Pismo Power Jack
I'm about to dig into my Pismo to resolder the power jack to the sound card. If I can locate a new style power jack, would the pismo work with the new powerbook power bricks? I'm using two of the original saucer 45 watt/24v/1.875 supplies and have had to repair them multiple times. Have had to crack one open and rebuild the plug on another one. Have access to the new style power supplies, and believe there was an adapter made so that old saucers would work with the new computers. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Battery Time Left
Dan Van: Me too...Pismo with Newertech high cap battery. Tiger upgrade, not clean install. Many full cycles on battery, PRAM reset, power mgr reset, utilities, Macaroni type maintenance, full sotware updates. Thought it had to do either with the battery not being from apple or that the Tiger upgrade was not a clean install? Nonetheless, think I've seen the same in some Tiger upgraded TiBooks with their original batteries, and no third part utilities. Anyone see this with claen installs? or a fix? F. (not Fran) Dan - I have suffered this exact issue on my Pismo. Haven't figured out how to fix it either - my next stop? Start from scratch. Also - I believe my battery doesn't last as long under Tiger.. but that is just a sense. Please let me know if you remedy this - I'd be very interested to learn what you find out. thanks and good luck! --Van On 1/15/06, Daniel Colwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason I can no longer get info on how long my battery has left in hours and minutes. I can get the info in percentage, but if I ask for it to be shown as time left, it says calculating... or is just a blank, depending on which program I use to measure it. I have show battery status in the menu bar checked in the Energy Saver Systems Preference. I also use SlimBatteryMonitor. Both show the same percentage, but no longer the time. As best I remember this was working up till just a week or so ago. I have a 400MHz Pismo, 40G, 768MB. I recently upgraded to Tiger and then 10.4.3. Could have been the same time. Battery is fairly new. I was getting about 4 hours or so last I remember seeing the time. Is this a Tiger issue? I tried running just on battery till it went to sleep (about 1-2 %), then charging to full. Did this twice, still no joy so I tried reset- nvram, reset-all. Still nothing but %. Seems like its probably just something simple, but no luck with Google or searching the Apple site. Any Suggestions? Thanks, Dan- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --- -- 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 --- www.1-800-ipod.com Over 1,000 Mac and iPod items... Find everything you need - all in one place. --- End of G-Books Digest #2640 *** -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Tiger via appleshare 383 to OS 7.6
Have managed to link my Pismo running tiger via appletalk over airport to ethernet to an upgraded (040, ethernet) LC running OS 7.6.1. In order to obtain some semblance of understanding between them on the network I installed the appleshare 3.8.3 client on the LC and can access the Pismo from the LC. I cannot access the LC from the pismo due to incompatible afp version. The name of the Pismo shows up occasionally in the LC's chooser, but when it doesn't, I can access it by entering the Pismo's IP address. Any thoughts on how to improve this setup. It might be a bit more stable - it seems to choke during large file transfers, say greater than a gig, and would be nice to access from the Pismo. F -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
best browser to save ebay pages with text and picture?
Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:52:58 +1100 From: kaldav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: best browser to save ebay pages with text and picture? Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 09:09:57 -0600 Subject: Re: Macs and eBay From: Tom Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ebay like many companies on line is PC anal and they are big enough that they don't care if other platform users are having issues with their site. I find Safari to be much slower on ebay than Firefox and the last version of Explorer for the Mac to be almost unusable on ebay. Tom Question re best browser to use to save ebay pages with text and picture: I have found that the last version of Explorer for the Mac is the only browser that allows me to quickly download an ebay page, with pictures, all in one file. To check the progress of the auction I just double click the downloaded page, click on 'Connect' and check progress. Are there other browsers that will save the text and picture as one file, as Explorer for the Mac 5.23 does? Thanks. iCab will to this very elegantly. You can also print to pdf from any browser if all you want is a copy - but then edited in Acrobat (commercial) -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Pismo DVD formats
Tony: Am using a GoVideo VR3930 precisely for this. Probably not available any more, but newer models should be good. Extremely happy with the unit. It has a firewire (aka iLink or IEEE 1392?) interface, so I can copy directly from my sony camcorder, and the VR3930 controls the camera. I haven't attempted to hook up directly to the Pismo. Uses DVD-R and DVD-RW, think that the mac line currently uses DVD+R, shouldn't be an issue with finished disks. Just means that you will need stocks of different media if you get a more current mac. They play in my Pismo, but my Pismo drive is a bit flaky so I occasionally get dirty disk aborts. (further comment, listies?). Am about to replace the (matsushita) drive in the Pismo EB with a burner soon. Reviews mentioned quality issues with GoVideo units. Believe they were directed at a previous model, and this one was put on the market in early 2004. At any rate, I had an opportunity to buy this one at Costco at a very good price, and I haven't regretted it. I am finishing up transcribing 350 VHS tapes to DVD and will then proceed to attack a stack of mini DV tapes. Some tapes play better out of a panasonic deck that seems to be more tolerant of tracking issues than the one One feature I really like about this thing is the ability to automatically skip all the ads on a commercial DVD and go directly to the movie. Very nice with children's videos. F. Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tony Coult [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Pismo DVD formats Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:56:19 + Advice please - I'm considering buying a combo DVD/VHS recorder so I can transfer old VHS material (both personal and off-air TV) to a recordable DVD format and thence onto my Pismo for viewing aware from home. Any recommendations for best recordable DVD format and brand to work in the Pismo DVD drive? I am UK-based. Thanks! TONY http://www.tony3ts.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
17 G4 flaky USB
Hello List: My dad's widescreen G4 seems to have intermittent problems with the USB ports. Sometime one works while the other one doesn't or both. Running fully updated Tiger. USB peripherals are an HP 2840 all in one and a Kensington trackball driven by Kensington mouseworks, also freshly updated. Currently all is working, so I beat a hasty retreat. F. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Apple Printer drivers
Any suggestion as to where to run down OSX drivers for old Apple printers? Have managed to network an old Laserwriter plus and Personal Laserwriter NT, and while they work with the generic postscript printer driver, I was wondering if a more specific option exists. Maybe I'm just being compulsive after getting all of this to light up on the network through an pile of adapters, switches, airport hardware and OS 7.6.1 through OS X 10.4.3 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
system keychain
My Tiger running Pismo has started to ask to unlock the system keychain due to a request from the airport tool recently when I reboot the computer. I do not know the password, nor do I think I ever set one for this keychain. Can't find it with the Keychain acess utility. Latest Tiger. F. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
AFP
Hello List: Can't get my Pismo running tiger to appletalk to an 040 based mac running OS 7.6.1. Get an error mentioning incompatible AFP. Anyone knows what this means? Only thing that comes to mind is Agence France Presse and taunting at the ramparts. OS 9.2.2 in PowerPCs don't have a problem on this network with the Pismo. What would be the best forum/resource for figuring this out? F. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Hard Drive Replacement
I saw a noticeable improvement in speed on my Pismo as I upgraded drives from the original to the current 7200 rpm travelstar. At least one intermediate between the original and current, maybe more. You should see the same unless bus speed is a factor? You've probably seen where, on this thread, mention was made that the faster drive will use more battery power and produce more heat. How, if at all, did these effect your Pismo? Thanks, bob Heat and battery life effects were not significant. No additional heat out of the HD or battery, battery life good. YMMV F. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Hard Drive Replacement
I saw a noticable improvement in speed on my Pismo as I upgraded drives from the original to the current 7200 rpm travelstar. At least one intermediate between the original and current, maybe more. You should see the same unless bus speed is a factor? F. Would I see a noticeable difference in the 7200 vice the 5400 RPM drive? This thing is already running very slow when compared to my G5 iMac. The iBook now has an IBM-DJSA-210 HD, according to System Profiler, and when I looked it up online, I found that it runs at 4200RPM. So, 5400 would be an improvement; 7200 would be a vast improvement, no?? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: real estate situation
Have managed to run just about any software on the various versions of VPC, especially 5 and 6. Specifically, the schlock put out by the mexican banks and government and (non schlock) accounting software put out by a small softworks down here in Mexico. Has also been useful for believe it or not accessing Mexican bank and the Mexican IRS webpages that don't seem to fly under Mac browsers. So it is definitely worth a try. My only failure was a piece of software put out by a large company that is a viewer for maps of Mexico city. It's copy protection scheme apparently has a problem with the v.6.x VPC API implementation. So I bought a pirate copy. (already own a legal copy, and the publisher refused to make it work). Not sure if the v. 7.x VPC implementation works. Things will be a bit slower, so it depends as to how intense your windows needs will be. I'd take a shot at it. Never mind the tech support fussing. If all he's looking for is virii and network issues, you are not the droid he is looking for. F. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Airport Snow print sharing
