Funny Vista Video
This is a really funny video of the Gates CES vista presentation with the vista screen shots replaced by OSX screen shots. Be patient. http://maclive.net/sid/134 -- 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 ---
Upgrading from CD-ROM to Combo/Super Drive
If there are all sorts of these slot loading drives out there, does anyone know why I can't take one of these $50 drives and put it in a G3 iMac or a Cube?All of the places that sell replacement slot drives for these want a minimum of $129. -- 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 ---
DVD audio extract/mp3?
There is another piece of extraction software called: DVD Backup. But I'm not sure that you can't just drag off the audio file if that's all you want. Meanwhile, the very best soundtrack for Jesus Christ Superstar is the original recording. As you may recall, they could not get funding for the production so they cut a concept album. That album was a pretty good seller and so, after much controversy, they staged the musical. Of course this rather passionate musical really upset bunches of Xtians, so they put out a competing musical called Godspell. That's sort of like Donnie and Marie as an answer to Carmina Burana. The original recording has a lot better transparency and precision. The bass player is just amazing. You can get it on CD. I don't know if that digital stuff will sound as good as my old reel to reel copy of the album, 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: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 ---
Lombard
I got a Newer LiOn battery at Xmas for my daughter's Lombard. It worked great for a while, running OSX.3.Now it just says: 0% and doesn't charge AT All. I zapped PRAM. Any other tips? Us OS9? Followupnow I find that it actually does hold a good chargebut it always says that it has zero charge. I discharged fully and recharged. I hit the reset button. Anything else? -- 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 ---
Lombard
I got a Newer LiOn battery at Xmas for my daughter's Lombard. It worked great for a while, running OSX.3.Now it just says: 0% and doesn't charge AT All. I zapped PRAM. Any other tips? Us OS9? -- 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: Are batteries covered under Applecare?
I have had Apple replace the battery on my Ti-book. I didn't ask them to, but it was in for something else. The old battery was OK but the new battery was much better. With that new battery I once ran Word for 8 hours on my 550 TiBook and had 30% of the battery left (monitor turned down 1/3 and no network using OSX). When the book gets sent in for something, they will often replace a lot of things, other than the main problem. But the great thing about Applecare is that if you call them, they will answer the phone and talk to you. Wow. -- 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 ---
Dead superdrive -- Oh, BTW...
Bart, I didn't mean to insult you, but drives die. I have had two different IBM hard drives die within the first month of ownership. As for the question, your question was this: Is $1000 reasonable, and the answer is no. So now what? Go get another drive. Then put it in. You can't void the warrantee, huh? You can find some apple manuals put out by mac usergroups. Its not hard to swap out a drive in a G4---once you figure out the order of doing things. Just keep a heavy muffin pan nearby so you don't lose the little screws. My personal opinion is that I would not put a superdrive in a laptop. It just seems like too much to me. and you can't do anything with the laptop while you are rendering and burning anyway. So I'd get an internal combo and an external firewire. (I use a little free plugin called HPfurz to burn to an external drive with iDVD) (To show you how smart I am, however, please note that OWC has T-Book 2x superdrive for $179. Criminy, that's less than their combo drive.) for all i know, they might have a pdf showing how to put it in.---external 4xDVD-Rfirewire is $159 including somesoftware and some media that they might leave out for less if you ask. -- -- 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 ---
Dead drive
Bart Says: 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.? A: Makes that $400 Applecare fee seem like a trifle, doesn't it? But that drive price sounds high. -- -- 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 ---
RAM Check
We keep hearing about frequent crashes and RAM. Well, every now and then I get a flurry of these things. I wonder if its my RAM. I was wondering--is there ANY utility that can REALLY test your RAM? -- -- 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 anyone know if the Linksys SpeedBoost feature would work with AirPort Extreme?
Laurent wrote: If you're planning to use any laser printer that relies on EtherTalk (AppleTalk over Ethernet), I would suggest you look somewhere else as the Linksys products don't support Macintosh at al A: I have an 3year old linksys router and it supports ethertalk. Linksys will not support the mac for firmware upgrades or advice but there are many other people who do that. Other than firmware, the linksys routers i am familiar with all use your browser for administration. Saem with the D-Link, but my D-link wireless 4 port router does NOT support Appletalk, so I replaced it with an Assante Router. I think Asante always supports appletalk. I think D-link and linksys support it sometimes. As for linksys crapping out,--yeah after a couple of months, ports 3 and 4 merged into one for no apparent reason. The speed was never even close to comparable to the equivalent Asante. On the other hand, my last Assant wireless router--although it had great range, the WAN port went out so I had to turn off the router and use it as a wireless switch. -- 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 ---
extreme prices for non-extreme Airport cards....
Tom Wrote: Way off topic, anyone use USB wireless dongles with OSX? I have a linksys USB that works ok on the PC, is identified in the profiler on OSX, but does not appear in the Network panel. Is this a dead end? A: I have heard some people say they work OK when you have no card slot,--like Will above who has an iBook--but I would always look for an ethernet dongle (do they make them for laptops?) before a USB dongle. You are supposed to network through your ethernet port--not your USB port. -- -- 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 ---
extreme prices for non-extreme Airport cards....
B0b wrote: Clyde, What's a 802.11DS card? I know it's a wireless PCMCIA card. But what's the DS all about. And I've seen the RoamAbout description before, but I'm not sure what exactly it refers to. Thanx, B0b A: Wow a direct question by name and I am so self-conscious of my innate ignorance. Anyway, by now, B0b (sp?--is that pronounced bOHb or bzerob?) you have heard a lot from a lot of people and I have learned some things. One thing I can repeat is that 802.11(b) probably does go farther than (g). I thought that the DS was something that D-Link used for their super fast version of their card. Apparently it means: Direct Sequence-compliant wireless network interface card and it is offered for interasys cards. As apparently everyone else knows, this is an old crappy standard. Anyway, the D-Link plus cards that allow you to use their faster proprietary system when their router is available. As far as I can tell these cards default down to the the normal standards otherwise. I really have lots of skepticism about all this stuff. What I do know is that caching and signal selection and switching and conflict resolution and so forth are critical for wireless networks and this guy at Ohio State came up with the first solution to make 802.11(b) actually work even thought other faster standards were already out. Apple licensed some of this stuff from this guy. I don't know about other people but there are huge performance disparities with all of this equipment based upon signal strength caching and so forth. Just make sure, if you have some old macs and printers, get stuff that transmits appletalk packets. Some D--link things don't. -- -- 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 ---
Explain the 802.11b Card Description
I have a couple of Roamabouts I got at Wegener last fall. They look like the ones in the picture out there now. They are cheap because they are several years old. Mine are orinoco because my system says they are. -- -- 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: Wireless Drivers For OS 9 OS X
For the Record, the IOXpert drivers allow you to use them free for a half hour at a time. How much more time do you need? -- -- 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: extreme prices for non-extreme Airport cards....
Eric wrote: Any suggestions for a decent, reasonable source? A: Source for what? you can always get the old orinoco (roam about) cardbus cards from Wegener for $28--it comes with an OS9 driver but you have to download a $20 driver to use OSX from IOXperts, or orange micro--although maybe proxim is now giving the driver away--i'm not sure. If you have a TiBook like I had---this gives great reception because it hangs outside. Some people use a cheap D-link USB wireless adapter with IBooks. -- -- 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: Killing me softly.
