Re: Can't print a PDF...

2010-12-04 Thread Dan
Title: Re: Can't print a PDF... At 11:53 AM -0500 12/4/2010, William Spencer wrote: IMac Core Duo 1.83 ghz/1 g RAM/Snow Leopard For some reason I cannot print a PDF (on the second machine listed below) from Acrobat Reader to the Laserwriter on the minimal network. The print dialogue shows

Re: Can't print a PDF...

2010-12-04 Thread krys weaver
it mite be turnd off so you can't print it IE-LOCKED look under ADVANCED and then SECURITY then SHOW SECURITY PROPERTIES then click SECURITY TAB On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 11:53 AM -0500 12/4/2010, William Spencer wrote: IMac Core Duo 1.83 ghz/1 g

Re: New i7 iMac microphone input low

2010-12-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 3, 2010, at 8:08 AM, OzSanta wrote: The 'M' slider on my new iMac is greyed out in Sound Preferences, and is set very low. I presume it's the reason for the low input. Can anyone verify whether their 'M' slider is active/inactive on an iMac please? the 'M' slider? Mine has just

Re: Can't print a PDF...

2010-12-04 Thread Bill Spencer
On Dec 4, 12:10 pm, Terry McCune tmcc...@shaw.ca wrote: On 12/4/10 8:53 AM, William Spencer wrote: Hi there: For some reason I cannot print a PDF (on the second machine listed below) from Acrobat Reader to the Laserwriter on the minimal network. The print dialogue shows the file

Re: Can't print a PDF...

2010-12-04 Thread Jack Suggs
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Re: New i7 iMac microphone input low

2010-12-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 4, 2010, at 4:26 PM, OzSanta wrote: the 'M' slider? Mine has just Input Volume and a mute checkbox showing. http://www.flickr.com/photos/35245...@n00/5231755533/ My New 27 iMac lets me change the input volume; sadly, since it's 3 miles away, I cannot test the volume, but IIRC

Re: Video Problem

2010-12-04 Thread Dan
At 5:14 PM -0800 12/4/2010, Amanda Ward wrote: iMac G5 - 1st Gen 1 GB ram 500 GB HD Leopard 10.5.8 Playing video with VLC 1.0.8 I'm having a problem with my iMac G5 and playing video (.avi files). Used to play them just fine, but recently, without warning, the video pauses (the two vertical

Re: New i7 iMac microphone input low

2010-12-03 Thread OzSanta
G'day Tina I'm using the built in mic. However, even a usb mic won't drive the bars very high unless I talk about an inch away from the mic, and even then, quite loudly. I've trashed the Audio preferences, to no avail. I've lodged a hardware bug report to Apple. Line-in mics need a hi-gain

Re: Screen resolution on TV

2010-12-03 Thread Mystic Prowler
It has 2 HDMI ports but that's about it. -- 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.shtml and our netiquette guide is at

Re: New i7 iMac microphone input low

2010-12-03 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-12-02 12:58 AM, OzSanta wrote: unless I can figure out why the input is so low. Your problem is certainly perplexing to me. As we sound engineers sometimes say: be sure you're high and then tone it down: Albeit you are not doing speech recognition when you select system

Re: Screen resolution on TV

2010-12-03 Thread Clark Martin
On Dec 2, 2010, at 3:13 AM, Mystic Prowler wrote: It has 2 HDMI ports but that's about it. Well, you only need one to drive it from the computer. You can get either a DVI to HDMI cable or a DVI to HDMI adapter and an appropriate cable to connect the TV to the computer. Viewing the computer

Re: New i7 iMac microphone input low

2010-12-03 Thread Clark Martin
On Dec 1, 2010, at 11:58 PM, OzSanta wrote: G'day Tina I'm using the built in mic. However, even a usb mic won't drive the bars very high unless I talk about an inch away from the mic, and even then, quite loudly. I've trashed the Audio preferences, to no avail. I've lodged a

Re: New i7 iMac microphone input low

2010-12-03 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/12/03 07:54, Walter Sheluk so eloquently wrote: if you are near RadioShack or an electronics store there is a audio microphone booster that may help or may be the answer for your low input level. You should not have to buy more hardware to use features that are supposed to work on

