On 3/9/11 12:07 PM, Paxton wrote:
I have been buying 9800 Pros (PC versions) from $15 to $20 at the Free
Geeks thrift store in Portland Oregon. I also found one at the Next
Step thrift Store in Eugene Oregon. Goodwill just established a
computer store in Eugene also but I didn't see any
On 3/9/11 3:06 PM, Paxton wrote:
I have been buying 9800 Pros (PC versions) from $15 to $20 at the Free
Geeks thrift store in Portland Oregon.
That's because you live in Geek Paradise, Northwest. Those of us not so
blessed envy you. May your feet mold and your hair drip with moss and small
On 3/5/11 8:43 PM, Sean Carroll wrote:
Like puzzles? Good (good) mysteries?
Look at these:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22707686/DSCN1042.JPG
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22707686/DSCN1043.JPG
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22707686/DSCN1051.JPG
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22707686/DSCN1063.JPG
Then:
On 3/6/11 6:50 AM, Dan wrote:
Easy enough to verify: Run Activity Monitor. Set it to update less
often. Display the system memory pane. Watch the size of the Inactive
list and the page in/out rates. If the inactive list is tiny, then
you're low on RAM. If the paging rates are going nutz
On 3/5/11 3:24 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
He also wants admin privileges for his Mac. I say no cuz
I want to vet any software he gets it into his head to install.
Good idea. :-) The few bits of malware for the Mac OS that exist still
need admin permissions to install, and they are getting
On 1/10/11 11:38 AM, Greg Kennedy wrote:
Thanks to everyone who has helped me with my various questions and issues
over the past few weeks. This is the result of all my tinkering:
http://nwserver.ath.cx/nwserver/?p=16
-Greg
Nice post there.
Regarding the wireless, I went and dug through
On 1/1/11 12:05 PM, Greg Kennedy wrote:
Greetings
It's one of the Digital Audio dual-533 models, with a 40gb hard drive,
GeForce2 MX, and 640mb RAM.
*snip*
* The PC100 128MB RAM stick I put in the spare slot is not recognized. Some
research shows that
certain Power Macs are picky and
On 12/11/10 7:42 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
When using an optical in an external enclosure, what should the jumpers be
set to? Master, slave or cable select?
I usually set it to master as it's the only device that is on the IDE
chain in said enclosure.
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On 12/4/10 6:43 PM, dc wrote:
I recently brought my old 733 Digital Audio back to life. Currently
it's sporting a modified 5200 from a G5, but after digging in my parts
pile, I've found a 9600XT from Sapphire.
If the VRAM chips (there should be 4 of them on the fan side of the
card) are
On 12/5/10 12:03 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
The type of RAM probably only indicates the version of the card. The usual
problem with flashing a card with Mac firmware is that the flash ROM isn't
big enough to take the Mac firmware.
To which I have seen reduced ROM's as the 'solution' to
On 12/3/10 9:23 PM, Bill Connelly wrote:
On Dec 4, 2010, at 12:04 AM, Justin The Cynical wrote:
It's been a while since I looked into this, and I'm not finding much now.
.
So, does anyone know of an active site, IRC channel, or even still have
the info for doing this?
*snip
It's been a while since I looked into this, and I'm not finding much now.
I recently brought my old 733 Digital Audio back to life. Currently
it's sporting a modified 5200 from a G5, but after digging in my parts
pile, I've found a 9600XT from Sapphire.
Looking around on google, I'm only
On 8/2/10 4:42 PM, glen wrote:
Need I new monitor. My old 20 LCD Dell is on life support. No complaints got
used as a gift many years ago.
My budget is in the $150 range and the primary use is for graphic arts
(commercial but not too color sensitive) and secondarily for general web
On 7/17/10 10:18 PM, Dan wrote:
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*snip*
Remember that the purpose of these LEM mailing lists is TECHNICAL
SUPPORT, not pretty animated icon cutsie email chatty please pass the
nail polish.
That's a good one Dan, I'll have to remember that one.
I don't speak
On 7/9/10 6:43 AM, Eric Herbert wrote:
*snip*
A lot of people swear by Hitachi drives and I've never understood it. The
Deathstar IBM drives were made by Hitachi during their entire run. The
stigma hurt IBM so badly that they sold off the whole division to Hitachi
over it.
*snip*
On 7/9/10 12:00 PM, john CARMONNE wrote:
*snip*
For fear of sounding dumb. Just what does a person do with the magnets?
Where are they in the drive.
You don't sound dumb, not at all. A lot of people don't realize that a
hard drive has magnets in them (kind of ironic, considering that a
On 7/2/10 2:09 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
anybody ever did this?
I was told that the apple branded DVR-117D is actually a DVR-108 and
apple sold the 117D without the dual burning features of the 108? Can I
flash this drive and fix this problem? I found the below link but am not
sure where to
On 6/24/2010 13:10, dc wrote:
On Jun 16, 12:56 am, Mark Sokolovskycoolmar...@gmail.com wrote:
I have an Nvidia GeForce 6200 AGP
with 256Mb DDR2 RAM AGP 8X, and it's a PC card. Can somebody show me step by
step instructions to get it working on my PM G4 Sawtooth?
