Re: How to control fan on Wallstreet in OS X ?
Nils said: Maybe the fan is OS controlled, and OS X lacks the ability to do it. ? Since I got my WS, I've been running OS X. So I'm not sure if the fan does come on when running MacOS 8 or 9. What version of OS X? Under Jaguar at least the fan did come on. I think also with XPF and Panther (which I found to be working better on my WS II/PDQ). Have you tried a total reset with PMU reset, Open Firmware reset and removing backup battery? That solved some really difficult problems I had with my old machine (sold it this summer). -- 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: Wall Street and external DVD drive?
Gary Goldberg said: But is the Wall Street fast enough to play a DVD disk? I think not, due to the very slow graphics and limited VRAM. Possibly on the internal display perhaps. You don't say under what OS? -- 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: How to control fan on Wallstreet in OS X ?
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:22:51AM +0200 or thereabouts, Mikael Bystr?m wrote: What version of OS X? Under Jaguar at least the fan did come on. I think also with XPF and Panther (which I found to be working better on my WS II/PDQ). Currently running 10.3.4 installed with XPF 3.0a17. Have you tried a total reset with PMU reset, Open Firmware reset and removing backup battery? That solved some really difficult problems I had with my old machine (sold it this summer). Reset the PMU, yes. I haven't attempted to remove the PRAM battery. Looking at the instructions on PBFixit.com, removing the PRAM battery appers to involve alot of work. I may have time to do it in a day or so. I will attempt to reset the OF on the machine shortly. Thanks for the suggestions. -nils -- 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: Wall Street and external DVD drive?
If it's a G4/500 machine, it should be fast enough to do the decoding in software, probably under both 9 and X. I'm not sure about the mechanics of whether it will work on external displays or internal only, but it should at least work. The USB 1.1 is potentially a worry though -- 2.0 would be a safer bet. Cheers, Ben On 30 Oct 2004, at 08:25, Mikael Byström wrote: Gary Goldberg said: But is the Wall Street fast enough to play a DVD disk? I think not, due to the very slow graphics and limited VRAM. Possibly on the internal display perhaps. You don't say under what OS? -- 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 ---
Disk maintenance tool ? gb
I have heard a few things about Norton on OS X and have avoided it, but I have just finshed sorting all my music, films, software and data on a number of 120GB disks and I'd like to run some sort f disk doctor / file check and then defragment them. What is the best tool ? Larry _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.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: Disk maintenance tool ? gb
on 30/10/04 06:17, Larry le Mac at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard a few things about Norton on OS X and have avoided it, but I have just finshed sorting all my music, films, software and data on a number of 120GB disks and I'd like to run some sort f disk doctor / file check and then defragment them. What is the best tool ? I've heard people speaking highly of DiskWarrior, but never tried it myself... -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cargo cult programming n.: A style of (incompetent) programming dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose. A cargo cult programmer will usually explain the extra code as a way of working around some bug encountered in the past, but usually neither the bug nor the reason the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood (compare shotgun debugging, voodoo programming). -- 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: Wall Street and external DVD drive?
Ben Dyer said: If it's a G4/500 machine, it should be fast enough to do the decoding in software, probably under both 9 and X. Doesn't the native DVDplayer need hardware decoding, or was that just earlier versions? I can only say that a 400 Titanium is not enough to really really cut it if I use software only decoding applications like VLC. Also, I don't see how a data stream over USB 1.1 is enough. Any glitch there must affect the quality of playing. But the idea must be worth a try I suppose. I'm really disappointed how bad some apps with a 400Mhz G4. Many wellprogrammed apps do work fine. Of course 500Mhz is 25% faster, but the graphics in the TiBook is much improved. at lease compared to the original WS. Talking about performance, have any of you read the articles that explain why some apps, like Logic, is faster on Ti 500Mhz G4 (and may even be with a 400) than a Ti 550Mhz and even 667Mhz machine? Something to do with Memory Bandwidth in the processor I think. The 550 introduced the PowerPC 7440 as opposed to the earlier PowerPC 7410. If the results differ in OS X I don't know, but it seems likely. http:// www.xlr8yourmac.com/archives/dec01/121401.html -- 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: How to control fan on Wallstreet in OS X ?
