Re: Firewire horrors
Bruce, Try altering the jumpers on the drives. If you can't get them to talk jumpering them to Master, try cable select. or vice versa. I rather doubt setting any of the drives to Slave will help, but you could try that too. John - On Jan 19, 2006, at 4:02 AM, Bruce Ryan wrote: HI folks there's a Bruce-and-his-Pismo shaggy dog story at http:// sites.ecosse.net/mycelium/forothers/forothers.html. I thought it was too long for the lists. -- G-Books is 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: guidance sought on keeping home synched between Powerbook and Desktop Mac
I've been wrestling with this for a few months now and found that some things work and some don't. I don't think you can keep your entire home directory identical on the two machines using iSync. ISync in 10.4 will do a good job of keeping your iCal data in step, and works well with the address book. But there are some oddities when syncing mail, particularly with multiple accounts that get frequently manipulated. Certain mail messages seem only to appear on one machine, and copies of outgoing messages sometimes only remain on the machine they were sent on. Because I'm using two POP accounts and one DotMac account I get some behaviors I haven't been able to figure out. There are many combinations with each account on both machines and on the DotMac account up on the server. And one other small problem is that I would really like to keep some of my accounting files synchronized between desktop and laptop but haven't found a way to do that gracefully. I keep the files on a USB flash drive sometimes, but that's a fragile system with a chance of lost data. I don't entirely trust flash drives, at least not for data I can't replace. Throw in a Palm device and things get even more complicated. Palms synchronize using a special iSync conduit that writes calendar events to iCal and addresses to Address on the Mac, but puts the palm notes in the Palm desktop application, which is necessary for synching even when you're using iCal for your calendar. Palm suggests users only synchronize with one Mac. I can't imagine what can happen when a Palm files gets changed, the Palm gets synchronized to Mac A, Mac A gets synchronized to DotMac on the Mac server. Mac B then gets synchronized via DotMac with the Mac server and the Palm device gets hooked up to Mac B. Oh, and I think only later versions of Tiger will do the Palm dance. I don't think Panther's iSync can do Palms. The head spins with the possibilities. My final solution is to have my Palm only talk to the laptop, and to do my e-mail and accounting only on the laptop. Then I sync the laptop with DotMac. My desktop Mac just reads the files on DotMac and I avoid making changes there. It's not an elegant system. If a list member out there has a cleaner application to do this sort of thing I hope the solution gets posted. J On Monday, January 16, 2006, at 03:27PM, Alan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you should give it a try. If you go to apples web site you can get a 2 month free trial. I did, synced a few times, but haven't been back in a few weeks. It seemed to work well for me. Not the fastest, but can be done at remote locations, besides just at home. -- Alan Miller Underwater Photographer °°.°.°.°. -- G-Books is 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: guidance sought on keeping home synched between Powerbook and Desktop Mac
Is it new, or maybe part of You Control? I went to the YOU site but found only the YOU control series for fonts, desktops and tunes. J On Jan 17, 2006, at 8:51 AM, sandra ragan wrote: Have you tried You Syncronize? http://www.yousoftware.com/ Mostly I use iSync for the calendar in the iPod! Sandra Ragan www.plumdigital.com On Jan 17, 2006, at 12:07 AM, John Siple wrote: I've been wrestling with this for a few months now and found that some things work and some don't. I don't think you can keep your entire home directory identical on the two machines using iSync. ISync in 10.4 will do a good job of keeping your iCal data in step, and works well with the -- G-Books is 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: security re: file sharing/networks
Indeed. Aber's neighbor seems to think she's entitled to use the connection. That's rude. There might be other options though. I heard a friend mention that he had some router setting that allowed him to not broadcast the SSID. I wasn't too interested at the time so I didn't ask what brand of router he was using. But this capability would be a clean solution to the nosey neighbor and still allow Amber to use her own wireless systems, which she ought to be able to do. Masking the SSID might be the only way to solve the intrusion without making everyone uncomfortable. There are also some directional antenna setups that limit transmission in one axis to amplify it in another. But why she should have to spend money to solve this rudeness is beyond me. Hard to live with a neighbor like that though. JS On Jan 14, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Shawn Harley wrote: Amber, Sounds like you should return the favor with a visit to your neighbor (along with a member of the local law enforcement community) to explain your position and let her try out her implied strong arm tactic (regarding her brother dealing with you) on your new found friend. I would not put up with crap like that, and would make it clear that she and her brother understood that. Plus, it gives you a documented record in case he does hack into your network illegally. Shawn On Jan 14, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Amber R. wrote: My neighbour was back at my door this AM asking again (third time this past week) for access and the WEP password. She was extremely ticked off when I informed that I was still not interested or comfortable with giving her access, then said her brother was going to be coming by to deal with me later. -- G-Books is 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 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 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: security re: file sharing/networks
On Jan 14, 2006, at 8:31 AM, Howard Katz wrote: There's a difference between sitting outside a public library that offers free internet (with the permission and understanding of their service provider) and sitting outside someone's home and accessing a wifi signal that wasn't locked down. To say there isn't, or that just because it's there and you can use it, is just rationalization of theft. If the laws change to allow that, fine, but 1) the laws aren't written that way, and 2) with the vested interests that the service providers have in selling service, they probably won't be. Have I done some signal sniffing? Sure, I'll bet we all have, just to see if we could do it. Did I continue to do so? Nope--in fact I tracked down the person who had the open signal in my area and advised them to encrypt their signal. At that point it's their responsibility.l My Airport widget tells me there's 2 WEP signals nearby--at least these folk know how to turn their security settings on. :) Later..Howard -- Is there a difference then between someone who knows how to turn security on and someone who doesn't if they both have open networks? I kind of like the idea of leaving mine unencrypted. I'm a bit of a commy nist at heart. I haven't left it open because I'm too dumb to set a password. And maybe my ISP will come after me some day. But as long as there's a marketplace out there I can drop them. The reality of the marketplace is that no ISP is going to find it worthwhile to chase down it's subscribers who don't encrypt. They want more customers, not fewer. For a prime example of what's really happening take a war drive through a college campus. You'll find more open and encrypted networks than your screen can scroll through. If service providers wanted to hunt down malefactors they could do it easily. So far the only example of a theft of services trial was the result of a guy who noticed that there was a neighbor parked in front of his house all the time and when the home owner asked him to stop he didn't. So the homeowner called the cops. It's a bit like the laws about copyright infringement on music CDs. Is there anyone out there who hasn't burned a music CD for a friend or relative? Like the service thing I much prefer paying for my music and I like having the real thing when it's a bit of art I really enjoy. I even like the idea that I'm sending money to the artist. Allows him to keep making music. But the idea of copy protection for CDs is just laughable. Nobody listens, not the industry and not the consumers. Even been through Camden Yard in London? They actually sell green discs in public and nobody stops them. J -- G-Books is 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 ---
