Re: wall mount my 20" cinema ADC ?

2011-04-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
older 20" Studio display? The newer 20" models require a $30 VESA adapter from Apple. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: Leopard on my iMac

2011-04-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 11, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Dan Ziegler wrote: >> A long time ago I had a similar thing happen when a USB device went flaky. > That's possible - but the iMac is all stock HW - Apple kybd. and > mouse, and no upgrades or other USB devices. Perhaps some other > (internal) HW? What do you suggest

Re: Leopard on my iMac

2011-04-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
if you have errors being reported. (use the Console app in Utilities) A long time ago I had a similar thing happen when a USB device went flaky. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You rece

Re: Leopard on my iMac

2011-04-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
. Also, upgrade that system posthaste to 10.6, that makes Intel systems run a lot better. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group,

Re: Help, I think I have a virus

2011-04-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
x27;t. Did this blinking suddenly increae or are you just now noticing it? Longer answer: Install "Little Snitch" and see what's 'phoning home'. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member

Re: Any fix for Safari slow-downs?

2011-04-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
, ALL the memory in use by it is released and freed, whether or not something else thinks it's using it, which is why it works to quit and restart Safari. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely cust

Re: Mail alert

2011-04-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
thing? I've never seen it before. OS 10.4.11 G4 500. Googling: OS X Mail Home folder full Brings up this as the first hit: <http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24486> -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you

Re: ClickToFlash/Chameleon confusion

2011-04-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
=== > These are built as Safari 5 *extensions* (not a plug-in) which use a different mechanism (akin to Firefox plugins) in Safari and are Safari 5-only, afaik. Marc Hoyois looks like he may be the person who took over development from Matt Ball (whose github page mentions &

Re: Any fix for Safari slow-downs?

2011-04-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 7, 2011, at 2:24 PM, elbert boone wrote: > I would try using a dns like google. Maybe that would help response time. dns issues will not get worse as the day goes on. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not h

Re: Any fix for Safari slow-downs?

2011-04-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
#x27;t recall having quit and restarted Safari in a long time; my current up time is 8 days. Alternatively it could be the web page itself, poorly written, flash-heavy web sites can spod out on you all by themselves, but the 'as the day goes on' bit really sounds like a memory leak.

Re: Faxing from Mac - wanting Free Software other than built in

2011-04-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
heir own rules and/or systems. At issue in many of these cases is an assured chain of physical handling: something sent via email can be intercepted and changed in transmission; a fax cannot. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Instit

Re: Faxing from Mac - wanting Free Software other than built in

2011-04-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
ignature are usually considered the same as possessing the original; emailed attachments are not. (despite the process being essentially identical, technologically) The law is a conservative, slow-moving, ponderous luddite at times. Fax machines are not going away any time soon. -- Bruce Johnson U

Re: Faxing from Mac - wanting Free Software other than built in

2011-04-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Dark_Mac wrote: > > On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> >> On Apr 4, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Dark_Mac wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> >>> I know that I can send faxes from my

Re: Faxing from Mac - wanting Free Software other than built in

2011-04-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
ve, but this sort of thing is EXACTLY what Automator is made for... <http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2488> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you ar

Re: How do you view the system log on an external drive?

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
Nortons?? Delete this with extreme prejudice. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- 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. The list FAQ

Re: How do you view the system log on an external drive?

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
try safe mode? Is there a version of Applejack for 10.3? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4

Re: How do you view the system log on an external drive?

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 3, 2011, at 9:30 AM, John Martz wrote: > I'd like to look at the system log, but I don't know how to navigate > to it and display it. In Finder select Go to Folder. Enter : /Volumes//private/var/log Double-click on 'system.log' there to open it in Con

Re: PSU specs for Apple Airport Snow White Dual Ethernet M8440?

2011-04-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
Also, mine worked quite well for dial-up access back in the day... -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- 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

Re: PSU specs for Apple Airport Snow White Dual Ethernet M8440?

2011-04-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
positive. Mine came with a 1.25A third party brick, so anything 12V above 700mA will work. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - wit

Re: Will this affect TenFourFox too?

2011-04-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
z9> No, TenFourFox is largely an optimized compile of Firefox; this change only affects apps that embed the Gecko rendering engine in a different UI framework. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely cus

Re: New addition to my tool kit...

