Upgrade options for G4 (Mirrored door)

On 3/11/08, dave wrote:

Question: I have a mirrored door Power Mac G4 Model PowerMac 3.6 CPU PowerPC G4 (3.2) with 2 CPUs at 1.25 L2 cache (per CPU) 256 KB, L3 Cache (per CPU) 1MB and 2 GB of memory bus at 167 MHz Boot ROM V 4.5.7f1

I am out of room on my original hard drive and want to install Leopard (which I have just installed on my other newer machines.)

Can I install a new larger internal drive on this machine and re-assign this drive as the start up drive?

What kind of drive should I use (largest possible?) Can this be done without a major reinstall of software etc.?

I never use OS 9. Even if I install a new larger (and quicker?) drive in one of the open bays should I delete this software? Is it easy to remove? Does it matter if I install another new drive?

Other upgrade possibilities and Costs?

Answer: G4's usual used IDE hard drives. They are getting harder to find and I would recommend at least a 250GB drive but perhaps you could start by archiving some data off your current drive before going through the pain of a drive exchange. If your drive is mirrored then you will need two of the same drives that are identical. There isn't a lot of space inside of the G4 for extra drives so I would also recommend getting an external drive case to house your current drive that connects with USB or firewire to do the transfer of data and programs.

As for OS9 that was a remnant of the upgrade to the first OSX that doesn't need to be installed on your new drive. As far as a major reinstall of the system you can try using a Ghosting software to save an image of the drive and restore it onto the new drive but this doesn't work all of the time.

Any change over of hard drives usually works best with a fresh install of the operating system and the programs. Then transfer the data onto the new drive. If you are missing original software CDs this can be a problem so that's why I recommend the external drive chassis that hooks up to a USB port or firewire.

Blackberry time wrong! What to do?

Deanne Asks,

The time change for Daylight Savings Time isn't happening on my Blackberry. What can I do?

Ed Answered,

Here is the Blackberry Patch page for the DST change...
http://www.blackberry.com/DST2007/patch/index2.shtml#users

There is a manual option as well if this seems to overwhelming to try on your own...
http://www.blackberry.com/select/dst2007/resolutions/internetservice/index.shtml

Adobe Isn't Printing All Of My Document

Hi Ed,

Maybe you can help me out, when I use Adobe 6.0 and try to print a drawing, the drawing prints but none of the sizes, do you know why that might happen?

Thanks,

Joe

Dear Joe,

You might have the sizes in as comments and you have to choose the option under "Print What:" to print Comments on the printer screen to see them on the final printout.  also if the sizes are in color and you are printing on a black and white printer you might want to check the checkbox that says "Print color as black".  Last tip would be to shutdown any other programs that might be open when you're printing because some larger adobe acrobat files have trouble printing if your working memory is not mainly empty.

The are some other Adobe Acrobat tips and tricks at JustAskEd.blogspot.com

The Audacity!

Here is a place for SourceCoded Software that works...
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/

This is the site I use to download my favorite audio recorder Audacity. Real easy to use and works.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

I have also become a big fan of OpenOffice.org for my word processing.
http://www.openoffice.org/

they have a version of each for PC, Mac, and Linux.

Presidents List

My goal this Presidents Day was to review the list and see who I could remember. The WhiteHouse.Org website has a song to help you memorize your presidents as well.

1. George Washington
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James Knox Polk
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan
16. Abraham Lincoln
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses S. Grant
19. Rutherford B. Hayes
20. James Garfield
21. Chester Arthur
22. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
24. Grover Cleveland
25. William McKinley
26. Theodore Roosevelt
27. William Howard Taft
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt
33. Harry S Truman
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower
35. John F. Kennedy
36. Lyndon Johnson
37. Richard Nixon
38. Gerald Ford
39. James Carter
40. Ronald Reagan
41. George H. W. Bush
42. William J. Clinton
43. George W. Bush
44. Barack H. Obama

Pulling Addresses Out of Mobile Me

Give These Steps A Try

• Click on the @ symbol on the left side of the top of the Mobile Me Screen
• Click on the Gear symbol in the middle of the top of the Mobile Me Screen
• Choose Select All (this highlights all of the contacts in your list)
• Click on the Gear symbol in the middle of the top of the Mobile Me Screen
• Choose Export vCard (this starts downloading the contacts into a file on your Mac)
• Choose your Desktop as the Destination
• Open the Address Book
• Delete any Contacts in the Address Book
• Click on File
• Click on Import
• Choose vCards
• Go to your Desktop and Open the vCards.vcf file that was saved onto your desktop.
• All of your contacts should now be in the Addressbook.

I've also recorded it as a video to make it easier to follow.
http://computerguysecrets.com/macutilities/ForMobileMeAddressExport.avi

Also mac utilities for recovering lost or deleted files

http://computerguysecrets.com/macutilities/FileSalvage.dmg.zip

http://computerguysecrets.com/macutilities/pmac.dmg.zip

http://computerguysecrets.com/macutilities/mac-data-recovery.zip

BREATH from techlineStudio

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