Re: [OT] [PB]F key shortcuts
on 4/4/03 2:13 AM, Jon Glass at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 04:02 AM, Eric D. wrote: They are ubiquitous, and more than half the population has experienced Windows, but far fewer have experienced Mac. This number is actually far greater than you are assuming. I have run into few kids (and I meet a lot) who have not used the Mac in their classroom or school. Macs have had broad exposure through the classroom. Of course, this is changing, but in my experience, a vast number of kids are at least familiar with the Mac because of school, so this number would probably be higher than you suggest. I was just thinking of the % who hasn't touched a computer in any serious way (25-30%?) -- I'm talking the person who's looked at a kiosk in a museum, but does not actually own one or has a friend who owns one. I really wonder where things'll go. I think that in the next few years we'll see a make-or-break situation for computers and OSes. We've gone from being able to sell new computers simply because they're faster to having to make better software to sell new computers b/c the existing computers are as fast as they *need* to be. For us consumers this is a great thing. Software manufacturers will now have to focus on quality interfaces and stability than simply writing useless features to consume more processing power. One of my regular working computers is a Pentium 166 running Windows 95, Office 97 and IE 5.5 and it does all of those things quite satisfactorily (web browsing can be slow sometimes, but even with a 10BaseT pipe to the web the computer is rarely the bottle neck). Sometimes (when it's cached) it even opens Word 97 faster than a computer 10x faster, a G4/1 GHz, will open Word for X (and, feature-wise Word 97 and Word X are virtually identical (IMNSHO Word 97 does a better job of auto-crap than X because 97 has less auto-crap than X)). Another of my regular machines is a 7600/132. For everything but web browsing (painfully slow on a LAN) it is more than an adequate computer (Office 98)! When these computers were new (95, 96) I would never have looked to a computer that was 7-8 years old (IIcx, IIsi) to be functionally equivalent to then current computers and to be willing to use them on a weekly basis. Computers are now so fast that the encouragement to upgrade to newer hardware comes not from faster CPUs. If you've ever played with a 3+ GHz Pentium or a dual processor 1.2 GHz G4 you'll know what I mean ;): web browsing, spread sheets, word processing and full screen video don't benefit from faster CPUs anymore. My G3/400 doesn't do some full screen video (M$ media player, some QT movies, Real Player) happily but something with only a scant 200 or 300 extra MHz does that fine. Web browsing is about as fast as it can possibly be (about 10% of the time my computer is actually the bottle neck (LAN-based internet access)). Word processing and spread sheets have been as fast as they can be since 1980!!! It really doesn't take much to write text or crunch the types of numbers most of us use, though, for some bizarre reason Office for X is slower than molasses in January, and aside from PowerPoint (which was a poorly written app in 98/2001) offers no improvements over Word 6/Excel 5. About the only thing that's really demanding on CPUs is the modern video game, and, for that I'd rather have a console than a computer any day. Video games stress a computer physically and I'd rather pound away on an attachment to a $300 console than the keyboard on a $2000 laptop (which does a worse job of playing games 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 ---
Re: Sleep in OSX is really simple
on 3/4/03 10:33 AM, Eric Morrison at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what the heck you are going-on about how stupid Apple is regarding OS X and sleep. What I do know is that it is extremely,extremely simple and convenient to put my Pismo to sleep in OS X (and doesn't require Applescripting, Command-Tabbing, etc. , etc.). Simply press the power button once. This brings up a dialog that lets you put the machine to sleep, shut it down, restart or cancel this command. To execute any of these you press: S for Sleep Enter for shut down R for restart Command-Period to cancel the dialog Couldn't be simpler, fast, convenient ... well done Apple. I still remember when Apple first introduced it... it was such a nice feature but they only had it active for a few computers ( just like the control strip, it took them forever to make it a universal feature (though, the coding was so simple)). Sometimes I can't figure out the way Apple comes up with great ideas (or kills 'em) but only provides them to a subset of their users and it takes a few iterations before the ideas are implemented across the board. FYI I think the original poster was looking for a one-key solution to sleeping their computer, and they also wanted to be able to use their F-keys to launch apps in OS X. I had to use a script b/c Apple hasn't got around to adding security to its sleep function yet, and since I clamshell the computer (half the time it's docked and nicely hidden underneath the monitor) that's the only way of activating password protection *and* putting the computer to sleep, ensuring a certain measure of password security while I move the laptop around. Anyhow, take care. Eric. -- 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: [PB]F key shortcuts
on 1/4/03 10:58 PM, Marty Lindower at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to set the F keys on my Wallstreet to do functions? I would like to set one to make the computer go to sleep. geno. 1. Try KeyQuencer, which will let you program any keys to do nearly anything you could want. 2. If you just want your Wallstreet to snooze, press command-shift-zero. Is cmd-shift-zero a Wallstreet or OS 9 specific thing (seems doubtful for the first item)? In OS 9/8.6 go into the Keyboard control panel and enable the option. In OS X, Apple in it's infinite stupidity removed that ability and replaced it with a retarded scheme to allow for non-functional keyboard control over the GUI (the windows system is markedly better... plus, that way people can use what 99+% of the world is used to (only a tiny fraction of Mac users will learn Apple's convoluted scheme, and a much larger fraction will know Windows' scheme)). You'll have to get a third party thing to do that (and, as with all third party apps stability problems exist (even in OS X)) like the KeyQuencher mentioned, KeyXing and a few others (search on versiontracker.com for repalcements). To get sleep (if that cmd-shift-zero doesn't work), write/record yourself a script to put your computer to sleep, make it executable without a dialogue box popping up, and assign it to an F-key... it might go something like: tell application Finder sleep end tell In OS X, it's the same if you want to add password protection to your sleep (as Apple should if it wants to promote security in its OS): add this before the above script launch application ScreenSaverEngine delay 5 Aargh. I hope Apple fixes the damn dock in OS X 10.2.5. This non-functional command-tab cycling is so useless. I hate the thought of installing third party software that has kernel level access (the only thing I haven't tried are the haxies) but I may just have to (unfortunately none of the options I've tried so far are overly stable or smooth. @!$!)[EMAIL PROTECTED]))! Apple and their idiotic designs). Eric. -- 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: HELP!!! Fried my Lombard! - Resolved 90%
on 1/4/03 12:28 AM, John Beringer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To my dismay, after cleaning up the crash, zeroing the HD from CD (again), reinstalling 9.0.4-9.1-9.2.1-9.2.2 (again) I still kept having freezes and crashes with only: Office 2001 IE 5.1 Stuffit6.5 Have you (a) updated Office 2001 to the latest update? (b) Updated IE to 5.1.6? (c) Updated Stuffit to the latest version (7.0.1)? With those three items you *should* have rock solid operation. M$ Excel 2001 *never* gave me any problems and I could probably count the number of M$ Word 2001 crashes in over a year on one hand. M$ PowerPoint 2001 was only marginally more stable than its predecessor 98 version though :( :( :(. IE is a different story. You can probably expect a crash once/2 days - twice/day, however, unless you're dealing with QuickTime ( the problem is QuickTime's) you shouldn't have any full freezes. Eric. -- 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: Track Pad issues?
