Re: Old PPC mac turns into an ethernet storage device.

. It was a bit of a hassle to get working right and does take a bit of UNIX knowledge to do it right. -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: PCI question

capabilities. More common in servers then desktop machines. Shouldn't be confused with PCIe, which is a completely different beast. :) -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org -- You received this message because you are a member

Re: PCI question

On 11/16/11 10:32 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Nov 16, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote: On 11/16/11 10:22 AM, Alex Barnes wrote: Why are the PCI ports on the PowerMac G4s so long? On PCs they are about 3 1/2 long but on a PowerMac G4 they are about 5 PCI-X - its fully backwards

Re: PCI question

On 11/16/11 10:45 AM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 16-11-2011 18:41, Brielle Bruns ha scritto: The G4 has PCI-X slots - I have a MDD sitting here, next to me, with a PCI-X fibre channel card running in 64bit, albeit its the older PCI-X standard so it only runs 33mhz. Just confirmed

Re: PCI question

On 11/16/11 10:41 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote: No. The long slots in a G4 are NOT PCI-X. The original PCI slot spec allows for a long version that requires the extra slot length. Uh, I think your confusing full length cards and regular length cards. Both of which could be PCI or PCI-X. Card

Re: APC ES-500 Yelling Right Out of the Box

it in, its possible you have a wiring fault somewhere on that branch of your electrical circuit. -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using

Re: non ECC RAM?

. It just means that the ECC stick won't use the ECC capabilities if its on the same bank as the non-ecc. -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: non ECC RAM?

al). So, yes, I stand corrected. :) -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org -- 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

Re: non ECC RAM?

system? If your system can use ECC, then IMHO, its worth it. If your system is mission critical, then yes, you really should be using ECC. -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org -- You received this message because you

Re: No Startup, just an endlessly repeating chime

, and display. Perhaps try disconnecting the internal boot volume/drive, and try booting on an external? Could also be the power supply failing, and unable to provide enough juice to spin up the internal drives, the video card, etc. -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http

Re: Mysterious communications between two G5s

, they compare serial numbers, and refuse to run if they have matching serial numbers that only allow one use. Some listen for broadcast traffic on a specific port, others may use multicast. -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org/ http

Re: Mysterious communications between two G5s

On 7/4/11 10:19 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jul 4, 2011, at 11:11 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: DRM/Copy protection. The most common way programs do this, is to send out a notice on the LAN when they start, and see if another computer responds to the request. If it does, they compare serial numbers

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

, damaged video cards, or horrible DirectX/OpenGL drivers. -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

If I had to venture a guess... Turn off the screen saver and see if it stops locking up. A lot of the OSX screen savers use opengl - and if there's a problem with the graphics card, it could tickle it in the wrong way. -- Brielle Bruns http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

On 6/5/11 8:37 PM, John Callahan wrote: On Jun 5, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: If I had to venture a guess... Turn off the screen saver and see if it stops locking up.A lot of the OSX screen savers use opengl - and if there's a problem with the graphics card, it could tickle

Re: Xserve advice?

, go gige with a NAS - either an Airport Extreme loaded with external hard drives, or another vendor's device that can do AFP or SMB. Then, you can use whatever desktop or laptop device you want. -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org/ http

Re: Xserve advice?

, its awesome, easy to setup and looks really nice in the dark. But, it is by far not what you'd call a consumer level device given its not just plug into the ethernet and it magically works. Oh, its not quiet either, and 14 drive spindles tend to generate alot of heat. :) -- Brielle Bruns

Re: Default system boot drive location?

position does not matter. :) -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org -- 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

Re: Extracting JPEGl Files From Phone Attachments

-in infile -out outfile And it will convert the file to an actual jpg from a base64 encoded attachment. Should do the trick! -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org -- You received this message because you are a member of G

Re: Extracting JPEGl Files From Phone Attachments

correctly by the sender. Unfortunately, companies will half-ass their MIME implementation and compliant clients will not be able to properly process them. -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org -- You received this message

Re: DNS Crap with Safari

SIZE rcvd: 32 Only difference is that mine does SERVFAIL, where this one did REFUSED. We need him to do the query on a machine on his network, to eliminate us being outside of his provider's network as being the cause. -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open

Re: DNS Crap with Safari

open up one of my caching servers for querying. -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org -- 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

Re: DNS Crap with Safari

will return nothing at all. -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org -- 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

Re: Any way to convert WMV to .Mov?

You can probably use VLC in transcode mode, and set it to output to a file. Avidemux2 may also work, as might Handbrake. Brielle -- Brielle Bruns http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org -Original Message- From: Tom tba...@nmia.com Sender: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 26

Re: G4 MDD ATX mods

, there comes a point where you may be spending too much to keep an old machine alive. -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4