Re: using external monitor with a pismo.

2005-06-21 Thread Nick Marshall
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Pace wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to be able to use an > external monitor with my Pismo? > I hooked up a 19" to my Pismo & it > was like an extension of my Pismo monitor. > So when I looked > under the monitor setup/controls it puts the > external monitor above or below my

Re: Converting music tapes to the computer

2005-06-04 Thread Nick Marshall
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Brian wrote: > I have an iBook G4 which I am attempting to use to record some audio > tapes to the computer. I'm using the stereo headphone jack, since my > stereo system does not have a line out, a griffin iMic and Sound Studio. > Everything seems to be going fine, except tha

Re: Pismo - Modem.....

2005-05-31 Thread Nick Marshall
On Mon, 30 May 2005, thomas sappl wrote: > Hello evrybody, > Usually I'm using my pismo within a WiFi-DSL environment, so I haven't > really used the internal modem for ages. But when I went on holiday up in > the mountains, I had to use dial-in (what a difference! Actually waiting for > webpages

Re: Burning mad, Firewire problem

2005-05-27 Thread Nick Marshall
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Brent Baeslack wrote: > Dear G-Books List and Nick, > My replies to Nick appear within his questions. > > At 3:30 PM -0400 5/25/05, G-Books wrote: > >Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 21:44:57 -0700 (PDT) > >From: Nick Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Another Opinion wanted

2005-05-27 Thread Nick Marshall
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Tom Peterson wrote: > If you hold down the option key and select the color prefs does it give you > the option for millions at 800? > > No dice! In x 10.3.9 with patched rage pro drivers the only options are > thousands or 256 at1024x780. What about at 800x600? Don't you ge

Re: Another Opinion wanted

2005-05-26 Thread Nick Marshall
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Tom Peterson wrote: > > > 1024x780>thousands. I don't have the "option" in display prefs for > "millions" at 800x600. Really? 2MB of vram should give you millions at 800x600. I use to run my 7300 at 1024 at thousands 99% of the time and when I needed to edit some pics I wou

Re: Another Opinion wanted

2005-05-24 Thread Nick Marshall
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Tom Peterson wrote: > Nick Marshall wrote: > > >On Mon, 23 May 2005, Tom and Lisa P wrote: > > > > > > > >>What would be better for running OS X on a Wallstreet (yes, I know a > >>WS isnt an optimal solution); a G3/500 or a G

Re: Burning mad, Firewire problem

2005-05-24 Thread Nick Marshall
Are you following the directions properly from Apple? Are you wanting to move files from the Pismo to the Qs? The order should be QS on. Shut down PB. Connect firewire cable. Start the PB while holding down the 'T' key. The PB should appear as a drive to the QS. Then you could drag any files

Re: Mac OS X.3.9 on Wallstreet 233MHz?

2005-05-24 Thread Nick Marshall
On Tue, 24 May 2005, macnifico wrote: > I installed OS X when it came out, but didn't run well on my > Wallstreet, then I installed OS X.2 on it and it was passable. I sold > that PB, bought a Pismo and installed OS X.3 on it. What a difference! > This was usable! > But, I sold my Pismo, too. I wa

Re: MOTU FW interface and PB [was: Need tips for using...]

2005-05-24 Thread Nick Marshall
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Francesco sciacca wrote: > > MOTU Fastlane USB MIDI interface connected to the second USB port. > > MOTU 896 Firewire interface connected to the Ti and a 120GB OWC Firewire > > drive connected to the 896. > > Nick, > > thanks for sharing that. I have a setup with some similari

Re: Another Opinion wanted

2005-05-24 Thread Nick Marshall
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Tom and Lisa P wrote: > >on 23/05/05 22:28, Tom and Lisa P at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>> on 23/05/05 22:05, Tom and Lisa P at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> > What would be better for running OS X on a Wallstreet (yes, I know a > WS isnt an optimal solut

Re: Another Opinion wanted

2005-05-23 Thread Nick Marshall
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Tom and Lisa P wrote: > > What would be better for running OS X on a Wallstreet (yes, I know a > WS isnt an optimal solution); a G3/500 or a G4/400 ? Unless the apps you are going to use have been optimized by Altivec, iTunes for instance, go with the G3. The extra 100Mhz w

Re: Mac OS X.3.9 on Wallstreet 233MHz?

