ARGH! Please help me.... sob sob
Hey there, I think its fair to say that I went into this process of installing mac os X, which I've had nothing but problems with in the past, in a positive mind set. But after installing it on my laptop, I have officially lost faith in Apple's ability to make a functional operating system (its just gone down hill from os 8...) This is my last hope- that you guys can help me- and I'm willing to bet that you can ( = This is what I am working on: A 333 bronze powerbook, 4.5gig hd 320mb ram 24x CD no additional cards, no airport I installed mac os 9.2.1 and X.04 first. Well, sort of. it took freezing twice before I got it on my hard drive. Then, I upgraded to 10.1. This time, I got the most non-mac-like error of my life: at the end of the install, a few lines of dos style text dropped over the pristine interface, reading roughly that something 'failed, operations halted, panic, awaiting remote debugger.' I dont think that this is a kernel panic, as I thought it was a bit more graphic than some text. Nonetheless, it froze. I restarted and began to install again. This time it worked just fine, and I was greeted with a new mac os X desktop. I really like the look and feel of X, and people keep telling me that jag is the way to go, and it really speeds things up. So then came the next part- jag. I inserted CD 1, checked for firmware updates, of which there were none, and proceeded to install. Wow, what a cool start up! I love the apple and spinning line design! truly simple and elegant. Well, mid install, it froze and I got to see the start up again as i went to install a second time. woo hoo! This time it worked like a charm, getting through both CDs and to the desktop. Very cool, I have to admit that it IS much more responsive. I clicked on sherlock to see what apple did that was new in 3, and it said it needed an internet connection. I was a bit confused, so I hit apple-f and was rewarded by a system 7.6-esque find function- I was very happy to see that, as I wasn't really crazy about sherlock to begin with. I went back to sherlock- and the computer froze. I restarted, then went into system control panels to change my clock style- and it froze. I restarted, and this time it lasted more than 30 seconds, nearly 4 minutes. That ended once I clicked on the apple menu. Froze again. I dont get it. What am I missing? is there some sort of 'dont freeze randomly' option I have to find in the control panel? I think there should be. Also important to note, I formatted the hd before starting this whole X fiasco, even taking the time to zero all data. Aside from my complaint that it should NOT take an assembly language programer's level of computer expertise to get an operating system on a clean computer, it obviously does and I sadly lack that expertise. I can write hello world. I need to use this computer for classes soon and would *like* to use 10.2 because it actually can sleep and wake up, unlike 9.2. I would appreciate any help- I'm just really stressed out over this. Thanks guys, I owe you a million! -Dylan ps- meanwhile i will d/l 10.2.1 update and see if that helps. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
OT: OS X common desktop?
A bit OT this but . . . I'd like to set up some common aliases that would automatically appear on the desktop of whichever user logged in to my OS 10.2 system. I innocently thought that as an Administrator I could drop them into the Desktop folder at the top level of the system drive window but that doesn't work! Any ideas please, rather than laboriously adding them to the home desktops of any new users? And what is the desktop folder at the top level of the drive actually for? TIA -- With best wishes, Roger Shufflebottom -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: ARGH! Please help me.... sob sob
On Wednesday, Oct 9, 2002, at 01:11 US/Pacific, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mind set. But after installing it on my laptop, I have officially lost faith in Apple's ability to make a functional operating system (its just gone down hill from os 8...) This is my last hope- that you guys can help me- and I'm willing to bet that you can ( = This is what I am working on: A 333 bronze powerbook, 4.5gig hd 320mb ram 24x CD no additional cards, no airport So then came the next part- jag. I inserted CD 1, checked for firmware updates, of which there were none, and proceeded to install. Wow, what a cool start up! I love the apple and spinning line design! truly simple and elegant. Well, mid install, it froze and I got to see the start up again as i went to install a second time. woo hoo! This time it worked like a charm, getting through both CDs and to the desktop. Very cool, I have to admit that it IS much more responsive. I clicked on sherlock to see what apple did that was new in 3, and it said it needed an internet connection. I was a bit confused, so I hit apple-f and was rewarded by a system 7.6-esque find function- I was very happy to see that, as I wasn't really crazy about sherlock to begin with. I went back to sherlock- and the computer froze. I restarted, then