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Best way for a G5 to connect with wifi?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tuppy" data-source="post: 1888015" data-attributes="member: 408224"><p>Well you've given me a lot of help here Patrick and I appreciate it. The G5 is running 10.5 Leopard and the Mac Pro is running 10.11.6 El Capitan, so there's a gap of five OS revisions in between them; nevertheless the Network and Sharing panels look about the same.</p><p></p><p>Still, there are so many changeable settings in all those Network and Sharing panels and sub-panels and sub-sub panels that I'm sure to foul something up if I go messing around with them, so maybe I'll just leave well enough alone and be grateful for what does work. </p><p></p><p>And yes, thanks, I've got two external hard drives attached to this G5, one of them running a Time Machine backup on it, so I feel like the data in its two internal drives is pretty safe. I don't want to lose my websites, for sure. I learned about the importance of backups the hard way, as many of us did. </p><p></p><p>I remember some years ago putting a new hard drive into a Mac and then working many hours on a complicated video project, without backing it up for several days ("it's brand new, how could it fail?"), so of course the drive dropped dead and I lost all that work, and had to start all over again from scratch. I don't take anything for granted anymore, and keep at least a Time Machine on all four of the Macs here, as well as occasionally backing up an important folder between them.</p><p></p><p>It scares me when I see people putting a lot of precious, irreplaceable family photos, baby pictures or something equally valuable, onto a little thumb drive and tossing it in a drawer. A sad lesson looms there. In the old days of film we always had the photo prints, backed up by the negatives--automatic hard copies if you will. We just had to make sure we didn't lose the shoebox or the album they were in, but no matter where they were our pictures could never just vanish forever into the ether like what happens when a flash drive or a hard drive fails.</p><p></p><p>Tom</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tuppy, post: 1888015, member: 408224"] Well you've given me a lot of help here Patrick and I appreciate it. The G5 is running 10.5 Leopard and the Mac Pro is running 10.11.6 El Capitan, so there's a gap of five OS revisions in between them; nevertheless the Network and Sharing panels look about the same. Still, there are so many changeable settings in all those Network and Sharing panels and sub-panels and sub-sub panels that I'm sure to foul something up if I go messing around with them, so maybe I'll just leave well enough alone and be grateful for what does work. And yes, thanks, I've got two external hard drives attached to this G5, one of them running a Time Machine backup on it, so I feel like the data in its two internal drives is pretty safe. I don't want to lose my websites, for sure. I learned about the importance of backups the hard way, as many of us did. I remember some years ago putting a new hard drive into a Mac and then working many hours on a complicated video project, without backing it up for several days ("it's brand new, how could it fail?"), so of course the drive dropped dead and I lost all that work, and had to start all over again from scratch. I don't take anything for granted anymore, and keep at least a Time Machine on all four of the Macs here, as well as occasionally backing up an important folder between them. It scares me when I see people putting a lot of precious, irreplaceable family photos, baby pictures or something equally valuable, onto a little thumb drive and tossing it in a drawer. A sad lesson looms there. In the old days of film we always had the photo prints, backed up by the negatives--automatic hard copies if you will. We just had to make sure we didn't lose the shoebox or the album they were in, but no matter where they were our pictures could never just vanish forever into the ether like what happens when a flash drive or a hard drive fails. Tom [/QUOTE]
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