Re: your daily dose of 'Arrrrrgggghhhh' from the support trenches...

2011-12-22 Thread Nestamicky
On 16/12/11 11:12 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: A triple today... 1) Found at MS's support website. This was accessed with Safari, unmodified. [Read it in your best Darth Vader impression]: I find your lack of competence...disturbinghttp://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/competence_not.png

Re: your daily dose of 'Arrrrrgggghhhh' from the support trenches...

2011-12-22 Thread Nestamicky
On 16/12/11 12:54 PM, Dan wrote: Next up: To discourage Vicky from camping out on my desk and rubbing on the keyboard. sigh. Can't use the 'ole squirt gun trick -- she *likes* water. - Dan. If she can move a wireless keyboard, that may do it because as she rubs, it moves, and the she'd

Re: your daily dose of 'Arrrrrgggghhhh' from the support trenches...

2011-12-22 Thread Nestamicky
On 16/12/11 1:15 PM, Christopher Satterfield wrote: Better than the BSODs related to just turning on Windows...or the random I'm going to install updates even though you disabled me!. This happened recently at work, we're sitting there watching a screen cast and it turns itself off and

Re: Adding hard drives to 2007 Al iMac

2011-05-09 Thread Nestamicky
On 04/05/11 9:34 PM, Tina K. wrote: I recently purchased a Firewire 800 cable to use with my Mac Pro, doing a backup of my PowerBook over FW 800 was noticeably faster than it used to be with FW 400. But it is far slower than Thunderbolt lol. Tina I have a somewhat different idea, similar to

Re: iMac G5 1.8Ghz 20' capacitor replacement

2010-03-24 Thread nestamicky
On 3/24/2010 9:48 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: One of these: http://tinyurl.com/yadel8o and/or some desoldering wick, like this : http://tinyurl.com/ybsxq7z are invaluable tools in this process. Also a pair of these http://tinyurl.com/ycqwpbg or one of these http://tinyurl.com/ydvyhxs makes life

Re: OT: Apple in Daily Comics

2010-01-26 Thread Nestamicky
On 1/26/10 6:23 AM, Al Poulin wrote: Oops: Prickly City is there. But the URL is misbehaving in mysterious ways. http://comics.com/prickly_city/ And here is Doonesbury direct: http://www.uclick.com/client/wpc/db/ Al Poulin Thanks, Al. Those were great! -- You received this message because

Re: emac with kernel panic? more help still needed

2010-01-12 Thread nestamicky
On 1/12/2010 8:35 AM, Christian Wacker wrote: Luckilly I only use it for music which is stored on an external drive, so a quick erasure, format, and re-install of the OS turned up an iMac that booted 45% faster, didn't make funny noises, and still runs great. Hope that helps. Just how did

Re: emac with kernel panic? more help still needed

2010-01-12 Thread nestamicky
On 1/12/2010 2:54 PM, Christian Wacker wrote: I timed the boot time on my iMac G3 when I did it. Time went from nearly 3 minutes, down to just over 1. Thanks for your response, Christian. I wonder what brought about the decrease in boot time. And the reason why is I know...or think I know..

Re: iMac G3 hard drives

2009-12-17 Thread Nestamicky
On 12/17/09 1:50 PM, Elliott Price wrote: 10.4 has some significant changes, especially support issues and networking improvements. It runs surprisingly well on slow machines. And I agree with this...see Tiger on my Sawtooth and you'd think it's an Intel machine, but wait until I go to Youtube,

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2009-09-24 Thread Nestamicky
On 9/24/09 12:45 AM, williamd wrote: Really? All i can ever find there are the latest os and apps. Snow Leopard, Snow Leopard, Snow Leopard... ah the hell with it. I feel your pain, Bill. It's not easy to find old stuff on their website. And really frustrating. At times Google is more useful

Re: Sorry for not posting

2009-09-16 Thread nestamicky
On 09-09-14 04:11 PM, Mike wrote: I had dedicated he past 3 years of my life to pc, an I only got my beautiful g3 about a yet ago. Welcome to the new world. We're usually nice folks here. Come prepared to learn and you will end up caring for threads in no time.

Re: Easy upgrade to Leopard on 800MHz G4 iMac

2009-09-13 Thread nestamicky
On 09-08-30 10:44 AM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote: Yes, but it will still run; it is the Installer that checks for processor speed. So this means that the Book used to do the install has to natively support the OS? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: G3 Slot Loading Imac Issue

2009-09-04 Thread Nestamicky
On 9/4/09 6:58 AM, Jasiu wrote: It takes a while for the Apple logo to come on and then a spinning circle comes on. All good so far but thats where it stops at. The little circle just keeps spinning and nothing else. Bong is good. Now open it and see how much memory you have in there?

Re: Firewire Issues, imac 500 G3.

2009-08-29 Thread Nestamicky
On 8/29/09 6:52 AM, NorseDruid wrote: My daughter has a imac G3 500 Mhz, running 10.3.9. She is running out of room on her miniscule 20Gb HD, so I attempted to attach an unused Firewire external drive to give her some breathing room. The drive wouldn't mount, and in checking system

Re: iMac upgrades

2009-08-28 Thread Nestamicky
On 8/27/09 12:14 PM, Jonathan wrote: It was nice to have OS 10.x, but I went back to 9 whenever I could for the added speed and snappier response in the older machine. This goes for Apple as does the folks developing Linux distros. I've not mentioned Windose for a reason: would it not be nice

Re: Reverting to Safari 3.x from 4.0

2009-06-07 Thread Nestamicky
On Jun 7, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Dan wrote: Then it will be FASTER than Safari 3 Faster Dan? Well, I have Safari 3, how do I get 4. Hopefully, that will get me watching videos online that aren't jerky. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Re: New Member :)

2009-05-12 Thread nestamicky
macjc50...@aim.com wrote: Yes, I see. Sorry about that. -Original Message- From: Charles Davis c...@gamewood.net To: imaclist@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, 6 May 2009 8:52 pm Subject: Re: New Member :) Ah, yes Here is one of those little Gotcha's!!! Note how the URL [which

Re: How to boot from USB flash drive

2009-04-03 Thread nestamicky
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 drive. Is it matter where I plug the drive? I'm

Re: eMac with kernel panic

2009-04-02 Thread nestamicky
emelvy wrote: On Apr 1, 11:38 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 1:36 PM -0700 3/31/2009, emelvy wrote: Followup on this query. No one responded and I've had no success You fell into the googlehole. I never received your original. Strange -- I did receive my

Re: iMac Slot Loading G3 Power Rating

2009-03-29 Thread nestamicky
imac_chips99 wrote: I have a 350 MHz iMac Slot Loading G3 and I measured the Power Rating. My iMac draws 83 watts when used normally It draws 70 watts with the display in power saving mode. It draws 33 watts when in sleep mode (about 1/3 of normal power). When turned off, it draws 5

Re: Poorly eMac Booting From PowerBook

2009-03-20 Thread nestamicky
Simon Royal wrote: Dan How do you get kernel panic logs up? I'll fire it up tomorrow and wait for it to happen again, shouldn't be too long a wait :) Simon --- Visit http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - http://www.nmug.org.uk... Apple PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, 80GB HD, SuperDrive.