on 1/4/03 5:46 PM, Doug Neff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I *think* that when I first got it, the track pad accepted tapping as clicking, and double-tapping as double-clicking. Then, mysteriously, it stopped doing that. I installed and configured several things over the last few days, so I have no idea which thing in particular caused this (or maybe I was mistaken and it didn't really do that to begin with.) Anyway, I'm running Jaguar, and for the life of me I can't find any trackpad settings. If I reboot in OS 9, there is a trackpad control panel, and tapping works normally there. I even changed the speed of the trackpad in OS9 and it was reflected when I rebooted in Jaguar. Go into the mouse preferences panel and you'll be able to change the trackpad settings (Jaguar). Eric. -- 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: Digital camera
From: Ed Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G-Books) Sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:51:32 -0500 Subject: Re: Digital camera Is there such a thing as a USB to ADB connector? USB _to_ ADB. No. ADB _to_ USB. Yes, and the most popular (and exceptionally well supported I might add) is the iMate from Griffin Technology (it does everything, including hook up an ADB kitchen sink to USB). That said, there is one exception to the USB-ADB thingy and I think that applies to some mice but that would be a three-way adaptor. USB-PS2-ADB. -- 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: BAA38B98.78AF%liriodendron@mac.com
on 24/3/03 8:01 AM, Kyle Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/24/03 4:35 AM, muir mackean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Boy, Apple thinks of everything - by the time you are back from the washroom your Pismo is up and running. Bet you couldn't get a PC to do that... Excuse me? Is this a deliberate flame? No, he was responding to a post of mine... my Pismo wakes up when I turn off the fan in the washroom if it's plugged into the mains (same circuit). Eric (it was funny... gave me a good chuckle ;) -- 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 ---
Connecting two AirPort cards
Hello, another question about PowerBooks and wireless: (a) can two AirPort cards talk to each other, or do they need an Airport Base Station? (b) can two of any other PCMCIA wireless cards talk to each other, or do they too need the (equivalent to a) Base Station? (c) can Airport and non-Airport 802.11b or 802.11g cards co-exist on an Airport wireless network? (d) has anyone figured out how to get non-Apple cards into the airport slot? There is a report on www.Macintouch.com (I think that's where I saw it... maybe it was on dealmac.com's discussion forums (it was today I saw it)) that said it was possible to get a non-Apple card working in the Airport slot (it just didn't fit properly) -- the Mac OS supposedly recognised it as an Airport card. Eric. -- 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 (WiFi?) networking query
on 17/3/03 8:33 AM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a wireless connection to our ISP, which is how I've even heard of these things, but it seems to me, that this sort of thing is possible, but complicated. I know that our connection is very unreliable at the moment, and our ISP still hasn't figured out how to get it to work... we have a very complex wireless network on our campus... but in essence, my PowerBook sees the network as one-big-wireless-network... even though there are dozens upon dozens of airport base stations spread across a half dozen buildings. as i move about, my ip address doesn't even change (which is impossible if the base stations are in router/gateway mode). What I'm envisioning (and it sounds like your campus is sort of doing what I'm thinking) is a network, capable of working independently of the Internet (I'll use capital-i internet to refer to the system which requires 'land lines' and employs a pay-for-bandwidth model). Such a parallel WiFinet has potentially *huge* pipes compared to today's Internet, all for the distributed cost (everyone who uses also pays their share) of the electricity required to run the base stations. Most people out there (60+%?) currently have dial-up, MAXing out at 56 Kbps (0.056 Mbps), fewer have 128 Kbps (1/8 of 1 Mbps), and fewer still have the high-bandwidth 1 Mbps cable-modems/DSL lines, and even fewer have the 4 MBps cable-modems. 11 Mbps wireless is, _in theory_, 11x faster than 1 Mbps and 172x faster than 56 K! 54 Mbps is another 4.5x faster than 11 and 500+x faster than 56 K!!! If you have two or three of these wireless pipes operating in parallel in a neighbourhood that's more than a few dozen T1s (1.5 Mbps), and, the kicker of such a set up is that you'll get more bandwidth as it grows (of course, weak links will really kill such a setup... how weak is weak?)! (can you apply standard electrical theory to distributed networks?... electrical resistance goes down if you hook things up in parallel) For the sake of my next argument I will place one restriction on the setup: NO bridge to the Internet and Internet-only servers/services is allowed. Any link between my vision of the WiFinet and the Internet would cost money (airwaves are free; land lines are not). I foresee at least two major problems with this system (one which I think can be overcome in time): 1. a lack of services available on the WiFinet will prevent it from growing and services will not develop until the WiFinet grows! (chicken egg); 2. when/if services do grow, hubs/repeaters near such services will see a large amount of traffic. When a critical mass of base stations capable of acting as such hubs develops (to give, let's say a 2x2 block neighbourhood (0.5 km x 0.5 km) saturated WiFi coverage), local businesses, non-profits, etc. could put their own servers on-line merely for the cost of a base station, and the energy required to run the base-stations/computers. Nearly every business/non-profit/etc. now has computers and many of these machines are on 24/7 ANYWAY, even if they don't act as servers, and they could provide local services to local users. This would require the equivalent of a dynamic local directory service to be available to local users. Currently it's pretty challenging to find stuff in your OWN town. You can find stuff in the littlest of stores in Timbuktu but don't even think of trying to find your neighbourhood video store on-line (even if they have a presence the chances of finding it are pretty slim). Businesses currently hosting Internet servers could very cheaply make those available through WiFi as well (with a properly configured firewall to prevent Internet-WiFi traffic 'hopping', thereby costing them bandwidth $$$). Similarly, non-profits (who don't count as charitable orgs) often pay scarce resource $$$ for web hosting could do so for much lower cost, and target their target audience (local users). Anyway, these are my muddled thoughts. I'm thinking of putting them together into a more articulate form and sending them to LEM or some other web site. The idea seems neat to me, even if it's not ground breaking, and merely an extension of the current internet. (PS I see many other problems with a WiFinet too... security, latency, reliability, but these are all things that'll have to be dealt with as community WiFinets evolve (I think they will, perhaps not the way I foresee them happening but they seem like the next natural step)) If something like this were ever to take off one consequence would be that the Internet would become a shared public utility in some places -- through the tax rolls you'd pay for community internet access. Hmmm... Perhaps the computer will turn out to be a way to re-build the sense of *local* community that has been lost with the advent of commuting to one's job. L8r, Eric. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics
Wireless (WiFi?) networking query
Hello all, I am hoping someone can clarify an issue for me with respect to WiFi networking. I have read that it is not possible to link Airport Base Stations to an internet connection in anything but a star topology. This restriction makes me wonder whether it would be possible to daisy-chain base stations, whether they be Apple or 3rd party (11/54 Mbit), and to have *local* (i.e. non-internet) TCP/IP traffic hop between daisy chained base stations)? My second question is -- would it be possible to have a server (http, ftp, etc) which is accessible either to the web, or to the WiFi WAN/LAN with the same IP/DN (accessible within the WiFinet whether or not the internet connection was live... would this require the WiFinet to run its own DNS?)? And, I guess the 3rd question is, can you prevent TCP/IP requests to a server (let's say http) from bridging my conception of a WiFinet and the internet, and vice-versa? i.e. traffic can reach the same http server but not use the server as a conduit to get onto either the WiFinet or internet. I am trying to develop a conceptual framework for my own personal network and am trying to assess how scalable it could be (e.g. a WiFi internet only accessible to, and relevant to our neighbourhood community and businesses, but one in which individual players can access the wider internet as they need without providing free internet access to all). PS I claim ownership over this idea... you can use it, just give me credit (unless someone else already dreamt it up) (it popped into my head last night since I'm trying to figure out whether I should get our Lombard and Pismo and a few other WinDOSe computers in the same house (other people) wirelessly networked, and hooked up to the internet... I have a few other ideas that are only peripherally related to my WiFi problems, but I'll try to flesh them out into a more articulate story eventually). Eric Dunbar. -- 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 ---
Kernel panics, dial-up OS X 10.2.4