OT: the long arm of the law
So let's quit being paranoid and let some common sense prevail. Here here. The law is a very flexible thing folks. If all the laws were strictly enforced this country would come to a screeching halt. The underground economy alone is huge. None of those folks on craigslist are paying their state sales taxes on items sold. Cars speed. My neighbors make more noise than is legal and throw their McNuggets wrappers on the street. Some of them do anyway. Legal is a joke. Money and power is king. Got money and power and you can use the legal system to get more of both. But as a practical matter all us little people can and do, and will forever be borrowing on the airwaves. The idea of always obeying all the laws seems to me an impossible ideal. I'm not a strict relativist but I do believe that large corporations will always be using the law to squeeze money out of the general population, and the jails and courts will be full of poor people. For the ultimate example of legal absurdity just take our president, who does anything he wants in the name of national security. No warrants necessary. Don't need to tell you all what I'm doing. I'll just sign a bill with a little excuse me paragraph at the end and call my acts legal. Torture's fine. The very idea of Presidential Signing Statements is strictly illegal, against the terms of the Constitution. The executive branch of our government is not empowered to either interpret the laws nor write them. But ithese signing statements are tacked onto bills because there's nobody out there to stop it. If you support him you think it's not illegal. If you oppose him you want to see the law stop what's being done. The law itself just sort of floats on the lumpy shoulders of police and judges and sometimes legislators. Laws are rules made by men for men's purposes. They have less than nothing to do with morality. Our broadband habits are harmless compared to most of what is inflicted on the poor in the name of the law. Ok, Ok I'm sorry. This isn't a forum for anarchy. Yet there are some questions of social contract that peek in on us when we're out there with our portable wireless machines. -- G-Books is 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: Wireless router that handles AppleTalk
There are a few considerations here. I've thought about this a bit. I have a neighbor who is running an unencrypted network. I sometimes log on to see if network problems are because of my ISP or because of my hardware. Mostly my connection is handier so I use mine. I also have an unencrypted network. She could log onto mine if her ISP gets goofy. I don't think she knows that. But the legalities of exactly who owns bandwidth are undefined. For instance let's say that I pay an outrageous fee for my connection, which I do, but I need to go on a little trip and while visiting relatives I find an unencrypted access point that connects to my original comcast ISP. Am I stealing bandwidth to use it? I would be doing the same stuff at home but ... And what is the situation of my own home use? I have 4 Macs and a printer all clawing their way to my router. Sometimes, like during Christmas when my girls are home with their own laptops, I have five. It's all my own family. I still pay rent for all these kids. Why shouldn't they be able to use my WAN the way they can use the heat inside my house? And why should the woman next door, who has one, maybe two computers and no family be paying the same rate I pay? Is she getting ripped off? I kind of think so. I have also gone down the block to a free internet zone sponsored by the city and connected there. Sometimes I go to the library and they have open connections. Is it somehow unfair use that my neighbor can't take her PC downtown and connect with it? She pays the same taxes I pay. I find it all a bit fuzzy. I leave my network open and my firewall up and watch my router lights. I know someone who borrows her neighbor's wireless connection for free. He knows about it. She admits it would be better if she got her own. And the real disadvantage is that the borrower is at a serious disadvantage because the wireless net owner has no particular obligation to keep the network up. Sometimes it crashes and the owner doesn't care because he's out of town. The borrower has no way to fix it. Tough luck. I wouldn't want that kind of an arrangement even if it were free. Your neighbor isn't going to get access to your machine. You could make her life much more miserable than she could make yours. If you are getting upset with this person why not open your connection (unencrypt it), but then close it down during times when you see her connected. Watch your wireless light on the router. Pretend you have no idea what's going on but just flip the switch now and then. Or go into the config screens and disable the wireless network that way so that you can stay connected over wires. You could really drive up her stress levels and she would probably go out and buy her own service just for the comfort of being able to control it. Oh there are just sooo many annoying things you could do to this person. Change your SSID to a racial slur. Change it to something that pokes her politics. Change it to a number, then make it invisible. You could have her begging for a cable company to charge her an installation fee. Good barbwire fences make good neighbors ya'know. At any rate don't let this person raise your own stress levels one tiny tick. Not worth it. You da boss. Having that Mac gives you the big stick. John On Jan 12, 2006, at 10:19 PM, Clark Martin wrote: No, I'm not looking, I found one, by accident. I was trying to answer a question on Usenet about looking up AppleTalk info today. As I was playing around with the CLI AppleTalk commands (atlookup, atstatus and others) I realized I was seeing AppleTalk nodes besides my laptop and I have no wired connection at the moment. I pulled up both Interpol and Timbuktu and they both showed AppleTalk stuff too. And Timbuktu actually worked. My wireless router is a Motorola WR850G model. It's fairly current. So if you are looking for something that will do AppleTalk check it out. I was rather particular when I went looking for this router, it has quite a few features that are rare, including support for other routers (IPNetRouter providing a MacIP connection). It is a good router and today it turns out it's even better. It's an 802.11g router and connectivity is quite good. I bought it at a Target store for around $60. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway -- G-Books is 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
Re: Wireless router that handles AppleTalk, oops
oops. Sent that last message to the wrong subject line. It was supposed to be for Amber and her snoopy neighbor. Sorry, John -- G-Books is 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: Intel Macs....
On Jan 10, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 10/01/06 15:45, Michael A. Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Johnson wrote: The New MacBook, just announced at Macworld. Dual core 1.67 and 1.83 Ghz, 15.4 displays, $2k and $2.5K respectively. Allegedly 4-5x faster. Available February. -- Bruce Johnson SCHWT but... Here in OZ http://www.apple.com.au/macbookpro the starting price is AUD 3999 instead of USD 1999. Current exchange rate of about 1AUD=0.75USD should have the price at AUD 2,700 so Aussies get ripped off by a massive $1,300. Cheaper to buy it direct from the US. I'd expect some sort of price differential but not that much. Oh well, looks like my T41 stays in use for a few more years.. Pardon my ignorance, but what is a T41??? -Laurent. WW II training aircraft I think. Must be extremely durable to still be in use down under. JS -- G-Books is 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: slightly OT-Router issues.
