Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-14 Thread Joshua Juran
On Feb 13, 2012, at 10:21 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2012/02/13 08:23, Barry Levine so eloquently wrote: I changed the subject line. That always has seemed to start a new thread. There is a number in the headers that determines what thread a message belongs to, what the subject line contains is

Re: OS 8.6 submenu limit? Other questions.

2012-02-14 Thread Joshua Juran
On Feb 14, 2012, at 12:56 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2012/02/14 01:08, Joshua Juran so eloquently wrote: The great thing about standards is... you can always ignore them and do it your own way! That is an excellent idea Joshua, why didn't I think of that?!?!?! Tell you what, you go ahead

Re: Don't Landfill old Mac's

2012-01-09 Thread Joshua Juran
On Jan 7, 2012, at 11:20 PM, David W. Morris wrote: I am not a part of the group of guys that develop MorphOS2.7 and I get no compensation for promoting it. The team of guys only make enough money from registrations for a bit of Pizza and Beers once in a while. Hardly what could be

Re: iPad, G4, and Lion

2012-01-07 Thread Joshua Juran
On Jan 7, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Doug McNutt wrote: At a user group meeting last week a question was asked that nobody could answer. The user was not, shall we say, knowledgeable about version and model numbers and the like but it went like this: Highly interpreted sort of a quote begins. I

Re: keyboard shortcut

2011-12-16 Thread Joshua Juran
On Dec 16, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: In the old days..pre OSX, there was a program that we could use to create keyboard shortcuts. IIRC, the program was an Apple programthe name escapes me. MacroMaker? That perished when Apple introduced the latest and

Re: POLITICAL STATEMENT?

2011-11-24 Thread Joshua Juran
On Nov 23, 2011, at 11:41 AM, John Callahan wrote: In the original post the poster referred to the United States as a Socialist country! I take high offense at that extreme denunciation as I am a veteran of WWII and associate Socialist with the NATIONAL SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY, commonly

Re: Pesky hardware problem

2011-10-19 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 18, 2011, at 12:47 AM, QuoVadis wrote: I too use an eMac as my daily machine. It's the 1.25Ghz G4, has 2GB of RAM. Everything else is standard (40GB disk, Radeon 9200 32MB). If I want to play YouTube films on this machine, I need to select 360p or 240p. In case of 360p I need to let it

Re: daisy-chaining back up drive?

2011-10-09 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 9, 2011, at 2:09 PM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote: maybe a stupid question, but I never succeded in accessing the old g3 from 10.4 or 10.5 - I can only do it the other way around - i.e., I can access the 10.x macs from 9.2.2, but not the 9.2.2 from 10.x Sometimes I use HTTP to transfer

Re: Sad day...

2011-10-08 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 7, 2011, at 6:50 PM, Arnel Tuazon wrote: On 11-10-05 11:31 PM, Valter Prahlad valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it wrote: Am I missing something? Yup, the enormous 512x512 icons didn't ship until 10.5 Leopard, when Apple was promoting resolution independence. I really love easter

Re: Cool hack for an old keyboard...

2011-08-12 Thread Joshua Juran
On Aug 12, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: http://hackaday.com/2011/08/12/overhaul-an-old-mechanical-keyboard/ I'm typing this on a Matias Tactile Pro. :-) Noisy cricket, but it feels

Re: Beige G3 graphics card resolution options?

2011-08-11 Thread Joshua Juran
On Aug 11, 2011, at 4:36 AM, QuoVadis wrote: IIRC, MacOS 9 only does 4:3 resolutions, but I have only had 4:3 monitors connected to my G3 BW. I have had my beige-which-is- actually- platinum G3 connected to a LCD TV before, but still only 4:3. Mac OS 9 does just fine with Apple's 5:4

Re: Upgrading to Lion

2011-08-04 Thread Joshua Juran
On Aug 4, 2011, at 7:00 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: Lion is intended to be 64-bit, but only the Finder MUST run in 64- bit. The kernel is 32-/64-bit as is almost everything else (except the Finder). You may boot Lion into 32-bit (arch=i386, in the boot loader's boot flags), but the

Re: Maybe off topic?