Re: New i7 iMac microphone input low

2010-12-02 Thread John Hobbs
On 29 Nov 2010, at 04:26, Santa wrote: I've turned the System Preferences/Sound/ Input level up, but even shouting will not drive the blue bars past half way. Is Internal mic. or Line In selected in that panel? -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group

Re: Moving an eMac from 10.2.8 to 10.4.11

2010-12-01 Thread Joshua Juran
On Nov 11, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/11/10 18:42, Mystic Prowler so eloquently wrote: Tiger is a little dated, are you SURE you want to stick with tiger? If Apple still provided security updates to Tiger I'd go back in a heartbeat. But they don't. And soon enough they'll

Re: Leopard on a 2x450 PowerMac

2010-12-01 Thread Mike Linnett
Load it up with RAM first! I used leopard assist on mine, works like a charm. (one of) the alternative methods would be to transfer the HD into a supported mac, or use FireWire target disk mode On 30 Nov 2010, at 08:09, Dave cubs1...@gmail.com wrote: Could someone kindly remind me how to fool

Re: Screen resolution on TV

2010-12-01 Thread Steven
First off, S-Video or Composite Video (RCA) can only handle analog TV resolutions. If you think you are having a hard time working at 1024x768, try to imagine being limited to 640x480, and interlaced at that. To get higher resolutions, try to figure out a way to hook it up via DVI or HDMI. I

Re: Leopard on a 2x450 PowerMac

2010-12-01 Thread Steven
I understand what you mean, but in my case I was referring to things like PowerBook specific code being left out of the iMac disk (just a hypothetical example), and so on. Apple didn't remove PowerPC code until Snow Leopard, even from Intel builds, which is why installing Snow Leopard opens up

Re: Screen resolution on TV

2010-12-01 Thread Clark Martin
On Nov 26, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote: I recently bought a 65 Plasma screen TV for my power mac G4 sawtooth. I am thinking about getting one of those DVI to S-video/ TV input adapters that Apple has for my computer to achieve better screen resolution. Currently, the screen is a

Re: Leopard on a 2x450 PowerMac

2010-11-30 Thread misterbleepy
Here's the procedure: http://lowendmac.com/osx/leopard/openfirmware.html Another way I have used is to put the low spec machine in target disk mode, then attaching it to a Mac that is in spec, and installing it using that Mac, but putting the install on the external disk (i.e. the disk of the

Re: Leopard on a 2x450 PowerMac

2010-11-30 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/30 04:34, misterbleepy so eloquently wrote: Another way I have used is to put the low spec machine in target disk mode, then attaching it to a Mac that is in spec, and installing it using that Mac, but putting the install on the external disk (i.e. the disk of the Mac in target disk

Re: Leopard on a 2x450 PowerMac

2010-11-30 Thread misterbleepy
I have done it this way from an Intel Macbook to a G4 iMac (using an intermediary disk) - it worked fine, and they are completely different architectures. It suggests an OSX install installs all the OS code for all supported hardware, but other than my experience with the above, I have no actual

Re: Leopard on a 2x450 PowerMac

2010-11-30 Thread Steven
On Nov 30, 2010, at 8:15 AM, misterbleepy wrote: It suggests an OSX install installs all the OS code for all supported hardware, but other than my experience with the above, I have no actual proof that is the case. That sounds right. If you'll remember, when Snow Leopard came out one of the

Re: Leopard on a 2x450 PowerMac

2010-11-30 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/30 11:38, Steven so eloquently wrote: That sounds right. If you'll remember, when Snow Leopard came out one of the biggest improvements was gigabytes of hard drive space freed up, since there was no more doubled PowerPC code. I think it is reasonable to assume that a retail disk

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-25 Thread Dan
Title: Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount At 7:13 PM -0700 11/24/2010, Walter Sheluk wrote: On 10-11-24 2:47 PM, Dan wrote: Note please that this combo updater is 970.2 MB in size. Once you have downloaded it, do a get-info and check the size... It should be *exactly* 1,024,680,576 bytes

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-25 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/25 09:56, Dan so eloquently wrote: Safari should offer the ability to resume it... Look in its Downloads window. If the download was interrupted, an arrow/resume icon should appear on the right side. Click that and it will resume. OmniWeb and iCab also have the ability to resume

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-25 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-11-25 9:56 AM, Dan wrote: Do you have enough free space on your HD to hold it? Safari 500 GB free space. Tried Safari and Google browsers but once again there is only 213.4 MB and message failed to mount. Will defer using Terminal because i really don't understand it. Will crank up