marcin writes: does it make sense to bring it back if the HDD seems to behave normally now? A: As someone who knows absolutely nothing about the subject, I feel I should speak up. I have heard rumors (see, Revelations, Nostradamus, etc) that there are diagnostic mechanisms in drives that can shut down bad sectors. I had a travelstar drive that periodically did this stuff and fixed itself--but I was never sure if it really did fix itself. Also, I believe that OSX has little dæmons that sometimes take care of that stuff. I would say, that sometimes it just isn't worth it to delay replacing a drive once you have heard the death rattle---or at least copy it over to an external drive. -- -- 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 ---
DEAD FIREWIRE PORT Re: External harddrive
Before you replace the motherboard. Try this: Shut down and unplug. Hit the system thingy button on the back. Boot back up and IMMEDIATELY reset the date and time (working with the date wrong screws up all sorts of stuff--I don't know why. Then check the port again. If that doesn't work: Try the same thing but take the battery out overnight. If you can't afford a new motherboard try a cheap OWC cardbus (PCMCIA) firewire card with two ports. Since you have an iPod, you can connect the iPod power cord to one port and then you have a fullblown full-powered firewire port for your passive firewire drive. -- -- 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: dvd burner
I would guess that rendering a video DVD on a 300mhz iBook would take overnight---but that's OK. The real issue will be disk space and RAM. I will comment that even on my 1Ghz AlBook, with a gig of RAM, and the new compressor from the latest version of iMovie, I am easily in the multiple hours of time to render a dvd, and that's with Altivec. I cannot imagine rendering anything on a 300Mhz G3. Steve A:I meant, overnight in Nome in January. -- -- 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: AlBook vs. TiBook :o/
I just got a new 1.33 Gig Albook to replace my 550 TiBook. (Obviously, mine is a whole generation above the 1.Gig, since they stopped making the 1Gig family 5 months ago.) I have to say that every single aspect of the machine is better than the TiBook. It is really, REALLY, really more solid and rigid--particularly the screen hinge and the screen frame. The screen hinge drops down in the back so the screen is even lower than the Tibook which was the lowest in the world.thus the ports have to go on the side. I never have to turn the screen up all the way except when outdoors. Right now i am in my normally lit living room and it is on at 40%. I usually have it at about 70% under the fluorescents at the office. The built-in airport reception is almost as good as the external card I had in my old machine (which worked out in the yard 300 feet--I am using 802.11b not g). Oddly enough, a system upgrade a couple of weeks ago dramatically improved airport reception. It matters which way you turn the machine tho. If the screen still touches the keyboard, it is really light because there is a clear offset in the frame. I like the keyboard a lot more--I think it feels crisper. ( learned on a manual underwood). The trackpad button is clearly harder. Battery life is good, but I haven't worked with it a lot--on my old Tibook I could sometimes get WELL OVER 8 hours if I turned the monitor down and worked only in Word.I doubt I could get that kind of life with this battery--but I never have to turn the monitor up all the way and that is the key battery life sapper when doing only wordprocessing. the disk drive in my original TiBook 550 was worse than garbage. Applecare replaced it with a really nice drive, but nowhere near as nice as the drive in this AlBook. Yes it ejects violently--I want it too. I can't figure out why you have a problem with graphic table wires because I have a USB port on each side. The speakers are bigger and better. I wish the 60 Gig drive was bigger and faster than 4200, but the TiBook was only 20 gig travelstar and whatever RPM it was, was really really slow compared to the 40 Gig travelstar I put in it. As for sensitivity to scraping, my Ti-Book was so black from peeling paint where my palms rested, Applecare replaced that part of my frame (without me even asking--wow). I have dirt on my Albook but no scrapes. My old Tibook was dented and so forth--particularly the screen frame which was sort of flimsy. This new AlBook is really a lot more solid--particularly the screen. I can't overemphasize how much more solid and rigid it is than the old Tibook. I feel much more secure with this computer. The Apple is right-side-up when you open the case. I thought that the old Tibook would be with me forever, but this new computer is really much more solid physically--Oh and you know, it's a little faster too ; ) -- it really feels smooth with no hanging. I hate it when things hang. You can't believe how fast Quickdex runs on this thing. -- -- 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 Problem with new G4 iBook
Applecare is wonderful; trust me you did the right thing. The Techtools disk is probably too old to boot your machine. There is probably nothing wrong with your machine. Why wouldn't they give you a new disk? did you ask? If they need to see your machine, they usually send you a mailer. If your machine is happy, the progress stuff goes really fast on boot up. The boot up time can vary. This is a function of the UNIX daemons as I understand. Sometimes I leave my laptop on overnight without sleep so that it will do maintenance. -- -- 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: dvd burner
Burning a video dvd requires unbelievable resources. It is not a trivial thing. Among other things, it requires huge amounts of disk space, and so you will need an external drive for your portable. For example, DV video takes over 3Mgs a second--more like 15 Gigs an hour. Then you need another 5-6 gigs for the rendered product. Use firewire if you can. It is really stable. you can hook up your external drive and the video recorder and the external burner in a chain. You will also need software. There is a patch called HPFurz that will allow the use of iDVD on an external drive, but that's with OSX. Toast is a great program, but Toast five will not render a video DVD (TSVideo file) but it will burn a video DVD if you have the rendered file. Apparently, Toast 6 will do all of this, and if cost is not a problem, I would get it. Software is a nontrivial issue. It is no accident that your PC using friends don't turn out videos. They may turn out one, but never again. That so-called-crappy iMovie, really succeeds at simplifying things, but I have not used the old OS9 iMovie so I don't know how it works. I would guess that rendering a video DVD on a 300mhz iBook would take overnight---but that's OK. The real issue will be disk space and RAM. -- -- 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 ---
ot: new scanner and os 9 after X
I have an hp flatbed with an adaptor for negatives. It works OK for everything except that I cannot get an OCR program to drive the sheet feeder--they all say they will but they dont'. Anyway, if you want to do photos, make sure you have a scanner attachment for your negatives. Scans from negatives are much superior to those from prints because of the color depth. You would think that scanning from a print would give better resolution, but a print has so much less dynamic range the extra resolution doesn't help. The HP scans at 2400 DPI and 4 negatives take about 20 minutes. I got an old Nikon film scanner that does them at 2700 dpi. They give similar scans, but the Nikon is much more convenient and breaks each negative scan into a separate scan--so you don't have to open a 100mg file just for cropping out the several photos. -- 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: Opinions on CDs
The kind of CD blanks you use is really important. It is particularly important if you want your disks to play in some machine other than the machine that burned it. Here is a reference to a site where people spend a lot of time on this issue. http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?s=forumid=33 See also these FAQs:http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq07.html#S7 What you discover, reading this thing, is that there is a huge variation in the dynamic range of the recorded signal from disk to disk, burner to burner and speed to speed. I now use only Fuji 48 CDRs and I burn them at 40. I can often get them at These are Taiyo Yuden disks (silvery greenish blue on bottom).Please note, that just because it says Fuji, that doesn't mean it's a Taiyo Yuden disk--but this model is. DONT get the music cd disks. Rite Aid sells stacks for 18 bucks and 12 bucks on sale. I have used staples brand disks and other brands. They produce a coaster periodically, but the reason you don't use them is that invariably you can't use them on a machine other than the one you burned them on. And isn't that the point of disks anyway? -- -- 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 ---
TiBook 550mhz with vertical racing stripe on screen
I have seen horizontal stripes on G3 pbooks. These are typically caused by a bad ribbon cable connection or so I am told. -- -- 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: Lombard Will Not Boot after Battery Fails
Laurent wrote: Did you have the battery for some time? It sounds as if the battery is shut and the Lombard go into a deep sleep, possibly causing a problem with system files that are left in an opened state, which might cause the restart problem. Does it do the same thing on AC? A: The battery is clearly not up to par. The problem is obviously sending the Lombard into a deep sleep. It doesn't do the same thing on AC. I'm just ticked I can't just shut it down normally with the on/off button, nor can I plug it in and wake it up. If I pull the battery and let it run down the PRAM battery will it start up again then? -- -- 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 ---
Lombard Will Not Boot after Battery Fails
My daughter is running the fully current Panther on a 333 Lombard with 512MbRAM.Her battery will run until it says (roughly) 30 minutes left and then goes to sleep for lack of battery support. (I have tried running that battery reset program again and again and I can't get the 30 min shutdown to stop.) So after this happens, the computer will neither restart nor shut down and the only way to get the computer to actually shut down is to hit the reset button on the back. After that, OSX will not start but gives the slash sign. The only way to get the computer up is to plug it in, hit the on button, hold down the C key to kick open the CD drive, put in an OS9 boot CD--by now OSX has given a slash sign even tho the C key was down--then hit the reset button (this is the only way to get it off) hit the start button, hold the C key down, boot from the OS9 CD, set the startup disk to the OSX partition and reset the clock. hit restart. (what is really odd is that it will not restart from the OS9 partition, and, for some reason, OSX will not restart until you bless the folder from the CD) Is there any way to rescue the semi-shutdown computer without having to go through these machinations? -- -- 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: D-Link Network Card for PB
Tom Wrote If it's already running when I insert card it immediately panics; if I reboot with the card in it, it freezes during bootup. A: In my experience, OSX doesn't like the card to be put in while operating--despite the fact that the hardware was designed that way. Also, make sure you turn it off up in the corner icon before you pull it out. I don't know what your driver is but if you installed the driver, make sure that It supports 10.2 and then, prior to putting the card in, go into system preferences and do what you need to do to get the driver configured. You should see an icon in the preferences window for the driver. Shut the computer down and reboot with the card in. -- -- 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 ---
Interesting G-book Take Apart Link
I just picked up this from slashdot : http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/04/05/10/1024231.shtml?tid=137tid=180 I'm not sure what we are allowe to say about it. -- -- 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 ---
: G4 to G4 Megahertz comparison (was Re: New Powerbooks announced / I bought my first Mac today)
Doubling a processor speed usually does not result in doubling the computer speed because the rest of the computer does not keep up proportionately. With a powerbook, it helps to have a faster drive because of the slowness of the laptop drives in general. From what I have read, the G4s are still going strong, and they should ramp up over 2Gs later on. Motorola announced some super-low-power versions of the G4 a couple of months ago. I was wondering what was the power consumption of these new laptops--or if we must wait longer for the new chips. -- -- 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: Compare Apple to Orange (err.. I mean Pentium)
It's really hard to compare G4s to P3s because of the intervention of things like operating systems, software, buses, disk drives, and so forth. I never cease to be amazed at how one system can be clearly superior to another on a bunch of photoshop filters, and then get totally clobbered on another filter. (I saw one comparison where photoshop 7 was beating photoshop cs; they called up Adobe and Adobe said: Oh Yeah, we dramatically changed that filter and upgraded the routines and resolution etc and that made it slower. So there you go.) A long time ago, a P3 had to be almost double the clock speed of a G3 to be equal (in some things). When the P4s came out, they had to be double the speed of a P3 to compete with the P3! Part of that was because the P4s had a longer pipeline to get a higher clock speed, and part was because right after it was released the compilers had not been optimized for the P4. The G4 is faster than the G3 for some things--and with those things its a LOT faster. So a 1.2Ghz G3 should be 4 times faster than the 600Mhz P3, and for a few things, the G4 will be maybe 10 times faster on some things. But this all depends on cache size, and location and a bunch of other things---like your disk drive. The different G4 laptops have different speeds unrelated to the chip speeds. If you have a 600MhzG3 it's probably really old, and so everything on the new machine will be a lot better in every way. Check out XLR8 your mac. -- 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: Airport Alternatives
I am using old Roamabout cardbus cards (OEM orinoco) from Wegener for $27. They only come with OS9 drivers (that work fine for OS9) but for OSX you have to download an OSX driver from ioXperts. The driver costs $20 per card and the serial number for the driver is portable from computer to computer, but not card to card. The OSX driver works just great. I got the old slow b protocol because I was more concerned with range. I got a cardbus card because I have a 550 tiBook with reputedly horrible internal antenna and so I wanted the external antenna.All of the 11(b) equipment is really cheap now because nobody but us LowEndLuddites want it. I use the older model Asante b wireless router with the 2 antennas. I put the router high on the wall in the center of my old house that has a lot of wire mesh in the lath. My range from the Asante router to my tiBook is in excess of 250 feet outdoors. I bought a D-Link 614+ wireless router here in my office and it works fine for some things, but it does not support appletalk packets. If you buy a D-Link product, better check this out. They sometimes say they are Mac compatible (and they are at the TCP-IP level) but you have to read the fine print to see which of their products support Appletalk---if you have old machines or printers and need it. For print servers, many of the old Asante routers have a print server port that used to only work with Windows or Postscript Printers, but now it works with OSX.3. on some other printers--depending on the driver and whether the printer has a parallel port. -- -- 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: Friend wants to play PC games on his first Mac. . .