2011-04-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 1, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Ted Treen wrote: > Bruce Johnson wrote: >> On Apr 1, 2011, at 2:40 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: >> >> >>> On Apr 1, 4:37 pm, Bruce Johnson wrote: >>> >>>> ...something everyone who works with com

Re: New addition to my tool kit...

2011-04-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 1, 2011, at 2:40 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: > On Apr 1, 4:37 pm, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> ...something everyone who works with computers should have in their kit... >> >> <http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10622> >> >> I'm buying a bunch! > &g

New addition to my tool kit...

2011-04-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
...something everyone who works with computers should have in their kit... <http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10622> I'm buying a bunch! -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- Y

Re: LogMeIN question

2011-03-30 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 29, 2011, at 6:37 PM, "Jane, (Portland, OR)" wrote: > Bruce, i don't write fast enough to get the series of numbers when > that message pops up! It does seem like the sequence you mention. I > tried to do a copy/paste, but couldn't copy. The next time, I will try > to get as many numbers

Re: That "kristina" Thing

2011-03-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
got such a 'kristina" Thing in any post. Perhaps the > spamfilters of my IP?? Possibly. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a membe

Re: That "kristina" Thing

2011-03-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
for most members unless a list manager takes the steps of moderating or banning them. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: LogMeIN question

2011-03-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
can you post it? Connecting through LogMeIn is a connection attempt; someone may be trolling you for vulnerable systems. Crude but surprisingly effective given that many, many idiots will just blindly click yes on any dialog that comes up. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmac

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
owse a folder full of images is invaluable, and very quick. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- 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 Mac

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
at least, a lot of problems with either that aren't solvable within the OS, since it's so flexibly re-writeable. The underlying concepts of Unix has turned out to be a very sturdy foundation for adaptation and evolution of the OS.) -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you

Re: Pics on Tiger?

2011-03-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
t rely on Macam for a driver. (Macam also has an application that lets you take pictures with your attached camera) -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and

Re: Pics on Tiger?

2011-03-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
scopehr/software/>, which despite it's name works with any connected camera. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- 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 p

Re: LogMeIN question

2011-03-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
my APC UPS at work via the OS...I know I can silence the big ones in the rack remotely. There are gadgets, like the Kill-a-watt that will let you monitor the line voltage as well. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because

Re: LogMeIN question

2011-03-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
low mains voltage. Best answer is to RTFM. Low mains usually dims the lights, too, at least when it's enough to trip the UPS alarm. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You receiv

Re: Leopard on an 800MHz eMac (ATI)? (... and stuff)

2011-03-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
really afford anything much beyond the $10/mo she's paying now for > NetZero.) > I know many RBOCS (Qwest is, or used to be one of them, and ATT has one too) offer an un-advertised cheap DSL rate, often on the order of $13-$20 a month, but you have to nag them for it. It's

Re: LogMeIN question

2011-03-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
ly what that alarm means. The alarm means that the UPS has switched to battery power, or that the battery is failing. if this isn't accompanied by a general power failure, it's usually the battery alarm. Check the UPS manual. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you ar

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
ah clem has a set belief system and mere facts will not dislodge it. I'm done feeding the troll. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member o

Re: Disappearing Ram in Powerbook G4 15inch

2011-03-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
e what System Profiler says, if THAT'S ok, switch users and see what it says. If it's wrong only on the one profile you have something very weird wrong with that profile...this is the least likely possibility in my opinion; a SODIMM come loose is the most. -- Bruce Johnson University of

Re: Option key boot?

2011-03-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
on boot > screen? could I have a bad 100mhz bus? If selected in startup disk does it boot? If so you have a good bus. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
than Altivec and SSE combined. <http://developer.apple.com/technologies/mac/snowleopard/opencl.html> (also any article that talks about SSE in a P4 is from the dark ages. Intel has produced THREE generations of CPU's since then.) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pha

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
vanish. If you buy consumer-grade crap, you get consumer-grade crap. Go for the 'business' grade systems from reputable vendors (HP is our current favorite, Dell is a very distant second) and you'll have decent reliability. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Daniel Stewart wrote: > Actually you can roll your own apps for PPC. That's what Linux for > PPC or if you want serious geek cred NetBSD PPC is for. lol Or Apple's developer tools -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Phar

