Calendar sync'ing, Mac->PC->Droid

2010-09-25 Thread Dan
m not sure if we want a Mac->Droid solution. That would create a dependancy on her dealing with him updating every day or so. ... It would be ok if the solution required the internet, but it would be better if it didn't - as they're often on the road in their RV without 'net

Re: Cube USB 2.0 possible?

2010-09-25 Thread Dan Palka
Not that I know of. You should try to stick to FireWire wherever possible. On Sep 25, 2010, at 11:41 AM, John Markowitz wrote: > Is there a way to have USB 2.0 on a Cube G4 with some type of addition? Regards, Dan Palka Info-Mac Moderator http://www.info-mac.org d...@info-mac.org --

Re: Always weird problems!!!

2010-09-25 Thread Dan
everything that has been enabled. All the time. If the widgets are good, they sit idle, simply sucking up memory but not cpu. If they're evil, they poll for data or input, sucking up both memory and cpu. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received

Re: Always weird problems!!!

2010-09-23 Thread Dan
k displaying an alias for the item. Unless you have explicitly disabled Dashboard, with a tool such as OnyX, Dashboard is running - sucking up cpu and oddles memory. The widgets are javascript applets. Each one that is enabled is run as its own process... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritu

Re: Tiger won't ichat on G4 or G5 PPC's?

2010-09-23 Thread Dan
You gots a hole in your firewall enabled for iChat Bonjour? You gots separate AIM or .Mac accounts for each login session? Have you tried trashing prefs and such? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a g

Re: late 05 g5 question

2010-09-20 Thread Dan Palka
s model? its been doing it since i got it back in jan of > 2010 i read about a red light of death is that what it is cause my > machine seems to run fine. Regards, Dan Palka Info-Mac Moderator http://www.info-mac.org d...@info-mac.org -- You received this message because you are a member of G-

Re: VersionTracker "folds"

2010-09-20 Thread Dan
expect from CNET. Must slower to load and more difficult to read - especially after you bump the font size up a bit. For that added bonus, when I clicked on the "full specifications" link it took me to a page not found error. Great job, CNET. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; So

Re: VersionTracker "folds"

2010-09-19 Thread Dan Palka
Tonnnsss of ads yucky yuck. On Sep 19, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: > Did you notice where VersionTracker has been folded into CNET > download.com ? > > Now the noise of all those advertisements and the general feel isn't > as simple. > > so it goes Re

Re: installing a printer

2010-09-08 Thread Dan
our system or ? What do you mean by "stalls"? Are you saying that the system freezes or something else? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs

Re: Computer Name: (2) ??? in Sharing folder changes for no reason?

2010-09-04 Thread Dan
me and turn on file sharing. If it does it again, check your system log - there will be information there about the name change. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G

Re: SeaMonkey/SMTP

2010-09-02 Thread Dan
. Go into the service and look up the current settings requirements. They have changed the authorization or port requirements. Ultimately, a better solution, would be to throw your email thru a reliable provider, not Microsoft. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -

Twitter OAuth @#$% on Tiger

2010-09-02 Thread Dan
itter stuff, that support OAuth and run on Tiger? Thx, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: Change computer icon

2010-08-30 Thread Dan Palka
ts>Contents>Resources. Regards, Dan Palka Info-Mac Moderator http://www.info-mac.org d...@info-mac.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. The list FAQ is at http://lowen

Re: CCC image bootable?

2010-08-27 Thread Dan
Use CCC to restore the image. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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://lowendmac.com/lists/g-

Re: CCC entire HDD including partitions

2010-08-27 Thread Dan
ther. If the issue is that you're trying to stuff them all onto one target volume,,, then back up the volumes into sparse disk images. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using

Re: Writing on the wall...

2010-08-27 Thread Dan
. We've discussed this before. Pls check the list archives. Google's issues will be fixed. This isn't a big problem... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4,

Re: Writing on the wall...