2005-05-23 Thread Nick Marshall
On Mon, 23 May 2005, macnifico wrote: > Hi, Listers! > > I'm getting a Wallstreet with a 6 Gb HD, 288 Mb RAM, and 233 MHz G3. > It's going to be used mainly for light Web browsing, and a few Excel > spreadsheests. Nothing processor-intensive. > I was wondering if OS X.3 would run OK on this machin

Re: Need tips for using PowerBook as desktop system

2005-05-23 Thread Nick Marshall
On Mon, 23 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After a few months with my 15" G4 PowerBook, I so rarely fire up the > Quicksilver that I've decided to try to use the Powerbook as my desktop > system on the rare occasion that I need the luxury of my swivel chair and 21" > CRT ... > > I love how

Re: Opinion wanted

2005-05-19 Thread Nick Marshall
If the ibook still works in all other areas besides the display, this is what I would do. Get an external monitor, hook it up and use it as an ibook mini with built-in keyboard. :) Have your daughter start saving her pennies for a new laptop if she really needs to be portable. When she gets a ne

Re: Upgrade my Wallstreet?

2005-05-18 Thread Nick Marshall
You are looking about $500 to do the upgrades your thinking about. Continue to use your machine as you are and put the money towards a new, at least to you, machine. A quick glance at ebays completed powerbook auctions show alot of decked out 500Mhz Pismos and 400-550Mhz Tibooks going for under $5

Re: How to connect WS II (OS 9.2.2) wirelessly to dial-up using

2005-05-13 Thread Nick Marshall
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Andrea Stansbury wrote: > It was my understanding that dialup cannot go wireless. I am pretty > sure that you have to have a high speed connection for a dialup connection? > > Maybe someone else knows something I don't. You would need one of the base stations that had a mode

Re: tiger, g4 ALbooks, and quicktime....

2005-05-13 Thread Nick Marshall
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Steve Fuller wrote: > > Has anybody tried to play the HD stuff on their powerbook? How was > > it? > > The results were much less than stellar on my 1Ghz G4 w 1GB of RAM What kind of frame rates were you getting? It's probably out of the question on my 667DVI. :( What abou

Re: tiger, g4 ALbooks, and quicktime....

2005-05-13 Thread Nick Marshall
ed that] or top to see what is going on. ? > On May 13, 2005, at 06:55, Nick Marshall wrote: > > > > On Thu, 12 May 2005, Jason wrote: > > > > > > > >> I don't get it, everything was supposed to be better in the video > >> world, but now, q

Re: sick PB G4/400

2005-05-13 Thread Nick Marshall
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Kevin Thomas wrote: > Hope someone can help.here's what i have going on... > > I have a PB G4/400 that all of a sudden last week started getting > regular kernal panics (the black box with "you need to restart your > computer"). I tried to pinpoint when they were happenin

Re: tiger, g4 ALbooks, and quicktime....

2005-05-13 Thread Nick Marshall
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Jason wrote: > I don't get it, everything was supposed to be better in the video > world, but now, quicktime is stumbling like crazy, slow slow slow... > Anyone else have this, and/or know what to do about it..? Are you trying to play HD content by any chance? Here are the

Re: OS X upgrade for Lombard

2005-05-09 Thread Nick Marshall
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Herbert Goodfriend wrote: > >Andrew in Ann Arbor wrote: > >Now that Tiger is out I'm about ready to upgrade my Lombard to Panther. > > > > >Does it matter which version of 10.3 I get? > > > > >Is Panther available on CDs or is it DVD only? > >(the Lombard has a DVD drive but

Re: Tiger and video card

2005-05-08 Thread Nick Marshall
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote: > I installed the Tiger family pack on the Aluminium 15" and the iBook > G4 14". The differences in speed are now even more evident. > > I also noticed that the nice liquid effect of the widgets is not > available on the iBook: is the video card the

Re: Doesn't anyone wait anymore?!