The desire to play specific games is not quite rational. I am not sure how someone who cannot afford anything more than a pismo can afford Virtual PC. A cheap old PC will work better. HOWEVER, we do play some PC games with VPC on a 350G4BeigeG3 and a 500MhzFlowerPowerG3iMac.Age of Empires works OK but is a little jerky. Sometime my kids want to run the Mac version, occaisionally they want the PC version. Believe it or not, you canNOT do network play between platforms. We have also done other games and they seem OK if you are not concerned about Quake framerates. The limitation of the Pismo--and all older computers--are the video cards. When a PC game is released late for the Mac, you usually get more for your money and the game's glitches are usually fixed.For example, all 6 episodes of Tomb Raider are available for very little and work great on old macs. Myth III, Warcraft III, Diablo III, ---these should all work great on the Pismo. You can also waste a lot of time on some odd Mac games like Nanosaur. New games, like Nanosaur II require a Verginya Tech supercomputer. -- -- 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: Timing my first Mac purchase
The best way to time your mac purchase is to purchase refurbished or discontinued computers from the Apple store or Small Dog or others. For example, they have periodically (last weekend) had 800mhz emacs for $500+ dollars because they are both discontinued and refurbished. There are some discontinued ebooks floating around really cheap and there is a big sale on 1.8G5s right now. There won't be any G5 powerbooks until the get the energy usage under control. However, a rumor mill I read stated that motorola has come out with a 1.25+Ghz G4 that comes in 20 watt and 10 watt varieties!! If that is the case, then there might be a dual G4 powerbook. In my mind, the confusing thing is the video cards. Apple is selling several video cards with their various machines. Oh--and another thing--don't forget to get Applecare. It really matters with a powerbook. They will repair stuff they really shouldn't --and if you don't get it, they won't even answer the phone for warrantee work. As for Dell, my wife got a brand new Dell last summer at work. It was the worst piece of garbage I've ever seen. It had a nice monitor, but the cursor didn't work- and the only thing you ever saw on the screen was the hourglass. It was total garbage. My 2.5 year old 550powerbook continues to be a total joy to use--mostly because of Applecare--and partly because I ignore the articles benchmarking the dual G5. -- -- 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 ---
Wallstreet II distorted screen
I have a 13 Wallstreet II with a 500mhz powerlogix running OS9.2.I think somebody may have knocked it and now the screen is all jiggly and jagged running horizontal. The distortion is so bad the screen is virtually unusable.The monitor runs fine though the S-video port. I took it apart reseated the ribbon cables in the body of the computer (to no effect) and found the inverter card is in the screen module. So if I take apart the screen, will I find I can fix the ribbon cables or will I need new ribbon cables or a new inverter board? -- -- 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: Panther and Canon digital Rebel
Harry Asked: Anybody on the list using the camera or printer with either Panther or Jaguar? Is so what have been your experiences? A: There is a reason why everybody pays boatloads of money to use Photoshop---it works better than the other stuff. I scan a lot of film and with that photoshop is more important. When you are working directly off of digital, there is less to do--sometimes. But still, iPhoto is great for cataloguing, but if you are shooting with big honkin' 20 meg files (or whatever come out of the Rebel) you will probably sooner or later want to use Photoshop. Then--from what I have read--sooner or later you will probably also want to get an epson printer. Don't feel like you have to use the software or the printer that goes with the camera. With the high end cameras (or prosumer cameras like the Rebel) you can use any software or printer. (I am presuming it gives you file output options like RAW and TIFF.) -- -- 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: A new question about data recovery
Stan in Denver writes: But now my FW drive isn't Recognized by this Macintosh and wants to be initialized. Now if I do this, can I recover some of the stuff that was there? What can I do to increase my chances? And no, (stupid again on my part) there was no filesaver type software on that drive... A: DON'T initialize your disk--it will wipe it clean. As Mikael says: use these other programs--I like diskwarrior. He is also right about Norton--save it to the last--or don't use it at all. Don't overwrite anything on the disk until you have all you want back. (diskwarrior will tell you what it will give you back and you can elect to have it recover to the original disk--if it gets it all--or if it only recovers a bit--please write it to another disk. It is a GOOD THING you don't have any filesaver type software on your disk. Most of that stuff makes things worse. -- -- 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: Sharing OS9 printer with OSX powerbook
I don't think use USB print sharing on an OS9 machine unless the client machine is running OS9 or classic. That is not really too much of a problem. I often use Word 98 or 2001 because Word X and other stuff won't print in OSX because OSX has such horrible printing problems--particularly with older docs that use older fonts and so forth. Photoshop 7 opens in classic or OSX depending upon what you set in the info window. Other documents can be printed in preview and then printed in classic. The print to preview technique is actually a very interesting technique--and also a way to break some restrictions on Adobe PDF documents. It appears that Jaguar will now print over some server--like the Asante router that has a parrallel port--and that previously could only print from a PC or from Mac to postscript printer. so I'm wondering if maybe Jaguar could print straight to an OS9 machine--but I doubt it. -- -- 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: Personal LaserWriter LS on WallStreet
I was not aware that the Personal Laserwriter LS printers were postscript printers. If they were not then of course Laserwriter8 wont work on them--and the only driver that will work on the printer is the driver for that printer--and that printer only. There has to be info on this on the web---and there is always fixyourownprinter.com. Mikael says: I have a similar problem with a LaserWriter NTX that lacks Ethernet and so won't work under OS X A Laserwriter II NTX has a localtalk port and uses postscript--which works under any system. Get an ethernet to localtalk bridge of some kind and make sure appletalk is selected in the network stuff.I was initially thinking maybe I should offer to give you one of my spare bridges, but then I changed my mind to thinking that maybe you would want to give me the printer instead. -- -- 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: Hard Drive Advice for Pismo
If you are screwing around with lots of mp3s and Photoshop go ahead and get an external drive. You cannot believe how fast photos suck-up disk space. Also, external drives are faster than laptop drives. Keep an eye open for cheap firewire boxes as well as cheap drives in the 160 to 250 gig range--there are internal drives going for as low as 50¢ a Gig. I got a firewire CD box on sale at OWC for $50 and I should have got two. I swap in and out of it a 160Gig drive a DVD drive and some other drives. What is cool is that it has two firewire plugs, so one goes to the camera and one to the laptop. Make sure if you get a box that it supports the ultra ata drives. I don't know about how you and your brother share stuff--but OSX user software can deal with some of that and partitioning can deal with the rest. -- -- 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: Does D-Link Router support Appletalk?
