Re: Microphone doesn't work?

2011-01-26 Thread Andrew Liu Anderson
Dana Collins wrote: Jeff, you need a preamp for this style microphone, particularly if it has a long cable - Dana is correct. It's pretty safe to ass-ume that any microphone other than Apple's (Plain Talk?) microphone will need a preamp. Even if it has a battery in it, it's probably a

Re: Random Kernel Panics

2011-01-16 Thread Andrew Liu Anderson
Dan wrote: If you don't know how to read 'em, zip 'em up and email them to me directly (pls don't paste them into a reply here - they get re-wraped etc by the mail system, so they cannot be easily read or searched). Is there a website with instructions for how to interpret the panic log?

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread Andrew Liu Anderson
Stephen Conrad wrote: 1) Kitty dumped Diet Pepsi on my (Mac) USB KB. How should I clean it so it can be sued again? I don't believe that US law allows one to file suit against a keyboard. ;-) Smart-arse, Drew -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for

Can't mount remote HD's

2010-12-26 Thread Andrew Liu Anderson
Hello All, I have an eMac (OS 10.4.11, 1 GB) with a large capacity external HD. It talks to my NetGear wireless router via Airport Extreme. I had a G4 Sawtooth (OS 10.4.11, 1.5 GB, Sonnet 1.3GHz dual proc). It talks to my NetGear router via cat-5 cable. Whenever I need files from the eMac's

Re: What card is this?

2010-12-24 Thread Andrew Liu Anderson
Jonas Ulrich wrote: Yep. Modem indeed. As a person who just recently got cable internet, I'm very familiar with Apple's modems. Thanks all... I knew it had to be something I wasn't using since both machines work. ;-) Cheers, Drew -- You received this message because you are a member of

What card is this?

2010-12-22 Thread Andrew Liu Anderson
Hello All, I have 2 G4 Sawtooth computers. One is 400Mhz, the other 450Mhz. One of them has a small card, approximately 2-1/2 X 3-1/2 mounted on the motherboard between the Airport card slot and the PCI cars slots. There are 2 screws holding it down, and there is a tiny cable connected to

Re: Getting there

2010-11-17 Thread Andrew Liu Anderson
Tina K. wrote: On 2010/11/17 15:06, Paul Stamsen so eloquently wrote: I don't recall which way you spell disxs. My impression is that optical media is disc, as in Compact Disc, and that hard drives use disks. But then I could be wrong too. Tina Both are variants of the same word, like

Re: PowerMac G3 AIO 'snapping/popping'

2010-11-09 Thread Andrew Liu Anderson
Tina K. wrote: On 2010/11/09 10:11, Jim Scott so eloquently wrote: It is possible to replace the flyback transformer. I'm not familiar with a Power Mac AIO, is it similar to a G3 iMac? If so, isn't there a potentially large jolt of current waiting to shock someone if they don't discharge

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-25 Thread Andrew Liu Anderson
Tina K. wrote: On 2010/10/24 00:35, Brian Christmas so eloquently wrote: The end of this race is a long way away yet. The finish line is constantly being moved, there is no end. Tina Actually, it's more like the carrot in front of the horse's nose. As long as the horse is willing to

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-25 Thread Andrew Liu Anderson
Joshua Juran wrote: . multiple cores have gone mainstream as an alternative to increasing clock speed. Whereas a small increase in performance costs you a large increase in power consumption and heat generation, a reduction in performance (maybe 10 or 20%) cuts the heat and power in