Re: Help is not helpful

[Laurent Daudelin]

on 04/10/04 21:44, Claire Hart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> When nothing is open and all applications (according to the dock) are
> not open, and my menu bar has "finder" as the open application", and I
> click "help", there be nothing in the resulting opened window.  I have
> Help's own red/yellow/green buttons, the left/right arrows, the little
> house button, the "ask a question" field, and nothing in the white area
> below it.  The left/right arrows are black, but go nowhere.  Clicking
> the little house takes me nowhere.  When I type anything in the "ask a
> question" field and hit "enter", nothing happens as a result.
> 
> I'm using Panther on a 17" PB 1.5GHz.  My iMac DV400 also is running on
> Panther.  On my iMac, it works fine.  I close all apps, click "Help",
> and get the usual stuff filling in the big white space: the big X on
> the left half and a few links on the right, such as What's New, etc...
> 
> I discovered this as a result of taking Charles' advice on the iMac
> list to check if I had changed my firewall setup.  Since I don't know
> how to change my firewall setup, I thought I'd learn by going to help.
> The reason why Charles thought I needed to check my firewall setup is
> because I can't log into iTunes because of error  (whatever that
> is).  This feels like the domino effect... or maybe the twilight
> zone...
> 
> Claire
> 

Does the help menu in the Finder says "Mac Help"? Have you checked, in Help
Viewer, what is in the "Library" menu? any "Mac Help" there? If so, what
happen if you select it?

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Re: GV Teleport 56 disconnects and bad communication

[Bob]

The National Enquirer reports at 4:58 PM -0700 10/4/04, Clark Martin wrote:

>At 9:31 PM -0600 10/3/04, Bob wrote:
> >The National Enquirer reports at 7:05 PM +0200 10/3/04, Mikael 
>Byström wrote:
> >
> >>Bob said:
> >>
> >>  >What are you using for PPP? ARA? FreePPP?
> >
> >  >PPP.
>
>Does to me, sort of.  OS 7.6.1 and 8.1 have a PPP control panel.  OS
>8.6 and 9.1 use Remote Access control panels.

Mikael said his mom was using OS 9.2.2, that's why I asked about the 
two options that I thought they might be using.

>PPP is the underlying protocol and ARA is similar.  PPP, Remote
>Access, FreePPP and MacPPP are software for accessing PPP (and ARA in
>the case of Remote Access).

Which is why plain old PPP didn't actually make sense. I wondered 
what they were using to "control" PPP (to the best of my knowledge 
"PPP" and "MacPPP" are not options for OS 9). The only reason I 
asked, was to see how to check the flow control and port speed 
settings,which could be responsible for the dropped connections if 
the problem was between the modem and the keyboard.

I've only used MacTCP (pre-Open Transport) and FreePPP (post-Open 
Transport). I've looked at ARA once and don't ever remember checking 
out MacPPP. So my familiarity with them is severely limited.

> >>Yes, the line is equally noisy in every stage.
> >
> >Sounds like that is you primary problem. A call to the phone company
> >sounds in order. It may be something as simple as a bad ground
> >connection at your house phone box. But they should be able to find
> >it and fix it.
>
>
>Before you call, take a phone out to the service entrance.  If the
>service entrance is relatively new there should be a modular jack
>(assuming this is US, I don't know about the rest of the world).   A
>cable is plugged into this jack.  The jack is the incoming connection
>and the cable goes to your household wiring.  Unplug the cable and
>plug in your phone.  Check the connection now.  If it's still bad
>then call your phone company.  This is precisely the purpose of this
>connector.

Good advice for US users. I did just that a few months ago on a phone 
line. But it's my understanding that Mikael lives overseas somewhere. 
I didn't think the setup would necessarily be the same.

Plus my recollection is that he said that the phone line had a 
"strong ground loop buzz outside the house." He didn't say how he 
knew that, but it indicated to me that the noise problem probably 
wasn't from the line(s) inside the house.

Just my thought process.

>If your connection is bad at this jack then it's the
>phone company's problem.  If it's okay here but noisy/bad in the
>house then it's your wiring that's the problem.  Mind you I've had a
>phone company employee try to blow me off on this.  They kept saying
>if they didn't find any problem I would get billed even though I had
>told them several times I had done this test, THEIR test.

Got to love good old American enterprise. I they can't milk it for 
$$, it's generally not worth the effort. :-/


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Re: Was SmartMedia reader NOW hubs

[Bob]

The National Enquirer reports at 9:29 PM +0100 10/4/04, Roger 
Shufflebottom wrote:

>At 1:14 pm -0700 4/10/04, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> >It works with an identical USB hub (a belkin) on another G4, so I
> >don't think it's the USB case; I suspect my hub is bad, not
> >providing enough current.
>
>If anyone is interested, the beefiest USB hub I've come across is/was
>the Pertech Hubmaster (http://www.pertech.net/). It works with my
>Avid editing system where others have proved problematic. Hving just
>checked, I find the company is up for sale!

Yep, that information became public a week and a half or two weeks 
ago. And that's a shame. You're right, Pertech is one of the most 
trouble-free USB hubs on the market. However, they are fairly 
expensive ($70) and might be over-kill for a lot of people (7 ports).


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Re: Pismo vs ibook?

[Andrew]

It's a preference for light weight and compact size.  The laptop that stays
home doesn't do anything to help me on the road.  I learned this the hard
way back in the mid 90s.  I owned a PowerBook 5300c and a Duo 210 (as well
as a desktop PowerMac), and it was the Duo that saw the most use.

Even today, many times I find my newish (rev B) 12" PowerBook to be a bit
too bulky and instead grab my 4-year-old laptop PC, which instead of 4.6lbs
weighs only 3.4.  If Apple would take the current 12" PB and shave 1/2" of
thickness and 1lb of weight (by ditching the optical drive), I'd buy one
right away.

Andrew

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Subject: Re: Pismo vs ibook?

>I'd even take an
>old 2400c over any 14" or larger laptop.

That's an interesting preference.

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Help is not helpful

[Claire Hart]

When nothing is open and all applications (according to the dock) are 
not open, and my menu bar has "finder" as the open application", and I 
click "help", there be nothing in the resulting opened window.  I have 
Help's own red/yellow/green buttons, the left/right arrows, the little 
house button, the "ask a question" field, and nothing in the white area 
below it.  The left/right arrows are black, but go nowhere.  Clicking 
the little house takes me nowhere.  When I type anything in the "ask a 
question" field and hit "enter", nothing happens as a result.

I'm using Panther on a 17" PB 1.5GHz.  My iMac DV400 also is running on 
Panther.  On my iMac, it works fine.  I close all apps, click "Help", 
and get the usual stuff filling in the big white space: the big X on 
the left half and a few links on the right, such as What's New, etc...

I discovered this as a result of taking Charles' advice on the iMac 
list to check if I had changed my firewall setup.  Since I don't know 
how to change my firewall setup, I thought I'd learn by going to help.  
The reason why Charles thought I needed to check my firewall setup is 
because I can't log into iTunes because of error  (whatever that 
is).  This feels like the domino effect... or maybe the twilight 
zone...

