02 Thread smac0031
Something strange is going on here. Ever since my power surge disaster last year I have had trouble with my 300gig HD. The circuit board was fried on it and I bought a replacement and have been using it. I saved all the data on it to a Go drive and I know I should replace the drive but I have

A question about Flast....

2012-02-02 Thread Scottls
I have a few PPC Macs that I still use everyday because I can't afford to get any newer Apple computers. My worry is, my best PowerMac G5 with dual 2GHz processors and 7GB of RAM is having trouble running Flash 10 smoothly using my Firefox and Safari browsers, yet I found it runs much smoother on

Re: Best MacOS x on a G3 BW?

2012-02-02 Thread Jesse
I dunno.. Right-click is the only thing i liked from a windows/linux enviroment, and my current leopard has just that with my mighty mouse. Now if i could rid it of the menu bar. Bam. Heaven. I dont like having to close an app Twice. Yes yes . Cmd - q whatever guys. I wish apple

Help quitting Darwin

2012-02-02 Thread Jonas Lopez
PLEASE HELP ME, URGENT REQUEST On G4 running OS 10.4.11, doing nothing noteworthy, I shut down last night and this morning upon attempting to start up the following was experienced: Normal start up chime normal screens including load THEN IMMEDIATELY GOSE TO BLACK SCREEN WITH THE

Re: ie 5.0

2012-02-02 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 17-01-2012 20:40, Charles Lenington ha scritto: Well, the web site puts up a page stating browser requirement. Attempts to ignore and use Firefox 3.6.x results in long waits and or errors. Tried so far: IE 5.1.7 (OS 9), 5.2.0 FF 3.6.25 G4, G5 processors running OS X.4.11. Why

Re: Recommend USB UD for backups

2012-02-02 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 17-01-2012 16:02, Bill ha scritto: The WD (My Book Essential) that I have been using for backups (via Time Machine on 10.5.8, and 10.4.11) now refuses to mount. AFAIK, some WD external drives have been known for having issues with Macs. You might do some Google research, but perhaps

Re: Airport dilemma

2012-02-02 Thread Cameron Kaiser
10.4.11 only understands WEP and LEAP wireless security schemes. 10.4.11 understands WPA and WPA2 just fine. However, the wireless firmware on the Quicksilver and the Cube probably doesn't. Probably the cheapest way around this is a USB wireless device (most of the wireless G devices should

Re: Recommend USB UD for backups

2012-02-02 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 17, 2012, at 7:02 AM, Bill wrote: Hello all, The WD (My Book Essential) that I have been using for backups (via Time Machine on 10.5.8, and 10.4.11) now refuses to mount. I have tried everything to get it to show up on the Desktop under 10.4.11 and 10.5.8 but to no avail. Can

Beige G3 RAM

2012-02-02 Thread anthonyschr
I need advice on upgrading RAM in a beige 266 MHz Power Macintosh G3. I understand that the bus speed is 66 MHz, and am wondering if I must then use 66 MHz memory. I have tried 100 MHz memory with mixed success. I've tried different combinations, and I know some of the modules work, but I've had

Re: Airport dilemma

2012-02-02 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 29, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Clark Martin wrote: On Jan 29, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Bruce Ryan wrote: G4 Cube and Quicksilver both donated and for use for the 16-yr old kid to reverse explore Apple/Mac have newly installed 10.4.11. Both accept Airport. Both show and allow a choice of network

Re: pppd/mgetty question for dial-in access question.......

2012-02-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 18, 2012, at 11:24 PM, Jesse St.John wrote: alright people here is a question, om a slacker so i get the rtfm and im used to saying it as well, however, this isnt a slack list it is a macosx list, so how can i, for instance, set up a dial-in with my leopard 10.5 ppc

Re: Recommend USB UD for backups

2012-02-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 29, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Dan wrote: OTOH, Time Machine is known to shoot itself in the head quite often. It corrupts its own backup volumes, sometimes to the point they won't even mount. This is why we consider TM to be a cute hourly incremental system and recommend using CCC or

Re: Bad Video Card too?

2012-02-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 28, 2012, at 6:29 AM, DBS-Designs by Skip wrote: If I might ask a few questions about this, that would be awesome. My G5 seems to have issues that may be the video card? - The screen gets lines in it - The screen will get blotches in it. The windows get distorted and weird. - It

Re: Bad Video Card?

2012-02-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 27, 2012, at 4:04 PM, John Carmonne wrote: I think the smell may be from solder flux left over from the flashing process. The flashing process does not involve soldering at all, but is accomplished by software on a PC... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy

Re: Beige G3 RAM

2012-02-02 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 29-01-2012 23:49, anthonyschr ha scritto: I need advice on upgrading RAM in a beige 266 MHz Power Macintosh G3. I understand that the bus speed is 66 MHz, and am wondering if I must then use 66 MHz memory. I have tried 100 MHz memory with mixed success. I had the same Mac years

Re: Help quitting Darwin

2012-02-02 Thread Dan
At 2:16 PM -0800 1/29/2012, Jonas Lopez wrote: PLEASE HELP ME, URGENT REQUEST urgent is, of course, the keyword that triggers GoogleH*ll. (edited for brevity) Received: from nm15.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com by gmr-mx.google.com Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:16:27 -0800 (PST) ...and finally its

Re: Beige G3 RAM

2012-02-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 29, 2012, at 4:49 PM, anthonyschr wrote: I need advice on upgrading RAM in a beige 266 MHz Power Macintosh G3. I understand that the bus speed is 66 MHz, and am wondering if I must then use 66 MHz memory. I have tried 100 MHz memory with mixed success. I've tried different combinations,

Re: Beige G3 RAM

2012-02-02 Thread peterhaas
The speed of the RAM isn't the issue, it's whether or not it's low- density or high-density RAM. The G3 requires low-density meaning modules that are populated on both sides by chips, 16 chips total. If your modules only have 8 chips on one side they're high density and should only recognize