Re: Airport DSL Networking
Well, it is early in the morning and I may be confused but... My base station is one of the older ones (only one ethernet port and one modem port). Did you configure the base station before connecting it to the router? If not, connect an ethernet cable directly from the base station to the Pismo. Open Airport Admin Utility on the Pismo. Open Configure. Click the Network tab. Disable Enable DHCP server on Ethernet. Enable Enable Airport to Ethernet Bridging. Quit Airport Admin Utility. Disconnect the cable from the Pismo to the base station. Reconnect the base station to the router. See if the Pismo can now connect. I tried the above and in OS 9.2.2 with the latest software for the single ether net connector graphite software loaded airport under networks, enable ether net bridging was not available choice, the enable DHCP was there and I unchecked it but no other options or screens opened.. The router is working, that's good, but no wireless. -- 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 ---
OS 10.2 on a Kanga Powerbook
Hi to all. I have a G3 Powerbook Kanga, the original one. (It is not a Wallstreet, Mainstreet or Whateverstreet) Sold in Germany, without the modem port. You can have a look at that thing: http://www.lowendmac.com/pb2/g3.shtml I have a freshly formatted HD, two partitions. 5 GB for OS X and 1 GB for OS 9 OS 9 is installed and running. (2nd partition.) Now I use XPostFacto3.0a11 to install OS X. But it always hangs. After the first boot under OS X. Once I had the chance to start the installer. Does anybody have experiences with my problem? Does OS X work on a configuration like mine? Which XPostFacto settings were made? Thanks a lot MS -- 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: Dan K on master/slave
Thanks for the links. Nice photos and clear explanation on installation. Apple Profiler shows that the drive is indeed set up as Master. I have discovered that if I start up and depress/hold the option key then I will get to select the startup drives. But depress/hold the C key will not default the machine to the DVD/CD-R drive. Odd but I guess that's no big deal. I can startup from the DVD/CD-R drive via the option key. Thanks for your help. -- 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: Swapping out a DVI TiBook display
TiBook Swap out update: The LCD that my client bought on ebay was defective. I will soon be sending out the sellers info to hopefully prevent others from getting burned. I just don¹t have it right now. Other than that, the swap out was successful from a purely technical view. I won't say it was easy. It was delicate and nerve wracking, but successful. Copius amounts of Super Glue seemed to do that trick with the hinges too. It was rock solid. If anyone has to do this procedure in the future, contact me and I'll help out if I can. Scott On 3/2/04 1:50 PM, Dan K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got the majority of it done, just waiting for the epoxy to set. I'm a little nervous about the hinges. I'd love to get the skinny right from Apple as to how they do it. I've wondered what sort of adhesive Apple used in the TiBooks as I currently have a pair of disassembled TiBooks and would like to shtick 'em back together again. Recently I stumbled across some relevant info in one of Apple's patents, patent number 6,574,096 - Use of titanium in a notebook computer. It's got lots of details on the TiBook's design and construction, plus it has interesting 'discussions' about Ti glue - go down about 2/3 of this page (or just repeatedly search the page for 'glue'): http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2Sect2=HITOFFu=/netah tml/search-adv.htmr=80f=Gl=50d=PTXTs1=apple.ASNM.p=2OS=AN/appleRS=A N/apple From the above page: Virtually any type of glue suitable for bonding injection molded materials to titanium or titanium alloys may be used. An exemplary glue suitable for use in various embodiments of the present invention is Lord's glue 201/19 manufactured by the Lord Corporation of Cary, N.C. Here's on Lord Corporation's web site is their Engineered Adhesives page: http://www.lord.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=520 I had a heck of a time finding just what sort of glue is '201/19', but eventually found infos in this doc: http://literature.lord.com/root/other/Metal_Bonding_Selector_Guide.pdf ACRYLIC ADHESIVES - LORD 201/19 Applications - Bare metals, plastics and composites Working Time - 5-8 minutes Handling Time - Fast, 12-16 minutes Full Strength - 2 hours, heat cure typically not recommended Easy to dispense, Self-leveling Comments - Minimal surface preparation, fast cure, good environmental resistance. Now I just need to follow up and find a source from whom I can actually purchase some of this stuff . . . Scott, can you tell us what sort of epoxy you used? And how it seemed to work? I was concerned that many epoxies are brittle, and so maybe not good for a device that gets so much handling. Not that I know much about epoxies, or the above mentioned ACRYLIC ADHESIVE either . . . hth, Dan K PS: for a search that calls up all of Apple's patents, an interesting adventure in its own right: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2Sect2=HITOFFu=%2Fnet ahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htmr=0f=Sl=50d=PTXTRS=AN%2FappleQuery=AN%2FappleP revList1=Prev.+50+HitsTD=1757Srch1=apple.ASNM. . http://macdan.n3.net/ carracho://dankephoto.dhs.org:9700 hotline://dankephoto.dhs.org:9500 . -- 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: installing new dvd/cd-r in Pismo