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-25 Thread Dan
At 12:45 PM -0700 11/25/2010, Walter Sheluk wrote: On 10-11-25 9:56 AM, Dan wrote: Do you have enough free space on your HD to hold it? Safari 500 GB free space. Tried Safari and Google browsers but once again there is only 213.4 MB and message failed to mount. Will defer using Terminal

Re: Xcode

2010-11-24 Thread Tim Stephens
On Nov 15, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Sven Aluoor wrote: On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Third Edition By: Aaron Hillegass do you recommend this book also for non-programmers (no experience in Application programming)? Or is this book more

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-11-20 10:45 AM, Tina K. wrote: Disk Utility, which probably use the same core and will give the same result. Some disc burning utilities will mound disc images. You can try Burn, Liquid CD, Toast… Thanks Tina, Well Disk Utility claims that file is not recognized or something like that

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Michael Shaw
You are lucky if it won't mount !! My downloaded updater .img mounted and installed properly updated my system to 10.6.5... And then I got a grey screen with a flashing ? when I restarted and booting the iMac from the Drive Genius DVD, the original iMac system disk, and Disk Utilities on the

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Walter Sheluk
Michael Shaw wrote: 2007 2.8 GHz Extreme just two months out of AppleCare so it cost me to get the drive pulled replaced. My problems are minor compared to that problem. It appears to me that Apple have created a monster update because there have been so many reported problems. -- You

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Dan
At 12:32 PM -0700 11/20/2010, Walter Sheluk wrote: It appears to me that Apple have created a monster update because there have been so many reported problems. The updates are large because Mac OS X includes quite a few 3rd party items, many open source -- eg: WebKit (Safari's underbelly),

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-11-24 8:10 AM, Dan wrote: Walter, I'm sorry - that's just not smart. If the dmg doesn't mount correctly, then it is CORRUPTED. You may be able to futz around with it, and ultimately get it to work ... but then what It's CORRUPTED. If it updates your system, you will have A

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Dan
At 8:16 AM -0700 11/24/2010, Walter Sheluk wrote: I learned that after burning the file was still corrupt. I wish those apple guys would stop playing with their iPads and iPhones and fix not only the combo download but also the update. I do not believe that any of the Apple mirrors are

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 20, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Michael Shaw wrote: You are lucky if it won't mount !! My downloaded updater .img mounted and installed properly updated my system to 10.6.5... And then I got a grey screen with a flashing ? when I restarted and booting the iMac from the Drive Genius DVD,

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-11-24 8:53 AM, Dan wrote: just use Software Update to get and apply it. and that is what corrupted my system -- 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.shtml

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-11-24 9:28 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: A software update CAN NOT KILL A HARD DRIVE. Not so sure about that because my brand new external firewire harddrive froze and locked up after the latest apple software update via Software update...? i am a fanatic about doing the repair permisions,

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Jonathan Smith
walter, if the hard drive locked up as you say, then it can be only one of two things, software, so a temporary issue, or a coincidental hardware failure. On 24 November 2010 16:42, Walter Sheluk wshe...@shaw.ca wrote: Not so sure about that because my brand new external firewire harddrive

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 24, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Walter Sheluk wrote: On 10-11-24 9:28 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: A software update CAN NOT KILL A HARD DRIVE. Not so sure about that because my brand new external firewire harddrive froze and locked up after the latest apple software update via Software

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Dan
At 9:42 AM -0700 11/24/2010, Walter Sheluk wrote: On 10-11-24 9:28 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: A software update CAN NOT KILL A HARD DRIVE. Not so sure about that No, Bruce is correct. because my brand new external firewire harddrive froze and locked up after the latest apple software update

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-11-24 12:43 PM, Dan wrote: Such devices should be *disconnected* when installing Apple updates. This external firewired hard drive had the OS 10.6 prior to the latest update and was my startup drive . Since i used the Software update... and how do i disconnect to install unless i

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-11-24 12:43 PM, Dan wrote: HOW *exactly* is your system corrupted? The ONLY thing you've said so far is that you're having difficulties with ONE 3rd party product. AND that that product's developer has said there is a BUG to be delt with. That is NOT a system corruption. At best it