2010-08-27 Thread Dan
at that means. I've gotten a few posts late, and seen a few of my own delayed some hours. But that doesn't affect Google Groups reliability at all. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group f

Re: Need help with a disk problem

2010-08-26 Thread Dan
(NOT permissions!) pass using Disk Utility. Make a good backup, just in case - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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 Po

Re: seeking reviews of SmithMicro's Spring Cleaning

2010-08-26 Thread Dan
At 7:19 PM -0700 8/25/2010, ah...clem wrote: what i want is an app that will help me find multiple copies of the same file scattered in many folders and several HD. File Buddy is rather nice, but a bit pricey. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this

Re: desperate help

2010-08-26 Thread Dan
r/DVD is happy with being imaged onto a different medium like that (I've never tried it). How 'bout using CCC to clone the dmg into the "personal data" partition, instead of Disk Utility? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this m

Re: QS DP 1.0 w OS X 10.4 Server

2010-08-25 Thread Dan Palka
mation for Tiger Server. I know I have it just have > mis-placed it. Is there anywhere inside the OS that gives you the License Key > for this product? Regards, Dan Palka Info-Mac Moderator http://www.info-mac.org d...@info-mac.org -- You received this message because you are a membe

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-24 Thread Dan Palka
On Aug 24, 2010, at 1:14 AM, Illirik Smirnov wrote: > So, all of the G5-optimized 64-bit code was never used? I sure do use it. There's exponentially more on Intels running Snow Leopard, and more every day. On Aug 24, 2010, at 1:14 AM, Illirik Smirnov wrote: > And if I'm not running multi-core

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread Dan Palka
On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Illirik Smirnov wrote: > I like my G5 tower more than my computer lab's Mac Minis. That exact G5 is far slower than even the base-model Mac Mini of today in Geekbench scores, and you're not even considering that only with Snow Leopard has 64-bit software been broug

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread Dan Palka
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: > On Aug 23, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Dan Palka wrote: > > it really is time to move on. Snow Leopard on an Intel Mac is an amazing, >> highly-refined, ultra-powerful combination. I wouldn't downgrade for >> anything. &g

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-23 Thread Dan Palka
far and to make the best of it you need apps designed to run properly on them, something neither Pagemill nor AppleWorks were ever intended to do. Regards, Dan Palka Info-Mac Moderator http://www.info-mac.org d...@info-mac.org -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group

Re: PCI graphics card for Yikes G$

2010-08-22 Thread Dan
uses the GPU of the latest Macs. See Eric's reply. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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 htt

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-22 Thread Dan
erver. 10.4.8 was made as Intel. Possibly also as Universal. No. The Tiger retail kit is ppc only. PowerPC based Macs came with ppc-only Tiger. x86 based Macs came with a special build, x86 only, of Tiger. There were NO universal Tiger builds. Leopard's retail kit is Universal (ppc &

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-22 Thread Dan Palka
ist. Since every Intel came with at least Tiger, there was no need to make universal Tiger retail installs. Why would anybody need to buy a retail copy of Tiger to install on their Intel. Regards, Dan Palka Info-Mac Moderator http://www.info-mac.org d...@info-mac.org -- You received this mes

Re: latest mac mini for 10.4.11

2010-08-22 Thread Dan Palka
On Aug 22, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Peter Haas wrote: > 10.4.8 was made as Intel. Possibly also as Universal. My understanding is that Intel Macs are not installable from any retail Mac OS X Tiger install set, and especially not from a PowerPC Mac mini restore set. Regards, Dan Palka Info-

Re: USB Question

2010-08-22 Thread Dan
problem, then yes - a reboot should restore it, IF it managed to shut it down before the port fried. If the OS did that then there will be a message in the system log. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a

Re: eSATA transfer speed

2010-08-22 Thread Dan
At 10:27 PM -0500 8/21/2010, Kris Tilford wrote: On Aug 21, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Dan wrote: SeriTek 1V4 is SATA I, 1.5 Gbps burst, 150 MB/sec (1.2 Gbps) nominal on a good day. This isn't exactly right. Copied below [snip] SeriTek/1VE2+2 The card in question is a 1V4 not a 1

Re: eSATA transfer speed

2010-08-21 Thread Dan
ck oriented? Virgin or a merge into an existing volume? Recall that CCC isn't just copying data - it's also comparing and building file system on the target... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Grou

Re: Gigabit G4 Tower + Leopard = Not working?

