OS X on iMac G3 (Re: Several G3 iMac DV 400 MHz questions)

2010-09-12 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 8, 2010, at 3:01 AM, Walter Sheluk wrote: Excuse me for dropping into this discussion. In general, please start a new thread for a new question (e.g. by using New Message in Apple Mail) instead of replying. I have a iMac G3 that has OS 9.2.2 installed by the guy that sold this

Re: Several G3 iMac DV 400 MHz questions

2010-09-12 Thread Elliott Price
Headless means the computer has no monitor. (Usually this is done with servers, and they're controlled through screen sharing.) And that's not true; PPC Macs will not (officially) boot from USB devices. Later G4's and G5's can be made to if you go through a lot of hard steps setting up the USB

g4 i mac with the round pod at the bottom

2010-09-12 Thread malvin...@ymail.com
Dennis not sure what you mean have a swivel g4 i mac with the round pod at the bottom, I cant connect my spare plasma screen and the swivel one has gone blank 2 days ago but the computer seems to be running ie fan on and can eject disks etc sincerely malvin -- You received this message

old G4 imac black screen

2010-09-12 Thread malvin...@ymail.com
I have an old G4 i mac with lcd built in swivel screen when I try to conect another screen through the video prt to another flat screen it does not work in the last 2 days the macs screen is black and the mac starts up but balck screen now I need the additional screen even more anybody know

Document trouble.

2010-09-12 Thread Alexander Blok
Hello, A very strange text problem now haunts my machine, which even though others and me try applying logic to such remains a pain. Here's my problem, I have several pdfs that my former publisher supplied to me after my system crashed and I am trying to put the text in word format so that I

Re: Several G3 iMac DV 400 MHz questions

2010-09-12 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 11, 2010, at 8:11 AM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote: On 11/09/10 02:12PDT, gifutiger wrote: Any PPC that is not HEADLESS and has a keyboard attached will startup from any drive as long as it has a valid operating system installed. What does that mean? I've never heard that term in the 26

Re: Several G3 iMac DV 400 MHz questions

2010-09-12 Thread Midnight rider
You stand corrected. The later series of G3 iMacs (Summer 2001 and later) have a VGA port on the back side that have the ability of mirroring the display. In the event the main display ceases to function, the VGA port can be used, and this will case a Headless iMac. Earlier G3 iMacs do not have

Re: Several G3 iMac DV 400 MHz questions

2010-09-12 Thread Tina K.
gifutiger wrote: Sorry, an iMac can not be headless. Given the design of the eMac, G3, G5, and Intel iMacs there is some truth to this statement, although you could take the MB out of one of the above mentioned machines and make what is technically a headless 'iMac' out of it. But the G4

Re: How Goes SiteSucker?

2010-09-12 Thread Emma
I really like SiteSucker. It is really fast...and you can set it to just get what you want and go only so deep. I am a teacher who has iffy internet at school sometimes, so SSucker is a life saver. I used the dmg. I use the same machine you do. Might be my imagination but it downloads way

Re: old G4 imac black screen

2010-09-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 11, 2010, at 4:55 AM, malvin...@ymail.com wrote: I have an old G4 i mac with lcd built in swivel screen when I try to conect another screen through the video prt to another flat screen it does not work This is a strong indication that the video on the logic board has died. --

Re: Document trouble.

2010-09-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 10, 2010, at 5:34 AM, Alexander Blok wrote: I have both adobe acrobat pro and microsoft office work with but nothing works in regards being able to edit the converted text document from pdf to doc. Anyone know what the eff? Check the security properties of the PDF's if they were

Re: Document trouble.

2010-09-12 Thread Robert MacLeay
On Sep 10, 6:34 am, Alexander Blok alien...@home.nl wrote: Here's my problem, I have several pdfs that my former publisher supplied to me after my system crashed and I am trying to put the text in word format so that I can edit the manuscripts. However,  no matter what I and others try we

Re: OS X on iMac G3

2010-09-12 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-09-09 7:58 PM, Joshua Juran wrote: What now ? Run OS 9 or get a newer machine? For OS X, I suggest getting a Mac with at least an Intel processor. Beyond this it would help to know what you're seeking to do with it. Josh Actually i do have an iMac 2009 edition with a 3.06

Re: g4 i mac with the round pod at the bottom

2010-09-12 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
On 11/09/10 08:35PDT, malvin...@ymail.com wrote: have a swivel g4 i mac with the round pod at the bottom, I cant connect my spare plasma screen and the swivel one has gone blank 2 days ago but the computer seems to be running ie fan on and can eject disks etc The G4 iMac has a mini-VGA port

Re: OS X on iMac G3

2010-09-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 12, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Walter Sheluk wrote: This iMac G3 is part of my legacy Mac collection. It is used to run legacy OS 9 midi/audio programs and midi/audio hardware that although were ported to OS X however those OS X midi/audio programs there were many features dropped and also