Re: 10.2.8
I installed the original 10.2.8 update. My battery meter went from 3 - 3.5 hours down to around 2.5. After today's 10.2.8 update (580K or so), the meter reads between 3.45 and 4.25 hours. This was done with the screen and everything at the same level, and with the Energy Saver settings at the same level on my 17 PowerBook. I'm going to give it an actual timed test tomorrow and see where things are at. Quick report since I didn't feel like going to bed early. Powerbook 17, LCD set to lowest setting that's lit, processor on reduced performance, Airport on and being used. Unplugged, the battery meter oscillated someand then settled in around 4 hours. It's been about 2 hours and 20 minutes and my meter says I have 1 hour and 43 minutes remaining (41%). This is slightly better than I was getting before Rev 1 of the 10.2.8 update. I'm quite happy with the battery life now. Steve Fuller -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: System version on 12 PB 867
On 10/3/03 9:02 AM, Hal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what version of the system software is required for this Powerbook? Does the install CD install Classic as well as OSX? My 12 PowerBook (bought 2/28/03) came with 10.2.3 installed... and yes, the CD installs Classic as well as OS X. 9 would be but nothing but a distant memory on the little beast if it didn't. g John -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: 10.2.8
My iBook's battery meter reading averaged about 3.5 hours, full LCD brightness, Airport Card, etc. It is the newest iBook with a 60 Gb hdd, 384 Mb of RAM, and the 900 MHz PPC750. With 10.2.8, I've seen little change in battery life. I've gained between 10 and 20 minutes from the full charge right after the installation. -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Can I adapt a Lombard screen for a Pismo?
On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 10:19 pm, G-Books wrote: Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 12:52:50 +1000 Subject: Can I adapt a Lombard screen for a Pismo? From: JW Travis [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a Pismo with a cracked screen and was just given a Lombard screen. The screens in their lids appear to be the same except for one extra pair of color twisted wires coming from the inverter on the Lombard--so the plug is one pair of connectors longer than the socket on the Pismo. Does anyone know if I can make them work together, by, say, switching the inverters? thanks, Jack Do you have just the bare screen? If so, the flat cable to the back of the screen may not fit properly. The screens were a little different, the connectors were about a half-inch change from one model to the other. If you have the whole assembly, I have used a Pismo to check Lombard screens and vice-versa. - JSH TiBook -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Pismo Problems
Drew, IIRC you may want to check the extension which loaded right after the Apple Audio Extension (or maybe the one right before). On my Pismo, sometimes it's not been the extension whose icon you see last, but the one that was in process of loading that caused the problem (or else, the extension right before AAE, and it conflicted with AAE). HTH, Jim It seems to have been AAE. Disabling it seems to have stopped those particular errors. Curiously, the problem (with the same OS) doesn't occur on my Wallstreet. In any case, the extensions immediately preceding and succeeding it in the boot process are: AOL Link Scanner - Yeah, I know, AOL... Apple CD/DVD Driver As for my other problems, I think I've nailed it down to a faulty 512MB RAM module. I'll be contacting OWC later to see what can be worked out - it is supposed to have a lifetime warranty and it's only a few weeks old... Peace, Drew -- Author of ClassicStumbler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.alksoft.com/ Visit the PowerBook 5300 FAQ! http://www.alksoft.com/5300_FAQ/ -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Pismo Problems
On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 07:59 AM, Andrew Kershaw wrote: It seems to have been AAE. Disabling it seems to have stopped those particular errors. Curiously, the problem (with the same OS) doesn't occur on my Wallstreet. It still may not have been AAE. I once had the same problem on a Mac at the office. Disabling AAE helped for a while, then it moved on to other extensions. It wasn't a virus and I never did find a solution, but ended up reformatting the drive completely. Many strange problems continued to occur though, until the drive went kaput a couple of months later. Hope that's not your problem, but you might want to start keeping an error journal so you can see if a pattern develops. (Also, back up more often than usual) Cheers - Steve K. -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Pismo Problems
