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Sally on "G5 upgrades"

Sally — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:06:19 +0000

I have OS 10.3.9 (Panther), on a 7-yr old G5. It only has 512 MB DDR SDRAM (and processor is 1.6 Ghz PowerPC G5).

Starting to run into sites & programs that require 10.4, but I can't find any way to upgrade to 10.4. Can't even get some QuickTime videos to run, but I don't know if that's the same problem or something else?

Can I even put Tiger or Leopard on this machine, or is it too slow/old? I know I can't go to Snow Leopard, because it's Intel and this machine isn't.

I'd like to keep using this computer for awhile -- but have it run everything. Is there a solution?

Kathleen Anderson on "Using iCal"

Kathleen Anderson — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:23:35 +0000

Do any of you use iCal? I do and have one calendar, but recently wanted to add a new calendar for my garden. When I add the new calendar, all the entries on my home calendar show up on it. Is it possible to have a separate calendar with only entries for my garden events?

Kathleen Anderson
Member

teacher24_70 on "Software to track bandwidth and associated programs."

teacher24_70 — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:15:28 +0000

Does anyone know of any software that will track my download (received) bandwidth and the programs that are using it?

This past month something has been zapping bandwidth like crazy. Most months I use less than 10 Gig of my 15 available through Sunflower. In March I actually came close to my limit with 14.5 GB.

However, in April I’m already up to 23.25 with 10-11 GB on April 4th alone. I called Sunflower right after that 10 Gig day and said that I wasn’t sure where that could have come from. I hadn’t had any large iTunes downloads, I hadn’t watched any streaming TV shows or movie videos, I hadn’t download any major software, etc. The only thing that I did that day that I could think of was that I had installed Foxmarks/Xmarks to synchronize bookmarks between Safari & Firefox. It’s possible that the syncing stalled out at some point and continued to zap the bandwidth, but I’m not completely convinced

They agreed to credit my account for that 10 GB, but even subtracting that I’m using more than I can mentally account for. I’m to the point that I’ve turned Airport off unless I need to turn it on temporarily to check mail or update my RSS feeds. Someone suggested that I turn off the Genius feature in iTunes because it sometimes eats up bandwidth.

So I began to search for software that might help me track down the culprit application. I thought that maybe “Little Snitch” would help, but it only seems to document outgoing information.

Istat Menus help a little. The Network Menu at least tracks and shows current bandwidth activity, but what I’d really like is something that tracks the sent/received bandwidth for different programs. For example, bandwidth associated with NetNewsWire, iTunes, Entourage, Safari, Firefox, etc.

Does anyone know if such a software exists?

-- Michelle

teacher24_70 on "problem with QT encoding in iMovie '09"

teacher24_70 — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:15:38 +0000

I’ve been having some issues with exporting a lengthy iMovie ‘09 project to a QT movie for later use in iDVD. The majority of the details of the problem are in the following Apple Discussion forum thread. If anyone has any other ideas besides those mentioned in the thread, that would be terrific.

I’d especially like input and advice about the export settings that I chose, as I’m completely unknowledgeable about encoding settings.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9235150#9235150

matt on "G3 iBook No Airport Connection"

matt — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:36:42 +0000

I've got teaser for you guys to see if there is anything I'm missing.

We recently came back into the ownership of a G3 900mhz iBook and I'm trying to get it on the network.

I've tried two different airport cards (one is known to be good) and I've toggled the home network from WPA, WPA2 and WEP to see if that makes a different.

I've also wiped and reinstalled the OS from a Tiger install disk. However, every time I go to connect to a network (also locked or unlocked) I get the "there was an error connecting to this network" dialog.

Any ideas, cause I'm fresh out?

teacher24_70 on "removing XP--SP3 update"

teacher24_70 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:30:32 +0000

I’ve been trying to get a specific hardware device to work on my Parallels installation—it’s a film and slide digital converter. It works fine on my XP machine at school, but I couldn’t get it to work in Parallels. It does rely on DirectX 9 which the Parallels 4.0 update was advertised as having adding improved support for. So I updated thinking that maybe the problem was that Parallels wasn’t supporting DirectX 9 well enough to run the program.

