Re: OSX on a Kanga partition?
On Mar 2, 2004, at 8:39 PM, kaldav wrote: 1. Does that mean I will have to reformat the drive and make one partition only 8 gb or less? Yes. 2. How do I know which partition is the FIRST 8 gb to install onto? Thanks. Use Drive Setup. The partition at the top will be the first. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Users, Partitions, and Panther Question
Mark, A quick question: do you want one partition devoted solely to Users? I mean, are you seeking to get a Users volume mounted on the desktop like Macintosh HD or whatever your boot volume is named? I'm assuming that you do. You need to use /etc/fstab which became support in Jag. Should still work. Let me know if you need the dirty details. And yes, you'll still need to use NetInfo to do it properly. On Mar 2, 2004, at 1:11 AM, markemmanuel wrote: Hi guys. I just installed Panther in the first 6GB of hard drive space and the rest is empty waiting to be used for something. I really would like to move the User folder into the second partition kind of like when I was messing with Linux a few years ago. My problem is that I have no idea how to set up MacOS X to use the entire partition to put user folders into it and when I make new accounts it would create the user space in the second partition. I've been doing it the dirty way and using Net info for the two users I've made so far. So now, in netinfo, the I changed home from '/Users/username' to /Volumes/volumename/username'. Ideally, I'd like to see volumename mounted at root like a DVD or a floppy would. So, the file path would like like this... '/volumename'. Any helpful advise? Thanks. --markemmanuel ___t_h_e_w_o_l_f_p_u_p_._c_o_m_. Markemmanuel F. Rodriguez http://www.thewolfpup.com/ . -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --- Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Can this Wallstreet be saved?
Anne, Do you own a disk utility like DiskWarrior? On Mar 2, 2004, at 9:31 AM, Anne Judge wrote: My Wallstreet (266 MHz upgraded to 466 with the PowerLogix BlueChip card) constantly freezes. snip More information, if any of it is useful: It's most likely to happen when I do two things quickly - say open an app or window then double-click on something else while the first is still opening. But it also often happens randomly as I work or browse the web. The file copies to its replacement were a nightmare - it would freeze every few hundred megabytes for most of it, so I'd have to restart figure out how far the transfer had gotten. Then the last 6 gigabytes or so transfered without error! Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: strategy for repartitioning drive
On Mar 2, 2004, at 5:59 PM, John Slavin wrote: I messed up when I first installed OSX, in that I thought both OSX and OS9 had to be in the first 8GB. Now I understand that only OSX needs to be there. My original strategy was to have OSX on a 4GB partition, OS9 on the next 4GB and the rest would be reserved for data. I have come to the realization that 4GB is not really enough for OSX and that allocating around 7.8 or so for OSX would have been better. Is there any way to repartition, without completely wiping the drive? Assuming not, can I use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy off everything, repartition and copy it back? John, There is no easy way of repartitioning a drive without risking data loss. It can be done but I wouldn't recommend it. Use CCC to copy the data you want and then repartition it. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: strategy for repartitioning drive
John, A few thoughts. First of all, you have OS 9 on this machine, why not use SCSI disk mode? This would allow you to make your powerbook into a large external hard drive from which you could then back your stuff off. (really bad grammar there...) The do require a special SCSI adapter - a HDI SCSI/Dock adapter specifically for this purpose. If you don't have access to one of those you could always use a firewire PCMCIA/PC Card and mount an external FireWire drive or computer in FW Target disk mode. Much faster than 10Mbit. And yes, you can run CCC to copy the startup volume to another drive. But as far as I know CCC DOESN'T WORK OVER A NETWORK CONNECTION. The drives need to be mounted locally. So the above two options are your best bet. On Mar 2, 2004, at 6:25 PM, John Slavin wrote: That's what I was afraid of. So now I'm wondering how to get all this stuff off my wallstreet. The logical thing would be to create a folder on my ibook and then copy everything via ethernet. Boy is that going to take a while via 10T ethernet or wireless ethernet. Can I copy the startup partition with it running from the same startup partition? Then I'm thinking, how can get all this stuff back on there when the wallstreet will have empty drive. What about using bootcd to create bootable cd before I copy, and include CCC. Can I boot the wallstreet off the cd and use ccc to copy everything back from the ibook to my pristene drive? Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Re - Spam volume