Well, I can force OS X 10.2.4 into a kernel panic, *nearly* at will. That said, OS X 10.2.4 *can* be extremely stable, but only if the right settings are used. Remember I posted a problem with dial-up internet access where my Pismo would go into kernel panic if it tried to dial out without a connection to the phone line, or if the connection to the ISP was unstable? ( the solutions offered up invariably involved doing a reinstall of the OS ;). The solution seems to be much simpler than that: turn off 'Connect automatically when needed' in the Advanced PPP dialogue box. Out of curiosity I just ran my machine for 9 days straight and threw everything I could at it (VPC, stats packages, browser wars, etc.) (sleeps interrupting this of course) without having to restart once. The conclusion I can draw from this experience is that OS X can be _very_ stable (can being the operative word). After I'd proved to myself that the machine itself was stable and without any obvious hardware flaws (any problems with memory should've manifested in the nine days) I decided to see if I could cause a kernel panic by changing *one* preference. 20 minutes later, voila there was the k.p.!!! Here's output from w (modified who) at 8 days (I ran it for another 30+ hours after this; I replaced my login name with username and computername as my computer's name): 1:08PM up 8 days, 15:34, 3 users, load averages: 1.65, 1.24, 0.95 USERTTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT username co -27Feb03 8days - username p1 -Fri09PM 0 - username p2 -Fri12PM 24:57 - [Computername:~] username% And output from top: Processes: 41 total, 2 running, 39 sleeping... 124 threads 13:07:49 Load Avg: 0.83, 1.60, 1.51 CPU usage: 14.1% user, 5.3% sys, 80.6% idle SharedLibs: num = 110, resident = 22.6M code, 1.86M data, 7.04M LinkEdit MemRegions: num = 5085, resident = 99.7M + 6.44M private, 120M shared PhysMem: 54.4M wired, 245M active, 154M inactive, 453M used, 58.6M free VM: 2.72G + 64.6M 84081(0) pageins, 107851(0) pageouts (yes, I threw a lot at VM ;) All I can say about OS X is: WOW. Damn it's slick (provided you don't use the unstable parts of the OS)! So, what I did last night was turn on Connect automatically when needed and left Chimera (Camino), Safari and Entourage (Classic) open and disconnected the phone line. I walked away for 10 mins and: wham, bam, crash! [Entrouage was set with scheduled e-mail checks every 2 mins (on purpose b/c I thought Entourage was the problem)] Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies): com.apple.driver.ApplePMU(1.7.8)@0x196f5000 This morning I did a more scientific test of the k.p. and it seems that Chimera (Camino 7) had to be open, perhaps with Entourage (Classic) open too to induce the k.p. I ran Entourage alone for at least 1/2 hour without a k.p. (the computer had never connected to the inet that particular restart, or run any apps other than Apple Sys Profiler, Classic Entourage). I then opened Camino, clicked on a few links to induce it to try to connect to the web, left the computer alone for a few minutes, and then came back to find the words sconnect frozen in the Internet Connect menu bar thingy and the k.p. screen up with a whole bunch of s at the bottom (this was done while I was having breakfast which is why I was willing to experiment). I don't have much spare time on my hands to do more experimentation but it seems that at the very least you need Chimera/Camino open. I cannot say whether or not Classic + Entourage is needed as well since my starting assumption was that Cl + En were at fault. I also don't know if Safari can cause the same problem. The following was part of the 2nd kernel panic I induced this morning as described above (and, exactly like all the k.p.s that plagued me earlier before I turned off 'connect automatically'): Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies): com.apple.driver.AppleSCCSerial(1.2.3)@0x14e79000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily(6.0.1d19)@0x14e6e000 Continued in next message (conclusions). Eric -- 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: Kernel panics, dial-up OS X 10.2.4
on 9/3/03 11:54 AM, Eric D. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: beach ball was active searching for apps). Anyway, when the Finder returned it hadn't found an app to open with. Selecting fewer docs results in less of a lag. I've developed a similar kind of strategy with folders I've placed in the dock -- I will avoid moving the mouse over a pop-up folder unless I need to access its contents... OS X is really sluggish about dealing with sub-menus. Yuck, I really didn't proof read this e-mail very closely... what I meant to say was: I will avoid moving the mouse of sub-menus in a pop-up folder unless I need access its contents or I know there are only a few files in the folder. -- 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: Kernel panics, dial-up OS X 10.2.4
on 9/3/03 1:00 PM, David Clark at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some things that appear to speed it up (no, most of these aren't practical...): unmount volumes not containing apps you want to use to open the files, delete or archive unused apps, blah blah blah. I have NOT, however, heard of any practical workarounds. I don't think that helps, but you have at least one person who sympathizes with you! Chuckle. Thanks for the sympathy. I can empathise :). My work around is to... 60 minutes later... Let this be a warning. *Never* open 83 folder/apps/files/stuffit files/disk images by accident. To see whether the File menu in the Finder also had the Open With... item I selected a whole bunch of items in one folder (so that the Finder would have a lot of items to deal with) and clicked on the File menu. Unfortunately, it *does* and when I tried to get away from it by clicking in another app, the regular Open was activated and two minutes later (after the Finder had its way) everything, including the kitchen sink started opening. OS X is robust b/c it didn't crash (though, it slowed to such a crawl that it wasn't usable *at all* for about 30 minutes (long enough to go do my watering and come back) after which things *slowly* started settling down (I could dismiss dialogues, quit apps, etc). The Finder definitely still needs work! PS The dock REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY sucks at displaying info when more than 15 or so apps are open. I think people are simply being contrarian when they say they have 20 or 30 apps open with the dock active and the dock is still useful for them. I am starting to doubt they're even telling the truth. Without text descriptors it becomes useless with that many icons! Ah well, contrarians do love to opine on any topic as the dock wars in the different Mac forums demonstrate (I should know, I'm quite contrarian in nature myself ;) (plus, I guess Mac users are by their very nature contrarian so this should come as no surprise). Eric. -- 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: Kernel panics, dial-up OS X 10.2.4
on 9/3/03 12:03 PM, Eric D. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yuck, I really didn't proof read this e-mail very closely... what I meant to say was: I will avoid moving the mouse of sub-menus in a pop-up folder unless I need access its contents or I know there are only a few files in the folder. And I didn't proof read the correction ;) I will avoid moving the mouse ofF sub-menus in a pop-up folder unless i need access TO its contents or I know there are only a few files in the folder. -- 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: OS X Command-tab behaviour
on 3/3/03 10:22 PM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i don't find this to be a fault, actually, and i'm fairly sure Apple doesn't either ... it's actually an intentional design choice. it works like this... first tab - last application used next tab - order of open icons on dock, starting from the position of first tab the reasoning is this: when multitasking (and I mean truly multitasking, not randomly moving from one app to another), you tend to move quickly between only 2-3 applications at a time. if, in a situation where I have 10 apps running at a time (which isn't many, for me... i probably usually have 15-30 running), any other method of command-tabbing could make me have to hit the tab key THIRTY times every time I wanted to get to whatever's at the end of the Dock. I guess you don't do true multitasking either (so, I'm wondering who does ;P because it's not a logical progression since it requires a refocussing of your attention to a new position on the (useless) dock. Your explanation also does not make sense to me unless you physically position your apps on the dock (and, unless you like to live with a huge dock, that's impractical). Not exactly a GUI coup. That also reminds me of the problems with command-n in the Finder -- Apple breaks its own GUI rules that it has so stringently enforced for over 15 years. Ah well, you and I seem to disagree on every aspect of Apple's intentions and I doubt that'll change. Eric. -- 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 Saga UPDATE
Ok, I think I see what's going on: you had a 2.5 drive in you Beige G3 (for some bizarre reason -- why?). What you need to do is to reinstall the Mac OS 8.1 on the HD and make sure you install for *all* Macintoshes. Then you might be able to insert it into the Wallstreet successfully. Also, try holding down command-option-shift-delete or command-option-p-r when you restart/turn on the computer (and, maybe reset the power manager... search on Apple's knowledge DB for details). So, Shannon, can you give some more details on the wrong startup disk. Do you actually see the words wrong startup disk? If so, you need to do what I suggested with the install and don't bother doing PRAM/power manager resets until you reinstall. Another thing you may want to try is to find an external SCSI disk/CD-ROM (and a laptop SCSI cable) so that you can boot-up with an external disk, or find another Wallstreet user and install the HD in their machine and do a system install there (it'll work in your machine then). PS Once you get the HD working, you'll be able to update the OS via AppleTalk network. Eric. on 3/3/03 9:36 AM, Shannon M. Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan-I do have the adapter. The hard drive itself works fine in both machines, with the adapter in the Beige G3 and without in the laptop. The system is correctly installed (the drive begins to boot, I get the happy mac for a moment), it's just that the machine says it's the wrong startup disk. Thanks, --Shannon -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ryan Stewart Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:36 AM To: G-Books Subject: Re: Wallstreet Saga I am in need of spiritual counseling about my Wallstreet 266. Or advice, anyway. Here's the scoop. I purchased it cheap from a government auction source, thinking I might return from the Windows Wayward Way, though right now my Thinkpad/Windows 2000 is my trusty sidekick. But I have this nice Wallstreet laptop, and it had no hard drive AND NO CD-ROM or FLOPPY (2 batteries instead), so I put a 1.3gig hd I had lying around in a Beige G3 tower, installed OS 8.1 on THAT machine, then transferred that hd to the laptop, and it said Wrong Startup Disk. Then I found out you needed a I have trouble believing that you simply transferred a HD from a Beige G3 to your Wallstreet! they are totally different connectors. There are adaptors out there, but it doesn't sound like you have one. You need a 2.5 inch hard drive for your wallstreeet, not a bigger desktop drive. Ryan -- 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 Saga
on 28/2/03 10:38 AM, Shannon M. Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Does the Wallstreet REQUIRE an HFS+ startup disk (currently its an HFS volume). No, you can even run OS 9 on HFS. 2) Is what Im doing insane? No 3) Anything I havent thought of? Probably ;P (see my other e-mail). One thing you may want to try is installing a higher version of the OS (8.5 or 9)... you can probably pick up 8.5 for a song on e-bay or on the LEM swaplist if you don't already have it. Eric. -- 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: [Ti] Safari Tabs
