Jury/jerry rigging.

Here's the Wikipaedia definition of both terms. "Jury rigging refers to makeshift repairs or temporary contrivances, made with only the tools and materials that happen to be on hand. Originally a nautical term, on sailing ships a jury rig is a replacement mast and yard

Firewire 400 not working in G5 PowerMac

Greetings all :+) I've just acquired my first G5: a 1.8GHz with 1GB of memory. It came with 10.4 installed on an 80GB drive, and I put in a 500GB drive, and installed 10.5 on to it (my first SATA experience - went very smoothly) via Firewire 800 from one of my MirrorDoors, which came with a Time

Re: 1.25 eMac running in safe mode.

On 4 March 2010 01:19, Dan wrote: > At 11:51 PM + 3/3/2010, Dan Stobbs wrote: > >> eMac >> > > memory? > 512MB > > Does it bong? > Yes. > > Does it pass AHT? > Didn't occur to me to try that - good one -I've got several AHT disks

1.25 eMac running in safe mode.

I recently bought one of these with the failing caps problem. described thusly "... as spares and repairs because I dont have the time to reinstall Mac OSX boots up to statup then sits on mac loading screen may just need reinstalling ." [image: Photobucket]

Heavy duty, feels-good keyboard for typist with a vengeance

I can certainly recommend Lindy USB Mac specific keyboards. They use switches rather than a membrane, so they're very positive action (although not the quietest in the world!) and also have two USB sockets so rodents can be plugged in. Don't know if they still make them to this standard: I've bou