2011-08-03 Thread Joshua Juran
On Aug 3, 2011, at 6:30 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: How do I set up the router to prevent this .. I know it is some sort of password but I can not seem to find the staring point to begin the process. Setup your router to require WPA protection. Additionally, select as your password

Re: OS 10.5

2011-07-30 Thread Joshua Juran
On Jul 27, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Alexander Gomes wrote: From my understanding an upgrade in OSX wasn't really an upgrade. It would do a full install of the operating system and then copy the user files/apps and preferences(making sure the compatible ones were kept and the others tossed/converted.

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

2010-12-28 Thread Joshua Juran
On Dec 22, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: 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? It's SheepShaver. Since it doesn't implement hardware

Re: Fink

2010-12-16 Thread Joshua Juran
On Dec 11, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Tina K. wrote: I've read the FAQ on the Fink project but I'm still not entirely clear on what exactly it is. Is it an operating environment a la Java, or an emulator like Virtual Box or Wine? Is it strictly a repository of ported apps with apt-get

X11 (Re: Fink)

2010-12-16 Thread Joshua Juran
On Dec 11, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/12/11 13:42, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote: All applications installed in this fashion either run on the command line or via X-Windows That makes sense, thanks for the explination. When you say X- Windows, would that be X-11? X11

Re: hijacking

2010-11-10 Thread Joshua Juran
On Nov 10, 2010, at 1:31 AM, MichaelP wrote: Yes, it's hijacked. He hijacked PowerMac G3 AIO 'snapping/ popping' thread. I'm sensitive to and I object strongly to use of the word hijack to refer to refer to posting an original request for friendly help and info from exoerts if the

Re: Trying to bring a partition back to life

2010-11-10 Thread Joshua Juran
On Nov 9, 2010, at 6:29 PM, MaGioZal wrote: I am currently running Mac OS 9 and 10.4 on a Beige G3 PowerMac, and recently the biggest, non-booting partition which contained alot of softwares and data (from which I didn't make backup...:-/) just died down after some forced shutdowns. I've tried

Re: Anti-virus for Mac

2010-11-10 Thread Joshua Juran
On Nov 3, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: Why would you buy antivirus for mac I've never heard of anyone getting a virus on a mac, and I never have before. My last infection was 2002, when a client provided a CD-ROM of a ten year-old application which was infected, probably with

Re: hijacking

2010-11-10 Thread Joshua Juran
On Nov 10, 2010, at 8:53 AM, ah...clem wrote: put yourself in the other person's shoes for one moment, instead of being a petulant child. Good advice. are you so STOOPID that you can't figure out how to create a new thread instead of HI-JACKING someone elses', or just too frickin' LAZY?

Re: Horrible news for the troops in the field. IS the world about to change continued badly

2010-11-08 Thread Joshua Juran
On Nov 8, 2010, at 6:09 PM, Dan wrote: At 12:08 AM + 11/9/2010, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/apple-xserve-is-gone-is-os-x-server-next/4321 No. The world is not about to change due to this. I don't agree with that article's off-the-wall speculation

Re: Awesome mod...

2010-11-02 Thread Joshua Juran
On Nov 1, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/11/01 23:43, Jeff Bequette so eloquently wrote: Now if we could just squeeze a macbook into a clamshell... That would be too cool for school! Imagine the reaction you would get when you are working on a Tangerene MacBook. Well, mine's

Re: MDD Won't Boot from OS 9.2.2

2010-11-02 Thread Joshua Juran
On Nov 2, 2010, at 10:13 AM, t...@io.com wrote: So, the MDD seems to be pretty functional at this point with 9.2.2. I'm rather happy at solving these two issues, as this has been weighing in the back of mind for two years as one of the projects I should get to some day before the computer goes

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-26 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 26, 2010, at 6:52 PM, Ashgrove wrote: On Oct 26, 4:34 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: The only concrete example I can think of is at the Intel introduction where Jobs stated that the PowerPC was definitely going to be supported through the next OS version, which

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-25 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 25, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: We have lots of cats left on the list: [snip] Cheetah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.0 Josh -- 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

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-24 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Peter Haas wrote: On Oct 24, 2010, at 9:56 AM, James Therrault wrote: IBM was supposed to adapt PS2 to run on the PPC chips There WERE versions of that Microchannel machine which supported PPC. I think he meant OS/2. Josh -- You received this message

Re: Apple inside?

