Re: Moving to Google Groups (me, NEVER!)
Stardate 060212.13:09 -0500. A subspace message from Donald Keenan reads: The worst case scenario is that Google owns your/our comments and will either give them to the governmemt or use it to target us with specific narrowcast advertising. Amongst other things. Shame to see this list disappear into the oblivion that is Google ... Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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 ---
Abandon All Hope, All Ye Who Google Here (was:Google Group Not Compatible)
Stardate 060212.11:44 -0800. A subspace message from Gunni reads: I tried to open the Digest email I received on Sunday, 12FEB06, and got the alert noting that Digest Viewer cannot read this type of Digest. Marginalized again, I know how you feel. Google is the pits. I've said three times already, I'll repeat it again: I will never join the Google Groups edition of this list, and I will noisily and constantly continue to decry how BAD this idea to migrate G-Books is to Google until the MacLaunch list dies. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: Faulty keyboard ?
Stardate 060211.00:07 -0800. A subspace message from Amber Robey reads: I just had my 15 AL PB keyboard replaced ... well, it's not exactly a priority for me to fix it if they just don't light up..does it really matter ? Any suggestions ? Yes. Find another Apple reseller, and report him to Apple Computer. He exhibits the *totally* wrong attitude for him to be selling, let alone fixing, Macs. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: Pismo upgrades: The BlueChip G3 900 MHz
Stardate 060210.20:17 -0600. A subspace message from Jason Long reads: Too late, I've already got one! smirk ... bastard :P I didn't realize that there were so few sold. I was a bit leery of Powerlogix as I'd read some of the upset customer reports on the xlr8yourmac database. From my experiences, Powerlogix made the best upgrades out of the lot. Sonnet, frankly, make shit. To pick a nit I'm pretty sure that Moore bought the G4/500 upgrade for his Pismo, not the G3/900. That's his personal machine - the wife has the G3/900. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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 ---
ATA-5 and ATA-6: The differences, and why it's important
Stardate 060211.11:19 -0600. A subspace message from B.L. reads: the drive controller in G3 PowerBooks is incompatible with ATA-6 hard drives. When replacing the internal hard drive, you should be sure to obtain an ATA-5 compliant drive, ** I've seen this warning posted before and wondered how one would be able to tell whether or not a drive was Ata5, Ata6 or what have you. You think that the LEM specs-pages would at least use the more popular interpretations :) ATA-5 means that the drive supports (and prefers) Ultra-DMA/66 mode (meaning it can support data transfer rates up to 66 Mbps (megabits per second), whereas ATA-6 drives supports (and defaults to) Ultra-DMA/100 mode (100 Mbps). In our older PowerBooks that don't like ATA-6, the IDE/ATA controller chips aren't all that clever, and don't know anything about Ultra-DMA/100. When such an equipped Mac encounters a UDMA-100 drive as part of it's let's get going and see where everything is routine at power-on or restart, the onboard chip sends out a query and listens for any IDE device's response-code. An ATA-6 hard drive sees the query and goes Hi! I talk Ultra-DMA/100, you look friendly! Alas, the PowerBook's IDE chip goes Huh? I don't understand what you're saying, I'll just ignore you for now, I'm busy. On a typical PC, users and the OS have some level of control over just *how* the IDE interface(s) communicate with their drives -- they can tell a fast IDE controller to speak s-l-o-w-l-y with less-compliant drives. We Mac people have no such smarts available, and have to live with whatever defaults the chips are set up for. Hope this explains things :) Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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 ---
Google Groups ... you're kidding, right?