Kris asked: I am curious about something though, you said you turned off DHCP to work with your existing network. Are you using it as a bridge? A: I just turned off DHCP so I could test the non-wireless part of the router--from port to port and not going through the WAN port. It used the DHCP of my Asante router. Although I could see the internet, it didn't seem to make any difference with regard to the network--I still couldn't see anything on the net including OS9, slowtalk, and Jaguar machines. I am vaguely aware that some routers do not support some protocols (like say appletalk), but D-Link says it works with Macs so I guess I have to look further. As for a bridge, I guess you are asking if I was able to use the router to access another router. I am going to try--but I haven't yet. (since it was being sold for $46 with 2*$20 rebates, it was cheaper than a bridge). I don't know what you mean about static IP, you can turn DHCP on or off for either the WAN or the LAN ports independently. (the wireless being part of the LAN). Anyway, to make sure Xmas went OK I bought an Asante 1004AL wireless 11(b) router. Well, it works great, like everything else I've ever got from Asante. I have some wire in my old plaster walls, so I put it up high on the wall, in the center of the old house, and I was still able to get a good signal 300 feet from the house. (so everyone in the neighborhood or driving by can share). -- -- 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: Does D-Link Router support Appletalk?
I purchased a D-link 614+ wireless router. The router does all internet stuff OK in both wireless and otherwise mode. I can even turn off the DHCP so that it can work in the network that already has an asante router going to the cable modem and other switches. HOWEVER, whether I am just going from port to port, or through the WAN port or through wireless, I cannot see any of the network. I cannot see the other OSX macs, or the OS9 macs or the appletalk or the usb printers. Yes I turned on appletalk and so forth. What's going on here? Does D-link not support some protocols? How can I not see the macs if I am looking for ftp servers? Anyway, do I need to sell this router? -- -- 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 do I get rid of the blinking question mark?
First place---if you got to the question mark, you're in good shape. 2d: I can think of absolutely no reason to run 8.6 on your Lombard--it is not faster than 9.2. Don't run OS9.0. The reset button on the back of the Lombard is not the same as a CUDA button or the reset button on the Tibook. The Lombard button just does a hardwire shutdown--it does not clear your PRAM or clear anything else. You can always do a cmd opt p-r startup to zap your pram. I have found sometimes if you zap the Pram and then leave the battery out for a day or two even more miraculous things can happen. However, your problem doesn't sound that complicated. Just move up to 9.1. -- -- 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: Wallstreet Hard Drive
I have tried to put a 4.5 gig travelstar--(orig equip lombard) into my wall street. When it is installed, I get nice chimes, and that's it. I don't even get a question mark. The screen doesn't even light up. The machine won't even boot from the CD. I have tried various shield things--including magnetic metal--and even setting the drive so that it is loaded at an angle so that it is farther from the magnet in the case. But, again, although I can hear the hard drive doing its internal startup routine, while it is in the machine, the machine does nothing--it won't give me a question mark, it won't boot up from the CD--and it won't even allow the PRAM to zap with the cmd-opt-pr. Because of all of this I despair of doing anything with this machine. It works really well with its original 1.5 Gig drive--but that isn't enough to do much. Since this is not the sleep of death thing I was just trying to figure out what sort of drive I could put in it--if any. -- -- 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: OSX on Wallstreet.
Clark wrote: The solution I use is somewhat simpler. I have the problem and didn't install any shielding. I just turn the computer around a little while tapping the shift key and it will wake up. clyde says: The problem is not the sleep of death, but that for some reason someting seems to interfere with installing the system (including OS9) and booting up. -- -- 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: OT: Having brain cramp while trying to record analog audio into 'puter
I haven't a clue as to why you would think this was off-topic. Nevertheless, I understand your braincramp because you used to be able to do this all back 15 years ago with system software---why not now? The answer is you can--just not with iTunes. There are many, many, many inexpensive programs out there-- but you have to say what you want the capture for. Also do you want OS-9 or X? Do you want pop filters for vinyl? In addition to amadeus, there's protools, peak (etc), sound studio (griffin), Spark, audacity, AudioX and some others. There are some threads on the G-List on this topic. Here is a recent article also: http://www.atpm.com/9.03/under-the-hood.shtml. Don't forget to look at Tucows. Also--don't forget if you just want to work around another program, there is Audio Hijack. -- -- 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: iMovie stalling
I don't think iMovie would stall because of your disk on any pismo. That's just not going to be a problem.Of course it would hurt to run DiskWarrior. If you are doing it in OS9 you obviously have to pay attention to your settings, turn off VM, turn off the network and appletalk, turn off all non-essential extensions. If you are having problems in OSX, then you, probably don't have enough RAM. also, check out your little cpu monitor thingy to see is something else is occupying your computer. -- -- 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: Any way to import video into a Wall Street Powerbook?
I have no way of comparing the Dazzle analog to digital conversion box to the ADS version, but I do know that Dazzle has two models, one is firewire and one is USB and they convert to different formats (perhaps because of the bandwidth problems with USB?) Anyway, I just noticed that these are being put on sale several places I cannot remember, but one of them, Macmall, has the USB version at $97 and the firewire version at $127 today. I haven't checked out priceline, and recently, I haven't read any reviews comparing the Dazzle devices to the formac, and ADS devices. (in the past I recall good reviews of some of these --but I think they were the firewire versions). Please observe that the firewire and USB versions have VERY DIFFERENT file outputs and that means something. Also, be aware that saying a movie is 720 by 480 in MPEG2 doesn't mean anything. Once you get into compression, having lots of pixels does not improve your image. Make sure that your editing software can handle the file-types coming from the converter. Note that Dan points out (and so does XLR8 that he cites) that you lose editing some ability with MPEG2 but you gain in clarity with direct conversion. If Dan K says that comparing these in the real world shows the ADS is better, then pay attention because real world is the way to go. But note he says he recommends this for anyone converting DIRECTLY to DVDs. I'm thinking that he should underline that last statement. It always helps to know what you are doing tho. -- -- 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: Icebook--was Hey Kyle...
I have an IceBook 500 that probably needs to be repaired at a cost of around $300US. Would you repair or simply sell for scrap and purchase a new IceBook? A: Gee, I have a powerbook 180, wallstreet, lombard, and 550 ti-book.They are all turned on right now.Although refurb'ed ibook's are going really cheap at the Apple store right now, they aren't going for $300. It would be easier to answer if you told us what was wrong so we could all give you advice on how to fix it. I just resoldered my/my daughter's charge plug for free---if you view my time as having no value. On the other hand, I think George Bush would want you to stimulate the economy. -- -- 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: pc monitors with macs
If you've got a G5 you might as well get a monitor and surplus computers has some really knock-your-socks-off mongo huge used monitors cheap. I don't know much about their service 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: Icebook--was Hey Kyle...
Illovox wrote: I have a 600 with flickering screen. Pretty sure the ribbon in the hinge is shot. How to fix? A: I have one of those repair manual CDs for tons of mac stuff. anyway, get access to the manuals for the take apart stuff. But a flickering screen doesn't sound like a ribbon-cable problem, sounds like a problem in that power-thingy by the clutch. But my manuals don't go up to the modern stuff. There are a couple of places you can download these or buy the CDs but I think its illegal to post them on the list--you can find them. My experience is that if you have a bunch of small torx and phillips head stuff, the instructions are not so hard to follow--of course the first time is really scary. I think I recall, maybe, vaguely, that the hard part of the new icebooks and the ti-books is cracking the monitor itself. (not to mention on the Ti-book it takes even teenier torx bits. Also, sometimes, you can get a complete lid fairly cheap by lurking around ebay. -- -- 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: iPods and non-Firewire PBs
Tom Wrote: Can responders confirm that an iPod works OK on an older, non-Firewire Powerbook using a Firewire card? And can they briefly list the config they're using, ie, OS version, iPod generation, and card type? My daughter uses an original 5GB iPod on a 333 Lombard running Panther. She attaches it with a cheap Card Bus I got from OWC. (OWC calls it a Century Global Firewire and it cost $29--the card just calls itself an e drive card bus.) On the back of the card it says: Firewire ports provide no power to the device. BUT GUESS WHAT? The card has two 6-pin fire wire ports. She takes the iPod Charger (it uses a 6-pin firewire connector) and attaches it to one port, and then plugs the card into the computer, and plugs the other port into the iPod. It then works and charges too. I can't take credit for the idea, I think I got the idea from one of the iPod sites. I should point out, however, that OWC now has a little tech note that tells you to change the iPod to disk mode before hooking up so that it uses its own battery. So I suspect that's the safer route. -- -- 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: Stupid RAM
A very Long time ago I bought a SODIMM 32*64 PC100 256 MB (TPW 256). I can't see it right now because I put it in the bottom slot of a 333 Lombard with a bigger 256 MB DIMM above. It has been lying around in it's little silver pack for quite a while, and it may have been a teeny bit abused but it looks OK, Anyway, I am getting only 128MB out of the 256MB. Is it the wrong type? Is it damaged? Did it not seat properly? -- -- 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: External firewire DVD burners with Powerbook
I have a Pioneer DVR-105 that I put in a nameless firewire box I got from OWC. It works with my G4-powerbook, cube, and works on the Beige G3 using Toast. I don't know what you want to burn, but if you intend to do CDs, your $50 Lite-On Cd burner is going to be a whole lot faster than your DVD burner or your internal burner. Applecare gave me a free combo drive when my old drive crapped out. It works great but it is really slow. Oops--i just noted that Kyle noted you can't use iDVD on an external driveI haven't tried it so I don't know. I got my DVD for backups (an idea that is now virtually obsolete). I make video CDs for video stuff. -- -- 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: Recomendations for updates for Wall St.