2010-10-24 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: -- Original message -- Subject: Re: Apple inside? Date:Sonntag 24 Oktober 2010N From:Daniel Stewart daniel.stewart...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com The thing was though the new PPC processor

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-21 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 21, 2010, at 3:38 AM, Brian Christmas wrote: On 21/10/2010, at 10:02 PM, James Therrault wrote: If things turn out as many are suggesting, Apple's ascension may run smack into a brick wall. Unless there's an early groundswelling, i doubt it. The hugely popular ascent of the iPad

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-21 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 21, 2010, at 4:38 AM, Arnel Tuazon wrote: On 21/10/10 7:02 AM, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote: And, I see Apple slipping into big brother mode which humankind will naturally resist. I have detected a creaping feeling of the heavy thumb of Applelonian control. ...And

Re: IS the world about to change ?

2010-10-20 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Fluxstringer wrote: Lion ? Don't know? I went to the Apple site to watch the streaming video of the presentation and was rudely greeted with this: Streaming video requires Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X Snow

Re: iTunes De-authorize issue on a G5

2010-10-18 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: When you have a DRM track the first thing to do is create a non-DRM duplicate, then trash the original DRM file and never worry about authorization again. It's your music, who are they to authorize anything? The zeroeth thing to do is

Re: 64-bit question

2010-10-15 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 15, 2010, at 8:03 PM, Arnel Tuazon wrote: I know my G5 is 64-bit (I have the late 2005 dual core PPC G5), but is Leopard (10.5.9) 64-bit? I've been looking on the net, but couldn't find a definitive answer. I was told that only 10.6+ is 64-bit. If this is true is there an

Re: Annoyance #23

2010-09-30 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 30, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Charles Davis wrote: G5 tower Dual 2Ghz, 2Gb RAM, System Profiler provides this information: and from USB string: Picture 3.pngPicture 2.png The problem, there is only ONE internal modem physically there. Naturally, I would prefer the V.92 one to be what is

Re: Annoyance #23

2010-09-30 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 30, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Charles Davis wrote: Hi Josh: Your right, because there IS only one device. The question is WHY the different identifications, and where is the 'spurious' information coming from. I.I they ARE two views of the same device, Why are the listings different?

Re: Always weird problems!!!

2010-09-27 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 26, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Dan wrote: At 1:49 AM -0400 9/26/2010, Charles Davis wrote: Sounds reasonable!!! But --- my impression was that the 'Dashboard' Widgets were 'useful little utilities, that were invoked by 'clicking on their Icon ON DASHBOARD. [But maybe thats too logical a

Re: Digital Audio won't boot os9

2010-09-24 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 24, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Richard Gerome wrote: I've been having the same problem too... I think you can not do a dual boot on Panther and higher it will only work with Jaguar and back??? I have a retail copy of OS 9.2.2 that came with my first version of OS 10 and it won't work and

Re: VersionTracker folds

2010-09-20 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 20, 2010, at 6:42 AM, ah...clem wrote: On Sep 19, 10:02 pm, Tina K. pengu...@gmx.com wrote: How can the Windows users stand it? u . . . they're WINBLOZE users. duh! how intelligent or discriminating could they possibly be? they've already demonstrated their willingness to eat

Re: Hardware or Software Problem?

2010-09-20 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 20, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Matt Rhinesmith wrote: What you're seeing is a kernel panic, which usually is because the OS detects a problem with the installed memory sticks. In my experience, it's because there is a mismatch in specs between two or more banks of RAM. I usually run the

Re: Digital Audio doesn't recognize Sonnet ST / processor temperature

2010-09-06 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 6, 2010, at 9:41 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: -- Original message -- Subject: Re: Digital Audio doesn't recognize Sonnet ST / processor temperature Date:Montag 06 September 2010N From:J.M.P.Hissel jo...@xs4all.nl To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com On