Re: Question about Finder Copy

2012-06-03 Thread emelvy
On May 28, 12:37 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 12:16 AM -0400 5/27/2012, Melvyn Edith Halbert wrote: I often use the Finder to Copy a bunch of files from my iMac's internal hard drive to some external device.  Occasionally an error message pops up that says 'An item named

Re: Trying to breathe new life into an eMac

2009-05-10 Thread emelvy
On May 9, 2:56 pm, Adrian boston.maine...@gmail.com wrote: (snip) I found one forum posting from a person who said that he tried several distros and that OpenSUSE was the only one that worked... so I checked out the OpenSUSE site, but their PowerPC distros are only available in DVD format

Re: G4 iMac overheating

2009-04-21 Thread emelvy
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 is probably fine 3in1 oil is good too Decades ago I read nasty

Restoring Classic after Tiger installation

2009-04-04 Thread emelvy
Here's a helpful hint for people who need to restore Classic after a Tiger installation on a PPC, _without_ erasing the hard drive. Most of Apple's support information on Classic says you need to have Mac OS 9 already on your hard drive before you install Tiger -- the Mac OS X 10.4 Install DVD

Re: eMac with kernel panic

2009-03-31 Thread emelvy
On Mar 23, 11:19 pm, emelvy halbe...@esper.com wrote: My 1 GHz eMac froze today and can't be restarted -- every time I restart, it shows a kernel panic almost immediately (no startup sounds).  The top of the screen reads: panic (ch 0): Unable to find driver for this platform: PowerMac 4,4

Re: emac base screws

2008-11-24 Thread emelvy
I received one of those with my eMac base. I measured it just now and it's 0.096 or 0.097 inch across the flats. I don't know whether that size is included with Allen wrench sets -- it doesn't correspond to any fractional inch size and doesn't sound like a metric size either. But good luck! On

Re: Internet Video's Running Slow!!

2008-11-18 Thread emelvy
On Nov 15, 3:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hay i want to know can anyone help me out with this problem. I have a 15''in imac (g4) with a processor speed(per Core) of 700MHz and my ram is 256Mb and a 40g hard drive... When i try to watch a video online on some websites it just dnt skips