I can print very well from my Pismo running Tiger via an airport snow base station's USB port to an epson 740. I am curious as to whether and how I can print to this printer from a TAM running OS 9.2.2 that is hooked up to the base station's LAN port. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto: Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Print sharing via Airport snow
Was able to resucitate an abandoned ABS snow that had its WAN port fried. Spotted a fried surface mount resistor with my trusty loupe and got it going again. Am thrilled with the USB print sharing that is very simple and reliable out of the ABS USB port. Used to wait until returning to office for printing. Am using a Pismo running tiger to print wirelessly to an Epson 740. Is there any chance of printing to the Epson from my OS 9.2.2 desktop machine hardwired to the ABS LAN port? Thanks much. F. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: DVD Refusal
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Brian McEwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD refusal. Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 05:51:42 -0400 On Jun 12, 2005, at 2:37 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: I burned a DVD+R for a friend with a 12 ALPB and it wasn't recognized at all in 10.3.9 or 10.4.1. Neither was a blank. I'm reburning the DVD+R to a DVD-R that he supplied, we'll see of that works? Another friend with an older TiPB couldn't recognize any of four different brands of blank CD-R's I owned, so evidently these PB's are either broken or very finicky. With desktop drives firewire external drives there are often firmware updates to add support for more or newer media types. Perhaps these PB drives could be upgraded using some non-Apple firmware and then patched with PatchBurn to reestablish Apple burn support? Big risk and hassle I'd think, but so is the unreadable CD or DVD. What version of the aluminum PB? I thought the Apple specs said the latest (1.5GHz) models would do both plus R and minus R ( with the superdrive of course). -B If anyone is searching for the Al PB info, please take a look at the media compatibility with the Pismo DVD reader expansion module. Just popped a DVD-R into it and while the disk mounted on the desktop, the DVD player gave me a media not supported message. Spat it out, stuffed it back in, and playback worked. Bit of a fright as I have just started to transfer an extensive VHS collection to DVD on my new VHS to DVD burner. Why complain if it works? Odd that an introduction/reject/reacquaint cycle seemed to do the trick. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
After Tiger... Firefox is slower
Firefox 1.0.3 is the latest version. Is that what you are running? Try clearing caches (privacy preference pane) and other info stored while browsing. My firefox is working fine. Repair privileges/permissions? Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Nima [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: After Tiger... Firefox is slower Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 19:58:58 -0500 Hmmm... I have not experienced this. In fact, I was noticing how faster all pages load under Firefox since the upgrade. ___ NBT On May 8, 2005, at 13:59, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote: ... wonder why? Well, after installing Tiger, which installs Safari 2.0, Firefox has become bloody slwww. Ideas? Ben -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Battery life under Tiger
Nope. Nonetheless, the time remaining for battery life and time to full charge seems to be on the blink in my Pismo with a high-capacity (6600 mAH) Newer Tech battery. Battery life is fine, but it never manages to calculate the time remaining. I've cycled it several times and it has yet to calibrate. Maybe this is related to your issue? This battery has been treated VERY well and is reasonably new. The cycle time reporting issue is definitely a cause of the Tiger upgrade. My original Apple batteries lasted well in excess of what was considered to be normal usable service lives. F. Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 19:55:03 -0400 From: Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Battery life under Tiger In-reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/05/05 18:49, Nima at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone noticed a reduced battery life since upgrade to Tiger? Not me on my PB 17... -Laurent. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Doesn't anyone wait anymore?!
Hello kt: Excuse my smug tone in prior post. Forgot to mention that i ensured that the maintenance routines had run via macaroni, did a full permissions repair, Disk utility repair and a diskwarrior rebuild. Furthermore, no Norton products have ever been installed on my Pismo OSX. All of these preventive measures should have helped. Definitely contributed to me running out of gas and gambling on a straight update instead of fresh install. Either that or the painkillers i'm on for my back surgery last week...which also may have contributed to the smug tone. I really had geared up for a clean install - maybe even wiping the drive in order to get find by content/spotlight indexing to work properly. Will wait for my next drive upgrade. I wimped out, but am still surprised by the mostly positive outcome. Will also look for the Epson drivers mentioned by TurtleBear. Anyway, let's focus on the reports of Tiger issues, solutions and features. Should help everyone make or decide to make the transition. F. Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 21:30:21 -0400 Subject: Re: Doesn't anyone wait anymore?! From: Karen Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I have finally had a successful install on my PowerBook 17 1GHz with 1 Gig of ram. I initially tried the update and when I rebooted everything was slower than molasses trying to go uphill. System Profiler and Safari would not even launch. I then did a reinstall, same problem. I then reinstalled OS 10.3.9 (not a good idea according to Apple) and still problems. Today I decided to bite the bullet and erase and install and now everything is fine. I had backed up all data and software so should not be a problem now. Live and Learn kt -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Stupid Pismo Question
If your guts are all solid, you might consider looking on eBay for a parts machine with good plastics. Suspect that a clean case, keyboard trackpad and screen are all you really need for like new state. Assume you have a solid battery. I needed a replacement screen at one point and it came with a top case that was in remarkably good condition. Have also got a lower case for trackpad and the power/sound cards. One thing I do recall is that some of the auctions seemed to be from questionable sources. Scan feedback for percentage AND content. If you are patient you may even come up with an acceptable *working* machine. Agree with you on the pismo. For everyday communicating and bread and butter use, I see no need for anything newer. F. Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Keith Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Stupid Pismo Question Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 10:20:20 -0500 Hey gang. I am running a Pismo which is now five years old and it is really showing a lot of mileage. I have not been the kindest computer owner and the demands I have placed on my faithful machine are showing. I think it is time to retire the old girl and go with something new. The problem is I still really like the Pismo, and I have a lot of accessories for it--swappable drives, a ton of RAM, a big hard drive, etc. What I would really like to do, instead of buying a new PowerBook or iBook, is buy another Pismo. That way I can keep using all this stuff I've invested in over the years, and also stick with a familiar machine. So my question is, are there any Pismos still available for sale anywhere? Ideally I'd like a new machine that's just been sitting in somebody's warehouse all these years but I figure that's pretty much a pipe dream. So I guess I'm probably looking at used machines. The problem is I have no clue about buying a used computer--how do I make sure I'm not getting one that's just as beat up as the one I have? Anybody got any ideas? Thanks, --Keith Potter -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Stupid Pismo Question
If your guts are all solid, you might consider looking on eBay for a parts machine with good plastics. Suspect that a clean case, keyboard trackpad and screen are all you really need for like new state. Assume you have a solid battery. I needed a replacement screen at one point and it came with a top case that was in remarkably good condition. Have also got a lower case for trackpad and the power/sound cards. One thing I do recall is that some of the auctions seemed to be from questionable sources. Scan feedback for percentage AND content. If you are patient you may even come up with an acceptable *working* machine. Agree with you on the pismo. For everyday communicating and bread and butter use, I see no need for anything newer. F. Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Keith Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Stupid Pismo Question Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 10:20:20 -0500 Hey gang. I am running a Pismo which is now five years old and it is really showing a lot of mileage. I have not been the kindest computer owner and the demands I have placed on my faithful machine are showing. I think it is time to retire the old girl and go with something new. The problem is I still really like the Pismo, and I have a lot of accessories for it--swappable drives, a ton of RAM, a big hard drive, etc. What I would really like to do, instead of buying a new PowerBook or iBook, is buy another Pismo. That way I can keep using all this stuff I've invested in over the years, and also stick with a familiar machine. So my question is, are there any Pismos still available for sale anywhere? Ideally I'd like a new machine that's just been sitting in somebody's warehouse all these years but I figure that's pretty much a pipe dream. So I guess I'm probably looking at used machines. The problem is I have no clue about buying a used computer--how do I make sure I'm not getting one that's just as beat up as the one I have? Anybody got any ideas? Thanks, --Keith Potter -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Doesn't anyone wait anymore?!