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Dan
Title: Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount At 1:24 PM -0700 11/24/2010, Walter Sheluk wrote: On 10-11-24 12:43 PM, Dan wrote: HOW *exactly* is your system corrupted? The ONLY thing you've said so far is that you're having difficulties with ONE 3rd party product. AND that that product's

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Dan
the DMG file you have and re-download it. Get it from APPLE not via some 3rd party. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1324 - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Dan
was corrupted. Probably a telecom issue. Trash the DMG file you have and re-download it. Get it from APPLE not via some 3rd party. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1324 Note please that this combo updater is 970.2 MB in size. Once you have downloaded it, do a get-info and check the size... It should

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Walter Sheluk
. I'm sure there are many other similar users and of course they make very limited use of their computers or demands on the cpu and naturally the update is fine on their machines and if not they would simply re-install. I depend on all my macs in my audio/video recording business and if they go

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-24 Thread Jay Smith
Ahh, it's gotten a bit like mac rumours in here today! I think you asked a fair question Walter, because you wanted an answer. End of really Sent from my iPhone On 24 Nov 2010, at 22:01, Walter Sheluk wshe...@shaw.ca wrote: Sorry if my question seems trivial or loud -- You received

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-20 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-11-13 8:20 AM, Al Poulin wrote: Found nothing in Apple's Support pages, but there is mention of using Safe Mode here: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20022511-263.html?tag=mncol;title Al Poulin Thanks for the confirmation that there is something wrong with the dot dmg file because

Re: Xcode

2010-11-20 Thread Sven Aluoor
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Third Edition By: Aaron Hillegass Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Print ISBN-10: 0-321-50361-9 Hi Bruce do you recommend this book also for non-programmers (no

Re: Xcode

2010-11-20 Thread Tim Stephens
On 16 Nov 2010, at 01:26, Amanda Ward wrote: Apple has a lot of stuff in their Developer web site: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/navigation/ If you sign up as a developer (just need to fill in a web-form), you can get access to the video tutorials from WWDC through iTunesU.

Re: Xcode

2010-11-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 15, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Sven Aluoor alu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Third Edition By: Aaron Hillegass Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Print ISBN-10: 0-321-50361-9 Hi

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-20 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/13 10:08, Walter Sheluk so eloquently wrote: Is there any other utility application that will mount a dot dmg file ? Disk Utility, which probably use the same core and will give the same result. Some disc burning utilities will mound disc images. You can try Burn, Liquid CD,

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 20, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/11/13 10:08, Walter Sheluk so eloquently wrote: Is there any other utility application that will mount a dot dmg file ? Disk Utility, which probably use the same core and will give the same result. Some disc burning utilities will mound

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-20 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
On 13/11/10 09:08PST, Walter Sheluk wrote: On 10-11-13 8:20 AM, Al Poulin wrote: Found nothing in Apple's Support pages, but there is mention of using Safe Mode here: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20022511-263.html?tag=mncol;title Al Poulin Thanks for the confirmation that there is

Re: Xcode

2010-11-15 Thread Amanda Ward
Hey Bruce, On Nov 14, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Apple has a lot of stuff in their Developer web site: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/navigation/ and I've been informed by a couple devs that this book is a good intro: Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Third Edition

Re: Xcode

2010-11-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 14, 2010, at 12:26 PM, Amanda Ward wrote: A little off-topic, but I am using Xcode on my iMac... :-) Does anyone have a link to some beginning Xcode tutorials. (Book titles would be cool too. Like Xcode for the Dufus!) I'm using the newest(?)... 3.2.4. I can find some information

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-13 Thread Al Poulin
On Nov 11, 6:56 pm, Walter Sheluk wshe...@shaw.ca wrote: I downloaded the Combo 10.6.5 from apple and from version tracker but both will not mount. I downloaded several other .dmg files as a test and they all mount. Any one else with that problem with the Apple Combo today ? How do get it

Re: Combo 10.6.5 download will not mount

2010-11-13 Thread Al Poulin
On Nov 11, 6:56 pm, Walter Sheluk wshe...@shaw.ca wrote: I downloaded the Combo 10.6.5 from apple and from version tracker but both will not mount. I downloaded several other .dmg files as a test and they all mount. Any one else with that problem with the Apple Combo today ? How do get it

Re: Moving an eMac from 10.2.8 to 10.4.11

2010-11-12 Thread Mystic Prowler
It would be alot simpler to install the programs you want one one account and move all the info from both accounts into one folder then placing the documents in the appropriate folders. On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:11

Re: Moving an eMac from 10.2.8 to 10.4.11

2010-11-11 Thread Mystic Prowler
I suggest trying leopard on it, that's what I did with my 700Mhz eMac. Performance is good. Tiger is a little dated, are you SURE you want to stick with tiger? On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Walter Sheluk wshe...@shaw.ca wrote: On 10-11-09 10:01 AM, Ashgrove wrote: Merging two systems is a

Re: DVI, VGA, or HDMI?