Stardate 060211.08:08 -0500. A subspace message from Dan Knight reads: We're slowly moving the Low End Mac email lists from Maclaunch to Google Groups, which we see as a real improvment. Well, that's very disappointing. I thought I'd found a nice little community-driven mailing list, I join, and within a week it decides to downgrade and become submerged in the dank depths of the Grey Empire known as Google. I've been on four other lists in the past that started off on normal listservers, moved to Google (or Yahoo Groups in one case) only to experience frustration in its use, then watch the list stagnate eventually die because it become lost in the crowd. With reluctance I signed up; I sent off my subscription mail, then confirmed the activation via the web page, and itold me I was now a member. A few hours later, a question came in from GG, I could answer it, so I did, and hit send. A minute later, I get an autoreply. You do not have permission to post to group g-books. You may need to join the group before being allowed to post, Whiskey tango foxtrot?? Sorry guys, but I'll stick with G-Books on MacLaunch until it dies. You won't see me on Google, because frankly, it sucks more than Microsoft. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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 ---
MS Funnies: MS Anti Spyware flags NAV as 'password stealer virus'
Totally off the track, here, but seeing as I know a lot of you have to deal with *shudder* Microsoft and Windows on a frequent basis, you'll find this story amusing. MS Anti Spyware flags Norton Antivirus as 'a malicious password stealer virus': http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/02/microsoft_antispyware_deleting_1.html Microsoft's Anti-Spyware program is causing troubles for people who also use Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus software; apparently, a recent update to Microsoft's anti-spyware application flags Norton as a password-stealing program and prompts users to remove it. According to several different support threads over at Microsoft's user groups forum, the latest definitions file from Microsoft (version 5805, 5807) detects Symantec Antivirus files as PWS.Bancos.A (Password Stealer). If you go to read the whole short article, I've added a lengthy comment stating Norton Antivirus *is* a virus, because it exhibits all the hallmarks *of* a virus. Once it gets a foothold in your system, it sits there chewing system resource after system resource, and like any 'good' virus, is virtually impossible to remove from your Windows without leaving the OS in a state of extreme fragility. (Oh, and I also give the Mac a plug :)) Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: Lombard Start
Stardate 060210.10:46 -0500. A subspace message from G Henry Taylor reads: I'm trying to install OS X on a Lombard. Which version of OSX? It's important. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: Lombard Start
No need to quote all of my mail ;) Stardate 060210.12:18 -0500. A subspace message from G Henry Taylor reads: Which version of OSX? It's important. OS X 3.0, not 10.4 Have you recently tried to upgrade the hard-drive? I ask because of this little notice, from our very own databse: Warning According to the Road Warrior and Other World Computing, the drive controller in G3 PowerBooks is incompatible with ATA-6 hard drives. When replacing the internal hard drive, you should be sure to obtain an ATA-5 compliant drive, which supports transfer speeds of up to 100 MB/sec. If you have a non-compliant drive in there, it will play merry hell with anything else on the machine's ATA bus as well. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: Lombard Start
Stardate 060210.12:38 -0500. A subspace message from G Henry Taylor reads: It's a refurbished Toshiba MK6021GAS 60 gig. Boots in my Pismo. Mmm, that's a compliant drive. I think it's the processor in the Lombard. I have the same problem when I try to install unbuntu to a smaller (4.35 Apple HDD) in the Lombard, How much RAM is in there? If you're adept, pop the keyboard, dive inside and remove both RAM modules and check their chip-number via Google to make sure the SO-DIMM is correctly labeled -- I've seen more than a few mis-labeled DIMMs in my time, some under-rated to the label, some over-rated. If either of them are Apple-badged, put that one back in and leave any after-market modules out (or if you replaced all Apple ones with 3rd-party's, put the Apple ones back in). To perform a stability test, boot off a Mac OS 9.1 Installer CD, launch Drive Setup, and leave it to do a drive test. This puts enough load on the CPU, RAM, and keeps the ATA bus busy. If it doesn't lock up after a test with the old RAM back in, then its the RAM. If it *does* lock up, then its the CPU that's failing. It could also be the ATA controller on the logicboard, or part of the bridge-board as well, but they're usually pretty sturdy (and if they decide to misbehave, they usually just stop dead). Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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 upgrades: The BlueChip G3 900 MHz