on 3/3/03 1:13 PM, Obrecht, Jerry A at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I would suggest that you do two things. First off, have you reported the problem to Apple? using the built-in bug reporting too that is in Safari? If not, don't expect the problem to get resolved. Two, re-install Safari...like I said initially, I don't have this problem with preferences, and so suspect that you have a bad install (BTW, install the latest v.6 version of Safari). Actually, I think it's an OS X thing rather than Safari b/c I had a preferences memory problem for a lot of apps for the first week or so of operation in 10.2.3/10.2.4. Jaguar is nice stable but it certainly is still a work in progress (I'm thinking my assertion that 10.2.5 might be the first real non-beta OS X release was a little premature). Eric. -- 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: Pointer Freeze After Waking - 10.2.3 seems to solve it
on 3/3/03 12:53 PM, Obrecht, Jerry A at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I finally got some time to test out the OS update. I installed 10.2.3, repeat 3, and haven't seen a pointer freeze yet. One of the sleeps was about 24 hours long, which before was long enough to cause a freeze. Chickened out on installing 10.2.4 given some of the modem problems associated with it. You should probably avoid 10.2.4 altogether unless there's something in it that fixes something that's dreadfully wrong in 10.2.3 for you. There have been many reports of problems with the update (modem otherwise) and Apple has even officially acknowledged two and offered (clumsy) kludges for the two the problems. I suspect that 10.2.4 will not go down as one of the most stable versions in the annals of Jaguar stability. Eric. -- 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: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo
on 1/3/03 12:56 PM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, before I spend more time, would there be people interested in that little extension to the screen saver? Basically, right now, in OS X, if you put your computer to sleep while the screen saver is not active, then waking the computer restores it exactly as it was before sleeping. Someone mentions to me that they would find useful a little extension that would activate the screen saver whenever the Mac is put to sleep, so if someone wants to sneak into your computer while you're away, they would face the (admittedly easy to defeat) screen saver instead of your desktop and any running apps. Any interest for that? If it doesn't destabilise my computer and works seamlessly I'm all for it. What I've done now is to use the AppleScript code I posted earlier this week. I've got it sitting on my desktop so I open it whenever I want to put the machine to sleep and secure it. PS I'm going to search out more of those screen saver weaknesses (I'll report back to the list when/if I find reports of any serious ones (so far I haven't found anything which leaves my computer weak... just the dock/F-key one)... I don't like not knowing what my vulnerabilities are). Eric. -- 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 ---
Spectacular crash
I had two kernel panics yesterday (both related to dial-up *yet again*, and both reported the same information as preceding kernel panics). The one was spectacular in what it did to the display. Here's what I posted to Apple's discussion forum it describes the second of the k.p.s (the first happened when I had the modem disconnected from phone line but computer kept trying to dialout. After 20 mins or so, k.p.): I was on the web (but I suspect it was a flakey connection b/c things were transferring slowly) and I command-tabbed between Chimera and Outlook Express Classic. What happened was everything froze solid and ever so slowly the Classic app appeared in view (over-writing the aqua interface ever so slowly). Then, what seemed like burn happened (at first I thought I was watching my LCD die) and parts of the screen started going dark and the colours cycled ever so slowly. I think pixels were still changing (i.e. not just colour but also underlying OS X vs Classic). I had to do a three finger salute and when the machine booted back up a kernel panic had been recorded (I'll post it below). Can anyone help? Does anyone know anything about this? Is this a hardware issue and should I take my Pismo (PowerBook G3 Firewire) to an Apple service center (it's still under extended warrantee)? Or, is this an OS X modem dial-up 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: Spectacular crash
FYI: PowerBook G3 Firewire (Pismo)/400 512 MB RAM 10.2.4 OS 9.2.2 Safari 60, Chimera 0.6 2003022508, Outlook Express 5.0.6, 28.8 dial-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 ---
Silly question (OT to PB)
What type of RAM does the Beige G3 take? I thought it was regular (new) PC66 DIMMs but someone is telling me that the Beige takes old style 168 pin RAM compatible with the pre-G3 PPCs. For some reason I thought that RAM from a BW could be put into a Beige. I guess I'm wrong? -- 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: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo
on 27/2/03 4:52 PM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: most/many unix distributions have a similar feature. in fact, booting any UNIX into Single User mode (doing this varies widely by vendor, ranging from horribly simple to horrifically difficult) gives SuperUser access to the entire filesystem, including the /etc/passwd (or equivalent) file. Good to know (but not very comforting)! i don't care what kind of computer you have... if you can't guarantee physical security to your system, NOTHING will save your data. driver level encryption, wake-from-sleep password protection, nothing. Wouldn't driver level encryption make it *very* challenging to get at someone's data without being able to sniff passwords *and* have physical access to a machine (provided appropriate network precautions were in place)? Even if you could gain physical access to a machine *and* read the raw data stream (e.g. swapping out the HD) you'd still have to crack the encryption first, especially if the encryption was tied to a particular hardware encryption card (if they exist). Of course, keystroke sniffers could make life much easier by allowing you to capture passwords but you'd still have to bypass all the other safeguards in place (however insecure they may be) *before* you could get to the point of capture passwords. And, if you use (my hypothetical) hardware encryption, I suppose if a hacker were technologically skilled enough they could capture the raw data stream between mobo and card and extract the data that way. You're right nothing will *absolutely* save your data (short of encasing the computer in a concrete block in an intelligently hidden location (e.g. a number of routers to confuse a tracker, these routers encased in concrete and lead themselves, etc)), and to protect the area with guards. If your data is that valuable, you'll have to hire trustworthy guards to secure your computer *and* make sure your computer network traffic is constantly monitored by trustworthy people and trusted software. For mere mortals like me that is overkill. If someone *really* wants my data that badly, they can have it. What I want to do is make life very difficult for a casual thief, or a casual snoop (and this is quite important in an inherently insecure environment like a university office). If someone were serious about accessing my personal data all they'd have to do is steal my HD and pop it into their own computer, but I want to make it that difficult, that they have to resort to such measures ( if they're willing to do that, criminal charges will come into play and my data would have to be *that* important to them (which it wouldn't be)). my point is, in the end, that you're trying to use inherently insecure methods and add security to them. sleep is, by it's very nature, an insecure process. booting directly to the desktop is an inherently insecure process. the screen saver is inherently insecure. study programming for a while and you'll see that this isn't something that can just be changed -- find out how a screen saver works, find out how the sleep mode works. Apple can't sit down and just say oh, hey, let's make it do THIS when it comes to some of these things. Yes, sleep is insecure as you put it, and, yes, the screen saver is merely an app that draws a pretty picture, but most people don't know how to defeat the password, and the casual snoop/thief certainly would be stymied by having to enter a password on wake. A computer would be made *much* more secure by having the option to activate screensaver on sleep, request password on wake, and activate security alert on forced restart during a password request. As I mentioned a long time ago (and as Laurent pointed out accurately), the reason I would like this activate screensaver on sleep feature is that, in clamshell mode (in which my computer runs for 70% of its operating time), I have to sleep it before I can unplug the monitor, and, then, if I plan to move it I have to (if I want to make it *more* difficult for someone to snoop) wake it up again, activate screen saver, and then close the computer to sleep it (since there isn't an option to sleep when in screensaver mode). Anyway, I'm still curious, does anyone know if anyone makes IDE (or SCSI... seems more logical for SCSI) controller cards which offer hardware-level encryption? Eric. -- 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:
Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo
on 27/2/03 6:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exactly. This topic was recently discussed on another list and many of us sadly miss the Password Security (or whatever it was called) Control Panel utility that was lost and never regained after 9.0.4 when From what I understand that's a Pismo-only thing. My girlfriend's Lombard 9.2.2 can be set to request a password on boot (never experimented from sleep though). leave forgetting to sleep your 'Book, but have Energy Saver do it for you after a set time) and sleeping your 'Book and requiring a password upon awakening was super effective in completely avoiding casual My clumsy solution to that (I'd prefer the password be in the energy saver) is to have the screensaver pop up a minute or two before sleep -- that way if I forget to activate screensaver, it's secured against casual (and even hardcore) snoopers. The silly thing is it would only take two (perhaps three) lines (blocks) of code in the energy saver app to enable screensaver is activated on sleep functionality. #1 check to see if that preference is set in the energy saver preference file, #2 activate screensaver app, #3 wait until screensaver returns signal saying I'm alive and then continue with remaining energy saver code. Eric -- 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: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo
