Re: Thinking about a new CPU for a Sawtooth 500 mhz G4

2010-01-27 Thread tortoise
On Jan 23, 12:14 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Jan 23, 2010, at 12:05 PM, A.McCullough wrote: Still learning the ins and outs of this series of Macs ... what   basic options would I be looking at? I've read that some upgrade   CPUS would need firmware upgrades

Re: VideoLan has finally reached version 1.0.0

2009-07-09 Thread tortoise
On Jul 7, 8:02 am, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote: In an extremely rare milestone, a valuable open source project has   released a 1.0.0 version. Its not rare really. Some developers prefer not to number 1.0 or above where others would be up to version 3. Its just a style of doing

Re: Was;Return to PowerPC?Now HackinSonyMac

2009-07-09 Thread tortoise
On Jul 9, 1:01 am, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:08 AM, tortoisecymraeg...@gmail.com wrote: MOL is not an emulator, it runs natively on POWER hardware. I am very sorry to disturb you further ! I thought we were on the same side here?

Re: Was;Return to PowerPC?Now HackinSonyMac

2009-07-08 Thread tortoise
Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Recently other threads about violating the Apple EULA [snip] how is running OS X on a Playstation 3 any less of a violation of the Apple EULA than running it on an Intel or AMD machine i.e. a ( non- Apple ) PC? Even that running under emulation? MOL is not

Re: Return to PowerPC?

2009-07-06 Thread tortoise
On Jul 5, 11:36 pm, MaGioZal magio...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/6/09 2:52 AM, PeterH at peterh5...@rattlebrain.com wrote: On Jul 5, 2009, at 10:27 PM, MaGioZal wrote: The RISC had a lot of promises, but many times hadn't delivered them. IBM had problems with their design which was why they

Re: 800 MHz Sonnet G4 Zif

2009-06-30 Thread tortoise
On Jun 29, 9:48 pm, glen glenst...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message PS: I wonder if the 800 MHz processor with the dropped 66 MHz bus speed will offer much of a speed boost over the current 350 MHz processor and the 100 MHz bus speed?? Is it worth the effort? Why/ how was

Re: 800 MHz Sonnet G4 Zif

2009-06-29 Thread tortoise
On Jun 28, 3:40 pm, glen glenst...@yahoo.com wrote: Recently acquired a Sonnet 800 MHz ZIF upgrade for a G3 BW. I need some install/user guide type info. Searching Google and the Sonnet support was not helpful. You must remove the G4 Block which is in the Firmware (not the jumper block

Re: Dual upgrade for Digital Audio

2009-06-22 Thread tortoise
On Jun 22, 12:03 am, Ralph Green sfrea...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Howdy, [snip]  Or, it could be that this hack does not work on the Sawtooth.  Any thoughts? We've been through this argument before. There was a guy selling modified board from 133mhz bus to work on 100mhz, listed a bunch on ebay

Re: Arrrggh! G4 dies from just sitting there?

2009-06-19 Thread tortoise
On Jun 18, 2:00 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Jun 18, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Clark Martin wrote: I have a client who had a, then, not so old PM8500 stored in a San Francisco garage for 6 months. All the bare metal panels were heavily oxidized. And while the

Re: browser speed

2009-06-18 Thread tortoise
On Jun 17, 12:12 pm, Lawrence David Eden lde...@comcast.net wrote: Greetings, I am on an upgraded BW500mhz, 896MB RAM.  Sonnet G4 upgrade. I have been using Firefox as my main browser, but decided to give a couple of other browsers a try to see if they showed video any better.  I

Re: The powerpc now and in the future....

2009-06-16 Thread tortoise
On Jun 12, 9:53 pm, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: PCI slot based accelerators have a bottleneck built right in. Hardly worth the effort IMO. mmm but g5 has pci-X, right, and that does not have bottleneck ? anyway this should be some thing more like another computer

Re: SUSE ppc and ethernet

2009-06-10 Thread tortoise
On Jun 9, 2:09 pm, greens...@care4free.net greens...@care4free.net wrote: After trying various distros I now have Open SUSE 11 running on my G4 450 Mhz - once I formatted the partition to Unix it all installed smoothly. However, on attempting to set up broadband I find that my ethernet is

Re: Where Do I Find Reliable Info On Color Critical Monitor Choices?

2009-06-10 Thread tortoise
On Jun 9, 10:45 am, aussieshepsrock ilovaussiesh...@yahoo.com wrote: Seeking a reliable web resource or resources to become knowledgeable in choosing a color critical Monitor for myself. I'm 'provisionally' settled on the DELL ULTRASHARP 2408WFP 24-inch Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor which

The powerpc now and in the future....