went into system control panels to change my clock style- and it froze. I restarted, and this time it lasted more than 30 seconds, nearly 4 minutes. That ended once I clicked on the apple menu. Froze again. I would suggest doing the Jaguar installation directly rather than upgrading from a previous version, but I don't believe that's your problem. I dont get it. What am I missing? is there some sort of 'dont freeze randomly' option I have to find in the control panel? I think there should be. Also important to note, I formatted the hd before starting this whole X fiasco, even taking the time to zero all data. Aside from my complaint that it should NOT take an assembly language programer's level of computer expertise to get an operating system on a clean computer, it obviously does and I sadly lack that expertise. I can write hello world. I think you have hardware problems, and am guessing ram. Those lines of text you described were indeed the result of a kernel panic, which is almost always hardware or a very low-level driver of some kind. That's not normal, the freezes aren't normal, having to repeat the installation isn't normal. Pulling/swapping ram would be my next step. I know, I know, it works under 9. Ram problems can be mysterious, Novell Netware used to be the worst. You could take a box that had been running Windows or Unix for months, install Netware, and it would bomb every hour until you replaced the ram with some that it liked. What people say about one OS stressing the ram harder than another is a horrendous oversimplification, but certainly memory problems can surface under one OS but not another. You've never had *any* problems with this machine before? KeS -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: can't do modems in OS X
Seems that it's a Jaguar issuecheck this out: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16506 It's a script fixing the problem Hope it helps Vlad On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 03:57 , Luis Sequeira wrote: Thanks a million! I tried it on an iMac, which was suffering from the same problem, and it worked. I will try it later today on my wallstreet. Luis -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: ARGH! Please help me.... sob sob
Some of the early Bronze Lombard machines had a faulty processor or processor card that causes freezing under OSX with certain RAM configurations. This has been often discussed here and elsewhere. Try a search on MacFixit or MacInTouch message boards. I have heard that Apple will still replace these processor cards even though the machine is past warranty if you plead, rant, rave, etc. enough. So check out the boards, or others on this list may have more on this. Then contact 1-800-SOS-Appl or a local repair facility. On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 04:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went back to sherlock- and the computer froze. I restarted, then went into system control panels to change my clock style- and it froze. I restarted, and this time it lasted more than 30 seconds, nearly 4 minutes. That ended once I clicked on the apple menu. Froze again. I dont get it. What am I missing? is there some sort of 'dont freeze randomly' option I have to find in the control panel? I think there should be. -- Jim Eddy James Eddy Woodworks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Princeton, NJ http://home.earthlink.net/~giametti/index.htm -- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: can't do modems in OS X
On OS X, I always get the same result: modem error. The only sign that the system was accessing the modems was a light that flashed in the external modem. Otherwise I would think that no connection was taking place. There is a known bug in 10.2 that can cause this on some systems. See http://www.macintouch.com -- Mark Chapman - Centre for the Study of Religion - University of Toronto -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: ARGH! Please help me.... sob sob
On 09/10/02 04:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there, I think its fair to say that I went into this process of installing mac os X, which I've had nothing but problems with in the past, in a positive mind set. But after installing it on my laptop, I have officially lost faith in Apple's ability to make a functional operating system (its just gone down hill from os 8...) This is my last hope- that you guys can help me- and I'm willing to bet that you can ( = This is what I am working on: A 333 bronze powerbook, 4.5gig hd 320mb ram 24x CD no additional cards, no airport I installed mac os 9.2.1 and X.04 first. Well, sort of. it took freezing twice before I got it on my hard drive. Then, I upgraded to 10.1. This time, I got the most non-mac-like error of my life: at the end of the install, a few lines of dos style text dropped over the pristine interface, reading roughly that something 'failed, operations halted, panic, awaiting remote debugger.' I dont think that this is a kernel panic, as I thought it was a bit more graphic than some text. Nonetheless, it froze. I restarted and