Well ... some things just never cease to amaze me. Does anyone here have the incredibly good fortune to own the very rare PowerLogix BlueChip G3 Pismo 900 (yes, that's right, the sexiest machine Apple ever made can run at 900 MHz) CPU upgrade? No? Want one? Well, ya can't have one. Unless ... read on! It seems that when the lovely lads at OWC 'absorbed' PowerLogix (whom I swear made *THE* best CPU upgrades ever -- Sonnet make shite, by comparison) they merged their CPU upgrade lines, and the only Pismo upgrade they kept was the NewerTech G4/500 (PPC7510). BOOO!!! B *much raining of peanuts and hissing* BOO! Charles Moore mentions the launch of the BlueChips in his MacOpinion colums http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/04/04/13/index.html with a 900 MHz (750FX) and 1 GHz (750GX) available back in late April of 2004. Obviously *some* of them made it out the door, because Charles has one, and at least one person bought *two* because he's selling one on eBay: http://tinyurl.com/cp5hs ... and interestingly enough, the seller's upgrade features a third chp, the low(er) power 750GL. Man, my chin hit the floor, bounced four times and ran out the door screaming. Now, I can kinda understand why OWC decided to not continue the BlueChips, seeing as they already had the Newertech stuff, and the fact that the BlueChip 900 was US$349 against the NewerTech G4/500 at US$279 ... but *SURELY* when they took over they brought in whatever remained of the BlueChip kits!! If so ... Hands up all you Pismo addicts who'd like another crack at the world's fastest Pismo upgrades? I know *I* for one am prepared to pay the premium, who's with me? Shall we petition the lovely lads at OWC with a last-chance group order? Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: Value of a Pismo?
Stardate 060206.08:21 -0800. A subspace message from R. P. Bell reads: Thanks for all your input, most heartening :D On #1, the scuffed rubber and chinks around the edges will hurt value, but I still think you are in the ball-game with my estimate. The single bad pixel is only marginably problematic, but a buyer will try to use that as a bargaining point (what else is going wrong with it?). Mmm, somewhat expected. Have you thought of taking the best of each (screen from #2, plastics from the best, even if you have to mix parts, etc.) and make one sterling machine? Apart from moving the LCD assemblies over, I already have tried to 'max out' Monolith as best as I can, Pismo 2 took the 'leavings'. (Actually, there was a third Pismo machine in the equation, but that ended up with the somewhat daggy sticker-fested casing that I mentioned in an earlier post, an intact but very dull screen, and the *real* left-overs ... but I did offer the tech who assisted me any pieces left over, working or not, and I heard back from him tonight that he'd found a 400 MHz CPU and 128 MB of RAM, and had already made a poor uni student very happy with a small 'desktop' Pismo computer for A$120 -- a win win situation all round :)) As for the single stuck pixel, I didn't notice that until I was giving it the clean-down (being stuck on blue-white means it blended in very well to the default Aqua desktop), and frankly, I don't think it is very obvious unless you go looking for it, or try to make it display red :). Besides, of the two LCDs, that one is the brighter and less marked of the two. There was also an AirPort card, but I'm staunchly anti-wireless-technology so I gave that to my techie-friend (lucky for him he piped up when he did, I was about to snap it in two). I wouldn't inflict that toxic-ness on anyone, if they wish to be suicidal and add one after they buy my machines, that's their choice. ... the keymarks on the screen are NOT permanent, regardless of what you've been told. I clean them from my Pismo screen about twice a year How do you do it? The suggestions that hit this list a few days ago reference products unavailable in Australia. Do you have original docs? No, alas. Nor the boxes or anything else, purely what you see in the pics. Then, the other machine could be parted out ... Mmm, no, I'm not interested in trying to maximise any return on these two lovelies, all I seek is some redress for my time and the promise they go to a loving home :) I myself have no need for portable computing, and even though both of them rate faster in CPU and bus-speed than Brutus, my beloved G3/300 platinum minitower (call him 'beige' and I'll curse you ;)), is the more flexible machine for my needs, and still does virtually everything I want from a