Let's get to work! Tiger was a smooth upgrade on my 400 mHz Pismo. 576 MB RAM, 60 GB fast travelstar. Was going to do a clean install and migrate due to the scads of haxies on my Panther system. Updated the haxies, backed up, got lazy and did a straight upgrade. No regrets. Spotlight is great! Find by content never did work under Panther due to some mysterious blockage of the indexing process. Really missed it. Tiger Spotlight indexed 45 GB in under 8 hours. We can now open multiple get info windows on selections of multiple finder items as was possible under 9.x and prior systems. Previous incarnations of X gave a one size fits all coverall info window - useless when trying to compare files/folders. Only two 'issues': My newer tech 6600 mAH battery doesn't seem to calibrate. Time remaining for full discharge/charge never gets calculated in menu bar display - yet. Pecentage, yes. Am cycling, have reset PMU, nvram, etc. Think there is a hard core calibration tactic via terminal that I may yet try. Also am seeing odd behaviour with an Epson 740 inkjet. Won't print via USB, but can access via utilities and get ink levels, clean, etc. On the other hand, I can print to this printer via Airport Express (remote node on network generated on a snow abs), but no access via utilities or ink level check via the new button in print window. Issues may have been present under Panther, only just pulled the 740 out of storage. F. -- In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tim Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Doesn't anyone wait anymore?! Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 15:48:01 -0400 I have to agree with Craig. I originally installed Tiger as an upgrade on my G5 iMac but I didn't like how things were workingI had installed a lot of the haxies and such. So I copied my hard drive to an external hard drive and did a clean install of Tiger. I used the Migration Assistant to bring over stuff. But I had a few applications that I had bought online and I kept the registration in an email archive. In the past (when I upgraded from 10.2 to 10.3) I had to open the entire file in textedit and use the 'find' feature for the various apps (maybe I should think about storing them somewhere else..or maybe hard copy). Anyway, with Tiger, I clicked on spotlight and typed in the name of the application. Spotlight found the email archive on the external drive, searched the entire file and had the information for me in UNDER 10 SECONDS! Now, I was EXTREMELY impressed! In addition to speeding up my iBooks, 2002 Quicksilver and iMac, Tiger is just really fast and I'm still looking for the 'bugs' (hype on the part of some nay-sayers). And, best of all, Apple BEAT Microsoft to the release of a 64 bit OS. Running Tiger makes me proud! But, for those of you who still prefer to stay with your present OS, it it OS 8.6 or whatever.that's just fine and dandy. But keep in mind that Apple doesn't support them anymore and there isn't going to be a lot of new software coming your way. Nothing wrong with running an upgraded 7300I applaud you, that's how I started out when I decided to make the switch from Windows to the Mac, but progress is so much more fun. And, that's what I use my Mac for is FUN! Tim On May 7, 2005, at 11:14 AM, Rad Craig wrote: I understand your point, but can't agree with it. If everyone thought that way, we'd all still be riding horses, instead of modern transportation. I don't believe horses are 'broke', so why fix them? The world is flat, I can deal with that, as long as I don't sail too far, and fall off, there won't be a problem. I know 'x' people die every year from cancer or MS (or insert other fatal disease here), we've got most major diseases covered, do we really need to solve the rest? These are of course exaggerated examples. If you are happy with an operating system or hardware platform, stick with it, you don't HAVE to upgrade, it's optional. But for the rest of the world who like the new features and/or speed improvements, maybe features that might make their life easier, or get their job done quicker (spotlight) so that they can spend more time with their family, or their time spent on the computer more enjoyable, its their option to buy the new upgrades in software and hardware. Rad... On May 7, 2005, at 9:49 AM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello All, I wanted to thank everyone who joined in on this thread. I was speaking from the heart and it might not have needed to be so important, but I'm just tired of upgrades folks. Yea Tiger sounds cool this and cool that, but it just seems that once I FINALLY get comfortable with my damn computer, Apple is racing the clock to make it obsolete. These big OS upgrades make me nervous. It's only a matter of time before the ATI video card in my Pismo will no longer be supported. Tiger supports it. . .for
Re: Pismo/External DVD
I purchased a LaCie 52xCD burner some years ago. Music CDs tend to be skip prone even with the finest media and slowest burn speed when compared to commercial CDs in my car player. Used all applicable drive cleaners and compressed air. Bumps in the road, bass peaks, etc make the disks skip. The problem does seem to be lesser at the slower speeds and finer quality media. LaCie indicated that there was no problem with the drive when it was new, and refused warranty service. I am located in Mexico so I have put up with it. Data disks seem to be reliable. The guts are a LiteOn mechanism that appears to be quite common. I have no other burner to compare to. Is this normal? Any suggestions? In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: P. H. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pismo/External DVD Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 02:51:03 +0900 On May 3, 2005, at 7:09 AM, P. H. Adams wrote: Well, a friend of mine just purchased, and is very happy with, the LaCie external DVD+-RW dual side. I've had good experiences with their products as well On May 3, 2005, at 11:06 PM, gladys perez-almiroty wrote: i have one of those creatures and it has been a big headache. it iwill be going back home tomorrow for repairs... Interesting. What kind of problems have you had with it? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: FinderPop like utility for OS X
Response to Bruce: Fruitmenu WILL do what Finderpop did. Think someone referred to it as 'Drilling' folders. At any rate, configure the 'fruitmenu' pane of the Fruitmenu System Preference panel to permit 'click and hold mouse to access contextual menu in finder' to whatever delay suits you. Then access the contextual menu pane of the Fruitmenu pref panel to include whatever you need in the contextual menu - mounted volume, selected folder are good choices. Remove 'dance for me, wash my clothes, fix dinner'. Add whatever you like. I added Moveitems X because it allowed transport of files to the drilled folder, in the manner of Popup Folder, which was orphaned and stopped functioning after an OS 8.x update. At any rate both Popup Folder and Finder pop were very elegant and easy to use. Can see why fruitmenu doesn't appear to be a replacement, as it does do a lot more and requires some persistence to configure. I also have folders that pop out of the apple menu, for instance. Response to Laurent: (with great humbleness and respect to the listnanny) Think that Finderpop's developer drifted away from the mac - or he wasn't a full time developer. At any rate Finderpop was distributed as a variation of shareware 'pintware', where satisfied users were encouraged to send the author beer/stout money. This might explain his lack of progress F. on 01/03/05 14:59, Bruce Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 28, 2005, at 9:00 PM, Frank Cornew wrote: Fruitmenu coupled with moveitems X has made for a satisfactory substitute for Finderpop (which substituted for popup folder) It appears from reading the Fruitmenu site that it does everything EXCEPT the ONE thing I need it to do (and the ONE thing I used FinderPop for)...pop up the contextual menu when I hold down the mouse button. There is a utility called 'Look Mom, No Hands', also for OS 9 and lower that does just this but it doesn't work with OS X either. It's all I want. I don't need my menus to replace the finder, dance for me wash my clothes and fix dinner, I just want them to pop up without me having to use two hands... Bruce, Do you think such utility would be useful and that a lot of people would use it? I'm kinda wondering why the other of FinderPop never ported his application to OS X... But if there would be some demand, that might be something I could wrote. I've been doing Cocoa development since basically 1992, so I know a little bit about developing on OS X... -Laurent. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
FinderPop like utility for OS X
Fruitmenu coupled with moveitems X has made for a satisfactory substitute for Finderpop (which substituted for popup folder) F. Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FinderPop like utility for OS X Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:02:57 -0700 Have a brand (new to me) Pismo, first OS X laptop. On my desktops I use my Kensington trackballs that have a button set to control-click, but I am NOT going to lug around a mouse to use with my new laptop. Under OS X there used to be a utility called FinderPop, which among a number of other things, set the contextual menu to pop up when you held the mouse button down qithout moving it for a time. FinderPop was never updated for OS X; does anyone know of anything that does this for OS X? (I don't need contextual navigations of my hard drive, the internet and have a dock/desktop/Finder replacement app, I just want the bleep context menu to pop up. Suggestions? Bruce -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Ethernet WiFi adapters - from AirPort in TiBook ???
