My PowerMac G3=Tons of Headaches

Hello All,
I have my beloved PowerMac G3, it is a Rev.1 Heartbreaker that i've done some upgrades too. G3 400 mhz-overclocked to 450 mhz, 1 Gig of RAM, 80 Gig Hard Drive, original ATI Rage128. This is my favorite computer of all the ones that i own......accept at the moment the PC is sounding kind of nice about now, lol. It has been Running strong since '99, never complaining once about a 7 year old PRAM battery. I've had a rather nice 9 gig Ultra2 SCSI drive and card in there, but the HD had recently passed away a few weeks ago :...(. And now I have gone through about a couple of weeks of constant problems, and me shouting profanitys at My PowerMac. I've managed to rig up my new Samsung 80gb HD on the IDE bus with my CD-Rom Drive(cd slave hd master)........and i dont think that was the best solution. Is the CD's IDE channel slower than the Ultra ATA channel? If so will that cause constant application quitting, and lots of kernal panics?I have reformatted and rienstalled panther a bazillion times and reset the PRAM a million times as well. I have also thourohly cleaned the entire computer and removed/added back in multiple components, and the blasted thing still crashes 5 to 10 times a day without fail. The Hard Drive now resides in the Zip bay, and the zip drive is now a fancy coaster for my desk . If the hard drive gets too hot will is crash applications and such? I cannot find an ATA controller with mac support for under 80 bucks in any computer stores in my area, or online. Is it possible to flash certain cheap PC cards to work?
any suggestions would be great,
Patrick.

Patrick,
Patrick, I purchased all my G3's used on ebay, and the previous owners might have fiddled around with the machines.
They all came with the short (about 6/7 cms long)80 wire IDE ribbon on the HD channel and 80 wire IDE ribbon on the CD channel.
Note that I experienced a number of problems with WD drives
both on beige and B&W macs. As a result I have a Maxtor and a Seagate on my B&W, because I could not get the WD to work in a master/slave configuration. Data corruption was happening every two seconds.....
With my daughter's computer I installed a chain of SCSI drives (2 x 9GB with the stock SCSI card), WD as a master and DVD Player as a master.
With all three B&W machines I also experienced RAM problems
(with consequent freezes, kernel panics and other bruises), and I had to extract all RAM chips from the computer and then install them one at a time, restarting every time to find out which chip was causing the problem.
==========
I have one last suggestion. I don't know if you already tried this, but in case you did not, it might be worth a try.
Did the machine give you the same type of problems with the processor running at 400 Mhz?
When I was experimenting with overclocking, I noticed that I could obtain sufficiently stable situations under OS9, but I could not achieve anything when trying to either install or run OSX.
I noticed this type of behaviour both on Beige and B&W machines and have a theory. I think that, because of the fact that OSX requires more computing power from the processor, it is very likely to generate higher temperatures, which can cause freezes, kernel panics and any other unruly behaviours you can think of.
But is this fails too, the go with Grant's and Jim's suggestion all the way as there are no other solutions to the problem.
Let me know if this is the case.
cheers

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I've given it a couple of different tries with the following results:
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3 DECODE(SIGN((return_dte - due_dte)*2),
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2 SET pastdue_fees =
3 DECODE(SIGN((return_dte - due_dte)*2),
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6 FROM book_trans;
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sshevchenko wrote:
Please do not advise me to "go to Barcelona" or "send your phone to Barcelona". I will not do it, I doubt anyone would.
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If you've never used target disk mode, I would then transfer by disc. That amount of data through any network will be slow. I would use either DVD's or CD's depending on what type of superdrive is on that older mac.. more than likely it will have to be CD-R's. Once you have the discs go into the "home" folder and copy the "Library" folder (which has the keychain, preferences etc..) you may have to do them in segments since the Library folder can be rather large. So maybe copy in half segments (or whatever you can fit). But I will be honest, (because I deal with this daily) only transfer files, (songs, pictures, and documents) anything else that is coming from an old mac like that.. has no business being on a computer with Snow Leopard on it. They're two different kinds of architectures.. you will only be asking for problems. With a new computer it's best to start with a "clean" OS and only bring the kind of "files" I listed. It will save you from a ton of headaches.