Have you tried just resetting the router? This may help if you bought it used. Usually there's a little button for that somewhere. If resetting it doesn't work you should go through the configuration screens to make sure it's not set to have a fixed IP address and that it isn't blocking connections via mac address or connection speed or any of the many ways wireless routers have to block intrusive connections. You may be able to do this if you don't have the original manual by just typing 192.168.1.1 in the URL field of Safari while connected via an ethernet cable. That used to be the default ID of Linksys routers. The default password was just linksys, no caps. the default user name was blank (no name). John On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote: I've got a Linksys router that I bought to go with my new internet connection, but it's not seeing the connection. Yes, I realize that I fail to follow my own advice, but the Linksys was dirt cheap and it's an 802.11 G router. My connection is through Charter cable, and it's DHCP all the way. Thanks in advance, Caleb -- G-Books is 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 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: slightly OT-Router issues.
Have you tried just resetting the router? This may help if you bought it used. Usually there's a little button for that somewhere. If resetting it doesn't work you should go through the configuration screens to make sure it's not set to have a fixed IP address and that it isn't blocking connections via mac address or connection speed or any of the many ways wireless routers have to block intrusive connections. You may be able to do this if you don't have the original manual by just typing 192.168.1.1 in the URL field of Safari while connected via an ethernet cable. That used to be the default ID of Linksys routers. The default password was just linksys, no caps. the default user name was blank (no name). John On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote: I've got a Linksys router that I bought to go with my new internet connection, but it's not seeing the connection. Yes, I realize that I fail to follow my own advice, but the Linksys was dirt cheap and it's an 802.11 G router. My connection is through Charter cable, and it's DHCP all the way. Thanks in advance, Caleb -- G-Books is 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 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: Airport Question
On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:49 PM, Clem Bacani wrote: Generally routers works fine for both PC and Mac but manufacturers had the habit of putting in their box that product works ok with Windows -- XP etc and no mention that it works ok with Mac. Perhaps they are not targeting Mac users as their clients. Clem I suspect they are just catering to the rubes that need a little picture to assure them that the product works with what they are running. I've yet to see a little hardware box with a Linux character on it but networking hardware would be perfectly happy there. So I think it could actually be a point of personal pride that the routers I buy don't need to be sold to folks who need pictures of their OS to prove compatibility. At any rate the works with tags on hardware are little more than stupidity honey. I've even seen mice and keyboards with little Windows flags on them that care not a jot what OS they're talking to. But there are surely some manufacturers who go the extra distance to invite Mac users to the table. Buffalo does that, as does LaCie. And I think I've seen more fried routers than any other type of hardware except perhaps hard drives or laptop screens. Routers get hot for some reason. They tend to break. John -- G-Books is 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: Mac mini slowing down...
Hi Caleb, I have a mini and a G4 iBook and the mini runs faster than the book. There is indeed only one RAM slot and it's hard to get to. But more RAM would help. I suspect there are accumulated cache files that could be fouling things us. If he's using Tiger then those cron jobs get run at startup. But MacJanitor might be useful if he's running Panther. I highly recommend Applejack if you're running Tiger. It seems to fix everything, though it tends to make people nervous. It runs as a Unix script on startup if you start in the single-user mode. Here's what you do. Go here and get the installer for Applejack 1.4.1. It's a disk image. http://applejack.sourceforge.net/ Install it. Start up in single-user by holding down command-S. You'll get the command line screen. Type [applejack] (no brackets) and hit return. Watch the lovely lines scroll by. Do not be impatient. Some of the tasks take a bit of time. When it's all done restart the Mini. It may take longer than usual to start up and to start the finder. Don't worry. This is normal. Much should be improved. What's not fixed is wither due to some background tasks which others on the list have walked through, or just the small amount of RAM. Best, John On Dec 18, 2005, at 8:34 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote: I've been talking with my grandpa, whom I converted to a Mac, but he's been complaining of his mini feeling slower than when it was new. I'm speaking from my limited experience with OS X and its behavior but running Jaguar on my Lombard (G3/400, 192 MB RAM) feels more responsive than his Rev. A mini (G4/1.25 GHz, 256 MB RAM) running Panther. Any help? Thanks, Caleb P.S. I know this is a 'Books only list, but I hope I can be forgiven for this one transgression. -- G-Books is 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: G4-iBook w/o OS
I have a G4 iBook and got new for a discount because it only has a CD drive. That was all I wanted really. The seller, Small Dog, sold it as new old stock and provided the OS. You should know that if you find a G4 without a DVD drive you'll have to specify that your OS install disks have to be CD. Tiger is available on CDs from Apple but the default medium for Tiger is DVD. In fact if you bought Tiger on a DVD you can send the DVD to Apple and they'll sell you the CD version for I think $15 or so. eBay-ers will probably bid the price of that G4 way over $400. I've also run into sneaky stuff like little extra charges because the sellers complain that they are just paying too much for PayPal. I find eBay completely odious. But you may find really good deals via DealMac, where you can sign up for alerts on low prices for G4 iBooks. Also remember that a new iBook comes not only with an OS, but with other bundled applications that aren't part of the OS installation. So when comparing you may find that the loss of things like Appleworks or Quicken may factor into your cost analysis. Caveat emptor. John On Dec 9, 2005, at 9:40 AM, BGbank wrote: Dylan McDermond at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/9/05 10:46 AM G4 iBooks will require Panther or better. It will not boot into any version of 9. Just buy the retail CD's for Panther or DVD for Tiger, boot with the C key held down. Nothing more to it than that. -Dylan THANK YOU Dylan. I didn't know about the C key. That sounds simple enough! Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/9/05 8:33 AM Depending on the model of iBook, it may or may not boot from that OS 9.1 CD. Any Macintosh will be able to boot from an appropriate system install CD. The CD has a version of the OS so that the Mac can boot from it. The only gotcha is to make sure that the system install CD you have is appropriate for the specific model of Mac you're planning to use it with. -Laurent. That sounds easy enough to figure out by checking some specs at everymac or apple, which I did, and so I'm thinking OS9 would NOT work on the G4/800mhz, first edition. I never had a mac w/No OS, so wasn't sure. Thanks again. Krow Magnum at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/9/05 10:47 AM First, the price of the iBook should be discounted because there is no original CD or OS loaded on the iBook. It should be sold with the original OS and include the CD's but that does not happen all the time so you will be responsible to get a licensed OS for it. Yes, thanks. It is discounted, or was, I should say, because I just got email to my query and in their ad/mac description it had said at the bottom of the page Buy Now for $400 but he just wrote me to say that was a mistake, as it was supposed to say that bidding STARTS at $400. I thought it was too good to be true, lol. Of course he said if no one bids on it he would gladly sell it for the $400. I would not buy one that way personally because there could be problems you will not know about until it's got an OS on it. Unless you know the seller personally of course, or can return it if there is a problem. Thanks for that advice. I didn't think about the fact there COULD be problems unknown UNTIL an OS was put on it. And no, I don't know the people but they are a power seller at ebay with refurbs and 30-day warranty only. Many of the Mac specific install CD's like the one you have may not boot and install on any other specific Mac. So your OS 9 CD from your iBook may or may not work. Since it is an iBook CD your chances are better that it will work. You will find out when you boot from the CD and do the install process whether or not it will work for that particular iBook. If you have access to the iBook try booting from your CD by starting it or restarting it with the CD in the iBook while holding down the C key. I love that C key tip, thanks! I wish I had access to it to try it out in advance but not yet and may not even end up with it if the bidding doesn't work out. Installing an OS is as simple as booting from the CD with the C key and following the installer instructions. It's easy to do. I would suggest buying a retail version of OS 10.3 from the swaplist or eBay as soon as possible. Yes, thanks, I already zeroed in on two good deals at ebay for the 10.4/Tiger but I won't need them if I don't get the G4-without-OS. Your G3 iBook can also run OS 10.3 with enough RAM and it would be a much better Mac'n experience than OS 9.1 ever was. I just don't think these 6gig'er clamshells are enough HD memory. I have hardly anything on this current G3 clamshell (IE-OE-MS Office 98, etc.) and it's slow as molasses and bogs down, etc. which is why I was looking for a newer model with more mhz and more ram and mucho bigger HD. Also it's awful heavy on the lap! ;-) If you are going to buy a G4 iBook you should put a decent OS on it.