computer these days anyway. I don't game, I don't watch videos (heck, I refuse to watch TV), I dabble some with music, and I write a *lot* of text. I bought a Mac Mini earlier this year, experimented for about three months before I realised I missed the flexibility the G3/300 gave me, couldn't justify the expenditure on a machine I was leaving sit idle more often than not, so I sold it. Got back exactly what I paid for it too :) And that's despite turning it into a FrankenMini, as seen here below: http://madchat.tv/apple/frankenmini The old 630 case was a perfect choice. With the addition of a 2.5 adaptor and some spare parts, Mimi went from a 1.25GHz/256/40/combo entry-level model with the pokey 4200 RPM drive, to a speedy little minx sporting a 7200 RPM Western Digital 8MB Caviar 120 GB and a Pioneer DVR-109. I never did get to finish her properly, but it was a fun hack, and as I still have the 630 shell when I come across a Mini at the right price in the future, Mimi shall be reborn :) ... the TI-Books really scuff up bad and show case damage much worse than the Pismos, in my opinion. Heh, no argument there! When people ask me what laptop they should look at, I always point them to the iBooks. Sturdier, tougher, and more tolerant of the daily grind than any PowerBook, almost as flexible, and still the best portable computing dollar you can get today. The Pismo is, despite what Steve Jon come up with, possibly the second-best machine *EVER* to have come from Apple, with the TAM holding first place. One day I will own a TAM *dreams ...* Anyway. I've got two Wallstreets' worth of parts here, time to see if I can get the Japanese-market version going smoothly at 250 MHz ... Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | --
Re: Powerbook battery
Stardate 060208.08:38 -0600. A subspace message from Wanda K. reads: I'm trying to help a friend get a powerbook going. it is a 867 mgz 15 inch that we can't get the battery out of. how does the latch work on the battery. Use a small coin to twist the latch to point the little dot to the open-padlock position, then you can lift the battery out. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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 ---
Value of a Pismo?
I now have a pair of functioning Pismos, and am after some idea of how much they might be worth. Both cases are in good condition, minor scuffing, mild key-marks on the LCD overlay, intact rubberising. I'll put photos up if people are curious. #1 is a PB 500 Firewire, 768/40/DVD, working battery with a 2.5 hr run-time on a charge, VST Zip100 pod, Apple-logo'd carrycase, UFO power-pod, 10.3.2 installed, with pack of original 10.3.2 CDs. #2 is also a PB 500 Firewire, 256/20/DVD, battery is recognised by the machine but won't charge (press the battery button and the first LED blinks a few times, that's it), UFO powerpod, 9.1 installed, no discs. Guesstimates, people? I'm in Australia, but I can convert to A$ from US$ and EU$ ... just after some ideas, all input appreciated. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: Value of a Pismo?
Tsk tsk, naughty top-poster! :) Stardate 060208.21:08 -0800. A subspace message from R. P. Bell reads: Most of us will tell you that, hands down, the Pismo is probably the brightest star ever put in the notebook sky by Apple. No argument - why else would OWC still be offering their G4 modification upgrades :) The Amrani-clad Ferrari gets supercharged, woo! (if I were keeping one - I don't have a need for portable computing - I would get this done) You're probably looking at from US$250 to US$400 for #1, depending on condition (especially the LCD; bad pixels really kill the value, as do bad plastics and keyboard) ... #1 has got a single stuck white/blue pixel, roughly in the middle of the top right quadrant of the screen, otherwise it is all good. As I mentioned, rubber is a little scuffed but intact (no aluminium showing), and a few wear-marks scuffs around the corners. Suprisingly, it has all four feet :) http://brains.mine.nu/temp/pismo-1-kit.jpg http://brains.mine.nu/temp/pismo-1-screen.jpg (I forgot to put the original 10.3.2 disc-pack in that shot ... oh well) and US$100-200 (max) for #2 (incidentally, can you verify that #2 will boot from the AC adapter?). This one, the screen overlay has zero dead pixels, but its overlay has a few key-mark rubbing-spots that are noticable when the screen is lit. And she runs fine off the mains :) It does have all four feet mising, though, and a split that runs from the clicker to the latch, along the botton edge of the front. http://brains.mine.nu/temp/pismo-2-kit.jpg http://brains.mine.nu/temp/pismo-2-screen.jpg All keys present on both, all keys work on both. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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 ---
Curing screen-scratches?