2009-06-10 Thread tortoise
Well this is sort of an anti-reply to the orphaned thread. I have been happily dual booting Linux and MacOS's for about 5 years now. I have os8 and debian lenny on two quadras. I have os9 and debian squeeze on a powerbookG3 250 (that's the next upcoming version of Linux) and it works well for

Re: browser question

2009-06-09 Thread tortoise
On Jun 8, 10:23 am, Joan Duncan jn...@q.com wrote: I use SeaMonkey as my browser and for some reason it has drastically slowed down. I tried rebuilding the desktop with Disk Warrior 3.o.3 which had no effect. Forgive me for my lapse but would it help to download SM again? Do I just throw

Re: browser question

2009-06-09 Thread tortoise
On Jun 8, 10:23 am, Joan Duncan jn...@q.com wrote: Do I just throw the other one away once I have downloaded the new one? For myself just to be safe I usually try the new one first, move the old one to the trash or out on the desktop while you test.

Re: browser question

2009-06-09 Thread tortoise
On Jun 8, 10:23 am, Joan Duncan jn...@q.com wrote: Do I just throw the other one away once I have downloaded the new one? You can drag the old one out to the desktop first and then drop the new one in your applications folder, or drag the new one from the disk image icon to the desktop before

Re: Very Stubborn Quicksilver

2009-06-03 Thread tortoise
On Jun 3, 6:09 pm, Brian Rule hellcat...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I hate to say you told me so, but you told me so. I downloaded memtest and ran it with each of the 133 sticks I have booted in to tiger on my older HD. Turns out the one 512 meg chip I have failed pretty much every test, so I

Re: Safari 4 bloat

2009-05-28 Thread tortoise
On May 27, 1:54 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: I upgraded an old G3 iBook with too little HD free space to Safari 4 about 3 weeks ago. I rarely use this iBook, so I was being careful, and making due with about 1 GB free space for Tiger 10.4.11. Yesterday things literally ground

Re: Drivers for non Mac devices in a Mac

2009-05-18 Thread tortoise
On May 17, 2:42 pm, willy w_arn...@att.net wrote: I used to have an addy for drivers that others made for devices that allowed non Mac items to work on a Mac. I had HD trouble lost it. Well of course the way search engines work these days you need unambiguous keywords. And it would

Re: Best Game site, for iMac G3 400, running OSX?

2009-05-12 Thread tortoise
Mullin9 wrote: What is the Best Game site, for iMac G3 400, running OSX? the ones made around 2000, 2002. ? Thank you You are looking for games made when, on version of osX made when ? I have play a few games from ~ 2000 - 2002 that were made for os9 through 10.1 Sometimes the OS is very

Re: Sound Card(s) in PowerBook 17....

2009-05-06 Thread tortoise
On May 5, 8:04 pm, AHarmon harmon...@gmail.com wrote: Now, before the flamethrowers gear up, could someone patiently explain exactly what 2 sound cards are doing in my PB 17 and what I can do with this: Crystal Semiconductor CS84xx: S/PDIF Digital Input... how to use help please...

Re: Need to back up my 9600 to my G3

2009-05-02 Thread tortoise
W. Neal Lewis wrote: I need to back up my 9600 running 9.2.2 to my G3 running 10.3.9. I want to get a bootable backup for the 9600. I don't see why the second requires the first. You want to burn a bootable cd on the g3 ? The 9600 has a Sonnet G4 processor and a Seagate Barracuda SCSI

Re: Need help - Video card compatibility for my G4

2009-04-17 Thread tortoise
On Apr 16, 7:04 am, Paul pper...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 15, 8:44 am, dc dbc...@verizon.net wrote: You can check video card compatibility for your beast here: http://themacelite.wikidot.com/compatibility They have extensive information on flashing a PC video card for Mac use, which

Re: question about our Group

2009-04-06 Thread tortoise
On Apr 4, 5:32 am, Lawrence David Eden lde...@comcast.net wrote: I have a Sonnet upgrade card that I no longer use.  Is it OK on this list to offer items like this for sale to members of our Group? They say you are allowed one item per year (per group I think) Personally, I would like to

Re: resurrecting a hard drive?

2009-04-03 Thread tortoise
On Apr 3, 9:18 am, Charles Lenington macso...@brightok.net wrote: snip- Get one of these http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020-OTBcpc=SCH and stop tearing into systems to do this sort of thing. With this you can boot from a functioning Mac and work on these drives without

Re: Multiple HDs in Sawtooth

2009-03-25 Thread tortoise
On Mar 24, 3:08 pm, nestamicky nestami...@gmail.com wrote: Hurray...I'm going SCSI's on my Sawtooth...well, as soon as I get the help I need. I'm trying to figure out how to safely install more than a single HD in the Sawtooth. Ideas...someone here must have done it. This is a physical

Re: xserve question

2009-03-25 Thread tortoise
Dude, it says right at the bottom no Xserve g4s ! On Mar 24, 8:23 pm, Bill Christensen billc_li...@greenbuilder.com wrote: At 5:11 PM -0700 3/24/09, Jonas Ulrich wrote: I just bought two Xserve G4's. They are on there way and i had some questions. I know you can get the apple drive modules

Re: Help! I've lost one harddrive and now the main harddrive won't boot!