Claire
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Re: internet radio and iTunes

[Clark Martin]

At 2:52 PM -0400 10/4/04, Dennis Reeder wrote:
How can I add favorite "stations" to the list of radio stations? 
There are only about 19 jazz stations listed.  There must be more 
stations streaming their broadcasts.  How can I add them to the 
pre-configured list that came from Apple?
Do a web search and click on the iTunes link, if there is one.
Check out .  Click on the Listen button.
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Re: Maintenance Scripts Are Worth Doing

[Clark Martin]

At 8:33 PM -0600 10/3/04, Bob wrote:
The National Enquirer reports at 2:57 PM -0400 10/3/04, Laurent
Daudelin wrote:


 >If those scripts were that important, don't you think that Apple would have
put something to run them or accomplish what they do on a regular basis?
Apple did. :-) The scripts will run without any action whatsoever if
the machine is on. Why are they scheduled at those weird times? I
assume because they were thought to be the best times to find the
computer not being used (I seem to recall that the scripts won't run
if the computer is being used).
Thanks for correcting my misstatement,
Problem is they made them execute in the wee hours of the morning 
then set the energy saver to sleep most machines  at that time 
(unless you are using it 12 minutes before the script kicks in).
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Re: GV Teleport 56 disconnects and bad communication

[Clark Martin]

At 9:31 PM -0600 10/3/04, Bob wrote:
The National Enquirer reports at 7:05 PM +0200 10/3/04, Mikael Byström wrote:
Bob said:
 >What are you using for PPP? ARA? FreePPP?
 >PPP.
Does to me, sort of.  OS 7.6.1 and 8.1 have a PPP control panel.  OS
8.6 and 9.1 use Remote Access control panels.
PPP is the underlying protocol and ARA is similar.  PPP, Remote
Access, FreePPP and MacPPP are software for accessing PPP (and ARA in
the case of Remote Access).
Does not compute. :-)
I was asking so that we could check the settings if needed (flow
control, port speed etc).
 >Can you connect a regular phone to that line and/or connector? If so,
 >pick up the receiver and dial one numerical digit. Then listen and
 >see if you hear that buzz, or any noise at all.

Yes, the line is equally noisy in every stage.
Sounds like that is you primary problem. A call to the phone company
sounds in order. It may be something as simple as a bad ground
connection at your house phone box. But they should be able to find
it and fix it.

Before you call, take a phone out to the service entrance.  If the
service entrance is relatively new there should be a modular jack
(assuming this is US, I don't know about the rest of the world).   A
cable is plugged into this jack.  The jack is the incoming connection
and the cable goes to your household wiring.  Unplug the cable and
plug in your phone.  Check the connection now.  If it's still bad
then call your phone company.  This is precisely the purpose of this
connector.  If your connection is bad at this jack then it's the
phone company's problem.  If it's okay here but noisy/bad in the
house then it's your wiring that's the problem.  Mind you I've had a
phone company employee try to blow me off on this.  They kept saying
if they didn't find any problem I would get billed even though I had
told them several times I had done this test, THEIR test.
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Re: shutting down PBs at night

[MMB]

I am interested and envious that personal computers and laptops can be 
left plugged in to power and awake all the time.

Whether or not the innards of the computer can cope, where I live in 
Australia electric power surges are a regular fact of life. In older 
houses power surges are there all the time (just test each power point 
and see!).

After losing two motherboards/powerboards (in desktops) I now NEVER 
leave my machines plugged in. Surge protectors/UPS for home computers 
are more consolation than effective I was told by electrician, even the 
more expensive UPS.  Nonetheless I have plugged in all my computer 
equipment to one, in case the surge occurs while I am online.

and there is more...
I work from time to time in an internet centre/cafe and one day 
attended to a most agitated and experienced patron whose computer had 
been burned by a power surge. I delivered the above speech and he 
laughed. He knew about not leaving the computer plugged in. When it 
burned the computer had NOT been plugged in but his modem was still 
connected to both the computer and the phone line.  The power surged 
down the phone line and did the damage. True story.

So I offer this for what it is worth.
Maria
Ausralia
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Re: OSX and "re-building desktop"?

[Dennis B. Swaney]

At 10:18 AM -0700 10/4/04, crap mail wrote:
hi, alsoft's diskwarrior   http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/ 
seems to do that and a whole buch more (especially since there isn't 
a compatible version of norton utilities/systeworks with the current 
mac os x, hmm. how do we optimise the hard drive without 
speeddisk-any suggest? thanks!)

Symantec has abandoned Mac support so we will no longer suffer their 
garbage "repair" products. There are at least two products that are 
way better than anything Symantec put out: Alsoft's DiskWarrior and 
MicroMat's Tech Tool Pro.
 http://www.micromat.com  MicroMat also has Drive 10 if you just want 
drive tools; it includes an OS X Optimization feature.
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Re: internet radio and iTunes

[Jeff Drummond]

On Oct 4, 2004, at 3:09 pm, Dennis Reeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
How can I add favorite "stations" to the list of radio stations?  There
are only about 19 jazz stations listed.  There must be more stations
streaming their broadcasts.  How can I add them to the pre-configured
list that came from Apple?
This is described in iTunes help:

If you know the Internet address (URL) of an MP3 streaming broadcast, 
you can connect to it using iTunes.

1. Choose Advanced > Open Stream.
2. Enter the full URL of the file you want to listen to. For example, 
.


The streams (stations) are actually added to your library--not to the 
radio list. I believe the list of radio stations can only be updated by 
Apple.

Many commercial radio stations stream their broadcasts, but not 
necessarily via a raw MP3 stream. Often you have to use another 
application to play the stream (e.g., Windows Media Player).

Hope this helps,
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Re: Wireless Drivers For OS 9 & OS X

[crap mail]

i had no luck with the dell version of the 350 cisco aironet (100mw). 
but you can shop for aironet 4800 (identical to the 350, on ebay, 
before cisco purchased them). very cheap, nice power, cisco supports 
drivers for current os : )

On Sep 5, 2004, at 7:59 AM, john slavin wrote:
Ken:
You might take a look at the Dell Truemobile cards.  There is a 
particular one, I forget which, that is a rebadge cisco card.  I've 
been tempted to get one and try it in my Powerbook.

John Slavin
On Sep 5, 2004, at 9:41 AM, Kenneth Vann wrote:
http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/sw-wireless.shtml
Cisco Aironet 340, 350 (and perhaps OEM versions) PC Cards for 
Macintosh.
Start here and select option 1 for all available drivers and firmware
updates. These drivers may work on clones of the Cisco Aironet. Be 
sure to
update the Firmware to v5.30.17. Can be updated on Mac OS9 or OSX.

Hope this helps.
Ken Vann

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Re: Pismo vs ibook?

[macdaniel3400c]

>I'd even take an
>old 2400c over any 14" or larger laptop.

That's an interesting preference.

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Re: Wallstreet

[crap mail]

check your extensions (manager) and make sure you have the proper 
format extension (but it shouldn't apply to hfs). are you using cd-wr. 
try burning slower speeds and 'burn disc' 'burn multisession' - some 
drives cant read multisession cdrs. and then sometimes all things fail. 
try reinstalling system, zap pram?

rama.
On Sep 19, 2004, at 4:22 PM, Andrew Kershaw wrote:
Well, I'd say that a perfectly fine CD that can't be read by a 
perfectly fine CD-ROM drive must be in an unsupported format.  IMO 
anyway.
I disagree.  I've experienced a problem where a CD-R burned as HFS 
could be read just fine in the burner and other Macs, but failed to be 
recognized every time by my beige G3's CD-ROM drive.  Commercial CDs 
worked fine, even ISO 9660 ones.