What's the experience been with standalone ethernet to WiFi adapters? (beyond that they need external power) Can anyone recommend specific units? b or g, OSX or 9 Looks like I need to go that route, and would like to get something that works without too much pain... First shot at a Linksys USB adapter appears to have been a deadend as I have been stumped in attempting to get a mac to network out of the USB port... F. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
OSX vs OS9
Noted someone commenting about how it felt returning to OS9.x on a Kanga. Its taken me about a year to get accustomed to OSX after holding out and hanging on to OS9 for maybe a bit too long. Only things I miss are: Find by Content searching (still haven't got it to index the whole drive on the Pismo. This will probably take an absolutely clean reinstalling of the OS to straighten out.) More importantly, I vaguely remember that OS9 used to report the number of files and total size of the trash contents in the empty trash confirmation dialog under OS9. Furthermore, Copy Agent (last useful scraps of Speed Doubler) used to report the specific files in the trash in the empty dialog under OS9. It may have even permitted selection of the files to be deleted or that may have been yet another add-on for my OS9 systems. Anything similar for OSX? Standard trash empty dialog says nothing about the trash contents. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Linksys WUSB54G 802.11g adapter
Yes they do - think it was the first airport offering from apple, portable or desktop. And it does work very well. Probably a good reason for my holding on to my Pismos. Nonetheless, does anyone have know if there is any possibility to run this thing on a Mac, wireless TCP/IP out the USB port, driver sources, etc. Just happen to have a Linksys WUSB54G 802.11g. F. On Jan 4, 2005, at 5:21 PM, Andrew F. wrote: Why not get a real airport card, with the antennas in the screen the Pismo gets terrific wifi range, far better than my 12 Aluminum. Andrew On 1/4/05 12:41 PM, Frank Cornew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any thoughts about getting a Linksys WUSB54G 802.11g adapter to run on my Pismo, either under OSX or OS9? Trick seems to be that this thingy connects to the USB port, no drivers, etc. They make an Airport Card for a Pismo? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Find by Content Indexing
Any idea why I cannot index my 60 GB travelstar? (one partition in a pismo under the latest OSX, fully maintained (permissions, diskwarrior, etc)) Never have got the process to complete after installing panther over 9.2.2. I know that indexing is probably going to take a few days, but the process simply terminates after a few hours. Have deleted indexes and started again, managed to index individual folders/directories, but get the impression that find by content worked a lot better under OS9 than this workaround. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Linksys WUSB54G 802.11g adapter
Any thoughts about getting a Linksys WUSB54G 802.11g adapter to run on my Pismo, either under OSX or OS9? Trick seems to be that this thingy connects to the USB port, no drivers, etc. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Hitachi 60G 7200rpm laptop drive
Drive excellent. Much better than the original coal fired unit that was very noisy. Excellent experiences with the IBM/Hitachi travelstar line am currently running the 60G unit, have grandfathered the 20 and 40 G units to external enclosures or other computers and they are going strong. Running the Newer 6600 mAh Battery. Great improvement, but that is relative to the worn out batts it replaced. 3 hrs with full brightness screen, airport on DVD playback. 4+hours with airport on, no screen brightness adjustment. Little over 5 hours airport off, screen dim, etc. Panther. F. In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Stuart Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hitachi 60G 7200rpm laptop drive Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:21:00 +0800 Does anyone have experience with above drive? Or 7200 mAh high capacity Newer Pismo battery? Thanks, Stuart -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Panther Reboot fixed
Got it. Checked mod date/time on user prefs after 'healing' that user via a barebones login. Only a handful had been modded at the appropriate time. Dock prefs were the problem. Dockdisk haxie responsible. Uninstalled, all well now. Thanks to listies I have learned useful stuff, plus my problem is fixed F. -- From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikael=20Bystr=F6m?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Panther Reboot Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 04:51:59 +0200 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frank, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Sure miss conflict catcher For the Asteroids game I take it? BTW, did you lift out all of your Library pr made a new user? You can search for corrupted prefs with this in the terminal (On one line only): find ~/Library/Preferences /Library/Preferences -type f -name *.plist | sed -e s/\(.*\)/\\1\/ | xargs plutil -lint Anyone know how to make terminal code like this to an app to execute? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Panther Reboot
Thanks much for the feedback. Didn't work. Assume that you refer to the library prefs in the user directory. Didn't see that they got replaced after deletion (replaced manually from backup archive), even after reboot into barebones and boot into user. Somewhat concerned about nuking the loginwindow.plist from the main library/preferences. The hunt is on. Sure miss conflict catcher How come login hangs after a Panther crash? Have to reboot and login to a bare bones user before I can log in to my main user? Suspect that a pref file gets/is corrupted. What should I delete? try com.apple.systempreferences.plist in ~/Library/Preferences. That helped me with a similar, but not identical problem. You can also try and remove com.apple.loginwindow.plist. After that, you'd 'have to go for a hunt. Follow Laurents advice. -- 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 ---
Panther Reboot
How come login hangs after a Panther crash? Have to reboot and login to a bare bones user before I can log in to my main user? Suspect that a pref file gets/is corrupted. What should I delete? F. -- 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 ---
X stuff.
Does anyone know of a utility that makes the trash confirmation dialog list the files that are about to be deleted (copy agent/speed doubler used to do this under OS9) Also miss the ability of 9 to list multiple info windows about files. Under X all we get is a single window listing common aspects of a group of files. Any known workaround? -- 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: rebuilding batteries
On 04/03/04 15:50, Clark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 9:03 AM -0600 3/4/04, John Slavin wrote: I've been meaning to ask this question for a long time. Over on the Duo list there are discussions from time to time about rebuilding the batteries. It is pretty well generally accepted that using a dremel tool, and some care, it's pretty easy to open up the battery and replace the cells, at a cost quite a bit less than a replacement battery. Is it possible to do that on the wallstreet battery? Has anyone done it? As a rule, no, or at least not easily. The first problem is that Lithium cells are not generally available. There is, I believe, also an issue with resetting the controller chip inside the battery. Even if you can find the cells they may cost so much as to make it not worth your effort, although that is purely speculation on my part. Indeed. I was able to find relative cheap lithium cells on eBay ($40). I proceeded to rebuild one of my Pismo battery. I had some problems fitting the cells in the housing, but I've never been able to reset the controller chip. So, my Pismo never wanted to recharge the battery... -Laurent. -- Laurent: Ever try to reset/recharge in a PB (is it the Wallstreet? or the Lombard?) that would accept the Pismo battery and would also run Battery Reset? Just to take advantage of your work and to divert some toxic waste from the landfill for the time being. Tend to agree with a later poster on this thread that rebuilding isn't cost effective at present. F. -- 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 ---
trash icon in sidebar, as well as...
Reasonably new to OSX, transitioned my Pismo with the Panther release. Have modified the system to my heart's content, no problems, have backed off on a few mods which were driven by OS 9 nostalgia. Now that I'm getting used to OSX, I'd like to put the trash in the finder window sidebars. Can't seem to see how to do it, not sure if it is possible. Not really necessary but would be nice for my way of thinking. One thing I really miss from OS9, or really from Copy Agent (was speed doubler's copy functions) was the window that displayed the items in the trash in the trash empty confirm dialog. If memory serves, one could even select the items to be deleted from this window, or maybe that was from another mod. Anyway, anything like this in X? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Airport Problem
Laurent: Chill. Check your solder joints on that ABS. The caps may have degraded or there may be a short between the terminals. Suspect that they are used to condition the input power for the ABS, so any shorts will be reducing the power available for running the circuits. I've replaced my caps twice in a graphite ABS with the latest set being of a far greater voltage than the originals. Test the ABS disassembled as well. You may be moving the caps in an inappropriate way when you close the internal clamshell. I actually cut holes in the clamshell to accomodate my first set of replacement caps as they were too big to fit. The first set didn't fail - they were a temporary solution. If all else fails, try a hard reset on that ABS. Maybe the firmware got rattled to a low power setting that was mentioned in another post. Thanks, Frank! Glad to hear from someone else who also repaired his ABS. Actually, I had a lot of problems to get enough solder into the board holes to hold the capacitors. I don't know if there is a trick when you do that, or maybe in removing the older capacitors, I did make the holes a little larger, but if there is a trick, I certainly don't know about it. Also, since you seem more knowledgeable than me about this, if you know a sure way to do any measurement after replacing the capacitors that would tell me whether my solder is good or not, I would greatly appreciate. I think that's is the only thing missing from the web site I used to do the repair. Again, I could certainly use your assistance to verify my (maybe poor) work. Thanks again! -Laurent. -- Laurent: Just check for continuity between a capacitor lead and a circuit board trace near the solder joints. A zero reading should indicate that your work is OK - not for sure, but good enough for our purposes. More importantly, check for any shorts between the cap leads or solder points as these are possible problems. Not sure if there are any internal foils on this card that are relevant, but you should examine that the solder appears to have bonded to pads on both sides of the board (if present). Check http://www.seanadams.com/deadairport/ for more tips. Also would check the functioning of the unit before you close it, and do be sure to upgrade the voltage rating of the caps relative to the original ones. Also, you did respect the polarity of the electrolytic capacitors? - they do have positive and negative terminals, indicated on the cap and usually on the board F. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Airport Problem
