Brand New Powerbook - Hi!

[Kristin Dewey]

Hi everyone.

I just got a new 15" 1.5MHZ Powerbook this weekend.
I've spent the last six hours trying to figure out how to send
text-only email from AOL 10.3, after having my first post bounced from 
this list. Not pretty. I eventually found someone in AOL's Mac Chat who 
suggested AOL Communicator, which did the trick... and here I am!

If anyone has any tips for making Communicator more comfortable, I'd
appreciate them.

Meanwhile, I made the big leap from my clamshell to this sweet thing,
mostly for music and photos. I'll be playing with iPhoto for location
scouting photos, and I'm about to start experimenting with new music
software.

We were using SoundStudio to upload and edit live music from
Minidisc, to transfer to CD. Anyone have experience with this? We can't
afford the professional ProTools. SoundStudio seemed to work pretty well
for us before, but with such a slow computer and low memory we got a lot
of skips and glitches. Hopefully that's a thing of the past.

I'll soon be checking the archives for everyone's favorite programs -
shareware, etc. I also need a simple webpage building software to help
me build a basic but decent-looking website for a charity project I'm
working on.

I'm new to System 10, as well, so it's all new to me...

Glad to be in the fold.

Kristin


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Re: CD-R in ibook

[Dan K]

I put a UJDA330 Matsushita CD-R/W in our 400 mhz (neé 300 mhz) Blueberry
clamshell. The iBook had no CD drive bezel when acquired so I just used
the generic one what came with the new drive. Doesn't look at all
horrible if you ask me.

Swap is a doddle for anyone with PB experience, but it is helpful to have
the factory manual or other detailed takeapart instructions. Google for
either.

hth,

Dan K

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Re: Hard Drive icon keeps wandering

[James Rohde]

on 29/05/04 13:26, George Ruta at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Running OS 10.3.3 on 15" AluBook. Each time I restart, the icon for my
> harddrive has moved to a new location on my desktop. Any explanation or
> cures? TIA

Another possible reason is, have you saved any files on the desktop which 
were close to the original location of the hard drive icon? If so, I've 
found that the Finder (in various incarnations of the Mac OS (8/9/X) will 
move the drive icon if there is a file too close to where the icon might 
go.

If that's what happened, move your files away from the corner (or 
wherever you'd like the icon usually to be), and restart.

HTH,

Jim Rohde

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Re: CD-R in ibook

[Timothy Luoma]

Does your iBook have firewire (I'm not up on the specs of all the various
machines), if so you'd be much better off getting a firewire drive which
would be faster and more useful if/when you upgrade hardware later

IMO
FWIW
TjL

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Re: Hard Drive icon keeps wandering

[Bob]

The National Enquirer reports at 1:33 PM -0400 5/29/04, Laurent 
Daudelin wrote:

>on 29/05/04 13:26, George Ruta at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Running OS 10.3.3 on 15" AluBook. Each time I restart, the icon for my
> > harddrive has moved to a new location on my desktop. Any explanation or
> > cures? TIA
>
>Do you have the grid turned on? If it is off and you place the icon manually
>to a specific location, I think the next time you login, the system will
>place the icon to a default location which depends on the size of the icon
>and the size of the font to display the name of the icon. I don't think
>there is something you can do about it. So, what I have done is turn on the
>grid so I see exactly where the icons will be. Then, changing the size
>and/or the font size, I've got my hard disk icon to a place that I like with
>a size that is acceptable...
>
>-Laurent.

Just as an aside, if you have multiple icons (including PC cards, 
partitions, external drives etc) that you always want in a specific 
order -- like I do  -- you can use an AppleScript in your startup 
file that will put everything in order automatically when you 
boot/re-boot. (How's that for a run-on sentence??)

I have a script that I have been using for several years (I picked it 
up, I didn't create it), but it's pre-OS X. If anyone is interested 
in it, I can either email it or post it so that someone could modify 
it for us with OS X AppleScript.

Bob


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Re: CD-R in ibook

[Jeff Hubatka]

From: "Ted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-R in ibook
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 06:02:34 -0700
Can I upgrade the internal CD ROM drive in my 366 MHz ibook to a CD-R 
or
CD-RW?
If so where do I get the drive and information on how to do it?
If not where is the best place to get a USB CD-R or CD-RW?

Ted
It can be replaced, the connectors are the same for all internal 
drives. As Laurent said, the face plate may not match up correctly but 
they can sometimes be modified. FWIW, I put a Matshita combo drive into 
a Pismo housing, and had to drill a hole in the plastic for a screw to 
mount up correctly. I have a Matshita CDRW that the Lombard face plate 
won't fit at all, so it's just sitting in my drawer waiting for another 
project. Support files are easy to modify in OS9 and Patchburn works 
well for OSX, so Finder and iTunes burning shouldn't be an issue.
As for installing, there are a few sites on the web explaining the 
details. It is a lot of work to take apart any of the iBooks. Also, 
note that USB will be limited to 4x speeds for CDR.

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Re: Hard Drive icon keeps wandering

[Laurent Daudelin]

on 29/05/04 13:26, George Ruta at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Running OS 10.3.3 on 15" AluBook. Each time I restart, the icon for my
> harddrive has moved to a new location on my desktop. Any explanation or
> cures? TIA

Do you have the grid turned on? If it is off and you place the icon manually
to a specific location, I think the next time you login, the system will
place the icon to a default location which depends on the size of the icon
and the size of the font to display the name of the icon. I don't think
there is something you can do about it. So, what I have done is turn on the
grid so I see exactly where the icons will be. Then, changing the size
and/or the font size, I've got my hard disk icon to a place that I like with
a size that is acceptable...