2010-08-20 Thread Dan Palka
On Aug 20, 2010, at 8:27 AM, John Carmonne wrote: > The OP stated a Mini G4 in the mix I sometimes feel that the Mini system can > be problematic I would do an install on a FW drive from any G4 867 up except > a Mini and see if I could boot the FW drive on the Gigabit. Then you may have > to re

Gigabit G4 Tower + Leopard = Not working?

2010-08-20 Thread Dan Palka
I tried multiple ways to get Leopard to install onto my Gigabit G4 tower, including putting it into FireWire disk mode and installing from a Mac mini G4, as well as modifying the reported clock frequency in Open Firmware and booting from the Leopard installer. Every time I'm getting the unable

Re: Recommended bootable external Firewire drives for G4 MDD Dual-1Gb

2010-08-17 Thread Dan
se of the much lower access time, plus the fact that they usually have larger buffers, so you can read or write a whole track at once. YMMV. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: Recommended bootable external Firewire drives for G4 MDD Dual-1Gb

2010-08-17 Thread Dan
itely worth the xtra $. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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://lowendmac.com/lists/

Re: Recommended bootable external Firewire drives for G4 MDD Dual-1Gb

2010-08-17 Thread Dan
At 9:08 AM -0700 8/16/2010, artemis wrote: Dan, I tried setting up a clone and booting it from a couple of my USB externals using the option key as you suggested - in my case, the drive appeared in the list - but when I selected it, it wouldn't launch (even when left for a half- hour) - n

Re: Chronosync PROBLEM

2010-08-14 Thread Dan
At 9:07 AM -0400 8/14/2010, Dan wrote: At 10:53 PM -0700 8/13/2010, John Carmonne wrote: i'm having a problem with Chronosync when syncing two iTunes libraries. What's happening is any new songs that are added back and forth between the libraries only show up in the music folder in

Re: Chronosync PROBLEM

2010-08-14 Thread Dan
NOT the actual contents of the ~/Music folder. So sync'ing the music between two Macs is only the first step. You still have to rebuild libraries or whatever, to make iTunes notice the new additions. Here's a blert to get things started: <http://www.econtechnologies.com/pages/cs/chr

Re: Sawtooth freeze

2010-08-13 Thread Dan
ote: Don't ever plug in a monitor bigger than 17" in a card that is less than 32MB, because you won't like the performance at all, and it might freeze. Baloney. A bogged GPU does not a freeze cause. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received t

Re: G4 Quicksilver 933 Audio Issue/Question

2010-08-12 Thread Dan
t I don't know what it's called. :) Hopefully you get the idea... it gets pushed away from the speaker contact when you insert a plug into the jack. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a gr

Re: Safari crashing

2010-08-12 Thread Dan
p://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/> Update Flash. Not even going into that rant. I did last time it asked me to It? Flash has NO reliable update notifier/mechanism. It's crap - and crashy. Flash was AGAIN updated a few days ago. Get 10.1.82.76. Install it. <http://

Re: Recommended bootable external Firewire drives for G4 MDD Dual-1Gb

2010-08-12 Thread Dan
down the option key. When it brings up the choice of boot devices, if it includes the USB drive, try it! If not then stick with FW. Booting/running from USB is slower than FW but hey - this is a backup drive, not your main work environment! HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; So

Re: Safari crashing

2010-08-12 Thread Dan
At 7:26 PM -0600 8/11/2010, Paul Stamsen wrote: Previously, at 2:09 pm -0400 7/17/10, Dan wrote: At 2:35 PM -0700 7/16/2010, Bruce Johnson wrote: >>You appear to be running both SafariBlock and ClicktoFlash? Turn off or uninstall SafariBlock. >SafariBlock and ClickToFlash work

Re: Do G5s sleep?

2010-08-11 Thread Dan
sleeping. If that doesn't work, try quitting some apps. If that doesn't work, check your system.log to see if any errors are being thrown around that may cause the sleep process to abort. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because

Re: Whatever happened to RAM disks?

2010-08-07 Thread Dan
not start paging to disk until you run out of memory! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: rule based firewall

2010-08-05 Thread Dan
At 2:15 PM -0600 8/5/2010, nestamicky wrote: On 8/5/2010 8:06 AM, Dan wrote: Yes. But why would you want to do that? Because applying "Stealth mode" blocks services on all device, making it impossible to use certain services. So, since the answer is in the affirmative, how can th

Re: rule based firewall

2010-08-05 Thread Dan
r wireless, is this possible? Yes. But why would you want to do that? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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. Th

Re: Single User mode fsck never done?