Laurent: Chill. Check your solder joints on that ABS. The caps may have degraded or there may be a short between the terminals. Suspect that they are used to condition the input power for the ABS, so any shorts will be reducing the power available for running the circuits. I've replaced my caps twice in a graphite ABS with the latest set being of a far greater voltage than the originals. Test the ABS disassembled as well. You may be moving the caps in an inappropriate way when you close the internal clamshell. I actually cut holes in the clamshell to accomodate my first set of replacement caps as they were too big to fit. The first set didn't fail - they were a temporary solution. If all else fails, try a hard reset on that ABS. Maybe the firmware got rattled to a low power setting that was mentioned in another post. F. -- 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 ---
findbycontent
After transitioning to Panther shortly after its launch, I haven't been satisfied with the find by content performance under Panther. It worked very well for me under 9.2.2 on my Pismo, to the point where I depend on it. I am being far more meticulous in filing my work since it just izznt the same under Panther. Background: Booted and installed from the Panther distribution disks. Did not erase or reformat the drive, don't know if drivers were updated. Journaling off. ~60GB drive half full. Only one language selected. Indexing: Attempts to index the whole drive fail after a day or so of churning. Knew it would take some time, but this is absurd. Not possible to reattempt indexing without trashing files in Libraries/Indexes/findbycontent. Have successfully indexed specific directories. Have repaired permissions (iteratively), checked other maintenance routines, switched users, disk utility, etc. Am waiting for the latest disk warrior. Finding: Works, but slow on the selected directories. I get the impression that it worked faster and with better hits under 9.2.2. Is the index automatically updated, or do I need to do this periodically? Do I need to backup and wipe the drive and start from scratch, or is this just the way things are? F. -- 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 ---
find by content
After transitioning to Panther shortly after its launch, I haven't been satisfied with the find by content performance under Panther. It worked very well for me under 9.2.2 on my Pismo, to the point where I depend on it. I am being far more meticulous in filing my work since it just aint the same under Panther. Background: Booted and installed from the Panther distribution disks. Did not erase or reformat the drive, don't know if drivers were updated. Journaling off. ~60GB drive half full. Only one language selected. Indexing: Attempts to index the whole drive fail after a day or so of churning. Knew it would take some time, but this is absurd. Not possible to reattempt indexing without trashing files in Libraries/Indexes/findbycontent. Have successfully indexed specific directories. Have repaired permissions (iteratively), checked other maintenance routines, switched users, disk utility, etc. Finding: Works, but slow on the selected directories. I get the impression that it worked faster and with better hits under 9.2.2. Is the index automatically updated, or do I need to do this periodically? Do I need to backup and wipe the drive and start from scratch? Am waiting for the latest disk warrior. F. -- 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 ---
find by content
After transitioning to Panther shortly after its launch, I haven't been satisfied with the find by content performance under Panther. It worked very well for me under 9.2.2 on my Pismo, to the point where I depend on it. I am being far more meticulous in filing my work since it just aint the same under Panther. Background: Booted and installed from the Panther distribution disks. Did not erase or reformat the drive, don't know if drivers were updated. Journaling off. ~60GB drive half full. Only one language selected. Indexing: Attempts to index the whole drive fail after a day or so of churning. Knew it would take some time, but this is absurd. Not possible to reattempt indexing without trashing files in Libraries/Indexes/findbycontent. Have successfully indexed specific directories. Have repaired permissions (iteratively), checked other maintenance routines, switched users, disk utility, etc. Finding: Works, but slow on the selected directories. I get the impression that it worked faster and with better hits under 9.2.2. Is the index automatically updated, or do I need to do this periodically? Do I need to backup and wipe the drive and start from scratch? Am waiting for the latest disk warrior. F. -- 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 400,10.3.2 PLW NTR
Look at http://fixyourownprinter.com for tips and parts to repair the printer. The Dayna adapter may be limited to a certain number of Appletalk devices on the net, so test it one to one, also it might require a power source. This is what I recall from using a kensington version of this thing. No software was required. G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 01:39:05 -0500 From: Kochkodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Pismo 400,10.3.2 PLW NTR In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings and Happy New Year Lista's, A quick question for the cognoscenti in the groupI have a Pismo 400 and an Imac SE 400 that I have been using with 10.3.2 and a PLW LS via a Keyspan serial/usb converter. The systems have worked perfectly until the other week when the LS showed a scanner motor malfunction and diedI do have a PLW NTR that works perfectly with my Performa 5200 (8.6) and LC II (7.0?) and want to know if I can use it with the Pismo/Imac via the Keyspan converter.. I also have a Dayna Ethernet to Local Talk bridge unit that I got off the LEM list but there wasn't a manual with it and I can't figure out how it worksEvidentally Intel bought out Dayna and has ceased supporting any Dayna products. The NTR was used by my wife at her school and is in great condition and I have a couple of toner carts that I can use...The printer is rarely used because I dropped Earthlink dialup and switched to Verizon DSL in October. So how about it??? Anyone have any ideas or suggestions about the possibility of getting this combo to work? If this is deemed OT, I apologize in advance..Any replies can be sent off list if desired... Again..Best wishes for a safe, happy and prosperous new year to all the list members Regards, Mike K -- 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 ---
How do I get rid of the blinking question mark?
Think what happened was that you installed a system that is PowerMac 7300 specific, given that it was the CPU in control when you installed 8.5. The installer was under the impression that the Lombard was an external SCSI drive on the PM 7300. The Lombard therefore does not recognize the system folder as being valid? Also may cause the slave/target mode not to work as it may not have been supported on the 7300. Don't know if you can install 8.5 as a universal system configuration, either. Furthermore, as far as 8.5 is concerned, Mactracker reports that OS 8.6 was the original OS shipped with the Lombard, so 8.5 may be nonfunctional on the Lombard. A 8.6 or higher CDROM should boot this computer. Finally, I seem to recall a size limit on slave/target mode from my experience with Duos and 2400c platforms - drives over 2? 4? 6? 8? gigs would 'work', but would get munged after a while. Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 08:20:55 -0600 From: Greenfield Bowie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How do I get rid of the blinking question mark? I'm hoping one of you Powerbook gurus might be able to help me get my Powerbook to boot up. I recently purchased a PowerBook G3 on eBay (Lombard/G3/333/OS9.0/192Mb/4Gb/) It arrived on Christmas eve (perfect!) The 9.0 system installed on it booted ok, but was very s - l - o - w ! Years ago I had a Mac Powerbook 160, so I used a SCSI cable I still had (with the square 30-pin connector) and connected the Powerbook in slave mode to my PowerMac 7300, and installed Mac OS 8.5 from a CD-ROM disc, using the 7300's CD-ROM drive. Everything seemed to install successfully -- I intended to then update the system to 8.6, using the PowerBook itself to do the updating. But unfortunately, ever since then, when I try to re-boot, I get the blinking question mark; apparently, it cannot find the 8.5 installed system. I now regret that when I had it in slave mode, I didn't switch the startup disk to the PowerBook itself and iron out any difficulties from my PowerMac 7300, because I have also been unable to to connect the PowerBook in slave mode again. That SCSI cable I used the first time is quite tricky to get its square end connected to the Powerbook -- true enough, but something else now seems to prevent the slave mode connecting, and I don't know what it is. I've zapped the PRAM, held down the C key to try to get it to start up with my 8.5 system disc, but nothing seems to qork. I wonder if perhaps the original CD that came with this Powerbook might work -- but then again, the CD player doesn't boot the Mac OS 8.5 dis either, so would any other CD-ROM disk be any different? I wonder if somewhere inside this Powerbook is a cuda button, similar to the PowerMacs. Despite being an experienced 20-year Mac user, I'm so far unable to get my Christmas present to boot up. Any helpful suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. Greenfield Bowie -- 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 ---
Panther crashing help viewer
All is good now: Nuked the Virex Help file in Computer Mac OS X Library Documentation Help folder as indicated in http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/helpviewer.html, and all was good. Datadirect.help.help may also be a culprit. Took me some time to rout this link out of Macfixit or Apple support. Looks like a good troubleshooting source. As a recent convert to OSX, thought that I'd made it over the hump. Now that everything is installed on the Pismo (good thing I installed that 60gig travelstar), software is upgraded, less and less classic calls, I've noticed that the help viewer crashes everytime upon launch. Ick. Must have overreached with a haxie or some bit of software, as I assume that the latest rev of Panther doesn't do this. Have started to uninstall much of the add on stuff, but no success. Any equivalent to booting with extensions off in the manner of OS9? Miss conflict catcher or even extensions manager at this point. -- 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 ---
Panther crashing help viewer
As a recent convert to OSX, thought that I'd made it over the hump. Now that everything is installed on the Pismo (good thing I installed that 60gig travelstar), software is upgraded, less and less classic calls, I've noticed that the help viewer crashes everytime upon launch. Ick. Must have overreached with a haxie or some bit of software, as I assume that the latest rev of Panther doesn't do this. Have started to uninstall much of the add on stuff, but no success. Any equivalent to booting with extensions off in the manner of OS9? Miss conflict catcher or even extensions manager at this point. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Virtual PC/Pismo 400/Panther
I delayed transitioning to OSX until recently. During this period, I recall some discussion regarding Virtual PC under OSX being problematic/slow. Now that I've got Panther up and running, all I need to do to finally disconnect from OS 9 is to set up VPC in X. I have a choice between VPC 5.x or paying for a VPC 6.1 upgrade. Anyone out there care to comment as to whether the upgrade is worth the trouble and expense? Is VPC 5 under classic an option? I'm only going to run Win 98 Finally, the VPC 6.1 product description indicates that a 500MHz G3 is recommended or required. Sources of info not consistent. Has anyone even installed this thing on a 400MHz Pismo? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Pismo Rubber feet.