2010-11-11 Thread Matt Rhinesmith
She has also proven herself a remarkable literary critic. If a book is good, she'll spare it, but if it sucks, she'll barf on it and/or scratch the cover. She has been 100% accurate so far. Cats are like that. You should read the Cat Who series. :-) Matt Rhinesmith Sent from my iPod touch

RE: Moving an eMac from 10.2.8 to 10.4.11

2010-11-11 Thread Ramon Tate
On Thursday, November 11, 2010, at 03:08 AM, imaclist+nore...@googlegroups.com wrote: Topic: Moving an eMac from 10.2.8 to 10.4.11 Walter Sheluk wshe...@shaw.ca Nov 09 10:11AM -0700 ^   On 10-11-09 10:01 AM, Ashgrove wrote: Merging two systems is a PITA no matter how you do it, and usually

Re: Moving an eMac from 10.2.8 to 10.4.11

2010-11-11 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/10 18:42, Mystic Prowler so eloquently wrote: Tiger is a little dated, are you SURE you want to stick with tiger? If Apple still provided security updates to Tiger I'd go back in a heartbeat. But they don't. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB

Re: DVI, VGA, or HDMI?

2010-11-11 Thread Ashgrove
On Nov 10, 11:31 pm, Matt Rhinesmith platni...@gmail.com wrote: Cats are like that. You should read the Cat Who series. :-) Matt, Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check them out. Hopefully she'll like them! Best, F P.S. How do you like your Touch? I have the same model, and love it. I'm a

Re: DVI, VGA, or HDMI?

2010-11-11 Thread Mystic Prowler
I have an iPhone, and I got it because my old phone was terrible, it couldn't keep up with 30-second calls, and it was the LG Vu. My iPod nano 3G is getting older by the day, and I have had this for 2.5 years. So I thought about getting an iPod touch and a new phone, and found out I got a discount

Re: Moving an eMac from 10.2.8 to 10.4.11

2010-11-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Walter Sheluk wrote: On 10-11-09 10:01 AM, Ashgrove wrote: Merging two systems is a PITA no matter how you do it, and usually comes down to staring at two Finder windows dragging items from one to the other as you go through the files by hand. Can that be done

Re: DVI, VGA, or HDMI?

2010-11-10 Thread Ashgrove
On Nov 10, 2:22 am, Ashgrove salum...@gmail.com wrote: A curious update. I finally got both the HDMI cable and the mini-DVI to HDMI adapter. The iMac detects them, detects the monitor, detects different HD modes (1080i, 1080p, and so forth), but does not show any image on the Asus monitor. It

Re: Video files compatibility in itunes/front row

2010-11-10 Thread Sven Aluoor
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Run Vzel illo...@gmail.com wrote: I didn’t know you can use iTunes to recode movies.  How is it done? Hi Run Vzel From the Advanced menu, choose Create iPod or iPhone Version or Create iPad or Apple TV version. While converting, you will notice an item named

Re: Moving an eMac from 10.2.8 to 10.4.11

2010-11-10 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-11-09 10:01 AM, Ashgrove wrote: Merging two systems is a PITA no matter how you do it, and usually comes down to staring at two Finder windows dragging items from one to the other as you go through the files by hand. Can that be done with the Library, System, Users folders ? -- You

Re: DVI, VGA, or HDMI?

2010-11-10 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Ashgrove salum...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 19, 12:31 pm, Ashgrove salum...@gmail.com wrote: They say curiosity killed the cat. So, anyway, my cat Leo bought me a mini-DVI to HDMI adapter, and my cat Ayesha bought me an HDMI cable -- all for less than $6. (My

Re: DVI, VGA, or HDMI?

