Re: Need a Dependable Browser for OS 9

[Caleb Cupples]

On 19/02/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Personally, I like to use Eudora.

I use Eudora Lite 6.1 on my Lombard, and it's great, IMHO. The only
problem is that it can only handle one email account, but it's all I
need, as I only use my primary email with it, and route the other
stuff to the PeeCee, for when I feel like torturing myself.

Caleb
PowerBook G3 Lombard 400, 192 MB RAM, 6 GB HD, Mac OS 9.2.2

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Re: [OT] The old days [Was:Re: Reminder: LowEndMac lists rules]

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On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:00, Peter Apockotos wrote:
> The size of programs and the amount of memory and processing power
> that is needed to run them has really gotten out of hand.
> You would think it would be the reverse.

I could do 90% of what I do now with my Lombard running OS 9.2.2 with 192 MB 
of RAM on my 190 running OS 7.5.3 and only 24 MB of RAM. Is it just me, or 
did that jump from a 68LC040/33 to a G3/400 not make all that much difference 
in my computer usage? 

Bloat is taking over the world, a day at a time.

Caleb

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Re: OT /Note to list...

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On Thursday 02 February 2006 22:25, Amber Robey wrote:
> Listen everybody - I am not trying to make things difficult for any
> you.   I am honestly just trying to keep the list running smoothly
> and enforce the LEM list rules. 

Amber, let me tell you that I appreciate your keeping things running smoothly. 
I know, you had to get on my case about editing what I quote, and earlier for 
the top posting, but I do appreciate you taking the time to look into these 
things. 

Can't we all just get along and deal with things in a civilized manner, 
instead of the dischord that's been prevalent lately?

Just my two cents worth,
Caleb

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Re: [OT] The old days [Was:Re: Reminder: LowEndMac lists rules]

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On Thursday 02 February 2006 22:50, Peter Apockotos wrote:
> Oh I am not that nostalgic of those days.  They can stay in the past.
> But you would think the web would have grown a lot more since then.
> But everything is really the same.  

Well, I'll agree there. Add in the fact that we use word processors that take 
up tens and hundreds of megabytes of hard disk space, when Word 5 would do 
almost everything the new stuff does, in only 2 MB, and with only 1 MB of RAM 
usage. 

Maybe we should all go back to the old ways of using assembly code to write 
software..

Caleb

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Re: Slightly OT- Installing Linux on a Lombard

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On Thursday 02 February 2006 21:26, phoenix wrote:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/
>
> Multi-platform (x86 and PPC), quite user-friendly, one of the simplest
> installs I've done yet.

I'm downloading Kubuntu right now, so I'm going to give it a shot. I did try 
OpenSuSE PPC, because I run the x86 version on my desktop, but it never 
booted into YaST.

Thanks for the suggestion,
Caleb

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Slightly OT- Installing Linux on a Lombard

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Does anyone on here have any experience running Linux on a Lombard G3? I'm 
looking for a good *nix-based OS, and I can't afford to go out and get a new 
copy of X, so Linux looks like the way to go. 

If anyone has any experience, or suggestions on distros, please help me.

Thanks,
Caleb

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Re: Reminder: LowEndMac lists rules

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On Thursday 02 February 2006 20:44, CG Bacani wrote:
> Let admit it,  they just want to re-invent the wheel and make a
> different on whose on top and below.  Problem is almost all email
> programs make as default, posting on top!!!


Actually, my two preferred mail programs, Mozilla Thunderbird and KMail both 
have it set to post on bottom default. Of course, Thunderbird is painfully 
slow on OS X, and KMail is Linux/Solaris only, but the point is that some 
good programs are list-friendly.

Caleb

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CD-ROM booting

[Caleb Cupples]

Dear listers,

I've got an old Toshiba 10X CD-ROM that I swapped into my Lombard, because the 
stock DVD-ROM was getting flaky, but it's not letting me boot from a known 
good SuSE Linux disc, even though it shows up in the Finder perfectly fine. 

Any suggestions? The drive starts to spin up, but it defaults to the hard 
drive before it can do anything with the CD.

Caleb

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Re: open source software site

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On Wednesday 01 February 2006 18:54, Tim Collier wrote:
 Pardon my doubt here, but
> Microsoft Office is the 'gold standard'.  I can't imagine that any
> open source would run as fast or offer as many features. 

In my experience with OpenOffice (NeoOffice is a Mac port of OpenOffice) I've 
been pleased with it, and I personally prefer it to Microsoft Office, but 
that's my humble opinion. On a Mac, NeoOffice is painfully slow loading on my 
G3/400, but it's pretty responsive once it's open. OO does keep up with 
Office on Wintel machines, though. 

Featureset: Almost all the features of Office, with the exception of an 
Entourage/Outlook-type program are included. Mozilla Thunderbird makes a good 
replacement, though.

In conclusion, a good Open Source suite can be assembled that will keep up 
with and exceed the 'standards' set by Microsoft and Office.

Caleb

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Re: Best Wireless Solution for Pismo?

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> I can confirm that the current version of the Linksys wpc54gs card works
> fine with the Airport software, no additional drivers required.
>
> Version 1 of wpc54g card also works fine but the Version 2 card does not
> as it does not have the Broadcom chipset in it.

Also on the list of good cards is the Sonnet Aria Extreme, as it also has the 
Broadcom chipset, and it's not bad at $70. I have one that I got for my 
Lombard, and I'd be using it, except for the fact I'm stuck on 9 at the 
moment.

Caleb

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Re: Lombard won't boot.

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Well, I've got my problem fixed, so thanks for all the advice. I'm going to 
order a new copy of Jaguar from OWC, or, if I can convince my DVD drive to 
read the Panther recovery DVD I have lying around, I'll install that. It took 
three tries to get my 9 CD to boot on my machine, so I think my early woes 
were caused by not holding down "C" long enough.

Thanks again for the help,
Caleb

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Re: Lombard won't boot

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On Sunday 29 January 2006 14:33, Tim wrote:

> Great idea
>
> Also, I'm not sure if you are a victim of the Lombard issue with OS X
> that I am  :))   but to get it to start I have to push the small reset
> button on the back of my Lombard before every start up.  Works every
> time
>

Tim, if you're having to do that, the L2 cache has failed on your machine, it 
sounds like to me. Mine doesn't have that problem, fortunately. 

Does anyone know of any good wireless cards that work with 9, since my Aria 
Extreme doesn't work with OS 9. I'm needing a good wireless fix, since my 
budget prevents me from going back X, unless I go back to Jaguar, and I don't 
want to go through that bundle of problems again.

Does anyone know if a clean Jaguar install would be stable enough to work 
with, or would Panther be better on a Lombard?

Specs:
G3/400
192 MB RAM
6 GB HD
DVD-ROM drive

Thanks in advance,
Caleb

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Re: i-pod ???

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On Sunday 29 January 2006 14:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 1/29/06 2:44 PM, "Dylan McDermond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Jan 28, 2006, at 3:46 PM, sandra ragan wrote:
> >> the full size and the nano are really your best options as all else
> >> (except the shuffle) are discontinued. We have a mini and a nano...
> >> the mini is b&w and doesn't do photos.
> >
> > I disagree. His best option would be a previous generation ipod Photo
> > - 40gb or 60gb. They won't do movies, but they have firewire. Unless
> > Woody wants to buy a USB2 Cardbus adapter, the USB-only iPod Video
> > and Nanos will be painfully slow to transfer over his Pismo's USB 1.1
> > interface.
>
> Since my wife is actually using a Nano with an original flat-panel iMac
> (USB 1.1) I asked her opinion. Completely replacing the music of the Nano
> takes well over an hour during which time she can read her mail and do a
> little surfing, she says. Further, since she rarely swaps out more than a
> couple CDs worth of music at a time, her syncs rarely last longer than 10
> minutes and most fewer than that. She recommends that Nano but admits she'd
> not want to think about the first sync of a 30 gig video iPod.
>
> david

I actually have a 30 gig video iPod that I synced using the stock USB ports on 
my Lombard, quite well. Of course, I only keep a little over a gig and a half 
on it, so it's not bad. It works, slowly, but it gets the job done.

Caleb

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Re: Lombard won't boot

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On Sunday 29 January 2006 00:17, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> on 28/01/06 21:28, Caleb Cupples at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Dear listers,
> > I restarted my Lombard after all the iApps quit working on my Lombard,
> > and now it's not booting. By iApps, I mean Safari, Mail and iChat, but
> > I digress. It'll boot to the point where it says "Waiting for
> > Application Services" and then it just sits there. No HD activity,
> > nothing.
> >
> > I'm running 10.2.8, but I've got 9.2.1 on the drive, but I don't know
> > how to switch boot partitions without booting into the Mac OS. I've
> > also got an 8.5 CD that came with the machine, but it won't boot from
> > that.
>
> You can try rebooting in 9 by pressing "Option" immediately after the boot
> tone and holding it down until you see the "Welcome to Mac OS" screen.
> There is probably something wrong with the disk, though, so that might not
> work either.
>
> -Laurent.

I decided to go ahead and use my OS 9 install disc to wipe the drive and do a 
fresh install of 9. Fortunately, I've got all my stuff backed up on my iPod, 
which is backed up on my Linux machine, which is backed up on a DVD+RW, so 
I'm safe. 

Now, does anyone know where I can find a cheap copy of Panther?

Caleb

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Lombard won't boot

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Dear listers,
I restarted my Lombard after all the iApps quit working on my Lombard,
and now it's not booting. By iApps, I mean Safari, Mail and iChat, but
I digress. It'll boot to the point where it says "Waiting for
Application Services" and then it just sits there. No HD activity,
nothing.

I'm running 10.2.8, but I've got 9.2.1 on the drive, but I don't know
how to switch boot partitions without booting into the Mac OS. I've
also got an 8.5 CD that came with the machine, but it won't boot from
that.

Any help will be appreciated,
Caleb

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Re: i-pod ???

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On Saturday, Jan 28, 2006, at 16:01 America/Chicago, Woody Duncan wrote:


I'm considering finally buying either a mini i-pod
or the new one that holds photos (grandkids of course).
Now I'm a mac person but I don't know much about how
the i-pod loads music. Help me if you know. On either
or both models: can I load music from my CD's or do
I have to download from i-tunes ? It's hardly worth
it if I have to pay for music twice. I'd appreciate
any info from those who know.
Thanks, Woody




You can rip your CDs into iTunes as you would any other MP3 encoder. 
I've got a good thirty-five CDs that I've ripped into iTunes on my 
faithful Lombard, and I would be really upset if I had to repurchase my 
collection, as well.


Woody, I hope this helps.

Caleb

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Re: plugging in the power lead - does it matter?

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On Saturday, Jan 28, 2006, at 10:53 America/Chicago, Andrew in Ann 
Arbor wrote:


I read that one should always plug in the power brick before 
connecting

power lead to the Book.
If I move it from one place to another, I am conscientiously 
unplugging it
and re plugging it in correct sequence rather than just carrying it 
with the
power lead and brick connected and then replugging the plug into the 
wall

while still connected.

I just want to check out if this is over paranoid behaviour or not?
I mean the manual suggests not to move the Powerbook while on but 
people do

- but carefully - right?


I know that the 5XX series powerbooks were very particular about not 
being plugged into an unplugged adapter.  This was one of the first 
(perhaps the first?) powerbook with the "intelligent" battery 
controller.
Apparently plugging a 520 into an unplugged adapter would likely 
confuse the battery controller.
Perhaps this is where the admonition against unplugging the adapter 
from the wall first came from?

