Re: MDD problem

wing your suggestions? > > I'm really sad now, not even a bong left ... Nope, now you know it's a bad power supply. I now remember going though that hassle with a professors MDD about 6 months ago and got the identical results. Replacing the PS fixed all the problems. -- B

Re: Clouds for Mac's

rts RAID 1 and 2 only IIRC. For higher levels of RAID you need a dedicated controller (and a bunch of disks). -- 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

Re: Anyone Want To Explain? + The -122 Error

not an OS X general error code. Different errors. -- 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: New Video Card in Use

7; resolutions that they look best at, but CRT's will run anything, so long as it's below their maximum refresh rate. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this mes

Re: External drive fails to appear on Desk top?

ww.youtube.com/watch?v=ax390l2A-AY&hd=1> <http://pressworthly.wordpress.com/2007/11/03/lacie-fa-porsche-edition-500gb-disassembled/> <http://tinyurl.com/6caas33> for many more. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have

Re: External drive fails to appear on Desk top?

lly older) FW enclosures have master/slave/cable select issues. Try setting the drive jumpers to Master. Make sure the drive is plugged in all the way, sometimes it's hard getting the cables put in. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Instit

Re: no content folder in date and time preference panel

ne. However it will ask for an administrator's password. However, it's VASTLY simpler (since it came with no software) just re-install OSX erasing the disk. I ALWAYS do this for 'new' used computers...starting from a clean slate vastly simplifies any troubleshooting. -- Bruc

Re: Need to Ping HP laserjet 8000dn on Jetdirect Network with Mac Powerbook (OSX 10.5.8)

ess. > Here's what it gave me. > Ping has started ... > > > PING 152.2.78.207 (152.2.78.207): 56 data bytes Download the manual for that model JetDirect and find out how to reset it entirely to default settings. That usually works when it won't take an IP addre

Re: Power Mac G5, and installing OSX 10.5 on external HD

not be used to boot a Mac. FAT32 and HFS are the *volume* formats, not the disk partition type. -- 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-Gr

Re: How to test PRAM battery?

On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:55 AM, John Carmonne wrote: > A volt meter will quickly test the battery but mining one can be a PITA. Sadly this is the only way. It's a battery, use a battery tester. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Inst

Re: *Hits Head*

tter card than your old ATI. <http://lowendmac.com/video/agp/radeon-9000.html> You need a $1 DVI to VGA adapter to connect it to a VGA monitor, it supports DVI and ADC out of the box. <http://tinyurl.com/27k6ut> Use this, pull the ancient ATI pci card and see what happens. --

Re: Help Me Please

oes the > Monitor. It could be a faulty PSU, it could be a faulty logic board, it could be a video card drawing too much power. You need to find out what cause= -122 means. A cursory googling does not reveal info. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Techn

Re: Error Code Question

, there's a mismatch between what a file metadata says it is and what it appears to be from the data. -- 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: unread mail on G5 PM

've been part of Apple's Mail app since version 2.0. -- 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

Re: Microphone doesn't work?

detectable input.. >> >> Again, knowing if it is a line level input would be very informative. >> >> >> > It works in a Windows machine. PC's are mic-level, not 'line-level'. Standard cheapo tape recorder and PC mics don't work on Macs without

Re: Permissions fix not fixing.

read/write for the middle setting. Would clicking "apply to enclosed" > pretty much take care of that? No, because inside the application bundles permissions vary Are the applications broken? -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this

Re: frivolous question

On Jan 26, 2011, at 5:31 AM, Chuck wrote: > after dark wasn't frivolous. it prevented damage to the CRT, and apple didn't > offer > a similar thing... not equivalent to the app. now such things are superfluous > because mac os has a screensaver app. And monitors, even CRT ones, don't have the p

Re: wireless for powermac g4

. Hwill that work in an airport slot, as in a laptop? -- 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 G

Re: frivolous question

On Jan 24, 2011, at 4:42 PM, ah...clem wrote: > i miss my flying > toasters. :'o( Miss them no more: <http://uneasysilence.com/toast/> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely

Re: Help needed for Mac Powerbook M7572, reload

> an external DVD reader. Does it boot from the OS X installer? If so use Disk Utility to repair the hard drive and reformat it. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received th

Re: Is LogMeIn the answer?

otherwise a service like dyndns will let you have a fixed ip name that's mapped to your real address at all times. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because

Re: Can a G5 iMac power supply replace MDD power supply?