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
dn't or couldn't rewrite the program from the ground up in such a way as to fully exploit the Altivec processor." Considering they wrote iDVD for the PPC IN THE FIRST PLACE! -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not h

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
crawl on a regular basis.) Not saying they don't have problems, just no way is that experience comparable to mine with Intel Macs. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
s seriously wrong with your MacBook, and an AMD processor will not fix anything. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- 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 particu

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
rocessors to the PowerPC line? Big diff. Also, I'd like to know where I can buy a Power7 laptop system. Clearly it's small enough to fit: <http://www.techspot.com/gallery/data/504/IBM_Employee_with_POWER7_Ceramic_Module_1_.jpg> But when I look, none of the available systems s

Re: Safari and a RAM Disk

2011-03-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
Experance work on newer and x86? It works, yes. I've set up a 256mb one, and had it move the caches over. I'll see if it seems faster. It'll be hard to see, though. I've got a fast system (this was on my quadcore imac, which has a 7200 rpm drive) I'll put it on my AlBook t

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
here WAS a version of NT that ran on the Dec Alpha and the Motorola ChRP chipset...which was yet ANOTHER time Moto screwed over Apple by overpromising and underdelivering) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinion

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
e mediocre effort of an Adobe software developer > then the actual hardware. Yes. I've read (recently, although I don't remember where) that the Flash plugin was originally the responsibility of one person at Adobe who had never programmed for the Mac before. -- Bruce Johnson University

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
ing above 360p HD, which is pretty crappy. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 deskt

Re: When you really need to erase data...

2011-03-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 21, 2011, at 5:58 AM, Ralph Green wrote: > And, it should go without saying that javascript is to be > disabled, but I'll say it because it is so important. Because the Web circa 1993 was SO great -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B.

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
process: it takes far more processing power than just playing the video. Seriously, it's time to consign the PPC to the scrap heap for this kind of application. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, m

Re: Overclock a G4 iMac?

2011-03-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 17, 2011, at 5:37 PM, John Carmonne wrote: > However the You Tubes still don't do any good on the slower PPC's, but DVD's > play super, Go figure. I can watch DVD's on my Wally's in OS 9. This has been hashed out in great detail before, but comparing DVD playback to streaming video from

Re: Airport Card wont stay joined to network

2011-03-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
. Delete /Library/SystemPreferences/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist and /Library/SystemPreferences/com.apple.networkinterfaces.plist This should fix the issue. If it doesn't it might be one of the rare occasiona where Repair Preferences does work. -- Bruce Johnson University of Ar

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
becomes second nature, like command-s to save... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
in the Gmail web interface; some of us use *real* email clients. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: rich text problem

2011-03-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
27;s website! <http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/ihatehtmlmail.pdf> If you can't state your problem with your words, all the ransom-note typography and hopping smileys will not help your case. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group I

Re: Disabling Top Sites

2011-03-17 Thread Bruce Johnson
s-first-look/> It looks REALLY cool, it works REALLY slowly on a slower Mac. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for

Re: "extra" connector on AGP card with ADC output

2011-03-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
here is no 25V socket in line with the agp > socket? I believe that's correct. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a

Re: OT OT OT need a reason ?

2011-03-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
s a Yugo! Waaah!" The day you can present a business case for Apple to chop off a good 40-50% of their income in return for supporting 1001 different crappy PC manufacturers and facing an epidemic of pirated copies of OSX, you'll make your point. -- Bruce Johnson University of Ar

Re: When you really need to erase data...

2011-03-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
some contractuakl requirement to get it on some approved vendor lists. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for

Re: When you really need to erase data...

2011-03-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
es this information in the Autofill preferences, where you can delete all or on a site-by-site basis. The passwords themselves are stored securely in the user's Keychain. Opening keychain access and locking the login keytchain will make it prompt you for your password any time you want to use

Re: importing iphoto files.

2011-03-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
al not recoding as a tiff or something. I know iPhoto '09 lets me drag photos out of the library to the desktop as the current, edited version. Maybe you can drag them to the G5 disk that way, in batches. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Gro

Re: SIIG Ultra ATA-133 Failure

2011-03-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
be markings on the board where the cap was soldered in. Now, if the cap was broken off, then it's likely you;ll have to replace it, rather than re-solder it. Take the cap you found to a decent electroncs supply store (or go online to <http://www.mouser.com> ) to get a replacement. --

Re: importing iphoto files.