Try the top-level address. It'll forward you on. http://www.mailinator.com/ On Feb 27, 2004, at 2:01 PM, Harry D. Corsover wrote: On Feb 27, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Seeker wrote: Been with Earthlink for several years and get two or three pieces of spam a day. Check my Earthlink filter (online, every 10 days or so) and there are usually about 10 to 20 emails there to delete. I get that much spam every ten or twenty minutes. And if I used an ISP-level spam filter, I'd miss a couple of important business emails daily. Doesn't work for everyone. I try to be very careful about giving out my email address too casually, using a throw-away email address at Mailinator (free) instead. http://www.mailinator.com/mailinator/Welcome Check it out. I did. I got Not Found. Regards, Harry Corsover === Harry Corsover, Independent Business Owner CyberWize: The Home Business Solution Amazing Travel * Health * Tax Benefits http://www.hc.cyberwize.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 877-507-9562 === -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --- Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: USB to ethernet
On Feb 26, 2004, at 2:59 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 26, 2004, at 8:39 AM, Wayne Schneck wrote: Does anyone know if there is a Mac compatible (Mac OSX) usb-ethernet adapter that would work with a usb printer. The idea is to hook the printer to the ethernet port of the D-Link wireless router to use with our wireless notebooks. I can use a wireless usb print server, but I want to investigate a more economical solution (if there is one). Thanks for all the help in advance. This will most likely not work; the problem is that the USB printer will not likely 'talk' ethernet. Wayne, what you are looking for is a USB-Ethernet Print Server. I have one (actually it's a USB-802.11 Wireless Print Server) and it uses a built-in webserver to be configured. Works like a champ. D-Link makes them, so does HP and a couple of others. Check to make sure that your USB print server is compatible. They run around $75-80. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: New PB user questions
On Feb 24, 2004, at 7:53 AM, dan_A wrote: I'm a new to owning a Powerbook and have some questions. Welcome to the club. I recently bought a used 15, G4, 800 MHz Powerbook which has Panther installed. The seller gave me the set of system discs that came with the machine, 10.1, without the Panther upgrade discs and without documentation. The owner also had no need for OS 9 so there is no classic installed. Owning a lot of older Macs with different requiremets for installing OS 10, I need some help on the following, and anything else that I might be over-looking from lack of experience-- I also purchased a used, full install set of Panther discs (without printed documentation). Would this software have the Powerbook CP's or any components that might exist for the Powerbook? I didn't see Powerbook specific Panther installation discs at Apple. OS X installs all components needed for any model of Macintosh that it can run on. For Panther, this means all models from Blue White G3s on up. I believe Apple specified built-in USB. You needn't worry about missing anything - you're not. Is it necessary to partition the 60 GB drive when I install drivers for 9.2.2-to create a separate partition for each OS and relating to this question, does this machine boot in 9.2.2? It's not necessary to partition the drive; I keep both Classic and OS X on the same volume in all of my system builds. I believe you bought a 15 Titanium G4, correct? If so, that computer WILL boot into OS 9 if you want it to and if the drive had OS 9 drivers installed upon initialization. BTW, I consider partitioning to be a religious matter. The machine is beautiful and runs very fast in Panther--I am overwhelmed by it. It also seems to get very hot on the bottom--Is this normal and OK? I have a 1 GHz Titanium and it gets hot too. I use a Podium CoolPad stand to elevate the back end of the computer and put some airflow between me and the bottom of it. Works like a champ. I believe the Apple Stores sell them which is handy if you have one near you. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Basilisk II in panther
On Feb 20, 2004, at 11:36 PM, Justin Petersen wrote: Has anyone succeeded in getting Basilisk II to run in Panther. I copied the ROM off of my LC 580 and the program seems to start to work, but all I get is a black screen, and that's where it stays. I followed the how to, but I never get more than a black screen. Any suggestions would be great. Is that computers ROM just not supported. If you don't know what Basilisk II is it's a 68k emulator for OS X. Why are you needing to run Basilisk instead of Classic? Do you have some specialized software that won't run in an OS higher that 7.x/8.x? Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: REally stupid question
On Feb 22, 2004, at 7:30 PM, Jason Cornfeld wrote: I have an 600 MHZ Snow Ibook Running 9.2.2 and Panther. I copied a folder of all my saved mac commercials off of a CD i had burned a long time ago and didnt notice that the folder was locked. Now its in my finder, and i want to throw it away Delete it. It will not let me! oh its in the finder in panther. any ideas on how to get rid of this pesky foldeR? I did go into the folder info and the lock checkbox is grey, i cant click it to unlock it.. :( Please E-mail me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] because i am in digest mode and it wouldnt be until tomorrow till i got an answer. Jason, you'll need to make sure that the ownership for this folder is set to you. Open the terminal and do the following: # cd /path/to/where/the/directory/is # ls -al Check the third column. It should have your username as the owner of the folder. If not, type the following: # sudo chown yourusernamehere:staff nameoffolder enter your password at the prompt. To get rid of the lock, type the following: # sudo chflags nouchg,noschg nameof folder If you have any questions you can email me directly. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Adhesive for Foot pads?