Re: Safari problem ?
Amber, Since this is both a Mac and a Safari problem I suspect the keyboard input. Safari is cooperative with various language inputs. In fact it's really neat that us Mac users can set our whole operating system displays to read and write in Japanese or German or any number of other alphabets. Go to the International prefs panel and check that you have set your input for U.S., not U.S. Extended in the input section. Review other input settings like the order of language preferences. You might want to uncheck foreign languages except U.S. and see if that helps with the password problems. Then go to the appearance preferences in Safari and make sure you have checked Western ISO as your default encoding scheme. Things change. John On Dec 3, 2005, at 10:29 PM, Amber R. wrote: On 3-Dec-05, at 10:18 PM, Clem Bacani wrote: Sorry - I didn't really state this properly. I have now been able to get things to work on Netscape and Explorer but still no go on Safari which is the browser I prefer to use. I have emptied out the cache and reset the browser for Safari...still no go. -- G-Books is 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: used Apple Laptops
I have two white ibooks, one a G3 500 and the other a G4 1gig. I love them to bits. I replaced the video cable on the old one, which is how it came to be mine in the first place. But I treat my little lalptop like it's made of egg shells. It goes nowhere without it's little padded case. I don't type and eat. I don't leave it where it might fall and I never leave it in the car. I think laptops are generally rather fragile things. I have heard some stories of bad boards and some systemic problems but the two I've had (the 500 is now with my daughter in Chicago) are quite reliable. That said I think that the days of the SE/30 and it's longevity are gone. I still have three compact Macs that run like champs. New PRAM battery every three years and that's it. Hardware, and particularly laptops, just don't run that way these days. So eventually what you get is going to die. So my advice is to go ahead and get a relatively new iBook, but back it up fastidiously. John. On Nov 25, 2005, at 6:37 PM, The Northerner wrote: I have been trying out some various apple laptops, primarily for use as a writing tool, though I want to surf wirelessly. I have a 1400 - too slow on the Internet. I bought a Clamshell iBook. I liked it, but somehow my daughter ended up with it. Then I bought a severely upgraded wallstreet, now a g4-500, and while I love the way it works, I dislike both the size and the heat factor. As a writer, I feel distracted by the heat coming up through my fingers. I have heard the Pismos run much cooler. I want small size, battery longevity, cool running, wireless ability (doesn't have to be built-in as long as I can add on). I love those 12 white iBooks and would buy a used one of those in a heartbeat, except I keep running into people who are having repair nightmares with them. Do pismos really run a lot cooler than wallstreets? Are the white iBooks really just waiting to die? I just don't want to spend $350-$450 on a 12 iBook and have the logic board go after a few months. Would like to hear comments from any other users on the above. Tom -- G-Books is 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: can't boot off disk?
I would try booting into single user (hold command-s while starting up) and run through the file system check (sbin/fsck -y) and see if that fixes it. After it's run type reboot and it should restart. It's possible you have a bad CD drive and the hardware test routine didn't catch it. J --- On Nov 25, 2005, at 6:25 AM, Matthew B. Dwyer wrote: Greetings Listers, My Wife's G3 iBook 800 (dual USB) has died (as I've told her it eventually would!), but I'm not sure how or why. Booting it up slowly brings us to the question-mark folder-icon. I've run the hardware check disc that came with the iBook and everything checks out fine. When I attempt to start off a system CD I get the slash-circle icon, it does not see the system CD (I tried both the Tiger CD and an old Jaguar one, I no longer have the Panther CD). I also tried to start it in FW target mode from my PowerBook 1.25, but nothing happened- iBook whirred a bit, no screen, no disc showing up on the Powerbook finder. I'd recently installed Tiger onto the iBook, on top of Panther. Tiger worked OK but slow (256 MB RAM) for a couple of days before this problem. So I figure the HD is dead, buut why can't it boot off a system CD?! Thanks! Matthew of the BeerBook -- G-Books is 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: mac to windows printing
The PC has to have some kind of printer sharing ability. Macs can do this, but I don't know about PCs, particularly PCs sharing their USB printers with Macs. One way I would approach it would be to attach the printer to the Mac and turn on printer sharing. This, of course, would prevent printing when the Mac isn't hooked into the network. But with the network set up as you describe any printer sharing has to be done in the PC universe and I don't know much about that part of the cosmos. If you don't print much you could always just plug the printer into your USB port on the Pismo when you need to print. John - On Nov 15, 2005, at 12:48 PM, VICTORIA.DUGGAN wrote: Hi All Need help I have just set up a Mac for my friend. and i need to know how to set up the printer so the mac can use it also, This is how the set up works. Windows desktop running XP connected to a Netgear router and the Router is connected to the cable modem for internet connection. The Netgear router is Wireless and the mac connects via Airport ,(it is a Pismo). The printer i want to use it connected to the windows desktop via usb. How do i get the mac to see the printer then use it??? TIA Vicki -- -- G-Books is 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: Recommend Skype/Snapz Pro compatible microphone/headset?