I've been sent some old P'Books (another Pismo another Wallstreet) and the soft acrylic LDC overlay that's used is particularly marred by screen-scratches. I was hoping that the one with the Pismo would be in good condition, but such is not the case. Has anyone figured out a way of removing the key-marks on the screen? Both the Pismos i have here, the marking is noticable even when the screen is lit up. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: Shiira
Stardate 060206.10:53 -0800. A subspace message from Peter Webster reads: It's as stable as it can be on my iBook 1.2, sys 10.4.4. I couldn't even get it to launch, just a flicker in the Dock. (G3/300, 10.3.9) (Don't laugh, this platinum beast still does everything I need from a computer!) Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: Shiira
Stardate 060206.17:12 -0500. A subspace message from Michael Cangelosi reads: Well, it says it's not Jaguar-compliant, so . . . Does anyone know whether a 10.2-friendly version is available? There is and likely will not be a compliant version Damn futurists ... I still like iCab, which until very recently still officially supported System 7.1. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: [OT] The old days [Was:Re: Reminder: LowEndMac lists rules]
Stardate 060206.17:19 -0500. A subspace message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] reads: These days, I'm so anti-commandline, I delete Terminal.app from all my OSX installs. Ouch. There are so many iface problems with Aqua and Finder, Teminal is an essential app IMO. Depends on what you do. OSX Finder sucks mouldy goat-sacks through a small straw ... which is why I'm still in MacOS 8.6 about 70% of the time ... which is why my main Mac is still a platinum G3/300. if it ain't broke, don't fix it :) (Mind you, I miss my old PowerCenter, it was quite nice being able to run System 7.6.1 at 450 MHz ... alas, the MESH chip died.) I was interviewing a consultant. He was bragging about using a bubble on the indices to a database of over 6m elements. I gave him a big thumbs down - and the company hired him anyway. Let me guess, he also convinced them that ASP was a Very Good Move ;) Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: Candlelit iBook Screen
Stardate 060204.10:01 -0500. A subspace message from Ruffin Bailey reads: Has anyone had a problem with their screen flickering like there's a candle behind it? Either the EL element itself is dying, or the board that generates the necessary high voltages is failing. You're on last legs there, son. Apple service centre, stat!! Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: 1GHz Powerbook OS 9 install woes
Stardate 060204.12:14 -0500. A subspace message from Kevin O'Grady reads: Just got a PB 1GHz laptop ... I tried to get it to load OS 9, but kept getting a flashing icon even after using my OSX 10.4 DVD to erase and install OS 9 drivers. Where are you getting your Mac OS 9 from? If you're not using the official Restore DVD, then you'll need to have the retail version of Mac OS 9.2.2 on CD, and use *that* to install OS 9 *before* you even think of installing OS 10.x If you have said disc, you should be able to boot from it (insert disc, hit Power and immeditately hold 'C' until you see the happy Mac icon). Use Drive Setup to erase your hard disk, ensuring you choose to do so using HFS Extended (HFS+) as the file-system. Run the OS 9 Installer, and install an un-modified (ie, don't change anything in the Customise options) OS 9. Once it is finished, use Startup Disk to set the HD as your boot drive. Restart, and hold down the clicker until the disc is ejected. The machine will give you the blinking-folder a few more times and then boot from the HD. Once that's done, insert your Mac OS X Installer disc and put OS X on. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: connecting a G3 to my G4 laptop
