Re: Upgrading the emac is it worth it

2011-12-14 Thread Joshua Lewis
I just found a Emac 1.25Ghz combo drive 2004 model. off the nature strip trash picked. It worked well the only Problem is the combo drive doesn't open properly. I wiped the computer reinstalled mac os x 10.4 tiger. 1gb of ram 40gb hard drive combo drive ati radeon 9200 The Problem is Mac os

Re: System file not repaired???

2011-12-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:16 PM, Dan wrote: this iMac was rock solid until recently I installed Sophos anti virus. From this moment I notice a lot of hard drive action in the background due to Sophos av (I know this from looking at Sophos Icon in the menu bar). Anyone has more info to shed

Re: Ethernet printing via Airport Express?

2011-12-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 12, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Bill Spencer wrote: I just got this: http://tinyurl.com/7cbw6by and I assume it will do the trick too...? Or does it have to be Linksys? It should work. You may need to give a fixed IP address to your LaserWriter, look in the LW manual for 'Unix Setup'; so

Re: System file not repaired???

2011-12-14 Thread Dan
At 9:18 AM -0700 12/14/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:16 PM, Dan wrote: By default most AV softwares seem to check too much, I think. That initial long scan is probably what you're seeing. Tell it to stop. Then tell it to just watch your Download and Mail folders (specific

Re: System file not repaired???

2011-12-14 Thread Joshua Juran
On Dec 14, 2011, at 8:18 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: That said, I still don't run AV on any of my personal macs, haven't since the demise of the late, great Disinfectant. Which, not coincidentally, about the last time an actual Mac virus was widespread in the wild.

Re: System file not repaired???

2011-12-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 14, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Joshua Juran wrote: On Dec 14, 2011, at 8:18 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: That said, I still don't run AV on any of my personal macs, haven't since the demise of the late, great Disinfectant. Which, not coincidentally, about the last time an actual Mac virus was