2 things to keep in mind
1)
USB2.0 has a max claimed speed of 480mbps
that is NOT per device
that is total per host(per motherboard mounted controller, not per port)
which means if you access more than one thing at a time you are
dividing the speed
2)
only use powered USB hubs (you probly know
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Elliott Price callmemrp...@gmail.com wrote:
Launch the app from the finder, then right-click the icon in the dock and
under Options, select Keep In Dock.
-Elliott
It's weird hearing right click on a mac list
I forgot they advanced to having
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Christopher Collins
macl...@analogdigital.com.au wrote:
On 26/04/2010, at 9:59 AM, Bill Chapman wrote:
I like Macs, they run Linux great (as OSX shows)
I like my computers to be personal, what I choose, instead of what
Steve Jobs tells me I need.
OS X is
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:24 PM, ./aal aalh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Christopher Collins
macl...@analogdigital.com.au wrote:
On 26/04/2010, at 9:59 AM, Bill Chapman wrote:
I like Macs, they run Linux great (as OSX shows)
I like my computers to be personal, what I
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Jay T jasontru...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey guys
I have taken apart and put back together a LOT of macs, but I have
never soldered anything to anything in there and I'm a little nervous
here.
I recently bought a used iMac G5 1st gen 1.8ghz and it boots up and
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Elliott Price callmemrp...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, it'll work nicely. We did this with my little brother's 350Mhz
Blueberry, because we didn't update the firmware before installing OSX. It
also allows for a DVD drive upgrade, since it has the DVD encoders that
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Dave cubs1...@gmail.com wrote:
Where I work we just sort of upgraded all the machines (lots and lots) to XP
SP1. Numbers of units still use IE6, the sensational hit of 2001.
But, on the bright side, the server room is cool and pleasant. That makes
all the
and also I vote for VirtualBox
--
-- NOT sent from an iphone,blackberry,Nokia, or any handheld. --
I'm a PC(x86 AND ppc)
AND I RUN LINUX!!!
Linux is like ice cream. It comes in many flavors and everyone has
their favorite, but we all get the same smile regardless of which we
choose to scoop.
if you are going to buy Windows, get 7
do NOT touch Vista
--
-- NOT sent from an iphone,blackberry,Nokia, or any handheld. --
I'm a PC(x86 AND ppc)
AND I RUN LINUX!!!
Linux is like ice cream. It comes in many flavors and everyone has
their favorite, but we all get the same smile regardless of
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Gladysperez-Almiroty almir...@prtc.net wrote:
i wish, but she is adamant and doesn't want change.
On Jan 14, 2010, at 7:08 PM, ./aal wrote:
2010/1/14 gladys pérez-almiroty almir...@prtc.net:
Elliot:
that is the first thing that i did: permissions, disk
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Kyle Hansen pi...@speakeasy.net wrote:
make SURE you have a decent (i.e. not free)
virus scan done on your system. Another great PC resource is
a virus scan (free or not) does nothing to get rid of malware
it merely tells you what you have
there are free a/v
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Matthew Keathley mkeath...@gmail.comwrote:
Wow. I could guess why he is leaving if he was treated like this.
His belief or disbelief has nothing to do with imac's
I'm a PC and even I understand that.
--
-- NOT sent from an
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Elliott Price callmemrp...@gmail.com wrote:
What's the best method for applying it?
same as a car
use a clean cloth and follow the directions on the can
--
-- NOT sent from an iphone,blackberry,Nokia, or any handheld. --
I'm a PC(x86 AND ppc)
AND I RUN
turtle wax does wonders for scratched optical media
the paste in the can, plain wax ---NOT the cleaner wax---
scratches in the clear side can be fixed with it
scratches in the label side are not repairable
--
-- NOT sent from an iphone,blackberry,Nokia, or any handheld. --
I'm a PC(x86 AND
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Ashgrove salum...@gmail.com wrote:
Jim,
I've tried the new iMac at the Apple store --there's one 3 blocks from
my place. IMHO, they should place the machines a little higher, so you
can try the machines at a more natural angle, not to mention a more
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Elliott Price callmemrp...@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't realize that trick worked on modern macs; will have to try
that one!
does it matter which mouse button?
--~--~-~--~~~---~--~~
You received this message because you are a
does the firmware need updating?
