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USB 2.0 external drive as backup?
Backup might be OK, you just let it run overnight. Restoring from backup, in an emergency, will drain your patience. Stick with SCSI drives if you can (for this machine, you can also get IDE accelerator cards and use internal IDE drives). USB 1 is going to be hard to add to this machine; lots...- whit3rd
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- Forum: Macs and iPhones
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Installing second ethernet adapter to a IMAC DV
It ain't pretty, but... there are two solutions. Get an Airport card and Airport card adapter (these are not currently easy to locate). Your wireless network can then connect to any suitable bridge (Apple's Airport Express for example) and from that bridge, to ethernet. Get the iMac DV...- whit3rd
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- Forum: Macs and iPhones
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DVD + Hard Drive Enclosure
The double enclosure for 5.25" devices (like the CD drive) will fit a 3.5" drive without a caddy; that caddy allows the hard drive to be unplugged easily, that's all. For about the same price as the dual enclosure, you can get two single enclosures, at just about any dealer. The enclosures...- whit3rd
- Post #5
- Forum: Macs and iPhones
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FIREWIRE HARDDRIVE
Putting the drive in a firewire enclosure will slow it down. It's just as easy to put a second hard drive in one of your computers (probably the G4) and share out only that one volume; it'll be available to any user on the network. Because sleep will turn off the Firewire port, shared Firewire...- whit3rd
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- Forum: Macs and iPhones
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iMac freezing during startup
More RAM is a good idea (should still start off the 8.x CD with the original 32MB, but I thought 64M was the minimum for OS9). It can take two 256MB SODIMM modules if you get low profile types. PC100 is preferred (PC133 will work but some allowed PC133 organizations are incompatible, you can...- whit3rd
- Post #7
- Forum: Macs and iPhones
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iMac G5.....can it be used as a passive display?
The display is on a digital interface, and there's no place to plug it in to either VGA or DVI standard cables. Short of buying a VGA/HDvideo converter (and piping it in on Firewire as HD video), it's just not going to work that way.- whit3rd
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- Forum: Macs and iPhones
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Apple noob
First, you say you have PC with ADSL and want to wirelessly share: Yes, if you move the ADSL modem to the Macintosh and turn on 'share my network connection with others' to make it route IP packets to the ADSL, then turn on 'create wireless networks' to make it serve out its wireless connection...- whit3rd
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- Forum: Macs and iPhones
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extra shielding for cat5
It's awkward to have high current power line near a data wire (can cause some interference in the case of current surges), but unless it's a LONG parallel run, you're probably OK. Good procedure is to maintain 12" separation (but other posters have already mentioned that). This 'good... -
Cat 6 patch cables dont work
You might want to carefully inspect your terminating plugs; for solid cable, the plugs' crimp elements straddle the wire. For stranded cable, the plugs' crimp elements poke straight into the wire. If you use the stranded-conductor plugs on solid-conductor, you break the wires at the high... -
Single CAT5 cable for data and VGA signal?
The passage of video and data on digital wiring can be done fairly easily if you digitize the video AND if your network supports 'isochronous' real-time data transfer. Alas, Ethernet doesn't necessarily support real-time data (thus, VoIP is still somewhat tricky, IP video is flaky). The gamers... -
Question about adding Home Telephone Line
Phone wiring is simpler than network wiring, you really can just splice in almost anywhere. There's two caveats that should go here; if you have multiple phone lines, you need two pairs (red/green for the primary line, black/yellow for the second line) connected. Single-line houses STILL...