Stardate 060204.11:06 -0800. A subspace message from J Schooster reads: I have a very old G3 PowerMac (the beige one, desktop, not the tower) and I'm trying to transfer information from it to my new 17 G4 laptop ... or to an external hard drive that I have for backups. In your shoes, I would buy a USB-and-Firewire interface card for the G3, and pop it into a spare PCI slot. They're incredibly cheap these days. Once you do that, you can turn your brand new, expensive shiny PowerBook into a very dumb, very expensive external hard drive with it's Target Mode feature. One powers on the PowerBook and holds down the T key until the screen lights up and bounces a big Firewire logo around ... you can then plug it into the G3's new FireWire port, and the HD inside the PowerBook will mount appear on your G3's desktop, just like a normal HD would. Alternatively, you can turn on File Sharing on your G3, then share the G3's whole hard drive. Assuming the ol' dear is still running OS9, click the HD's icon, go to File - Get Info - Sharing and set the privileges stuff so that it can be 'read write' for everyone, click the 'make all folders inside like this one' box, close and save the sharing info window. Next, get a normal ethernet cable and join your two machines together. On your PowerBook, open a Finder window and click the Networks icon on the left. Your G3 *should* appear in the list - open it, and you should see all the G3's files. If the G3's still running OSX, it's a little more fiddly, so get back to us :) Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: connecting a G3 to my G4 laptop
Stardate 060204.11:43 -0800. A subspace message from Geno reads: On 2/4/06 11:06 AM, J Schooster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a very old G3 PowerMac [and a] new 17 G4 laptop ... They both have ethernet connectors so you can just connect the G3 to the G4 with an ethernet cable and they should see each other when you establish a network. You may need a crossover cable ... No, the ethernet port in the PowerBook is auto-sense, meaning it automatically determines if it needs to adjust itself for cross-over mode. But as we've just found out, it works via their home LAN's routerbox, so all's hunky-dunky :) Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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 ---
Adding SCSI to a P'Book
Stardate 060204.15:30 -0500. A subspace message from Andrew in Ann Arbor reads: I've been pursuing the USB to SCSI adaptor question so I can connect my Pismo running Tiger to an assortment of older Powerbooks (SCSI disk mode). So far I have not found an adaptor that will work in OSX. And you won't, either. Not all that long ago, I was working at a distributor and we received pretty much the same request -- could we come up with a solution to add SCSI capability to a (then) new PowerBook G4. I scoured the net, and found six different USB-to-SCSI adaptors, and pinched -- err, borrowed, heh -- the PBG4 that belonged to the boss's son once they all arrived from their various places across the globe, and tried to get them to work with 1) a Zip drive, 2) an Apple-formatted HD in an external SCSI enclosure, and 3) a Umax flatbed scanner. None of them worked. Not one. In fact, one Asian-made one (whose name eludes me)caused a kernel-panic as soon as the adaptor was plugged into a USB port. Next to be tested were a couple of PCMCIA cards, one by Adaptec, one by Belkin. The Adaptec caused stability issues -- it would work with the Zip and the HD, but not the scanner. Adaptec have also stopped developing drivers for it. The Belkin one worked with all three, so we passed that onto the reseller for the customer to try. Lo! They were well pleased! Alas, it seems Belkin have stopped making it, so I've had a rummage around the web, and have found one maker that has a couple of goodies that bear further investigation. Ratoc (of Japan) make these doodads that could well be the solution people with legacy technology are seeking: - the FR1SX is a SCSI-to-1394 adaptor, that plugs into your SCSI device and provides a pair of normal FW400 sockets. - http://www.rexpccard.co.jp/english/products/subpages/firerex1.html - the CB31U is a PCMCIA card that adds UltraSCSI (SCSI-3 and backwards) - http://www.rexpccard.co.jp/english/products/subpages/cb31.html Hope this is of some assistance. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: adding Classic to Pismo with Tiger, is 9.2.2 better than 9.2.1?