-Laurent.
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Hard Drive icon keeps wandering

[George Ruta]

Running OS 10.3.3 on 15" AluBook. Each time I restart, the icon for my 
harddrive has moved to a new location on my desktop. Any explanation or 
cures? TIA

George Ruta
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Re: CD-R in ibook

[Laurent Daudelin]

on 29/05/04 09:02, Ted at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Can I upgrade the internal CD ROM drive in my 366 MHz ibook to a CD-R or
> CD-RW? 
> If so where do I get the drive and information on how to do it?
> If not where is the best place to get a USB CD-R or CD-RW?

Check dealmac.com for the best prices on USB CDRW. If you want to upgrade
the CD drive in your iBook, you need information on how to remove it, so
that you can tell what kind of drive you need. You can probably find a tray
loading CDRW drive, but it's not sure that you'll be able to put the iBook
bezel on the tray over that new drive. You could check on eBay perhaps...

-Laurent.
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Re: Ongoing problems with Lombard

[Laurent Daudelin]

on 29/05/04 02:14, Tom Burke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On 28 May 2004, at 20:30, G-Books wrote:
>> 
>> On 28/05/04 09:35, "Tom Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Last night my daughter's Lombard appeared to give up the ghost. It
>>> just
>>> stopped dead - no sign of life at all - and would not restart - no
>>> chimes. Plus, when I lifted off the keyboard there was a smell of
>>> electrical burning.
>>> 
>>> Today it'll power up, but it won't boot - I just get the flashing
>>> folder / question mark icon. I have done the following things:- a)
>>> reset the pram; b) reset the nvram, having booted into open firmware;
>>> c) reset the PMU. I've also tried using Disk Utility via an
>>> installation disk, but the only disk that Disk Utility shows is the
>>> installation CD; it can't see the installed HD either.
>>> 
>>> I suspect that the Lombard is dead, but I was just wondering if anyone
>>> could diagnose what the fault might be. Last night I was convinced it
>>> must be a power issue, today the power side of things appears to be OK
>>> and the issue seems to be with the HDD.
>>> 
>>> System is a 333Mhz Lombard, 256 Mb Ram, OS X 10.2.8, and a Toshiba 20
>>> Gb HD.
>> 
>> I'm confused. You're saying it's dead bu then, later, that the Disk
>> Utility
>> from the installation CD sees only the installation CD. So, it's not
>> completely dead, is it? If you can boot from a system or installation
>> CD,
>> and if Disk Utility can't see the internal hard drive, then it seems
>> pretty
>> clear that the internal drive is toasted, hence the smell...
>> 
>> -Laurent.
> 
> If that was all, yes. But Thursday night, immediately after it crashed,
> the observed problem was that it wouldn't power up - no chimes, no grey
> screen, no icons, no sign of life at all. At that time, therefore, my
> assumption was that it must be the power side. Friday morning, without
> doing anything in the meantime, I idly tried it 'one more time', and it
> chimed and powered up, as far as the screen with the question mark /
> folder. So today, the observed problem seems not to be with the power
> at all but with the disk. That's what's confusing me - how can the
> symptoms & observed behaviour have changed?

There is something loose in it, or some broken solders that are creating
problems only when the heat increases. That's a tough problem to
troubleshoot. I'm not sure but does the Lombard have a processor
daughterboard snapped on the motherboard? If so, that would be the first
thing I would try to fix, e.g. removing the daughterboard and putting it
back while making sure it is solidly in place.

Then, there is something with the power. A connector or maybe an hairline
crack in the AC/sound board or something like that. Have you tried a
different adapter?

-Laurent.
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Re: Airport card in an ibook

[Ken]

My Reply follows quote. On 29/05/2004 06:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:  

>I have a 366 MHz clamshell ibook and I just put an airport card in it
>and the ibook does not recognize it. Is there some way to test the
>airport card to know it works OK? Do I need to re-install the system for
>it to be recognized? I did try zapping the pram but I could not do it.
>Can you zap the pram at start up on this model ibook?
>
>Ted

First, you might try restarting the computer while holding "Option-S."

Run the setup assistant to see if the proper software is loaded.

Ken

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Airport card in an ibook

[Ted]

I have a 366 MHz clamshell ibook and I just put an airport card in it
and the ibook does not recognize it. Is there some way to test the
airport card to know it works OK? Do I need to re-install the system for
it to be recognized? I did try zapping the pram but I could not do it.
Can you zap the pram at start up on this model ibook?

Ted


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CD-R in ibook

[Ted]

Can I upgrade the internal CD ROM drive in my 366 MHz ibook to a CD-R or
CD-RW? 
If so where do I get the drive and information on how to do it? 
If not where is the best place to get a USB CD-R or CD-RW?

Ted


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Re: Low Battery Warning on iBook

[Susan Platter]

On both laptops, I am using Jaguar 10.2.8. My husband, who used the 
iBook before me, is sure there used to be a low battery warning, but as 
he is averse to updates, I don't see how they could have made that 
cease. I used it for a little while, before going the update route 
myself, and I didn't see any warnings then. There have always been 
warnings on the Wallstreet, under the same OS.

Susan Platter
Swindon, Wiltshire, England
On Thursday, May 27, 2004, at 08:20 PM, G-Books wrote:
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:39:46 +0100
Subject: Re: Low Battery Warning on iBook
From: Malcolm Cornelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on 27/05/04 08:04, Susan Platter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is a 500MHz iBook, with  18.65GB indicated.
And the OS version is 10.1 ? 10.2 ? 10.3 ?
There was one stage in OS X at which low battery warnings didn't 
appear, a
google or apple.com should tell you if this is your problem.

3-4 is pretty good btw !
Best
Malcolm

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