It still may not have been AAE. I once had the same problem on a Mac at the office. Disabling AAE helped for a while, then it moved on to other extensions. It wasn't a virus and I never did find a solution, but ended up reformatting the drive completely. Many strange problems continued to occur though, until the drive went kaput a couple of months later. Hope that's not your problem, but you might want to start keeping an error journal so you can see if a pattern develops. (Also, back up more often than usual) Cheers - Steve K. I'm aware of that possibility, and I imagine the cause of the crash isn't actually because AAE has a flaw (but rather that some 3rd party extension does)... But I'm perfectly fine with disabling AAE. As for hard drive problems, I doubt that's the root cause. I've had some issues, but they're most likely related to the crashes I've been having (crashing while writing to disk can be bad). The drive works 100% in my Wallstreet, without crashes. Peace, Drew -- Author of ClassicStumbler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.alksoft.com/ Visit the PowerBook 5300 FAQ! http://www.alksoft.com/5300_FAQ/ -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: PISMO CAN'T FIND SYSTEM
Hmm, two things come to mind... one is to make sure that jumpers on the 30GB drive are properly setup. For most drives, setting it up for cable select is good enough, and requires no jumpers to actually be set. The other is that by swapping the drives around like you did, confused the machine. Did you connect the old drive in the Sitecom case when the Pismo was on, or was the Pismo off when you connected it? I recommend double-checking the jumpers, then starting from a MacOS 9 CD if you can. Holding 'C' when booting will force OpenFirmware to load from the CD and it should boot, even in a confused state. Use Startup Disk to select the drive that is currently internal and restart. It should clear up the problem. Another thing you should probably check is that the cable to the HD is properly seated on both ends. I did a very bad thing when I installed my 40GB Hitachi into my Lombard and forgot to check the end connected to the logic board. Suffice it to say, I had fun reformatting and reinstalling 5 days later. Regards, Adam Thayer On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 08:33 AM, Sakshin de Groot wrote: i attached a new fire wire Toshiba 30 GB hard disk to my Pismo 400 by placing it in a case firewire case from SITECOM. art.no CN-600. It didn't show up at the desk top. After taking the firewire plug in and out many times after eachother, it showed up. I formatted it and installed system 9. Fine. Then i switched the disk with the original internal disk and started up. Fine. Then i connected the old disk externally (by placing it in the sitecom case) to the machine and it stalled. it was stuck. Now i switched the disks back and forth and in and out but it won't start up at all anymore. Not even from the start up CD. it keeps looking for a system wich it doesn't seem to find anymore. On each hard disk is a system folder. Before it totally refused to work i ran over it with all possible repair and check applications and they repaired quite al lot, but now... What to do? Who has any sugestions! Thanx, sakshin -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --- -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Pismo For Sale
Hi Folks, I have a like new Pismo for sale, all of the specs are below. Please email me direct instead of through the group if you are interested. Thanks, Larry G3/400, 640MB RAM (512MB installed in June '03 with lifetime warranty), 10GB Hard Drive, relatively new battery (replaced in Feb. '03), 2 Firewire ports, 2 USB ports, and Yo-Yo AC adapter. New processor, new DVD player, new 14 display, all replaced in August '03 under AppleCare Protection Plan which is in effect until 3/11/04. Everything works great, the keyboard lettering is like new, and casing is in excellent condition. Running OS X with the standard applications. Asking $800 plus shipping. -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Giving up on Lombard OS X
Well, it's got me beat. A dozen attempts and I've run out of tricks here. Install CD from caddy - OK, where will it hang this time? Install CD from G3 Beige via Target Disk Mode (SCSI) - runs for a while, freezes. Install, clean, one partition or two - no difference - install process even damages directory so OS 9 partition rendered unusable. Carbon Copy Cloner - OS X actually ran for a half hour - I was cheering - then it froze in networking - found it had overwritten other files and 150 other files exceeded boundaries. Banging it on the table - worked just as well as anything. Running Disk First Aid, DiskWarrior, TechTool always finds errors, repairs them but doesn't solve problem. I even considered getting a firewire box to install as a local drive, but don't see how this would differ from Target Disk Mode. Get another drive? Maybe it's the logic board, I don't know. Consolation - it just loves OS 9. Thanks for listening, Listers. If anyone has another idea I'm willing to try. Thanks, Tom Meade Pacific Palisades, CA -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Stuffit 8.0
We have had a minor computer crisis here in the iBook home. At the repeated urging of Stuffit, we upgraded to 8.0, only to find that programs and upgrades unstuffed with it do not run. Aladdin says that this is because Apple told them to do that and they offer a work-around that does not so far work for us. This is bizarre. Stuffit Expander is a key piece of software. What is your experience with this. Bye-the-way, I would definitely not recommend upgrading to 8. John -- 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