I'm not sure if the later powerbooks are as sensitive.
On the other hand the power jack on the powerbook is subject to 
mechanical failure after some number of plug/unplug cycles so leaving 
the adapter plugged in when you move the computer may risk corrupting 
the powermanager but spare the power jack.



Andrew in Ann Arbor
technology is the answer, what was the question?


I know that my Lombard doesn't care, one way or another, but it's got 
so many little things wrong with it that it probably doesn't care 
whether it's connected to an unplugged adapter or not.


Caleb

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Re: Wifi antenna

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On Friday, Jan 27, 2006, at 17:11 America/Chicago, Tom Ethen wrote:


If you look at a parts page on the 12" powerbook, the antenna only goes
around the bottom and up to the grey tabs on the side of the display.

The iBook and Pismo antenna goes all the way around the display, this 
giving

a larger area to receive WIFI signals.

Tom


I goofed. Then again, I haven't had an AlBook or a TiBook to test with, 
other than my limited experience with a friend's 15" AlBook that he let 
me borrow while we were in CA last year, since the 190 didn't have 
ethernet or WiFi.  Apple still made a dumb move in the antenna design 
on the G4 PowerBook, though. Just my humble opinion, though.


Caleb

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Re: Wifi antenna

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On 26/01/06, Tom Ethen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My 12" AL book gets far less range than my 12" iBook because it has a
> smaller antenna, or so the people at MacWorld told me. I would suggest
> getting a better antenna for the WIFI and leave the AL book as it is.
>
> Tom

The real reason behind the weakness of the G4 'Books wireless
reception is the metal case. The Pismo/Lombard and all the iBooks have
a significant advantage, for this reason alone.

Caleb

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Re: feet

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On 27/01/06, Peter Saint James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>   I lost one of the rubber feet to my Al Powerbook.  The Applestore I
> went to says it is not covered by AppleCare and want $7 for a piece
> of rubber about the size of a bug pie.
>
>   Anyone have good luck improvising a foot for a Powerbook?  What did
> you use?
>
>   TIA
>
>
>   Peter


I pulled the rubber feet out from under an old monitor I had and stuck
those on the bottom of my Lombard. It's ugly, but it works.

Hope this helps,
Caleb

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Re: ibook G4 Combo drive in Pismo?

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On Tuesday, Jan 24, 2006, at 12:43 America/Chicago, Bruce Johnson wrote:



On Jan 24, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Caleb Cupples wrote:



On Tuesday, Jan 24, 2006, at 10:33 America/Chicago, Bruce Johnson 
wrote:




It should, I've got one from a TiBook in mine. Just unbolted the 
drive from the carrier in the TiBook and attached it to the one in 
my Pismo.


The bezel doesn't fit, but it's a slot loader, so it's less 
important. It's a someday project to dremel out the bezel from the 
old drive to attach it to the new one so it's prettier.




Bruce, about how expensive are TiBook superdrives, as I'd like to put 
one in my Lombard eventually.



No clue, since I was given the expired TiBook for spare parts. 
(College only, unfortunately, since it's a UA-owned system)


I'd scour e-bay for TiBook parts. Powerbookguy 
<http://www.powerbookguy.com> sells one for $129.


Thanks. If anything, Powerbookguy definitely beats OWC's prices for 
superdrives. Does it work with the native drivers in Jaguar, or will I 
have to hack some drivers and/or install PatchBurn?


Caleb

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Re: DVD-ROM Drive for Pismo

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On Tuesday, Jan 24, 2006, at 10:29 America/Chicago, Bruce Johnson wrote:



On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Michael Kern wrote:

Can a Toshiba DVD-Rom from a Dell laptop be made to fit in the caddy 
of a

Pismo drive

Some can. XLR8 Your Mac  has information 
on the known working models.




I don't know about DVD drives, but I've got an old Toshiba CD-ROM that 
I pulled out of my first PC laptop that works in my Lombard. Of course, 
I only used it long enough to verify that it works, before I swapped 
the stock LG DVD drive back in.


Caleb

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Re: ibook G4 Combo drive in Pismo?

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On Tuesday, Jan 24, 2006, at 10:33 America/Chicago, Bruce Johnson wrote:



It should, I've got one from a TiBook in mine. Just unbolted the drive 
from the carrier in the TiBook and attached it to the one in my Pismo.


The bezel doesn't fit, but it's a slot loader, so it's less important. 
It's a someday project to dremel out the bezel from the old drive to 
attach it to the new one so it's prettier.




Bruce, about how expensive are TiBook superdrives, as I'd like to put 
one in my Lombard eventually.


Thanks,
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Re: downloading movies

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On Sunday, Jan 22, 2006, at 19:43 America/Chicago, Brian McEwen wrote:


If someone gets their morals from what is legal, then I'd submit 
that's a BIG part of what is demonstrably wrong with the processes as 
they are implemented today.
It's legal for a business to declare bankruptcy  and forget about the 
money people have paid into pensions for retirement funds, for 
example.  Would you call that morally allowable?  I think not...


That reminds me of a quote from Linus Torvalds, that basically says 
that there is something wrong with your morals if you derive morality 
from law. However, Can we take this back on topic? It's becoming a 
political shoutfest, and getting away from our key topic, which is 
discussion of Mac problems and solutions to said problems.


I hate to be the one to do this, but we're not here to discuss the 
morality of the law. If you want to do that, take it off-list.


That's all I have to say on the matter,

Caleb

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Re: downloading movies

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On Sunday, Jan 22, 2006, at 18:26 America/Chicago, Brian Scott Oplinger 
wrote:



Lawrence Sica wrote:
Actually it is not that simple.  The actual legality of copying DVDs 
was not addressed in the court case, the 321 Studios once. They only 
ruled about 321 studios program violating the DMCA.   Also making a 
copy of a DVD, encrypted or no *is not a felony*.


Actually, according to the DCMA, any decrypting is a felony. Whether 
you would be prosecuted for say converting your Firefly DVDs into a 
copy you take with you on trips, so you don't have to worry if they 
are broken/lost/stolen/damaged is debatable. But its still a felony to 
do so.




If you'll excuse my interjecting my opinion on here, the DMCA is such a 
buggy piece of law that is extremely vague as to how it's read and how 
it's enforced. Is it so wrong to rip a DVD for use with your iPod video?


In conclusion, my belief is that it depends on the situation as to 
whether it's illegal or not. Of course, if you'll excuse my legal and 
software flamethrowing, the DMCA is the legal equivalent of Windows. 
Buggy, yet sold off as the best thing out there since sliced bread.


Just my humble opinion from way down South,
Caleb

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Re: downloading movies

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The answer to both questions is yes. You can do it, but if you don't 
own the disc, it is illegal, technically. However, I don't think 
they'll go after you for making personal copies.


Caleb
On Sunday, Jan 22, 2006, at 12:48 America/Chicago, Dennis Goglin wrote:

I thought when I purchased my new ibook with the superdrive that I'd 
be able to download/import movies from a dvd and save them to view 
whenever I chose.  I never really considered the infringement of 
copyrights or anything as selling something has never been part of the 
plan.  I simply thought I'd be a cool way to create a video library.  
Whether I stored the movies on a larger external hard drive or copied 
them to disc.  So I guess my question is two-fold:  1.  Is it possible 
to save/copy a movie from a dvd that I have either rented or borrowed? 
 2.  Is doing this illegal?


I've briefly browsed some sites that claim to have software to support 
this.  But I thought better to get some direction and guidance from 
people I've learned to respect.


Thank You,
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Re: printing ?

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How much RAM does she have? Also, it may be a bug in the printer 
driver, so I'd try updating. Of course, if there's enough RAM, the HP 
drivers in X are pretty good, IMHO.


Hope this gives you a nudge in the right direction,
Caleb

P.S. I converted my grandpa to a Mac mini from his old PC, and he swore 
he'd never go back to Windows, within 24 hours of getting it. :-)


CSC
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my 70 year old mother is having a printing problem with both of her 
macs
an ibook and an imac both running Mac OS 9. Every time she tries to 
print she gets an out of memory message. Does anyone have any info to 
a fix? or can point me in the right direction? Her printer is HP.


tia,

Gerald


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Re: more Lombard display and DVD issues

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It can and it can't. It will play a DVD, but it's so laggy and skips so 
much that I wouldn't recommend it. VLC is great on a G4 'Book, but not 
a Lombard. In fact, the only reason I have VLC is that 'systm', is 
either Ogg Theora or H.264 and I'm on X.2.8, so that rules out 
Quicktime 7.


Boot into 9 and use Apple DVD Player.

Caleb
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If in X, dvd chip is disabled.  Anyone know if VLC can pick up the 
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Re: Lombard display lines

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Dan,

Don't be sorry. I was expecting to replace the LCD eventually, so it's 
not like I was completely unprepared. The lines don't even show up on 
white now, so I'm not going to worry about it until more show up.


However, I'm still curious as to how hard it is to change a Lombard 
display, compared to rebuilding a PB 190 and soldering that little 
power connector.


Thanks,
Caleb
On Wednesday, Jan 18, 2006, at 19:48 America/Chicago, Dan K wrote:


single lines of pixels = failed LCD, cure = replace

Caleb, somehow or other you damaged the LCD when you cleaned it. There
are glued-on flat ribbon cables connecting the LCD's edge 'wires' with
the LCD's onboard driver PCB. Those glued-on connections can fail or
short, leading to anomolies such as your LCD displays. Just takes one 
. .

.

sorry

dan k


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I've been noticing insane lag between when I send a message and when it 
shows up on-list. I think the servers need a serious upgrade and a 
slightly higher limit on list message sizes. After all, I don't think 
an occasional 20k text message will hurt anyone, as most list messages 
are short. Plus, AFAIK, it's less likely to clog up a G-Book with email 
than it is a 68K 'Book.


Just IMHO,
Caleb
On Wednesday, Jan 18, 2006, at 18:18 America/Chicago, Brian McEwen 
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Ok, I have a email to send to the list, it is 63 lines.

The list rejects it as it is 18k and there is a 10k size limit.

It's all needed info :)  I cannot trim.

I know the list was having quota issues but it would be nice to have a 
techie update sometime, and word of when we can send emails more than 
62 lines in length.


thanks,

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Dear Listers,

First of all, I'm sorry to plague you with my questions, but my Lombard 
is acting up, so I figured here would be the best source for answers.


There is a thin, magenta (on a white background) line running 
vertically through my display, about three inches in from the right 
side. It's really annoying, but not critical. However, I'd like to know 
what could cause this. The line showed up first when I was watching a 
DVD under OS 9, and it hasn't gone away since I rebooted into OS X. I 
cleaned the display about two minutes prior to the line showing up, and 
a second line has appeared of a red hue, as I type this email. I really 
hope the display isn't failing on this machine, but you never can tell.


Please give me some hope, or a fix,
Caleb,

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Dear Listers,

First of all, I'm sorry to plague you with my questions, but my Lombard 
is acting up, so I figured here would be the best source for answers.


There is a thin, green (on a white background) line running vertically 
through my display, about three inches in from the right side. It's 
really annoying, but not critical. However, I'd like to know what could 
cause this. The line showed up first when I was watching a DVD under OS 
9, and it hasn't gone away when I rebooted into OS X. I cleaned the 
display about two minutes prior to the line showing up, and a second 
line has appeared of a red hue, as I type this email. I really hope the 
display isn't failing on this machine, but you never can tell.