2010-11-10 Thread Ashgrove
On Nov 10, 2:29 am, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: Cats are usually so very good at cleaning things like cable ends ans dirty ports. And destroying my shoes --Ayesha barfs inside them and them scratches them to death. I have had to lock them up, and leave an old pair out

Re: Insecure Startup Items folder detected message/problem

2010-11-10 Thread Ashgrove
On Nov 10, 12:58 am, Walter Sheluk wshe...@shaw.ca wrote: This message has started to hit me just at the end of a startup or restart. I took a look in the /Library/StartupItems/ and it is empty. How do i solve that problem? Check for invisible files. I have never seen that problem before, and

Re: Moving an eMac from 10.2.8 to 10.4.11

2010-11-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 9, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Ramon Tate wrote: Hi, all, I have a somewhat esoteric problem and need some advice on how to do handle it. I'm still using a 1GHz/1Gbyte PPC eMac running Mac OS 10.2.8 for much of my work and now need to move to 10.4.11 to accommodate a new application that

Re: Moving an eMac from 10.2.8 to 10.4.11

2010-11-09 Thread Ashgrove
On Nov 9, 11:42 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Merging two systems is a PITA no matter how you do it, and usually comes down to staring at two Finder windows dragging items from one to the other as you go through the files by hand. Time consuming and boring, but the

Re: DVI, VGA, or HDMI?

2010-11-09 Thread Ashgrove
On Oct 19, 12:31 pm, Ashgrove salum...@gmail.com wrote: They say curiosity killed the cat. So, anyway, my cat Leo bought me a mini-DVI to HDMI adapter, and my cat Ayesha bought me an HDMI cable -- all for less than $6. (My cats are very frugal. They barely give me any lunch money.) We'll wait

Re: iMac G5 startup problem

2010-11-06 Thread Jean-Claude Touzin
 Topic: iMac G5 startup problem snip JC wrote: Hi, One of my friend with the iMac above is having lots of trouble to start his machine first time in the morning. It seems that unplugging from the wall and plugging back, then pushing the start button in the back many times is the only

Re: iMac G5 startup problem

2010-11-06 Thread Mystic Prowler
from my experience, I have never had a problem with my iMac G5 Rev A, but some of my friends who had Rev.A iMacs did have Power Supply problems, and sometimes it did make a noise, sometimes it didn't. Check inside your iMac to see if any of your capacitors aren't broken. Mystic Prowler

Re: iMac G5 startup problem

2010-11-06 Thread Mystic Prowler
Also, I forgot to say: If your mac doesn't make the special sound when starting up, it means that you have to ZAP the PRAM, by doing this when starting up: COMMAND+OPTION+P+R. If that doesn't solve the problem, you are in deep trouble. If your Mac doesn't make the startup chime on startup, it

Re: Repair permissions

2010-11-06 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-11-05 11:44 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Fundamentally, Repair Permissions is a 10.2 (and later) fix to problems that typically only occurred in 10.1. Thanks for the clarification: now i understand. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those

Re: How many USB ports is normal to have?

2010-11-05 Thread Mystic Prowler
I am worried about power consumption. 2 of my 4 USB ports are unpowered, while my other 2 have an external power source. -- 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

Re: How many USB ports is normal to have?

2010-11-05 Thread Mystic Prowler
Yes all hubs are powered except for hub 2. each have only 4 ports. -- 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.shtml and our netiquette guide is at

Re: Repair permissions

2010-11-05 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
On 04/11/10 11:02PDT, Walter Sheluk wrote: I did a repair permissions and got a million zillion entries of correcting this and correcting that. Then I ran repair permissions AGAIN with nearly the same number of corrections. Why is that? If most of them say something like ACL found but not

Re: How many USB ports is normal to have?

2010-11-05 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
On 04/11/10 06:52PDT, Mystic Prowler wrote: I am worried about power consumption. 2 of my 4 USB ports are unpowered, while my other 2 have an external power source. I would replace any unpowered hubs with powered hubs. That should leave you with only the 2 USB ports on the keyboard as

Re: Repair permissions

2010-11-05 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/05 08:44, Dennis B. Swaney so eloquently wrote: On 04/11/10 11:02PDT, Walter Sheluk wrote: I did a repair permissions and got a million zillion entries of correcting this and correcting that. Then I ran repair permissions AGAIN with nearly the same number of corrections. Why is