On Feb 12, 2004, at 6:14 PM, markemmanuel wrote: What's a good adhesive to apply to the original feet and keep it there. I'm looking for an adhesive that won't ruin the plastic on my pismo's case. This one's easy. Hot glue gun. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
TCP/IP over FW (Was FW disk mode crashed host)
Here: http://developer.apple.com/firewire/IP_over_FireWire.html On Jan 27, 2004, at 9:29 PM, Andrew Kershaw wrote: My reply doesn't really answer the OP's questions, but . . . I've not used FW target disk mode, but for fast file transfers I was mighty impressed with filesharing using TCP/IP-over-FW. I haven't done any timed benchmarks but Finder copies between a pair of Pismos is _fast_fast_fast_. Perhaps doing the filecopies using TCP/IP-over-FW might work out better? Dan K (who's been waiting for an opportunity to mention TCP/IP-over-FW :-) Whoa, wait a minute... You can do TCP/IP over FireWire? I remember there being some discussion back when FireWire was new about doing AppleTalk on FireWire (though I quickly grew uninterested in that idea and don't know if it's possible today or not), but if I've heard anything about TCP/IP over FW, it's just a quiet mumble in some hidden memory... Please do spill the beans, Dan! Peace, Drew -- Author of ClassicStumbler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.alksoft.com/ Visit the PowerBook 5300 FAQ! http://www.alksoft.com/5300_FAQ/ Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: The fun I've been having
On Jan 28, 2004, at 1:08 PM, Robin Ashe wrote: How are you overclocking? Are you just increasing the CPU speed or are you increasing the bus speed? Both can have problems, but they're especially likely if you're increasing the bus speed. You'll put everything else out of whack. I would suggest at least while you're installing Panther that you return the system to normal settings. You should be able to overclock after you're finished installing as the installation process is usually more picky about stability issues than anything else. 1999 Bronze keyboard PowerBook, aka Lombard. 333MHz overclocked to 433MHz, 512 MB of Kingston RAM (2x256MB), 40 GB Toshiba MK4019GAX hard drive. Runs hot, but the fan never comes on. A bit slow but very stable under Jaguar. Nice catch. I completely skimmed that... Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
The fun I've been having
On Jan 28, 2004, at 12:08 PM, Dave Bonhoff wrote: Hi folks! I'm posting this to 2 different lists in the hopes of hitting a bigger knowledge base. Please forgive me, I'm at the limit of my patience. The move to Panther has been an ugly one for me, and continues to frustrate me. Let me start with the machine and then the problems I've been having and what I've tried over the past weeks. SNIP But now, my problem is that I can't mount any network drives. I can see them, and I can attempt to connect to them, but they don't mount on the desktop or in the finder side bar. This means I can't backup. And the way this adventure through computing hell has been going, I NEED to backup! I understand, through lots of searching, that there may be an issue with video drivers, and with more than 384 MB of RAM installed. The networking has me stumped though. Where do I go from here? One part of me wants to ditch Panther and go back to Jaguar because it worked well. But the other part of me prefers the speed and features of Panther, when it is working nicely... Dave, First of all, just because you ran the repair permissions utility doesn't mean that all the permissions settings on your drive are properly set. This util will only reset permissions for items it sees in /Library/Receipts. If you copied old preferences and ~/Library items it may very well be that they are incorrect. The volumes-not-mounting issue smacks of permission settings being incorrect for /Volumes. Here's what my Panther boot disk looks like: total 8801 drwxrwxr-t 34 root admin 1156 27 Jan 15:31 . drwxrwxr-t 34 root admin 1156 27 Jan 15:31 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 philburk staff 12292 27 Jan 17:14 .DS_Store d-wx-wx-wt 5 root admin170 22 Apr 2003 .Trashes -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel156 12 Sep 15:41 .hidden -rw--- 1 root admin 65536 24 Oct 16:05 .hotfiles.btree dr--r--r-- 2 root wheel256 27 Jan 15:30 .vol drwxrwxr-x 38 root admin 1292 29 May 2002 Applications -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 1024 27 Jan 17:14 Desktop DB -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 2 20 Jan 12:45 Desktop DF drwxr-xr-x 2 philburk unknown 68 11 Nov 