Please give me some hope, or a fix,
Caleb,

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Dear Listers,

This has been bugging me for a while, but the display on my Lombard is 
slightly darker near the bottom than at the top, and it's got a slight 
tan/brown hue to it in that area. It's not noticeable unless you're 
really looking, but when dealing with large white spaces, it shows up 
pretty clearly. The brown area seems to start about where the bottom 
edge of the keyboard lines up with the display and gets darker 
progressively towards the bottom edge of the screen. There is also a 
slight lighter area that is about two inches in from the right edge and 
goes up about 3/4 of an inch that is as bright and clear as the rest of 
the display.


Any help would be appreciated,

Caleb

P.S. It is clearly not the pink hue associated with the failing 
backlight, though.


CSC

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Re: Wireless Lombard

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It really depends on the card. As I can attest, the easiest ones are 
the Broadcom-based cards, because they use Apple's Airport drivers. 
However, they're all easy to setup, with the right drivers. Pop in, set 
your wireless settings like you did your wired, and it's ready to go.


Caleb
On Friday, Jan 13, 2006, at 16:03 America/Chicago, Tim wrote:
Thanks for ALL of the suggestions!  I have a few directions to look 
into now.


Are they easy to setup once installed?  I'm used to being hardwired to 
my router!

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I can also attest to the v.4000 Belkin not working on the Mac, but the 
big issue is that you really have to watch the revision numbers. Of 
course, the site claims the .5000 works, but tech support denies it.


Caleb
On Friday, Jan 13, 2006, at 06:08 America/Chicago, Tom and Lisa Peters 
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Source please to aquire such cards at such a price?  Want many.


 I have a Cisco Aironet 340 (IIRC) on my WS/10.3.9 and a Belkin
 F5D7010 (v 3001) working on my lombard /10.3.9 where I have to use
 the software from each of the companies.  Not as nice as Airport, 
but

 it works just fine.

 Each cost me $20 or less.


 > Mad Dog


The cisco card was from Ebay, check on the pc side instead of the mac 
side.  THe Belkin card I bought on sale at CompUSA ($10 after 
rebates).  Make sure not to get the v4000 model - evidently that 
doesnt work on a mac (different chipset ?).


Every week CompUSA seems to be blowing out one wireless card or 
another.  Check to see if the card has mac drivers; sometimes they do.


Mad Dog



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IMHO, the only problem with the MacBook is the dumb name and the lack 
of PC Card support. Well, the styling is bland compared to my faithful 
Lombard, but if you like the Ti/AlBooks, you'll love the MacBook. Also, 
it's nowhere near as revolutionary as I would have liked to see, but 
that's just IMHO. Of course, I'll be using my faithful Lombard for 
another two years at least, so I can't comment at the moment.


Caleb,
PowerBook user @ Large in Redneck City, USA

P.S. If you think rural NZ is bad, try living with rednecks on all 
sides who haven't heard of the Mac OS talking about how L33t their 
Nifty Doorways boxes are.

CSC

On Thursday, Jan 12, 2006, at 22:32 America/Chicago, Bryan Taylor wrote:

Before this subject gets into too many people's kill files, I'd like 
to bring it back to my personal differences with something like the 
"macbook pro".


1. There is no modem, so my life in rural New Zealand requires 
purchasing a seperate usb modem. Here's hoping the Apple variety are 
way better than what I've observed in the Windows world.
2. There is no pcmcia slot, if this is the powerbook replacement, then 
the ibook replacement won't have one either, so I have to find a usb 
reader for my original IXUS camera's CF card.
3. The price is the same as a 15" Powerbook here ($3800 - ish), so the 
difference is speed, not price with Intel.


or, I can stay with my 667MHz 15" powerbook and not fret about all the 
worn paint, and when OS 10.5 doesn't support PowerPC, then I'll 
install Net/OpenBSD/*linux...


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Re: Wireless Lombard

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Mad Dog, I never had any luck using anything other than 
Broadcom/Airport combinations, but that's just me. For ease of use, the 
Sonnet Aria or whatever Buffalo card has the Broadcom chipset is best. 
The Aria can be found on OWC's site, if you don't mind shelling out 
$70+shipping.


Just my humble opinion,
Caleb
On Thursday, Jan 12, 2006, at 19:16 America/Chicago, Tom and Lisa 
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New territory here.

Need to go wireless on my outdated (waiting for the faster Mactel 
laptop!) Lombard running OSX 10.2  What do I need and how do I 
set it up?


Thanks!

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When running X, you have more options, but most of them wont be seen 
as "Airport".  Still, I have a Cisco card and a Belkin and both work 
fine.


See these links for some information:

http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net/faq.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~kjvann/#osx
http://www.ioxperts.com/products/80211b_X.html

Mad Dog



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I went wireless with my Lombard a couple of weeks ago, but all you need 
is a Sonnet Aria Extreme, run the 10.2.8 update and download Airport 
3.1.1. Just download and install the update and Airport software, 
install and insert the Sonnet card in the Cardbus slot. Then, when you 
boot, enable the Airport card in the preferences, and that's it. The 
Sonnet uses Apple's Airport drivers, so you don't have to worry about a 
thing.



Hope this helps
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New territory here.

Need to go wireless on my outdated (waiting for the faster Mactel 
laptop!) Lombard running OSX 10.2  What do I need and how do I set 
it up?


Thanks!

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Re: Intel IMacs

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I'm a devoted Lombard user, writing this on said Lombard, and I have to 
agree with R.P. on this. Then again, I did as much with my 190 for as 
long as I could before getting my Lombard a month ago. With a G4 
upgrade and maxxed-out RAM, the ol' Lombard will serve me through my 
senior year of High School, as my primary machine, and another few 
years after that as a writing/notes machine for when I won't want to 
drag my will-be MacBook with me. :-)


Caleb

P.S. It's only going to be another two years for the Lombard, so I 
figure it can make the most of Jag in that time.


CSC

On Thursday, Jan 12, 2006, at 11:14 America/Chicago, R. P. Bell wrote:
I just don't understand this way of thinking.  I, too, am a devoted 
Pismo user
and my 9500 is sitting beside me (though I'm writing this on my HP 
WinXP
machine) running like clockwork with a G3-500/750 and 1 GB RAM under 
MacOS
9.1 -- it has not been rebooted in so long I don't even remember when 
I last
rebooted it.  Sure, it was an expensive machine when it was new, but 
that cost
has been amortized over several years and has been no more than the 
cumulative
expense of several PeeCees that have rotated into/out of this place in 
the

interim.

My Pismo still goes with me on travels and I even enjoy responding to 
the
occasional query, "Why is the Apple upside down?" (I just reach up, 
start to
close the lid and say, "Looks the right way to me!")  But, in the time 
I've had
the 9500 and (later) the Pismo, I've bought at least three cars--but I 
ain't
stopped driving, yet.  Everything comes and goes.  That's life.  My 
wife wanted
a "desklamp" iMac, then the new iteration, and now, she has decided 
she wants a
MacBook Pro (I can't win--I use the old stuff, she gets the new 
stuff...but

that's OK, 'cause when I take care of her, she takes care of me, ;-).

Zoltan...suck it up, dude.  Sell the Pismo for a few hundred $$ and 
use the
money to offset the cost of a new MacBook Pro--and if the Intels make 
you yawn,
then get the G4 Powerbook (for the same price) -- you'll still be 
using it in
2012 running OS X.94.x Pussycat (and my friend, THAT is cheap 
computing. Try
that with a Dell or even an HP running under XP-Vista New Generation 
or whatever

stupid name it will go by!).

I can't wait to buy my next car (or my wife's next Mac!)...and I'm not 
a rich

man.  That's just the cost of doing business.

rb
==
San Bernardino

PS Zoltan, your don't need to have your Pismo fitted for a tombstone; 
our Pismos
ARE tombstones.  Matter of fact, I think I just figured out how to 
save on the
cost of a memorial stone to be able to afford my wife's new MacBook 
Pro.





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Re: Link to Google Earth/Sandra

[Caleb Cupples]

Nearest Apple Store: 125 miles west.
MacWorld: 3400 miles west.
Regrets of using a Mac in a town full of Windows users: None.

Caleb
On Wednesday, Jan 11, 2006, at 01:22 America/Chicago, Clark Martin 
wrote:



At 12:50 AM -0600 1/11/06, Caleb Cupples wrote:
Lucky, you. I sure wish I were at MacWorld instead of in class... Oh, 
the woes of being in Tennessee, when all the cool stuff is in 
California. Now, if they'd put in an Apple store, there'd be one 
happy 'redneck'... Enjoy MacWorld.


Caleb Cupples
UNIX Systems Administrator

"Doing a rm-rf on the 'Idiot Factor'."

On Wednesday, Jan 11, 2006, at 00:38 America/Chicago, Clark Martin 
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.  Now I'll have to pick up Tiger at MacWorld tomorrow.
--
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Well let's see, two Apple Stores within about 5-10 miles to the south, 
another about 15 miles north.  And MacWorld about 28 miles north.



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Re: Link to Google Earth/Sandra

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Lucky, you. I sure wish I were at MacWorld instead of in class... Oh, 
the woes of being in Tennessee, when all the cool stuff is in 
California. Now, if they'd put in an Apple store, there'd be one happy 
'redneck'... Enjoy MacWorld.


Caleb Cupples
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"Doing a rm-rf on the 'Idiot Factor'."

On Wednesday, Jan 11, 2006, at 00:38 America/Chicago, Clark Martin 
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.  Now I'll have to pick up Tiger at MacWorld tomorrow.
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Hot Lombard...

[Caleb Cupples]

Dear listers, and, more specifically, fellow Lombard users,

I've got my Lombard in my lap, as it virtually lives in my recliner. 
However, I was watching some video in VLC when I felt things getting 
hot. I then fired up TemperatureX and saw that my Lombard was running a 
smokin' 183 degrees Fahrenheit. Didn't even hear a fan, but I know 
there has to be on going, because it's dropped twenty-five degrees 
since I've been typing this email. Is this normal for a Lombard to get 
that hot?


Thanks,
Caleb

*All temperatures are CPU readings from TemperatureX.


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G4 upgrade for Lombard?

[Caleb Cupples]

Hi,

I seem to remember someone offering a G4/500 or 550 upgrade for the 
Lombard series, but I can't seem to remember which company. I know the 
WS I and II have available upgrades from Sonnet, but I'd like to bump 
the Lombard up.


Also, are there any heat issues with Lombard/Pismo systems with G4 
upgrades?


Caleb


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Re: Google Earth Beta - please reply off-list

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IMHO, Google Earth is hard on system resources, even on high-end Wintel 
machines, so I can see where the G5-native stock tuning would be about 
right.


I know I wouldn't try it on my 400MHz Lombard, though.

Caleb
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On Monday, Jan 9, 2006, at 21:32 America/Chicago, Dylan McDermond wrote:

It worked a whole lot better after I turned it down from some of the 
high-end video settings which seemed to be more in line with a G5 
desktop system's capabilities. Turned down to the medium-type 
settings, it runs nicely on my 1.25ghz Powerbook/1gb RAM/64mb Radeon 
9600 and also pretty well on my Dual G4 500mhz/1gb RAM/64mb Geforce2.


I don't think I'd try it on my wife's 400mhz G3 Pismo, though.

Do you want a copy?

- Dylan

On Jan 9, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Amber R. wrote:


Hello,

Just wondering if anybody has the Beta version of Google Earth for OS 
X ?  If so, could you please contact me off list.  I just want to 
know how well it works on your Mac, etc etc..