began to install again. This time it worked just fine, and I was greeted with a new mac os X desktop. I really like the look and feel of X, and people keep telling me that jag is the way to go, and it really speeds things up. So then came the next part- jag. I inserted CD 1, checked for firmware updates, of which there were none, and proceeded to install. Wow, what a cool start up! I love the apple and spinning line design! truly simple and elegant. Well, mid install, it froze and I got to see the start up again as i went to install a second time. woo hoo! This time it worked like a charm, getting through both CDs and to the desktop. Very cool, I have to admit that it IS much more responsive. I clicked on sherlock to see what apple did that was new in 3, and it said it needed an internet connection. I was a bit confused, so I hit apple-f and was rewarded by a system 7.6-esque find function- I was very happy to see that, as I wasn't really crazy about sherlock to begin with. I went back to sherlock- and the computer froze. I restarted, then went into system control panels to change my clock style- and it froze. I restarted, and this time it lasted more than 30 seconds, nearly 4 minutes. That ended once I clicked on the apple menu. Froze again. I dont get it. What am I missing? is there some sort of 'dont freeze randomly' option I have to find in the control panel? I think there should be. Also important to note, I formatted the hd before starting this whole X fiasco, even taking the time to zero all data. Aside from my complaint that it should NOT take an assembly language programer's level of computer expertise to get an operating system on a clean computer, it obviously does and I sadly lack that expertise. I can write hello world. I need to use this computer for classes soon and would *like* to use 10.2 because it actually can sleep and wake up, unlike 9.2. I would appreciate any help- I'm just really stressed out over this. Thanks guys, I owe you a million! -Dylan ps- meanwhile i will d/l 10.2.1 update and see if that helps. Dylan, You don't have to go through the pain of installing 10.0 in order to install 10.2. If you haven't done much yet, I would recommend you do a clean install of 10.2 directly, then upgrade to 10.2.1. Now, with your problems, I concur with the other posters that you're most likely have some kind of hardware problems, probably faulty memory or processor. -Laurent. -- === Laurent DaudelinDeveloper, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC, USA * Usual disclaimers apply * funky adj.: Said of something that functions, but in a slightly strange, klugey way. It does the job and would be difficult to change, so its obvious non-optimality is left alone. Often used to describe interfaces. The more bugs something has that nobody has bothered to fix because workarounds are easier, the funkier it is. TECO and UUCP are funky. The Intel i860's exception handling is extraordinarily funky. Most standards acquire funkiness as they age. The new mailer is installed, but is still somewhat funky; if it bounces your mail for no reason, try resubmitting it. This UART is pretty funky. The data ready line is active-high in interrupt mode and active-low in DMA mode. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to:
Re: OT: OS X common desktop?
On 09/10/02 04:20, Roger Shufflebottom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A bit OT this but . . . I'd like to set up some common aliases that would automatically appear on the desktop of whichever user logged in to my OS 10.2 system. I innocently thought that as an Administrator I could drop them into the Desktop folder at the top level of the system drive window but that doesn't work! Any ideas please, rather than laboriously adding them to the home desktops of any new users? And what is the desktop folder at the top level of the drive actually for? I don't think you can do it the easy way. You'll have to dig in for every desktop folder for every user. I'm not sure what the top-level desktop folder is for. It might be something left from OS 9 because I don't think that desktop folders are there anymore, except for the one that each user has. -Laurent. -- === Laurent DaudelinDeveloper, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC, USA * Usual disclaimers apply * dangling pointer n.: [common] A reference that doesn't actually lead anywhere (in C and some other languages, a pointer that doesn't actually point at anything valid). Usually this happens because it formerly pointed to something that has moved or disappeared. Used as jargon in a generalization of its techspeak meaning; for example, a local phone number for a person who has since moved to the other coast is a dangling pointer. Compare dead link. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Wireless card for wallstreet