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Re: GV Teleport 56 disconnects and bad communication

[Mikael Byström]

Bob said:
>>At the moment I'm going to try a reinstallation of the OS. I'll let you
>>know how it turns out.
>
>Wow, that would be the last thing I would try. Check that, it 
>wouldn't even be the last. I don't think your problem has anything at 
>all to do with your System.
Why, this is OS 9 after all. Reinstallation disproves everything in the
OS and takes 5 active minutes of my time and can be rolled back in even
less. Anyway, it didn't help, so you were right.

>If you don't have another phone line at your location. The easiest 
>way to eliminate the computer, modem and OS is to take the hardware 
>to a neighbors, or some location where there's a clean phone line, 
>and try it there. If it works there then you'll know it's the phone 
>line.

Yes, we decided this was the best alternative now including contacting
the phone company. Especially as the modem maker have gone out of
business. My mother can't afford the $80 that the modem creating app
(forgot the name) costs that possibly could help in that department. So
I'll have to search on.


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Re: VGA adapter for iBook

[crap mail]

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/71408/ 
wo/xU10yaFhZfys2c1RZLEmyhkbSwO/1.3.0.6.10.3.27.1.15.0

or
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/71408/ 
wo/xU10yaFhZfys2c1RZLEmyhkbSwO/1.3.0.6.10.3.25.1.15.0

rama.
On Sep 26, 2004, at 2:06 PM, CJ wrote:
Hi, I to mirror the output from my iceBook/500 onto a LCD projector.  I
cannot find the adapter for the iBook's prapritary RGB out port on  
eBay.
Does anyone have the part # or maybe one to sell to me?  Also, I tried  
to
plug a 3-RCA Cable from a SONY camcorder into the iBook's A/V out  
slot, only
to find that the scan rate was off unless I pulled the cable out of  
the slot
1/8".  Then only the left channel (white cable) audio worked.  Does  
anyone
know how fix this too?


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Was SmartMedia reader NOW hubs

[Roger Shufflebottom]

At 1:14 pm -0700 4/10/04, Bruce Johnson wrote:
It works with an identical USB hub (a belkin) on another G4, so I 
don't think it's the USB case; I suspect my hub is bad, not 
providing enough current.
If anyone is interested, the beefiest USB hub I've come across is/was 
the Pertech Hubmaster (http://www.pertech.net/). It works with my 
Avid editing system where others have proved problematic. Hving just 
checked, I find the company is up for sale!

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Re: TiBook display crisis

[crap mail]

could be the ribbon video cable or inverter, i've seen some examples of 
the cable especially with abused clutches in tis. got applecare?

rama.
On Sep 27, 2004, at 10:20 AM, Dan Palka wrote:
On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:55 AM, gianfranco sciacca wrote:
The product I have used for cleaning is a spray suitable for TFT 
display, but I was told it is fine also for notebooks (there's also a 
notebook picture on the bottle).
The LCD on your PowerBook IS a TFT.  TFT is a type of LCD technology.  
TFT = LCD (although its not always the other way around).

That being said, I think you should contact the company.
 What have I done there? Perhaps some drops have penetrated somehow 
in the machine?
Perhaps too much?  Were there instructions on the bottle?
NEVER SPRAY THE MACHINE! Always lightly spray the cloth, THEN wipe 
the machine.  I've been cleaning PowerBook displays with Windex since 
my mom had a brand new just released PowerBook 165c in this manner, 
and have never had a problem ever.  Eleven PowerBooks and PC notebooks 
later, I've still yet to run into trouble with my Windex solution.

Or have I damaged the LCD for good? Any hope to recover this beast, 
or idea of what to look at? I never had any display issues in the 
past on this machine.
Do this:  Remove power adapter and batteries and everything.  Let the 
machine sit for a day or two, preferably on its side (open it to form 
an "L" shape so that it can balance itself).  Hopefully it will dry 
away leaving the electronics unfried.

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Re: TiBook Battery

[crap mail]

afaik the ai and ti pwrbooks have different batts.
rama.
On Sep 12, 2004, at 5:46 PM, WNK wrote:
Anyone using the APC battery at the link below for their TiBook?
http://www.apcc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm? 
base_sku=LBCAP12R

I need to get a new battery for mine and wondered if this might fit.
Are the battery for the new AlBook 15 & the TiBook 15 the same?
Thanks,
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Re: SmartMedia reader suggestions

[Bruce Johnson]

On Oct 3, 2004, at 2:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I suspect something's wrong with the reader. I've never found one yet 
that needed a driver in OS X.
Wow have you lucked out, Bruce! :)
Well, all I can report is what I know, and no one here has had any 
problems with them. The one I have at work is just called "Pocket 
Reader Model CR-T3-U2B Made in Taiwan" ;-)

Any ideas how to make a HD in a IDE->USB box mount on Panther?  The 
drive came from a PB G3 (OS 9.2.2; Jaguar).  It mounts right up on 
another PB and an iMac -  both in OS 9.  But won't mount at all in OS 
X 10.1.5 or Panther.
I have one that's mildly problematic, it works when plugged into my 
powered USB hub at home, and if plugged directly into the back of my G4 
at work but NOT when plugged into my (allegedly) powered USB hub 
plugged into the same port. It works with an identical USB hub (a 
belkin) on another G4, so I don't think it's the USB case; I suspect my 
hub is bad, not providing enough current.

I have another one that I got a long time ago from Computer Geeks that 
works on some Macs and not others, and have given up on it. I don't 
think it ever worked in OS X, OS 9 required drivers.

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Re: Sleep problems. changing email addresses.

[crap mail]

sorry didn't mean to offend, i put all my list servers on that 
email(personal joke) because of harvester programs/bots that will 
collect your email addresses for spam purposes. i didn't think i would  
have much info i could offer so i never planned on posting. my name is 
rama chavy and i will change my account email to my name/email.   i'm a 
print graphic designer, who has some mac troubleshooting/repairing 
experience. and between the 20th anniversary in the bdroom,  and the 
se/30 (128mb ram/500mb hd, xceed micron card+harness allowing greyscale 
internally: ), and the wireless 3500c 'kanga' running 10.2. plus the 
many macs (and a couple of apple IIe's w/300baud modems) worked 
on/with, and the pismo which i use to hell and back 24-7. apples rocks! 
also i would like to thank all who contribute here, its been a real 
problem saver and learning/enriching experience. and i hope to be able 
to contribute more often in the future.

sincerely,
rama.
i still have my 128k compact : ) (yes the sys. fit on one not so floppy 
anymore diskette) and if anyone was wondering its not going to be a 
macquarium ; )

On Oct 4, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Erik Ness wrote:
At 12:26 PM -0700 10/4/04, crap mail wrote:
crap mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
As a courtesy to others, would you consider changing your designation? 
Opening up my mailbox and seeing "crap mail" is not unlike the impact 
of opening junk mail and being the with [EMAIL PROTECTED] or other crud. A sort of, 
ah, nuts, what's crept into my mailbox this time feeling. I know I can 
filter you; I'd rather be able to read what your saying.