I've experimented with iChat audio and find that the iMic works quite well with even a microphone as rudimentary as the old Apple lollipop mics from the LC II era. John On Nov 10, 2005, at 11:19 AM, w miller wrote: I bought one of the Griffin iMics and it works great. I use a professional broadcast microphone because I have one, and AudioHijack Pro to record phone interviews. Getting the software set up took some juggling, but it does a good job. Willi on 11/10/05 9:37 AM, G-Books at G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com wrote: Re: Recommend Skype/Snapz Pro compatible microphone/headset? Willi Miller Need a writer? Content for Web, print, radio http://www.ILikeToWrite.com Interviews and commentary Conversations with Carl Hiaasen, Christine Kling, Stuart Woods, Bob Morris Coming soon - Ruth Rendell, Darlene Hardister-Heumann, Sujata Massey and others PLUS observations and commentary on what¹s happening in Indian River County and environs -- G-Books is 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 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: Wireless network problem - help!
I agree with Clark. It's probably a DHCP problem. Go to the NETWORK system prefs panel Show Airport Click TCP/IP and make sure the setting is Using DHCP not Using DHCP with manual address. You might also take a look at MacStumbler if you do any war driving at all. It gives you a good idea what's in the air. John --- On Nov 9, 2005, at 4:03 PM, Howard Katz wrote: One of my part-time jobs is working at a local university--I'm there now. I've used the wireless capabilities of my G4 15 AL unit for months here with no problems. Univ. network is open, unprotected. I was sitting at my desk today using the wirelss connection, via automatic airport setting when all of a sudden it stopped working. I've tried two different browsers (icab, firefox), a telnet client, as well as launching a few internet-connected widget to see if anything would take care of the problem. Even removed the battery for 10 min on the off-chance that would work. It didn't, and neither have multiple restarts and shutdowns. Airport's icon in the menu bar shows a strong signal. AirTrafficControl widget shows network(s), and strength. However, nothing I try will get anything to connect thru the wireless. (A co-worker's peecee is working fine wireless.) It does however, work fine when I plug directly into an ethernet jack, like right now. It was working earlier today when I stopped for coffee at an place that offers free wifi, and like I said, it was working here for maybe an hour and then just stopped. I ran the netowrk status diagnostics, and it fails on ISP and server. It does see the network, and I've got a good strong, all-bars signal showing. IT isn't too mac savvy here, so I'm basically on my own. Any suggestions or help? Later..Howard -- G-Books is 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: Wireless network problem - help!
On Nov 9, 2005, at 6:23 PM, Brian McEwen wrote:
On Nov 9, 2005, at 7:17 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
IT isn't too mac savvy here, so I'm basically on my own.
Any suggestions or help?
Best guess is you aren't getting a DHCP lease. Open the Network
Preference Pane and see what IP address your Airport interface is
getting. If it is 169.254.x.x that is what is known as Self
Assigned (the Network Preference Pane will refer to it as such).
It means your Mac couldn't get a DHCP address from a server and
made up it's own address which is usually used with ad hoc networks.
the OSX wireless/ open WAP thing is partly broken as far as I can
tell. Both at my workplace and at the hospital where I was spending
many hours a few months back, I could get online fine with any laptop
except the OSX powerbook.
I could get an IP, signal fine, see the SSID of the open network,
etc. but trying to ping anywhere let alone DNS lookups gav eno route
to host.
Apple support ('book was new) was no help, local admins said yup for
whatever reason OS X can't get online, we have no ideas, but would
like it to work.
I thought perhaps I had an idea of the problem- the hospital had 2
open networks named PUBLIC but on 2 channels, I thought perhaps
things were confused on the Mac due to that (though my Clie UX-50,
Win98, WinXP, and Newton Messagepad were fine (I had lots of time and
trips to work on this :) but the work one, DORA is open and the
only one around.
I gave up. Macs just don't work as well as windows machines
sometimes. I know my karma will take a pummelling but that's the data.
B
--
Daughter had a serious connection problem in her dorm at the
beginning of this year. Absolutely nothing worked until we moved to
Tiger on her iMac flat screen.
Her symptoms were similar to yours, ability to see wireless but
inability to log in using a WEP password she knew was good, ability
to connect via unencrypted access points but not reliably, ability to
do pretty much everything when on ethernet connections. She was
running Panther.
This baffles me because I've never had trouble connecting to anything
I can see on wireless detectors (running a G4 iBook and Airport
Extreme via Tiger). Wish I could be more help here.
John
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Re: Wireless network problem - help!
On Nov 9, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Howard Katz wrote: Oh--and question--what would macstumbler give me that I'm not seeing with airtraffic control? I was able to see the network, the channel, strength, and choose which channel to connect to. Later..Howard -- Noise level and occasionally the manufacturer of the router or access point. It keeps a log of signal strength and last connection date, and there's a field for notes, though I don't find that very useful. Mostly what I use is channel and strength, and if you're getting that from -- G-Books is 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: Mail.app and Keychain
Used to happen a lot on my Comcast mail account, but it hasn't cropped up for a few weeks now. I always found that if I reset my DHCP addresses by shutting down everything from the cable modem to my eyeballs it cleared up. I also tried deleting some of the keychain passwords but that didn't seem to provide a permanent fix. So is everyone who suffers from this mailzheimers syndrome running on a home network with some kind of DHCP router? Mine is a wireless/ wired LAN with four Macs on it. I suspect networking gremlins if all the sufferers are on networks. John On Nov 7, 2005, at 8:42 AM, Francesco sciacca wrote: Mail will often, but not always, ask for my password even though it's not changed for years. This was a problem in 10.3 and continues even today (3 times thus far). I always reenter it and click the box to add it to the Keychain, but it just doesn't seem to stick. I've run Preferential Treatment to check my plists, but it said everything was fine. Any ideas or suggestions? I've run into the same problem, but only with e-mail accounts from a specific provider. It must have something to do with timeouts during authentication on that specific server, as other accounts on different server do not show this problem. I'm not sure if it's possible to tweak the timeout limit in Mail.app. It is highly irritating indeed. cheers, gianfranco -- Telefonieren Sie schon oder sparen Sie noch? NEU: GMX Phone_Flat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/telefonie -- G-Books is 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 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: Airport Card Causing Fritz? Is it Possible? Fixes?