2011-03-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
' back into iPhoto for some reason. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- 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. The list FAQ is at h

Re: Thunderbird mail

2011-03-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
c it's in ~/Library/Preferences or ~/Library/Application Support) go to File-> Subscribe in T-Bird; it may simply not have added them to your subscribe list. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a mem

Re: CCC and USB: Preparing New HDDs

2011-03-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
HD to a new > (much bigger) internal HD -- via USB and my "Magic Cable" -- and have that > big new loaded-with-all-my-stuff HD *installed in the Quicksilver*, will it > boot the Quicksilver as-is, or will I have to run an Archive-and-Install from > the Tiger DVD? (and

Re: Cannot put my G4 to sleep.

2011-03-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
not a PMU issue. Do you have a USB2 card in it? Those are well known to cause problems with sleep. Other PCI cards can cause issues as well, but most of the time it's a USB2 card. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not h

Re: The strange world of graphics card ID and ROM matching

2011-03-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
p with moss and small rodents. ;-P -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Ma

Re: spills wireless keyboard

2011-03-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
yeyboard or > mouse? Since there is no physical electrical connection it's as if you turned off the KB. And don't put any new Mac keyboards through the wash cycle;' this worked with the older ones, but the new aluminum ones are actually glued together and do not mix with liqu

Re: Superdrive woe

2011-03-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
0 cents each. Back in the day when CDR's were $10 each; they were tested more rigorously; nowadays you're probably lucky for 5 tested disks per lot, which could be thousands of disks. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do no

Re: Clean My Mac: OnyX not working

2011-03-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
want; I've considered trying to get PearPC working in a VM to have a 10.4 system on hand for support and testing issues, but there's so few of them (mostly aging PPC systems in the labs and the occasional student with an aging Powerbook or iBook.) -- Bruce Johnson University of

Re: Clean My Mac: OnyX not working

2011-03-07 Thread Bruce Johnson
you have to check the 'this user can administer the computer' box in their account settings for it to work when they're not connected, even for so-called 'mobile' accounts.) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institu

Re: Apple Oompa Loompas!

2011-03-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
hen they turn around and beg me for help with their windows boxen. "Oh my computer just says I've got viruses and won't let me do anything! Help me!" The bit with Bill Gates whinging about how no one wants a Zune was funny, tho. Reminded me of this one: <http://www.yout

Re: Strange ethernet issue (possibly)

2011-03-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
you see a lot there's a problem somwhere in the system, either the ethernet hardware on the system, the cable or the switch. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
just fine to have as many admin accounts as you need on a system. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using

Re: Junk Mail

2011-03-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
Junk Mail box, however it still comes to my > normal mail boxes, I really want this stuff to go to the Junk Mail. Someone > know about this? Check the Junk Mail preferences; one of the settings in there is to mark it as junk but leave it there. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona Col

Re: Buying "old" Mac Pros

2011-03-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 3, 2011, at 4:29 AM, typopetedog wrote: > I bought one of these "old" Mac Pros end of year. My reason was that I > wanted to run Leopard 10.5. Moving to 10.6 on ANY Intel-based mac is a big no-brainer; you get significant performance increases. -- Bruce Johnson Unive

Re: RAID <> Backup

2011-03-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
y from them...1 million terabytes. This is the kind of thing that keeps Larry Ellison in Yachts and MIG's...) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you

Re: Spark

2011-03-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
ts on the forum, it does run in 10.6.5. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Ma

Re: how to record voice and screen activity on the cheap?

2011-03-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
dups/utilities-roundups/10-screen-recording-tools-for-mac/> Snapz Pro is one I've seen in use and is a very good piece of software. As Dan said, get a dropbox account and put it up there. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institut

Re: Timer

2011-02-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
it cheaper than this at Bed Bath and Beyond, and it's performed yeoman service as a timer and a thermal probe/alarm for years now. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for thos

Re: Ethernet port not detected but a new ethernet port is

2011-02-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
is resolved. The MAC should NOT be changing; that's set in the firmware of the Ethernet port, and IIRC there's no way in OS X to spoof it easily or out of the box. This smells like a failing ethernet chipset on the logic board. But the info should be in the system log, like Dan says.