Nils said: Sadly, since there aren't any temperature reporting programs for OS X, Ehum: Temperature Monitor is an application to read out all available temperature sensors in Macintosh computers.. We try to detect all sensors on as many Macintosh computer types as possible. However, a prediction which sensors are available in which models is not possible, because Apple very often releases silent product updates, where the hardware equipments of some models are changed but the names are not (specifications aresubject to change without notice). The particular graphics card and hard disk configuration used is also important because these parts can include independent sensors, too. http://www.bresink.de/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html -- 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: Disk maintenance tool ? gb
From: Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've heard people speaking highly of DiskWarrior, but never tried it myself... Does DiskWarrior defragment disks ??? Larry _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.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: Replacement DVD Drive for Pismo
I know I could buy her a new DVD drive for the Pismo, either s/hand via eBay or even (at considerable expense...) new. But this is an old machine, and I'm not sure I want to spend too much money keeping it fettled. The other possibility that's occurred to me is to buy an external firewire optical drive. I believe LaCie do one (several?). Has anyone got any experience of running an external firewire DVD drive on an older PB? - Pismo or Lombard via a firewire port in a card? Tom Burke First off you may be able to fix your DVD drive. If the laser reader gets dust on it the drive will run as yours does but won't be able to read the data on the disk. You can try either a CD lens cleaner disk or one of those small cans of compressed air sold for camera lens etc. This has fixed many drives thought dead. I have a Pioneer DVD RW 105(A05) drive which I put in a Firewire case. ADS Pyro brand never had any problem with this combo. It is seen as an Apple Super drive by both my desktop and Pismo machines. With Jaguar I needed some hacks for everything to work. Panther everything works with no hacks on my Apple desktop. Even iDVD and DVD player work fine. best of luck. Will S Check the system profiler and see if it is an LG drive...I had one in this Pismo and one day back in July, it suddenly stopped mounting DVD's but did mount CD's...Called A/C and they tried firmware update etc...no joy there so a kind tech sent me a replacement..also an LG..Now, after playing only about 12 DVD's since mid July, this one is doing the exact same thing...It whirrs and stops ..What a POS!!! I do have an external LaCie burner (Pioneer 106-D) that works great but I need the internal for the Pismo. I will try the air can and see if that works...If I do have to get another drive, Iunderstand that the Matsushita's are much better..However I am leery of trying to tear the case apart to put a new drive inside of the current carrier...If you have any success, please let us know...I will do likewise... Regards, Mike K -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Pismo DVD Drive
I know I could buy her a new DVD drive for the Pismo, either s/hand via eBay or even (at considerable expense...) new. But this is an old machine, and I'm not sure I want to spend too much money keeping it fettled. The other possibility that's occurred to me is to buy an external firewire optical drive. I believe LaCie do one (several?). Has anyone got any experience of running an external firewire DVD drive on an older PB? - Pismo or Lombard via a firewire port in a card? Tom Burke First off you may be able to fix your DVD drive. If the laser reader gets dust on it the drive will run as yours does but won't be able to read the data on the disk. You can try either a CD lens cleaner disk or one of those small cans of compressed air sold for camera lens etc. This has fixed many drives thought dead. I have a Pioneer DVD RW 105(A05) drive which I put in a Firewire case. ADS Pyro brand never had any problem with this combo. It is seen as an Apple Super drive by both my desktop and Pismo machines. With Jaguar I needed some hacks for everything to work. Panther everything works with no hacks on my Apple desktop. Even iDVD and DVD player work fine. best of luck. Will S Check the system profiler and see if it is an LG drive...I had one in this Pismo and one day back in July, it suddenly stopped mounting DVD's but did mount CD's...Called A/C and they tried firmware update etc...no joy there so a kind tech sent me a replacement..also an LG..Now, after playing only about 12 DVD's since mid July, this one is doing the exact same thing...It whirrs and stops ..What a POS!!! I do have an external LaCie burner (Pioneer 106-D) that works great but I need the internal for the Pismo. I will try the air can and see if that works...If I do have to get another drive, Iunderstand that the Matsushita's are much better..However I am leery of trying to tear the case apart to put a new drive inside of the current carrier...If you have any success, please let us know...I will do likewise... Regards, Mike K -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wall Street and external DVD drive?
