[q] Quad inventory of uses

2005-01-06 Thread dwight hines
Can we do a roll call of how quads are being used in different ways? I have two and they are presently acting as bookends for some zip drives. d -- Quadlist is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digita

[q] Quad 700 as firewall running Mac OS 8 or 7

2004-12-15 Thread dwight hines
Is anyone using Mac OS 8, or 7, as a firewall? I've given up on the open source right now. Even the geeks are having headaches getting it to work. dh -- Quadlist is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerSho

[q] Need "Dummies with Quadra 700 wanting NetBSD installed book."

2004-11-19 Thread dwight hines
There must be someone out there somewhere who has written a sure fire guide to installing NetBSD, 1.6 or higher, on a Quadra 700.I've tried now several times and all I've done is perfected an excellent way to clean my disk. Now, does someone have a recommendation on what browser is best to

[q] Stupid Quad 700s yoking question

2004-11-15 Thread dwight hines
I have two Quad 700s, one with a gig disk and one with 320 meg. The gig disk is runnning System 7.5 and the 320 meg is running sys 8.0. Now, I only have one monitor and one keyboard. I have to be plugged in with the adb cable to the Quad I want to start up to start it. I tried yoking the 2

[q] I can not get my Quadra 700 to start up from an iomega zip disk, using 7.1 or 7.5 systems

2004-11-15 Thread dwight hines
what is the secret to doing a startup of a quadra 700 from a zip disk? Without that, can not install netbcd. I also have no cds that will start up, I get the sad mac with \001 and F Any suggestions on where I can download the appropriate iomega software because sys 7 is old now

[q] WiFi on a Quadra 700 running system 7 or 8?

2004-11-13 Thread dwight hines
Is anyone using WiFi on a Quadra 700? If yes, where did you get the card? How is it working? d -- Quadlist is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! |

[q] need to go with some networking cards for two quadras and one G3 supermac C-500

2004-11-11 Thread dwight hines
Ok, rather than get too complicated with Netatalk, the open source unix based program, I thought it would be easier to go with old fashioned apple talk and some scsi cables, although it appears I have some ethernet ports on the two quadras. What would be the best way to proceed and who would su

Re: [q] Quardras 700, YES!

2004-11-07 Thread dwight hines
I, too, have a quadra. In fact, I have two. One is running system 7 and one is running system 8. I want to yoke them together to surf net using WiFi, and to do some mundane but long time calculatons. I think it will be necessary to add a hard drive to each and would like advice on how to d

[q] Netting two quadras and a supermac together

2004-10-31 Thread dwight hines
Anyone used SCSI ports for netting two quadras together with a supermac (C500). Anyone know a good webpage that describes how to do it? TYIA, d -- Quadlist is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digit

[q] My quadra needs a gmail account

2004-09-03 Thread Dwight Hines
anyone have one? d -- Quadlist is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac Quadl

[q] translation needed

2004-08-23 Thread Dwight Hines
> Mainly only good for cli, I've run kde but its way to slow. Netbsd is > not much better or worse. Some of the light wieght desktop managers > are said to work well, if a little slow. > > If you already have a nix box of some sort you could try a vnc client > on the mac or Exodus which is rather

[q] Keep me posted on your q700 research and development, esp with linux

2004-08-21 Thread Dwight Hines
Anything you find out about q700s will be appreciated. I use a Powerbook Pismo for my daily stuff but would like to dedicate my quads to slow crunching. In the old days we used to use an old old, at the time quite new and modern, Commodore 64 for doing fourier transforms. The big problem was ge

[q] Quad 700 users, can two or more quads be yoked together?

2004-08-19 Thread Dwight Hines
I have two quad 700s and would like to yoke them together for seti and other types of intensive cranking. Anyone doing that? d -- Quadlist is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras

I'm still here and my quads are in their sacred places

2003-12-14 Thread Dwight Hines
> >>> It could very well be a natural fade-away as the Quads pile up >>> on top of my JBL 15" speaker cabinets. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Terry On top of speaker cabinets makes it hard to type on them. Do you use a stepladder? I use a rickety kitchen table that has a personality such that when I

I, too, have a Quad 700

2002-09-25 Thread Dwight Hines
I have no complaints but I just got it and am planning on doing some serious internal changes. It presently runs 8.1 and does not have internet capability, which I will change as soon as I get a cheapo modem. But, send some pics of your Black Knight to the group. It sounds great. d > *shrug