As reported previously, I've used round, hemispherical clear feet/bumperws from the hardware store for some time and prefer them over the original black feet. (They should look better than a glop of hot glue.) Nonetheless, give it a try. For those that insist on a black foot, is hot glue available in black? The feet may also be available in black, as well - I've seen black square feet, not round ones. Square feet would definitely look nasty. Relative to the black feet, they stay put way longer, grip my inclined workstation far better, and put a bit more space between the Pismo and the desk for ventilation. It is possible to find these things in the exact size of the recesses that the old black feet fit in. For longer lasting results and appearance, I recommend you clean out vestiges of the old stickum out of the recesses first. GooGone? I replaced all of the black feet during my first year of ownership of the Pismo in 2000. Only two have come off since then, and probably due to being bumped/scraped directly. The originals seemed to peel off if the PB was slid across a reasonably grippy surface. May replace them all again as they have yellowed and are a bit scuffed. Think the originals were 3M brand - other brands may or may not adhere as well. YMMV. Think this issue has been beaten to death, but carry on if you wish. Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Phil Burk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pismo rubber feet Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:02:26 -0500 On Nov 19, 2003, at 8:41 AM, Krevnik wrote: On Nov 18, 2003, at 4:36 PM, Clyde Kahrl wrote: Brent writes: Does anyone else have a suggestion for a reasonably priced source of black powerbook feet? A:Glue gun. Problem is that not all of us have managed to KEEP the feet that have fallen out. I lost a couple on our local bus system, which means they are gone for good. He is looking for ways to replace feet lost in this manner, much as I am, so I would appreciate an answer for his question. I think Clyde WAS answering your question. Ever used a glue gun? You can certainly push a nice glop of glue out onto any surface the glue used maintains a high degree of viscosity yet harders to a nice rubbery feel. It's a great solution and one I plan on testing. Phil Burk -- 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: Need help with Booting problem - batt life under X
Below procedure works fine for me - just use the respective startup disk panels to switch back and forth. Also, have noted that Panther (OSX 10.3?) is giving me the same - if not longer battery life than 9.2.2 on my flock of three ancient batteries in a Pismo. Maybe there was some kind of 'Battery Reset' effect that was previously not available on the Pismo. Seems that prior versions of X were problematic in this respect. Only thing I would expect X to impact on battery life might be increased virtual memory use resulting in more HD access. I've got 576 MB in this Pismo, so that may not be happening. Gary E Davis wrote: Hi all I have a 266Mhz wallstreet with 384meg ram and a 20 gig drive Running OSX 2.8. I installed OS92.2 on the second partition for Classic apps but if I try to get it to boot OS9 off the second partition it halts after the Smiley mac and reboots back to OSX.. What do I have set wrong? Also have any of you noticed that OSX drains the Battery faster then OS9.2.2? Gary Go ahead and boot to OSX. . after it boots up, go to your sys. preferences and double click on the icon startup Disk then select Mac OS 9.1/ or 9.2 which ever one you've installed. restart your computer. . . and it should boot up in Os 9 -- 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 rubber feet
Dunno. Have been using the clear feet from the hardware store for some time and prefer them. They stay put way longer, grip my inclined workstation far better, and put a bit more space between the Pismo and the desk for ventilation. It is possible to find these things in the exact size of the recesses that the old black feet fit in. For longer lasting results and appearance, I recommend you clean out vestiges of the old stickum out of the recesses first. GooGone? The inclined workstation is actually a music stand that was probably meant to be used on top of a grand piano. At any rate, it is smooth, but the book stays put. Great ventilation, ergonomic and very elegant. I'd pay $30 for a stand like this, not the feet. F. Hi. Please share with me what is the racket going on with replacing the powerbook rubber feet for a Pismo? I've visited at least three websites where they are trying to sell replacement stick-on rubber feet for close to $20. The lowest price at one site wanted $10 for the strip of four black stick-on rubber feet but then their shipping and handling was $10. This is insane since the weight isn't even listed because it does not register on most postal scales. Yup, you guessed it a first class no. 10 envelope for thirty seven cents and away they go. So as a temporary measure I went to Home Depot and purchased clear stick-on cabinet door bumpers 3/8 package of twenty for $2. The thickness is greater but I'm testing the first one to see if it stays on. Does anyone else have a suggestion for a reasonably priced source of black powerbook feet? Thanks G3 Firewire Powerbook 10.2.6 -- Cheers, Brent -- 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 ---
iBook display problem
All White, dual USB 500mhz, 10gb drive. No display activity. Not even on external monitors or via shining a bright light on the LCD. No video response from either backlight, LCD, or video out to VGA. Operates.. am able to boot and shutdown as if I were blindfolded. The computer is operating, but the video is toast. Additional detail, I've done continuity tests on both the LCD's data ribbon-cable, and the power/microphone cable. Both check out. The question is whether this symptom is consistent with a toasted display module, toasted inverter board, or toasted video circuit on the motherboard. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Panther Filesharing
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 12:13:08 -0500 Subject: Re: Panther Filesharing From: Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 07/11/03 11:56, Frank Cornew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read the rest of this thread. I'm actually a bit more lost than Clark. I just transitioned from 9.2.2 to Panther (mainly to get my iPod working), and while have worked out most of the issues with my everyday working environment, I'm not seeing any networked volumes at all, either on the desktop or the sidebar. Basically trying to find a single desktop Mac running OS 9.2.2 that is hooked up via ethernet to a graphite airport base station. Panther is running my Pismo and the airport connection sees the internet just fine via the ABS modem. I set this rig up and it worked just fine with both computers under OS 9.2.2, and I figured that I would eventually dope it out. Nonetheless, the feedback from this thread makes me wonder if things aren't working quite right. Have attempted to mount via the browser with the desktop's IP address, no joy, not even a wait. Appletalk is enabled via Airport on the pismo. Guess I should check if it is working in the opposite direction. Mounting via afp://thismachine. is accomplished how? This is under a Panther clean install with one update. Kind of bummed as networking was supposed to be a no brainer with the new OS. Did you try to go through the Network browser? Open a new Finder window, change presentation to columns (CMD-3), then click Network at the top of the sidebar. Do you see a folder named Local? If so, click on it. If your network is setup properly, you should see all AppleShare servers there. I'm not sure, though, if those AppleShare servers have to have server over IP address enabled when running OS 9. If you don't see the Local folder, then there is a problem on your machine... -Laurent. -- Enabled Filesharing connect via TCP/IP in the Filesharing CP on the 9.2.2 computer and all is good. Thanks Laurent. -- 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/iPod
Suspect that I had a similar experience with a 30 GB third generation (3G) iPod. My 3G iPod initially worked under 9.2.2 on my Pismo, but the connection became increasingly flaky. Could only negotiate updating of music after a reboot, even with a clean install of 9.2.2 with the latest OS9 iTunes (2.0.4) and iPod updater (1.3?). Intermittent mounting on desktop. No ability to change iPod prefs under iTunes. iPod updater under 9.2.2 would not restore/repair the pod when it started to be unreliable. Only solution was to reset it with the latest iPod updater under OSX. Was starting to think that the cable was damaged. Believe that the last iPod updater compatible with OS9 is not really compatible with the 3G iPods. iTunes may have some issues as well. Checked the Apple webpages and did discover that there seems to be a compatibility gap. Doubt that this is a one pod - one computer issue, as a window generally pops up warning about the different music libraries. Learned much about iPod diagnostics and various button salutes for reset/diskmode/diagnostics. Mine does not have the hidden record feature Finally decided that the time had come for OSX. iPod rock solid since then. Only wish that I could transfer my playlists to the latest iTunes for X from the old one. Any suggestions? BTW, Panther seems to be snappier on my Pismo G3/400 than 9.2.2. Do have 576MB RAM and the latest fast 60GB disk though... F. --- Joe Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you plug it into your wife's Pismo, can you start iTunes and have it recognized? No. It also won't even show up on the desktop (in either 9 or X). Also, the iPod doesn't go through it's usual little connection song and dance like it does with the other Pismo. Well, first suggestion, if she doesn't have a compelling reason for using OS 9, she should switch and go to OS X and stay there. Next re-install iTunes, the latest version and repair permissions. If you supect a firewire problem on her machine, do you have another FW device to test with? Perhaps another FW drive or camera. You could use your Pismo to check her FW connection by using yours in Target Disk mode. Do you know how? Joe -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Panther Filesharing
I have read the rest of this thread. I'm actually a bit more lost than Clark. I just transitioned from 9.2.2 to Panther (mainly to get my iPod working), and while have worked out most of the issues with my everyday working environment, I'm not seeing any networked volumes at all, either on the desktop or the sidebar. Basically trying to find a single desktop Mac running OS 9.2.2 that is hooked up via ethernet to a graphite airport base station. Panther is running my Pismo and the airport connection sees the internet just fine via the ABS modem. I set this rig up and it worked just fine with both computers under OS 9.2.2, and I figured that I would eventually dope it out. Nonetheless, the feedback from this thread makes me wonder if things aren't working quite right. Have attempted to mount via the browser with the desktop's IP address, no joy, not even a wait. Appletalk is enabled via Airport on the pismo. Guess I should check if it is working in the opposite direction. Mounting via afp://thismachine. is accomplished how? This is under a Panther clean install with one update. Kind of bummed as networking was supposed to be a no brainer with the new OS. Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 19:59:37 -0800 From: Clark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Panther Filesharing At 10:36 AM -0500 11/6/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a small network at home and I use file sharing frequently. Since upgrading to Panther I've been confounded by how it is handled now. When I log onto another computer its icon isn't mounted to the desktop or to the sidebar. There's no visual hint at all that I am sharing and no way to log off. At least that's what I thought until this morning. Have you checked Finder Preferences. In Jaguar there are options there for controlling what kind of drives appear on the desktop, including servers. -- 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 Problem tidbit/Apple Audio Extension
