Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-07-10 Thread Richmond
On 07/10/2010 05:10 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Jeff Reynoldswrote: you might want to think about grabbing a little temperature probe. This might be an easier option: http://www.bresink.de/osx/0TemperatureMonitor/issues.html I have been using this fo

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-07-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote: > > you might want to think about grabbing a little temperature probe. > This might be an easier option: http://www.bresink.de/osx/0TemperatureMonitor/issues.html note the hardware support for older models is trial and error. Not for the G4

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-07-09 Thread Richmond
On 07/09/2010 06:43 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote: Richmond, nice frankensteining! did you scream its alive when you turned the power back on? No; bit I remember the part in "young Frankenstein" when 'Eye-Gor' comes back with a brain in a jar labelled "A. B. Normal". . . :) you might want to

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-07-09 Thread Jeff Reynolds
Richmond, nice frankensteining! did you scream its alive when you turned the power back on? you might want to think about grabbing a little temperature probe. you can get these for less than $10 these days and they usually fit in a bay cover space and have an in-line drive vampire plug fo

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-07-09 Thread Richmond
On 07/09/2010 02:21 PM, viktoras d. wrote: b.t.w. may I ask (as a non native English speaker) what is the difference between "going West" (is it good?) and "going South" (the later seems quite negative) ? Are the any other ways like "going North", "going East" or "going SouthEast" with some ver

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-07-09 Thread Mike Bonner
My guess as to the americanized meaning of "gone west" is from the colonial days. Actually had 2 connotations. First connotation was that to the west (unexplored areas) was a land of opportunity. "Head west young man" meant, go and seek your fortune. Due to the same usage it also had a negative

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-07-09 Thread Peter W A Wood
This may help - http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Gone%20West On 9 Jul 2010, at 21:12, Colin Holgate wrote: > I hadn't seen anyone use the expression "going west" before, so I just took > it to mean "going south", with some misdirection (as it were) for the sake of > humor. ___

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-07-09 Thread Colin Holgate
I hadn't seen anyone use the expression "going west" before, so I just took it to mean "going south", with some misdirection (as it were) for the sake of humor. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to sub

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-07-09 Thread viktoras d.
b.t.w. may I ask (as a non native English speaker) what is the difference between "going West" (is it good?) and "going South" (the later seems quite negative) ? Are the any other ways like "going North", "going East" or "going SouthEast" with some very special meanings in them :-)? Viktoras

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Thursday, July 8, 2010, 11:19:36 AM, you wrote: > Umwhiles I promised I would post pictures of my PPC Mac's > "triple-bypass". Never underestimate the power of blue rubber thingies... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolut

[OT] G4 goes West

2010-07-08 Thread Richmond
Umwhiles I promised I would post pictures of my PPC Mac's "triple-bypass". Here they are: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/maxx.html sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
I still have a pile of sticks works pretty well... Bob Sneidar IT Manager Calvary Chapel CM Sent from iPhone On Jun 15, 2010, at 18:20, Kay C Lan wrote: Sorry to hear of your struggle, but I just thought it might warm your sole to know that others still battle on with the obsolete ;-)

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-15 Thread Kay C Lan
Richmond, I'm sure you'll be happy to know that my Centris 650 hasn't gone west. A couple of days ago it wouldn't start, and oddly I thought the LaserWriter Select 300 had sailed off into the sunset with it. After while I was able to determine that I could only start one, not both at the same tim

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-15 Thread Richmond
Having put my G4 back together, and got the thing running, I wonder why my LaCie firewire external box won't deliver with my 750 GB ATA/IDE hard-drive inside it?? This is crucial as most of my data is backed-up there. ___ use-revolution mailing lis

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-15 Thread Andre Garzia
Bob, that also happened to zip disks... it was called the click of death... I experienced that while backing up a G3 while its hard drive was failing and I was desperatelly copying the data, I could copy maybe 3 or 4 disks before I heard the click... what a horrible sound... CLICK, B, CLICK, B

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hey now! The technology didn't fail, they had some kind of manufacturing defect which ate a disk which in turn made the drive destroy every disk you put in afterwards. But the technology was sound. Just wanted to make that distinction. Something similar happened to the Jazz disks too, but they

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-12 Thread Richmond
On 06/12/2010 08:07 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Richmond - you might consider copying your old ZIP disks to someplace safer as soon as possible - they seem to have some kind of 'disk rot' and can die quickly in a few years. Sounds like my brain . . . :) I have a Performa 5xxx with a S

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-12 Thread stephen barncard
Richmond - you might consider copying your old ZIP disks to someplace safer as soon as possible - they seem to have some kind of 'disk rot' and can die quickly in a few years. Remember zips are still 'floppy disks' with higher density and the failed 'Bernoulli' technology. All of your old zips wi

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-12 Thread Richmond
Back from the dead (or very nearly): Well: I removed one of the hard disks in the G4 MDD from the cage that sits over the heat sink; allowing me space to install an 80 mm 12 v fan directly on top of the heat sink with those funny rubber doodahs to keep it in place: power drawn from the HD cage s

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-03 Thread Joe F.
I had 10.5 running on an old eMac. Ran pretty well too, for web surfing and the like. If you have 2 Macs a good way to go is to start the victim in Firewire Target mode, holding down the "t" at startup (or is it command-t?) On Jun 4, 2010, at 1:46 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 06/03/2010 10:40 PM,

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-03 Thread -= JB =-
Not all G4's can run 10.5. The older slower ones I don't think will run it. I have and old G4 400 AGP and if I am correct the latest OS X it can run is 10.4.11. i think the double mirror or what ever they are can run 10.5 since they have a much faster processor. -=>JB<=- On Jun 3, 2010, at 1

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-03 Thread Richmond
On 06/03/2010 10:40 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: You can run a G4 under 10.5??? YES! Bob On Jun 3, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Richmond wrote: Dear RunRev users, My G4 Mac decided to "play silly bu**ers" on Monday and stopped functioning. Managed to boot it in Mac OS9 and am now backing up all

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-03 Thread Marty Knapp
I'm running a 2001 Titanium PowerBook (500 MHz) on 10.5 - I had to put the drive in another computer to install it though. I think if the processor is over 1Ghz the installer will work on a G4, but that's the end of the line as far as OS upgrades. Marty Knapp You can run a G4 under 10.5??? B

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
You can run a G4 under 10.5??? Bob On Jun 3, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Richmond wrote: > Dear RunRev users, > My G4 Mac decided to "play silly bu**ers" on Monday and stopped > functioning. Managed to boot it in Mac OS9 and am now backing up > all my data onto a Maxell 'Tank' (1.5 TB) before blanking

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-03 Thread Richmond
On 06/03/2010 09:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond wrote: Dear RunRev users, My G4 Mac decided to "play silly bu**ers" on Monday and stopped functioning. Over here in the US we say broken things "went south". So that's undoubtedly the problem, you've sent it the wrong direction. Swivel

Re: [OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond wrote: Dear RunRev users, My G4 Mac decided to "play silly bu**ers" on Monday and stopped functioning. Over here in the US we say broken things "went south". So that's undoubtedly the problem, you've sent it the wrong direction. Swivel the machine 90 degrees to the north and it sho

[OT] G4 goes West

2010-06-03 Thread Richmond
Dear RunRev users, My G4 Mac decided to "play silly bu**ers" on Monday and stopped functioning. Managed to boot it in Mac OS9 and am now backing up all my data onto a Maxell 'Tank' (1.5 TB) before blanking the 4 ATA disks and starting from scratch. Most of the partitions won't mount under 10.3 /