I am aware that this Beta version was recently pulled but a number of 
people were able to download it before this occurred.


Thank you,

Amber



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Re: Lombard OS X Install Crash

[Caleb Cupples]

James,
The Lombard uses the NewWorld ROM, instead of the OldWorld that the WS 
II uses, so that doesn't apply. I've got 9.2 on my first partition and 
Jaguar on my second, with no troubles.


Caleb
On Sunday, Jan 8, 2006, at 22:25 America/Chicago, James Sanderson wrote:


Your installing OS X on the second partition, could be the issue.
It wants to be on the first partition.  Either install it there or 
don't partition.
Tried this on a WS II, installing on the second partition.  It would 
not install until I repartitioned the drive to install X on the first. 
 9 presents no such issue.


Jim Sanderson

On 8 Jan 2006, at 22:18, Scott Warnock wrote:

I know this subject has been talked about a lot on this list, and I 
went

back and checked the archives, but am still having a problem I can't
resolved. I have a 400 mhz Lombard with 320 Mg ram and a 40 Gig Hard 
Drive.
I have been trying to install OS 10.2 and it keeps crashing or 
freezing up
about a third through the install. I get the HOLD the POWER BUTTON 
DOWN

screen or it simply freezes. I tried swapping out the top Ram and no
difference. I have the Hard Drive partitioned in two and on one I am 
running

OS 9.2.2 with no problem. I am trying to install OS X on the second
partition. Can anyone tell me what else I should do or check...Thanks 
very

much. Also, I have nothing in the PCMCIA slot.

Scott



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Re: Lombard OS X Install Crash

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The DVD-ROM drive may be at fault. I know that my Lombard has a really 
flaky drive that tends to quit working randomly, so that may be a part 
of it. Also, OS X is extremely finicky about RAM, so I'd try checking 
some known good RAM. Also, you could try using Carbon Copy Cloner on a 
friend's Lombard or Pismo with your HD in an external enclosure. It's 
slow, but it just might work. Also, you might try cleaning the disc, as 
fingerprints can really mess up an OS install. cough..Windoze 
XPcough...


I hope some of this can be of help,
Caleb
On Sunday, Jan 8, 2006, at 22:18 America/Chicago, Scott Warnock wrote:

I know this subject has been talked about a lot on this list, and I 
went

back and checked the archives, but am still having a problem I can't
resolved. I have a 400 mhz Lombard with 320 Mg ram and a 40 Gig Hard 
Drive.
I have been trying to install OS 10.2 and it keeps crashing or 
freezing up

about a third through the install. I get the HOLD the POWER BUTTON DOWN
screen or it simply freezes. I tried swapping out the top Ram and no
difference. I have the Hard Drive partitioned in two and on one I am 
running

OS 9.2.2 with no problem. I am trying to install OS X on the second
partition. Can anyone tell me what else I should do or check...Thanks 
very

much. Also, I have nothing in the PCMCIA slot.

Scott



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Re: Battery not charging properly.

[Caleb Cupples]

I talked to NewerTech support, and they're going to set up a 
replacement battery, because of the symptoms shown. If anything, I 
commend them on having a good support team, and I think I'll be very 
happy with my replacement. Of course, I'm looking forward to having a 
mobile Lombard, to ride out the rest of my High School career.


Thanks for all the help,
Caleb
On Sunday, Jan 8, 2006, at 12:04 America/Chicago, Tom Ethen wrote:


Caleb,

I would also suggest that you charge the battery for at leas 24hr with 
the

Lombard turned off. I know that is hard if it is your only Mac, but I
believe you will have much better luck by not using it until the 
battery is

charged.

Tom



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Re: Battery not charging properly.

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Howard,
I left the thing off for a good eight or so hours yesterday and nothing 
happened. After that, I got way too tired of using my Wintel machine, 
so I fired up the 'Book. 1% charge for a machine that has been plugged 
into the wall since 12 AM Saturday morning. Sleep, running or off, it 
shouldn't be that low with that much time in the wall. *It's 11:35 AM 
Sunday, where I'm at, so that's a good point of reference. I tried the 
NVRAM and battery resets about 24 hours ago, also.* I'm pretty sure 
it's the battery, at this stage of the game.


Hope this clarifies things a little.
Caleb.
On Sunday, Jan 8, 2006, at 11:06 America/Chicago, Howard Katz wrote:


Could the problem be that you should be charging it 24 hours with the
'book turned off?  Having it running might be the problem, or be
giving false readings.

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Re: Battery not charging properly.

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I hope it's going to work properly, as well. However, my thoughts are 
leaning towards the non-functioning side of things, as it's been 15 
hours since I plugged it in and over 9 hours since my last post, and 
it's still showing 1% charge according to XBattery and OS X. I'm 
starting to think it's a battery problem or a Lombard problem. I'm 
leaning toward the former, though.


Thanks for not considering my questions to be stupid, and hopefully 
having these things answered now will help someone else later on. I do 
agree on the being one of the best G3/G4 answering areas on the net, 
though. Where else can we compile such a vast knowledgebase with such a 
wide area of expertise.


Thanks once again,
Caleb
On Sunday, Jan 8, 2006, at 10:42 America/Chicago, Tom Ethen wrote:


Caleb,

If you get the battery to work properly you will be pleased with the
performance, as mine gave me an additional hour of use in my Pismo 
compared

to the Apple battery.

By the way, your questions were not stupid by any means! How else are 
you
going to find things out if you don't ask and this forum is one of the 
best

places to find things out about G3 and G4 issues.

Tom

On 1/8/06 1:27 AM, "Caleb Cupples" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:



I'm going to leave it on the charger through Monday afternoon, and if
it isn't up by 4 PM CST on Monday, I'll call OWC. I can't have it down
for any considerable amount of time, though, even if it means that I
have to drag the yoyo everywhere, like it or not.



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Re: Battery not charging properly.

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I'm going to leave it on the charger through Monday afternoon, and if 
it isn't up by 4 PM CST on Monday, I'll call OWC. I can't have it down 
for any considerable amount of time, though, even if it means that I 
have to drag the yoyo everywhere, like it or not.


Tom, I really appreciate you taking the time to answer all my stupid 
questions about the Lombard battery, as it's the first laptop with a 
Li-Ion I've had in a long time. The last was a Toshiba Satellite that 
died within two months of my getting it, so I'm not even going to 
consider it. I can squeeze a bit of life out of ancient NiMH batteries, 
as my old 190 is proof of. I still brag about my squeezing almost 6 
hours out of a factory battery on the 190, on my freshman band trip to 
Florida. Then again, it lasted through the entire flight to LA for the 
BPA conference the next week, so it's a real battery miser.


Well, thanks for all your help,
Caleb
On Sunday, Jan 8, 2006, at 01:12 America/Chicago, Tom Ethen wrote:


Caleb,

I don't know what battery reset utility does, because it won't work 
with my
Pismo, but I do know that when I first got the battery from OWC it did 
not
charge at all for quite a while and then only a little bit even though 
the

lights stated otherwise. I then just left it for the weekend and was
planning on calling OWC to complain the following Monday. By Monday it 
was

fully charged and good to go and has worked ever since.

I know the batteries have a circuit board in them, as I tried to 
rebuild one
once, but couldn't figure out how to convince the circuit board that 
it now
had new cells installed and never could get it to work. I don't see 
how the
battery utility could break the battery, but I have heard that 
completely
draining them makes them act strange and possibly not function any 
longer.


If it is new, you should be able to send it back if you can't get it 
to work
and get a replacement if charging for a day or two doesn't work. If 
you got
it from OWC, they are very good about replacing items they sell that 
don't

function properly.

Tom

On 1/8/06 12:51 AM, "Caleb Cupples" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:



Tom, not to sound ignorant or anything, but aren't the little lights
supposed to come on when it's charging, because mine certainly aren't.
Even on my first attempt immediately after getting the battery, which
resulted in OS X showing 100 % charge well before any actual charge,
the lights were on. On the second try, which was after I believed OS X
and tried to use the thing, I got three lights and 66% charge, before 
I

got brilliant and decided to reset the thing using the "Battery Reset
Utility" in OS 9. Nothing has happened since.

So, did I break my $140 battery, is it the battery at fault, or is it
just not wanting to do anything because the planets aren't aligned
properly?

Any help would be appreciated before I throw the Lombard through a
second-story window or two in frustration.

Caleb



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Re: Battery not charging properly.

[Caleb Cupples]

Tom, not to sound ignorant or anything, but aren't the little lights 
supposed to come on when it's charging, because mine certainly aren't. 
Even on my first attempt immediately after getting the battery, which 
resulted in OS X showing 100 % charge well before any actual charge, 
the lights were on. On the second try, which was after I believed OS X 
and tried to use the thing, I got three lights and 66% charge, before I 
got brilliant and decided to reset the thing using the "Battery Reset 
Utility" in OS 9. Nothing has happened since.


So, did I break my $140 battery, is it the battery at fault, or is it 
just not wanting to do anything because the planets aren't aligned 
properly?


Any help would be appreciated before I throw the Lombard through a 
second-story window or two in frustration.


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On Saturday, Jan 7, 2006, at 14:35 America/Chicago, Tom Ethen wrote:

Shut it off and charge the batteries. My new battery from OWC had to 
charge

for over 24hr before it took a full charge.

Tom


On 1/7/06 1:21 PM, "Caleb Cupples" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:



Before I forget, I also reset the PMU and the NVRAM, as well, with no
results showing. The battery lights should be on, but they aren't.

Caleb
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Re: Lombard not charging.

[Caleb Cupples]

Tom Ethen wrote:

Caleb,

Read my other post, it took over 24hr for my NewerTech battery from OWC to
take a charge, it will do next to nothing in three hours.

Tom

On 1/7/06 7:10 PM, "Caleb Cupples" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Hi,

I know this is a bit of a time to start a new thread about the same
problem mentioned in my earlier thread, but I've now had the Lombard
plugged in for three hours and it's showing 1% charge in XBattery, with
-1.200 amps. Does this sound like a battery or system problem, before I
sink more cash into this thing, or are the NewerTech batteries just slow
to charge?

Thanks in advance,
Caleb






I feel really dumb right now. However, you have to realize that I'm 
really impatient to get back to using the Lombard, as I'm stuck on my 
Windows machine right now. :-(


Well, thanks for telling me. I guess that if I leave it alone for the 
rest of the weekend, it'll be up by Monday afternoon.


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Lombard not charging.

[Caleb Cupples]

Hi,

I know this is a bit of a time to start a new thread about the same 
problem mentioned in my earlier thread, but I've now had the Lombard 
plugged in for three hours and it's showing 1% charge in XBattery, with 
-1.200 amps. Does this sound like a battery or system problem, before I 
sink more cash into this thing, or are the NewerTech batteries just slow 
to charge?


Thanks in advance,
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Re: Battery not charging properly.

[Caleb Cupples]

That's the exact opposite of what I wanted to hear. Oh well, it'll be 
worth it to make my production machine portable.


Thanks,
Caleb
On Saturday, Jan 7, 2006, at 14:35 America/Chicago, Tom Ethen wrote:

Shut it off and charge the batteries. My new battery from OWC had to 
charge

for over 24hr before it took a full charge.

Tom


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Before I forget, I also reset the PMU and the NVRAM, as well, with no
results showing. The battery lights should be on, but they aren't.

Caleb
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Re: Battery not charging properly.

[Caleb Cupples]

Before I forget, I also reset the PMU and the NVRAM, as well, with no 
results showing. The battery lights should be on, but they aren't.


