Re: Zoltan's Retirement

[Bryan Taylor]

Before this subject gets into too many people's kill files, I'd like  
to bring it back to my personal differences with something like the  
"macbook pro".


1. There is no modem, so my life in rural New Zealand requires  
purchasing a seperate usb modem. Here's hoping the Apple variety are  
way better than what I've observed in the Windows world.
2. There is no pcmcia slot, if this is the powerbook replacement,  
then the ibook replacement won't have one either, so I have to find a  
usb reader for my original IXUS camera's CF card.
3. The price is the same as a 15" Powerbook here ($3800 - ish), so  
the difference is speed, not price with Intel.


or, I can stay with my 667MHz 15" powerbook and not fret about all  
the worn paint, and when OS 10.5 doesn't support PowerPC, then I'll  
install Net/OpenBSD/*linux...


bryan



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[Bryan Taylor]

Hi,

Dan's article about his 400MHz tibook is a parallel to my 667MHz VGA  
model. Including worn paint, marked screen from the keyboard and  
although I agree with desiring something better than 1152x768  
resolution, I wonder how many of us could cope with high resolution  
on small screens as we advance in age? I keep looking at  a new 12"  
powerbook, but keep fretting about whether my eyesight would cope  
with font sizes beyond comfortable continuous use. If the new intel  
ibooks are rumoured to go to higher resolution smaller screens, us  
baby boomers may be left behind.


Roll on tomorrows keynote..

Bryan

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trackpad and 10.4.3

[Bryan Taylor]

Just updated my 667MHz 15" tibook to .3, now if I have "ignore  
trackpad when mouse is connected" in system preferences, and I unplug  
my mouse, the pointer freezes. This was always a recognised action  
prior to .3


Additionally I seem to have problems with Software Updates when I  
want to install & keep package, I get an install failure. If I do a  
straight install, its fine. Any suggestions?


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Re: Safari & Mail: network connection problems

[Bryan Taylor]

Hi,

Sounds very much like a proxy server using Windows NTLM auth. I  
suggest you find a copy of the python proxy on the net ( called  
aps098 ) and configure it to suit. This is what I use to navigate out  
of my windows-centric company. Firefox & IE probably use their own  
proxy settings whereas Safari uses the System Preferences


I haven't resolved the pop email question, I use webmail from my ISP  
to read my personal email if I have to.  I figure you'd need to  
configure Entourage and have your mail admin allow smtp from your Mac  
to have mail in & out working (and that's a bad thing from network  
admins security point of view)


HTH
Bryan

On 23/08/2005, at 6:29 AM, Toga wrote:


Hello to all from Jakarta,

I've been reading this list for a few month now, and would like to  
ask your

help for the following.

I have the only Mac (iBook G4, 1.33 Ghz, 768 RAM, OSX 10.3.9) recently
admitted to my workplace's Windows network, only for internet  
access. On
inserting the ethernet cable, Network status shows that I am  
connected to
the internet. But when I start up Safari (1.3) I get no connection  
(even

though configured for the webproxy server settings my admin gave me).
Whereas Internet Explorer and Firefox do connect.

I also would like to access my pop.account with a local ISP, but I  
have no
success with Mail (1.3.11), nor with Thunderbird (1.0.6) or with  
Entourage

2004.

All programs function well when connecting via ISP dial-up.

I would like to keep using Safari and Mail from my office network.  
Is there

something I should do on my system, or is there anything I can tell my
network administrator who has no experience wth Macs?

Gratefull for your assistance

Toga




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was: cheap tibooks, now: int'l tibook prices

[Bryan Taylor]

>The original rev A TiBooks are going for less than $1000 on eBay. I've 
>had good eBay experiences, except for when I accidentally sent 
>something third class and the guy went nuts waiting for it to arrive.
>
>Russell Holt

less than US$1000 ? Golly, here in New Zealand, a local reseller is 
trying for $3000 + tax (12.5%), for a 128Mb/10Gb 400MHz TiBook. Even with 
the $NZ only being 55c of the $US, this is 3x the US price! A 550MHz is 
$4000 + tax...Perhaps I should become an importer.
Now that the 12" G4 is 'only' $4300, I'm hoping the pre-loved model 15" 
price will plummet, my belief is I need the 15" for visibility (old age 
gets us all) and the pcmcia slot for my compact flash card. Whats the 
G-book list's opinion on the comparison between these, especially as a 
sole laptop/desktop? 

regards
Bryan

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vuescan & wallstreet powerbook

[bryan taylor]

Does anybody have an idea what I can use to drive a SCSI / parallel port 
converted scanjet plus from my wallstreet powerbook under OS X or 9.1? 
I've just downloaded Vuescan and its failed miserably. I have got 
original software that drives this scanner on my LC with OS 7.1 but I 
don't believe its even worth copying the floppies onto my powerbook.

regards
bryan


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Re: 10.1.3 broken on Wallstreet 'book

[Bryan Taylor]

No, its a standard 233MHz with 512kcache.