On Jan 24, 2011, at 6:32 AM, johnwd5 wrote: > I have been offered a MDD tower with a bad psu. Can I use an iMac psu > in place and do I need to make any adjustments? No. MDD's take a special PSU, there are ways of modding standard ATX PSU's to fit. -- Bruce Johnson Unive

Re: Sawtooth with ubuntu?

third-party software to display Flash, MP3 and other > media, and to work with some wireless hardware. Some of this software is > closed-source." That only applies to Intel-based systems; the 'third party' software in this case is supplied by Adobe. It is X86-only. -- Bruce

Re: Mac Mini HDD speed

On Jan 22, 2011, at 12:22 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: > For 2.5" why no use a SSD? Because ATA SSD's are small, and insanely expensive, and lightness isn't the prime requirement of a Mini. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You r

Re: Mac Mini HDD speed

ience with laptops, going from 4200 to 7200 is a sizeable boost in performance. -- 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 t

Re: Is LogMeIn the answer?

On Jan 21, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2011/01/21 09:50, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: On the 'inside the house' side of the network you have a private, non-routing IP address range, your own LAN. Typically they're either 192.168.n.n or 10.n.n.n I've seen bo

Re: Running Final Cut Pro Studio 3 on a Power PC

us Version 2, and Apple's generally correct about what Apple computers their stuff runs on :-) FCS2 system reqs: <http://support.apple.com/kb/SP535> PPC is ok FCS3 system reqs: <http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/specs/> Intel only. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona Colle

Re: GeForce Ti Question

by the CPU not the GPU on the card. It will make OS X slower, but it will NOT lead to video problems like you describe. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message becaus

Re: Is LogMeIn the answer?

address on the internal LAN, then listing that address for 'port 80' requests (for a web server. Foir VNC it's port 5900) See: <http://www.realvnc.com/support/portforward.html> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Inst

Re: GeForce Ti Question

case as well. If it works AT ALL in Leopard for anyone it's not a driver issue, and artifacts are almost *always* linked to bad hardware rather than drivers. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely

Re: Appleworks problem

e, and you can never tell what you might be able to learn from it later. -- 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 thos

Re: Appleworks problem

On Jan 20, 2011, at 6:33 AM, rogerd095 wrote: > > Which platform you prefer is a matter of choice. It's just a pity that > AppleWorks 6 seems quite a bit less polished than ClarisWorks 5.0 - or > even v.4.0, for that matter. > Or the late lamented still-missed Claris spreadsheet which was base

Re: Appleworks problem

That's nothing. I have MS Word docs from 20 years ago that MS Word 2011 does not open. File formats change ... just be glad you're not NASA and have to decipher 45 year old data tapes starting by reconstructing the tape mechanism BEFORE trying to decipher the data! -- Bruce On Jan 20, 201

Re: Appleworks problem

27;s not as dire as it used to be before the advent of Classila, OS 9 is still almost useless on the modern web. -- 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: unconnected drives show up in DiskUtility

n the shift key while booting. -- 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 - wi

Re: Moving Stuff to a New (to me) Machine

On Jan 15, 2011, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: This is the most painless way of doing it; I've done two PPC -> Intel migrations that way. I should add that I've done it twice for my own accounts; I've done this a dozen or more times updating faculty and staff macs, eq

Re: Moving Stuff to a New (to me) Machine

one two PPC -> Intel migrations that way. -- 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 M

Re: Machine Shut Down

On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: > >> Jan 14 05:47:09 steve-cs-power-mac-g4 kernel[0]: disk4s1: media is not >> present. >> Jan 14 05:47:09 steve-cs-power-mac-g4 kernel[0]: disk3s1: media is n

Re: Machine Shut Down

t away, ALL your disks are unreachable. If the USB port died as well it's looking like a general logic board failure. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message becaus