Caleb
On Saturday, Jan 7, 2006, at 12:51 America/Chicago, Caleb Cupples wrote:


Hi, Listers,

I've got a NewerTech battery that is fresh out of the box. It was 
charging fine last night, but it seems to have stopped at 62% charge. 
The Lombard was in sleep mode overnight, so I have no idea if this may 
have contributed to it. However, I do remember that the lights were on 
while it was charging, and they've shut off. I did a reset-all in Open 
Firmware, but nothing is happening. Now, I did this last night when 
the PowerBook was reporting 100% charge and it drained in less than an 
hour, but then this happened.


Any help will be appreciated,
Caleb



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Battery not charging properly.

[Caleb Cupples]

Hi, Listers,

I've got a NewerTech battery that is fresh out of the box. It was 
charging fine last night, but it seems to have stopped at 62% charge. 
The Lombard was in sleep mode overnight, so I have no idea if this may 
have contributed to it. However, I do remember that the lights were on 
while it was charging, and they've shut off. I did a reset-all in Open 
Firmware, but nothing is happening. Now, I did this last night when the 
PowerBook was reporting 100% charge and it drained in less than an 
hour, but then this happened.


Any help will be appreciated,
Caleb


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Re: Wifi Card

[Caleb Cupples]

That's why I bought the Aria. It's too much trouble dealing with 
third-party hacked drivers when there are easily obtained cards that 
work out of the box. I think there are still quite a few Lombard users 
around here, from my reckoning.


Well, good luck bargaining with the Wireless Wizard,
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On Thursday, Jan 5, 2006, at 20:33 America/Chicago, B.L. wrote:


G-Books wrote on 1/5/06, 09:43:


Thanks Brad.  I filed this away for future use.

Mad Dog

You are welcome, I've seen through perusing the list that you had a
Lombard and was trying to get a wifi card to work using the IOExperts
drivers, which I did with a YDI Diamond card which worked, but works in
my 3400c as an Airport card under OS 9.1. And I was tired of futzing
around with wifi cards, so I thought I'd try something that would show
up as an Airport card and no more headaches and futzing and putzing
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Re: slightly OT-Router issues.

[Caleb Cupples]

Well, I got it fixed. There was a support page on the Linksys site 
about this very issue, so that really helped.


My Lombard's wireless card won't get in until tomorrow afternoon, so 
it'll be interesting to see how wireless works on it..


Thanks for all the help, guys,
Caleb
On Thursday, Jan 5, 2006, at 19:38 America/Chicago, John Siple wrote:

Have you tried just resetting the router? This may help if you bought 
it used. Usually there's a little button for that somewhere.


If resetting it doesn't work you should go through the configuration 
screens to make sure it's not set to have a fixed IP address and that 
it isn't blocking connections via mac address or connection speed or 
any of the many ways wireless routers have to block intrusive 
connections. You may be able to do this if you don't have the original 
manual by just typing  192.168.1.1 in the URL field of Safari while 
connected via an ethernet cable. That used to be the default ID of 
Linksys routers. The default password was just linksys, no caps. the 
default user name was blank (no name).


 John
On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote:

I've got a Linksys router that I bought to go with my new internet 
connection, but it's not seeing the connection. Yes, I realize that I 
fail to follow my own advice, but the Linksys was dirt cheap and it's 
an 802.11 G router.


My connection is through Charter cable, and it's DHCP all the way.

Thanks in advance,
Caleb




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Re: slightly OT-Router issues.

[Caleb Cupples]

Never mind. I checked their website and found a fix on there.

Sorry to be a bother,
Caleb
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On Thursday, Jan 5, 2006, at 18:27 America/Chicago, Caleb Cupples wrote:

I've got a Linksys router that I bought to go with my new internet 
connection, but it's not seeing the connection. Yes, I realize that I 
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an 802.11 G router.


My connection is through Charter cable, and it's DHCP all the way.

Thanks in advance,
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[Caleb Cupples]

I've got a Linksys router that I bought to go with my new internet 
connection, but it's not seeing the connection. Yes, I realize that I 
fail to follow my own advice, but the Linksys was dirt cheap and it's 
an 802.11 G router.


My connection is through Charter cable, and it's DHCP all the way.

Thanks in advance,
Caleb


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Re: Flaky New Battery or a PRAM issue?

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I don't know about the Pismo, but, based on my Lombard experience, yes, 
it's a dead PRAM. Try booting into Open Firmware and typing 
'reset-all'. That could help a lot.


Caleb
On Thursday, Jan 5, 2006, at 04:23 America/Chicago, Barry Muller wrote:




Last summer I purchased a "new" battery for my Pismo
and within the last few weeks occassionally (though
with increasing frequency)  it has gone from full
charge to zero very quickly (w\in 15 minutes or so).
It is one of those OWC batteries that "promises" 125%
(IIRC) battery run-time of the original that came from
Apple.  Any rate, as the performance is inconsistent I
was wondering if there is something else at play that
make the Pismo "think" that the battery is discharged.
 Is this a symptom of PRAM going bad?

When this happens - the pismo turns off - does not go
to sleep and frequently the clock needs to be reset.
BW - I do exercise the battery a lot, that is I
usually run the Pismo on battery power.  Also, when I
reconnect the Pismo the batery shows 0 full and
recharges - dunno if it charges faster than before.
Just covering all bases before I go back to OWC about
a possibly defective battery.

Thanks in advance,

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Re: MacInTouch Survey of i-Books and PowerBooks

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I do agree with you, Bruce. I used my PowerBook 190 for a while as my 
primary machine, before I got the Lombard, and it was notoriously 
horrible, or so they said. I've used Apple's lemons, and the good ones, 
but I've never had a Mac go down for any failures except for the broken 
power connector on my 190, but I had a spare logic board to swap in. :-)


I'm going to admit that I show uncharacteristically extreme bias when 
it comes to Apple products, but, as a Mac addict, I'll agree with 
almost everything that comes out of Steve's "Reality Distortion Field" 
as long as it doesn't include dropping the Mac OS or replacing the 
PowerBook line with a bunch of jokingly huge "desktop replacements."


Also, even though the Lombard is known for failed L2 caches, it's still 
my favorite PowerBook, and I've used a Pismo, Lombard, AlBook G4 and a 
190, as well as being my favorite laptop, period. So, I have to 
disagree with the MacInTouch survey when it comes to Lombard 
reliability. Of course, I've had mine for a month, so I may be speaking 
prematurely. It's still singing on the original HD and processor, 
though. Now, if only I could get the DVD drive working with some 
consistency..


Just my humble opinions,
Caleb
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On Wednesday, Jan 4, 2006, at 17:24 America/Chicago, Bruce Johnson 
wrote:




On Jan 4, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Al Poulin wrote:


http://macintouch.com/reliability/laptops.html


My problem with this is that it's an entirely self-reported survey and 
macintouch is a notorious "squeaky wheel fest" site where folks with 
problems congregate and inflate the importance of their problems. (I 
don't even look at that website or MacFixIt anymore. It's just too 
tough wading through all the chaff for the occasional grain of 
usefulness. Too many "Ack! Don't install 10.4.3, it killed my 
computer, shot my dog and ran off with my girlfriend! This is the 
WORST UPDATE EVAR" stories.)


Self-reported surveys are notoriously inaccurate to start with, and 
self-reported surveys about consumer experience and satisfaction are 
even worse. People satisfied with their experience are unlikely to 
even go to a trouble-shooting site, much less take the time to fill 
out a form.


It's like reading this list: if you went just by the list, you would 
have to assume that Mac laptops were the worst systems on the market; 
so many people write here about the problems they have with them. 
Obviously this is skewed because people don't write in when they don't 
need help.


Apple ship laptops with 20% chance of needing warrantee repair in the 
first year?? 38% of all Apple laptops  dead and out of commission 
after two years??! (the reason Macintouch gave for declining repair 
rates in the third and fourth year of ownership)


That conclusion is just counter to experience and common sense, 
usually a good guide to judging the reliability of such a study.


It's difficult (for me at least) to believe that a company 
consistently rated very highly for quality and reliability (by 
companies that actually DO this kind of research for a living, like 
Consumer's Union and J.D. Power and Associates) would be as bad as 
this.


Ergo, the survey is suspect.

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Re: WiFi Card

[Caleb Cupples]

That's a little late, as I bought a Sonnet Aria Extreme from OWC last 
night, as well as finally getting that much needed replacement battery. 
$70 was a bit steep for the card, but I figured that it's worth the 
extra dough to get it when the battery gets in.


Cable Monkeys, bring it... I can take anything you can dish out and 
more, now that my baby is goin' portable once more.


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On Wednesday, Jan 4, 2006, at 15:00 America/Chicago, B.L. wrote:


Hey Everybody especially Caleb and Mad Dog; If anyone is interested I
just picked up a Motorola WN825G wireless notebook adapter card from
Ebay and it is currently working in my 400MHZ Lombard and shows up as 
an

Airport card. I am using OS X.2.8. I got the card for $18.00 which was
not bad at all, but I didn't exactly like the shipping cost which was
$14.00 which I thought was rather steep for a Priority Mail package but
I never found any any cheaper so i went for it and now I no longer have
to deal with trying to find drivers for the PCMCIA card. The reason I
thought of trying this card is because I have a Motorola1810G PCI card
in my B&W as well as in my Sawtooth that also shows up as an Airport
Card, so I thought I had nothing to lose trying this one out. Good Luck
campers.
Mad Dog this might help you out.
Here's the information off my box:
p/n: 498518-001-00
s/n: 13510142583073700100
MAC: 00CE5527E07
FCC ID:ACQWN825GV2
Hope this helps
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[Caleb Cupples]

If it's the L2, it shouldn't be doing that. To me, it sounds like a 
failing hard drive or a corrupted partition, but that's my just my 
Windoze experience talking. Personally, I'd use the chance to go ahead 
and upgrade to OS X, but that's just what I'd do. It all depends on how 
much RAM you have, though.


James, I've learned a lot from you, as well, so I think it's mutual.

Hope this can be of some use,
Caleb

P.S. Note how there are a lot of Lombard questions popping up over the 
past couple of days, between my wireless pain and her OS 9 troubles? We 
may have to setup a Lombard list...

CSC

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On Tuesday, Jan 3, 2006, at 05:18 America/Chicago, James Sanderson 
wrote:


If this is so, and Clark says he could do this on a WS, I wonder what 
I was doing wrong.
Still, the suggestion in the past has been to start with the memory.  
If it's the L2 cache (which is a memory register--if that's the right 
term), you'll have to swap with a compatible processor card.

Well, I'll just be quiet now and learn from you good folks!

J Sanderson
On 2 Jan 2006, at 23:15, Caleb Cupples wrote:

The Lombard does have OF, because I've used it before. It's a 
NewWorld machine, similar to the Pismo.


HTH,
Caleb
On Monday, Jan 2, 2006, at 23:08 America/Chicago, Clark Martin wrote:


At 11:48 PM -0500 1/2/06, John McGibney wrote:
Isn't the Lombard too old a design for Open Firmware? According to 
Mactracker "Hardware Test" isn't supported. The Pismo is the first 
Powerbook that is.


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Re: Lombard Wireless Woes

[Caleb Cupples]

Sorry about the double post, but I've done some tracing via the FCC 
site, but it seems that I'm out of luck. I traced the manufacturer of 
the revision 4 card to Askey Computers out of Taiwan, but when I 
checked their site, it
A: Wouldn't render properly in Camino or Safari. (Big warning to Mac 
users)

B: Had no Mac drivers.
C: None of the drivers have been updated in almost 2 years.