Regards,
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Re: SmartMedia reader suggestions

[crap mail]

iphoto import supports lots of cameras, including olympus',   
http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/cameras.html  why not usb cable it 
for now to get the images off and possibly format/replace the card. 
then worry about a compatible pcmcia card reader which i feel are 
faster. there are dedicated(lame) reader/card combos. r u on 10.3?

good luck,
rama.
On Oct 4, 2004, at 8:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had a similar problem of somehow losing the function of the smartcard
reader with a Lexmark purple plastic-case reader on my Ti-400.  The
solution was a $4 reader/writer that doesn't need a driver and seems 
to be
perfect for these cards, all formats, several cameras. I'm not near my
camera stuff at the moment, but if interested, I can find the name - I
suspect many of the newer cheap readers will do the trick.

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Re: Sleep problems.

[Erik Ness]

At 12:26 PM -0700 10/4/04, crap mail wrote:
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As a courtesy to others, would you consider changing your 
designation? Opening up my mailbox and seeing "crap mail" is not 
unlike the impact of opening junk mail and being the with [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 
other crud. A sort of, ah, nuts, what's crept into my mailbox this 
time feeling. I know I can filter you; I'd rather be able to read 
what your saying.

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Re: Sleep problems.

[crap mail]

my girlfriend's alu. powerbook had a never waking up from sleep issue. 
i turned of 'spin down hd whenever possible'-seemed to have fixed it. 
of course it spins down when sleeping and we have applecare : )

rama.
On Sep 14, 2004, at 1:35 PM, Marcin Wichary wrote:
My only suggestion is to make sure that when you close it, you do so 
firmly to make sure it makes a solid connection, and doesn't pop open 
a little right when it first tries to sleep.  That might confuse it.
That is true, but I never did it deliberately, so it'll be hard for me 
to follow that advice. :I

But still, it's not (always) the culprit. Today I just closed it 
normally, "have seen the light" etc., but when I opened it later the 
light went blank and that was it. The system was under heavy usage 
(big Photoshop files inside) prior to falling asleep, so that might be 
one of the reasons. Still, this is unacceptable behaviour, especially 
as half of those Photoshop files were not saved. :/

Also, be sure to wait until the light starts to pulse before you move 
it.
What do you mean? I am not sure how physically moving the notebook can 
change anything...

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Re: shutting down PBs at night

[crap mail]

i've had powerbook 190, the dreaded 5300c, 3500c 'kanga',  tangerine  
ibook, pismo, ti powerbook and the new aluminum powerbook never really  
turning them off some for 4 years, keep the power adapter on and the  
occasional restart of course. just make sure that energy saver allows  
them to sleep.

rama.
On Sep 14, 2004, at 6:12 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
on 14/09/04 02:34, Claire Hart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While more often than not I leave my iMac on at night, I always turn
off my Powerbook.  I guess it just seems more vulnerable left on all
night, for some reason.  In fact, until recently, I'd carefully pack  
it
and all of its "stuff" back in the softside briefcase I bought for it.
Now I often leave it, turned off and with lid closed, where I used it
last (on the couch, on the footstool, on the bed, by the iMac, on the
dining table...).  Do you guys turn off your PBs at night?
I never turn it off. I just put it to sleep...
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Re: [OT] Laptop & windoze

[John]

Laurent Daudelin wrote:
Larry,
This list is exclusively to discuss all things related to G3 or G4-based
Apple laptops.
As such, I would ask you to not post questions relating to other machines.
There is enough traffic like it is now that we don't need questions about
other OSes.
Further, you would probably get a more educated answer if you were posting
your question to a dedicated Windows email list.
I didn't see any "question" there, more a "commentary/observation" 
regarding the differences between Windoze (ugh) and Macs. Coming from 
the WinBlows world a few years ago, I know exactly what he means. I'll 
never forget my first time upgrading to a bigger hd in my 8500, when I 
thought I would need a utility like "Ghost" to move everything from the 
old drive to the new. When some kind soul explained to me about how to 
"drag & drop", then "bless" the system folder on the new drive and set 
it as the start-up drive, I couldn't believe how much simpler it all 
was! To this day, it still amazes me to think about it. OTOH, I have a 
Thinkpad that I have been trying to install a new larger drive in and 
re-install the OS from a cd. It's plenty new enough to boot from a cd, 
and it can be set to do so, but it refuses to "see" a bootable cd in the 
drive at start-up. AAGGHH! Stupid PCs!! Makes me thankful for my Macs...

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Re: Pismo vs ibook?

[Andrew]

Nah, too big, too bulky, too heavy.  I'd even take an
old 2400c over any 14" or larger laptop.  iBook wins
easily on handiness.  Remember, even the most powerful
computer in the world is absolutely useless if you
left it at home because you didn't want to carry it.

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> pismo, pismo, pismo: faster bus, more ram(i think)
> 1gb, can holds 2  
> batteries, larger screen, analogue audio in and out,
> and most of the  
> time easily/cheaply repaired, very very durable,
> PCMCIA slot : ) and  
> there are g4 upgrades  for them   
> http://daystartechnology.com/Apple_Mac_Products/ 
>
XLR8_Macintosh_Products/Mac_CPU_G4_Upgrade_PowerBook_Pismo_PS.html
>
> only bottleneck is video card.
> 
> good luck!
> rama.
> 
> 
> On Sep 21, 2004, at 8:25 AM, John Slavin wrote:
> 
> > hehe
> >
> > You know it doesn't change.  It still comes down
> to looking at what  
> > you need.  I would have absolutely agreed with you
> until January two  
> > years ago.  Over the course of about a month, my
> eyes changed.  Now my  
> > arms are just long enough to get a piece of paper
> to the point where  
> > my eyes can focus.  Otherwise I need reading
> glasses.  Now a computer  
> > on my lap can be just about the right distance
> when it's sitting on my  
> > knees.  The difference between a twelve and
> fourteen inch screen in  
> > not inconsequential. ;)
> >
> > On Tuesday, September 21, 2004, at 10:02  AM,
> Andrew wrote:
> >
> >> I'm the opposite, and will ALMOST ALWAYS choose
> the
> >> small and light notebook over the large and
> heavy.  In
> >> fact, if Apple made an even smaller machine than
> the
> >> 12" PB, without any built-in optical drive and
> >> weighing 3lbs or so, I'd buy one immediately.  If
> it
> >> had an 11" 1024X768 screen instead of a 12" (and
> a
> >> correspondingly smaller and lighter case) then so
> much
> >> the better.
> >>
> >> Andrew
> >>
> >>
> >> --- John Slavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm surprise no one has mentioned screen size. 
> I'm
> >>> assuming the ibook
> >>> has a 12" screen and I'm assuming that the pismo
> has
> >>> a 14" screen.  I
> >>> can tell you that from first hand experience
> that
> >>> for ordinary web
> >>> browsing, when I'm sitting on the couch at home
> with
> >>> our ibook on one
> >>> table and the old wallstreet on another, I'll
> grab
> >>> the wallstreet every
> >>> time, just for the 14" screen.  When you hit
> those
> >>> mid 40's the eyes
> >>> go, and it does make a difference.  So whoever
> first
> >>> posted this
> >>> question should consider this as well.
> >>>
> >>> John Slavin
> > John Slavin
> > Kirksville, MO
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[Dennis Reeder]

How can I add favorite "stations" to the list of radio stations?  There 
are only about 19 jazz stations listed.  There must be more stations 
streaming their broadcasts.  How can I add them to the pre-configured 
list that came from Apple?