Stardate 060204.16:08 -0500. A subspace message from Andrew in Ann Arbor reads: I have got the 9.2.1 to 9.2.2 update, is there any benefit to going to 9.2.2 Oh, *hell* yes. Stability. OS X will work (after a fashion) with 9.2 and 9.2.1, but it *expects* 9.2.2. Apply the update, post-haste. Or you will find that you will encounter far too many error type 10's and 11's when booted into OS 9, and frequent unexplained quits of Classic whilst under OS X. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: wallstreet connection
Stardate 060204.13:31 -0800. A subspace message from l s reads: I have a Wallstreet that I am trying to connect to my cable modem. I know the modem works, because I can connect with my BW. This could well be an issue with your modem, and not the laptop. You see, cable ISPs used to be quite narky about the number of machines that could be connected, so cable modems were made to 'spoof' the MAC address (the physical identifier of your computer's ethernet interface chip - MAC stands for Media Access Controller) of the first *real* ethernet device plugged into it. My guess is this is what the modem has done, and to reset this 'spoofed' MAC address, you need to do a full factory reset of the modem. The process for this will differ from modem to modem, so you should contact your ISP and tell them you're changing machines and you need to know how to do this factory-defaults trick. Once you *have* reset the modem, do *NOT* plug a computer into it - in fact, don't even turn it on yet. Instead, nip out to any PC shop and buy a small ethernet switch (not a plain 'hub', you need a device with its own valid MAC address). Plug this into the cable modem, and your Macs into the switch. It is important that you power everything up in *just* the right order, or you will have to start this all over again with another factory-reset of the modem. This is the order: - the switch - your main computer (the BW) - the cable-modem - your laptop, and any other computers you may have hooked in. ... and even then, there is no guarantee this will work, depending on both the ISP and the cable-modem. What I suggest you do instead, is buy a second ethernet interface for your snurftower (hey, it's blue and white, and cute - byte me ;)), leave it hooked up to the cable modem as you have done normally, and hook the laptop to the new ethernet socket. Then, go to your System Preferences, open Networks, and then to your onboard ethernet interface. Select Share this connection. This will now activate OS X's built-in internet connection sharing and DHCP system - any computer(s) plugged into your *new* ethernet port on the BW *should* be able to see and use the internet that's coming in from your cable modem. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: setting bottom post not required in Mail
Stardate 060203.11:05 -0500. A subspace message from Andrew in Ann Arbor reads: I'm using Mail in Panther ... The cursor does end up above the quote ... It does WHAT?!? Have the Mail devteam been spending too much time stuck inside Outcroak or something? Methinks we should all write to the Mail Devteam c/- One Infinite Loop and say RFC 1855, guys!! See, I wouldn't've known this, as I don't use Mail -- I've been a dedicated Eudora fan *waves to Steve* since version 0.8. I've tried other mail programs over the years, I keep coming back to the Big E. When I moved to OSX five months ago, I tried Apple's Mail ... threw it my Eudora mail-folder and I got a kernel panic. I run my own RFC 1855 pre-filter here (based on 'listar') - if incoming mail breaks RFC 1855, the sender gets a nice little bounce message asking them to try again. I used to use a similiar pre-filter for my nntp feed (but without the bounce) when I still bothered with newsgroups, My .sig states my filter rules thusly: WARNING: Mail to this address wil be auto-bounced without warning if: (a) more than 10% original content appears before first quoted matter, (b) quoted material exceeds 75% of total message content, and/or (c) HTML is used to format text and/or embed non-ASCII items. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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: Top-Bottom Posting Clarification
Stardate 060203.11:52 -0500. A subspace message from Laurent Daudelin reads: 1. It's logical. It shows the flow from message to response. Historical note: RFC 1855 (which is what these rules are based on) grew out of the inherent patchiness in UseNet NNTP propagation -- no-one could guarantee that all messages within a particular thread would reach all servers and all recipients, so the practice of quoting started. This way, if a thread message went AWOL (as they often did, and still do) subsequent messages would still contain relevant content, thus most thread followers would not miss out on stuff. Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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 battery woes?
I'd been given a Pismo (yes, givem, the last of the truly gorgeous laptops Apple ever made) but it wasn't going ... it *had* been functioning, but was then stored (with a full charge) in the bottom of a filing cabinet for two months before I got my lucky li' mitts on this G3/500/768MB/20GB beauty with the unmarred case. Sent it off to get fixed. The case issue aside (a long story), the battery which was 14 months old, had been swapped on me by the body repair centre. It is being recognised, as in under 9.1 the battery appears in the menubar, but it reads 0 % and there's no lightning bolt. Press the li'l button on the side of the battery, and the firsyt green LED blinks a few times. Is this battery totally scrubbed, or has someone figured out a way to rejuve these dears? (btw: I'm now -- Hi!! *waves*) Geoffrey -- -- Endian Little Hate I --- -- I'm afraid music in the modern idiom is too repetitive for my tastes ... although the rhythm does have a certain hypnotic effect. -- Brains (International Rescue Engineer, 'Thunderbirds' (c) Gerry Anderson 1969) -- 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 ---
