[Cube] maintenance issues, Onyx and Cube running tiger

[Melvetta Overturf]

You guys are all great. Must be because you are all MACS!!!!  I have 
learned so much from the Cube Lister "family". I am also a Mac addict! 
Melvetta
On Feb 27, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Rod Duncan wrote:

> Me too - As my video card has sleep issues the machine is "always on" 
> like Ken,  I have the display going to sleep after 15 minutes. The 
> upside is it always appears on the network. I have a number of 
> computers (AI portable, son's iMac, new iMac G5) airported throughout 
> the house with the Cube sequestered in the studio with a laser printer 
> attached which is also always on and sleeping. It is nice to have any 
> of them print to the Cube and the laser printer. In addition, I use 
> Netopia's Timbuktu and visually bring up all the different machines on 
> each other's monitor's. Tres cool.
>
> The Cube is the only computer I can't sell. I recently bought an iMac 
> G5 2.1 GHz (iSight model) as I wanted a PPC G5 with AppleCare before 
> they all ended up running on InSmel's. I have too much invested in pro 
> PPC software to go down the Intel/hell upgrade road - yet. I fully 
> thought I would sell the upgraded Cube. (have it maxed out with RAM, 
> 120 Gb Barracuda, upgraded video card, Sonnet 1.2 GHz processor etc. 
> Dual monitors. But then couldn't bear to part with it. Ha. Only time 
> this has happened with any computer I have owned. These Cubes do find 
> a place in our visual heart. As nice as the iMac G5 is (running a 
> firmware patch that allows dual monitor spanning/virtual desktop 
> across the 20" internal and a 20" NEC in portrait mode) the Cube 
> doesn't have to make an apologies as it still feels pretty darn zippy 
> by comparison.
>
> Didn't mean to ramble.
>
> Rod
> "My addiction isn't drugs or alcohol - it is more expensive... my 
> Mac's"
>
>> Same here - it just runs 24/7 - never sleeps, but the display goes to 
>> sleep after 15-min.  Have 2 cubes, both are always "on"
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2006, at 6:47 AM, Steven Southerden Dive wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with AJ.
>>>
>>> I have the Apple Studio Display CRT 17 in, so when on it uses quite 
>>> a bit of power, so I sleep it automatically at 10 mins., which 
>>> effectively turns off its power except to the USP ports.
>>>
>>> I don't even power off the Cube for thunderstorms, as most HT, house 
>>> electricty supplies and phone lines in the UK are underground, so 
>>> are a bit better protected than many US 'over-ground' cables.  I do 
>>> use some additional in-line power protection, though, just to be on 
>>> the safe side.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
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