Recent content by andygodwin

hi all i have and old g3 Imc Blueberry thing, it breaks my heart to throw it away so i run osx panther on it (just) and use it as a printer server attached to mine and my wifes printers. Question: is there a better way of doing this, i only have usb printers, a way that doesnt take up the...

hi all i have a 733 digi audio G4, running panther. i just want to use it to watch tv. ie bbc iplayer and c4 OD. but it cant quite handle the video content, its a bit jerky. i dont have any other apps open, it has a gig of memory, i dont use wireless it has a nice fast ethernet connection...

hi all does anyone know how i can IM or chat maybe with video accross my local network?? i have a netgear router connected to 4 macs and we want to message between ourselves without having to use internet chat addresses.. regards andy

dont know now but there was full battery power, i checked ,all led's lit up A

is there such a thing as a crash log on leopard ???? woke up my macbook from sleep this morning as i do every morning and it had slept so soundly it had turned itself off. A

thanks for the quick reply but i disagree. sure anyone with some hacking "skills" and one of those programs that automatically sequences all characters can crack it pretty easily, but a petty thief who nicks from cars or bags at airports etc etc will open it up thinking 'i might find some...

hi all i've set my laptop up to be ultra secure, anyone stealing it, even if its in sleep mode wont be able to access anything interesting. my keychain is locked so that i have to type the password regularly to access sites / mail/ etc, but i want to type a short one letter password, the...

my idea..which i dont know how to do is... store my keychain file plus other important docs on a usb key, so that the keychain reads and writes all certificates and passwords to the usb device, then when i take the laptop out of the house (say) i can leave the usb device at home. if i get my...

thanks for those suggestions guys but i think its just a matter of startup prefs or something i can boot up and login, the desktop builds with half the icons then it gets stuck finishing of launching the finder. A

hi all running 10.4 (up to date) on g4 all working fine until, power cut yesterday. restarted ok, login window ok, desktop doesnt build,no icons, just spinning wheel + 'pls reset your clock'. have tried resetting the pram, no change starting from disk, repairing disk and permissions, no...

thanks.. seems to have got it going.. but my displays are all screwed, can only use the 9way rgb out, the ati card and digi out arnt working. should i replace the battery when computer is on or off? A

hi all old mac g4 (digital audio) working well this morning, then power cut, now mac is off and cant get it going. pressing power on the front of the tower, the light behind the power button comes on but no chime or boot up or fan sound .. could have an internal fuse gone? regards andy

cheers, as a last resort, i tried hitting the side with a hammer at exactly the same point as the heads were trying to release....well something changed but still no luck. so its in the bin. cheers all.

cheers, didnt quite know whether you were serious but have tried that anyway on further inspection the drive spins up ok, i can hear/ feel it, but the heads cant get out of their parked position. anything else you can reccomend? A

hi all, one of my HD's in my old G4 has crashed and died, not a complete disaster as backed up...but...some months ago. at startup i can hear it clunking and grinding for a bit then after 30secs it stops and then doesnt appear on the desktop, (the other drive has the sys folder on it)...