Re: Power Mac 7600/200 on steroids free to good home

2009-07-10 Thread Tim Law
Sorry Lyn - there is no catch. Perhaps I could find one in my old box of stuff. Oh, a 'catch' to the deal. :-) No, it's in fully functioning condition. I imagine it's worth a few dollars if I tried to fuss with that, but if I let it go outside of WAMUG you never know what sort of home it's goi

Re: DVD regions

2009-07-10 Thread Ronda Brown
Hello Adrian, On 11/07/2009, at 1:56 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks again, The G4 just says Play DVDs YES DVDs yes, but not Dual Layer 'DL DVDs'. It might be able to READ a "DL DVD-R" but NOT a "DL DVD+R". The PowerMac G5 was the first Mac with DL compatibility, beginning April 27, 2

Re: Power Mac 7600/200 on steroids free to good home

2009-07-10 Thread Robert Howells
On 11/07/2009, at 1:50 PM, Murdoch Allen wrote: this would be just right for a little project I have in mind I have similar unit 7600/200 upgrade with G4 card ,keyboard and mouse . NO monitor if needed . Note :NO ide drive , but has 18gb scsi drive : might be pci - USB card , wou

Re: DVD regions

2009-07-10 Thread Adrian Skehan
Thanks again, The G4 just says Play DVDs YES The real problem is with the household players, its the first time I have made a DVD and had it refuse to play on particular machines. I thought it may be to do with machine's firmware applying a region setting or something within the machin

Re: Power Mac 7600/200 on steroids free to good home

2009-07-10 Thread Murdoch Allen
this would be just right for a little project I have in mind On 11/07/2009, at 12:02 PM, Tim Law wrote: Good afternoon I've got a Power Mac 7600/200 that needs a new home. It's got a Sonnet G4 card running at 400MHz and fully loaded with 1Gb of RAM running with OS 9.1 Inside is a 30gb I

Re: DVD regions

2009-07-10 Thread Ronda Brown
Hello Adrian, On 11/07/2009, at 11:58 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks James, The DVDs' in question are Dual Layer +R created on MacBook #2 They will play on the iMac G5 and DVD player #2, it took a couple of tries to get it to mount and play on MacBook #1 They will not play on DVD playe

Re: Power Mac 7600/200 on steroids free to good home

2009-07-10 Thread lynnkoh
Tim is there any catch? coz i am looking for something that runs os9... - Original Message - From: "Tim Law" To: "WAMUG List" Sent: Saturday, 11 July, 2009 12:02:43 PM GMT +08:00 Perth Subject: Power Mac 7600/200 on steroids free to good home Good afternoon I've got a Power Mac 76

Re: DVD regions

2009-07-10 Thread Robert Howells
On 11/07/2009, at 11:58 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks James, The DVDs' in question are Dual Layer +R created on MacBook #2 They will play on the iMac G5 and DVD player #2, it took a couple of tries to get it to mount and play on MacBook #1 They will not play on DVD player #1 or the iM

Power Mac 7600/200 on steroids free to good home

2009-07-10 Thread Tim Law
Good afternoon I've got a Power Mac 7600/200 that needs a new home. It's got a Sonnet G4 card running at 400MHz and fully loaded with 1Gb of RAM running with OS 9.1 Inside is a 30gb IDE drive driven by a SCSI to IDE adaptor (these only had SCSI drive standard), a Radeon 7000 Mac Edition graphic

Re: DVD regions

2009-07-10 Thread Adrian Skehan
Thanks James, The DVDs' in question are Dual Layer +R created on MacBook #2 They will play on the iMac G5 and DVD player #2, it took a couple of tries to get it to mount and play on MacBook #1 They will not play on DVD player #1 or the iMac G4 Single Layer -R disks appear to be OK in all p

Re: DVD regions

2009-07-10 Thread James Devenish
Hi Adrian, 2009/7/11 Adrian Skehan : > Can anyone please tell me if the DVD burner puts encodes a DVD with a > Regional Code? You won't have region codes on DVDs that you created (and hypothetically even if you did, you'd probably have all your equipment set to the same region code anyway). Also

DVD regions

2009-07-10 Thread Adrian Skehan
Good morning all, Can anyone please tell me if the DVD burner puts encodes a DVD with a Regional Code? Just to clarify my problem a bit; I have my iMac G5 and 2 intel MacBooks here at the moment and, to my surprise, having burnt iDVD movies/slide shows with each of them I find that the

Spotlight - indexing external or networked Mac?

2009-07-10 Thread Metal Artwork Creations
Hi team Can I force Spotlight to index another Mac within our office? The two Macs are connected by a local wireless network, but I could plug them into each-other via Firewire if that helps? I've spent a few hours today scouring forums, but it seems it's not possible with another Mac, only