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Re:

[crap mail]

they also make dvd/cdr burners that are direct replacements (stick with 
the pioneers), also faster write speeds. or $130-$200. check online for 
compatibility. if your laptop is under a year definitly get applecare, 
very very worth it.


good luck.
rama.
On Sep 12, 2004, at 8:15 PM, Hugo Trottier wrote:
are you still under the Apple Care Blanket?
If not can you get one?
If so, get it; wait a month and send it in.
Will cost you around 300$ (Apple Care)
And then Apple will, fix or repair it for free.
Not a bad deal
Just my 2 cents,
The Dr
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On 11-Sep-04, at 4:10 PM, Barton Brown wrote:
I hope someone can help me. I have a just-over-one-year-old (of 
course) 17" G4 PowerBook with a SuperDrive. After a year of working 
flawlessly, reading and burning all brands of CD and DVD, yesterday I 
went to put in a blank CD to backup some data with Toast, and got an 
unhappy surprise: the disk went in fine, but then the drive clunked 
twice, and spat the disk out. I tried several other disks -- 
commercial, self-burned, DVD -- same trick every time: full pull-in 
insert, two big clunks and disk eject.

I reset PRAM, NVRAM, and the PMU, did the Force Quit, Force Shutdown, 
Control-Command-Power start -- all the Apple remedies. I'm currently 
trying to find my original Hardware Diagnostic disks, but if the 
drive won't accept any other disks, I'm justifiably concerned that it 
won't accept the diagnostic disks either.

Apple support quoted me a replacement drive price of around $1000 
(minus labor), and that' doesn't make me too happy. Any 
suggestions/previous experience/mantras, etc.?

Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Bart Brown
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Re: Problems with a Lombard keyboard

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ebay usually $12-$20, 3 min install 1 ribbon cable.
rama.
On Sep 2, 2004, at 12:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
My Lombard keyboard is acting up; some keys work, some do not. The 
non-working keys are:

-delete, tab, the whole "qwerty" row except for "[" ,
-the whole bottom row,
-k gives me kl and l gives me kl, and
-the \ acts as return, (return is OK).
Does this sound like like a common problem, a fixable problem, or a 
replacement solution?

Thanks,
Craig W.
Atlanta, GA
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Re: Problem with new G4 iBook (more)

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its looking for the network which isn't there or on a different port. 
in network sys. prefs. if still in automatic try making custom 
'locations' ie ethernet, dial up, airport. conversely it might be 
looking for a network on the ethernet port while its on airport. hope 
this helps.

rama.
On Aug 22, 2004, at 12:34 PM, bobgir2004 wrote:
My "new" Apple refurbished iBook G4 does the same thing at 
startup--the
bar only goes half way across the screen, it says "waiting for network
initialization" and then the desktop appears.  I haven't done much 
with
the iBook yet so I don't know if there are any issues.
Re the above:  I have found out that it is not an issue/problem.  
If you
want to watch everything that is happening as your OS boots up, press
Command + V key as you start up.  It's called Verbose Mode.  You will 
get a
black screen with white text listing, in excruciating detail, 
everything
going on as your Mac boots up.  When it's done, you are sitting at your
desktop just as when you start up in the normal manner.  Very 
interesting.

See...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106388
...for more info on this subject.
Here's what a seemingly knowledgeable fellow had to say on 
MacFixIt re
the iBook not booting from either the TT Deluxe or DiskWarrior CDs:

First off, the iBook isn't going to boot up from the TT Deluxe or 
DiskWarrior
disks since the OS in the new iBooks and PowerBooks has been modified 
slightly
(even though the version numbers are the same) and Micromat and 
Alsoft haven't
released updated versions of their diagnostic CD's which will boot 
the new
machines. As to when this might occur I couldn't say. I ran into this 
while
working on a friend's new iBook and PowerBook and emailed Alsoft to 
inquire
about it. The response was that Apple hadn't released the changes 
made to the
OS's on the new machines and until that happened no bootable CD's 
would be
available.
Ciao,
bob
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Re: Pismo vs ibook?

[crap mail]

pismo, pismo, pismo: faster bus, more ram(i think) 1gb, can holds 2  
batteries, larger screen, analogue audio in and out, and most of the  
time easily/cheaply repaired, very very durable, PCMCIA slot : ) and  
there are g4 upgrades  for them   
http://daystartechnology.com/Apple_Mac_Products/ 
XLR8_Macintosh_Products/Mac_CPU_G4_Upgrade_PowerBook_Pismo_PS.html
only bottleneck is video card.

good luck!
rama.
On Sep 21, 2004, at 8:25 AM, John Slavin wrote:
hehe
You know it doesn't change.  It still comes down to looking at what  
you need.  I would have absolutely agreed with you until January two  
years ago.  Over the course of about a month, my eyes changed.  Now my  
arms are just long enough to get a piece of paper to the point where  
my eyes can focus.  Otherwise I need reading glasses.  Now a computer  
on my lap can be just about the right distance when it's sitting on my  
knees.  The difference between a twelve and fourteen inch screen in  
not inconsequential. ;)

On Tuesday, September 21, 2004, at 10:02  AM, Andrew wrote:
I'm the opposite, and will ALMOST ALWAYS choose the
small and light notebook over the large and heavy.  In
fact, if Apple made an even smaller machine than the
12" PB, without any built-in optical drive and
weighing 3lbs or so, I'd buy one immediately.  If it
had an 11" 1024X768 screen instead of a 12" (and a
correspondingly smaller and lighter case) then so much
the better.
Andrew
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I'm surprise no one has mentioned screen size.  I'm
assuming the ibook
has a 12" screen and I'm assuming that the pismo has
a 14" screen.  I
can tell you that from first hand experience that
for ordinary web
browsing, when I'm sitting on the couch at home with
our ibook on one
table and the old wallstreet on another, I'll grab
the wallstreet every
time, just for the 14" screen.  When you hit those
mid 40's the eyes
go, and it does make a difference.  So whoever first
posted this
question should consider this as well.
John Slavin
John Slavin
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Re: Motorola V400 & iPhoto on my PowerBook G3 via USB with OS X

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>does your phone and laptop (usb dongle) have bluetooth. if so you can 
>use10.3.5 bluetooth's utility to access your phone like a storage 
>device-allowing you to back up, load pix, text, ringtones, etc. you 
>must first set up bluetooth in sys. prefs. and you can add a bluetooth 
>menu item on the menubar.

No, neither the Motorola V400 nor the PowerBook G3 Wallstreet have 
bluetooth, nor does OS X 10.3 install on a PowerBook G3 reliably (and 
without hack).  In fact I don't even use OS X on that thing period 
because it runs so lousy and isn't worth my effort, nor is it worth the 
retarded drive partitioning that must be done.

The only way to connect a V400 to anything is with the USB cable, which I 
do have, and connect it to my 10.3 G3 Tower.

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Re: Maintenance Scripts Are Worth Doing

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Of course, Solaris being one of them. Many Linux machines are actually 
web
servers. Still, a significant number of Linux boxes are used as desktop
machines...
There's a big difference in my book between Unix and Linux systems. :) 
But that's off-topic and probably not worth discussing anyway.

I would like to hear official Apple's stance on a) repairing 
permissions and b) nightly scripts, though. I suppose Knowledge Bases 
are quiet about this?