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Link Mack djbounce2...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hey All,
I have put into my Original Rev A Bondi Blue iMac a Harmoni G3 upgrade
http://www.sonnettech.com/support/kb/kb.php?cat=318#position_content
Now I did this some time ago and
you can replace the daughtercard that holds the G3 and ram, you dont replace
the whole mobo
get a daughtercard for any trayloader(NOT slot loaders) and it will swap out
no problem (333mhz max)
http://us.ebid.net/perl/auction.cgi?mo=auctionauction=16350652from=googlebase
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at
good thing macs are so intuitive or this might have taken days to resolve
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote:
Everything is fine. iBook plays with Time Capsule. Setup is both
AirPort boxes cabled to Verizon Router which is set for DHCP and WiFi
turned
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Wilton Shawwhs...@verizon.net wrote:
Hello,
Those of you who use Mail know of the Spell Checker program that
underscores in red any mispelled words. Recently, this program stsrted
underscoring every word in red so I can't tell when words are
mispelled. I'm
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote:
Years ago, good folks recommended that we reformat new drives to hide
any bad blocks or sectors. Today, is it advisable to reinitialize and
erase with zeros? Or do the manufacturers take care of this before
sale?
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 25, 10:34 am, ./aal aalh...@gmail.com wrote:
hdd today are initialized at the factory and have intelligence to keep
track of bad spots
just put your partitions and fs of choice on it and use
Thanks, you
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:45 PM, goodapple goodap...@gmail.com wrote:
Hers has 1 gig of RAM and mine has 2 gigs. Would that make the
difference? Mine is 1.8 ghz and hers is 2.2 duo core (I think). The g5
is remarkably faster especially on the net. ideas?
GA
A freight train is faster
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Simon Royal m...@simonroyal.co.uk wrote:
Hi
I love the G3 iMac and miss it. I was thinking of stripping the
insides out of a G3 iMac - leaving the screen there and replacing it
with a Mac Mini.
If I mounted it in the right place I could use the slot in the
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:39 PM, emelvy halbe...@esper.com wrote:
On Apr 20, 1:31 pm, ./aal aalh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Owen Strawn owenstr...@yahoo.com wrote:
How about Marvel Mystery Oil?
definitely better than wd40 (wd40 dries to a goo rapidly)
marvel
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Owen Strawn owenstr...@yahoo.com wrote:
How about Marvel Mystery Oil?
definitely better than wd40 (wd40 dries to a goo rapidly)
marvel is probably fine
3in1 oil is good too
--
-- NOT sent from an iphone,blackberry,Nokia, or any handheld. --
I'm a PC(x86
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Owen Strawn owenstr...@yahoo.com wrote:
Well, it was VERY full of dust and fur, and it did run very noisy before the
surgery. To tell the truth I was a bit surprised that it ran so well after.
So I guess I wouldn't be too surprised if it failed somehow.
But since the original fan is getting enough juice to make it want to
start, my experience suggests that a known-good fan will solve the
overheating problem. Then there's experimentation. One trick I use is
to put one or two drops of very light oil on the fan's bearing. This
usually involves
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:13 PM, thomas head headbon...@gmail.com wrote:
hey guys. i just installed two new 512's in my g3 and it doesn't want to
boot up. it makes a new sound when i turn on the juice and the light flashes
in an ill-regular fashion. is there an adaptation period? i turned
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:11 AM, nestamicky nestami...@gmail.com wrote:
Brian Troisi wrote:
On Apr 3, 2009, at 10:24 AM, nestamicky wrote:
Brian Troisi wrote:
On Apr 2, 2009, at 9:57 PM, pat wrote:
Hi,
I have an Intel iMac. I would like to know how to boot from the USB
flash
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:37 PM, johnwd5 john...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I am in the middle of trying to put a new hard drive in when I've
opened the base and even though I was careful the slim cable that
seems to go into an IDE port on the logic board has come away.
Obviously this is bad
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:22 PM, johnwd5 john...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry
RED 3 is a cable and it attaches to the RED 2 port on the board. I
have since found there is another slim cable on the board that also
connects to RED 2.
They appear to be some kind of ground wires.
I am still unsure
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:26 AM, AKII kartala...@gmail.com wrote:
Computer has missing extentions, prefs. :-(
before I tell you to install linux and be done with it ;^)
why not go to eBay and get a drive for it?
you can get one for $10-$20 incl shipping
also
you can grab a standard ide
unfortunately I fear that cap wont be the only bad on, just the only
one you can see
those caps came in the 100,000's and there was a very bad year for
caps that affected every computer mfg
ie every dell optiplex260 had a bad mobo due to the caps that year
I would not put any hope that one cap
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Simon Royal m...@simonroyal.co.uk wrote:
Hi.
Well thanks for the help so far trying to sort out my eMac freeze up.
I have taken the lid off and checked the capacitors and they all look fine.
There are a lot of them. The one visible from the hatch are
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At 5:54 PM + 3/21/2009, Simon Royal wrote:
There are no bulges on any of the capacitors.