I'm giving up and calling Belkin to see if they'll replace my card. 
Hopefully, they'll help out a poor Mac user.


Unfortunately, my gumshoe work made it unnecessary for your help.

Caleb

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On Tuesday, Jan 3, 2006, at 00:10 America/Chicago, Caleb Cupples wrote:


Dear Listers,

Does anyone know of a hacked driver to get a revision 4 Belkin F5D7010 
wireless card to work under OS X. The revision 1, 2, 3 and 5 all work, 
with 1, 2 and 5 using the Airport drivers, and 3 works with the Ralink 
drivers. However, because of my stupidity, I ended up with a 4, 
because it was cheap and all that Wal-Mart had this afternoon. I also 
got a Linksys router, but my PC put it in its place. As I'm 
haphazardly moving my stuff onto a new connection, I've been running 
into issue after issue, so I could really use the help.


It's been a hassle trying to setup everything to transfer over from my 
dialup that I've used for years over to a new cable connection, and I 
want everything ready before the installers get here on Thursday.


Thanks in advance,
Caleb

P.S. I even tried the Orangeware driver, but it refused to unstuff, 
for some reason.


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[Caleb Cupples]

Dear Listers,

Does anyone know of a hacked driver to get a revision 4 Belkin F5D7010 
wireless card to work under OS X. The revision 1, 2, 3 and 5 all work, 
with 1, 2 and 5 using the Airport drivers, and 3 works with the Ralink 
drivers. However, because of my stupidity, I ended up with a 4, because 
it was cheap and all that Wal-Mart had this afternoon. I also got a 
Linksys router, but my PC put it in its place. As I'm haphazardly 
moving my stuff onto a new connection, I've been running into issue 
after issue, so I could really use the help.


It's been a hassle trying to setup everything to transfer over from my 
dialup that I've used for years over to a new cable connection, and I 
want everything ready before the installers get here on Thursday.


Thanks in advance,
Caleb

P.S. I even tried the Orangeware driver, but it refused to unstuff, for 
some reason.


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Re: Lombard won't boot

[Caleb Cupples]

The Lombard does have OF, because I've used it before. It's a NewWorld 
machine, similar to the Pismo.


HTH,
Caleb
On Monday, Jan 2, 2006, at 23:08 America/Chicago, Clark Martin wrote:


At 11:48 PM -0500 1/2/06, John McGibney wrote:
Isn't the Lombard too old a design for Open Firmware? According to 
Mactracker "Hardware Test" isn't supported. The Pismo is the first 
Powerbook that is.


John

According to Apple:
"Beginning with Power Macintosh computers with PCI slots, Power 
Macintosh computers rely on a firmware operating system called "Open 
Firmware" for controlling hardware. Open Firmware is a cross-platform 
firmware standard for controlling hardware and is used by all 
PCI-based Mac OS computers."


PowerBook 3400 and on are PCI based.  I haven't tried it on a 3400 or 
G3 but I haved used OF on a WallStreet.  I don't recall if I've tried 
on a Lombard.


You may be confusing OF with NewWorld.  The Wallstreet is Old World, I 
think the Pismo IS New World but I don't know off hand about the 
Lombard.




On Jan 2, 2006, at 11:36 PM, Kristina wrote:




It's Opt+Cmd+O+F, or, at least that's what the Apple site says.


I thot you hold them down all together...

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Re: Lombard won't boot

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It's Opt+Cmd+O+F, or, at least that's what the Apple site says.

Hope this helps.
Caleb
On Monday, Jan 2, 2006, at 22:06 America/Chicago, Kristina wrote:




Open Firmware is what controls the boot up of the computer.  It is
there regardless of what OS you are booting into be it X, 9, Linux,
etc.



Did I do the right sequence? Cmd + Opt +O+F?

Why didn't I get the grey   screen.

And if it is the L2 cache I will have to send it somewhere.

Kristina


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Re: Comp USA wireless card

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I've tried the Ralink driver, and it doesn't work. Any other 
suggestions, because I really got a good deal on the card and I really 
want to get it working. I know the .3000 had a Ralink chipset, but the 
4000 is giving me a serious headache.


Caleb
On Monday, Jan 2, 2006, at 21:05 America/Chicago, Tom and Lisa Peters 
wrote:


It's saying "Unknown Vendor" and "Network Controller" on the Lombard. 
I'm running 10.2.8, if that helps out any.


Caleb
On Monday, Jan 2, 2006, at 18:53 America/Chicago, Tom and Lisa Peters 
wrote:


What model Belkin did you have, because I have a new Belkin F5D7010 
that I'm trying to get up on my Lombard. It's the revision 4000 
model, so if anyone knows which chipset it uses, I'd appreciate it.


Caleb
On Monday, Jan 2, 2006, at 16:20 America/Chicago, Anne Judge wrote:


Caleb, if you are running X, you should see a small card icon on the 
menubar.  The menu should list the chipset.  At least, it did for my 
belkin Fd7010 (version 3001).


Mad Dog


Hmmm...It could be 10.2.8 doesnt ID chipsets as well, but my Belkin 
7010 gave me Ralink as the chipset.


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Re: Comp USA wireless card

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It's saying "Unknown Vendor" and "Network Controller" on the Lombard. 
I'm running 10.2.8, if that helps out any.


Caleb
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wrote:


What model Belkin did you have, because I have a new Belkin F5D7010 
that I'm trying to get up on my Lombard. It's the revision 4000 
model, so if anyone knows which chipset it uses, I'd appreciate it.


Caleb
On Monday, Jan 2, 2006, at 16:20 America/Chicago, Anne Judge wrote:


Caleb, if you are running X, you should see a small card icon on the 
menubar.  The menu should list the chipset.  At least, it did for my 
belkin Fd7010 (version 3001).


Mad Dog



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Re: Comp USA wireless card

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What model Belkin did you have, because I have a new Belkin F5D7010 
that I'm trying to get up on my Lombard. It's the revision 4000 model, 
so if anyone knows which chipset it uses, I'd appreciate it.


Caleb
On Monday, Jan 2, 2006, at 16:20 America/Chicago, Anne Judge wrote:



On Jan 2, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote:

Personally, the only cards I've heard of that work consistently with 
any Mac are the ones with the "Broadcom" chipset, I believe.


The Ralink chipset that Belkin switched their card to worked fine for 
me.  I didn't use it a lot (and just sold it when I got rid of the 
WallStreet) but it never failed to make a connection.  You had to use 
the Ralink driver so it wasn't as elegant as a Broadcom-based cards 
that use the airport drivers but it worked.


But that was under 10.2 - don't know if Tiger made a change. Though I 
did recently check & see that Ralink's drivers have been updated for 
Tiger.


Anne


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Re: Comp USA wireless card

[Caleb Cupples]

Personally, the only cards I've heard of that work consistently with  
any Mac are the ones with the "Broadcom" chipset, I believe. To be more  
precise, I know some Buffalo, Belkin, Motorola and the Sonnet Aria all  
work with the Airport 3.1 driver. I'm ordering a Sonnet Aria for my  
Lombard, along with a NewerTech battery, so that might be an option, if  
you have an extra $70 or so lying around. My advice, check the card on  
a Windows laptop, before deciding whether it's a bum card or not.


HTH,
Caleb
On Monday, Jan 2, 2006, at 13:26 America/Chicago, Tom and Lisa Peters  
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On Jan 1, 2006, at 6:25 PM, Lists wrote:



This makes a total of 5 completely unrelated Subjects: covered by  
the same thread, where people just changed the Subject: line instead  
of starting a new thread by clicking NEW.


I'm sorry, what are you whinging about? Every one of the posts in  
this thread had something to do with Tom's problem with the CompUSA  
wireless card.


Tom, try the IOXpert drivers, you can use them on a trial basis to  
see if the card works with them.


I installed the drivers, but that didnt seem to do anything.

Alternatively, poke around at the Windows drivers provided on the  
disk that came with it. There's an .INF file that's in the install  
directories for Windows that will open in a text editor, and may  
contain the manufacturer identification.


--
Bruce Johnson


When opened the net8185.inf file with text edit, it says the provider  
is Realtek.
A trip to www.realtek.com.tw indicates they have they have a PCMCIA  
wireless card "8185" :


http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1- 
3.aspx?lineid=2002111&famid=2004112&series=All&Software=True


It says its for 10.4, but I only have 10.3.9 on my lombard.  I  
installed anyway but when I try and run the wireless utility it tells  
me there is no wireless LAN card installed.  It might be you have to  
have 10.4 on the machine.


At no point am I getting any lights on the card so it is possible its  
a bum card.  The fact that Realtek has a mac driver is encouraging  
though.


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Re: Lombard won't boot

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Kristina,

Try booting into Open Firmware and typing "reset-all", I believe. I'm 
not completely sure, at this rate, but the info is on Apple's site, I 
think. Also, if you have the original CD that came with the 'Book, you 
can try booting from that. Email me offlist if you don't have it, and 
I'll see what I can dig up.


Hope this helps,
Caleb
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I put it [G3-OS9.2] to sleep last night...was working fine

except sometimes the keyboard doesn't respond...I was thinking it 
might need

replaced, I've had to replace everything else...why not!

This morning I turned it on, went to get coffee and when I came back 
it was

at the desktop and frozen. Great!

I force quit  control+apple+ on/off button nothing

I try to rebuild the destop with extensions off...and half way thru the
startup list of extensions it froze

Now I can't wake it up

I tried reset button...the first time it came opened to the G3 
powerbook
Icon wallpaper thingy and dialog box saying your computer did not shut 
down

properly Disk Aid will perform necessary repairs...

when I clicked   it said that Disk Aid had performed an illegal
operation and is interfering with start up ...or something like that.

I tried to start up from a CD w Disk Warrior...I had to pop out the CD 
drive

and pin open the drive to load the CD.

reset button to start up from CD

black as tar.

I hear fan/processor /something going on.

The HD is partitioned so there is a system folder on two of the
partitions...one has disk warrior on it...the other one is my main 
brain.


Kristina


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Re: Pismo frozen with DVD

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Well, on the Lombard, it's between the S-Video and VGA outputs. Either 
way, it's still really easy to work on a Lombard or Pismo, as long as 
you know what you're doing.


Caleb
On Saturday, Dec 31, 2005, at 10:36 America/Chicago, Bruce Johnson 
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On Dec 30, 2005, at 2:48 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote:

All you need to do to get under the keyboard is pull the two little 
tabs at the top back and lift up. (The tabs are located between esc 
and F1 & F8 and F9)


Except there's the little locking screw in the middle of the top row 
of keys.


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Cable internet and Macs

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I'm finally taking the jump and going to broadband internet access, but 
I'm wondering if anyone has had any problems with the cable monkeys 
looking at a Mac like it's a "Pandora's Box" or not. I'm in redneck 
land, so I figure that'll happen with my Linux/OS X/Windoze network, so 
I want to be sure that I'm covered on all bases. Also, does anyone know 
of any good PCI wireless cards on the cheap?


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Re: Internet on Virtual PC

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I'll place a hefty bet that Microsoft will kill off VPC when OSX Intel 
hits the markets..