Hello Drew: Running a Pismo 400 with 576MB RAM, 60GB HD, OS 9.2.2 w/many third party utilities and hacks. Problem #1 really sounds like RAM or loose processor. Problem #2: Apple Audio Extension. Had the same problem. Would have to reboot with extensions off and then switch back to get going again. Intermittent, generally cropped up after a crash while running, even with extra system heap. Given the soup of utilities and add ons in my system, I disabled it. Don't miss it. No more crashes during boot. Not sure if it is necessary on the Pismo (if wrong, please enlighten me - conflict catcher reports it as being an update for audio software for PCI macs). P.S.: Thanks for Classic Stumbler. Nice work. -- 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 ---
building a better mouse (was 17 Powerbook)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:21:19 -0500 Subject: Re: building a better mouse (was 17 Powerbook) From: David M. Ensteness [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not Invented There: Bluetooth, Airport, USB, OS X, SuperDrive, DVD Studio Pro, Final Cut Pro, iTunes... i don't know, I'm guessing they're quite a bit over not invented here syndrome, and have been for quite some time. Very true - but for AirPort, they co-developed it with Lucent. David Also think that the software in the card and the base station came from two different sharewares. IPNetrouter in one of them, and a different ware in the other. Returning to the mouse thread. Don't care about the different implementations of mouse buttons between OS. Especially on powerbooks with trackpad/clickers conveniently located near mod keys, spacebar and arrow keys which can assist in window navigation/scrolling. Have been comfortable moving around in both worlds. Trackpad can also be used for clicking and dragging, and scrolling. Definitely don't care to hook up an external mouse. Yes, it would be simple to make the click bar rock to implement a two button version. -- 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 ---
Battery Monitor Question
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 20:31:42 -0400 From: K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Battery Monitor Question A quick one for the list Does anyone know if there is a program available that will show the power remaining when running a Pismo or other laptop on battery? I know that there is a feature in Norton Windows that does this because I have used it on a Thinkpad 560 but can't seem to find an equivalent pgm for Mac laptops.. Regards, Mike K If you haven't migrated to OSX, MyBattery and the battery control strip module in Jeremy's CSM will give you more battery info than you would ever want. Look at http://www.kezer.net/ F. -- 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 ---
RCM glitch
The OT/PPP strip created by Dennis Wilkinson has always been my choice for negotiating modem connections. Check it out on version tracker - good reviews and cheap. Gives more info than the Apple CSM. Nonetheless, I still keep the Apple CSM installed for a reason I can't recall (currently use Airport fulltime) Running 9.2.2 on a Pismo. This CSM runs well on my ancient iron and systems as well. Sounds like something got corrupted in Greg's setup. -- 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
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. Yes, the installer won't do it. Was dumb enough to pry open the installer tomes and install password protection and was locked out of the Pismo. Apple tech pretty much told me that I was SOL and to reformat the drive. Managed to mount the HD (with the password) by booting the pismo with a CD-ROM and fiddling with a rescue utility via a network connection (?). Don't remember exactly, but was extremely elated with the outcome. Then used DiskGuard, which was great until it became incompatible with 9.2.2, and I haven't upgraded since the current owners don't look reliable (or have been slandered) on Version Tracker. Disklock looks interesting. Multiple users under 9.2.2 also looks OK. Any comments about the reliability/security of the above? F. -- 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 ---
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Message-ID: 024301c2d919$fe27dbb0$00940b99@AA198218EB From: Joe Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pismo screen and CDRW/DVD replacement Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:55:18 -0500 - Original Message - From: Frank Cornew [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:18 PM Subject: Pismo screen and CDRW/DVD replacement Anyone care to share experiences with screen replacement on the Pismo? This link was posted (http://www.go2mac.com/story.lasso?newsID=8920) mentioning the successful use of a unspecified Panasonic LCD that may be better than the original unit - in terms of viewing angle. Am aware that Samsung and LG units will work. Any feedback on model numbers and/or tech info that would ensure successful identification on e-bay would be appreciated. Have looked at pbparts and wegener. Also have noted some traffic regarding making an expansion bay CDRW/DVD out of the original CDROM/DVD expansion bay unit. Any recommendations in terms of functionality (bootability, reliability, OSX/9?) and final appearance/fit of the unit? Panasonic UDJA710 is mentioned in the above screen link. Any others? F. I read the same article and it's handy knowledge to tuck away for the day my Pismo screen goes dark. But as for the CD drives, I searched eBay and other auction sites and have not been able to nail one of those puppies down at any price, let alone a reasonable one. Joe Ellis One just sold for $157.50 ( http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3401920578category=31564) on e-bay F. -- 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 ---
Bus Speeds of G3 Models
get a copy of the freeware mactracker - available on versiontracker - has all this data for everything mac... Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:24:15 -0500 From: Alan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bus Speeds of G3 Models bobshutts wrote: .and checked the bus speed of those models at Apple Spec. Where is that URL? -- Alan Miller Underwater Photographer http://home.earthlink.net/~uwphoto/ 9600/233 w/ G3/400 XLR8 ZIF, 1.5 G RAM eBay ID uwphotoer Live each day like it is your last because someday you'll be right. -- 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 ---
Battery maintenance/pismo modem shutoff
I seem to recall that shutting the modem off can make a battery last longer. Noted that Mybattery reports that my Pismo's modem is on, but no apparent way of switching it off. Any clues? Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:22:05 +0100 Subject: Re: Battery maintance tips From: Ryan Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello everyone, I just bought a brand new battery for my lombard, and before I start messing around with it, can someone let me know how you properly maintain these things? Also are there any special things you need to do to make sure the battery life meter on the control strip is correct? I'm just trying to guage it for an accurate run time..Thanks, Josh Your battery is a Li-ion (Lithium Ion) so the best way to maintain it is to simply keep it charged (just keep the computer plugged in when possible). There is no need to discharge the batt. In regards to the control strip, that is simply a software guesstimate. The most accurate reading is pushing the little button on the batt. itself. Not very precise, but that is the way it goes. You should get over 2 hours with light computing and no CD/DVD use. There is a cool batt. Voltage software out there called MyBattery. Look for it on www.versiontracker.com or www.macupdate.com unfortunately it only runs in OS9 or earlier. Have fun, 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 ---
Some Pismo Questions
tap on trackpad has been available since OS 7.5 on the duo 2300... just check the trackpad control panel... On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 12:31 PM, Pete Gregory wrote: Jaguar is tempting because it might make some things easier - especially networking to the linux box but not a big deal. Before even thinking of OSX, though, I suspect RAM and possibly disk upgrades are de rigour. Does it 'just work' or are there some caveats? Also can one just stuff in a bigger disk? (I remember the old days of Mac IIsi and PPC6100/60) where 'non apple' disks weren't recognized by the apple tools. One minor niggle is on the PC (and ones I've used since the mid 90's), you could tap on the trackpad to mouse click - do the newer iBooks/PowerBooks support this? -- 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: IBM 20GB PowerBook drive
I agree with nick. Mine makes practically no noise, even at 4am. Seriously - have to put my ear to my Pismo to hear it. F. on 10/24/02 6:26 AM, Andrew Main at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently purchased one of the new 40GNX 5400RPM 20GB IBM drives (model IC25N020ATCS05) for my G3 PowerBook. These drives (there is also a 40GB version) are very popular nowadays, both for their speed and for their lack of noise, due to the new Fluid Dynamic Bearing technology. I'm finding the drive to be rather noisy, though. It's not the maddening whine of the 12GB drive that came in the PowerBook, but it definitely does make a noise, a quiet but noticeable churning sound - not loud, but sitting in front of my computer in my quiet house at 4 am the sound is a constant presence, making me wish there were a way in OS X to spin down the HD. In fact, the drive is noisier than the earlier model 4200RPM 20GB fluid dynamic bearing IBM drive I bought last year (which I have in an expansion bay case). It's beginning to bother me. Does anyone else have one of these drives? Do you find it makes any noticeable noise? I'm thinking maybe I should return it (to Googlegear) for exchange. Andrew Main It should be very quiet, you should return it, you prolly got a bad one. nick -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books;mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:G-Books-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:G-Books-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lemlists.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Password Protection
When I graduated from my trusty Duo 2300 to a Pismo, I noticed that the Pismo OS easy install did not include the Apple's Password Protection control panel that I had used on the Duo. Played around with the installer and discovered that it simply would not do it. Assumed that this was some kind of bug in the installer, and since Password protection had worked so well on the Duo it must be good for the Pismo. Well, as they say, assumption is the mother of all f***-ups, which is the situation I was in after using Tome Viewer to install Password Protection on the Pismo. Since there is far less code in the Pismo ROMs, it never boots to the point where Password Protection comes up and allows startup to proceed, and I was locked out of my HD. After much amusement with my arsenal of disk utilities, I was able to access the disk, possibly over local talk after booting with a CD. Apple support had said that I ought to call Drive Savers. Maybe I could have transplanted the drive to another platform as a last recourse. Excuse the smugness, but I was rather relieved and pleased with myself. At any rate, my need to secure the data in my computer was admirably met by DiskGuard, which worked just fine until recently. It provided great boot/sleep/hotcorner password protection that was tolerant of disk rescue utilities and networking. Unfortunately, this solution broke after upgrading Diskguard, system maintenance or OS update to OS 9.2.2. Can't remember exactly what did it. In seeking to update/upgrade the software to the latest version, I observed that Version Tracker feedback is overwhelmingly negative with respect to the latest version of this product and its current owners. Turns out that Diskguard has passed on through two different (ASD, Intego) owners since I originally purchased it from Highware (who gave great tech support). I'm also going to have to pay for the latest version. So...Any recommendations regarding options? I suspect that 'Multiple Users' can be easily defeated by booting with extensions disabled. The only other option I am aware of is DiskLock from PowerOn software. Any experience with these options or other security solutions for the Pismo? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Discount Airport Station?