2009-03-22 Thread tortoise
I'd like the thank the originator of this tip. I had a few drives reporting bad spots (in the full SMART report which you get only when you download the source and build it; and also when I tried to secure erase I got write errors *sometimes* w/ hangs, noted in apple console logs) Yes, erasing

Re: White MacBook Purchase?

2009-03-20 Thread tortoise
On Mar 20, 11:45 am, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM, technophobic_...@comcast.net wrote: The gestapo has spoken. Better tremble. lol Fabian stepped up when others quit over the top posting rule change. They were frustrated over a

Re: Best G4 powermac??

2009-03-17 Thread tortoise
On Mar 16, 4:37 pm, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 15, 12:17 am, Paul pper...@gmail.com wrote: How would a low-to-medium grade G5 compare? It may help to look here:http://www.macintouch.com/reviews/macpro/benchmarks.html It might help to know that a high end g4 dual

Re: Best G4 powermac??

2009-03-17 Thread tortoise
On Mar 17, 1:17 pm, jonas ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote: Well thank you all for your help. I have decided on something else entirely. I just bought an Xserve G4 DP 1GHZ for $175.-Jonas I saw one of those myself and thought about it, but the seller wanted $400; so I passed. But I

Re: Best G4 powermac??

2009-03-13 Thread tortoise
On Mar 12, 9:32 am, PeterH peterh5...@rattlebrain.com wrote: On Mar 12, 2009, at 9:15 AM, jonas ulrich wrote: authoring a single-layer DVD from   the same source files which exceed the capacity of a single-layer   DVD, I don't understand, you are overfilling it so it fails ? 1) Dual

Re: LEM Server Project Update

2009-03-11 Thread tortoise
On Mar 10, 1:50 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:15:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan the listmom lowend...@gmail.com To: LEM Swap lems...@googlegroups.com Subject: LEM Server Project Update Friends: I'd like to say thanks to list members who are helping us set up a

Re: G4 CPU swap into Blue White G3

2009-03-06 Thread tortoise
On Mar 5, 5:46 am, PeterH peterh5...@rattlebrain.com wrote: On Mar 5, 2009, at 5:33 AM, tonycd wrote: What's the newest variety of G4 whose swapped-out CPU will drop into a Blue White G3? I traded a megahertz for megahertz G4s for the G3s in two of my BWs,   and I was disappointed.

Re: Power Mac G3 Blue And White Upgrade info

2009-03-06 Thread tortoise
On Mar 4, 7:33 pm, Stephen Weber maryland...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I finally got a replacement motherboard for my G3 Blue and White (Rev1). I need to know so some stuff about doing some upgrades to it: What is the best video card I can get for it?

Re: swapping processors

2009-03-05 Thread tortoise
On Mar 4, 4:04 am, Lawrence David Eden lde...@comcast.net wrote: I am still working on transferring from an old computer (Beige) to a newer 450mhz G4. I have an Encore Zif upgrade in the Beige that should also work in the G4. Does that mean that I can take the ZIF from the (I hope I have

Re: NVidia GeForce MX4 question

2009-03-05 Thread tortoise
On Mar 4, 7:57 pm, tortoise cymraeg...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 3, 9:11 pm, insightinmind billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: On Mar 4, 2009, at 12:06 AM, tortoise wrote: ?Drivers? Os9 includes ati drivers but not nvidia. found an os9.2.2 driver here: http://mac.softpedia.com/get

Re: NVidia GeForce MX4 question

2009-03-04 Thread tortoise
On Mar 3, 9:11 pm, insightinmind billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: On Mar 4, 2009, at 12:06 AM, tortoise wrote: ?Drivers? Os9 includes ati drivers but not nvidia. However nvidia is pretty friendly... at least for linux... found an os9.2.2 driver here: http://mac.softpedia.com/get

Re: NVidia GeForce MX4 question

2009-03-03 Thread tortoise
On Mar 3, 8:34 pm, Dana Collins dlcatft...@verizon.net wrote: On 3/3/09 7:34 AM, dc of dbc...@verizon.net sent Like everyone else already said, a 4MX will run in a QS. I have one in a Digital Audio, a slightly older Mac. Make sure the card is seated correctly then press the reset

Re: Switching off Tiger feature, on slow Mac.