Just IMHO,
Caleb
On Friday, Dec 30, 2005, at 21:53 America/Chicago, Lists wrote:



On Dec 30, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Dave B wrote:

I remembered making the same changes to virtual machine RAM, and I 
was reading through the VPC help files and found that allocating more 
RAM may actually slow the virtual machine and possibly make it 
unusable.  The same applies to VRAM.  It's their product, and I'm not 
attempting to use VPC for anything strenuous, so I'm back to default 
settings and running acceptably.  Sometimes less is more?


It's interesting that VirtualPC will not even LET you assign more than 
512 MB to it, even if you have 2GB or more of RAM attached.


It has long been my belief that Microsoft wants a *crippled* VirtualPC 
to exist and hasn't killed it off because it's a nice piece of change 
for them but will never let it be anything more than crippled because 
otherwise it would be a threat.


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Re: pismo and usb2

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I have only 1.2 gigs of music on the Lombard, and I'm only adding a 
song or two occasionally, so it's not bad. Then again, the Lombard 
still has its stock 6 GB drive...


Caleb
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On 12/30/05 9:43 PM, "Caleb Cupples" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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It was nothing. I'd remembered seeing one last night when I was
browsing for a Sonnet Aria, so I'm just glad my vague memories can
help. Best of luck to you getting your Pismo running USB2, but with my
experience, even USB 1 does a fairly decent job on a Video iPod. Take
it from little ol' me. I use the built-in ports on my Lombard all the
time. It's slow, but it's still a little faster than the Lombard's
factory drive.

Caleb - the difference between syncing with USB1 and USB2 is 
tremendous.

When I completely swap out playlists on my 4 gig Nano it takes about 15
minutes on my desktop G5 (USB2) and between 60 and 90 minutes on my G4 
at
work. (I don't normally sync it with my work computer but I wanted to 
test
it before buying my wife a Nano for Christmas.) I don't know how you 
could

stand filling a 30 or 60 Gig iPod with USB1.

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Sonnet Aria on Lombard 400/10.2.8

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Hi,
I'm looking at getting a wireless card in my Lombard, but I was 
wondering if anyone has used a Sonnet Aria. I'm going to get the rest 
of the network this weekend and get the laptop wireless sometime next 
week, when I get my battery. :-)


Caleb


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Re: pismo and usb2

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It was nothing. I'd remembered seeing one last night when I was  
browsing for a Sonnet Aria, so I'm just glad my vague memories can  
help. Best of luck to you getting your Pismo running USB2, but with my  
experience, even USB 1 does a fairly decent job on a Video iPod. Take  
it from little ol' me. I use the built-in ports on my Lombard all the  
time. It's slow, but it's still a little faster than the Lombard's  
factory drive.


Caleb,
UNIX Snob/Mac Fanatic @ Large

On Friday, Dec 30, 2005, at 19:58 America/Chicago, Kathryn Odell wrote:


Caleb and Fabian,
Thanks for your help! I'm going to order one tonight!
Cheers,
Kate
On Dec 30, 2005, at 4:40 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote:


Yes. I'd check OWC before Small Dog, but that's me.
http://otherworldcomputing.com/

I saw a couple on there last night while I was looking for a wireless  
card for my Lombard.


HTH,
Caleb
With all due respect, Small Dog is hardly the place to look for such  
PowerBook peripherals.  Belkin has one:
<http://catalog.belkin.com/ 
IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=2007&pcount=&Product_I 
d=123940>


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Re: pismo and usb2

[Caleb Cupples]

Yes. I'd check OWC before Small Dog, but that's me.
http://otherworldcomputing.com/

I saw a couple on there last night while I was looking for a wireless 
card for my Lombard.


HTH,
Caleb
On Friday, Dec 30, 2005, at 18:31 America/Chicago, Kathryn Odell wrote:


Does anyone know:;
Is it possible to get a usb2 pc card for the Pismo.? I checked on the 
Small Dog site, and didn't see anything.

Cheers,
Kate



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Re: video format for ipod video

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It uses MP4 video format. If it can save as a .mp4 file, it should work.

This should help,
Caleb
On Friday, Dec 30, 2005, at 16:51 America/Chicago, Kathryn Odell wrote:

I just got an ipod video--lucky me! And I am wanting to take an imovie 
I made and put it on the ipod. Does anyone know what format I need to 
use. Can I do it from within imovie or Final Cut Pro? If not, how 
might I do this?


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Re: Pismo frozen with DVD

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All you need to do to get under the keyboard is pull the two little 
tabs at the top back and lift up. (The tabs are located between esc and 
F1 & F8 and F9) After that, simply remove the heat shield. The lower 
bank of RAM is under the processor, AFAIK. However, I've never used a 
Pismo, so I'm running from my Lombard experience. The keyboard is the 
same, though.


HTH,
Caleb
On Friday, Dec 30, 2005, at 15:12 America/Chicago, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:





- Original Message -
From: Tom Ethen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, December 30, 2005 12:26 pm
Subject: Re: Pismo frozen with DVD


I have two Pismos and have never had a problem playing a
commercial DVD on
either one, although both of them have 1 Gig of RAM.

Tom



Mine doesn't have that much and THAT may well be the root of the
sluggish-ness.
Do you think someone with two left hands can fairly easily add or
replace  more RAM without too much risk of cracking something
underneath the hood?
Does one need a special screw driver to open the keyboard or do you
think the kind that one uses for eye glasses would work?

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Re: Lombard not mounting discs: Was (Pismo frozen with DVD)

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I'm looking at a superdrive to replace the DVD-ROM in my Lombard, but I 
want to replace the battery and get my home setup for wireless, first. 
I found that blowing the dust out of the connectors can help a little, 
but mine probably sat for a couple of months before I got it.


Before I forget, does anyone have any information on the Sonnet Aria 
wireless cards? I'm looking at one to go in the Lombard, when I replace 
the battery with a NewerTech of some sort.


Well, thanks for the suggestion,
Caleb

On Friday, Dec 30, 2005, at 03:18 America/Chicago, James Sanderson 
wrote:


Replace the drive?  I had similar problems on my Pismo.  I replaced 
the drive and have had no problems since.


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Lombard not mounting discs: Was (Pismo frozen with DVD)

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IMHO, if you're going to watch anything on a Pismo or Lombard, boot 
into OS 9. It saves a whole lot of hassle, plus on the Lombard, it's 
the only way to go. I know this is slightly off the thread topic, but 
it's somewhat related, but I've been having troubles with discs 
refusing to mount on my Lombard. Sometimes it works, sometimes it 
doesn't. Today, it really annoyed me, because I had a brand-new CD that 
I was trying to get to load on the ol' Lombard and it refused. It was 
an "enhanced" CD, but it still clearly said on the labeling that it 
would work on OS 8 or 9 with QuickTime 4 or above. The Lombard refuses 
to mount it in OS X, and I don't want to go to OS 9, because I don't 
have any mp3 encoding software for 9. In the end, I gave up and used 
iTunes on my Windoze machine, but I'm really irritated at things for 
not working on the Lombard.


Any suggestions?

Caleb
On Thursday, Dec 29, 2005, at 23:43 America/Chicago, Donald Keenan 
wrote:




On Friday, December 30, 2005, at 12:28 AM, Caleb Cupples wrote:
 Now, on my Lombard, I remember a little button that you can press 
with a pen to force the drive to open. That would've also worked, but 
that's just my experience. It's probably not good for it, but it'd 
work.


Caleb





Caleb,

I was eyeing that and was going to insert a paper clip into if other 
options didn't work.
For me, watching a DVD is always a little sketchy on my good old 
Pismo. I think if I forward chapters or fast forward, it's prone to 
freezing up.


Thanks,

Donald


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Re: Pismo frozen with DVD

[Caleb Cupples]

Donald Keenan wrote:


On Friday, December 30, 2005, at 12:21 AM, Tom Ethen wrote:


Ctrl/Apple/Off should do it! If not plug it in, then pull the battery and
then unplug it.

Tom

On 12/29/05 11:03 PM, "Donald Keenan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Folks, please help!

I was watching a DVD via DVD Player in Jag on my Pismo and it froze
with the spinning beach ball. Now I can't even force quit and I can't
eject the DVD by dragging to trash or with my finger on the drive.



Thanks, Tom. I thought to pop out the battery and that allowed me to 
restart. This time I could trash the DVD icon.


Sorry, I should have thought that through...I paniced.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Donald


 Now, on my Lombard, I remember a little button that you can press with 
a pen to force the drive to open. That would've also worked, but that's 
just my experience. It's probably not good for it, but it'd work.


Caleb


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Re: wallstreet questions

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IMHO, I'd upgrade the processor in any Wallstreet before going after 
RAM, as long as you have 128 MB or more. CD-R and RW drives are, no 
offence, extraneous gadgets that are a little farther down the list. 
However, that's only my opinion, but I'm used to a Lombard 400 with 192 
MB of RAM and I'm looking to swap my 128 MB card for a 256 after I get 
a new battery in it.


Caleb
Lombard 400, 192 MB RAM, OS X Jaguar
On Wednesday, Dec 28, 2005, at 22:39 America/Chicago, Tom and Lisa 
Peters wrote:


First, I have no idea on whether a CD-RW was made for the Wallstreet. 
I know the later Lombard and Pismo have aftermarket Superdrives 
available, but I don't know about the WS or WSII.


Second, if I remember correctly, the Lombard and Wallstreet take the 
same RAM, with the lower slot being replaceable by pulling the 
daughtercard out and installing a "low-profile" chip. Someone who 
knows more about the Wallstreet can feel free to correct this, but I 
think it's replaceable. I know it is on a Lombard, though.


Caleb


There was at least one 3rd party CD-R or CD-RW drive made for the 
wallstreet and you can find one on Ebay every now and then.


The WS also takes a lower RAM slot stick, just like the Lombard.  
Low-profile.


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Re: wallstreet questions

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First, I have no idea on whether a CD-RW was made for the Wallstreet. I 
know the later Lombard and Pismo have aftermarket Superdrives 
available, but I don't know about the WS or WSII.


Second, if I remember correctly, the Lombard and Wallstreet take the 
same RAM, with the lower slot being replaceable by pulling the 
daughtercard out and installing a "low-profile" chip. Someone who knows 
more about the Wallstreet can feel free to correct this, but I think 
it's replaceable. I know it is on a Lombard, though.


Caleb
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On Wednesday, Dec 28, 2005, at 19:15 America/Chicago, l s wrote:


Greetings,
  I have a couple of simple (I hope) questions
regarding Powerbook G3 Wallstreet.  First, was a CDRW
ever made for this machine?   Second, can the lower
RAM chip be replace, if so how is this done?

Thanks,
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Shut off Lombard display...

[Caleb Cupples]

Is there any way to completely shut off the Lombard display when using 
an external monitor on OS X? I want to set it up where it only drives 
my desktop monitor (CTX 17", 1280x1024). I've got it working, but to 
get it at full resolution, I have to set it up to have the Lombard 
screen off to the side and the desktop with the menu bar and dock. I've 
tried mirroring the displays, but when I set it to 1280x1024, there's a 
large black box surrounding the view on the monitor, and the laptop is 
showing fine.


Any ideas?
Caleb


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Re: dial up service

[Caleb Cupples]

Sorry. I was just assuming that the Pismo and the Lombard shared the 
same DVD decoder. I still believe Apple should have kept DVD playback 
support for the Lombard, though.


Caleb
On Sunday, Dec 25, 2005, at 01:38 America/Chicago, Clive Webber wrote:

Slightly OT but just to correct Caleb on one detail - the Pismo does 
play DVDs quite happily in OS X.