Why does Firefox minimize itself upon launch. My husband is using Windows 8.1 with all recent updates.

I am trying to find a solution to my husband's computer problem. Upon launching the Firefox browser it will immediately minimize itself to the bottom of the screen, sometimes it takes a few minutes to do this, but it always happens. This has occurred with Firefox since we purchased the new Dell computer 64 bit running Windows 8. We have received all of the Windows 8.1 updates for it, hoping that it would correct itself. It seems to only affect Firefox, not any other browser. It has the most current version of Firefox, but it has been happening for all versions. He also uses the Google Chrome browser and it doesn't happen with it. I hope someone can help us with this as it is getting very annoying. He has had the new computer for several months now. If more information is needed about his computer, please ask.

What Firefox version is he using? If it's not current, you should update (for security, even if it doesn't fix this).
This could be something to do w/ Windows and / or some other software installed. You could try starting Windows in safe mode, then start firefox.
With this kind of problem, it's possible the Firefox program files got messed up. Ruling that out - by uninstalling - '''is faster than the addon troubleshooting''' steps below, so you may want to try uninstalling/ reinstalling first.
'''PLEASE... backup your existing profile''', before doing anything. It'll only take a few min & can save tons of headache. Search support.mozilla.org or Mozillazine.org (not the same folks) for "how to back up profile." It's easy & something you should do, anyway.
Uninstalling the Firefox program * shouldn't * affect your old profile, but you know how that goes.
Sometimes weird things like that happen due to addons used (& maybe less often, plugins).
Restart the browser in safe mode (search for: "mozillazine + safe mode", to see how).
Don't select "make the disabling of addons permanent;" just hit continue.
If it solves problem, you'll have to create another, new profile.
First, just try the clean profile w/ no addons, to make sure it doesn't have the same prob.
Start installing a couple of addons at a time, restarting as needed. Keep good notes.
See if any addons cause the problem. If so, narrow it down.
If you find one problem addon, don't assume the rest are OK, & install all the rest. More than one could be an issue.

Workflow for creating articles

As I'm sure many of you have experienced, splitting a multi-page magazine and making each individual page its own InDesign document in order to build a FOLIO file is just a major headache. I'm doing this for a client who wants his publication on every single device that DPS reaches who also wants both orientations. So 40 pages for the iPad landscape, 40 pages for the iPad Portrait, 40 pages for Android and Kindle Fire, 40 pages for each iPhone... this is not fun.
My workflow is that I create a whole document with 40 pages first in the resolution I want. For instance 1024 x 768 for the iPad. Then I save each page as its own InDesign document with eiter _h or _v after the filename. I have 240 different documents for the iPhone, 80 different for the iPad - that's 320 InDesign files for one book that the client wants in dual orientation. I'm sticking to the 1024 x 768 resolution for the iPad 3 because the files are a high resolution and for the Android/Amazon devices because 1024 x 768 will work with them, it'll just be letterboxed, which is fine.
Is there a better way to do this? I'm pulling out the remaining hairs on my head!

Keep building you're magazine as one single indesign document and then use Badia Exportools Standard (http://exportools.badiasoftware.com/selections/) to export each page as an indivdual indesign document, there is a small cost invovled ($59.99 USD) with Exportools but its worth the investment, Exportools has a really good renaming feature. I use this apporach and it saves me TONS of headaches and especially time. Good luck!

Guest account campus question

I want to setup some application prefrences but still would like ot use a guest account -- how can I do this ?

I have used a procedure similar to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-W2-_c5bA
I found that I also needed to delete the contents of the Keychain folder from the English.lproj library, but NOT the folder itself to keep from having keychain issues, particularly with Chrome.
All our students use the guest account and just log in to their Google account in Chrome once in. It has saved us a ton of headaches.
One caveat is that anytime you make a local account now, it will get whatever you set up in this procedure. Which actually is usually better anyway.
Hope this helps.
Chic

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