$75 X 40 = $3,000 = new iBook + Used Pismo + $1,000 which still puts you ahead of the game. Unless you get the new iBook and test another bad Airport card in it and KKKRAaaPowwie! That would be an unfortunate situation. Have you tried any Apple hardware tests on your iBook, or a restore? You're in my neighborhood and we could try to recover your iBook with some boot disks I have here if you want. I'm in 98118, down by Sayers on 43rd. John On Nov 2, 2005, at 2:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re: Airport Card Causing Fritz? Is it Possible? Fixes? So here's the deal: A friend of mine in the recycling industry handed me a pile of 40 original Airport cards. He said I could test and sell them to my favorite listers, then keep some of the proceeds toward future buys. Fair enough. I tested 12 of them with success, first in a nice 14 iBook I have, then in my beloved Pismo. All worked well. Then on the--yes--the THIRTEENTH card, the iBook would not boot. I pulled the card, and it still would not boot. Hmmm, I grumbled, I hate these iBooks. Everyone I ever had goes kapop, and are very tough to fix. So I moved the card over to the Pismo, not suspecting the card could be causing anything other than a hiccup, and boom, the Pismo won't boot. I try pulling the card, pulling ram, replacing the daughtercard, zapping PM, PRam, etc. Nothing. AGH! Anyone ever hear of this? Any ideas as to what's wrong with the books and how to fix them? Yours, Run (206) 760-0462 --- -- G-Books is 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 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 missing link to story
Hoax. Always run a hoax check when something looks too sinister to be true. Check here: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000317047049 Next year maybe, when the government thinks it has a mandate and has really stacked the supreme court. John On Oct 31, 2005, at 5:33 PM, Will S wrote: Oddly the link didn't show up in the last post will try again. http://www.halturnershow.com/KeystrokeLoggersInAllNewComputers.html -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[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 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: slow startup on ibook G3 600mhz
Are you kidding? 10.1 is a DOG! Nobody runs 10.1 these days. It's time to spring for a new Tiger. John On Oct 29, 2005, at 7:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having an issue with my 600mhz iBook G3. I week ago I installed OSX.1 on it, and had no problems with it. Today I acquired a Airport card for it. I installed it, and started up the ibook. All of a sudden, the startup process was s-l-o-w-e-r than I ever remember; the little cartwheel would spin for what seemed like ages... Finally, after about 10-15 minutes, all that appeared was (in the upper right hand corner) the time/date display, the battery level and a little wireless indicator; no desktop icons, no desktop background. Choosing any of the mentioned items had no reponse. All I could do was to press the start button to shut the machine down. Removed the Airport card, and the same thing occurred. long startup resulting in just the three icons in the upper right hand corner. What did I do wrong? I know the Airport card works, as I am using it right now in a clamshell. And the machine started up perfectly several times last week, after I installed 10.1. Ivy 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 --- -- G-Books is 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 and Duo
Absolutely. The duo adapters also run clamshell ibooks. John On Oct 28, 2005, at 12:53 PM, TVirkkala wrote: I have a Wallstreet I. I used to have a bunch of Duos, before they were stolen. My Wallstreet runs on a Yo-Yo power adapter. I need another adapter. And I just found this: http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-G3-Wallstreet-Pismo-Lombard-Bronze-24V-AC- Adapter_W0QQitemZ5823935011QQcategoryZ80064QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem It says that the Duos and the Wallstreets use the same power connector. CAN THIS BE CORRECT? Is it possible that my Duo power adapters (I've several) can run my Wallstreet? tvirkkala -- G-Books is 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 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: Bootable Flash
The old Mac Classic could boot with no drives at all. Had a bootable ROM. J On Oct 27, 2005, at 4:26 PM, Gerald Abreu wrote: I've heard that the Pismo is not bootable from a compact flash card. Does anyone know why? Also what is the last bootable Mac from a compact flash? Thanks, Gerald -- G-Books is 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 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: router not working after Apple update
You might try connecting via a wire directly to the router and checking the settings. The DI-514 used the IP address of 192.168.0.1 and the 524 probably uses the same one. But run through the LAN settings and see if by chance you have limited the wireless to some specific protocol or fixed IP or something. Since you can connect when you're directly connected to the modem it's clear that your modem can talk to the universe so the next step is to make sure your wireless router leg can talk to your PB. So go through all the screens in the router setup panels. I assume here you've done this before so you know if you have changed the password or such. If you need to reset it there's probably a little button on the back. I don't have the manual on this machine so I can't look up these things so I need to work from the 514 manual. Anyway if you have trouble get back to me and maybe we can work through the setup screens. I use AIM for instant messaging and use the name stolengreenery. But there shouldn't be anything in 10.4.2 that would prevent talking to that router via airport. J On Oct 18, 2005, at 8:26 PM, Amber wrote: Hi there, I am hoping that somebody here might be able to help me out with this. I have a wireless D-Link DI-524 router and a cable modem. For several months, I have had absolutely no trouble with this router and have been able to move freely around my apartment with my PB (15 AL 1.25 ghz) and keep a solid connection. However, I upgraded to 10.4.2 the other day and since then, have not been able to re-establish the connection at all. I have tried everything - unplugging both router and cable modem, checking the settings on both, checking airport etc. Everything seems the same but I still can't get the router to work and am now tied to the desk whenever I want to use the net. It's really frustrating. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to resolve this ? Amber -- G-Books is 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 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: 12 Powerbook G4: an AppleCare and AppleStore assesment
Sorry you've had a bad run at the Apple world, both from weak hardware and blundering support. My own experience with the genius bar and warranty service has been more positive but I'm in Seattle and I had a simpler problem. I find the Apple support a little like some kind of military procedure. One must first go through step A, which is usually going through a troubleshooting phase with someone in India to be certain it isn't a silly user error or something correctable via standard software utilities, and at the end of that Apple gives out a number. The Indian guy, or whatever, logs this number and the troubleshooting steps he went through so that the next guy in the process doesn't need to repeat it all. In the end there is often some kind of warranty replacement, which can involve being deprived of your machine for a week or two, but rarely any extensive data retrieval or tedious hunt for cheaper ways to fix things or find out why they went bad. John was right in suggesting the firewire boot as a possible way to get some data back. Disk Warrior is also very handy there. But actual data recovery, which is the kind of thing they do in clean rooms with drives that have gone to the bottom of the Holiday Inn swimming pool, that's an expensive proposition. It usually involves opening the drive itself and reading each sector and trying to reassemble the data into files that can be read. Expect to pay as much as your iBook cost for this. I rather like taking stuff apart, but that's not everyone's cup of tea. So I guess I don't have as many problems with Apple. I also kind of expect life to toss a turd in my general direction, deprive me of use of something or rob me regularly, so I'm not floored when I get a flat tire or my iPod dies. It's a philosophical position. Life offers very few guarantees, so when any company agrees to fix it's stuff I'm pleasantly surprised. Hope that firewire boot helps somewhat. JS On Oct 9, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Tobias Strohe wrote: Dear Listas/essas, I have been lurking mostly, but recent events warrant some verbage. I apologize right away, if (when) this gets lengthy. On my annual vacation this year my Powerbook G4 died (with some 500 not-yet-backed-up photos on it). Here is my story to this point and my request for help: 1. Powerbook died and won't go beyond a grey backlit screen on startup 2. took it to Gravis in Cologne, Germany (great place!, competent, helpful 'Apple Service Provider' like we used to have here). They put in a system disk and confirmed my suspicion that the Hard Drive has died (it had been getting progressively slower on startup). 