Re: Do not understand how to send html emails on my G4 Mac

2011-02-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 25, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Tina K. wrote: > On 2011/02/25 11:15, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: >> Not to beat a dead horse much more, but I got a perfect example of >> WHY html mail is simply not worth the trouble: >> >> <http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.

Re: Do not understand how to send html emails on my G4 Mac

2011-02-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
Not to beat a dead horse much more, but I got a perfect example of WHY html mail is simply not worth the trouble: <http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/ihatehtmlmail.pdf> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do no

Re: GeForce FX 5200 causing kernel panics on Sawtooth running Tiger

2011-02-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
ation. Bob suggested that the power supply issue could be "especially" due to demands on power from other additions. Bob from OHS doesn't know his a** from a hole in the ground. insufficient power will cause display issues, but kernel panics are strictly software issues. -- Bruc

Re: Would you trust this ebay seller?

2011-02-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 19, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Ashgrove wrote: > > The NERVE! Why haven't they been kicked out of the LEM Swap? Oh, wait, > they're not on the Swap... The LEM lists owner does that for his own protection. Apple can sue for that kind of stuff. Smalldog may have an agreement in place with Apple to

Re: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X -- free today!

2011-02-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
ted that link there) is complaining that the serial # Paragon sent him was invalid. Methinks they weren't QUITE prepared for what just hit them. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You rec

Re: Browsers

2011-02-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
7;s RAM. Right now it's using 440MB real, 550 virtual on my system with one really plain-jane html page open (pure text, just a table full of links and a form). (I'm using Safari 5.0.3 on 10.6). I quit safari and opened just that page, and it's using 64megs real and 240 virtual. B

Re: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X -- free today!

2011-02-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 23, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Dan wrote: > At 10:48 AM -0700 2/23/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Dan wrote: >> >>> Out of the box, OS X (Tiger thru SL) can read NTFS (windows native file >>> system). >>> >>> Thi

Re: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X -- free today!

2011-02-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
How does that compare to NTFS3G <http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/> ? Also they're giving away their HFS+ product for Windows, too. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

Re: [Manager Comment] Re: Posting Problem

2011-02-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
digests, or not get them as email at all, but as a forum on the groups.google.com site. Just log in with the address associated with your delivery address (in your case it would just be logging in with your regular gmail credentials) and you're taken to the web interface to the groups. Voi

Re: [Manager Comment] Re: Posting Problem

2011-02-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
n many of them at any given site. Even Apple's own support forums are probne to this problem.) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-

Re: App to Delete Unused Languages, Printers, Modems

2011-02-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
. Like Disk Warrior and other tools it's NOT a 'maintenance' tool, but it is an invaluable repair tool. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message bec

Re: The spinning beach ball and Firefox

2011-02-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
n email, try to delete, use a bookmark. I have run Onyx, restarted, > shut down and nothing helps! Try starting Firefox in safe mode: <http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe%20Mode?s=Safe+mode&as=s> Then immediately clear the cache. This is a common symptom of a corrupted cache

Re: Shut down problem & Internal hard not mounting

2011-02-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
ered. Bust it open and get some strong fridge magnets out of it :-/ -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: Mac G5 superdrive Sony DW-Q28A use DVD+r DL media?

2011-02-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
ed different brands of disks? Sometimes one brand or lot or another just won't work. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-G

Re: DHCP Server??

2011-02-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
n in OS X 10.5' -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- 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 parti

Re: DHCP Server??

2011-02-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
And here is an old posting of a similar compile error: <http://mailman.icsi.berkeley.edu/pipermail/bro/2004-July/001521.html> Hope this helps. You can also hop onto the DHCP mailing list and ask them. <https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/dhcp-users> -- Bruce Johnson University

Re: No Services on new iMac

2011-02-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
. I select Services > in Finder and other Apps, and it says No Services Apply for > everything! Services depend on something being selected in the document or open in Finder; 'no services apply' is the default state of affairs if you have nothing selected or open. -- Bruce

Re: DHCP Server??

2011-02-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
replace it with the one from the update'. I'm not running dhcp on OS X but I am using it to run a mysql dbms and it works like a charm. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

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