On 09/10/02 01:33, R. Hannes Niedner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody any recommendation which wireless card to by that is suppprted in Mac OS X 10.1.5 and higher (including Jagwire). Airport unfortunately is no option for the Wallstreet. I thought there where wireless pc-cards out there that would work with Apple drivers?? You can get a Lucent WaveLan and download the 3rd party wireless driver that was made available a little while ago. That will make your card works with AirPort. If you look on VersionTracker, you should be able to find the developer's web site and get the list of the supported cards. -Laurent. -- === Laurent DaudelinDeveloper, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC, USA * Usual disclaimers apply * case and paste n.: [from `cut and paste'] 1. The addition of a new feature to an existing system by selecting the code from an existing feature and pasting it in with minor changes. Common in telephony circles because most operations in a telephone switch are selected using case statements. Leads to software bloat. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: can't do modems in OS X
On Wednesday, Oct 9, 2002, at 09:34 US/Eastern, Mark D. Chapman wrote: On OS X, I always get the same result: modem error. The only sign that the system was accessing the modems was a light that flashed in the external modem. Otherwise I would think that no connection was taking place. There is a known bug in 10.2 that can cause this on some systems. See http://www.macintouch.com -- Mark Chapman - Centre for the Study of Religion - University of Toronto Plus this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120157 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Wireless card for wallstreet
Thanks to all who responded. I think I'll by an Orinocco Gold Card supported by the open source driver and capable of 128Bit encryption. Please let me know if I missed something and that would not be a good choice. Cheers/h -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Wireless card for wallstreet
One thing, I've noticed MacResQ has been running a special on the cisco cards with version 1 of the base station. Here's the link: http://www.macresq.com/store/default.ht m?-token.specials=Airport%20Wireless-token.1=20021009-095253-4520 On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 10:26 AM, R. Hannes Niedner wrote: Thanks to all who responded. I think I'll by an Orinocco Gold Card supported by the open source driver and capable of 128Bit encryption. Please let me know if I missed something and that would not be a good choice. Cheers/h John Slavin Kirksville, MO [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Pismo battery
I know this has been discussed a lot, but I still don't get it. My Pismo battery has been getting lousy time for a long time, at least since OS X 10.0. Someone on the list suggested I might be able to get it replaced under AppleCare. I've been meaning to try this but haven't gotten around to it. Last night I started working on my Pismo unplugged and characteristically I got the warning message after about 20 min. I decided to let it go and see how long before it would sleep itself. After another five minutes the gauge read 0%, but it didn't shut off. I ended up putting my Pismo down and going to bed after a total of about 45 min. In the morning it was indeed asleep, but I don't know how long it lasted. I haven't had a chance to test if letting it run out has improved my battery life, but I thought Pismo batteries didn't work this way. That little battery reset program doesn't work on Pismos, right? If I'm getting a total of about an hour just running Omniweb and Mail with an airport card, is this normal or is my battery bad enough to ask Apple to replace it? Thanks for any insights! Jim Powerbook G3 Firewire (Pismo) 400 OS X 10.2.1 768 MB Ram 40 Gig HD -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Pismo battery
I know this has been discussed a lot, but I still don't get it. My Pismo battery has been getting lousy time for a long time, at least since OS X 10.0. Someone on the list suggested I might be able to get it replaced under AppleCare. I've been meaning to try this but haven't gotten around to it. Last night I started working on my Pismo unplugged and characteristically I got the warning message after about 20 min. I decided to let it go and see how long before it would sleep itself. After another five minutes the gauge read 0%, but it didn't shut off. I ended up putting my Pismo down and going to bed after a total of about 45 min. In the morning it was indeed asleep, but I don't know how long it lasted. I haven't had a chance to test if letting it run out has improved my battery life, but I thought Pismo batteries didn't work this way. That little battery reset program doesn't work on Pismos, right? If I'm getting a total of about an hour just running Omniweb and Mail with an airport card, is this normal or is my battery bad enough to ask Apple to replace it? Thanks for any insights! Jim Powerbook G3 Firewire (Pismo) 400 OS X 10.2.1 768 MB Ram 40 Gig HD -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Pismo battery