After yo flash the ROM you
On 6/17/10 1:48 AM, James Therrault wrote:
On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
*snip*
failure until yesterday. I took it apart, and the entire disk was
charred/scratched inside. How wonderful? Next time i'll think twice
before buying Hard drives from Maxtor.
Pics! Pics!
On 6/13/10 6:42 PM, Albert Carter wrote:
Mark,
Since you are going to re-do the video to prove this I have one further
suggestion. Do this as one complete video, do not segment it and do not turn
off or pause the video camera. This will lead to further validate your proof.
Albert
On 6/13/10 9:08 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
Like I said, you don't have to believe me if you don't want to. If You don't
believe, than good for you. Everyone's different. If you look at my evidence
in the face and say that it's fake or a scam, well then, oh well. I really
don't care. For those
On 6/5/10 12:42 PM, ah...clem wrote:
have a few mice with broken wires where cord exits the mouse. can't
see how to open mouse to cut and reconnect the wires. anyone know how
to pry open this chinese puzzle box? thx.
http://lmgtfy.org/?q=usb+pro+mouse+repair
Seriously, searching for usb
icanswing wrote:
Hi,
What brand of LCD monitors will work on my Mac g4? It has 2 hookups one is VGA
and the other is ADC.
They never specify the hookups on the description on the monitors. But I'm
thinking that viewsonic may be the ones that are compatible with macs.
Any suggestions?
PM7500 wrote:
The FX5200 for the G5 Xserve is PCI. The G5 Xserve doesn't have a AGP
slot.
Who is talking about a xserve? I was referring to the original G5
'cheese grater' tower, which had an AGP Pro slot.
I had one of of the NVidia FX cards from a G5 tower and, after
modification, used it
Dan wrote:
At 8:12 PM -0700 3/27/2010, Justin The Cynical wrote:
Dan wrote:
What you NEED is good surge protection. The battery backup
feature of
a UPS is gravy.
I would have to partially disagree Dan.
The battery backup is gravy, yes.
What one needs is good surge protection
Dan wrote:
At 8:07 AM -0700 3/27/2010, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
what exactly do I need plugged into [a UPS]?
Nothing.
What you NEED is good surge protection. The battery backup feature of
a UPS is gravy.
- Dan.
I would have to partially disagree Dan.
The battery backup is gravy, yes.
The M wrote:
Thanks. That's a great site. Maybe I'll pick a cheap card up when I have the cash and
flash it. Why do they make mac compatible cards more expensive? Is it because macs
cost more and that means that mac owners have more money?
On Mar 22, 2010, at 8:28 PM, Rory zengri...@gmail.com
The M wrote:
I'll look into that. I googled NVidia FX5200 and I saw a really cheap 256MB
card but it was PCI. Do pci graphics cards work with the MDD's?
You can't compare Apples and oranges. And Microsoft is the orange here.
Hmm? I'm not aware of NVidia/Apple ever making a PCI FX5200
Ben Dinger wrote:
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 01:38:26PM -0800, Jonas Ulrich wrote:
*snip*
3. Could it harm the machine to use it before replacing the capacitors?
Maybe. I had a machine (PC) that had bad caps from about the second
week of ownership due to a cheap motherboard, and it lasted
On 12/15/2009 4:48 AM, Ross wrote:
*snip*
Yeah, I misread the OP, so I deleted the post! I wonder why it showed
up after I confirmed to REMOVE IT? This is the second or third this
same error has occured. Something is WRONG with the REMOVE option!
Pisses me off to appear the fool, when it is
Silverhammer wrote:
Hi all,
I have a G4 Gigabit Ethernet dual 500 I'm looking to speed up for
cheap.
I found a PowerMac G4 800 MHz CPU from a working Quicksilver 2002.
Questions:
- Will this cpu work in the GigEthernet?
and
- Will it be faster, or would the GigE be faster
Mullin9 wrote:
I don't believe you could readily adapt Apple's firmware to a PS3. I
don't see much point - OS X on PPC is dead, anyway.
And finally, Cell isn't /that/ quick - SP-to-RAM access is dismal, in
particular - OS X couldn't use the SPs anyway.
Some one did it, it is on youtube
Clark Martin wrote:
Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Apr 29, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Paul wrote:
.I had been reading about how UPS's in general don't provide
very good quality power in a blackout,
That's a very odd statement to make, since when running off of battery
UPS'es are providing as clean a
Dana Collins wrote:
*snip*
On first boot of the DA's newly installed OS, Airport immediately
recognized the ESSID of the router, and let me easily plug in the WEP
password, set up a keychain, and launched connection with no problem -
signal is clear as a bell. The Airport app shows that the
Mullin9 wrote:
the Second CPU will double the speed of your Mac,
Incorrect.
A second CPU does not 'double the speed' of any machine.
Per http://www.devx.com/go-parallel/Article/27399:
With current dual processor arrangements single threaded apps are
expected to see a 10% increase in
Kris Tilford wrote:
On Oct 19, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Ross wrote:
learn how to take a proper picture with your camera...
Look for the Macro button when you're taking close-ups.
I think the odds are greater that the AGP slot is bad, rather than the
card is bad. Try to borrow a known good
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