Re: Pismo PowerBook display failing
Francesco sciacca wrote: I've found the information you have provided (quoted below) invaluable. My problem is the light bulb replacement for a Lombard and I take it the disassembling guides you point to will still be valid (with minor differences). I wonder though about the specific bulb. I know the Lombard and Pismo displays are not interchangable, but I well suppose the bulb at least should be the same part. But I'd like to get a definitive word on that from some knowledge source. Sorry, I can't give detailed information. There are two display panels used in both the Lombard and Pismo (661-2217 LG and 922-3808 Samsung), each of which has its own specific cable (which was why I couldn't put a bright display panel from a Lombard into my Pismo); the light bulbs may also be different. -- 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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Utilities
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Utilities Date: July 30, 2005 3:28:00 PM MDT To: G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com Howard Katz wrote: I'd like to get some disk utilities--I've previously owned TechTools and was going to get the OSX version, and then saw an ad for DiskWarrior. ... And while we're at it, what are some of your favorite add-ons and widgets? After 2-1/2 years on OS X (and providing support thereon to numerous clients), the only repair utility I've found useful is DiskWarrior. Norton Utilities were never properly upgraded for OS X, and I've seen too many problem reports with TechTool (I read MacInTouch every day) to trust it. DiskWarrior, on the other hand, once it was properly updated to work with OS X, continues to provide both routine directory maintenance and occasional miraculous cures. Note: DO NOT USE the TechTool Deluxe that comes with AppleCare on any Tiger Mac; it can and probably will trash your HD. TTD has not been updated in years, and has never been of much use anyway; it's criminal that Apple is still bundling it with AppleCare. See http://macintouch.com/support08.html#jul28. I'm a big fan of Macaroni http://atomicbird.com/, which automates Repair Permissions and the three cron routines so the user doesn't have to remember to do them. Out of the box it repairs permissions once a week, and does the daily, weekly and monthly 3 am cron routines whenever the computer is on. You can also configure it to do any other Unix-based maintenance automatically. Until Apple buys Macaroni and includes it in OS X, I buy licenses by the dozen, and install it on every Mac I set up. OnyX (not OnXy) http://www.titanium.free.fr/english.html is an excellent utility for doing all sorts of chores and interface adjustments, similar to Cocktail and others, but free. (I've been having trouble downloading the Tiger version, though; the dmg won't mount.) A similar utility which you can run from the menubar is MainMenu; it's free but I sent a contribution 'cause it's so well done. Some other utilities add-ons I like: AppleJack, RCDefaultApp, PDF Broser Plugin (Tiger Safari can display PDFs, but this plugin -- free for personal use -- still has more features), ClearDock, iSnip, Easy Find, WeatherPop, URLWell, FruitMenu (I didn't switch to OS X until I could have a configurable Apple menu), Little Snitch, Safari Aquafier, and uControl (which I use to allow trackpad scrolling; it doesn't work in 10.4, so I'll have to look into SideTrack, iScroll2 -- which doesn't work with my trackpad -- or perhaps the newly released Free Focused Scroll). I also recently discoverd AcidSearch and Sogudi, which allow me to customize the Safari web search function. All can be found at MacUpdate or Version Tracker. Andrew Main -- 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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Pismo Temperature Sensor
Dylan McDermond wrote: Does the Pismo truly not have a temperature sensor? I find that a little hard to believe, but my wife's Pismo 400 running 10.4.2 says that it doesn't when I try running Temperature Monitor 2.5 and ThermoInDock 0.9. Is this something that Tiger has broken? Will this keep the fan from kicking on if it heats up too much? The Pismo does have a temperature sensor, but something was changed in one of the 10.3.x updates that made it impossible for Temperature Monitor and other utilities to read from it. The fan will go on when it overheats. I find mine overheats (both when it was a 500MHz G3 and now as a 550MHz G4) when (a) there is intense disk activity, such as copying multi-GBs or installing System software (which is annoying, but nothing I can do about the latter so I just leave the room); and (b) when certain apps hog the CPU. When the fan starts screaming during normal use, I open Activity Monitor to see which is the culprit; usually it's Safari suddenly using 70-90% of the CPU; I look through the pages I have open and close any that look suspicious (one that consistently causes this problem is the International Herald Tribune http://www.iht.com) until Safari retires back to its customary 10-20%, then after a while the fan will shut up. Another CPU hog is Canon's CanoScan utility; some kind of sloppy coding, I guess. -- 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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Completely Naive Video RAM Question (Pismo)
I recnetly got a great deal on a 400 MHz Pismo with a bad battery and as it turns out a bad HD. I've upgraded to a Hitachi 40 GB HD and added an Airport Card and couldn't be happier with this Mac, except for the 8 MB Video limit. Seems that back in the day of the the Performa Macs I read that the RAM you got was partially used for video - so you really didn't have 32 MB (or whatever) available for (non-video) memory. Fast forward to today ... My Pismo has 576 MB RAM, is there a compelling reason that a clever person couldn't figure out a way to use some of that for video? Like I said in the subject Naive. I await the flames ... ;-) Barry -- 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:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com 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/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