2010-07-31 Thread Dan
n I safely turn off journaling in order to get write access to my HFS+ drive? It can't just mount the drive and ignore the journaling? Yea, you can turn it off. Just remember that it's off... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message becau

Re: formatting the HDD,from open firmware

2010-07-28 Thread Dan
At 5:50 PM -0700 7/26/2010, Mullin9 wrote: iMac G4 800, is it possible to go into open firmware [] and use pdisk to reformat the hard drive No. AFAIK, pdisk is a unix tool ported to Mac OS. It must be run within Mac OS. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth

Re: external hard drive advice

2010-07-27 Thread Dan
At 12:17 PM -0700 7/27/2010, John Carmonne wrote: I personally would buy a Hitachi 2 TB 7200 rpm drive from Newegg and an enclosure from OWC. Nice combo. I bagged a bare 1 TB Hitachi from Meritline yesterday, for $64. It's to go in an external box I already have. - Dan. -- - Psychoce

Re: external hard drive advice

2010-07-27 Thread Dan
ves available, but I don't think it makes much sense to have a drive that's faster than the interface (the weakest part of the data pipe). HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group f

Re: Single User mode fsck never done?

2010-07-27 Thread Dan
Mode, the file system daemons are not running, etc. Use AppleJack. It handles all that, and runs fsck. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

The anti-FUD, or what to read on Sunday morning

2010-07-25 Thread Dan
heh. Grab your coffee and donut... <http://mac-security.blogspot.com/2010/07/desperate-propaganda-aka-fud-in-anti.html> Love this guy's writings. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: Plain text format

2010-07-20 Thread Dan
each character. Email on paper tape could be interesting! Now I've got this whole Gomez Addams at his stock ticker image in my mind. Now and then I change the font selection... Chancery looks good. Dingbats can be a bit hard to read. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA,

Re: Yikes G4, Can The Computer Chime and still have a Bad CPU?

2010-07-20 Thread Dan
reset the power manager (press and release the CUDA button ONCE). WRT the chime... That's the self-test telling you that the CPU, buses, and memory responded correctly. It has nothing to do with how the peripherals respond to the changed clock speeds. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus;

Re: Plain text format

2010-07-19 Thread Dan
g and such works in emails? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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://lowendmac.com/li

Re: Change machine specific installer requirements

2010-07-19 Thread Dan
ut... it's a bit of a gray area, but semi-legal to purchase that dead Mac's media for your like-mac. The key here is that Apple doesn't pursue these cases... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: Plain text format

2010-07-19 Thread Dan
ucida as the default display font, just as you have yours set to use Courier. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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: Plain text format

2010-07-19 Thread Dan
zes that are very difficult for me to read. I've been calling it Lucinda all these years! Yes, Lucida Grande is what I meant. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4

Re: Plain text format

2010-07-19 Thread Dan
can then bump the size, IF the html in the email doesn't include hard-coded specific sizes. ... My default is Lucinda 14, btw. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4

Re: Change machine specific installer requirements

2010-07-18 Thread Dan
-only discs. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and

iCab 4.8

2010-07-18 Thread Dan
iCab was just recently updated again, so I thought I'd take it for a spin. I used to use iCab as much as WaMCom Mozilla, on OS 9. Liked it on OS X too, but then I ended up using Safari more and more. So far so good - seems nice. <http://icab.de/> - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emer

Re: Pismo surfing freezes

2010-07-18 Thread Dan
e provided -- a single app freezing -- replacing the airport card is kindof like swapping out your car engine because the neighbor's kid puked in the back seat. And reinstalling Safari? sigh. That's like replacing the car's tires because of a problem with the windshield wiper. - D

Re: plain text please

2010-07-18 Thread Dan
At 11:52 AM -0400 7/18/2010, Nikki Wraith wrote: What is annoying is over 100 messages debating it eating my time and bandwidth. 43 messages, not 100. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for

Re: plain text please

2010-07-18 Thread Dan
on some of them is unconscionable -- especially when the point of doing so is to facilitate poster laziness. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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: ESata to Sata help...

