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- Interests
- Family, Friends, Technology, Cooking, Cars
- PC Specs
- Powermac G3 B&W on Panther, Custom P4 1.7
26 Posted Topics
 | Hi, I suggest you press the reset button on the back of your router. Now you should be able to access your web based admin utility. If you previously reset your password, it will default to the original factory password when you first bought it. I had a similar problem … |
| | The fun begins..... I'm upgrading my Powermac G3 B&W with a serial ATA Hard drive and controller card. I want to copy the contents of the old drive to the new drive. I know that in the PC World Maxtor has a utility on a boot disk that allows you … |
 | Greetings, My G3 B&W by today's standards is considered to be old, although not as old as the Powermac 7200's I cut my teeth on. I remember the first time I worked with System 7. My Microsoft entranced Boss was so annoyed when he put me in charge of deploying … |
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| | Ok, My Palm Zire syncs fine with my PC at work but with my Mac at home it does not. I keep getting "File Locked" errors. I've taken screen shots of them. I got some suggestions from Palm that did not work. Here is what they told me to do: … |
| | Hi, I've done this with success using windows machines but also using a mixed setup of a Powermac G3, Dell Laptop, and P4 PC with a Linksys Wireless Router and Cable Modem. If you haven't already purchased the router, I suggest you NOT purchase any Microsoft Router. Microsoft routers require … |
| | Hi, My experience has been that WinXP doesn't like other company's firewall products. I've tried McAffee, Norton, and Zone Alarm, and run into all kinds weird network problems when attempting to use Firewalls other than the one that comes with WinXP. Also, I've had problems with Microsoft Routers when attempting … |
| | Re: at ease password [QUOTE=mod40]picked up a powermac 5400/200. I can not get past the at ease log in because I do not know the user name or password. Is there a way to turn this off or reset the needed info. Thanks for any help.[/QUOTE] If you are referring to the boot up …  |
| | [QUOTE=samfrost]I've recently come by a 1999 model G3 which is great but I'm reduced to kindergarten by my total lack of basics. Q1. How do I uninstall stuff, do I just send it to the trash? Q2. I can't run or install any of my old windows programs, eg winamp. … |
| | [QUOTE=kc0arf]Hello, Dani, our System Administrator, has created a new forum called Mac Tips and Tricks. I'd love to write about a number of things concerning the Macintosh, but being at the administrator level for so many years, I may be a bit out of touch on what new people would … |
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| | Re: mouse madness Need more info. What model of Mac are you running? What OS are you running? Is your mouse ADB or USB. Give us more info and we can help you. |
| | Hi, Where are the server and laptop located? Are they in the same building? If so, is there an exisiting network to connect them to? More details please? A router is better than a hub, particularly if you want to use DHCP for network addressing. You can also use static …  |
 | [QUOTE=spikes]Hi All, Stupid question for ya, when networking windows machines you can enter a domain or a workgroup, is the any way i can put a workgroup name into mac os9. as i am trying to link my windows pc in with the mac to provide file shares. ps. I … |
| | Greetings, Whenever I attempt to save Jpegs from the web onto my hard drive it use to save them as Jpegs but all of a sudden it will only save them as .bmp files. Unfortunately when I attempt to open them, they cannot be viewed, as all of my Graphic … |
| | Hi, Just a thought, but do you have a Wireless Router? If you don't have a Wireless Router, then your Wirless card in your laptop has no way to connect to anything. The signal has to transmit to something. I don't see any mention of a wireless router in your … |
| | Greetings, Make sure that you have the DSL modem plugged into the WAN port on the back of your Router and that both your PC's are connected to any of the four available Ethernet ports on back of the router (assuming it is one of those Wireless routers that includes …  |
| | Greetings Friends, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!! :cheesy: Here's my issue- We've moved and I'm on dialup until Earthlink gets my DSL connectin back up. I dial in on my G3 B&W and lose connectivity with my home network shares. It appears that I can either be … |
| | Hi, First off, don't buy the wireless card on E-bay. It's just my personal experience that you don't wanna do that. I use a Linksys Wireless B router and Linksys PC Card, so I can get 11mbps throughout my house, but I get better reception in some rooms than others. … |
| | Hey Dani, What about Zapping the PRAM? If I'm not mistaken, you boot it up with the disk in, hold down the Apple, Option, P, and R keys at the same time and let it restart 4 times. On the fourth time you hear the start up sound, you let … |
| | Hi, The best thing to do is format your hard drive and install that full install of XP. You'll be much happier with a clean install. Unfortunately that involves reinstalling all of your apps, but that's Windoze for ya! ;-)  |
| | Re: wireless, [QUOTE=IS I]I am trying to connect to my office computer from home,[/QUOTE] Hi, If you are trying to connect to your Office PC from home that involves security issues that only your company's Network Administrator can resolve. You'll have to get access permissions because there should be no way by … |
| | Hi, First off, are you using a Router or a hub to connect them? If you are using a router, all you have to do is right click "Network Neighborhood" and under DNS tell it to automatically assign addresses. Set up DHCP in your router and as long as DHCP … |
| | Re: Going Wireless Hi, I've got the Lynksys B and it works perfectly. Of course, I use the Linksys PC Card for my laptop. I'm not sure if there are problems with other manufacturer's cards but I've used both DLink and Lynksys routers with Linksys PC Cards and USB connectors and everything worked … |
| | [QUOTE=cscgal]Well, right now I don't have any version of Acrobat installed. See, I was running Mac OS 10.2.8 on my new G5 which apparently came with Acrobat 5 preinstalled. However, I have since upgraded to Mac OS 10.3. When I went to the Adobe Reader download page, it only provides … |
| | Greetings, From my G3 I can see my Windows XP shares, and my Windows XP shared Printer is set up, but when I attempt to print from my G3 I get one line of gibberish. The following is the output of the gibberish: %! PS - Adobe - 3.0 %RBINumCopies … |
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