Clark wrote: I'm not sure about the Firewire part but I have had experience with the USB cards. OS 9 includes drivers for USB cards but they aren't installed unless the card is present during installation. I am not sure that what Clark says is true in all cases, but I do know, that if you want to use a network USB printer set up on another computer, you must download the USB Printer sharing extension from Apple Tech support because there is no way to get the installer to put it in a machine with no USB port. -- -- 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: Powerbook G4's and Photoshop
I've been doing PS7 on a 550PBook with 512MB RAM and a 40Gig IBM travelstar---but not the fast travelstar. I work primarily on 39 Meg TIFF files. PS7 works quite well except on things that are disk intensive--like when you attempt to browse a folder with 80 39meg files--and then you may notice the slower drive. There is some speed increase if I use an external drive. -- -- 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 ---
Can't SwapHardDriveInWallstreet
I have a Wallstreet. It has a 500mhz upgrade of some kind and 128MRAM. It was working fine with the original Apple brand 2 Gig HD. I tried to install the 6 Gig travelstar that came installed in my TiBook. Both disks have clean installs of OS 9.2. When I started up with the travelstar installed I got the chimes and the first time I got a computer with the ?. Then I tried rebooting with an OS 9.1 CD. It would chime--but the screen remained completely blank. It wouldn't see the CD either--so I couldn't do anything to even look at the HD. I checked to see if the disk was firmly set and so forth. Also, I could hear the disk do its self-check and startup. I removed the Travelstar, put the old disk back in and everything ran fine. (The travelstar runs fine in my external firewire case.) Any Ideas? Would formatting in OSX do this--and if so, why couldn't I boot up from a CD and reformat? -- -- 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: Non-working Ethernet Port: what's the fix?
-Laurent. says: On a Wallstreet, if the Ethernet port is not working, I'm assuming the logic board/motherboard has to be replaced. Am I right? I once had an ethernet port that wasn't working. I bought a PCMCIA card to replace it. Some other things were not working right so I pulled the battery for a day, hit the reset button periodically including when everything was dead, reset the PRAM on startup and whatever else I could think of. (I have been trying to remember if there is another button on the mother board I hit--I don't think so-but I do know that the reset buttons on the G3 laptop are not the same as the buttons on the G4). Low and behold, my ethernet came back--and it was faster and better than it ever had been. -- -- 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: Pismo Rubber feet.
When I suggested a glue gun I was not trying to be facetious. Glue guns are amazing things and you do not need a rubber foot underneath them. As Phil suggested, the glue itself is the foot. You can shape it any way you want--but I suggest not using your fingers to shape the glue unless you are competing for the Gordon Liddy hall of fame. Can you get black glue? Yes you can. In fact there are gazillions of glues that go into a glue gun--at different temperatures and for different materials and with different textures. Here is a site with inexpensive stuff and black glue. http://www.hotstik.com/ If you need a gun, get their inexpensive 2-temperature gun--the hotter the glue the better it sticks (but the harder it is to work with. Believe it or not, the dent-pulling glue really works and is used by professionals (like my wife). It is also vastly superior to caulking in the bath. WARNING: Fixing things with glue guns can become an obsession. -- 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: Pismo rubber feet
Brent writes: Does anyone else have a suggestion for a reasonably priced source of black powerbook feet? A:Glue gun. -- -- 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 ---
G3 Lombard 333
my daughter runs jaguar on her 333 Lombard with 320MB RAM. It works a lot better than I think it should.However, she has a 20 Gig drive in it. I think you will really be pressed for space with a 6Gig drive--not to mention speed of the old drives. Get a new drive. -- -- 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: TiBook WiFi Reception
I have been putting off doing WiFi for a long time figuring that the new standards would make it more attractive. So 11(g) is more attractive, but its also more expensive and apparently the range issues cut down on realworld speed. (I've already conceded that I'll use hardwires for any file tranfers). So I have to equip a new cheap Dell, a Lombard and a TiBook. I need 100 feet of range to be happy, so I figure that I'll have to use a PCMCIA card for my 550 TiBook, because the internal antenna is so bad. I figure that since everybody likes Orinoco/lucent cards those look fine, but I was wondering whether to go with a regular router with a card stuck in it. There was a review of the bigger and apparently more powerful Asante router here: http://www.mymac.com/weeks/asante_2.20.03.shtml. I like cheap equipment, but equipment that doesn't work is expensive. So since the Asante router is now down to $139 does this look like a good deal, or should I get an airport with the supposedly nifty apple software and put some tin can antennas on it? (Like they did here: http://home.earthlink.net/~wifi-shootout/) -- -- 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: Making the switch to OS X (yeah, I know...)
I'm not much of a help here with regard to OSX software, (Photoshop Elements 1.0 is not carbonized) but, don't be afraid to run stuff in classic. I find classic works great. The only time I boot in 9 is to print in photoshop 7--because it won't boot in classic, and as you all know, if you try to print 50-100 copies of something in Word or Photoshop the OSX print driver will print each item as a separate document, rastering each independently, thereby causing each copy to take 3-4 minutes or more likely, causing the program to crash. (Also Word X requires every document to be brand new or it wont print it). I keep copies of Word 98-2000 so I can print in classic. -- -- 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: (Why no extended warranty in Florida): Was: I got mine!