From: Ben Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Wall Street and external DVD drive? Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:50:50 +1000 If it's a G4/500 machine, it should be fast enough to do the decoding=20 in software, probably under both 9 and X. I'm not sure about the=20 mechanics of whether it will work on external displays or internal=20 only, but it should at least work. The USB 1.1 is potentially a worry=20 though -- 2.0 would be a safer bet. On 30 Oct 2004, at 08:25, Mikael Bystr=F6m wrote: Gary Goldberg said: But is the Wall Street fast enough to play a DVD disk? I think not, due to the very slow graphics and limited VRAM. Possibly=20= on the internal display perhaps. You don't say under what OS? Three posts from PBParts.com say I won't likely be able to do it: The Wallstreet was not originally equipped to run software DVD Decoders and it required a hardware cardbus decoder card to function properly. I have also never seen a USB 1.1 External DVD player that works well. Your only choice to Play a DVD will be VLC on OS X. Anyway, as the Video card is not supported, I don't know if it'll work. Apple DVD Player (OS 8.6 and OS 9) needs an internal DVD Drive to work. Also, DVD Player (OS X) doesn't support your machine, thanks to Apple. I'm running OS 8.6 on my Lombard because OS X don't have DVD Playback on this machine too. A few messages ago, someone said the there was a Combo (CD-R DVD) for the Wallstreet series, but it was discontinued. -- 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: Wall Street and external DVD drive?
My understanding is that OS X supports software DVD decoding on any machine fast enough to do it, but does not support the hardware decoders that were shipped with some Wallstreets. Thus, if the processor has been upgraded in this machine, I do not see why it shouldn't work. Even if he has to use VLC, a G4/500 should be able to decode DVD video in software. Cheers, Ben On 31 Oct 2004, at 00:31, Gary Goldberg wrote: From: Ben Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Wall Street and external DVD drive? Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:50:50 +1000 If it's a G4/500 machine, it should be fast enough to do the decoding=20 in software, probably under both 9 and X. I'm not sure about the=20 mechanics of whether it will work on external displays or internal=20 only, but it should at least work. The USB 1.1 is potentially a worry=20 though -- 2.0 would be a safer bet. On 30 Oct 2004, at 08:25, Mikael Bystr=F6m wrote: Gary Goldberg said: But is the Wall Street fast enough to play a DVD disk? I think not, due to the very slow graphics and limited VRAM. Possibly=20= on the internal display perhaps. You don't say under what OS? Three posts from PBParts.com say I won't likely be able to do it: The Wallstreet was not originally equipped to run software DVD Decoders and it required a hardware cardbus decoder card to function properly. I have also never seen a USB 1.1 External DVD player that works well. Your only choice to Play a DVD will be VLC on OS X. Anyway, as the Video card is not supported, I don't know if it'll work. Apple DVD Player (OS 8.6 and OS 9) needs an internal DVD Drive to work. Also, DVD Player (OS X) doesn't support your machine, thanks to Apple. I'm running OS 8.6 on my Lombard because OS X don't have DVD Playback on this machine too. A few messages ago, someone said the there was a Combo (CD-R DVD) for the Wallstreet series, but it was discontinued. -- 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: Disk maintenence tools
On 30 okt 2004, at 14:42, G-Books wrote: From: Larry le Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disk maintenance tool ? gb Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:46:31 +0200 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've heard people speaking highly of DiskWarrior, but never tried it myself... Does DiskWarrior defragment disks ??? Larry Read here what DW does and how. It is acclaimed to be the best for a Mac. http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/ Andre. -- 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: How to control fan on Wallstreet in OS X ?