on 05/03/2004 19:27, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problems? I can't get the Pismo to start up from the new drive. Do I need to toggle a master/slave switch? Where is it? To be bootable your drive probably needs to be bus Master. But before you do anything, launch Apple System Profiler and see what it reports about the drive on the Media Bay bus. Unit 0 is Master, unit 1 is Slave. If it does show as Slave, perhaps my newly added page with details 'bout Lombard/Pismo optical EBM drive replacement and interface PCB mods can help: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan/PB_99_2K_EBM_sled.html#PCBmod Dan K If there isn't a switch (few have switches: some examples are the Sony 810 and 820, and the Lite-on 24x combo that ends with M, not K, if I remember correctly), you can boot from a CD by holding the Option key instead of the C key: upon reboot, you are presented with an icon for every bootable system folder, then just click on the icon you want and press Return. I've used this several times and it works fine, even for installing Jaguar and Panther. Chris -- 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: Internet Sharing
My iBook has a modem but my BW does not. I thought that I could just check internet sharing on the iBook and get the BW to connect through the iBook. However, I can't get it to work. The BW picks up an IP address but I can't access the internet. Both computers are running 10.2.8. I have tried both static and dynamic IP addresses. Are you trying to connect to the Internet using your iBook and then sharing this connection with your BW? I know it works for AirPort but I'm not sure it works for dialup connections. Yes that is what I am trying to do. Is there any reason why it would work for one type of network connection and not another? When you share using AirPort how do you set it up? Thanks, Mark -- Mark Chapman, Membership Secretary/Secrétaire aux admissions The Canadian Society For The Study Of Religion/ La societe canadienne pour l'etude de la religion -- 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: CD disk image
On Mar 3, 2004, at 1:01 PM, Andrew wrote: So nobody knows how to make a bootable OS X CD? As an old Windows user, having a bootable disk was always easy and frequently useful, so I need to know how to make one for my PB. There is a way to make a bootable CD in OSX and I have it here somewhere... BUT I've always booted from the Install CD and used Disk Utility and it works great -- Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1st/pci/swap list nanny http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/28/politics/campaign/28VIET.html?th -- 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: CD disk image
I want to boot to a CD other than my install disk, so that I can use Diskwarrior (my version is too old to boot my PowerBook) and Norton DiskDoctor. Andrew -- The lord's our shepherd says the psalm, but just in case., WE'D BETTER GET A BOMB! © Tom Lehrer, 1965 On Mar 6, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Tim Gochnour wrote: On Mar 3, 2004, at 1:01 PM, Andrew wrote: So nobody knows how to make a bootable OS X CD? As an old Windows user, having a bootable disk was always easy and frequently useful, so I need to know how to make one for my PB. There is a way to make a bootable CD in OSX and I have it here somewhere... BUT I've always booted from the Install CD and used Disk Utility and it works great -- Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1st/pci/swap list nanny http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/28/politics/campaign/28VIET.html?th -- 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 ---
9.2.2 boot doesn't mount OS X volume
Standard Apology: I checked the database and didn't see any articles addressing this, so excuse this repeat if it is one. Equip: Lombard (G3 333 PB) 384MB/40GB, partitions: OS 10.2.8 (25GB) , OS 9.2.2 (7GB), non-bootable (6GB). Problem: When I boot in 9.2.2, at startup I get a message suggesting I initialize an unreadable volume which turns out to be the OSX volume. I click no of course, but that leaves me stranded in OS 9.2.2 without a way to re-boot in OSX because, since it couldn't be mounted, it is not an option in the Startup Disk control panel. I tried a bunch of stuff to find a way to mount the sucker, but failed on everything. Of course, booting from the OSX disk doesn't help, because it doesn't allow you access to the Startup Disk control panel, and doesn't just boot a base system; it boots the install system. I finally have had to choose netboot in the Startup Disk control panel from 9.2.2, which doesn't find a server after a few minutes, and then boots the newest system it can find on local volumes. Anybody know what's going on here? I'm tired of this issue. 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: 9.2.2 boot doesn't mount OS X volume