I once again tried using the converter in Parallels with no success. I looked a little further into the requirements and it says that it required XP-SP2 or Vista. Our school computers are still on SP2, but I had updated my Macs virtual machine to SP3 after installing XP onto my computer. I just assumed that it was a good choice.

I came to the conclusion that the “minor” difference may explain why I could get it to work on my school computer, but not on my Mac in Parallels.

So, last night I decided to uninstall the SP3 from my Windows virtual machine. It appeared to work fine, although it took quite a long time.

However, when it finished and I initiated the required restart, the problems began. It began a vicious repeating cycle of errors screens. The next two screenshots are as close as I could get to capturing the dialogue. The image disappeared from the screen so quickly, that I can’t guarantee that I captured at the exact moment in order to catch all of the text. The two screens kept reappearing as it automatically continued trying to successfully reboot. My only way out was to quit out of Parallels.

I was able to restore based on an older snapshot that I had. However, I’d still like to try uninstalling SP3 so that I can try my hardware once again.

I was hoping that some of you have worked on Windows machines (and in Parallels) enough to know from the error dialogue what might have caused this issue. I don’t want to have the entire problem recreated when I try the uninstall again.

Any ideas or advice?

Has anyone ever uninstalled the SP3 update?

I’m assuming that if I run into issues again, the Parallels “Snapshot” feature reinstalls/reverts XP back to the exact state it was in prior to the failed attempt.

Bill Bloom on "one OS on 2 machines"

Bill Bloom — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:13:20 +0000

I have a G4 power book and a G5 desktop that came with mac OS 10.3 and OS 10.4 respectively. I want them to have the same OS. Two questions-- 1. what is the best way to upgrade the laptop to the desktop OS? 2. What is legal (or not) or ethical. Can I just use a copy of the desktop and load it onto the laptop ( the desktop has been updated several times- which is very painful on a dialup conn- so I would like to copy the current OS to the laptop.

Thanks so much for any help!

Bill

matt on "Test topic for forums"

matt — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:08:43 +0000

This is a test post to make sure things are working. Feel free to look around and try things out. I think this is going to be a much better home for the forums. The user management stuff is 100 times better which makes approving people easier. Also you can subscribe to the RSS feeds for a forum and subscribe via email.

Also it has nice tag features. :)

teacher24_70 on "posting forum images"

teacher24_70 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:34:12 +0000

Does this forum allow the posting of images? I sometimes take a screenshot of something with Skitch. Skitch then allows you to copy/paste a URL for web-based forums.

I tried doing this in another forum question, but whenever I clicked on "Send Post", it returned with a screen that said "Topic Not Found".

teacher24_70 on "RSS for entire forum"

teacher24_70 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:00:08 +0000

Is there a way to have an RSS feed for the entire forum instead of each individual sub-forum? As it grows, it might get unwieldy, but in the beginning it'll be easier to follow the discussions.

Bonnie-Hall on "How do I change my password"

Bonnie-Hall — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:54:45 +0000

I have a valid user name and you gave me a password but I don't see where I can change it.

matt on "How to register"

matt — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:56:10 +0000

There have been a couple of questions about how to register for the forums.

You can either click this link:
http://laugks.org/forums/register.php

Or click the register link at the top of the page.

I would ask that you do fill out your full name in the information that way I can tell who people are when administrating the forums. It's not always so easy when I have to guess from user names.

Thanks!

teacher24_70 on "Other forum sub-sections"

teacher24_70 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:14:29 +0000

I like the different categories/sections that you've set up in the forums.

The only other one that I thought of (that might deserve its own section) is one on running virtual machines on the Mac--Parallels, VM, Bootcamp, etc.

That would keep them a little more separated from the "General Mac Question", since it might pertain to a more targeted subgroup of the users.

Just an idea.