Re: Beige PowerMac G3 266 Firmware

n the Mobo, but it looks like this <http://eshop.macsales.com/images/items/cudabutton.jpg> -- 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: Beige PowerMac G3 266 Firmware

upgraded to a Sawtooth G4. -- 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: Beige PowerMac G3 266 Firmware

in the first 8GB of the drive. IIRC I ended up with a partition of 7.56 gb) -- 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 tho

Re: Beige PowerMac G3 266 Firmware

y information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! No you do not. In fact, the firmware on these models is not updateable (that's what the never-used firmware ROM slot is for in these systems) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions d

Re: PowerMacG5 Upgrade Question

ut the only upgrade that will help is lashing a new Mac Pro Quad Core to the back with duct tape. Video editing isn't all that dependent on the video card, paradoxically. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opini

Re: KeyLargoATA.kext modified to always enable LBA-48

zapping my PRAM three times (Opt-Cmd-P-R) the new driver made all my disks > appear with their full capacity, all volumes were correctly available. Andreas, you ROCK! A brilliant, simple solution -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group

Re: Digest for g3-5-list@googlegroups.com - 2 Messages in 2 Topics

On Jan 5, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2011, at 6:25 AM, Geke wrote: > >> Just a thought: would a G5 videocard (AGP or PCI) with an ADC port fit >> in this MacPro? Or don’t such cards exist? >> And, if this is possible, what would be the dr

Re: Digest for g3-5-list@googlegroups.com - 2 Messages in 2 Topics

The only solution is the expensive adapter or a new monitor. -- 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, G

Re: Digest for g3-5-list@googlegroups.com - 2 Messages in 2 Topics

On Jan 4, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: VueScan makes good monitors; I meant Viewsonic... -- 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

Re: New internal hard drive for Power Mac G4

e fix was initiated; and the publicity and Apples quick response (uncharacteristically quick) meant that an unmodified loud one is quite rare. (and getting rarer along with all the G4 models) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutio

Re: Digest for g3-5-list@googlegroups.com - 2 Messages in 2 Topics

ome other > 22" monitor. Any recommendations? VueScan makes good monitors; HP's better quality monitors are pretty nice, as are Dells (Dell has historically used the same guts for their 30" monitors that Apple did, and often sold for less) -- Bruce Johnson University

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

On Jan 4, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Nestamicky wrote: > On 03/01/11 10:16 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> Yes it DOES have to do with the video card. 10.4 offloads a bunch of >> processing to the video GPU if possible (and it's not just Core Video stuff). > Was this an error on Ap

Re: iChat and YouTube on a G4 Cube

moved to the much-faster GPU really makes a difference. Also a Geforce 6200 is a much newer card than a GeForce3, iirc. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message becau

Re: Mouse/keyboard? problems

ces; try the mouse in a different USB port. Look in the System log (using the Console app in Utilities) for USB errors. -- 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,

Re: Suggested upgrades for a Power Mac G4 PCI Graphics

On Dec 29, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Alex Barnes wrote: > I have a Sonnet Encore ST/G4 Duet that has dual 1.3 GHz G4s in it. It should > work well with your PowerMac. $200 shipped? Will not work on his Yikes PCI G4. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banza

Re: Help Me Please!

just press it-you need to hold it down for a few seconds. I > don't think F12 works that way on Apple keyboards. On keyboards without a dedicated eject key F12 does. In 10.4 or later you have to hold the key down for a couple seconds, otherwise you simply activate Dashboard. -- Bruce J

Re: Desktop wallpaper for that bigger screen...

On Dec 22, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Dan wrote: > All is good in the world - my fav looks great in the bigger resolution... > > After the turn of the century, in the clear blue skies over Germany... :-) -- Bruce -- You received this message

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

has worked for me. Using Leopard 10.5.8, and having OS 9 Classic under > Tiger 10.4.11, and going back when needed. Each on a separate partition. Oh DUH! I didn't think of two versions of OSX... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group I

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

lass* of aircraft, the very same aircraft. -- 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 Mac

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

On Dec 22, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Dan wrote: > I've found Sheepshaver to be sluggish and/or crashy Sure that isn't just the experience of using OS 9 after living with OS X for so long? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Instit