2002 Desktop Folder drwxrwxr-x 13 root admin442 23 Dec 15:30 Developer drwxr-xr-x 2 philburk admin 68 4 Dec 10:57 Documents drwxrwxr-x 37 root admin 1258 12 Sep 15:41 Library drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel512 28 Jan 13:04 Network drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel136 12 Sep 15:41 System drwxrwxr-t 7 root admin238 7 Jan 12:00 Users drwxrwxrwt 10 root admin340 27 Jan 17:13 Volumes dr-xr-xr-x 4 philburk unknown 136 24 Oct 16:07 automount drwxr-xr-x 35 root wheel 1190 15 Nov 01:21 bin drwxrwxr-t 2 root admin 68 12 Sep 15:41 cores dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel512 27 Jan 15:30 dev lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 24 Oct 15:52 etc - private/etc lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 9 27 Jan 15:31 mach - /mach.sym -r--r--r-- 1 root admin 567760 27 Jan 15:31 mach.sym -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel3824080 11 Dec 19:20 mach_kernel drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel170 27 Jan 15:31 private drwxr-xr-x 61 root wheel 2074 27 Jan 15:13 sbin lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 24 Oct 15:52 tmp - private/tmp drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel340 12 Sep 15:42 usr lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 24 Oct 15:52 var - private/var You're going to need to be very careful with the settings at the root level. I would do the following: make sure the root level is fine. Go to the terminal, change to your home directory, check that your home directory permissions are set like this: drwxr-xr-x 25 philburk staff850 28 Jan 13:07 . drwxrwxr-t 7 root admin238 7 Jan 12:00 .. drwx-- 24 philburk staff816 28 Jan 11:10 Desktop drwx-- 19 philburk staff646 7 Jan 11:07 Documents drwx-- 35 philburk staff 1190 27 Oct 08:36 Library drwx-- 5 philburk staff170 19 Mar 2003 Movies drwx-- 7 philburk staff238 21 Oct 14:44 Music drwx-- 24 philburk staff816 21 Oct 14:45 Pictures drwxr-xr-x 5 philburk staff170 27 May 2003 Public drwxr-xr-x 5 philburk staff170 19 Mar 2003 Sites Just to make sure I would issue the following command: sudo chown -R [yourusername]:staff * in your home directory. This will make sure that you own all the items in there. I would also pull that second 256 MB chip and run it for a good couple of days and notice if there is a significant difference. Finally, stop overclocking until you have Panther stable. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog
Re: TCP/IP over FW (Was FW disk mode crashed host)
On Jan 28, 2004, at 2:29 PM, Dan K wrote: It's built-in to Panther, here's how I enabled it on my Pismos: I guess I should have pointed that out as well. Thanks, Dan. I suppose a X-capable Mac with enet and FW ports could function as a router, providing DHCP, NAT, etc. for a FW-connected LAN through a FW hub, though I haven't tried it. The throughput is likely quite alot faster than 100BT enet, but I don't know enough about how it would compare with a gigE network. The hardware would be cheaper though for a small FW net (FW PCI cards are what, $15 each?) I dunno how FW works for long wire runs, actually I don't think it does work over more than a few meters. Anyone know the allowable FW cable lengths? The current limitation for IEEE 1394 is 4.5 meters. There are repeaters that can extend this distance. Here's a link for some, in both 400 and 800 flavors: http://www.granitedigital.com/catalog/pg30_firewirerepeaters.htm $49 and $79, respectively. I don't think TCP/IP over FireWire is available for MacOS 8/9. Not unless someone besides Apple has written an extension for it. Highly unlikely. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: The fun I've been having
On Jan 28, 2004, at 2:47 PM, Dave Bonhoff wrote: I O/C'd by changing the multiplier. I did not change the bus speed. I appreciate that this may be a factor, but since it was stable under Jaguar, I don't know why Panther would have issues. Panther appears to be less CPU intensive than Jaguar. It is certainly much snappier and according to the Activity monitor, the CPU usage appears to be lower on average. It doesn't matter, fundamental parts of the OS changed dramatically between 10.2 and 10.3. Prudent troubleshooting mandates that you turn off the overclocking. The hard drive is less than a year old, so I can only hope that it is still in good order. Disk Utility has not reported any issues with regards to S.M.A.R.T. status. At this time I'm leaning to possible RAM issues, video driver issues, and problems with permissions. A complete initialization of the