Ok. That's good. heh. I was half hoping something obvious amiss
would make this diag easy.
take it from my 30+ yrs of
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Simon Royal m...@simonroyal.co.uk wrote:
Hi
I am writing this from the affected eMac booting from the hard drive in my
PowerBook via target mode.
So far it has been running about 10 minutes and no problems. I booted into
my Tiger partition, ran Safari,
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:44 PM, warhelmet nova.akrop...@googlemail.com wrote:
Jaal,
drive is grounded via physical contact to drive cage. Tight fit.
Factory cd - bad
CD-ROM - ok
Factory DVD - Bad
DVD+RW - bad
I'm thinking thickness friction.
OK
It did not sound like a tight fit
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:26 PM, warhelmet
nova.akrop...@googlemail.com wrote:
I've made some progress. I think I had the dvd mounted too far forward
initially. But the beauty of mounting with velcro is that I can easily
adjust the positioning of the drive.
The dvd drive powers up and
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:26 PM, warhelmet
nova.akrop...@googlemail.com wrote:
I've made some progress. I think I had the dvd mounted too far forward
initially. But the beauty of mounting with velcro is that I can easily
adjust the positioning of the drive.
The dvd drive powers up and
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Po-en Tsai poen.t...@gmail.com wrote:
make sure the headfone jacks and cd drive are not stopping it from
opening. here is a guide you should read.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/103447/iMac-G3-Disassembly-Guide
Po-en
On 3/12/09, Stro lstro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Stro lstro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 1, 12:13 pm, Cyrus callmemrp...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes the G3 iMacs used IDE HDs. I don't think they started using SATA
until the G5's or Intel iMacs, so you should be OK. (All IDE HD's are
interchangeable, for the most
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 8, 8:02 am, Tom Coradeschi tc...@skylands.ibmwr.org wrote:
On the googlegroups page, you can modify your profile to enable one
of four modes of subscription:
No Email - read this group on the web
Email -
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:44 PM, John Musbach johnmusba...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:06 PM, ./aal aalh...@gmail.com wrote:
Al , none of those options determine if my posts are echoed back to me.
Thanks tho
I think you may find this to be relevant to your issue:
http
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Tom Coradeschi
tc...@skylands.ibmwr.org wrote:
Which is totally bizarre, because, for me, it does!
Sigh. Computers is confuzin!
Tom Coradeschi
tcora...@yahoo.com
please send to the list using your gmail.com address Tom.
I am curious to see the headers
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Tom Coradeschi tc...@skylands.ibmwr.org wrote:
At 02:36 PM -0600 03/07/2009, ./aal wrote:
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
On Mar 5, 2009, at 8:19 AM, ./aal wrote:
I am definitely not a new user, but have
Tom,
Since you are sending from a non-gmail domain, I figure that is why
you see your posts echoed back to you.
Dude (whatever a ./aal is): I am not here to argue with you. I am
relating my experience, where I DO use a gmail address to post to
several google groups which I run. Those emails
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
On Mar 5, 2009, at 8:19 AM, ./aal wrote:
I am definitely not a new user, but have not seen my own posts for
some time.
Your posts have been coming through. Go to groups.google.com and log
in, you can set
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:26 PM, rs_poetic schantz-pla...@cox.net wrote:
Happy ending... I recently solved my Netflix streaming problems, and
the solution is: Firefox!
RS
now that we know the solution, may we have an explanation?
did you install firefox to fix it?
did you uninstall it?
yes my parked car was killed 1/3 by a kid who had all of 2weeks exp
behind the wheel
yes she was steering with her cell phone
yes witnesses saw her staring at the floorboard the entire time she
swerved in and out of the road
yes she never hit her brakes
maybe I will get my car replaced, her
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Charles Lenington macso...@brightok.netwrote:
and finally. suv's should be illegal or at least require a CDL to
purchase
they are NOT safer, they are more dangerous
I must take offense at that! I want a suv for the climate protected
cargo area. But
status, possibly
for extended periods of time. This is being enforced in the case of the
OT email today.
Back to iMacs.
thanks,
Beverly
LEM listnanny
Thanks
./aal,
--
I'm a PC(x86 AND ppc)
AND I RUN LINUX!!!
Linux is like ice cream. It comes in many flavors and everyone has
or indirectly.
Also, depending on the app you wish to have spell checking done for,
you have a few different options.
./aal
--
I'm a PC(x86 AND ppc)
AND I RUN LINUX!!!
Linux is like ice cream. It comes in many flavors and everyone has
their favorite, but we all get the same smile regardless
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Carrie freakycarseatl...@gmail.com wrote:
That doesn't work. I unplugged them, carried them across the building,
plugged them back in to a different outlet, and still nothing. Can I change
the backup/pram batteries easily enough? I know the RTC batteries
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Bruce Johnson
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote:
On Jan 26, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Click to Flash, a webkit (and safari-compatible) plugin to display
any flash content on a web page as a gradient. To play the flash
content, click on it.