on 27/2/03 6:34 PM, Ryan Coleman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, superusers, when they log in via SSH, by default can do anything. It is the equivalent of sitting at the box and logging in as that super user. FreeBSD is a little different, though. You cannot SSH as a superuser (without changing a few things over - not recommended at all), but you can SSH as anyone part of the `wheel` group and use the SU command to get the root-equivalency. That requires that they have a password of an admin user who's in the superuser list, does it not? As for sleep *and* password: it's not a pretty kludge but it works (come on Apple, do some real work and make OS X perfect (plus, this is so easy, I could probably code it with enough time and a manual on my hands ( I haven't touched serious non-data manipulation programming in 10 years))... hop to it Apple, that's why we pay for each OS X upgrade). http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021120051626920query=screen +saver Both sleep and lock Open the AppleScript Script Editor and enter the following script: launch application \ screen saver Engine\ delay 5 tell application \Finder\ sleep end tell Then Save As Run-Only, select \Application\ under Format, and check \Never Show Startup screen .\ I saved it as \Lock Sleep Workstation\. For vanity, I changed the icon to the Keychain icon as well. Finally, I dragged my newly created application to my menu and assigned it a key combo. Naturally, you can also put this application into your dock and launch it from there, or any other launcher application. FYI: here's a copy-pastable version of the script: launch application ScreenSaverEngine delay 4 tell application Finder sleep end tell -- 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: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo
on 27/2/03 7:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I understand that's a Pismo-only thing. My girlfriend's Lombard 9.2.2 can be set to request a password on boot (never experimented from sleep though). No, no, no. I respectfully beg to differ. For one thing, my old machine was a Lombard and there was an issue specifically related to Password Security (I may be getting the name wrong- I've been out of the Classic loop for tto long) CDEV where if you tried to reinstall it on 9.1 or later, it would break your machine. In order to prepare for the advent of OS X and its UNIX underpinnings, 9.1 eliminated this utility out of necessity and introduced Multiple Users, among other things. Sure, your gf's Lombard can request a password under 9.2.2 as could my 800 iBook or any Mac running 9.1 or later, but it's not the same thing- that's simply an option within Multiple Users. I'm thinking we're talking about different things -- the Password Security thingy I'm referring to is a control panel (installed by the default OS 9.2.1/9.2.2 update on my gf's Lombard/333) which sets a password which is requested at boot time before the OS even starts the boot process, else the drive refuses to boot (OS 9.2.2). I've never actually checked to see if it also requires the password to mount the disk (say you booted from a CD) (though, IIRC it's not part of Multiple Users... the interface makes it seem like a hold-over from OS 7/8 days). Hmm? Fun things them these thar Macs! -- 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: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo
on 27/2/03 9:27 PM, Eric D. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking we're talking about different things -- the Password Security thingy I'm referring to is a control panel (installed by the default OS 9.2.1/9.2.2 update on my gf's Lombard/333) which sets a password which is requested at boot time before the OS even starts the boot process, else the drive refuses to boot (OS 9.2.2). I've never actually checked to see if it also requires the password to mount the disk (say you booted from a CD) (though, IIRC it's not part of Multiple Users... the interface makes it seem like a hold-over from OS 7/8 days). And, on my Pismo/400 the same sequence of 9.2.1 9.2.2 update didn't install that control panel ( I found a tech note warning that use of the control panel would require the drive to be put into a PowerBook that could boot with that feature and require that it be removed (I think)). L8r, Eric. -- 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 ---
Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo
One quirk my Pismo is haunted with is a blank screen saver on wake up. I like the Flurry (yes, it's CPU intensive but it looks cool) and 3/4 of the times on wake-up Flurry displays. But the other 1/4 I get a blank (white) screen instead. Somehow or other the screen saver just stops. Password requests works as expected. PS Does anyone know if it's possible to have a *real* password protection on an OS X install and hardware on a Pismo? I guess this is a multi part question: 1. I prefer to have my computer boot up automatically into my account, so I'd like to have a screen saver feature (like the famous _ (can't remember name) from the early-mid 1990s) which allows for both password protected screen saver, BUT, if someone three finger salutes a machine while the OS X screen saver is active they can bypass it on start up (if you have auto-login) since OS X doesn't then request a password. Instead I would like the auto-login to be disabled (temporarily) until an admin logs in. 2. EVEN MORE important than #1, I would like to have the screensaver activated upon sleep. Right now I have a clumsy way around that in that I activate the screen saver before closing the Pismo, but if it's running in clamshell mode I can't do that since I have to put the machine to sleep from the menu, unplug everything, wake it up, activate the screen saver, then close it again to put it to sleep. 3. Is there a hardware password option (e.g. firmware password)? It's quite bizarre that a laptop wouldn't have such security options (since they're so 'portable' and can easily 'walk off' in the wrong hands), especially since OS X allows for great security potential. Ah well, one can never accuse Apple of being smart about the important things! L8r, Eric. -- 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: Loss of Preferences
on 26/2/03 1:43 PM, Keith Potter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few days ago, I upgraded to 10.2.4. Yesterday I installed a whole suite of Adobe design programs. Upon restarting my computer, I seem to have lost all my preference settings. The dock is moved to the default setting and configuration. My Explorer homepage was reset to the default, though my favorites were intact. Worst of all, I lost all my OSX Mail settings and had to dig out the passwords and servers for my various accounts. I also had to re-import my rules and mailboxes. I had the exact same experience when I updated to 10.2.4. It took *forever* before preferences would take (for quite some time the Finder would open with two windows open even though I went to great lengths to ensure they were *closed* when I last restarted). Growing pains. Fortunately my settings have slowly taken (it seems like OS X requires you beat it into its thick skull that you'd like a certain setting). L8r, Eric. -- 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: Formac DV
on 25/2/03 8:28 PM, Seth D Lumnah at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The $300 version is the Studio DV, the $400 version is the Studio DV/TV. The addition is basically a tv tuner. The quality is great, its hardware encoded and is at full dv. What speed of computer do you need to do this? Will any computer capable of doing FireWire DV recording be enough (my Pismo/400 can do full-screen, no frames dropped video from a 3 CCD Sony digital video camera)? Eric. -- 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: Beige G3 Slow Down
on 25/2/03 9:24 PM, Jim Schulze at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next step is to isolate the offending app if possible. Since you've tried killing 2 of the 4 and that didn't help, you may have narrowed it down to Office 2k or Quicken 2k. I would try shutting those down and see if that helps without having to do a reboot. I seem to recall there may have been memory leaks in those apps, so restarting them may help. I know the effect you're talking about but I've never had it for more than one or two times, and usually only when I'm throwing lots at my computer (in OS 9.2.2 that is) like running Photoslop, Toast and VPC (who says OS 9 isn't a stable OS (well, Ok, so Photoshop, Toast and VPC are perhaps the best and most stable apps on *any* platform -- the quality of all three stuns me each time I run them... they are OS X type stable and multitasking in a pre-protected memory/pre-multitasking OS)) at the same time with both doing stuff. Try updating Office 2001 to SR 1. That cleared up a number of problems for me. Eric -- 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: Menu bar customization
on 24/2/03 8:37 PM, Andre Ruegg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This might be kind of simple, but I can't figure this out and I'm sure it has a simple solution... How or where can I customize the menu bar? In particular, I would like to remove the Airport icon. Thanks, Andre iBook 800 and Jaguar newbie I'm not sure, but try command-clicking on the icon and dragging it off the menu bar. You can get rid of the other non-essential items that way (like sound, displays, internet connect, etc.). Eric. -- 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: VLC Media Player
on 23/2/03 5:43 PM, Ryan Stewart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You probably have a more recent version than 0.4.4 because after reading The 0.5.1a version does an excellent job with full screen AVIs on a 400 MHz G3. -- 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 ---
Rendezvous
Hello all, does anyone know how to turn off Rendezvous? I have a suspicion that Rendezvous is what is causing my computer to 'spontaneously' dial out, even when I haven't got a *single* application (other than Finder) open. Thanks, Eric. PS yes, I do know about 'Connect automatically when needed'! -- 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: Rendezvous
Well, I answered my own question. You use: /Applications/Utilities/Directory\ Access.app to turn off Rendezvous. I guess I can't find out right now if it works since I'm on a LAN but I'll try it later on today at home and keep my fingers crossed. Eric. on 22/2/03 12:41 PM, Eric D. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, does anyone know how to turn off Rendezvous? I have a suspicion that Rendezvous is what is causing my computer to 'spontaneously' dial out, even when I haven't got a *single* application (other than Finder) open. Thanks, Eric. PS yes, I do know about 'Connect automatically when needed'! -- 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: Rendezvous
on 22/2/03 1:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Network time, software update might also evoke a dial- up automagically. Hmm. Hadn't considering those options -- I doubt software update is the culprit since it runs on Wed, once a week. Network time? Hmm. Unfortunately OS X doesn't report when it last synchronised time so I can't troubleshoot that one here on the LAN. I'll have to see if turning it on/off will cause an automagic connect later on today. Thanks, Eric. -- 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 ---
Classic problems with DNS not responding (Entourage/OutlookExpress)