Uh, Al Gore? -- -- 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: Dragon Naturallyspeaking 7 and Virtual PC 6
I would be really surprised if naturally speaking would be better than IBM ViaVoice. Computer speed is REALLY important in voice recognition, so I suspect that using VPC would negate any improvenment over ViaVoice. The reason speed is important, is that ViaVoice wants you so slow down or to reduce accuracy. The problem is that you cannot speak slowly and maintain proper speech patterns.I would be really interested in seeing what ViaVoice will do in the new G5. -- -- 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: Pop-up menus
Don't forget that sometimes keys can stick. I never remember this when it happens to me and I go nuts trying to figure out why this or that is happening, and all that is the matter is that a key is stuck. -- -- 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: broken charger plug
Good luck with the charger plugit's really complicated on the TiBook---but I think that you don't absolutely have to have the little light thingys. My little light thingys went out and the plug still worked. Apparently, though the thingys went out because the motherboard was bad and applecare fixed it. -- -- 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: Crash! went the HD
Tony says: So I ran Disk Doctor on Partition 1 hoping to cure it. It found some major problems and instructed me to fix them. I did (but didn't make a note of what they were sadly). Restarted and - oh horror! - the first partition, with my work on, had disappeared. I say: Don't run Disk Doctor or your data will disappear. You are lucky to get it back. You should try disk Warrior---Disk warrior will let you see the results of your poking before you do a destructive poke. -- -- 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: OT..Sorry..Help w/ 10.2.6 Mail
This is a baffling post and I will assume its not a gratuitous flame. OSX is a little different--but if you want OS9 all you have to do is use OS9 in classic mode. I use classic mode ALL THE TIME. My secretary and I both prefer classic mode to OS9 because of its wonderful stability, and it is not that much slower (except on one or two exotic type things). I think it helps to have classic load automatically on startup and stay on all the time. Classic then allows you to use your old mail software or anything else in OS9. My daughter put OSX on my Lombard and it surprised me by working just fine. She has a 20gig drive and 320M Ram. Read the help file on how to start up without the password. I cannot imagine that anyone would not prefer Safari to MSExplorer. Explorer has an ebay thing that is nice--but ebay gives you the same thing on your ebay account. The scrapbook is nice--but not that nice. Go ahead and use Explorer if you like. -- -- 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: gaps in frame TiPB G4
no gaps in mine. -- 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 ---
Airport, Softbase and OSX
From my experience, I would skip weird networking stuff, get a 4-port router with a Wi-Fi card and use that for any broadband networking. In fact, I'll b If you can afford 2 macs and broadband, you can afford a router and its going to work better than any other solution. Also it allows anyone on airport (like with a G-Book) the option to hook up by hardwire for any serious file transfers. I saw the Asante wireless router is listed at $95. (Hey, also Check out the Asante web site and they are selling their basic 4-port router for $49 after rebatethis is a good product and has a good online manual). -- -- 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 ---
OSX running really slow
Eric said: We also had an original 233Mhz iMac rev. B running OS 9.2.2 that was getting frequent pauses where the system would lock up for 3-10 seconds and then start working again intermittently throughout the day... really causing a lot of heartache and wasted time. As soon as I switched that machine to a static IP, the problem disappeared as well. I say: This is really amazing because I have a 266 RevA Beige G3 running 9.2.2 that has been driving me nuts for months. It has these hangs that last from 10 to 70 seconds--mostly 20 secs. I'll just be twiddling with the mouse and there will suddenly be a 10 second hang. No crash--just a hang. I have tried all sorts of things to make them go away and every time I think the problem is gone--maybe for a day--it pops up again. The computer rarely crashes--it just hangs. But what is killing me is that I want to do backups to it from other computers. If it hangs for 15 seconds, then it just slows things down, but if it hangs for 60 seconds the link gets dropped and bad things happen. I have even turned off appletalk and file shareing and it still happens, but I haven't tried a fixed IP address. (I'm wondering what could be happening in the background with appletalk off?). Just today, I tried to do a backup and we went to lunch. I came back and everything had run for 2 hours. My secretary then rebooted her machine (with sys updates) and boom--a long hang and the backup crashes.So possibly it's the DHCP? By the way, I find the OSX 10.2.6 on my 550 TiBook to be vastly superior networkwise than some oder versions. (I still have to print out of classic 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 ---
iTunes Importing
I find it interesting that there are complaints about MP3 Quality. I remember when CDs first came out. They were really really awful. Portions of some recordings sounded like fingernails on chalkboards to me. This is because taking good music and converting it to digital seriously degrades the recording--particularly when you only sample at 44khz. Also your machine then has to recreate a sound based upon that code and so the music creation algorithm in your player is critical. Over time, these have improved but modern CDs are still not comparable to the output of modest hi-fi equipment from the late 70s. Some MP3s really stink because of the really awful encoding out there. I have never encoded using iTunes, so I don't know if it is reasonably good or not at encoding. I would think you would want variable bit rate and so forth--and I'm not sure it has that. And I don't know how to control the dynamic range. I suspect it's a lot like digital photography. Every time you go through some digital conversion process you lose a whole bunch of information/data/whatever. Maybe if you went direct from mike to MP3 you would have less of a problem than going from CD to MP3. But when you say that MP3s are bad, I can't help but suggest that CDs are bad, so what do you want? -- -- 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 ---
Laserjet Help
Can you administer your router? If you can you should be able to find the TCP/IP address that way. After all, whatever it is--its handled through the router. -- -- 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 ---
E-Mail Software
I'm thinking this is OnTopic because Email is so important to laptops. I use Eudora, but I think its is getting a little long in the tooth. I have several email POP servers and I need to be able to route incoming emails to folders or accounts (like eudora) but I would also like to be able to convert lists of email addresses to an address book. Eudora will convert an email address when it is from someone, and it will convert a group of addresses to group in an address book, but I would like something that breaks them apart. (I have MS Office but I have not looked at Entourage or OSXMail. I figure it will take a month to adapt.) Any suggestions. Should I stay on Eudora? -- 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 ---
Printer problem
KP Wrote: The printer in question is an Apple Personal Laserwriter (LS?). It is quite old (I got it in about 1995). It's starting to print a grey stripe down the left hand side of the page, in the margin. Obviously some toner is getting where it shouldn't. Does anybody know how to fix this? Although I have not seen that specific printer for a while, with laserprinters in general, that type of problem is usually related to the cartridge. I didn't know that they made a PLW that late--and there were a bunch of models so you might check your manual on what you have. Here are some things that you might do if you can't swap the cartridge: a) turn down the print density with the print density slider thingy on the inside.Sometimes a cartridge just starts dumping toner and this tightens it up; Look in your manual though--I think that model, you have to turn toward the wide side of the symbol--not the narrow side--and this is totally counterintuitive; b) clean everything inside including the wire in the cartridge and the wires that twist across the thingy in the middle;; c) rock your cartridge--end to end first and then front to back; 4: blow it out with air and run clean paper through it. I am acquainted with versions of that printer and they last quite a while, but Buy a used Laserwriter II NTX with appletalk and a life expectancy measured in geological time. -- -- 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 ---
CD-ROM Burner Compatibility issues
I have tried to find some comprehensive site that will explain to me why some home-burnt cd-r disks won't play on some drives. I have some Staples (gold/silver) and some Imation(silver/silver) 16x 800Mg disks that I burn on either my FlowerPower iMac (matsushita) or my 8x Yamaha drive on my Beige G3 tower. I have found that some disks won't play on my Lombard, some won't play on my G3, and some won't play on a rather new CD player that plays MP-3s and has played other home burnt disks. (The disks will all play in burner drives.) Do I have to use 650Mg disks? Do I use 8x disks and burn them at 8x (if I could find some)? Any Help? -- -- 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 ---
New PB
Mark wrote:I'm looking for suggestions for the next PB (used). I do mostly word processing and a little surfing, My 14 333 Lombard will get up to 5.5 hours on a battery if I set it on low power consumption, running Word '98. And remember, if you don't need the CD-ROM drive you can put a second battery in the CD slot. Note that you may want to make sure you get the 14 screen version. Remember, the Lombard has USB and SCSI--the Pismo has firewire. I got the Lombard because of the SCSI port, but starting this year, I wish I had an internal (self-powering) firewire port. -- -- 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 ---
USB printer sharing X-9
I have had intermittent problems with the 9 to X serving, but it will work if you are sure that the printing is turned on at the server machine properly in Classic. Try booting up from 9 and seeing if it will work that way. Try installing the driver when booted up from 9. Try updating the driver. Make sure you clicked the check box in the control panel on the server machine. I have published a printer in the past and then not done the extra step of clicking in the box.I really think you should try it booted in OS9 first and then in classic. Obviously, classic has to be running when you go looking for the printer--AND your server computer must not be asleep--if it's asleep it won't publish. Check out your connection by checking the file sharing from the server to the remote. (I know that's obvious but some days obvious stuff isn't obvious). The remote machine does not have to have a USB port in theory, but sometimes I wonder if that affects the driver installation. I have printed from machines without a USB.The Chooser is irrelevant in the remote machine until you have established a connection and identified and clicked on the remote printer in the USB control panel. After that you will continue to see the remote computers listed in the control panel, even if you are disconnected from the network. Try incense. -- -- 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 ---
CD-ROM Expansion Bay Problems.
I had the same problem with my 333 Lombard. Worked fine for years, All of a sudden, it won't recognize some home-burnt disks. I haven't investigated the problem very thoroughly though to find the parameters of the problem so i don't know what disks and circumstances are involved. -- -- 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 ---
Virtual Memory question for OS9
I have found that there is a dramatic advantage to using Virtual Memory with Microsoft software. I allocate 50 Megs to Explorer for example, in my 192 meg Lombard, which I usually set to 193 VM. I think I read that this is because VM turns on a more modern memory manager and that MS likes that mgr. better. I used to set it to one meg over my actual RAM, but I found I could not tell the difference if I went from 193 to 250. I also have a 333 iMac and I was supprised to find that some games run better with VM jacked up to 250. I beleive that the only time you need to turn VM Off is when playing with video. -- -- 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 ---
New to the list and have some questions..anyone?