Jim: I just had my battery replaced for my Pismo under AppleCare. Although my first problem was a dwindling battery life, it soon became secondary to an overheating problem caused by the battery. My Pismo never cooled down, even after being shutdown overnight. AppleCare told me to send it in immediately. I had called them weeks before about my suspicions of dwindling recharge time and I was also encouraged to call back once i established that the running time was consistently under one hour. Surely yours does fit this profile. Don't put it off. Give them a call and they'll hopefully send you a new one. Let us know how the customer service goes. Donald On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 10:26 AM, Jim Freeman wrote: I know this has been discussed a lot, but I still don't get it. My Pismo battery has been getting lousy time for a long time, at least since OS X 10.0. Someone on the list suggested I might be able to get it replaced under AppleCare. I've been meaning to try this but haven't gotten around to it. Last night I started working on my Pismo unplugged and characteristically I got the warning message after about 20 min. I decided to let it go and see how long before it would sleep itself. After another five minutes the gauge read 0%, but it didn't shut off. I ended up putting my Pismo down and going to bed after a total of about 45 min. In the morning it was indeed asleep, but I don't know how long it lasted. I haven't had a chance to test if letting it run out has improved my battery life, but I thought Pismo batteries didn't work this way. That little battery reset program doesn't work on Pismos, right? If I'm getting a total of about an hour just running Omniweb and Mail with an airport card, is this normal or is my battery bad enough to ask Apple to replace it? Thanks for any insights! Jim -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: OT: OS X common desktop?
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:13 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 09/10/02 04:20, Roger Shufflebottom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A bit OT this but . . . I'd like to set up some common aliases that would automatically appear on the desktop of whichever user logged in to my OS 10.2 system. I innocently thought that as an Administrator I could drop them into the Desktop folder at the top level of the system drive window but that doesn't work! Any ideas please, rather than laboriously adding them to the home desktops of any new users? And what is the desktop folder at the top level of the drive actually for? I don't think you can do it the easy way. You'll have to dig in for every desktop folder for every user. I'm not sure what the top-level desktop folder is for. It might be something left from OS 9 because I don't think that desktop folders are there anymore, except for the one that each user has. /Desktop Folder/ is, indeed, just OS 9's desktop folder. The most elegant way to do this is using OS X Server, but that's probably not applicable for a single-machine setup. You could perhaps toy around with prefs in /Library/ to give everyone a common Dock, but I'm not sure how permanent this would be... in general, preferences in /Library/ take precedent over preferences in ~/Library/ but, in the case of the Dock, I'm not sure if this is true. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Pismo battery
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:26 AM, Jim Freeman wrote: I know this has been discussed a lot, but I still don't get it. My Pismo battery has been getting lousy time for a long time, at least since OS X 10.0. Someone on the list suggested I might be able to get it replaced under AppleCare. I've been meaning to try this but haven't gotten around to it. Last night I started working on my Pismo unplugged and characteristically I got the warning message after about 20 min. I decided to let it go and see how long before it would sleep itself. After another five minutes the gauge read 0%, but it didn't shut off. I ended up putting my Pismo down and going to bed after a total of about 45 min. In the morning it was indeed asleep, but I don't know how long it lasted. I haven't had a chance to test if letting it run out has improved my battery life, but I thought Pismo batteries didn't work this way. That little battery reset program doesn't work on Pismos, right? If I'm getting a total of about an hour just running Omniweb and Mail with an airport card, is this normal or is my battery bad enough to ask Apple to replace it? Thanks for any insights! If you're machine is covered by AppleCare, call them and tell them how much time you are getting on battery. If you're only getting an hour, it's worth at least asking... -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Rotate LCD screen?
Does anyone know of a software way to get a powerbook's screen to show upside down? I want to put a cheapo DVD player/GPS mapper in my vehicle (the 7 screen crap-ola they sell [at a circuit city, for example] would run over $2.5k). I want to place the PB in a slip-in bracket on the ceiling of the van so that the screen flips open downward. Kids in back get to watch Little Mermaid when Daddy isn't using the GPS software. Any hints, ideas, suggestions? Thanks, JRA -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
