Re: Sleepless G4 iMac

2011-01-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 18, 2011, at 5:48 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: > How? I am re-installing Leopard right now, and am going to avoid the > security updates. I've heard these cause this. They don't. Don't avoid those. Those are important. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Te

Re: Sleepless G4 iMac

2011-01-19 Thread Mystic Prowler
My iMac G4 800 has been updated with the latest security updates and it never had these problems before. However, I do remember my other 700 G4 iMac having these problems. I changed up the sleep settings and did what walter said and it worked. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote:

Re: Sleepless G4 iMac

2011-01-19 Thread Jonas Ulrich
How? I am re-installing Leopard right now, and am going to avoid the security updates. I've heard these cause this. -Jonas -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.sh

Re iSnip

2011-01-19 Thread Jean-Claude Touzin
- *Bruce Johnson <**john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu* *>* Dec 27 11:50AM -0700 ^ - - This is mostly a semantic change, they use the word 'event' rather than 'roll'. When you import old iPhoto libraries, it turns each roll into an 'event'. It will split new imports (based on date, I

Re: OT: How to make a solid Mac backup plan

2011-01-19 Thread Dan
At 10:32 AM -0700 1/19/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: The best, most meticulously tested and verified backups in the world do you no good if they burn up in the same house fire as your computer. :-) Software is replaceable; data is not. yea. A complete backup (a la CCC or SD) stored off-site me

Re: OT: How to make a solid Mac backup plan

2011-01-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Walter Sheluk wrote: > I have become less paranoid about doing back ups such as the old advice of > mailing a back up copy to a friend or burying a copy in the backwoods. ;-) If > something goes wrong these days ido an archival install, apply a combo > update fr

Re: OT: How to make a solid Mac backup plan

2011-01-19 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 11-01-19 9:23 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: The first backup takes forever, subsequent ones take almost no time. Thanks Bruce for the detailed explanation. In my experience of trying Apple's TM ifound that my computer's processor is tied up ( iMac 3.06 GHz/4G ram 1TB hard drive ) whereby the ot

Re: OT: How to make a solid Mac backup plan

2011-01-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 18, 2011, at 7:06 PM, Glenn Peterson wrote: > Walter, > > Not in Time Machine itself. There is a program called Time Machine > Editor that will allow you to change backup times. Or just turn the > automatic backup option off and manually do it when you desire. That is > what I do. Yo

Re: Help with second hand iMac G3 with no operating system or disks

2011-01-19 Thread Jay Smith
It makes sense. I always burn OS discs as slowly as possible. Baring in mind the age of the macs drives, they are of a time where it was common for many optical drives to have trouble reading burnt discs. Sent from my iPhone > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac