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    MAC Pro Memory Configuration issue

    Sorry guys, I thought I posted my fix to this last night. Apparently I forgot to hit "post" Anyway, my problem was knowing the bank layout. As you know there are 8 slots but they are in pairs (4 banks) Bank 1 is riser card A, bank 2 goes to B, then back to A and finally back to B. The...
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    MAC Pro Memory Configuration issue

    I just went from 4 to 8gb of memory by adding 2 x 2gb sticks. I have them placed as follows. Riser A" 2gb 2gb 1gb 1gb Riser B 512MB 512MB 512MB 512MB According to the documentation I found this should be correct. They...
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    Best way to clean the iMac built-in screen?

    I caem across it in the car detailing industry. Works GREAT on LCD screens. Even cleaned a mark made with a sharpie that no other cleaner would get off. Works Great.
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    Help: Mac Mini problems

    Mac Mini 1.42 / Tiger / 256Ram I have a mac mini I use for a mail server. Yesterday the drive seem to go bad, wouldnt read a few things, then took forwever to boot and jut hang without booting. replaced hard drive, now after it has been on a while, it gets Hot, the fans spins up like a...
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    New LCD attached to PB 1.5ghz

    I just bought a new Samsung 19" LCD to connect to my wifes 15" PB 1.5ghz. I cannot get the signal to come out of the DVI connector. I CAN get it to work if I connect the DVI-VGA into the monitor via vga, but I need it to come out of the PB and into the LCD via DVI. I am using a brand new...
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    Switching dvd regions...

    I spend a lot of the time out of the country. I bought a dvd recently and my powerbook said it needed to change the DVD region for it to play and that I could change it 4 more times. No worries, so I changed it. Now my VLC will not play. It starts up and shuts down after a few mins and...
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    How to determine total received bytes?

    Id like a way to monitor the amount of traffic my machine recieves. IE: script runs ever 5 mins and tells me the amount received and event sent since time X. Im versed enough in shell adn perl to write it, but not sure where to get the data. It can be crude as long as it is accurate. Any...
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    Some weirdness...100% cpu & 500+KB inbound..Help

    since the mDNSresponder seemed to be the problem process. /usr/sbin root# mv mDNSResponder mDNSResponder.RENAMED I Moved it to another name and killed the current process. The cpu imeediately dropped to 10% from 100% and the rx on en0 went from 1.1mb to 0. mail and web services seem...
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    Some weirdness...100% cpu & 500+KB inbound..Help

    Well...I am in a large hotel. i have been here 3 wks with no problem, it just started this evening. After turning on my firewall and loagging all transactions, the ovewhelming entry is: (parsed through a perl script) kernel[0]: ipfw: 35000 Deny UDP 192.168.57.39:1900 239.255.255.250:1900...
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    Some weirdness...100% cpu & 500+KB inbound..Help

    My system: 10.4.2 / 667 ti has suddenly started working like a dog. I just rebooted to verify and am seeing the following.. 100% cpu (menumeters) 550k - 1000k KB/s Rx on en0 (menumeters) #top -o cpu Processes: 57 total, 4 running, 53 sleeping... 177 threads 20:17:37...
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    Back to Panther for Me (mail broken)

    Uninstalled PGP....Thanks! calvin
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    Back to Panther for Me (mail broken)

    Upgraded to panther today on two PB's one 1.5ghz Alum and mine, a 667 mhz ti. Install seemed fine. opened mail for the first time and it did the std import from mail 1 (4500 msgs) all email is there in all the folders. BUT, when i click on a msg, any message, mail unexpectidly quits...
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    Arrived early

    mine has the exact same timestamps as yours only to come back to San Jose! I liked it a lot better when I was interning at apple and I had panther and Panther server at my disposal. Personally, I would wait until 10.4.1 to upgrade. But Im phsyched about those damn little widgets and the...
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    Mac Mini - Any memory will do?

    Excellent. Kinda what I had hoped. Just bought a stick from crucial. Thanks for the verification!
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    Mac Mini - Any memory will do?

    hey got a mac mini. Upgraded to 512 startight away. First stick was kingston, lasted a few hrs then got a kernel panic. Then got PNY from CompUSA. lasted a few weeks and it went bad too. Apparently I need to be more picky here? I was getting brand name 3200 memory. Would a mail order...
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