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Re: PISMO G3 POWERBOOK UPGRADE - ADVICE REQ'D

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keep the pismo its a very durable caddylac last version of the classy  
stealthy black powerbooks. definitley upgrade the hd 40-80gb, faster  
drives with larger caches help a bit. max the ram to 1gb, you can't do  
much as far as video card upgrades (so don't expect 50fps with unreal  
tournament 2004+no quartz extreme), then finally splurge on   
http://www.daystartechnology.com/Apple_Mac_Products/ 
XLR8_Macintosh_Products/Mac_CPU_G4_Upgrade_PowerBook_Pismo_PS.html  .  
i've taken my pismo backpacking, camping, around the planet, on  
beaches, at burning man, dropping it on occasion, skateboarding round  
town for borrowing wifi : ) - they are very durable, well built  
powerbooks. usually repair parts can be had on ebay/online for  
relatively inexpensive not to mention the ease of opening a pismo. oh-  
i  almost forgot you can hold 2 batteries. isight works great, very  
nicely designed. but for laptop i use the logitech quickcam notebook  
pro   
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/CA/ 
EN,CRID=690,CONTENTID=5040  i think less power consumption, smaller  
package. if you plan on using ichat you'll need  
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/ichatusbcam/   and there are dvd and cdr  
burners that retrofit into the caddy.

cheers,
rama.
On Sep 23, 2004, at 1:49 PM, simon goslin wrote:
G'DAY GUYS,
MY PISMO IS STANDARD SPEC, BAR THE RAM UPGRADE I'VE PERFORMED RECENTLY  
(576MB)

I'D LIKE TO UPGRADE THE HARD DRIVE, ALTHOUGH I HAVE ALL MY DOCUMENTS  
AND PICTURES ON MY IPOD (SLOWER, BUT EFFECTIVE), I ONLY HAVE A GIG  
LEFT
(IT WAS DOWN TO 100MB) AND HAVE RECENTLY PURCHASED ADOBE CS
(THE BIG GIG GUZZLER).

CAN I UPGRADE TO 500MHZ AT THE SAME TIME, I'D LIKE AN ISIGHT.
WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND?
CHEERS!
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Re: Maintenance Scripts Are Worth Doing

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On 04/10/04 14:14, "Marcin Wichary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Ermmm, no, I don't think there is any conspiracy here. Those scripts in
>> other Unix systems have always been scheduled to run at night.
> 
> I'm shooting in the dark here, but aren't other Unix systems
> predominantly servers...?

Of course, Solaris being one of them. Many Linux machines are actually web
servers. Still, a significant number of Linux boxes are used as desktop
machines...

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Ermmm, no, I don't think there is any conspiracy here. Those scripts in
other Unix systems have always been scheduled to run at night.
I'm shooting in the dark here, but aren't other Unix systems 
predominantly servers...?

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Re: Maintenance Scripts Are Worth Doing

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I'm not sure if repairing permissions is automatic now, but it seemed 
a
big problem a year or more ago, and people were advised to run it
manually.
Those scripts don't repair permissions. They are scripts that have 
almost
always been part of any Unix system. They do what they would do on 
other
Unix systems. Repairing permissions is something specific to Mac OS X, 
(...)
I did not want to imply that these nightly scripts tackle permission 
repairing. I just wanted to point out that Apple knew pretty early that 
repairing permissions might be a problem, but never made it automatic, 
requiring many users to run them and spoil their otherwise nice Mac OS 
X experience. This was in response to "If those scripts were that 
important, don't you think that Apple would have put something to run 
them or accomplish what they do on a regular basis?" -- judging from 
what I've read, leaving permissions unrepaired in the older days 
might've resulted in system being significantly slower, which seems 
quite an important issue, yet Apple did not automate that task for some 
reason.

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Re: Pismo Battery Won't Charge

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chances are the dc power adapter card  plug is broken or lifted off a 
solder point (if you can juggle the the plug on the pismo-its probably 
that) ebay $60-$80 (don't get the lombard version not compatible) + i 
hour max light technical skills (or $300+ at a certified apple service 
center) another solution is once you have the power board off, you 
should be able to tell if it is repairable with a bit of  solder or 
just burned out . its usually from grabbing/using the laptop while the 
power cable is on, also make sure your yoyo is not shortening out at 
the plug. otherwise personally on my pismo i've replaced it twice. you 
can easily find tear apart instructions google it. as far as the 
battery it might be toasted, try 
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60655 - never used it , 
also there is a battery utility 
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12649  . if you have 
to buy a new battery stay away from bti they sux - won't hold a decent 
charge after a couple of weeks. i heard good things with 
http://www.newertech.com/newer_bats.html. good luck!

rama.
On Sep 17, 2004, at 3:14 AM, Charles Estabrooks wrote:
The yoyo adapter on my Pismo recently broke at the connector to the 
book.  Toward the end I had to wiggle the skinny wire to make contact, 
but instead of the standard icon with the lightening bolt which 
indicates battery charging, OS X shows a battery icon with an 
electrical plug, and the battery never seemed to take a charge. It 
remains always at 0%. I bought a replacement on the Swap list (one of 
the black kind), with no change.  I zapped the PRAM, pressed the reset 
button on the back, and even went through the Open Firmware reset 
procedure, but I get no battery charging.  I even booted into OS9 to 
see if it was an OS thing, but no difference.  Is it possible I burned 
something out using the bad adapter, or is there a way to reset this 
battery charging thing?

Thanks,
Charles
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Re: OSX backup shareware

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there's also backup : part of your mac.com subscription-they might have 
a 60 day free trial still)  http://www.mac.com/1/iTour/tour_backup.html 
 .  then there is carbon copy cloner (ccc)  
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html   little crude  (basically a 
complete disk image with all the invisible/special-privllidge 
system/library files)

rama.
On Sep 7, 2004, at 8:40 PM, Mikael Byström wrote:
I like Tri-Backup.
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Re: OSX and "re-building desktop"?

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hi, alsoft's diskwarrior   http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/seems 
to do that and a whole buch more (especially since there isn't a 
compatible version of norton utilities/systeworks with the current mac 
os x, hmm. how do we optimise the hard drive without speeddisk-any 
suggest? thanks!)

rama.
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The National Enquirer reports at 8:50 AM +1000 9/29/04, MMB wrote:
Hi:
I am a long-time Mac owner and have kept my previous machines happy by
regular desktop re-building. I have been using my Powerbook G4 867 for
three months now and I am concerned. SOme cleaning up and tidying must
be needed but how.
I am not sure that re-building desktop is how I maintain OSX.
Perhaps delving into the pedantic, you *can* actually do the
equivalent in OS X of rebuilding the desktop.
The OS X desktop database is (more or less) automatically
rebuilt/updated whenever you log-in. Some of this information is
cached in ~/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.UserCache.csstore. If you
trash that file, log out and back in, it will force Launch Services
to rebuild much of its knowledge about your installed applications
from scratch.
Also:  to do the equivalent of rebuilding the desktop in OS X, you
need to delete the files: LSApplications, LSClaimedTypes, LSSchemes,
LSApplications_ Backup, LSClaimedTypes_Backup, and .LSSchemes_Backup
(the last 3 are invisible). These files will be rebuilt on restart.
I realize the subject of this thread digressed in a different
direction. But there may come a time when you (the generic "you") may
want to perform these steps to correct a problem that you're having.
Just F.Y.I.
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Re: [OT] Laptop & windoze

[Laurent Daudelin]

On 04/10/04 12:49, "Larry le Mac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm setting up an IBM ThinkPad for my dad and as I never
> use a second hand computer without reinstalling the OS.
> 
> For this 650MHz Pentium III Windoze 2000 is about right,
> but can I reformat the harddrive from the Windoze 2000 CD ?!
> 
> Can I bollox!
> 
> I have to use a Windoze 98 CD to reformat the harddrive,
> then start up from the Windoze 2000 CD to re-reformat the
> drive back, and subsequently install Windoze 2000.
> 
> It's like having to use Mac OS 9 to reformat/reinstall OS X
> on a TiBook...