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 01:39:01PM +0200 or thereabouts, Mikael Bystr?m wrote: Nils said: Sadly, since there aren't any temperature reporting programs for OS X, Ehum: Temperature Monitor is an application to read out all available temperature sensors in Macintosh computers.. We try to detect all sensors on as many Macintosh computer types as possible. However, a prediction which sensors are available in which models is not possible, because Apple very often releases silent product updates, where the hardware equipments of some models are changed but the names are not (specifications aresubject to change without notice). The particular graphics card and hard disk configuration used is also important because these parts can include independent sensors, too. http://www.bresink.de/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html Maybe I worded that poorly. Even tho in context I believe it was easy to understand what I was saying. I should have made that statement more specific. Maybe it should have said.. Sadly, since there are no temperature reporting programs which support the thermal sensors in the Wallstreet I laptop for OS X... Anne Judge was kind enough to suggest Temperature Monitor, which I tried and found that it does not currently support the sensors built into the Wallstreet I. Or atleast, my version of the WS I. Now, theoretically, one of the developers for Temperature Monitor could figure out how the sensors in the WS I work and equip the application to support reading from them. But at this point, it does not. In reality, I could help move the development along by purchasing a registration key. As it states on their site.. ...the development of Temperature Monitor and Hardware Monitor is very costly because the necessary data has to be determined by reverse engineering and tests run on a variety of computer models. Please support the development of the applications by purchasing a registration key... I wouldn't have a problem doing that, if the product already supported my hardware to some degree and additional development was being persued. -nils -- 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: Disk maintenence tools
invicta said: It is acclaimed to be the best for a Mac. For what it does, yes, it is the best IMHO. It doesn't exactly match the feature set of Techtool though. -- 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: How to control fan on Wallstreet in OS X ?
Nils said: I wouldn't have a problem doing that, if the product already supported my hardware to some degree and additional development was being persued. Talk to the developer. I have on going relationships with many. It can be very rewarding. Anyway, Temp readings in the WS are also dependent on the CPU daughter card. So if the CPU supports internal temp reading, then it will be accessible for many apps like TM. For example the BlueChip CPU cards from Powerlogix give believable readings. So what ever the sensors in the original CPU cards of the WS's are, those are different somehow from other cards. maybe someone else can tell what the differences are? Regarding the heat problems, I'm surprised no-one mentioned cooling paste. When I had heat problems with a BlueChip G3 card in the WS II, applying the correct amount of cooling paste and adding a custom made *copper* plate on top of the CPU (I measured the exact thickness) and under the heatsink, decreased the temperature from excessive temps around 90°C to only 59°C. At 93°C somewhere, the machine froze, so it made all the difference. Unfortunately I then also learnt that none of the BlueChip CPUs could be re-flashed for another model of WS (Basically WS vs WS II/PDQ) so graphics was black. I'm sure you can do something also in your situation for improving heat dissipation. Please note that my fan did run and it didn't help half as good for dissipation than a copper plate and cooling paste. -- 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: Disk maintenence tools
From: Mikael Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] For what it does, yes, it is the best IMHO. It doesn't exactly match the feature set of Techtool though. It seems to focus on recovery more that preventive. Does TTP do defrag ? I take it Norton isn't good... Larry _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.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: Safari question
.. Original Message ... On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:34:38 +0100 Miche Doherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tried Opera or Mozilla in OS X (oh, and I just remembered there's another browser called Internet Explorer - I'd forgotten it existed) so I can't comment on those. I am a bit late here, but wanted to say that those ads are likely Flash and can be disabled with two keystrokes in Opera (press F12 and then check/uncheck disable plugins). Also Omniweb has preferences that will let you disable Flash, etc for specific sites while enabling it for others. Both are well worth the money. Opera has an ad version tghat you can use Google ads, and I think Omniweb has a 30 day demo. -- 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: Disk maintenence tools
on 30/10/04 13:22, Larry le Mac at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mikael Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] For what it does, yes, it is the best IMHO. It doesn't exactly match the feature set of Techtool though. It seems to focus on recovery more that preventive. Does TTP do defrag ? I take it Norton isn't good... You want to stay away from anything that has the name Symantec on it or near it. I've only heard horror stories about Norton, not only on the net, but from co-workers who had the bad idea to install it... -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] firebottle n.obs.: A large, primitive, power-hungry active electrical device, similar in function to a FET but constructed out of glass, metal, and vacuum. Characterized by high cost, low density, low reliability, high-temperature operation, and high power dissipation. Sometimes mistakenly called a `tube' in the U.S. or a `valve' in England; another hackish term is glassfet. -- 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: Disk maintenence tools - Drive 10/X ?