Re: Repair permissions

2010-11-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 5, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Tina K. wrote: If the time it takes is too excessive for your needs, they can be removed in Terminal by an app named ACLr8: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/32415/aclr8 DO NOT DO THAT to the files that Permissions Repair touches. You run a very good

Re: Repair permissions

2010-11-05 Thread Tina K.
permissions problem. Removing the ACLs and re-running repair permissions was the only thing that I was able to do that fixed the problem. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR Gnome/Ubuntu 10.10 Power Mac June 04 2GHz G5DP 8GB RAM GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL

Re: Repair permissions

2010-11-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
but it would not fix my home directory permissions problem. Removing the ACLs and re-running repair permissions was the only thing that I was able to do that fixed the problem. Removing the ACL's likely cured the issue; repair permission never touches ANYTHING but system directories and some

Re: Repair permissions

2010-11-05 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
If Repair Permissions is not needed in Jaguar/Panther/Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard/Lion, then Apple would have removed the capability. That said however, they should not be run routinely, but only after an OS update, Security Update, or as a last resort before wiping a drive to fix a problem.

Re: Repair permissions

2010-11-05 Thread Bruce Johnson
was completely re-written between 10.1.5 and 10.2 it was a horribly common issue, requiring a trip to Terminal to run a poorly documented command to fix things. I've seen systems newer than 10.2 that were actually fixed by RP maybe 4 times, all told. Apple techs tell you to do it on phone

Re: iMac G5 startup problem

2010-11-05 Thread Jim Scott
On Nov 5, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Jean-Claude Touzin wrote: Ref. OS 10.5.8 Name iMac G5 Model PowerMac8,1 Processor PowerPC G5 (3.0) Speed1.8 GHz CPU 1 Cache 512 Ko RAM 1 Go Bus speed 600 MHzROM version 5.2.2f4 UUID --1000-8000-000D93B9ABC2

Re: Repair permissions

2010-11-05 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-11-05 8:22 AM, Jonathan Smith wrote: I believe if you run it 4 or 5 times, it should disappear. That's just what i don't understand, why, why can't Apple's DU not do the full job. When I use DiskWarrior or TechtoolPro I do not have to redo a job. -- You received this message because

Re: Need to run windows on a Mac

2010-11-04 Thread Tom Venney
On Nov 2, 2010, at 11:11 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: and here's a SDR for the Mac (albeit in German): I have tried this with my hardware the Elector SDR and could not get it to work. I have never had any luck using terminal to program, So I was looking for something ready made. Thats why I

Re: How many USB ports is normal to have?

2010-11-04 Thread Jay Smith
What is your concern? Fire risk? Power consumption? Etc... Sent from my iPhone On 3 Nov 2010, at 17:41, Mystic Prowler coolmar...@gmail.com wrote: Is it normal to have this many USB ports? -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using

Re: How many USB ports is normal to have?

2010-11-04 Thread Mike Linnett
That is quite a few! If the hard drives/DVD drive have a FireWire interface too, try using that instead? You'll get better transfer speeds that way too. If not, maybe when they die/get replaced that'll be something to look at? Otherwise, looks like you actually need all those ports to avoid

Re: How many USB ports is normal to have?

2010-11-04 Thread ./aal
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

Re: How many USB ports is normal to have?

2010-11-04 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
On 03/11/10 10:41PDT, Mystic Prowler wrote: Hello, I just wanted to ask, because I think I have too many USB ports on my main machine, my G4 iMac, an they're all used. I am not talking about JUST the USB ports on the logic board, I have 4 hubs plugged in and all fully used. Is that normal? I

Re: How many USB ports is normal to have?

2010-11-04 Thread Don Hinkle
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Re: Web Mail

2010-11-03 Thread Joshua Juran
On Nov 1, 2010, at 3:20 AM, Sven Aluoor wrote: On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote: On 2010/10/31 14:59, Joshua Juran so eloquently wrote: Not everybody uses GMail, and not every GMail user uses the Web interface. I use GMail through an IMAP client.

Re: Need to run windows on a Mac

2010-11-03 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
On 02/11/10 20:03PDT, Ashgrove wrote: You can install Windows directly on your iMac via BootCamp, or use virtualization software --there are paid options like VMWare Fusion and Parallels, which are both pretty good, and free like VirtualBox, which I haven't personally tried but I'm told it's as

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