2010-07-18 Thread Dan
bed like USB or Firewire. If you have a SATA interface in your PowerMac, then you would need a separate eSATA port and socket for each of your external HD boxes. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a g

Re: plain text please

2010-07-18 Thread Dan
l or financial situation. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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://lowendmac.com/lists/g-lis

Re: plain text please

2010-07-18 Thread Dan
At 12:13 AM -0600 7/18/2010, Tina K. wrote: Dan wrote: HTML email is often done by hardcoding the font sizes. That means your email will ALWAYS be unreadable to someone. HTML email ONLY looks good if the receiver has the SAME type of mail client you do. That means your email will ALWAYS be

Re: plain text please

2010-07-17 Thread Dan
u volunteering to do all that - to contact each and every one of those users and hand-hold them thru the process? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Mac

Re: plain text please

2010-07-17 Thread Dan
. So much for the email standards. As for your mootness... when I'm on a metered connection, I'm paying per kilobyte. How 'bout if I bill you each time you send 1 KB of text in a 4 KB message? Dennis' point is NOT moot. BE CONSIDERATE or you will end up with NO AUDIEN

Re: plain text please

2010-07-17 Thread Dan
ole threads of well-formatted plain text - and provide technical answers. Remember the part about the purpose of these lists Frankly, if you're dying to send pretty messages then go find a service that's Forum based. Myself, I'll continue to hit cmd-D as soon as I open a gaud

Re: Change machine specific installer requirements

2010-07-17 Thread Dan
by the license, so it's OK to do from the license's POV. However, the DMCA makes it illegal to decode and hack copyrighted software - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for t

Re: Change machine specific installer requirements

2010-07-17 Thread Dan
r police? Legally, yes they should include a copy of the media with the computer. And AFAIK that's required by the authorized reseller dealio. Does Apple actively pursue all this? No, not currently. And that does NOT make it acceptable to pirate. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South

Re: Change machine specific installer requirements

2010-07-17 Thread Dan
esellers that still carry the older Macs OS kits too. This is a "devil's advocate" question. I have 4 G4 MDDs in my house running the Family Plan Leopard. One machine came with it, and when I saw how well it ran, I ponied up the money to run it legit on all machines. Good! - D

Re: Safari crashing

2010-07-17 Thread Dan
that wasn't blocked by SafariBlock. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: Change machine specific installer requirements

2010-07-17 Thread Dan
At 10:33 AM -0700 7/17/2010, John Carmonne wrote: On Jul 17, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Dan wrote: > At 5:33 AM -0700 7/16/2010, John Carmonne wrote: Recently someone posted the method of fixing machine specific install disk to work on any machine. What I'm referring to is a disk that come

Re: Safari crashing

2010-07-17 Thread Dan
URL? Pull CosmoPod and see if the crash still occurs. Update ClickToFlash to 1.6b9. I've had problems with the 1.5.x line in Safari 4.1/5. Update Flash. Not even going into that rant. What version of Growl.prefsPane do you have installed? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; Sou

Re: Change machine specific installer requirements

2010-07-17 Thread Dan
his machine" I know the system is all the same but you're stuck with using it only on the machine it came with. I need to remove what ever it checks for. Like a helper program? You're asking for assistance in pirating the Mac OS. Unacceptable. Nannys? - Dan. -- - Psychoceram

Re: FF and NoScript

2010-07-14 Thread Dan
that are anything but a JPEG So why am I getting this error and how do I resolve it? Pogo be full of scripts. Maybe tell NoScript to ignore pages on that site? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: RAID 1 on USB2 Drives?

2010-07-14 Thread Dan
normal backup scheme to protect your data. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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://lowen

Re: Is a power inverter safe for laptops and iPods?