Some of you may remember (and may suffer from this ailment): Classic TCP/IP DNS behave poorly after sleep, or when on a modem which is not connected to the web on my Pismo/400 OS X 10.2.3/.4 (i.e. I get DNS not responding errors that can only be fixed by restarting). Well, it seems that those problems have *finally* settled down. I'm not *entirely* sure what I did to get it to become less of a pain but I have three theories (one of which I still have to check out). #1 I knew that my BW OS X install was perfectly happy with Classic and sleeping and *never* gave me said errors. I also used the location manager to give me different LAN settings (I consider the BW a portable computer with its 'handy' carry handles ;) in OS X and it would also create a TCP/IP preference for OS 9 which would be automagically updated. I tried creating different locations on the Pismo but they never seemed to get communicated to Classic's TCP/IP settings (i.e. when I booted into OS 9, OS 9 TCP/IP would still have the settings I'd left it with last time I booted into it, and not OS X's (unlike the BW which would change TCP/IP depending on my OS X TCP/IP settings)). Anyway, I tried creating a new set of locations and changed them a number of times and under different circumstances (I haven't checked in OS 9 to see if TCP/IP has adopted OS X's settings yet... will do that soon). #2 I tried rearranging the list of DNS servers depending on whether the connection is on the LAN or on dial-up (they are the same set, but their order of importance is *slightly* different). That didn't work last time I did it, but maybe it took this time. #3 After reading about a 'work around' in a Micro$oft USENET list I tried running Internet Explorer after I received the error and it would eliminate the DNS not responding error after trying to load a few pages Anyway, whatever it was I did I'm not having to restart Classic anymore. I do get the DNS no responding error in Classic if it takes the dial-up a long time to connect, or if I have 'connect automatically when needed' turned off, but simply pressing send/receive e-mail will work. Who knows? I can't say precisely which thing fixed the problem! I'm just happy that things are settling down. L8r, Eric. PS a neat OT tid bit I learned today about the Boer war (where the [EMAIL PROTECTED] British royalty ( Canuks others) were killing off the Dutch (boer = farmer) settlers in South Africa around the turn of the last century). Apparently the most damning piece of newsreel footage which galvanised the British public (it showed the boers slaughtering a Red Cross camp) was staged on behalf of the British crown, and the 'reports' of atrocities were similarly manufactured for domestic British (and Empire) consumption to get the public on-side with an expansionist (South African gold mines) war. -- 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: Rendezvous
on 22/2/03 1:56 PM, K. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not using Rend. but I had the same problem last year on my imac se 400 and pismo 400...talked to apple tech and was told to shut off the network time thing..it worked.. haven't had a problem since hth mike k You'd think Apple could spend five minutes of one programmer's time and increase the latency between tries to contact a network time server -- they probably spend more $ dealing with that problem on their support lines than it would cost to pay a programmer to slightly modify the code! My problem is that there are times when the computer *always* wants to connect. I'll tell it to disconnect and it'll promptly start dialing again. I can close every app and this behaviour continues. Well, as I said in an earlier e-mail I'll wait and see if turning off Rendezvous fixed the problem. If not, I'll sequentially disable Network Time and then Software Update and see if that eliminates the problem. Eric. -- 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 - VPC devoured by Micro$oft
on 20/2/03 12:23 PM, Obi-Wan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *sigh* This is very depressing Why is that? The Microsoft Mac Business unit is in charge of it. They have a proven commitment to the Mac platform and make fantastic products for the Mac...better than the corresponding products for the PC. Just look at MS Office X for example. Connectix has always been a decent company but not a great one. I think this will be a good thing and I hat MS as much as the rest of you. I can see pros and cons to this. The pros being that VPC is now in bed with Micro$oft, and thus their programmers now have access to the innermost workings of Windows and will be able to optimise VPC in ways previously unimaginable. The cons are that VPC could now (a) focus on Micro$oft's latest offerings, thereby forcing users to buy Windows XP to replace Win 95/98/2000 which may no longer be supported by the next VPC, and (b) VPC could now focus exclusively on Windows, thereby leaving Linux out of the loop. There is of course option (c), a pared down version of Windows XP, especially designed for the emulator thus resulting in speed increases. Microsoft is not married to a particular hardware platform/hardware manufacturer so the more software they can sell, the better (for their bottom line). Hmm. Only time will tell if this was a blow to Mac users. I am expecting Microsoft to focus on supporting Win XP and newer, but it could be they've learned their lesson from the anti-trust lawsuit and will remain in the emulation business rather than the forced upgrade business. I expect that new VPC releases will achieve speed increases that Connectix could not have done on its own, but I fear this _may_ happen at the expense of Win 3.1/95/98/Linux compatibility. Eric -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: OT - VPC devoured by Micro$oft
on 20/2/03 9:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VPC is kind of an umbilical cord that would prolong such dependency and notion that Apple has to fit in to the M$ world to survive. I wish that were the case but it isn't -- I'm running so many different apps under VPC that I'd _have_ to have an Intel Piece of Crap on my desktop otherwise :(. The one place where Apple will always have a paucity of software is in the niche markets. I am afraid to say that affordable (and even unaffordable) stats software has always been sorely lacking on the Mac platform ( especially so b/c our site licences are for Windows-only since that's what the bulk of users run). Apple does need to fit into a M$ world to survive. Microsoft Word and Excel are the de facto standards for file transfers. WordPerfect and 123 at one point gave M$ a run for its money but they've fallen by the wayside. If you cannot seamlessly and without fault read-and-write those formats you're not going to be taken seriously. Rational or not, I distrust interoperability with any word processor that is *not* Microsoft Word (insert version #). I used to have nothing but headaches converting files between AppleWorks, WordPerfect, MacWrite and the various versions of Word. Word is no angle when it comes to compatibility but it does cut out one source of incompatibility (the non-M$ element). I've completely given up on any non-MS Word format docs (except for RTF) for personal use, and when students e-mail me documents I now insist that it be Word format (this was especially a problem when I discovered that a default install of Word for Mac no longer included the converter for WordPerfect 5.1 grumble). MS may not be the only game in town (if I didn't need to exchange documents with people AppleWorks would be a perfectly viable solution for me (provided I didn't distrust the app the way I do (all-in-one solutions left a bad taste in my mouth in the early 90s with M$ Works and the early versions of ClarisWorks))), but for me it's a cheap office suite ( the one I'm most familiar with)... bulk institutional licences (*not* site licences) for academic institutions are a good deal: Office X/XP $110/130 CDN ($66/75 USD), Windows XP Pro ~$120 CDN (of course, I have no use for Winblows higher than 98 (that's my VPC) but if I had to run XP I'd certainly not use the home edition). L8r, Eric. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: OT - VPC devoured by Micro$oft
on 20/2/03 10:33 PM, Eric D. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VPC is kind of an umbilical cord that would prolong such dependency and notion that Apple has to fit in to the M$ world to survive. I wish that were the case but it isn't -- I'm running so many different apps For me, that is. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Pismo -- good little machine
I just discovered something very neat about my Pismo: I'm running it in clamshell mode and it's doing video mirroring at a resolution not native to its built in screen (1152*870). This is one awesome little machine. At first I was kind of afraid I'd made a mistake replacing my BW for something that was 50 MHz slower but it wasn't!!! One happy Pismo owner. Eric. -- 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: OS X 10.2.4 stable?
sigh Kernel Panic #3 with 10.2.4! Stable? Yeah right! It seems to be consistently related to dial-up (this time it happened b/c I unplugged the modem to prevent auto-dial from interfering with a conversation I was having on the phone. This is a bit of the info in the log for each of the three panics I've had: Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies): com.apple.driver.ApplePMU(1.7.8)@0x196f5000 (happened soon after a dropped phone line) Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies): com.apple.driver.AppleSCCSerial(1.2.3)@0x14e79000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily(6.0.1d19)@0x14e6e000 (happened on wake-up, not connected to web, but web apps were open) Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies): com.apple.driver.AppleSCCSerial(1.2.3)@0x14e7a000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily(6.0.1d19)@0x14e6f000 (happened b/c I disconnected phone cord (while it wasn't connected) and it tried dial out) These are the modules affiliated with the three panics I've had. I cannot *ever* remember this many kernel panics in four days, even in 10.0.x days! Eric. -- 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: OS X 10.2.4 stable?
on 2/18/03 7:04 PM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: second up is people doing weird crap to get around the OS X installer... chiefly, trying to get around the 8GB Partition Limit by first installing OS X with the drive installed in a non-8GB-limited machine; i lump installing OS X on unsupported machines into this category, since the kernel panic logs often state the same cause. I haven't done anything along those lines... although, when I partitioned this machine it wouldn't let me install OS 9 on the same drive as I had OS X. (Pismo/400 20 GB HD) I'm not saying that they don't happen, or that you're an isolated issue. I'm saying that you're making too much out of this. have you tried doing an archive and install, then reapplying the 10.2.4 update? you're keen to document all the lines from your logs that are applicable... but until you do this, you haven't isolated the issue to an actual 10.2.4 issue, rather than an Installer error. If it's less than once/two days doing the reinstall is less of a hassle but I'll have to look into that archive-and-install option (though, if it's anything like the OS X install it'll still incapacitate the machine for an hour). Thanks, Eric. -- 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 ---
OS X 10.2.4 stable?