3. After return home this week I went to the local Apple Store and they informed me I needed to get an appointment to speak to a genius and that the genius bar was closed for the day (this was Friday night). 4. I called 1-800-APL-CARE on Saturday morning (one: it hung up on me after about 5 mins of the 8 mins announced (max) wait time; two: after 15 minutes waittime of 10 mins announced (max) I got Eric, who requested I insert a system disk and wouldn't believe the description of above No. 2.) - I could not find my system disk other than an old X.1 which he deemed not an option since I was last running X.3.9 ... After my request was denied to connect me to a repair dispatch to determine whether there is a way to obtain the damaged Hard Drive for Data recovery, I gave up and decided to go back to the Apple Store. 5. Went to the Apple Store on Saturday AM, signed up for an appointment with a genius, got a pager (this alone took 10 to 15 minutes, although the genius bar was not apparently busy) - the appointment was showing 11:30 (about 1 hour after my arrival), but I got buzzed at 11:10 (most people are probably not patient enough to wait too long and I was to find out immediately why: 6. The genius I spoke with mentioned that my only option for data recovery would be to pay them 150 USD to remove and replace the damaged drive after a week where I could have it for data recovery and then send it in to Apple for replacement. Asked whether they could not put a new drive in at that point he informed me that it needed to be an Apple certified part and they could not obtain that. This is where the story ends (for now). Some additional information: 12 PB G4 (bought from Apple refurb), 1 Ghz, 768 MB RAM, Superdrive, Airport Extreme, unit has been in my possession for about 1.5 years, I do have Applecare 3 year extension Some general venting: If Apple wants to get out of their low market share they need to improve their service to what it used to be. Don't hire arrogant, half-wits as geniusses, and phone line support (the 'genius' actually told me he had gotten yelled at over his comments before - not that it helped, and I couldn't waste more time or energy with him ;-). Don't design otherwise beautiful hardware with components that fail within 2
Re: airport express
Clark is right. When they're set up optimally they latch into the network like a shark on a dead whale. I've read some router manuals that suggest setting up your router to be at least five channels different from strong channels in the area. MacStumbler will tell you what local channels are being used. Or perhaps there's just something wrong with the Express. I use non- Apple routers and have little trouble with network reliability so the technology is certainly capable of reliable connections. John On Sep 30, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Dennis Goglin wrote: I got an airport express about a year ago to use with my clamshell ibook. After some difficulty setting it up, I had to get an Apple tech. to help me, it worked but was continually fading in and out. I'd lose my internet connection and when I'd try to re-establish a message would appear that said there was an error joining the network *name*. I thought this issue would resolve itself when I got my new ibook. Unfortunately it hasn't. The problem persists. I'll go for a period of time without difficulty and then all of a sudden the phantom problem reappears. This is particularly annoying when trying to enjoy itunes wirelessly. First off I'm wondering if anyone else out there has been having this problem. Is this typical of this technology? Secondly, if anyone has had this problem how did you fix it? Your feedback as always is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Dennis Goglin -- G-Books is 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 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: faxing from my powerbook
Modem selection is via the Fax dialog box. If you can't find the external modem (You're using an external modem?) then I guess you have a hardware issue. Why not use the internal modem? We're talking phone modems here, the internal things that connect to a wall phone connector via the nice little old-fashioned phone wire. We are not talking about DSL modems connected via ethernet or router of some sort. If you have a phone wire from you powerbook connected to the phone connector on your wall and it's a working phone connection your Mac should find the connection when you're in the fax dialog box. J On Sep 25, 2005, at 11:10 AM, Paul Stamsen wrote: My reply follows quote. On 9/22/05, at 8:39 pm -0700, John Siple wrote: Running Tiger you can fax via the print menu. Take any document on your screen, tell it to print and then in the print dialog box you'll see a PDF button at the bottom. Click on that to open your PDF options and you'll see one that says Fax PDF. If you click on that it will open another dialog box with spaces for what modem to use and what phone number to dial. If you have a phone line connected to your modem port it will dial and send a fax on that phone line. where do you find the modem? It's attached but the computer doesn't seem to see it. -- Thanks, Paul [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: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 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: Outgoing mail password
I've had some smtp password problems recently, but not with Earthlink. I found that turning off my local router and restarting it so that it had a different DHCP ID address solved the problem. Running Tiger with Comcast and a wireless Buffalo AirStation router. J On Sep 24, 2005, at 9:49 AM, Peter Saint James wrote: I'm having trouble getting Mail to send messages. I believe (but don't know) that it's because my ISP (Earthlink) made changes to the outgoing mail server settings. Evidently they made these changes a month ago, but I just started having trouble in the past day. I changed the settings as instructed, but still cannot get the server to accept more than one message at a time. Anyone on Earthlink know the secret to getting this to work, or is there some other problem that I don't know about? Peter -- G-Books is 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 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: faxing from my powerbook
Is pretty easy. Depends a bit on your OS. Running Tiger you can fax via the print menu. Take any document on your screen, tell it to print and then in the print dialog box you'll see a PDF button at the bottom. Click on that to open your PDF options and you'll see one that says Fax PDF. If you click on that it will open another dialog box with spaces for what modem to use and what phone number to dial. If you have a phone line connected to your modem port it will dial and send a fax on that phone line. to receive faxes you go into the system preferences to the print and fax panel and tell your computer to receive the incoming fax. It's pretty cool because you can send the fax do be saved as a file or printed or both. That's all with Tiger. Your mileage may vary with Panther or some such, but I think all of X can do faxes over the internal modem. John On Sep 22, 2005, at 4:08 PM, tamara buffalo wrote: I have cable internet . Can I fax from my powerbook over the internet or do I need a phone line and dial up account to do that? thanks in advance. T -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[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 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: Dead screen continued,part 2