What about Drive 10/X ? Larry _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.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: Disk maintenence tools
On Oct 30, 2004, at 2:58 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 30/10/04 13:22, Larry le Mac at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mikael Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] For what it does, yes, it is the best IMHO. It doesn't exactly match the feature set of Techtool though. It seems to focus on recovery more that preventive. DiskWarrior is a life saver and fixes and rebuilds your fragmented directory (which happens in time with normal use on all computers)... a unique solution and supremely effective. The latest version, 3.02 is the only one that works with OS 10.3.5. The previous versions came with a separate disk defragger... unfortunately they no longer make it available on the DW CD. If it still exists, you would have to buy it separately. Techtool is a way to go. But whatever else you have for disk maintenance/recovery, you should invest in DW because no other utility does the type of fix it does. It has recovered a zonked drive many times for me... I love it. PS- I'm not affiliated with Alsoft, the maker of DiskWarrior. dan_A -- 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: Replacement DVD Drive for Pismo
on 30/10/2004 14:42, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I could buy her a new DVD drive for the Pismo, either s/hand via eBay or even (at considerable expense...) new. But this is an old machine, and I'm not sure I want to spend too much money keeping it fettled. The other possibility that's occurred to me is to buy an external firewire optical drive. I believe LaCie do one (several?). Has anyone got any experience of running an external firewire DVD drive on an older PB? - Pismo or Lombard via a firewire port in a card? Tom Burke Just get an internal Combo or Superdrive and swap it for the defective DVD. Lots of different brands and models work, just check xlr8yourmac under the Drive Database and Pismo. I've personally used Sony, Samsung, Matshita and LG combos, as well as Panasonic and LG Superdrives, in my Pismo. They all worked. Combos tend to cost $50-60 on ebay or online stores, and Superdrives have fallen to the $120-140 range. You can even use the slot-loading drives from G4 powerbooks. You might be able to find a Combo from somebody who upgraded to a Superdrive. Good luck. 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: How to control fan on Wallstreet in OS X ?
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 06:46:06PM +0200 or thereabouts, Mikael Bystr?m wrote: Talk to the developer. I have on going relationships with many. It can be very rewarding. Great suggestion. I'll be inquiring. Anyway, Temp readings in the WS are also dependent on the CPU daughter card. So if the CPU supports internal temp reading, then it will be accessible for many apps like TM. For example the BlueChip CPU cards from Powerlogix give believable readings. So what ever the sensors in the original CPU cards of the WS's are, those are different somehow from other cards. maybe someone else can tell what the differences are? Great points. Hopefully someone can provide useful information regarding this. I've yet to move forward to get a faster cpu for the WS. Now that the laptop has lots of ram, replacing the 6.4GB with a 40GB drive is the next upgrade. Regarding the heat problems, I'm surprised no-one mentioned cooling paste. When I had heat problems with a BlueChip G3 card in the WS II, applying the correct amount of cooling paste and adding a custom made *copper* plate on top of the CPU (I measured the exact thickness) and under the heatsink, decreased the temperature from excessive temps around 90?C to only 59?C. At 93?C somewhere, the machine froze, so it made all the difference. I had read on some obscure site about a fellow who made a custom aluminum heatsink for his WS. I thought about doing this in mine. That was right when I got the machine and had read about it making lots of heat. But after using it for a while, I found it to be quite acceptable. Before I go that route, I want to know exactly whats up with the fan not coming on. Once I've that figured out, then adding additional cooling can be investigated. I'm sure you can do something also in your situation for improving heat dissipation. Please note that my fan did run and it didn't help half as good for dissipation than a copper plate and cooling paste. What OS were you running when the fan was coming on? Thank you for your helpful comments and suggestions. -nils -- 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 ---
