I-book digest

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I have a friend with a snow i-book. He is in envy of this wonderful list.
Does anyone know of a similar list for ibooks?

Thanks

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Re: Low End Mac's Financial Crisis

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You provide an excellent service. Very happy to pay for the list, but how?
Also, how do I find the paypal link to make contributions?

Thanks

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Beyond wallstreet

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Hi all, 

Call me a sell out but am thinking about selling my trusty Wallstreet and
moving up to a newer model. I really want something lighter, which runs OSX
more comfortably. I don't have the cash to go crazy. I have a friend with a
white "snow" powerbok/ibook (?) which is about half the weight of the old
Wallstreet. Any suggestions on models to look for, models to avoid?

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> Re: Ebay: some more news

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Is there some way to forward details of a suspect auction to eBay officials?
I have tried looking repeatedly. I have tried sending an email to their
fraud investigators. As far as I can see it, the truth is they do not want
to know. If they do want to know, they should set up a very simple way of
forwarding the auction number of a suspect auction to their fraud office.

Chris

> 
> You say you're pissed at eBay and they should do something. Well, they can't
> do anything unless you tell them there's a problem. How are they supposed to
> read through the millions of emails sent each week to find the small
> percentage that might be scams? I have a hard enough time keeping up with
> the few hundred I get each week.
> 
> This is why they include the disclaimer at the end of each and every message
> (including the one you posted in your follow-up to this message). Here it is
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Ebay powerbooks

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I have bought several powerbooks on ebay from here in the UK. There is a big
scam (certainly with ebay in the UK ) where people list big ticket items
including PowerBooks, and then offer to sell them outside the auction with
lines in the advert like "contact me to buy this". Many of these seem to
have a lot of positive feedback, but I have discovered they have either
stolen someone else's ID (and you can identify this because you will find
not much recent feedback), or they build up a feedback profile  by buying
many cheap items. 
The giveaway sign seem to be no pictures of the actual powerbook - just
pictures from the brochure.
I would recommend:
1. contacting the seller and asking for a serial number and recent photos of
the item
2. asking if they are prepared to use escrow (even if you don't plan to use
it), I have found the fraudsters always find some reason why they cannot
accept escrow.
3. suggest you will pay in cash and collect the item (again even if you
don't intend to, this will flush out the fraudsters who will immediately say
it is not possible. You can do this even if the item is overseas by saying
something like "I will be in your country on a business trip next week could
I drop by and collect it...")

I contacted ebay fraud office and told them about these scams but they have
done nothing. Best of luck.

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Infrared printing wallstreet

[Christopher Hack]

Just bought a portable HP DeskJet 340 printer hoping to persuade it to be
friends with my wallstreet. In the absence of a parallel printer socket on
the wallstreet, I tried the infrared port (the DeskJet was supplied with a
neat "infrared adapter" that plugs into the centronix port.
In OS9, and following HP instructions, I can at least get the infrared port
of the mac to see the printer, then using AppleTalk by infrared  it got very
close to printing. But on OSX I could find no way to configure AppleTalk to
connect over infrared in the network control panel, and there was no way in
the "add printer" utility to add through an infrared port.
Its a neat printer, and if anyone can suggest a way to make these things
talk to each other I would much appreciate.

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Hot wallstreet

[Christopher Hack]

Recently swapped the 233mhz chip on my wallstreet for a 300mhz I saw on
ebay. I am running 512mb of ram, and OSX10.2.6.
The machine is getting very very hot. So hot that if you lift the keyboard
and touch the large heatsink plate it gets too hot too touch. The fan never
seems to operate. 
Any ideaas or commetns aprecaited. Specifically:
How hot is too hot?
Is there any particular aspect of my setting causing the heat 9eg shoud I
reduce the ram, or switch back to the 233mhz chip?
Finally, is there anyway to test the fan short of pulling it out?

Many thanks as ever.

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Wallstreet osx infrared

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Hi all, 

Taken my wallstreet on the road for the first time since I installed OSX.
Wonderful of course. Only problem is I cant seem to get the infrared port to
work to dial up tot he internet using a nokia mobile phone. It used to work
fine with OS9.2. Is it the wallstreet, or a config problem?

Thanks in advance

Chris


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Wallstreet cooling fan

[Christopher Hack]

Stripping down my WallStreet to replace a damaged PCMCIA cage, I
"discovered" it has a cooling fan. I have never heard this operate, and the
machine does get very hot. Could it be that it is so quiet that I can't hear
it, or do these fans often fail? Or has it never got hot enough to turn the
fan on? Apreciate any guidance.

Chris


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Re: Newbie

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I think the secret is a completely clean install, completely blank hard
drive. 


> Hey, I agree with you.  I'm just giving my personal experience and
> referencing what I've found on the boards.  A reasonable solution would be
> to try to install Jaguar on the Wallstreet he's thinking of buying.  If it
> works without a hitch, then get it.  If he runs into kernel panics, etc.,
> then don't get it.  Don't get me wrong, I really like the Wallstreet under
> OS 9.  I am jealous of those people that are getting Jaguar to run on their
> Wallstreets without a problem.