Is it worth going through the entire reinitialize/reinstall starting with
10.0.3, 10.1 update, security, installer, and then 10.1.3? Somebody must
have upgraded to this version with a WSII, right?

Cheers
Bryan

> Did you upgrade the PB with a PowerLogix CPU BlueChip?
> 
> Byron
>> 
>> I have a 1998-09 Wallstreet powerbook with 288Mb RAM & a 12Gb Toshiba drive,
>> I've just updated from 10.1 to 10.1.3. From the time it rebooted from the
>> update it hangs at the smiling Mac, there's no cursor or spinning disc.
>> I've booted off the 10.1 update CD and run disk first aid repair and this has
>> not fixed it. It will boot into 9.1 on the 2nd partition successfully. It was
>> running 10.0.3 & then 10.1 really well, so I'm ruling out the non-Apple RAM.
>> The partition is set to 7.99Gb so thats not the issue. I installed the
>> security 
>> update and Installer update and rebooted between each of these to confirm
>> success before applying the 10.1.3 Combo update.
>> Cmd-S doesn't drop into single user where I'd hope to get real information,
>> but 
>> then if its still at the smiling mac then I guess it hasn't even queried the
>> disk for an OS...
>> 
>> any help would be greatly appreciated before I fall back to my restores...
>> 
>> regards
>> bryan


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10.1.3 broken on Wallstreet 'book

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I have a 1998-09 Wallstreet powerbook with 288Mb RAM & a 12Gb Toshiba drive, 
I've just updated from 10.1 to 10.1.3. From the time it rebooted from the 
update it hangs at the smiling Mac, there's no cursor or spinning disc. 
I've booted off the 10.1 update CD and run disk first aid repair and this has 
not fixed it. It will boot into 9.1 on the 2nd partition successfully. It was 
running 10.0.3 & then 10.1 really well, so I'm ruling out the non-Apple RAM. 
The partition is set to 7.99Gb so thats not the issue. I installed the security 
update and Installer update and rebooted between each of these to confirm 
success before applying the 10.1.3 Combo update. 
Cmd-S doesn't drop into single user where I'd hope to get real information, but 
then if its still at the smiling mac then I guess it hasn't even queried the 
disk for an OS...

any help would be greatly appreciated before I fall back to my restores...

regards
bryan

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Re: password security control panel

[bryan . taylor]

Perhaps I should confess, I just copied my old disk to my new one, I 
didn't really re-install. Is password security really not OS 9 
compatible? Do I have to reinitialize my disk to get rid of it? I want to 
use multiple users now rather than password
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password security control panel

[Bryan Taylor]

Hi,

I'm running 9.0.4 on my wallstreet II, I put in a Hitachi 12Gb several 
weeks ago and turned on password security (as you do). Now that the 
family PeeCee has died, my children need access to my powerbook, but 
the options such as off/on and setup in the control panel are greyed 
out. What blatantly straight-forward thing am I missing?

cheers
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Re: I think I broke it

[Bryan Taylor]

I can highly recommend people having IBM travelstar installation 
issues, going to: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/PB_G3/wallstreet_hard_dri
ve/index.html

Its an excellent site, and consequently I believe that by applying 
some electrical tape and foil over the rear of the IDE case that I've 
booted successfully 3x today. This isn't quite what the site 
recommends but its working for me (I reserve the right to complain 
when it stops tomorrow!)

I figured that the drive was at fault after booting off the old 
2Gb successfully. For a while there I thought that my power management 
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I think I broke it

[Bryan Taylor]

Thanks Robert, I should have been more clear. No, power manager 
resetting doesn't always enable the restart. Now I suspect the switch 
itself since I connected an external keyboard and powered on 
successfully 4x...

Bryan


Just to clarify, you can start-up if you reset the powermanager? But 
not
otherwise?

I had this problem, and I needed a new power management chip. It was 
under
warantee, so I don't know how much it was.

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I think I broke it

[bryan . taylor]

Last night I installed a IBM 20Gb drive into my Wallstreet II.
Initialized the drive from CD and copied my old drive data back from my
backup SCSI drive. Rebooted it fine, downloaded my mail etc. Powered
off, powered on and it wouldn't (power on), instead of the click
followed by the chime, I get a rapid series of clicks and nothing.
Dismantled and made sure nothing was obviously broken, reasssembled and
still nothing.

Then I tried the key combo with the power button which resets the power
manager (I think?) The power light blinks and the drive sounds like it
spins a few revolutions. Kept this up (ordinary power up afterwards) and
got the machine to power up. Used Tech tool to zap the pram and rebuilt
the desktop (for no good reason).

Powered off/on, same problem. Basically I can get a successful boot
about 1 in 20 times, doesn't seem to matter whether the AC adapter is in
or out. Has anybody had problems with installing a new drive and power
management? I'm going to put the old 2Gb back to see if the problem goes
away.

cheers
Bryan

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