If the OSX partition is the first one on the disk (i.e. was at the top of the list when you formatted the volume), you should be able to boot from that partition by holding down the 'D' key when rebooting the Powerbook. If I remember right, that attempts to boot from the first partition on the internal drive. Also, doesn't the system look for an OSX boot volume if you hold down the 'X' key? I'm pretty sure either of these should work. Anyone else confirm one or both? Hope that helps. -Hal On Mar 6, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Jonathan R. Andrew wrote: Standard Apology: I checked the database and didn't see any articles addressing this, so excuse this repeat if it is one. Equip: Lombard (G3 333 PB) 384MB/40GB, partitions: OS 10.2.8 (25GB) , OS 9.2.2 (7GB), non-bootable (6GB). Problem: When I boot in 9.2.2, at startup I get a message suggesting I initialize an unreadable volume which turns out to be the OSX volume. I click no of course, but that leaves me stranded in OS 9.2.2 without a way to re-boot in OSX because, since it couldn't be mounted, it is not an option in the Startup Disk control panel. I tried a bunch of stuff to find a way to mount the sucker, but failed on everything. Of course, booting from the OSX disk doesn't help, because it doesn't allow you access to the Startup Disk control panel, and doesn't just boot a base system; it boots the install system. I finally have had to choose netboot in the Startup Disk control panel from 9.2.2, which doesn't find a server after a few minutes, and then boots the newest system it can find on local volumes. Anybody know what's going on here? I'm tired of this issue. 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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: 9.2.2 boot doesn't mount OS X volume
Joanathan, if you restart your PB hold down the X key and that will boot on 10., , also you can always boot from the 9.x.x cd if you want to access the option of which hd as a default. Have fun Hector I. Macedo Lord of the Flies Dallas, TX 75248 Piscaro Itaque dicet mendacium -- 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 ---
HP printer doesn't print through Classic
I am running 10.2.8 with 384MB/40GB, and I recently bought an HP psc 2410 all-in-one. I have Photoshop 5.5 running in Classic, and it prints to the old Epson just fine, but I can't make it print to the HP, though the chooser sees the HP and it is selected. Everything looks as it should, though page setup through the print process ... until I hit the print button and nothing happens. HP says they do not support printing from Classic. Anyone with a workaround? -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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Electovaya PowerPad
I too have been curious about rebuilding/replacing the cells in my Pismo. After all the talk about the controller chip, white hot shooting shooting jets of lithium, I decided to bite the bullet and buy an Electrovaya Powerpad 160. It promises 16 hours of power on a full charge. So far, i've used it once for 6 hrs, and there was plenty of charge showing on the indicator. just my $0.02. = Doug Behr [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.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 ---
Re: HP printer doesn't print through Classic
On Mar 7, 2004, at 5:23 AM, Jonathan R. Andrew wrote: HP says they do not support printing from Classic. Anyone with a workaround? I remember a similar issue with my HP PSC 950. Seemed the problem was that the Classic and the OS X printer drivers were conflicting with one another. Try deactivating the OS X driver before printing in Classic. -- P. H. Patch Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would it do to just delete the HP from OSX's Print Center printer list (I want to use it from OSX too)? Or could I deactivate the HP by annointing the Epson the OSX default again? Sorry so slow, but what would you do to deactivate the HP in OSX? Your comment is, to me, a reasonable assertion of what is going wrong here, and it sounds like you overcame this issue. thanks for anything further you can pass on, -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/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: rebuilding batteries