Josh: If you are new to the list check out the archive--these are standard topics. Here goes: Hello to everyone, I just bought a Lombard..333mhz, 192 megs of ram, 4 gig and was just wondering what you guys have as far as your OS on your Lombards.. I have a 333 Lombard with 192megs and it runs OSX OK--if your expectations are not unreasonable. Once you get your new drive make three disk partitions and keep OS9 on one partition and OSX on the other. You may want to stay on OS9. Also, I'm thinking about upgrading the HD, it would appear for not much more I could get a Newer Firewire card, and a firewire 7200rpm HD for just a little bit more than a regular 2.5 5400rpm IDE hard drive.. Others have discussed this topic--check the archives.I bought an drive from OWC and then put the old drive in a $60 firewire box that is powered through the cable. It is a wonderful thing for my other computers--but I can't use the firewire on the Lombard without a firewire card--which I also need for my ipod--but remember only the really, really expensive firewire card ( can't remember the name) allows you to connect an external power supply to the card to power the cable on a portable firewire drive--including the cost of the external power supply I think it costs over $100 (all firewire cardbus cards are not equal). IN other words, without a plug in power supply you cannot power firewire through the cardbus; you must have a self-powered external drive--or a self powered cardbus--you cannot drive your drive from the lombard battery. Now think of thisyou can't take that big drive with you and 4 Gigs is hardly enough disk space these days for much of anything. Since your new drive would be critical for giving your machine a speed boost, and so you would want it to be the boot up drive-- you really want the new internal drive for speed and portability. I can promise you, the new drive will really speed up the machine. There are other experts here that know more about processor swaps and dvd chips, but of course at some point, if you want a pismo, its cheaper to sell the Lombard and get a pismo. -- -- 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 ---
Ti-Book Battery
I have a 1-year-old ti-book. I have always used OSX. The battery used to get 5 hours (no kidding). Now I am getting only about 2--or even less. Is there anything that will recondition this battery at all--like with the old G-3sor do I have to get a new one? -- -- 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 ---
Followup on Lombard ethernet
Last September I lost the ethernet on my Lombard. I tried it on each of six different busses and switches.I bought an asante cardbus card for it and it worked great. Then I has some horrible problems with OSX and the cardbus---wiping out parts of my disk and so forth. So I reformated everything from scratch and only used OS9.1. Well anyway, I was having trouble getting the cardbus to work. So one evening I was very tired, I sat down to work on the machine, and without thinking I hooked the ethernet wire to the standard port. After it booted up, I realized what I did, but I punched explorer anyway to see what happened. Low and behold everything worked fine. So I am guessing that resetting the PRAM and resetting the the power restart switch, pulling the battery and so forth, something there reset the ethernet. So anyway, my Ti-book won't log on to autosensing switchable 10/100bt ports---it will only hook up to non-switchable non-sensing 10bt ports. So I reset the PRAM several times, I hit the hard reset button for a while, and low and behold, I got the 10/100 ethernet back. Apple took my Tibook some time ago, fixed it and sent it back---I don't know if that's what they did--but I they had told me this stuff it would have saved me a whole bunch of trouble. -- -- 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 ---
Lombard Upgrade
I have a 333 Lombard and putting a fast disk drive in it will really speed it up. -- -- 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 ---
Smashed 14.1 Lombard Display
My energetic Family smashed our 14.1 inch Lombard screen. The rest of the computer is just fine and because the upper left corner works I can actually access part of the apple menu. I can access the computer on the nework. Does anyone have any ideas where or how to get another display? (I could probably install it.) Who would fix this and rough estimate? Anyone know about Powerbook ResQ? -- -- 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 ---
IBM 20GB PowerBook drive
Andrew Main at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently purchased one of the new 40GNX 5400RPM 20GB IBM drives (model IC25N020ATCS05) for my G3 PowerBooK-In fact, the drive is noisier than the earlier model 4200RPM 20GB fluid dynamic bearing IBM drive I bought last year As chronicled earlier in these missives, I purchased a 40GB 40GN IBM drive and it completely died after 10 days with a loud clatter. However, both that drive (prior to its death rattle) and its replacement are so quiet that I can hardly tell when my Ti-Book 550 is awake. Please note that my drive is a wimpy 40GN and yours is a 40GNX --so I don't know whether your newer, faster drive is supposed to be noisier, but I am guessing no. -- -- 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:G-Books-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:G-Books-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lemlists.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
PC-card cooling fan for Wallstreet?
Kent wrote: Does anyone know of a pc-card (pcmcia) cooling fan that would work with a Wallstreet? I thought Cyberguys would have one--since they have about 50 coolers for desktops--including one with colored lights that looks really really cool. I found a few on Google including: http://www.directron.com/fan-nb.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:G-Books;mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:G-Books-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:G-Books-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lemlists.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Apple support
Jeremy Derr wrote: apple only provides 90 days of complimentary tech support on the phone. if you pay them the $50 and it winds up being a warranty issue, they don't ever actually charge you the $50. BUT IN FACT Apple provides 1 year tech support on refurbished machines--or at least it did in March. Even the tech support guy conceded that. But he stated that since I could not establish that I was a mac owner I couldn't talk to him. I don't think this is an Apple policy, I just think its a young guy on the line. BUT you know that it is impossible to talk to apple tech support without an interruption every 30 seconds suggesting that the conversation would go better with AppleCARE. this is standard sell the warranty stuff you get in every tech store in America. It's where the profit comes from. Why should I pay $400 for a warranty I already have? -- -- 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:G-Books-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:G-Books-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lemlists.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
OSX Install
Obi-Wan wrote: . Just recently I installed 10.2 on a 30gb external 2.5 drive. Not a hitch. Are you sure you didn't *accidentally* select the wrong drive to install it on?? BUT In fact--it did exactly what it should have done on the external drive--but it only wiped the OSX partition on the internal drive --not the whole drive--AND it did not install OSX--AND it formatted it with HFS NOT HFS+. If I had pressed wrong buttons, it would not have done the right thing on the external drive. I have no conclusions other than I am taking the advice to backup prior to an installation more seriously. I lost 3 drives in 2 weeks. And even with backups its really really painful. -- -- 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:G-Books-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:G-Books-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lemlists.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
BAD Lawyers
SOMEBODY WROTE THIS: ubject: Re: BAD Lawyers From: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] you'd think, he being a lawyer and all, probably would have looked into that already, rather than making crazy threats about suing apple. On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 03:04 PM, Jeremy Derr wrote: Being a lawyer, I figure I'll sue them if I have some free time. I should never have had to had the port go out altogether anyway. before you even discuss suits, you PROBABLY want to look at the text of the Apple Warranty. JUSTIN: you may find that the Apple support period changes over time---like now--when it is ambiguous for refurbs---but If you wish, I can scan and send to you the Customer Service Information for Reconditioned Product that came with my Ti-Book and which states: Your telephone support includes 1 year of assistance for Apple branded products.* . . . * Following the 1-year support period, you may be asked to provide a credit card or other payment method. This was a substantial inducement for me to buy a refurb rather than new machine. That's right I'm a lawyer. And that's right--I read the fine print--always. You, however, obviously, do not read the fine print, but instead, reading the comment of some anonymous entity on the web (who by the way only suggested that I might want to read the text of the Apple warranty--which I did) now you have suggested that I should have read this instead of making crazy threats to Apple. In fact, I had read it. Apple did promise me one year of telephone support, but all of that is irrelevant because the product became defective one month after I obtained it and support blew me off three times--over three months, before the port finally went altogether and I purchased Applecare from desperation. As a former Apple legal fellow, if I thought Apple was a bad company I would not have purchased 12 Macs over the last 16 years. And, as virtually every other lawyer, I would send a comprehensive letter to the support department discussing the problem prior to suing them. I have done that once, but sometimes, when dealing with a corporation, it takes a certified letter from the clerk of courts to get the attention of someone high enough in the hierarchy to address the issue. It might have been that I had made a mistake--and the writer prior to you suggested that I check the fine print. I think that's appropriate. However, it is not appropriate for you to go on line and pile on. That would be true even if you were right . Of course you were wrong, and most people in your position would feel some shame, but I feel comfortable knowing that you probably won't. -- -- 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:G-Books-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:G-Books-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lemlists.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
OSX 10.2 Install
WARNING ! WARNING ! I proceeded to install OSX 10.2 on an external firewire drive. The external drive had 3 partitions. The internal drive of the FlowPow iMac had three partitions and was running OSX 10.2. I selected the option in OSX that provides for complete erasure of the old system before installing. The install disk rebooted from the CD EVEN THOUGH THAT WAS NOT NECESSARY --- because the internal drive was already 10.2 and I only wanted to upgrade the external disk. The install disk---WIPED OUT MY ENTIRE INTERNAL Drive BOOT PARTITION Even though it only installed 10.2 on the external drive --and it did not touch any of the other partitions, it wiped out the entire 10.2 internal partition and did not install anything on it =. Furthermore, It reformatted the 10.2 partition with the old HFS formatting!?! I tried everything (New Norton, Old Norton, Diskwarriors ) to find anything on this partition and it was so completely wiped I couldn't recover a single file. And then I had to completely reformat the partition to install system 10.2 all over again !?! THIS IS A HUGE and SERIOUS INSTALLATION BUG. THE LESSONS: 1) if you want to do a clean install---do it cleaning manually. 2) Use extreme caution installing 10.2 one computers with multiple disks. -- -- 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