2009-03-02 Thread tortoise
First thing disable dashboard app, using TinkerTool (google it up) Take it out of the dock ! At least 512MB RAM. if slow means a 233-333 mhz then a faster cpu would help (a lot !) imho it maxes out around a 550. in my experience, going from 233 to 466 helped a bunch. I also did some

Re: Sawtooth to Supertooth

2009-02-25 Thread tortoise
On Feb 23, 10:13 am, dadadata dadad...@gmail.com wrote: I have a Sawtooth 450mhz with AGP video. Is there any CPU drop-in that will take it to around 600-650mhz? The same kind of retrofit thingys are selling on ebay, prices range $30-50 Now how about a 600-650 ZIF ?? I can do, but don't

Re: Sawtooth vs DA/QuickSilver

2009-02-13 Thread tortoise
, tortoise cymraeg...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I just got this 1.5ghz cpu for my sawtooth and am enjoying it. I am wondering since the card is compatible would it be worth it to go toDA. Has anybody had the two to compare ? Also could I transplant a motherboard into the sawtooth case (possibly

Re: Interesting comparison of 500MHZ DP vs. 533MHZ 1.67GHZ single

2009-02-11 Thread tortoise
On Feb 9, 3:11 pm, insightinmind billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: Deinterlacing Set / Not Set can make a big difference when using DVD   Player. On my computer putting deinterlace on results in a pretty big picture improvement (that is less pixelated, not like drop frames) on some (?all - I

Re: Satan before coffee

2009-02-09 Thread tortoise
On Feb 8, 8:08 am, Dennis Myhand dmyh...@suddenlink.net wrote: Dan wrote: OMG!  Satan is using 92% of my CPU! || d'oh.  Safari. Okay, question from a noob here.  Who is Satan in this case, or do I take it for granted you refer to the gentleman from Redmond, WA?

Re: PACE ??

2009-02-08 Thread tortoise
On Feb 7, 12:03 pm, Charles Davis c...@gamewood.net wrote: MDD Dual 1.25 1GB RAM Dialup Internet connection (to watch transfer speeds) This is going to take forever Use Curl ! first, it allows you to resume partial downloads, second, it is friendlier with your computer (trust me).

Re: OT Woz News

2009-02-06 Thread tortoise
Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Yeah, good luck with that. Recent business news shows that what makes a successful CEO is snatching up trainloads of cash in a golden parachute after a few years as they decimate the company. Oh, they VPs they follow along to make sure they get theirs.

Re: Sawtooth vs DA/QuickSilver

2009-02-06 Thread tortoise
PeterH wrote: On Feb 4, 2009, at 9:36 PM, tortoise wrote: The cited ePray auction, above, is for a later 100 MHz bus CPU in an earlier 100 MHz bus Mac, not a 133 MHz bus CPU (such as QS or DA) in a 100 MHz bus Mac As far as I know, no 600mhz 7410 put in a 100mhz bus machine was made

Re: Sawtooth vs DA/QuickSilver

2009-02-03 Thread tortoise
On Feb 2, 2:14 pm, PeterH peterh5...@rattlebrain.com wrote: On Feb 2, 2009, at 1:51 PM, PeterH wrote: The dual 800 MHz G4 (QS 2001) and the dual 1.0 GHz G4 (QS 2002) use the same raw board, but these are otherwise quite different, with different regulator components, etcetera, between

Re: looking for some help

2009-02-02 Thread tortoise
On Feb 1, 5:30 pm, roger deghetto linuxuse...@yahoo.com wrote: i have a mdd powermac and non of my computer geek friends could answer me and the one just made it worse i know its i wikipeda didnt seem to help me much either is what is dvi to hidef i know its digital but that doesnt help is

Re: best browser now

2009-02-01 Thread tortoise
On Jan 31, 8:17 am, Peter peter1...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 31, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Dan wrote: At 8:39 PM -0800 1/30/2009, tortoise wrote: It seems to me that icab is now fastest browser for powerpc. I should have been clearer perhaps. I had tried icab before and found it slow, even

best browser now

2009-01-30 Thread tortoise
It seems to me that icab is now fastest browser for powerpc. I had been using firefox and then I went to a g4 optimized version of Seamonkey. Then I got the newest icab. Its quite a bit better on my 550g4 (7410). --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Sawtooth vs DA/QuickSilver

2009-01-30 Thread tortoise
hi, I just got this 1.5ghz cpu for my sawtooth and am enjoying it. I am wondering since the card is compatible would it be worth it to go to DA. Has anybody had the two to compare ? Also could I transplant a motherboard into the sawtooth case (possibly along with the higher rated powersupply)