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Re: Newbie

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> Re: Newbie

Can't understand all the fuss about running OSX on a WallStreet. I have a
WallStreet with an upgraded hardrive (80gb Travelstar) - no magnetic sleep
problems. I bough 512mb ram cheaply on Ebay - again no problems. I also run
OSX, and it is absolutely fine. So my advice would be to go ahead and do it!

Best

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Re: Can you run Jaguar on un-upgraded Wallstreet?

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I upped the ram on my wallstreet to 512, with a 40gb TravelStar drive and
Jaguar runs reasonably well. However I ended up going back to OS9.2. The
wallstreet does not have USB ports. I have a PCMCIA card to provide USB
connectivity, but I could not get Jaguar to see it even though it works fine
on OS9.2.
So if you do upgrade, the fact that it runs may not be the end of your
problems.

Chris


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more ram less time?

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hi all.

recently upgraded the ram on my WallStreet from 180 to 512mb. Suddenly the
battery life (on two batteries) seems to have dropped from about 5 hours to
less than 3 hours. Nothing else has changed on the machine so I assume it
was the increase in ram that did this. Can anyone confirm if this is a
possible explanation?

chris


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can whoever moderates this list ensure that the discussion sticks to
powerbooks, and not politics, nasa, challenger, etc etc.


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wallstreet cover

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hi all. I am trying to remove the bottom cover of my WallStreet to replace
the "card cage". It is damaged, I bought a new one on ebay. I removed all
the screws around the bottom of the machine to take the bottom cover off,
but it would not budge. It seemed to be stuck in the middle at the back. I
wonder if there are some screws under the protective rubber cover, and if
so, how I remove it without causing too much damage. Any ideas gratefully
received.

Chris


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wallstreet startup delay

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Hi all, and thanks for all previous help and advice!

today's question. After pressing the start button on my WallStreet (and
hearing the "dong" sound) there is an enormous delay before the hard drive
starts spinning, and the screen comes on. Okay, almost a minute, but it
seems a long time. Is this normal?

thanks

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usb card, OSX OS9

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help! bought a Belkin Busport Mobile PCMCIA card for my G3 Wallstreet to add
USB ports. Under OS9.2 it worked like a dream. I have now updated to OSX.
When I load OSX it still works like a dream, but if i boot up from OS9.2, it
can't seem to recognise any devices i attach. I have tried a mouse and a
modem on the USB port and no joy. the USB icon appears on the desktop, and i
can eject it and push it back in and the machine can see that, but it just
can't seem to see any USB devices attach through the USB PCMCIA card.  I
have tried over and over reinstally apple card support 1.4.1, and still no
success. any ideas gratefully received.

Chris


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Re: Urgent help needed

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Gary, 

i have a wallstreet 233 in which i recently installed an 80gb IBM
travelstar, and it works fine. so as far as i can see there is no drive
hardware
limit on this model.


chris


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windows laptop to powerbook software conversions

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finally persuaded a good friend to ditch his expensive, slow,
constantly-crashing windows laptop, and switch to a powerbook. I have moved
a decade or so of word files across for him. But I am at a loss how to
convert a few things very important to him. I managed to copy over the
custom dictionary, but need a way to convert Microsoft Word macros, and
spelling "AutoCorrect"s to MacWord, as well as a Outlook Express address
book (*.wab) and about 10,000 outlook express emails in *.dbx folders, and
also the IE "favourites" which lose their format when simply copied over.
Anyone know of a website or resource specialising in helping aboard new
members of the Mac community by converting PC files and applications?

Given the problems, right now my friend is ready to return to his PC! thanks
in advance for any help.

Chris


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Chicago on wallstreet

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I am trying to install 10.2 on my wall street, and reach a screen where it
says it cannot be installed on the drive. I have run Norton disk doctor and
the drive seems fine. Is this a partition problem, because I read it has to
be installed on the partition, but my disk is not partitioned. Do I have to
partition the disk to install it? Many thanks in advance.

Chris


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chasing jaguars on wall street

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i have a wallstreet 233. Can anyone tell me what it would take to run Jaguar 
comfortably. if i increased the ram enough would that do it, or is the processor just 
too  slow?

I know it is always s possible to shoehorn a new system on an old model, but would 
only really want to make the move if it did not slow things down so much they were 
clunky. Any suggestions?

thanks


chris

many thanks 

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wall street power questions

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hi G-book world.

I have a WallStreet, and a couple of questions for the powerbook experts out
there.
1. can anyone tell me why there is what seems like a huge gap between the
time when I press the start button and get that wonderful "apple sound", and
when the hard disk starts spinning. I have timed this at 28 seconds.
2. also, I have long been surprised there is no flashing light on the
machine to indicate when the power is connected and the battery charging,
something which seems common on every other laptop I've seen. is there a
broken bulb in my machine, or is there really no "charging light" on the
wallstreet.

many thanks in advance.


Chris

ps. much gratutude for this excellent list. i have learnt so much in the
last few months!


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Re: PB G4 400mhz DVD -Need LCD

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would recommend you try ebay, they seem to have some

best

chris

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