2005-05-07 Thread Nick Marshall
On Sat, 7 May 2005, Zoltan Batiz wrote: > Hello All, > > I wanted to thank everyone who joined in on this thread. I was > speaking from the heart and it might not have needed to be so > important, but I'm just tired of upgrades folks. Yea Tiger sounds cool > this and cool that, but it just

Re: Doesn't anyone wait anymore?!

2005-05-05 Thread Nick Marshall
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Zoltan Batiz wrote: > Hello all, > > > I've been hearing a lot lately about Tiger this and Tiger that. . > .doesn't anyone wait anymore? I mean, there's bound to be bugs in huge > upgrades. . .history has taught me that. When I went from 9 to Puma > (10.1) I ended up going ba

Re: generic screen w/no Finder in OS X?

2005-03-31 Thread Nick Marshall
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Beverly Woods wrote: > My mom just upgraded her Pismo from 10.2.8 to 10.3.8. Now she is not > getting her desktop: all she can get is a generic screen with a Dock at the > bottom. She can only open the apps that are in the Dock; if she opens one > she can get the apple at the

Re: Receiving faxes-follow-up

2005-03-25 Thread Nick Marshall
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Harry D. Corsover wrote: > OK . . . I have successfully received a few faxes. But: no > notification/alert sound, and no emails. Now, the modem is stuck in a > "Disconnecting..." loop and I can't seem to affect that. I've tried > Nework Preferences (and force-quitting that) an

Re: OWC RAM?

2005-03-08 Thread Nick Marshall
I have a 512MB DIMM in my Tibook 667 and it has never given me any problems. It was purchased in july of 2003. I also have a 120GB Mercury Firewire drive that has performed perfectly also. Plus they are fully behind the Mac. They do alot of compatibility testing and have a very informative site

Re: Can System profiler be wrong?

2004-06-25 Thread Nick Marshall
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Frank P. Eigler wrote: > That I knew. I tried that one and got: > > Memory Overview: > Com_TouchMemory: 1 msec > Com_TouchMemory: 1 msec > Com_TouchMemory: 0 msec > Com_TouchMemory: 0 msec > Com_TouchMemory: 1 msec > Com_TouchMemory: 0 msec > > So, it

Re: Mail question

2004-04-24 Thread Nick Marshall
If the app you want to use supports it, have emails only from people in her address book go to the inbox and the rest to the trash. You can't get email from new people who want to contact you, but it might be an acceptable trade-off. I get closer to this everyday. :( On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, John Sl

Re: 60GB 7200RPM or 80GB 5400RPM

2004-04-01 Thread Nick Marshall
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Sam wrote: > What would you buy? > > I'm really stuck here. I can't decide which drive to buy for my Pismo, and I > need one very soon. I'm stuck between the Hitachi/IBM Travelstar 60GB > 7200rpm vs the 80GB 5400rpm. > > Since I've seen very similar prices on them, is the pe

Re: Audio Editing

2004-04-01 Thread Nick Marshall
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Thomas Ethen wrote: > What programs do I need to use to edit audio files and then save them back > as an AIFF or MP3 file? You could give Audacity a spin. It's free and has most of the features needed to edit audio. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - Nick aka "Baby Hog

Re: iBooks vs. the World

2004-03-27 Thread Nick Marshall
time will tell. But it is an expensive > mitigating factor and one I don't want to have to go through again. > > on 3/26/04 9:52 AM, Nick Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:07:08 -0800 (PST) > > Subject: Re: laptop comparison? >

Re: laptop comparison?

2004-03-26 Thread Nick Marshall
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Rad Craig wrote: > Which would you pick between a G3 900mhz iBook and say a G4 667mhz > Powerbook? Those machines would be had used? What video card is in the ibook? For text and light graphics and very light audio and video the ibook is sufficient. Any altivec enabled ap