2010-07-14 Thread Dan
things in advance... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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://lowendmac.com/lists/g

Re: Last security update

2010-07-12 Thread Dan
problem!. Seriously. WTF. You know how rich auto shops would be if they sold you a new engine every time you had a flat tire?! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4,

Re: Connecting to any Wifi

2010-07-11 Thread Dan
r/log/cups/). Those are also viewing with Console.app... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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: Connecting to any Wifi

2010-07-11 Thread Dan
ll of the wifi's around my area but just won't connect. Macs? OS? Details please! "just doesn't connect" never ever happens. OS X always logs information. So check the system logs and find out exactly what went wrong. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; Sou

Re: Cube vs TiBook reliablity

2010-07-10 Thread Dan
At 9:21 AM -0700 7/10/2010, John Carmonne wrote: On Jul 10, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Dan wrote: At 8:45 AM -0700 7/10/2010, John Carmonne wrote: I have a question about the reliability of some Macs. I have two G4 Cube 500MHz and two Tibook 500MHz machines. The Cubes seem to be somewhat problem

Re: Cube vs TiBook reliablity

2010-07-10 Thread Dan
TiBooks have 1 GB Ram. Otherwise AFAICT all are the same, yet the TiBooks run along with out any hitch but the Cubes at least once a week have an issue' Anyone know maybe why? "an issue"? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this mess

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-09 Thread Dan
At 7:55 AM -0700 7/9/2010, t...@io.com wrote: On Jul 8, 1:26 pm, Dan wrote: At 10:47 AM -0700 7/8/2010, t...@io.com wrote: > >By freezing/lock up, it doesn't lock up the computer. The copy just >stops progressing and the drive stops responding. The host computer >is

Re: Online backup ??

2010-07-08 Thread Dan
expands to fill all available space. :) FWIW, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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://l

Re: Online backup ??

2010-07-08 Thread Dan
timate the bandwidth of a VW Bug full of printouts. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-08 Thread Dan
does anything quietly. *Always* check the logs! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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

Re: Online backup ??

2010-07-08 Thread Dan
x27;s sock draw is the best "offsite" localle. Work out a trade dealio, you stash his and he stashes yours. To be really save tho, make sure his home is outside of your blast radius. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message

Re: Modem DOCSIS speeds

2010-07-08 Thread Dan
tally unfollowable. This is 1% ***NOT*** the way to get good tech support. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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: Modem DOCSIS speeds

2010-07-07 Thread Dan
to, to make the hop into the cable company's ethernet LAN. (Of course, this ignores various node configurations, where they first convert your coax signal to fiber to get down the big streets etc. It is this approach that makes them "Hybrid Networks"). - Dan. -- - Psychocerami

Re: Modem DOCSIS speeds

2010-07-07 Thread Dan
SIS 3.0 wasn't going to get him any more speed than a DOCSIS 2.0 unit. Who is right here? Moot. At those speeds, either modem is sufficient. But the cable company may be doing temporary cap boosting and other flow control / quality of service type things that require DOCSIS 3 features.

Re: Fresh out of ideas on .dmg mounts

2010-07-06 Thread Dan
)" from this link:http:// support.apple.com/downloads/#security%20update%20tiger, it won't install. All the partitions had red rain-drop arrows on them. II'm not sure if I'm suppose to uninstall previous updates. If so, could someone please say I how I do this. Install it while boote

Re: Fresh out of ideas on .dmg mounts

2010-07-06 Thread Dan
hardware issue: bad RAM, a failing drive, etc. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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: i need help building this mac

2010-07-06 Thread Dan
At 7:41 AM -0700 7/6/2010, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: On Jul 6, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Dan wrote: Duct tape the G3's power supply onto the top of the QuickSilver. A knitted cozy will cover it nicely. I have blue Duct tape that would be a nice contrast with the QuickSliver:-) hum. I donno. Rea

Re: i need help building this mac

2010-07-06 Thread Dan
supply box won't fit. I tried an ATX power supply box, and looks like it didn't work out. Is there any ATX power supply box I could use to work with the G3 disguised as a G4 quicksilver? Duct tape the G3's power supply onto the top of the QuickSilver. A knitted cozy will cover it

Re: Fresh out of ideas on .dmg mounts

2010-07-06 Thread Dan
At 5:52 AM -0700 7/6/2010, nestwasright wrote: On Jul 6, 12:02 am, Dan wrote: At 9:33 PM -0600 7/5/2010, Nestamicky wrote: > >I've spent the whole evening trying to find out the solution to this >one. Fresh 10.4.11 install. Completely fresh with all updates that >were

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