Larry,

This list is exclusively to discuss all things related to G3 or G4-based
Apple laptops.

As such, I would ask you to not post questions relating to other machines.
There is enough traffic like it is now that we don't need questions about
other OSes.

Further, you would probably get a more educated answer if you were posting
your question to a dedicated Windows email list.

Thank you.

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Re: [OT] Laptop & windoze

[Andrew]

Why not just boot from teh Windows 2000 CD and delete
the 98 partition, then create a new one (NTFS) for
Windows 2000?  No need to boot twice.

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> I'm setting up an IBM ThinkPad for my dad and as I
> never
> use a second hand computer without reinstalling the
> OS.
> 
> For this 650MHz Pentium III Windoze 2000 is about
> right,
> but can I reformat the harddrive from the Windoze
> 2000 CD ?!
> 
> Can I bollox!
> 
> I have to use a Windoze 98 CD to reformat the
> harddrive,
> then start up from the Windoze 2000 CD to
> re-reformat the
> drive back, and subsequently install Windoze 2000.
> 
> It's like having to use Mac OS 9 to
> reformat/reinstall OS X
> on a TiBook...
> 
> :^(
> 
> 
> Glad I'm a Mac-man!  :o)
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> 
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> Larry
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[OT] Laptop & windoze

[Larry le Mac]

I'm setting up an IBM ThinkPad for my dad and as I never
use a second hand computer without reinstalling the OS.
For this 650MHz Pentium III Windoze 2000 is about right,
but can I reformat the harddrive from the Windoze 2000 CD ?!
Can I bollox!
I have to use a Windoze 98 CD to reformat the harddrive,
then start up from the Windoze 2000 CD to re-reformat the
drive back, and subsequently install Windoze 2000.
It's like having to use Mac OS 9 to reformat/reinstall OS X
on a TiBook...
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Re: Maintenance Scripts Are Worth Doing

[Laurent Daudelin]

On 04/10/04 12:30, "Dennis B. Swaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 8:33 PM -0600 10/3/04, Bob wrote:
>> The National Enquirer reports at 2:57 PM -0400 10/3/04, Laurent
>> Daudelin wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> If those scripts were that important, don't you think that Apple would have
>>> put something to run them or accomplish what they do on a regular basis?
>> 
>> Apple did. :-) The scripts will run without any action whatsoever if
>> the machine is on. Why are they scheduled at those weird times? I
>> assume because they were thought to be the best times to find the
>> computer not being used (I seem to recall that the scripts won't run
>> if the computer is being used).
>> 
> 
> Apple really screwed up on implementing the scripts:
> 
> 1. They scheduled them for when the vast majority of people have
> their computers OFF or in sleep mode. A totally asinine decision.
> 
> 2. They could have made the scripts wake up the computer from sleep
> mode, run the scripts and then put the computer back to sleep. No,
> that would be too intelligent.
> 
> 3. They could have set the scripts to run as part of the boot up process.
> 
> All-in-all, it seems to be following the "Microsoft way"; any
> possibility that the programmer involved used to work for M$?

Ermmm, no, I don't think there is any conspiracy here. Those scripts in
other Unix systems have always been scheduled to run at night. It's just
that Apple never bothered to modify the schedule...

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Re: Motorola V400 & iPhoto on my PowerBook G3 via USB with OS X 10.3.5 and iPhoto 4.0.2 Will this Setup Work? Is this not the longest subject line in the history of LEM mailing lists?

[crap mail]

does your phone and laptop (usb dongle) have bluetooth. if so you can 
use10.3.5 bluetooth's utility to access your phone like a storage 
device-allowing you to back up, load pix, text, ringtones, etc. you 
must first set up bluetooth in sys. prefs. and you can add a bluetooth 
menu item on the menubar.

hope this helps,
rama.
On Sep 12, 2004, at 6:56 PM, Dan Palka wrote:
Cingular charges a penny a KB
I don't have money to do that, Ive been taking lots of pictures..
On Sep 12, 2004, at 3:01 PM, victoria duggan wrote:
Hi Dan is your phone gprs enabled ie:can you get a web address on it? 
if so
do what i do with my sharp GX10i! send them in email format, it is a 
lot
easier than connecting up all the time to download the pics, i just 
send
them to my email then save them on the phone.
 when i get home i check the mail if the pic is there i can delete it 
from
the phone and use photo shop to sort the pic out on the lombard.

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Re: Lombard Processor or Processor Upgrade

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why not purchase a g4 processor upgrade card for your lombard from  
http://4daystar.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=78 , they will 
fix your l2 cache for $19 with the processor upgrade. (use VLC for dvd 
playback)

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On Sep 30, 2004, at 3:50 PM, Lynn Kendall wrote:
The cache memory has gone on my Lombard, so I need to (A) replace the
processor card, (B) get an upgrade card that can replace the processor
card, or (C) part it out and hope to find a better laptop for a
reasonable price. (C) is unlikely, since I'm unemployed and don't have
any spare money.
So: clues for sources of reasonably priced 400MHz processors? Or for an
upgrade card? (Assuming one would work.) I've seen the ones that run
$300+, and I just can't afford that.
While the case is cracked, and assuming I can find something I can
afford, I might be able to put in a new hard drive with a larger
capacity than 10GB. Again, any recommendations would be very helpful
indeed.
Thanks, as always, for your wisdom and help.
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Re: Maintenance Scripts Are Worth Doing

[Dennis B. Swaney]

At 8:33 PM -0600 10/3/04, Bob wrote:
The National Enquirer reports at 2:57 PM -0400 10/3/04, Laurent
Daudelin wrote:

If those scripts were that important, don't you think that Apple would have
put something to run them or accomplish what they do on a regular basis?
Apple did. :-) The scripts will run without any action whatsoever if
the machine is on. Why are they scheduled at those weird times? I
assume because they were thought to be the best times to find the
computer not being used (I seem to recall that the scripts won't run
if the computer is being used).
Apple really screwed up on implementing the scripts:
1. They scheduled them for when the vast majority of people have 
their computers OFF or in sleep mode. A totally asinine decision.

2. They could have made the scripts wake up the computer from sleep 
mode, run the scripts and then put the computer back to sleep. No, 
that would be too intelligent.

3. They could have set the scripts to run as part of the boot up process.
All-in-all, it seems to be following the "Microsoft way"; any 
possibility that the programmer involved used to work for M$?
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Re: Maintenance Scripts Are Worth Doing

[Tim Hodgson]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2004 at 11:38 am -0400, BobGir wrote:

>> I have used Macjanitor since OS 10.1. Now I'm on OS 10.3, it takes a
>> fraction of a second to 'complete' all 3 tasks. Does this mean that
>> OS 10.3 does not need these scripts to be run or is Macjanitor not
>> working properly? I have v1.2.1.
>
>Wow!  If you are not exaggerating, I am impressed!!
>
>I have a Dual-USB G3 500MHz iBook.  Last time I ran MacJanitor was about
>10 days ago when I backed up.
>
>I just ran all tasks with a stopwatch.  Took me 1 minute, 47 seconds.
>
>I've never had it take less than a full minute for MacJanitor to
>complete all tasks.
>
>Is everyone else running MacJanitor in under a minute???