The software involved may be based on IPNetRouter. It is my understanding that it was licensed for either the ABS or the Airport cards... Message-Id: a05111b02b989750cdbe9@[24.26.165.172] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:49:56 -0500 From: Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Discount Airport Station? On 8/21/02 1:07 AM, Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go to whichever computer currently has the AP card installed, open the Airport application (apple menu). There is a button on the bottom of the window that opens that says Software Basestation..., click that, then follow the prompts and you would be good to go. -- Ryan A couple of questions remain. I know this topic was discussed for days about a month or two ago, but I was not interested at that time. That'll teach me. Anyway, I am now running 10.1.5 on both of these machines and I understand that the feature is not available except in 9. I also understand that it will be included in 10.2 so I will wait til Saturday. My only question is, can I still use the computer that is the basestation normally? Sorry for my ignorance and I appreciate all of you who have seen this before. Absolutely. It's just like a PC running Internet Connection Sharing or having a computer that is running IPNetRouter, except this is more powerful. -- Ryan Coleman -- 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
Discount Airport Station?
I'm real happy with my (original) graphite station at home. The (dual ethernet/new version) snow station at the office has been a hassle, requiring much more effort to set up, and regular resets to work. Running OS 9.2.2. on a Pismo. Not sure about Rendezvous. F. Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:38:56 -0400 Subject: Discount Airport Station? From: Gregory Cortelyou [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A company called PowerMax has what they call last years' model Airport base stations for $199. Can last years mode be still ok this year? I would love one to use in my home for my Pismo and my G4 tower. Some of you must still be using last years. I am running 10.1.5 on both if it matters. -- 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
printer advice
Try http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/ for tech advice. They do sell a head cleaning solution that resolved a similar situation for me. Great resource. F. -- Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 09:13:00 -0700 Subject: printer advice From: Kathryn Odell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been using an Epson 740 since before I got my Pismo. It's been great but is suddenly not working with yellow and magenta. I've cleaned the print heads about 10 times and replaced the cartridge, so I'm thinking I may need to just break down and get a new printer. If I buy one it might as well be a printer that comes with a 10 driver as well as a 9 driver. Anyone have any recommendations for a fairly inexpensive (under $200) printer that can print photos pretty well plus handle a pretty good volume of just ordinary print jobs? Thanks, Kate -- 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
thin protective cover for Wallstreet?
I've been real happy with Eagle Creek's computer vault. http://www.eaglecreek.com/travel_accessories/40126.html Padded. My Pismo fits with room to spare. Can fit in a few extra files, disks, magazines, cables, batteries, etc which is useful when I don't want to tote the briefcase/backpack along. I stitched on a shoulder strap from another bag. (One could even make a backpack strap rig) Just slit the seams, insert the webbing (heat seal the end of the webbing), and stitch away for professional results. Really like the top load configuration. Makes it impossible for the computer to drop out of the bag due to zipper failure/zipper operator error. Found this rig real useful at airport security. Keeps one from extracting the puter from more complicated luggage, and yet will fit in large briefcases, travel bags and backpacks... Their computer safe also looks interesting. Is a little smaller than the vault, and has attachment rings for a shoulder strap. Side and top access. http://www.eaglecreek.com/travel_accessories/40125.html F. From: Matthew D. O'Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: thin protective cover for Wallstreet? I carry my Wallstreet in my backpack when I want to work at my favorite coffee shop and have begun to worry about setting it down too fast to the peril of the computer. Is there a very basic cover that fits over the Wallstreet that might protect it from a very low impact situation like that? The cover would not need to hold the power supply. -- Matthew D. O'Conner, Attorney at Law Seattle, Washington, USA - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ -- -- 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
Trackpad into rubber feet
Clear plastic self stick feet are great replacements for the original black rubber feet that peel off and get lost so easily. Think 3M makes them. Available at hardware stores. Bouncy like rubber and they grip about as well so the book doesn't slide off of inclined surfaces, yet will slide without extreme force. (My pismo lives on an inclined music stand from a piano or organ. Neat way to ventilate under the book and raise it off the desk surface to imporve ergonomics) The feet are available in the exact size to fit the recess where the old feet fit. After managing to not lose and reglue the original feet with various sticky substances I discovered that the clear self stick feet stayed put longer. Just clean out the recess where they mount real well before installing them. Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:16:34 -0700 From: Tim Gilman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pismo trackpad In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: r01050300-1015-D154FF5398E811D6BD6500306541DA56@[42.246.15.90] Any comment from other Pismo owners? I bought my Pismo/500 when they first came out, and I've had no problems at all (except the key-impressions on the screen). The only bad thing is, she's missing three of her rubber feet. I use my PowerBook everyday. She's on for 10 hours a day, survives a ride to and from work in the basket on the front of my bicycle, and is pretty much continuously streaming audio during the day. All I did was add ram (384 total), and replace the disk drive. I can't say enough good things about the IBM 40GN harddrives. I got me one of the 30 GB versions, and it so nice and quiet, it makes using my laptop on a quiet day possible. =- Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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
Oh no! My little rubber feet are missing from the bottom of my powerbook!!!
As mentioned a few posts back, I've had success finding clear 'not quite hemispherical' self stick plastic feet (made by 3M?) that fit perfectly in the recesses in the Pismo. I finally lost an original foot despite several experiments with different glues and ended up replacing all of them with the clear feet. They are available at hardware stores and have far outlasted the originals and resist sliding quite well. -- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 19:32:55 -0400 Subject: Oh no! My little rubber feet are missing from the bottom of my powerbook!!! From: Dwight Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And I have been ignoring all those posts on some list I can't even remember that told you where to get substitutes. Right now I'm using four wintergreen lifesavers in their individual wrappers and it is working well on a very flat desk but don't think they will last and they are slippery so I have to anchor my arms below the wrist on the edge of the desk and then stretch my fingers up to the key and this is no way to live. Oh where oh Where do I find the substitute, or surrogate, little rubber feet? Please, oh please, before I get reverse carpal tunnel syndrome. dh, anchored times two to the front end of a powerbook G3 firewire pismo -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Pismo DVD drive problem
Given that a few different drive mechanisms were available in these modules, do you know if the several dozen dead drives (sddd) are of the same model? Apple system profiler should cough up the pertinent info under the devices and volumes tab. (guessing, my drive is at home) Furthermore, could it be that the corpses are the result of attempts to defeat the DVD region system? Several hacks are out there F. -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:19:15 EDT Subject: Re: Pismo DVD drive problem Having accumulated several dozen of these dead drives, I can vouch that it is NEITHER a connector problem nor a motherboard, software, or PRAM problem. The drive is the problem--they die, and they die regularly. We've begun replacing these for the unlucky who are no longer covered by Apple, and in every instance I've tested the drive, and found them to be bad. They may read CD but they won't read DVD. IT happens over over.. Thanks, David www.ibookparts.com www.wegenermedia.com -- 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
Wallstreet 250 boot problem
Greetings, James: If you have enough RAM to spare, or can boot well enough to set up virtual memory, you might try removing the memory module. If you can then boot reliably, the problem should be isolated to the memory module. Might be easier to get memory replaced than service in Meherabad. Just had something similar happen with a Pismo - crashed, couple of partial boots, then deader than a doornail. No sad mac, messages, nothing. Pulled the 512mb module and am running on 128 with vm until the new module arrives. F. Message-Id: v04011718b91130d3df0f@[61.1.88.251] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 17:07:11 +0530 From: James Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wallstreet 250 boot problem When I restart my Wallstreet 250, I have to try 2-3 times to get it to boot, but if I push the reset button and wait 5 minutes, then it boots everytime. I also sometimes get an error message at start up saying that the inbuilt memory failed a test and that I should see an Apple Technician. I have reseated the memory chip, but it has no effect. In central India Apple Techs are few and far between, has anyone seen this problem before? Thanks, -- James Cox Post Meherabad Ahmednagar Dist. M.S. 414005 India Ph. 241-548728, 241-548744 Cellular 9822024128 -- 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