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

article is absolutely in error. You can install OS 9.0.4 or lower in Sheepshaver <http://sheepshaver.cebix.net/>. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because

Re: Was: Desktop wallpaper for that bigger screen...upscaling by any other name

in a rigorous, definitive fashion! :-)) Once upon a time, only obscure scholars, toiling away in musty libraries could accomplish this feat, and then only after weeks of work. Isn't the Internet the Greatest Invention Evar??!! -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy I

Re: Was: Desktop wallpaper for that bigger screen...upscaling by any other name

gotta go manual :-) See: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk&hd=1> :-) I want their computers! -- 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: Was: Desktop wallpaper for that bigger screen...upscaling by any other name

t; iMac: <http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/cownose_rays.jpg> It's a little soft, a little grainy, but a lot better than just letting the Mac stretch it. For the purposes of having something pretty to have on my desktop it's perfectly acceptable, imo. YMMV. -- Bruce Johnson

Re: Desktop wallpaper for that bigger screen...

ah! It was working fine when I sent it an hour ago. Something fall down go boom! Keep the link handy. It should be back up soon, I hope. Here's the googlecached version <http://tinyurl.com/36mkn9k> -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technol

Re: Desktop wallpaper for that bigger screen...

annon Beach OR, my second favorite place on the northwest coast (first is Ruby Beach in Washington) -- 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: Desktop wallpaper for that bigger screen...

images of the Golden Rays here <http://tinyurl.com/6xhlc4> (964x645) into something quite nice on my 27" imac. A wee bit grainy, but not bad at all, certainly not exceedingly pixelated. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Inst

Re: RJ 45 Aggravation Update

critical. It also helps > to hold your tongue just right and mutter an incantation as you squeeze. I think he's talking about the external sheathing. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

Re: The Attack of the Giant Pixels

his in safe mode, and you've checked both Software update and ATI for updated drivers and firmware, yeah, it's time to look for a new card. As you've found, you need to make sure you get a card for the correct one. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Informa

Re: iTunes on Tiger

On Dec 16, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Dan wrote: > > Yea. No great loss, IMO, as 10.x runs like a slow pig on the big iMac at the > store. Then it crashed. I got the attention of a red shirt and he just > sighed and made grumbling incantations. Actually it runs quite well on my big new iMac so t

Re: The Attack of the Giant Pixels

er's suggestions to reseat everything). -- 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: iTunes on Tiger

x27;ll come up in the first page of results. -- 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

Re: Password protect

On Dec 15, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Jeff Bequette wrote: > >> And it works. My family use computer "fast switching" has partitions for >> each user so that no one else can save stuff to 'their' driv

Re: Password protect

users are Public (which is read-only, except for the drop box, which is write-only...you can put files in, but you cannot get in there to see what's there) and Sites (also read-only, which is where user-level websites are saved. Sites that are http://computer.domain.com/~user/ ) There

Re: Quick Silver issue

t's 'normal', I'll admit.) -- 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 des

Re: Password protect

rd, you cannot do this. This defeats the entire purpose of having user accounts. The PROPER way to do this is to create an account for those folks and then share what you want shared, rather than try to restrict what they can see. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy In

Re: How Do MS Office Licenses Work?

On Dec 13, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2010, at 12:20 PM, t...@io.com wrote: > >> I am thinking about purchasing a used copy of MS Office 2004 for my >> MDD, however, I'm wondering how the licenses work. > > Do not bother, j

Re: How Do MS Office Licenses Work?

.0-rc1/mac/ppc/BrOffice_3.3.0rc1_MacOS_PPC_install_en-US.dmg> (Hallelujah! They were listening to me! The PPC versions finally has equal billing with the Intel version! Hoorah!) Perfectly compatible with MS Office and has a more 'Office-like' interface than even Office does today. --

Re: Fink

On Dec 11, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Tina K. wrote: > When you say X-Windows, would that be X-11? Yes. -- 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

Re: Fink

Mac-native ports of these applications...if they have one of those, there should be standard Mac installers for them. -- 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

Re: How to change the "optic drive name" ?