I'd guess - and that's all it is :) -  that /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
isn't created unless you (or some program) explicitly do(es) so, and if
it doesn't exist, the 'weekly' script will just skip updating locate.
That's the one that takes the time - I just ran MacJ here and the whole
thing took just under 5m (pismo/500), of which about 4m 20s was updating
locate.

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Re: Maintenance Scripts Are Worth Doing

[Laurent Daudelin]

On 04/10/04 11:38, "BobGir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> I have used Macjanitor since OS 10.1. Now I'm on OS 10.3, it takes a
>> fraction of a second to 'complete' all 3 tasks. Does this mean that
>> OS 10.3 does not need these scripts to be run or is Macjanitor not
>> working properly? I have v1.2.1.
> 
>   Wow!  If you are not exaggerating, I am impressed!!
> 
>   I have a Dual-USB G3 500MHz iBook.  Last time I ran MacJanitor was about
> 10 days ago when I backed up.
> 
>   I just ran all tasks with a stopwatch.  Took me 1 minute, 47 seconds.
> 
>   I've never had it take less than a full minute for MacJanitor to
> complete all tasks.
> 
>   Is everyone else running MacJanitor in under a minute???

I think you have to be careful in trying to time MacJanitor doing his job. I
would imagine one big factor would be when was the last time you ran
MacJanitor (or the maintenance scripts). If you never run them, then the
logs are probably larger than if you have run them the week before.

Just a thought...

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Re: Maintenance Scripts Are Worth Doing

[BobGir]

> I have used Macjanitor since OS 10.1. Now I'm on OS 10.3, it takes a
> fraction of a second to 'complete' all 3 tasks. Does this mean that
> OS 10.3 does not need these scripts to be run or is Macjanitor not
> working properly? I have v1.2.1.

Wow!  If you are not exaggerating, I am impressed!!

I have a Dual-USB G3 500MHz iBook.  Last time I ran MacJanitor was about
10 days ago when I backed up.

I just ran all tasks with a stopwatch.  Took me 1 minute, 47 seconds.

I've never had it take less than a full minute for MacJanitor to
complete all tasks.

Is everyone else running MacJanitor in under a minute???

Ciao,
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Re: SmartMedia reader suggestions

[jimkatz]

I had a similar problem of somehow losing the function of the smartcard
reader with a Lexmark purple plastic-case reader on my Ti-400.  The
solution was a $4 reader/writer that doesn't need a driver and seems to be
perfect for these cards, all formats, several cameras. I'm not near my
camera stuff at the moment, but if interested, I can find the name - I
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Re: Maintenance Scripts Are Worth Doing

[Tim Hodgson]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2004 at 4:41 pm +0200, Marcin Wichary wrote:

>I don't know much about those scripts, but my computer is *never* on 
>during the night, but otherwise remains unused very often. It's quite a 
>strange idea to hardwire the scripts to run at night, instead of just 
>detecting when the computer is not being used for a while.

As Laurent says, I suppose it's an indication that Apple doesn't consider
them too important. Having said that, I've sometimes wondered why they
didn't make something like 'anacron' part of the default system. It's an
addition to (or possibly replacement of?) cron, and allows scripts which
have missed their scheduled time to run automatically when the machine is
next on/awake. Used to work nicely on my old LinuxPPC box.

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Re: Maintenance Scripts Are Worth Doing

[Laurent Daudelin]

On 04/10/04 10:41, "Marcin Wichary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Apple did. :-) The scripts will run without any action whatsoever if
>> the machine is on. Why are they scheduled at those weird times? I
>> assume because they were thought to be the best times to find the
>> computer not being used (I seem to recall that the scripts won't run
>> if the computer is being used).
> 
> I don't know much about those scripts, but my computer is *never* on
> during the night, but otherwise remains unused very often. It's quite a
> strange idea to hardwire the scripts to run at night, instead of just
> detecting when the computer is not being used for a while.
> 
> From another post,
> 
>> If those scripts were that important, don't you think that Apple would
>> have
>> put something to run them or accomplish what they do on a regular
>> basis?
> 
> I'm not sure if repairing permissions is automatic now, but it seemed a
> big problem a year or more ago, and people were advised to run it
> manually.

Those scripts don't repair permissions. They are scripts that have almost
always been part of any Unix system. They do what they would do on other
Unix systems. Repairing permissions is something specific to Mac OS X,
although other Unix systems also work with permissions, the systematic
repair, as in Disk Utility, uses package receipts from all installations
performed. Those installation packages are specific to Mac OS X.

So, these scripts should be run if you can run them manually. As far as I
know, there is no serious impact if you don't run them daily or even weekly.
Maybe it'd be good to run them every other few months. There used for
cleaning some stuff in Mac OS X but they are not as important or essential
that other messages seemed to imply, that's all.

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Re: Maintenance Scripts Are Worth Doing

[Marcin Wichary]

Apple did. :-) The scripts will run without any action whatsoever if
the machine is on. Why are they scheduled at those weird times? I
assume because they were thought to be the best times to find the
computer not being used (I seem to recall that the scripts won't run
if the computer is being used).
I don't know much about those scripts, but my computer is *never* on 
during the night, but otherwise remains unused very often. It's quite a 
strange idea to hardwire the scripts to run at night, instead of just 
detecting when the computer is not being used for a while.

From another post,
If those scripts were that important, don't you think that Apple would 
have
put something to run them or accomplish what they do on a regular 
basis?
I'm not sure if repairing permissions is automatic now, but it seemed a 
big problem a year or more ago, and people were advised to run it 
manually.

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Re: Maintenance Scripts Are Worth Doing

[Laurent Daudelin]

on 04/10/04 04:27, Roger Shufflebottom at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> At 11:42 pm -0600 2/10/04, Bob wrote:
>> This will give you an idea of how long it takes to run the 3
>> maintenance scripts:
>> the daily script --- takes about five seconds
>> the weekly script --- takes about five minutes for 50 GB of data
>> (less if you have a smaller drive)
>> the monthly script  takes about two seconds
>> 
>> That's not too bad is it?
> 
> I have used Macjanitor since OS 10.1. Now I'm on OS 10.3, it takes a
> fraction of a second to 'complete' all 3 tasks. Does this mean that
> OS 10.3 does not need these scripts to be run or is Macjanitor not
> working properly? I have v1.2.1.

I think it's fine. It never took more than a few seconds on my older
PowerBook G3...

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Re: Maintenance Scripts Are Worth Doing

[Roger Shufflebottom]

At 11:42 pm -0600 2/10/04, Bob wrote:
This will give you an idea of how long it takes to run the 3
maintenance scripts:
the daily script --- takes about five seconds
the weekly script --- takes about five minutes for 50 GB of data
(less if you have a smaller drive)
the monthly script  takes about two seconds
That's not too bad is it?
I have used Macjanitor since OS 10.1. Now I'm on OS 10.3, it takes a 
fraction of a second to 'complete' all 3 tasks. Does this mean that 
OS 10.3 does not need these scripts to be run or is Macjanitor not 
working properly? I have v1.2.1.
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