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At 12:35 AM -0400 1/28/2009, MJ wrote:
Who uses 100w lightbulbs any more?
I do. And if anyone touches 'em, puts those @#$% CF bulbs in my
lamps, there will be liver ripping.
why the opposition to CFs.
1. The color is off.
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Charles Davis c...@gamewood.net wrote:
On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Kyle Parish wrote:
As a footnote; The reason incandescent bulbs were outlawed in Ca. is
because they leak more Co2 gas into the atmosphere,
There is a real wild assertion!
Just HOW does
Yep, the freeware Stuffit Expander, which is installed by installing
the trial version of Stuffit Deluxe. :-(
But answering your comment prompted me to wonder if there was an OSS
utiltiy to do this, and I found this :
http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html
Cool. I LOVE OS X. Free
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 7:35 AM, rs_poetic schantz-pla...@cox.net wrote:
Ok, I ran the tests (with wireless, and the new larger memory which is
great incidentally). The speedtest result:
21520 kbps download
2717 kbps upload
ok you got bandwidth
lets check quality os service
go to :
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:21 PM, John Hokanson
john.hokanson...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's the deal. I have a G3 iMac, 350Mhz, with 384megs of RAM. My OS
is 9.2.2. I have a 7GB hard drive with about 5GB free
It serves my limited purposes just peachy except as far as webbrowsing
goes. I'll need
actually ram is extremely volatile, current prices are very low
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820159108
or for kingston
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134008
for so-dimm
yes
the most esoteric thing is to be sure you dont get hi-density dimms if your
system needs lo-density
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Robert MacLeay rmacl...@gmail.com wrote:
I have both bought and sold RAM on LEM Swap. No problems with the
stuff I bought, and no complaints from my buyers.
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:07 AM, MIKO .. miko.supp...@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 31, 2008, at 7:34 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
That shouldn't matter, though most drives I've run into lately are the
1 third-height variety. IDE and EIDE are the same thing, by the era
of the eMac.
Sadly I have
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Paul Perkal pper...@gmail.com wrote:
I was asking about an E - Mac, not an i - Mac. I know, it's easy to miss the
one-letter difference, and having the two machines lumped together in one
forum, away from the other Mac forums, and the much higher popularity of
I would be wary of using a large flash drive for any but the most
ephimerous of storage.
http://www.dfwuug.org/wiki/Main/FlashMemory
--
I'm a PC
AND I RUN LINUX!!!
H. L. Mencken - There is always a well-known solution to every human
problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:59 PM, John Paine johnapa...@hotmail.com wrote:
Most retail electronics places sell 4GB drives for about $15 or less. Get
one QUICKLY and save your documents, etc. You may wish to work only from the
flash drive and save a duplicate on the hard drive. I don't know much
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Kyle Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It may be possible to change mother boards with a newer I mac and
customize your port opening's and upgrade that way, but what's the
point when you can just get a newer computer.
Yeah
Kyle is right
Anything is possible
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
Have a Bondi iMac, 233mhz, 96mb, 4GB HD with 2 USB 1.1 Ports. and
OS 9.2
Can these ports be upgrade to USB 2? If so, how?
Thank you
Frederick Falkenberg,
a 81 year old grandfather
Sorry
those are built into the
John
source level
binary=cpu spec code
source = language spec code
some apps dont cross arch barriers but generally any Linux source will
compile on any Linux arch
and if you dont want to compile you can usually find a bin for whatever arch
you need
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:27 PM, John
Crazy idea here
Can you copy some of those videos to an ext drive and put them on another
system?
If so, do they skip there too?
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Laura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Matt, I did try that and it was just as bad...great idea
though.
Laura
On Oct 21, 4:54 pm,
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Laura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Al,
it is not streaming video. It is video that I have purchased and
downloaded already.
thanks Laura
On Oct 19, 8:42 am, Al Poulin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 19, 2008, at 4:17 AM, imaclist group wrote:
== 1 of 2
I have a friend that has had the same problem with comcast for years
solution
dont use the comcast smtp server to spa-- er... distribute
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Bill Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there: All of a sudden, a distribution list of about 100 addresses
won't go
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Charles Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:48 AM, ./aal wrote:
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:29 AM, KP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All the talk about Windows' on Mac, has brought me to this question.
Can a person run Linux on an Intel Mac
The 'Implication' being that you could swap the 'GNU' portions, and
still have operable systems. [Don't work that way.]
Your implication being that tool=use [not quite]
You can take a car from UK and swap it onto a US road. That does not
mean you also carry over the laws from the UK with
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