? The Mac is getting this information from the drive itself, I believe, as it's the same info you see in System Profiler when you look at the FW or USB bus, or in Disk Utility. I do not know of any easy way to change this (if it's doable at all). -- Bruce Johnson University of A

Re: Internet video sourced and display on G4

for a couple >> of years now. > > Gotta love all the peeps that pirate stuff without using a proxy. What gets me are the ones who do it from home while connected to our VPN... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do no

Re: Internet video sourced and display on G4

and other animated titles. -- 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: Internet video sourced and display on G4

> torrent rip will probably be higher quality! Just be careful, the Pie-rate hunters are active...we get passed RIAA and MPAA takedown notices from the UA Copyright office for our subnet every couple of months or so, and they've all involved movie torrents for a couple of years now. -- Br

Re: Ticking PSU - Quicksilver G4

On Dec 5, 2010, at 1:24 PM, "Nick Smith \(SHDC\)" wrote: > Looks like the PSU is toasted but I just wondered if anyone has had any luck > simply blasting canned air into the PSU to clean out the dust etc. > > Also, what are my chances that the motherboard has been damaged by the > problems w

Re: G4 933 quicksilver

gotten more civilized since then. -- 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 http://

Re: 2 Questions

signals, so, for example, you could charge a USB device from the firewire port. The first thing on that page is just a FW/USB combo Cardbus card. I have no clue what that trendnet thing is... But if you're looking, no there is no such thing as a Firewire to USB adapter for signals.

Re: G4 933 quicksilver

things. In return it screws up the rest of the computer -- 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

this is why Oracle bought Sun

<http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/12/oracle-launches-sparc-supercluster-sets-new-db-performance-record.ars > They now make the whole widget, like Apple. Notice the frequent mention of their competitor, IBM, who also makes the whole widget. -- Bruce Johnson University of A

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

backing over the computer with a truck, tornadoes, etc. -- 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 l

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

where I would would not shop around, just go to DS. If the data is retrievable, they can retrieve it. (for the record, we do know that they cannot retrieve data off a disk that some idiot has thought he knew much more about Solaris than he did and done 'rm -rf /' on...) -- Bruce J

Re: Networkable USB print servers

On Dec 1, 2010, at 6:52 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: > I have an HP OfficeJet. > It's pluged into my G4 MDD. I turned on print sharing and all the > computers in the house can see it. > So I'll ask - what does a print server do different or more than my > set up? A print server doesn't require the h

Re: Ungrateful Apple abandons older Mac service

<http://www.wilko.com/emac/> <http://lowendmac.com/macdan/md07/1114.html> -- 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

Networkable USB print servers

networked. -- 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 particular focus on Power

Re: Applejack

s doesn't work start to Googling. There's tons of hits on that error and most of them look like they're fixable by the -t option, whether it's hfs, ntfs or another file system type. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Insti

Re: install osx 10.5

f you can, then the problem lies somewhere in the System or Applications realm. If not is specific to your user account and the problem lies somewhere in your user's files, prefs, settings, etc. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institu

Re: New oddities

package and is the only kind of update that will run on itself, eg: you can install the 10.4.11 combo update on 10.4.11, in this case to fix things that may be broken beyond the fixes in the 10.4.10-10.4.11 update. It is a common step in fixing a problem system. -- Bruce Johnson University

Re: Word list Generator???

nce the font is installed simply type out your text, select it and set in the desired cipher font. Once you have the 'ciphertext' print it as an image and pass along your secret. (It needs to be an image to keep anyone who intercepts it from simply selecting another font :-) -- Bruce John

Re: Applejack

s, local, journaled) <--- my boot volume /dev/disk1s2 on /Volumes/TardisToo (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled) <-- my Time Machine volume -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You

Re: install osx 10.5

NEVER do any of this stuff to any of my Macs; and it's not like I treat 'em with kid gloves or anything. Check the system log for what happens when you try and fail to log out...it should tell you if something's preventing it. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of

Re: Question about Quicksilver

e in your car's cigarette lighter > though) Check yard sales for wall-warts; I've always been able to find what I need after hitting a few. I always pay < $1, usually no more than 25 cents. Also Belkin will (for a price) sell you one of 'em... -- Bruce Johnson University of Ari

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