On 04/03/04 15:50, Clark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 9:03 AM -0600 3/4/04, John Slavin wrote: I've been meaning to ask this question for a long time. Over on the Duo list there are discussions from time to time about rebuilding the batteries. It is pretty well generally accepted that using a dremel tool, and some care, it's pretty easy to open up the battery and replace the cells, at a cost quite a bit less than a replacement battery. Is it possible to do that on the wallstreet battery? Has anyone done it? As a rule, no, or at least not easily. The first problem is that Lithium cells are not generally available. There is, I believe, also an issue with resetting the controller chip inside the battery. Even if you can find the cells they may cost so much as to make it not worth your effort, although that is purely speculation on my part. Indeed. I was able to find relative cheap lithium cells on eBay ($40). I proceeded to rebuild one of my Pismo battery. I had some problems fitting the cells in the housing, but I've never been able to reset the controller chip. So, my Pismo never wanted to recharge the battery... -Laurent. -- Laurent: Ever try to reset/recharge in a PB (is it the Wallstreet? or the Lombard?) that would accept the Pismo battery and would also run Battery Reset? Just to take advantage of your work and to divert some toxic waste from the landfill for the time being. Tend to agree with a later poster on this thread that rebuilding isn't cost effective at present. F. -- 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: rebuilding batteries
on 06/03/04 23:47, Frank Cornew at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/03/04 15:50, Clark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 9:03 AM -0600 3/4/04, John Slavin wrote: I've been meaning to ask this question for a long time. Over on the Duo list there are discussions from time to time about rebuilding the batteries. It is pretty well generally accepted that using a dremel tool, and some care, it's pretty easy to open up the battery and replace the cells, at a cost quite a bit less than a replacement battery. Is it possible to do that on the wallstreet battery? Has anyone done it? As a rule, no, or at least not easily. The first problem is that Lithium cells are not generally available. There is, I believe, also an issue with resetting the controller chip inside the battery. Even if you can find the cells they may cost so much as to make it not worth your effort, although that is purely speculation on my part. Indeed. I was able to find relative cheap lithium cells on eBay ($40). I proceeded to rebuild one of my Pismo battery. I had some problems fitting the cells in the housing, but I've never been able to reset the controller chip. So, my Pismo never wanted to recharge the battery... -Laurent. -- Laurent: Ever try to reset/recharge in a PB (is it the Wallstreet? or the Lombard?) that would accept the Pismo battery and would also run Battery Reset? Just to take advantage of your work and to divert some toxic waste from the landfill for the time being. Tend to agree with a later poster on this thread that rebuilding isn't cost effective at present. Didn't have a Lombard around to try to reset it, unfortunately... -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] bug-compatible adj.: [common] Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (esp.) previous releases of itself. MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as apath separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0. -- 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: CD burning
on 07/03/04 00:26, PaulKurtz III at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my experience, burned disks are NOT as good as commercial disks, but I wouldn't really expect them to be. I've also noticed that the brand of media DOES matter, and can mean the difference between playing well, and not at all. I've also noticed that some players work better than others, and some don't like certain brands. It's a crap shoot really. Some cheap stuff works great, some not at all. The only thing I can say for sure is that Maxell has worked well for me all around, but can cost a little more. Paul On 3/6/04 11:47 PM, Frank Cornew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to burning optical media. Instead of going for an expansion bay unit, I got a lacie external firewire burner last fall which contains a liteon mechanism. The audio disks it produces under the latest and greatest itunes and panther skip in my car player when I hit a bump in the road or the bass player starts ripping. Commercial disks do not. Am recommending that itunes burn at the slowest speed possible, and, since it takes a while I am assuming it is. This unit shipped with Toast lite, which seems to produce more reliable disks when slow burns (1x,2x,4x) are selected. Is this possible or is it just a figment of my imagination? All lacie support will tell me is to use toast. Is the quality of the blank media to blame? Have seen some discussion regarding durability/reliability of optical media in this forum. In general, should the audio disks produced by a burner be on par with commercial audio CDs? Also, It seems from my experience that burning at real low speed improve the burnt CD quality when played in domestic players. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] bozotic /boh-zoh'tik/ or /boh-zo'tik/ adj.: [from the name of a TV clown even more losing than Ronald McDonald] Resembling or having the quality of a bozo; that is, clownish, ludicrously wrong, unintentionally humorous. Compare wonky, demented. Note that the noun `bozo' occurs in slang, but the mainstream adjectival form would be `bozo-like' or (in New England) `bozoish'. -- 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 ---
