Re: How much HDD space can I fit in a G5 iMac?

2010-09-09 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
On 09/09/10 17:40PDT, iMac82 wrote: I recently received an iMac G5 (Powermac8,1) 20" in mint condition as a trade for my G4 iBook, and even though it has a 250GB HDD, I was wondering if I could fit something more like 1TB or better off 2TB. I am not sure how much HDD space a G5 iMac Late 2004 can

Re: Several G3 iMac DV 400 MHz questions

2010-09-09 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
On 08/09/10 03:01PDT, Walter Sheluk wrote: Excuse me for dropping into this discussion. I have a iMac G3 that has OS 9.2.2 installed by the guy that sold this blue bean. It is my understanding that i can install OS X on top, right ? However, the said iMac G3's optical drive can only read CD's

Re: Several G3 iMac DV 400 MHz questions

2010-09-09 Thread Jack Suggs
Walter, You can acquire an external drive, or install a CD/DVD drive in the iMac. You can install OS X "on top of" 9.2.2. Find a larger hard drive if 10 GB is too small. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Walter Sheluk wrote: Excuse me for dropping into this discussion. I have a iMac G3 that

How much HDD space can I fit in a G5 iMac?

2010-09-09 Thread iMac82
I recently received an iMac G5 (Powermac8,1) 20" in mint condition as a trade for my G4 iBook, and even though it has a 250GB HDD, I was wondering if I could fit something more like 1TB or better off 2TB. I am not sure how much HDD space a G5 iMac Late 2004 can take, but I really need to put in 2TB

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-09 Thread Eric Volker
> I keep getting told by authoritative folks in the IT industry that there > will be a flood of OS X malware "any day now"; I've been hearing that for > ten years. > > Any day now. > > I do wish you'd let those wonderful IT folks know about your discovery. I was delighted to discover recently that

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-09 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 8, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Ashgrove wrote: On Sep 8, 2:09 pm, Bruce Johnson wrote: I keep getting told by authoritative folks in the IT industry that there will be a flood of OS X malware "any day now"; I've been hearing that for ten years. Note that classic Mac OS users should (a) inst

USB ethernet adapter

2010-09-09 Thread epic93
I bought a USB ethernet adapter off of Dealextreme for my iMac g3, who's ethernet port went out recently. I can't seem to read the tiny cd that came with it, and it needs drivers to work. Does anyone know if the drivers for it are available (or even needed?) for Ubuntu or some other Unix OS? Also,

Re: How do you know if there is a virus in your mac and how to treat it ? Please help !

2010-09-09 Thread Tina K.
Ivan Bayter wrote: My sister just sent me this email it was send from my mac to her but I did not send it, and today when I turn my pc on I found that my date was wrong and also ask me a lot of question about allowing or denying incoming networks, please I don't know what to do, the first thing

Re: Several G3 iMac DV 400 MHz questions

2010-09-09 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
On 07/09/10 11:51PDT, Dan wrote: At 11:04 AM -0700 9/7/2010, Dennis B. Swaney wrote: should I partition the drive and put Tiger on one and OS 9 on the other, or should I just leave the 40 GB drive as 1? One partition, so your available space is one big pool. OS 9 is designed to be on the volum

Re: Several G3 iMac DV 400 MHz questions

2010-09-09 Thread Walter Sheluk
Excuse me for dropping into this discussion. I have a iMac G3 that has OS 9.2.2 installed by the guy that sold this blue bean. It is my understanding that i can install OS X on top, right ? However, the said iMac G3's optical drive can only read CD's not DVD's. It rudely spits out the DVD

Re: How Goes SiteSucker?

2010-09-09 Thread Al Poulin
On Sep 8, 5:02 pm, Al Poulin wrote: > In looking for tools to download websites including multiple pages, such as a > main page with links to the site's contents, it seems that SiteSucker for Mac > OS X is more in use than other tools.http://www.sitesucker.us/mac.html > > Any problems?  Cautio