Hello, has anyone else had problems with OS X 10.2.4 and kernel panics? The update installed fine on my machine (Pismo/400 0.5 GB) but I've had two panics in the past 24 hours -- one was apparently related to dial-up (I had just been disconnected from the web when all of a sudden I had the panic screen pop-up). The second time the computer wasn't quite asleep (screen blank, HD spinning) and I pressed F12 to eject the disk to wake the machine up. No response and eventually I get fed up of waiting and give the machine the three finger salute. When I check the log a second kernel panic was logged precisely at the time I pressed F12. Huh? Before the upgrade it was working flawlessly (no panics). I dread the thought of having to wipe the HD and start again from scratch so I'm hoping it's just teething pains. Eric. -- 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: OS X 10.2.4 stable?
on 2/15/03 7:02 PM, Christopher D Helmkamp at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's certainly not something I've done. I don't screw with my computer that much, and when I do, I have a great deal of knowledge how to do so (former Unix programmer). I was going to stay quiet and wait to see if it happened again before I said something, but looks as though my problems might be common to 10.2.4! --Chris ibook 700 384MB X.2.4 Well, since you're a former UNIXer would the Kernel Panic logs be of use to you? I'm trying to push my machine now to see if I can do it again. I'll try running PhotoSlop and Virtual PC at the same time ;) Eric. -- 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: CD Burner?
on 14/2/03 11:15, Mark Kippert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Computer Geeks, I'm sure they are referring to the included software as being unsupported by OSX (Jaguar). I would assume it will run in classic. Extremely unlikely!!! That kind of software would require direct hardware access and OS X + Classic prevent that. The only solution you'd have is to cross your fingers that Apple supports it (doubtful since Apple has been scaling back support for non-Apple CD-RWs in every release of OS X), or to invest in Toast 5.2 (it seems to me there's another burning software for OS X now but I don't know what it is). Eric. -- 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: CD Burner?
on 14/2/03 12:12, David M. Ensteness at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uhm actually more 3rd party burners have been supported in each version of Mac OS X. If you really don't believe it I can look up the feature pages on the various updates and show you ... or I spose you could go look yourself. For example though 10.2.4 notes that it adds support for the 48x LaCie drives. OS X 10.2 killed support for my drive ( I have had that verified from another owner of the same drive): Sony 24/10/40 internal. I also lost support for my USB burner along the way (don't remember which version of OS X 10.x.x killed that! Fortunately I never used the internal burning software except to gauge OS X's support for third party burners :) Since it doesn't do multi-session back-ups or gives you any control over the CDs you create it was next to useless for real back-up (other than if you wanted to dump a whole lot of stuff to disk at once and that was pretty rare). Of course... this is also the company that used AFTER-SALE FirmWare updates to maliciously disable G4 updates in BWs, merely to prevent the BW from competing with the first generation G4 (which didn't add anything substantial to the design of the computer). Fortunately, the upgrade cos have managed to disable the disabler but still, it's pretty repugnant that they sabotaged the hardware, after ownership had been transferred away from their control. IIRC there was also a pretty obvious case of such malicious FirmWare sabotage in one of the laptops (if they didn't want to include the feature in those particular computers, they shouldn't have sold the computers with such a feature, *even* if it wasn't advertised as such). Eric. -- 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: CD Burner?
on 2/14/03 5:28 PM, David M. Ensteness at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, you are way too upset about things, seriously, I get pissed when things don't work, but I am always confused, if you feel Apple is to blame then why buy Apple stuff? Huh? I am not saying put up or shut up, I am just confused, some people seem to say they feel towards Apple the way I do towards MS, and yet, because of how I feel I don't use MS products, yet many use Apple products and claim to feel constantly slighted, noting a timeline of abuse they feel they have suffered through. I hate MS's business practices but I love some of their Mac (and Windows unfortunately... IE 5.5 is perhaps the best browser available on any platform) software. Microsoft Excel is unparalleled in functionality and customisability. Apple is a large, public corporation, and, as such has no accountability to the public. As in any public corporation, including the Enrons and Microsofts of the world, shareholders reign supreme so unethical behaviour is to be expected once in a while (although, not tolerated). Apple isn't anything special in that regard. FYI I've been a 'faithful' Mac user since day 1 (well, ok, 6 months -- September 1984). To me things like Firmware updates make a lot of sense, I understand their purpose and it justifies their use. Blaming 3rd party RAM for not meeting specs ... well, that made sense to me as I believe that if hardware does not meet certain specs then how can anyone know how to support it? The most odious behaviour on Apple's part wasn't the 3rd party RAM problems but the BW FirmWare upgrade. The BW G3 was released with a swappable CPU module. Apple then proceeded to, quite lazily I might add, release the first G4 (PCI) towers, and promptly released a FirmWare upgrade for the BW which prevented the G3 from accepting G4 upgrades. The *only* reason they did this was to prevent the BW from competing with the nearly identical G4s (they didn't add any notable features in the G4s that would justify shelling out for a new computer, so they had to force people to buy them some other way). That block didn't last long since the accelerator card manufacturers released their own firmware patch. That Apple would do this *before* it sells a machine is perfectly acceptable. That is *their* decision to make. However, for them to do this once ownership of the item has been transferred to another entity (whether a person, or a company) is unethical and inexcusable when making the change does not IMPROVE the operation of the machine. The 3rd party RAM for not meeting specs -- well, this is not quite as black-and-white an issue (since nothing was gained by the USER with the G4 block -- only Apple's sales could be helped (I doubt it encouraged people to buy G4s, and it probably bought Apple more in terms of of negative publicity)), but it still involves an *irreversible* modification to hardware Apple no-longer *owns*. Salient questions and comments to determine Apple's innocence or guilt: (1) Did Apple explicitly warn people that incapacitated RAM could have been a consequence? (2) Faulty RAM is a problem in some cases, especially in OS X, so a FirmWare update could be needed (I found that out by trouble-shooting a buggy DIMM that Apple's FirmWare DIDN'T catch). (3) Was the update justifiable from a stability standpoint? On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 12:55 PM, Eric D. wrote: OS X 10.2 killed support for my drive ( I have had that verified from another owner of the same drive): Sony 24/10/40 internal. Question: Whose responsibility is it to support 3rd party hardware? Is I don't expect any support for it since it wasn't sold to me with such promises -- I wasn't *complaining*, merely commenting. Toast does a wonderful job. I also lost support for my USB burner along the way (don't remember which version of OS X 10.x.x killed that! Fortunately I never used the internal burning software except to gauge OS X's support for third party burners :) So you update to the new version, and then use Apple's software in order to be able to complain at how poorly it does? And if the only Huh? thing you care about is support by Roxio via Toast then what do you care if Apple disables your burner or not, you just said you don't use their software anyways. Put these two together for me. Because, IIRC, the comment was that there was expanded support for CD-RWs. Certainly not in my experience (of course, I reject anecdotal evidence most of the time so my n=2 isn't useful either ;). My Lacie 2/2/4 USB and the Sony 24/10/40 both worked early on in OS X 10.0 and 10.1 but no longer do. Actually Mac OS X v.10.2.x does do multi-session discs, there is an AppleCare doc on it. If you are referring to the OS, if you are referring to a specific utility such as Backup then the answer may be different. Cool! That's a new development :) Blue and Whites had their 3rd party upgrade path disabled until the 3rd parties
Re: 10.2.4
Someone mentioned that 10.2.4 had added icons to the Dock that they'd previously removed. I had the same experience. I find the iApps and web apps to be next to useless so I remove them from the dock (Mail, iTunes, AddressBook, iChat, iPhoto, Microsloth Internet Explorer) yet the update to 10.2.4 added them to the dock. Just thought I'd share that observation since it seemed to involve some measure of controversy. -- 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: Turn off built-in screen?