The cable itself is very simple. There are all of six wires split into two branches. Two of the wires go to the reed switch. The other four are low-voltage video signals. Continuity isn't a problem. The problem is getting to the cable. In order to access both ends of the cable you need to disassemble the top and bottom halves of the iBook and also the screen. Once this is done you can just use a sewing needle as a probe in the connectors and an ohmmeter to ring out each wire in the cable. If you find that all six leads show close to zero resistance and the reed switch closes in the presence of a magnet, then you probably have an inverter board problem and you've just removed the cable for no reason. :) John On Sep 16, 2005, at 11:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:09 AM -0700 9/16/05, Dylan McDermond wrote: With an Ohm meter At 10:07 AM -0700 9/16/05, Bruce Johnson wrote: With difficulty, or how they do in the factory, which is specialized test equipment. This is why the usual field test procedure involves swapping in a known good cable. Well darn it, I'm now out of my depth. Rethinking Cheers, Erik -- ### Erik Ness [EMAIL PROTECTED] 608-242-7604 Stuck in Reverse: http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/05win/detroit1.asp Moving Mountains: http://www.uwalumni.com/onwisconsin/2004_winter/ mountains.html -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[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 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: Dead screen on dual USB iBook
You might have the old worn video cable problem, which can take a couple of forms. There are two functions of the cable that goes from the motherboard to the video section. One is to connect a reed switch that sleeps the computer when you close the cover. With some cable failures this switch sleeps the display when the cover is opened fully, but allows the display to light when the cover is only opened 10-30 degrees or so. There are other failures that just won't allow the main video voltage to get to the backlight, or won't allow the video signal through. If you can attach an external monitor to the iBook and it works, then you probably have a cable failure (your MB is sending out a good video signal). There's a good take-apart site for instructions and I can send you docs on the problem offlist if you want. I've done the replacement. It's tricky. John On Sep 13, 2005, at 6:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, My screen appears to have died. I can still access the HD in firewire target mode, and when I power up it makes all the appropriate sounds while the screen stays dark. If I hit power again and then return, the system appears to shut down. Can anybody shed any further light on diagnostics or direct me to other resources? I'm game to replace the screen, but would like to make sure that's the problem before proceeding. Regards, Erik Ness -- ### Erik Ness [EMAIL PROTECTED] 608-242-7604 Stuck in Reverse: http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/05win/detroit1.asp Moving Mountains: http://www.uwalumni.com/onwisconsin/2004_winter/ mountains.html -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[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 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: Dead screen on dual USB iBook
The cables are $20 from SmallDog and they come with a new vent grille. It's not a covered repair unless the iBook is under warranty. John On Sep 13, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Henry Taylor wrote: One might also mention that the Dual USB iBooks have a history of this. If I remember correctly, it stems from the hinge eating away at the wires that run through it. Unfortunately, I don't remember if Apple covers this as they do the iBook logic board problems. You might call Apple and see if covered, or email them (free). Good luck, Henry On 13/09/05 09:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, My screen appears to have died. I can still access the HD in firewire target mode, and when I power up it makes all the appropriate sounds while the screen stays dark. If I hit power again and then return, the system appears to shut down. Can anybody shed any further light on diagnostics or direct me to other resources? I'm game to replace the screen, but would like to make sure that's the problem before proceeding. Could be the LCD screen, the inverter board or simply the ribbon cable that hooks the screen to the motherboard. It it was me, I would open the laptop and visually inspect the ribbon cable that goes to the screen. If I could find one cheap, I would probably buy one just to try it. If the problem still persists, I would try to find a screen and would just replace the whole thing. I'm not sure how you can test the inverter and I'm not sure I would want to try to replace it. -Laurent. -- == == Laurent Daudelin Developer, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Washington, DC, USA Usual disclaimers apply *** -- G-Books is 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 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 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: G5 - OSX lists?
Jim, The PPC list would work. I think they take more time with questions. She might want to look at the International preference panel for that French thing. There are some little differences and many of us are Tiger users and can't test out Panther questions on real machine. John John On Sep 9, 2005, at 3:38 PM, Jim Katz wrote: My wife, who is just beginning the learning curve on a new G5 desktop machine with Panther is going nuts with the usual small hassles. (such as losing all of her cropped and renamed photos from iPhoto when she tried to export them. Such as having the Appleworks always start up in French and not being able to change that preference somehow.) I can't help her much, being powerbook and OS9 still, but I know I have gotten lots of help on this list and the 603 list. Is there a list she can go to that is more specialized in her machine and/or baby questions? -- G-Books is 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 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: importing bookmarks from Netscape to Safari?
In Safaari 2.01 there's a menu choice in the file menu. It may ask you to locate the file and I think they would be in the netscape folder in your prefs folder (if you're importing them from 9.X) and in your user library-application support-netscape or User library-Preferences-Netscape. It's been a very long time since I used Netscape. J library On Thursday, September 08, 2005, at 10:13AM, Andrew in Ann Arbor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to know my way around Panther (10.3.9) on my Lombard but I can't figure out how to import my bookmarks. I''ve got my Netscape 7 mail imported into Mail but I can't figure out how to import the bookmarks. I missed the chance to import when I first started out and now the only suggestion is to import the links one at a time. Is there a utility that will import bookmarks for me? Maybe I need a newer version of Safari, I've got 1.3 (v312) now? Thanks Andrew in Ann Arbor -- G-Books is 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 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: what's a good lap top cooler and question about Memorex travel drive
I was looking at these at Office Depot. But I decided against them because I'm a bit of an efficiency freak an I gather that what they do is blow air using the USB port power. So I would get lower battery life running a cooler. Decided it made more sense to just put the thing to sleep and let it cool off now and then. J On Sunday, September 04, 2005, at 08:22PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just wondering what's a good laptop cooler. Anybody using the Targus Notebook Chillhub? (It's a cooler and a 4-Port Hub). The salesman at Best Buy said it was okay to use on a G4 iBook.but the back of the package does not say that it is okay for Mac under the system requirements section. I'm wondering if it is really Mac compatible. Also, I bought a Memorex 512 mg USB travel drive and it keeps turning my Mac files into PC files. The instructions that came with it says that there is no Mac drive needed. Guess I'm just supposed to use with a PC formating and forego Mac formating? Any thoughts? Jocelyn P.S. Thanks for the input on security cables and firewalls! -- G-Books is 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 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 ---