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Re: dial up service

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I believe there's an internet connect wizard for 9, but it's been a 
while since I've actually used OS 9 for anything except watching DVDs 
on my Lombard. In fact, I remember, because I was browsing in 9 on my 
dialup connection, not too long ago. (I was running the battery reset 
utility and didn't want to fool with booting back in to OS X. The 
directory in 9.2 is "HD/Applications/Utilities/Assistants"


Hopefully, you can decode my somewhat weird way of using a Unix-type 
method to describe the directory structure... I'm having to look this 
up on my 9 partition...


Hope this helps,
Caleb

 Thanks, Apple for dropping DVD playback on the WS, Lombard 
and Pismo in OS X. 
On Saturday, Dec 24, 2005, at 03:39 America/Chicago, Mike Kauspedas 
wrote:


I was wondering if anyone knew of a walk through or could get me 
started on
setting up dial up service in OS 9? I was just going to grab the local 
ISP
numbers, uid, and pwd and set it up. Is there some sort of dial up 
agent or
what not for OS 9? I basically want to enter in a phone number, 
username,
and password, hit dial and connect. ie a new network connection. 
Thanks!



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Re: Airport Question

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Ouch. Sounds like a bad business strategy, as far as I'm concerned. 
Even Microsoft admits that Mac users make up a large chunk of their 
profits...


Caleb
On Friday, Dec 23, 2005, at 07:12 America/Chicago, Alan Miller wrote:


On Dec 23, 2005, at 7:59 AM, Tim Collier wrote:

I called customer support and got a very unhelpful person at the 
other end who told me that "you shouldn't be using this with a Mac in 
the first place".



So they really don't want Mac users buying their product.

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I do agree with you, there. I know that I use Linux and OS X for most 
of what I do, but it's really a pain to have to jump through hoops to 
configure a router. Now, I agree with your condescending outlook on 
such things, but there are some things that I'd like to be able to see 
a picture of my OS on the box, so I know it works. I have an old HP 
Scanjet that refuses to work under any Mac OS. Of course, I knew that, 
simply because it's my grandpa's old scanner that he replaced when it 
wouldn't work on his new mini. Mice and keyboards are totally different 
from a wireless card or a router, as far as I'm concerned. Personally, 
I tend to look at the table of compatibility on the box, as it's 
usually more accurate than the pictures... For the record, I do have a 
Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse with the ugly little Windows logo 
on the keyboard where the option key should be...


Caleb

P.S. Don't take this seriously and please don't take offense, but you 
might like to try putting the router in the freezer. That'll cool it 
down... :)


CSC
On Friday, Dec 23, 2005, at 02:02 America/Chicago, John Siple wrote:



On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:49 PM, Clem Bacani wrote:

Generally routers works fine for both PC and Mac but manufacturers 
had the habit of putting in their box that product works ok with 
Windows -- XP etc and no mention that it works ok with Mac.  Perhaps 
they are not targeting Mac users as their clients.


Clem



I suspect they are just catering to the rubes that need a little 
picture to assure them that the product works with what they are 
running. I've yet to see a little hardware box with a Linux character 
on it but networking hardware would be perfectly happy there. So I 
think it could actually be a point of personal pride that the routers 
I buy don't need to be sold to folks who need pictures of their OS to 
prove compatibility.


At any rate the "works with" tags on hardware are little more than 
stupidity honey. I've even seen  mice and keyboards with little 
Windows flags on them that care  not a jot what OS they're talking to. 
But there are surely some manufacturers who go  the extra distance to 
invite Mac users to the table. Buffalo does that, as does LaCie.


And I think I've seen more fried routers than any other type of 
hardware except perhaps  hard drives or laptop screens. Routers get 
hot for some reason. They tend to break.


John



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Re: Airport Question

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That's what I was getting at. Plus, as far as my bespectacled eyes can 
tell, the box says "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP" on most, if not 
all of their products. That's enough to make me look the other way. No 
blue X = not buying...


Caleb

On Friday, Dec 23, 2005, at 00:12 America/Chicago, Laurent Daudelin 
wrote:



on 23/12/05 00:52, themacuser at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Huh? Their routers all seem to have web-config and they're all
802.11, so I don't see how it can not be mac-friendly. I havent used
one yet though, so correct me if I am wrong.


As long as you don't need their support, you're fine. But if you ever 
need
to call them and tell them that you're using it with a Macintosh, they 
will

almost hang up on you.

FYI, Over the period of two years, I had 2 Linksys cable/dsl routers. 
Both
stopped functioning without any apparent reasons. Right after the 
warranty
ended up. I decided to go with D-Link and so far, after a little bit 
over a
year, it's still running fine. They were all Ethernet routers, not 
wireless,

though.

YMMV...

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Re: Airport Question

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The big issue with Linksys is that they're not very Mac friendly. 
That's just my humble opinion, based on the lack of Mac-compatible 
offerings they have...


Caleb
On Thursday, Dec 22, 2005, at 23:25 America/Chicago, Concetta Z wrote:

Not trying to be contrary here, but I am very pleased with Linksys. I 
installed Airport Express in my iBook and I bought one of their 
802.11g routers a while back and set up a wireless network in our 
house, talked through by great customer service - and it was a network 
between my Mac and my mom's PC, on opposite sides of the house. Both 
these procedures were surprisingly easy for someone as technically 
challenged as I am. Everything works great.
I have had to call them again (I'm sure my mom's PC was the culprit) 
and they led me step-by-step to the solution to that problem.

I couldn't ask for more from Linksys.
Concetta



I steer people away from Linksys, I've heard bad things about their
reliability and features.  D-Link seems okay as is Netgear.


Oh boy do I agree here. We completely stopped carrying Linksys
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Re: Lombard screen hinges

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On the Lombard, do I have to open it from the bottom, or can I just pop 
up the keyboard? I can do a 190 rebuild pretty quickly, but I know 
nothing about how the Lombard is arranged, other than how to swap 
processors, RAM and a HD.


Thanks for the suggestion, and the hope that I won't have to buy new 
hinges,

Caleb
Mac/Unix Admin at Large

On Wednesday, Dec 21, 2005, at 00:47 America/Chicago, Clark Martin 
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At 12:25 AM -0600 12/21/05, Caleb Cupples wrote:
I've been noticing an annoying amount of slack in my Lombard's screen 
hinges. To put it lightly, I have about 3/4 of an inch play when I 
have the screen set to any angle. It really gets annoying, which is 
why I'm consulting the experts. Is there any way to fix this, or is 
this a normal Lombard thing that just shows up with age? The reason 
I'm asking is because my venerable PB 190 had good, tight screen 
hinges, even after 10 years, yet the much newer Lombard is having 
issues with them. Something doesn't add up, here...


You can try opening it up and tightening the screws that hold the 
hinges to the case or screen.  Most of the time it's the hinge itself 
that is loosening up but I have had a case of the hinge attachment to 
the case being loose.

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Lombard screen hinges

[Caleb Cupples]

I've been noticing an annoying amount of slack in my Lombard's screen 
hinges. To put it lightly, I have about 3/4 of an inch play when I have 
the screen set to any angle. It really gets annoying, which is why I'm 
consulting the experts. Is there any way to fix this, or is this a 
normal Lombard thing that just shows up with age? The reason I'm asking 
is because my venerable PB 190 had good, tight screen hinges, even 
after 10 years, yet the much newer Lombard is having issues with them. 
Something doesn't add up, here...


Well, thanks in advance,
Caleb


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OT: Mac mini slowing down- Conclusion

[Caleb Cupples]

I've tested OnyX on my Lombard, and, based on my results with it, I 
believe it'll solve the mini problems. Thanks for the recommendation, 
everyone.


Thanks for all the help, and have a Merry Christmas,
Caleb


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Re: OT: Mac mini slowing down...

[Caleb Cupples]

I'll be sure to try that. I remember how upset I was when the power 
connector broke on my PB 190, which took away my uptime record. :( (Two 
months, three days for the 190 and with a new battery, the Lombard 
should break that.)


Well, I'm going to be sure to give OnyX a shot. For some reason, 
everyone's assuming it runs Tiger, when it runs Panther, though. I 
remember trying to get him to upgrade to Tiger, though... OnyX may even 
put some pep in my Lombard, so it's going into my testing repertoire, 
now.


Thanks for the suggestion,
Caleb
On Tuesday, Dec 20, 2005, at 04:23 America/Chicago, Luis Sequeira wrote:





Well, the only programs he uses with any regularity are Safari, Mail
and iPhoto. I'll try MacJanitor on my Lombard, and see what that 
does.

Now, where can I find it?

As far as autostart utilities go, I'll take a look at those. The 
thing
has only had a total of 3 hours downtime since the day Tiger came 
out,
and that was only because of a power outage. I don't know, but I may 
be

replacing my Linux server with some Mac minis if that keeps up...

Now, where do I get MacJanitor, so I can try it?



Do you mean it has been running for months without shutting down or 
restart?
That is awesome, but it may well be the cause for the slowdown (with 
large caches creeping up, and memory fragmentation).

Try restarting the machine.

(I also second the recommendation to run an utility like OnyX or 
MacJanitor from time to time; on one occasion, I had a B&W seem new 
again by a single run of OnyX)


Luis Sequeira



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Re: Cleaning wipes for PB

[Caleb Cupples]

I know that feeling. I can actually watch the dust build up on my 
Lombard. Needless to say, it gets a lot of dusting off..


Tom, you don't realise that some of us can't afford to use those 
HoodWipes. I know that I couldn't, simply because I'm a student with an 
insanely low budget. Heh, I used a PB 190 until a couple of weeks ago, 
when I got the Lombard, so that should be a sign. In all reality, I 
just say use what works for you, on your budget. I like baby wipes, 
because they're insanely cheap.


Just my $0.02

Caleb
On Monday, Dec 19, 2005, at 14:57 America/Chicago, AMBER K wrote:


Actually,  I live on a major roadway and get tons of dust etc in my
first floor condo.  It's a real pain in the neck.I am finding that 
I

need to clean off my powerboook at least every 2-3 days.   There is
no way one of these wipes would last a month, let alone a few
days.



- Original Message -
From: Tom Ethen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, December 19, 2005 11:50 am
Subject: Re: Cleaning wipes for PB


Use either Klear Screen or HoodWipes, which were designed for
cleaning the
screen and the HoodWipes work wonders on the outside of a

laptop also.


Don't be such cheap skates, you get 12 HoodWipes for $11 and

on my

Pismo the
cleaning lasts for a month or so, on both the screen and the

case.


Tom

On 12/19/05 9:25 AM, "AMBER K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I was wondering about the baby wipe idea.  They are pretty

cheap

and if alcohol free, would they do any damage to the screen,

short

term or long term ?

However, I have to say that I am pretty tempted to not take any
chances and pay out for the Klear Screen or another mac

approved

wipe which I know for certain  will not cause any damage at all.




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Re: Cleaning wipes for PB

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That might be a good project to do over a weekend.

On the "See Clear" solution, I may have to try those. As far as the 
prices go, all I have to say is "Costco, a PowerBookie's best friend..."


Caleb

On Monday, Dec 19, 2005, at 11:55 America/Chicago, Bruce Johnson wrote:




 :-P I'm sure getting the 
right DC voltage out of it is a simple matter of engineering...


FWIW, I use "See Clear" eyeglass wipes; I got a box of 100 at Costco 
for $7 or so. With a couple of these and a lot of patience I was able 
to remove some pretty serious key maks form my wife's iBook screen. 
The key is patience, lots of rubbling. very little pressure.


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