on 12/2/03 23:39, Mark Kippert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't happen to my BW G3 tower or to a Lombard/333. I was surprised by this behaviour when it happened on my Pismo/400. Must be a new Mac thing (i.e. post Lombard/BW era). Perhaps it is on newer machines. I know it works on my iBook, G4 tower and Indigo iMac. I wonder if it's because you also have ADB ports on yours. Though, the Lombard doesn't have ADB ports ;)... -- 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: TCP/IP problem: DNS not found in Classic apps after sleeporwhen offline
on 12/2/03 00:11, Joe Ellis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Eric; I now follow what you are saying, unfortunately I'm afraid I can't offer an answer. It almost sounds like expected behaviour for the conditions you describe. I would suggest the following although I'm not sure it would help. 1. Under the energy saver preference pane (options tab) in OS X; make sure the checkbox for Wake for administrator access is checked. That would only deal with the sleep problem (if that's the case), not with the dial-up problem (where it gives me DNS not found if the dial-up is not connected). *However*, that said, it seems there has been a change in the behaviour of my system. Yesterday I got the DNS not found error, *but*, soon after it 'recovered' and was able to use TCP/IP. There's also been a change affecting Classic apps -- when they need the web now, OS X dials out (this wasn't happening before). Unfortunately, the Classic applications time out before connection is established and give me the DNS not found error, but if I click Send-Receive they will connect to the mail servers!!! 2. Under the Advanced tab for the Classic preferences, make sure the slider for put classic to sleep when inactive for is set to Never Hmm. I will have to try that. I've had problems with Classic on my tower after *prolonged* sleep of OS X so maybe that would've helped. Eric. -- 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: TCP/IP problem: DNS not found in Classic apps after sleepor when offline
on 12/2/03 02:24, Jon Glass at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't used X or Classic in X yet, so this may not be your problem, but it sure sounds similar to mine! :-) It's probably the same basic coding/preferences problem but, you're right, it's an OS X + Classic issue (when in OS 9 TCP/IP works as expected). Thanks for taking the time to respond, Eric. -- 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: USB Mouse quirk with OS X? - Logitech
on 2/11/03 10:05 PM, Eric D. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I swear this Pismo is possessed. I now have a mouse which only works in OS 9, and then only after OS 9 has got half way through the boot sequence. Early in the boot process only the trackpad causes the cursor to move. It's only after the icons appear (presumably some bus initialisation or driver loading) that the mouse becomes responsive. Tomorrow I'll test it on my tower to see if it'll work in OS X there. Well, it's not the Pismo. The BW does the exact same thing and ignores the mouse in OS X (though, it recognises it an USB device). Does anyone know if this is something peculiar to Logitech mice? Thanks, Eric. -- 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 ---
TCP/IP problem: DNS not found in Classic apps after sleep orwhen offline
Hello, I'm making the somewhat aggravating transition from LAN only (on a BW G3/450 OS X 10.2.3; OS 9.2.2) to a mix of LAN and dial-up internet access with a laptop (Pismo/400 OS X 10.2.3; OS 9.2.2; sweet little laptop. A touch slower than the tower ( the difference in video RAM (8 vs 16 MB) is _very_ noticeable in OS X) but the design is wonderful)). Aggravating b/c *regularly* Classic apps will fail to work with TCP/IP and I will have to reboot Classic before they'll access the web again. What do I mean? Well, the specific error is DNS not found, and both Outlook Express and Entourage (Classic version) will throw it up, especially after sleep (whether on LAN _or_ dialup; on the BW I *never* saw that error when on LAN) or if off-line (dial-up only but not connected). I've been running OS X Classic these two Classic apps on my BW hooked up to a LAN for nearly two years now and Classic has always operated smoothly and seamlessly with OS X. Since the laptop is moving between home and school it has to deal with both dial-up and LAN access. The DNS problems (*only* in Classic) usually happen after the machine goes to sleep with Classic active (regardless of whether I'm on the LAN or dialup), and are *guaranteed* to happen if either app tries to check/send mail while the modem is not connected. Does anyone have any inclination as to what the problem could be? I *reinstalled* both OS X 10.2.3 and OS 9.2.2 yesterday to see if I could get rid of the quirk, but it must be something in my configuration. I have OS X set to automatically connect to the web when TCP/IP is needed, and I have specified the connect order for TCP/IP access in the advanced menu option: LAN followed by dial-up. I am fairly sure that the IP addresses for the DNS (3 of 'em) servers are correct, and I've even fiddled with the order in which I've entered them -- still Classic apps are unable to use the web without a reboot of Classic (a *major* pain in the derierre if this is how it's always going to be). RGH. What's the matter with OS X??? What little quirky preference sets the PB's setting apart from the BW's? Thanks for your assistance in advance, Eric. -- 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: my new PowerBook - file transfer detail question (it works!)
on 21/5/02 18:02, Matthew D. O'Conner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: made a cup of tea in the meantime - reminded me of my old Mac SE when using Excel 3.0's graphing feature), I restarted both machines and then the disk images disappeared off of the two desktops. What's the proper way to terminate a file sharing 'session'? As many people said: drag mounted disk to trash. Also, make sure you turn off File Sharing in the control strip or the control panel when you're not using it -- running it needlessly takes up CPU time RAM. Finally, if an AppleShare server goes down unexpectedly just let the computer realise it's gone time out (usually a minute or so). PS Plugging the cable back in would've re-established the connection and the two machines would've unfrozen again. Eric. -- 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: key command for lombard
on 18/5/02 14:37, ben at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: key command for opening the CD ROM drive on a pb Lombard? (1) No CD in drive: push the little button on the drive (middle of tray). (2) CD in drive: drag icon of CD to trash to eject disk open drive. Running OS X? You have the additional option of opening the CD-ROM with F12. Eric. -- 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: 7410 enabler had an error at boot:
on 13/5/02 14:02, ben at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7410 enabler had an error at boot: failed to allocate nanokernel operator! File: HelloWorld.cp Line: 111 Error: - 1 what the hell does this mean??? it appears on start up of my girl friends Lombard running Os 9.2.4 OS 9.2.4? Is this a typo or is she really running 9.2.4. Last formal release I was aware of was 9.2.2. Have you tried holding down the shift key at startup (to prevent extensions from loading). Failing that, you'll have to re-install the OS from CD. PS Head to Apple's support page and do a search for 7410 enabler and helloworld.cp or error Eric. -- 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
Re: my intro
on 28/4/02 22:37, Donald Keenan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how long any G3 mac will be able to run OS X for the long term. Supposedly OS 9 is the optimal OS for even my Pismo. I don't know enough to speculate whether the window of opportunity to use pre-G4 macs for OS X and UNIX based programs will narrow at a quickening pace or not. I'm hoping the lawsuit filed by legacy users results in a commitment to keeping the older macs out there/here viable. I doubt they'll drop the G3s any earlier than the G4s! The G4 is basically a G3 with some extra (AltiVec) code thrown in. This only makes a difference in graphics- or audio-heavy applications. If you have a decent video card in your G3 (I suppose upgrading that is not an option in PowerBooks :( the GUI is quite zippy. I see no performance hit in regards to graphics (16 MB video)... the Finder, Classic or Internet Explorer seem to be the culprits of slowdowns 98+% of the time. The other thing is that Apple is _still_ selling G3s, nearly four and a half years after they first came out so they're not about to drop support for the early ones anytime soon. And a final consideration is that, even if Apple does go G4-only, OS X 10.1.4 is pretty damn stable fast on slow G3s (with 2 MB video... just get a 16 MB video card) so it's not like G3s would be left without a kick-ass OS. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | 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
Re: blank e-mails?
on 26/4/02 19:34, BG at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gene Eric: I received 5 such emails from the LEM Swap list just now... (Friday, 4/26); yet also one junk mail with no From address; and two legit newsletters also not showing their From addresses... If I understand Eric's reply below, this means these emails are coming from PeeCee people who do not know they are infected? Question (just to make sure): Does it affect my WS in any way and what I am mailing out (via OE for Mac 5.0.2)? No, Macs are _virtually_ immune to viruses. There are a few that can take advantage of OE vulnerabilities (if you want to be safe, upgrade to OE 5.0.3 (free download)) but they can't harm 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! | 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
Klez Worm, Not Sender, Hates You (virus note)
Hello, I've noticed some comments about people receiving blanks posts on some LEM lists, and (I think) of people receiving virus-laden e-mails from people whom they know, but who didn't send them. I suggest you check out this link: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,52055,00.html Once active on a computer, Klez searches for files containing e-mail addresses. It randomly selects one as the sender, and then transmits e-mails with attachments containing the virus to the rest of the collected addresses. and The virus can launch automatically when users click to preview or read e-mails bearing Klez on systems that have not been patched for a year-old vulnerability in Internet Explorer, Outlook and Outlook Express. Klez only affects PCs running Microsoft's Windows operating system. -- 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
Re: OT: kinda... Free GUI FTP client for MacOSX
on 4/4/02 18:17, Kyle Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: markemmanuel wrote: Is there a free FTP client for MacOS X that I can use? I don't think it's worth the money for what Fetch offers. All I want to do is upload files to the virtual webserver I'm using. Thanks. :) Since *when* is Fetch not free anymore? I'm as peeved about Fetch going commercial as I am NCSA Telnet going down! grumble Not only did Fetch go commercial, BUT they have removed all the non-commercial public domain versions from the archives (which seems like something they shouldn't be able to do -- even if they bought the rights to the code since these others were released under an earlier licence). L8r, Eric. -- 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
Re: Netscape problem
on 23/3/02 11:19, Paul Nicholson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a really nice browser called iCab, http://www.icab.de. It's still under development and full support for java and style sheets is not done yet. It's fast and has lots of features, but you'll still need another browser for those sites that use style sheets and java. At 7:30 AM + 3/23/02, Tim Roberts wrote: I tried netscape 6.2.2 on my wallstreet. I have always used netscape, and liked the interface... It's way more stable than Netscrasher 6.2.2 (or Mozilla 0.9.8). I wouldn't really call it under development when you compare it to the (lack of) quality seen in the supposed final Netscrape 6.2.2. Netscape 4.79 is still more refined and stable than 6.2.2 (rather ironic that a MUCH older version is more stable). PS There's also Opera 5.0 at www.opera.com which also is miles ahead of Netscrape (Netscape hasn't really haven't done anything of note since 1999). Eric. -- 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