BAD Apples
I have a refurbished 550 Ti-Book purchased late March 2002. Warranty and support are for 1 year. My ethernet port has never worked as well as I thought it should in loggin in, etc. In May, It stopped working with one of my 10/100 switches. in June it stopped working with my Farrallon 10/100 switch at home (it would light the light on the switch and say that it was connected but the TCP-IP Number would change every 5-15 seconds). It would not work with my skynet switch, my linksys router, my old assante router and my brand new assante router. It would only work on the 10B-T ports of my Asante switch--not the 10/100 ports. Apple has consistently given me the run around on this. Finally, three weeks ago, my port quit entirely. Apple refused to talk to me. Apple claimed that my machine was not registered even though I can go online and find service notes on my Ti-book. They claimed that only one of the 4 macs that I have purchased in the last 4 years was registered. AND THIS IS SO even though I purchased it at the apple store !!! and I have actually purchased OSX and so forth!! Apple said that even though I might have a warranty claim I had to pay them $50 to look at it. They denied that I was entitled to 1 year support for my refurbished book. So I paid them $400 for Applecare. They fixed it, and it is clear that the ethernet never worked right in the first place. It logs on great now. As a further matter, my internal drive got all screwed up, because while I was trying to back up by way of the IR port, I booted in OS 9 and the system froze. I could only get it restarted with the interrupt button which screws up the date and time--my folders and files got screwed up dates (I don't know why) and now my files are a mess. Being a lawyer, I figure I'll sue them if I have some free time. I should never have had to had the port go out altogether anyway. As an aside, my Lombard had the same thing happen to it---later. It happened when I plugged it into the power while it was on the network. The Lombard's ethernet was gradually going bad also. I replaced that ethernet with an Assante card. Wow, what a difference. I have always believed that Apple's built in ethernet was a strength, but based upon my experiences (I also had a PM7300 whose ethernet gradually went bad and then died--and it was not just the 10B-T that died, the AAUI went bad simultaneously -- the ethernet will log on when it is cold--but when it gets just slightly warm it goes dead.) Without ethernet your modern Mac (or pc) is in serious trouble. IR is useless. Target firewire is pretty good. 10B-T is really slow for serious file transfers now that OSX has added so many files. -- -- 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Clean Install OSX
Does anyone know how to do a clean install of OSX and keep your files? I know that OSX can set aside your old system folder on an install but if the thing was buggy to begin with I want to know what is going into the new system. For example, I would love to transfer my ViaVoice files to OSX 10.2 without transferring anything else. Maybe also some fonts. BUT OSX is so complicated and there are so many invisible files i don't know how to do this. Carbon Cloner clones your system folder--but if it's buggy what does this do? IDEAS? -- -- 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: OT-new Powerbook recommendation
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 10:13 AM, John Slavin wrote: My sister is thinking about buying a new Powerbook and has her eyes on a Powerbook G4. She's recently retired and is looking at a system for working on photos she accumulated over her lifetime. Powerbook G4-what model and configuration printer-obviously needs to print good photos with long lasting inks Walt replied: If she is planning on scanning in many photos or slides, I would suggest using VueScan. This is a complicated question. I would say that Photoshop Elements is pretty much the way to go. It is just like Photoshop, minus a few features. After I screwed around with the other software I concluded there is a reason why everybody uses Photoshop. I have an HP5490c scanner. I got it for the sheet feeder but the HP twain implementation for the sheet feeder stinks. It has a slide/negative scanner and works at 2400x2400 and 48 bits (well it says it does). It does very nice work BUT THIS IS A BIG BUT, HP has no OSX drivers. Furthermore, the HP TWAIN coodination leaves a WHOLE lot to be desired. AND FURTHERMORE the thing is really slow at 2400--taking 5 minutes per negative (20min per strip of 4) at 2400dpi 48bits.FURTHERMORE, it doesn't work with Vuescan--which you may want. just remember--look at the smaller of the two numbers for picking a scanner. Don't even think of anything less than 1800 dpi because negatives are better than prints--if of course, you have them. Or buy a used Nikon Coolscan on eBay. If she is scanning prints she might get an HP 5300 (my sec'y has onee ) which works with Vuescan and is cheaper. I don't have an Epson scanner, but Epson seems to have a better track record of producing mac drivers. I use a tibook, sometimes, and it works great with photoshop, but think about getting a real monitor. I saw that mac of all trades has an old 17 Studio monitor for $150--I have one and its a lot easier on your eyes than an LCD and gives you better color. Of course that particular monitor won't plug into a Tibook. Maybe look at an eMac--I haven't but is should have a great monitor. Does it have to be portable? She should also get a cheap stylus for cropping and things---I got a cheap one for $15 from headgap. good ones cost more. I use an old color laserprinter, but I bought an Epson 888 some time ago because it pre-dated the microchips in the ink cartridges that cost so much. (It worked great until my wife jammed the epson 600 carts in it.) Inkjet dyes only last a couple years even if covered, but the the newer pigment based inks should last a long time. Locate your inks first--then buy the printer. There seems to be an idea that Epsons are good for photographs--and in particular it has more pigment ink available--both epson and 3rd party. HP has stated officially that inkjets are only for temporary prints and they want you to buy an HP laser for permanent prints. (My Lexmark Z53 is great. It has pigment black and color dyes, but the ink costs a small fortune--pcworld calculated the ink cost at 15¢ a page average--and it would obviously be more for photos.) -- -- 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Orinco and Long distance Airport
This guy Cringely took an Apple airport and with the use of regular old antennas beamed the signal 16 miles to his home. Here is one version of the story. There was a longer and more detailed version of the story somewhere. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010628.html Anyway: just like your phone--if you set up the antenna right you get a lot more signal -- -- 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! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at http://roadtools.com. Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html 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/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Good, inexpensive digital camera
Film is infinitely better and cheaper than digital. I have done it both ways now, and film is so much cheaper than digital there is no comparison.Film is also infinitely superior in quality---by at least 3 orders of magnitude. As an example, scanning Fuji ASA-800 film on my 2400 * 2400 dpi HP scanner, I am not even close to seeing any grain in the film. And Fuji 800 is a much faster film than any digital camera--with regard to any specific contrast and resolution standard. A scan of a 35mm negative at 2400dpisq (a real 2400 not virtual 2400) creates a file roughly in the 40-70 meg range that would swamp any camera if it had to store it. A proper 40,000dpisq scan from say a Nikon coolscan would be Signifiacantly more troublesome. Film has dramatically higher color and contrast depth than digital pictures.A disposable camera produces much superior photos to even the most expensive electronic camera---and not merely because of pixels--but because of resolution and contrast or depth. You might think that scanning from a print would be better than scanning from a negative--after all 2400 dpi on a negative gives a total resolution of only about 3300 by 2200 for the picture, whereas the print gives a much higher resolution scan. But it turns out that the negative has greater depth. And so I have found negative scans to be far superior than print scans---even though I don't have a Nikon Coolscan. ( I have an HP 5490c scanner---don't get it--get one compatible with Vuescan software---HP is notorious for not supporting their hardware with drivers and I am afraid that this scanner is no exception--the odds of ever seeing an OSX version of the driver are getting slimmer and slimmer and apparently the scanner's USB port runs from a parallel to USB converter inside. So the scans are great--but in system 9 only) For years, film has evolved to en extremely efficient medium. Everyone knows (or should know) that there is a difference between Kodachrome and Ectachrome--not to mention KodaColor and Fuji and Agfa and so forth. Kodachrome and Ectachrome both give accurate colors, but those colors feel different and have a different mood. As another example, print film (eg Kodacolor) has a much wider exposure range (plus or minus 4 stops) compared to chrome (viz slide) film. And chrome is an order of magnitude superior to digital. For all practical purposes, electronic photos are useless, except for use online--where you expect bad quaility and don't have the bandwidth to show good quality, or for snapshots where you neither enlarge nor crop. And if you don't do these things:Why go digital anyway?? Furthermore, when it comes to taking pictures, the electronic camera requires a huge supply of rechargeable batteries and there is always a delay when shooting--so you cannot use electronic cameras to take any action shots. I have tried a couple of cameras and they all want to do stuff before you shoot--instead of letting you shoot. Printing photos off the computer and onto a printer is so difficult and requires so much time, I think I could probably do it faster in a basement darkroom. I have spent hours on a single photo. I just don't have that kind time for any but the special photos. And I do take that time for special photos. I do spend a lot of time on special photos--but now I start out with film--and then crop. You can't crop electronic photo's because by the time you are finished cropping there is no picture information left for the enlargement. Finally, be aware that ink jet ink fades within 4 years--even if the picture is covered in a book. Epson claims to have archival quality inks--but I haven't seen any quality reviews of these. (even color photo prints fade to black and white over time---but ink jet prints have no underlying black white). (I use a color laserwriter--but I have no idea how many years these prints will last. My 35 mm Nikon FA batteries last 7-8 years-and it will still operate at -20 below with no batteries at all. Even with seven or eight sets of batteries, I cannot take electronic photos in the field over the course of a day. For example, no one can take electronic photos of a soccer game because of the bad lenses, the low resolution--AND because of the batteries. I have seen some great big batteries--but I have not seen any that could stay on-full for 3 hours--even though some video cams do. With a film camera, you can tell from the mood of the picture what lens you have used or what film you have used. I have only played around with a few digital cameras but my impression is that although lenses are very critical for 35mm film--Nikor, Canon, Zeiss lenses offer a superior quality that could be visible to a soccer mom-- I am not sure how much good a better lens will do for digital photos because I am not sure the recording medium is there yet.