drive with zeroes will turn up any sector-related issues. If your drive is having difficulty spinning up it would be manifested in other ways (notable pauses, system hangs, obvious noise). Correct me if this is wrong, but if I am able to do a full backup using either CCC or Disk Utility, I would be safe in attempting to do an archive and restore installation - assuming I remove one of the 256 MB RAM chips. If I did this, would I have to re-install all my applications again? Obviously I'd have to do all the software updates. But I'm thinking that I might be able to eliminate problems with permissions this way and possibly any corrupt components from the current install. Use CCC. I assume you're thinking of backing up to a FW device. Definitely the best way to go. If you do this and subsequently do an archive and install you should be OK. The Panther installer won't clobber stuff you've added to any of the folder hierarchies such as /Application and /Library. (Actually, this changed in Jag too but I'm not sure exactly when...) Keep in mind that if you do an archive and install that you probably don't want to be preserving current users and network settings. This shouldn't matter if you have a complete backup as you'll be able to restore bits and pieces of your home directory as needed. As long as you don't completely replace your new home directory with your old you should be good to go. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Fwd: Hard Drive Upgrade Problem
On Jan 2, 2004, at 11:02 AM, Glenn wrote: I bought a 30 gig Hitachi/IBM 2.5 mm HD to replace my loud, IBM 10 gig The 10 gig came out fairly easily ... the 30 gig went in fairly easily but when I put everything back together and go to install Panther on it, it doesn't show up in the Destination volume pane. It's as quiet as a cloud. It's as like it's not even in the Pismo. Panicking, I put the 10 gig back in and smile when it boots normally. I've tried this several times now, trying to match the 30 gig installation precisely with the successful 10 gig but so far, no satisfaction. Glenn, It seems that the 30 gig drive needs to be initialized. Boot from your Panther install CD and run Disk Utility from the Installer menu. Initialize the drive. If you want to make this drive readable from OS 9 make sure to install the OS 9 drivers. Good luck. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Fwd: Partition my drive or not...
On Dec 2, 2003, at 1:14 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 01/12/03 19:56, Dan Colwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I'm finally going to do it...I know I'm a late joiner here, but it's time for me to jump to OS X. I have a 400MHz Pismo, 768MB, 40g currently running 9.2.2. Should I partition my drive when I install 10.2? What are the pros and cons? If you partition you drive to keep 9 on a separate partition, should you need to do a clean OS X install, you won't have to re-install 9. Plus, it makes troubleshooting easier since the folders from OS 9 are not mixed up with those from OS X. I personally wouldn't do it. It is possible to do an archive and install instead of a completely clean install with the OS X installer. This will leave your user data and any other installations in place on your drive and not clobber them upon install. There shouldn't be a need to do a complete clean install unless you wipe the drive and then you'll be needing a backup anyway. If you feel the need to partition I would only do a small OS 9 partition in addition to the OS X partition. Every time I partition a drive for personal use in hopes of more efficient organization I eventually run out of space on one partition or another. Depends on your usage, of course... Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Fwd: Partition my drive or not...
On Dec 2, 2003, at 1:14 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 01/12/03 19:56, Dan Colwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I'm finally going to do it...I know I'm a late joiner here, but it's time for me to jump to OS X. I have a 400MHz Pismo, 768MB, 40g currently running 9.2.2. Should I partition my drive when I install 10.2? What are the pros and cons? If you partition you drive to keep 9 on a separate partition, should you need to do a clean OS X install, you won't have to re-install 9. Plus, it makes troubleshooting easier since the folders from OS 9 are not mixed up with those from OS X. I personally wouldn't do it. It is possible to do an archive and install instead of a completely clean install with the OS X installer. This will leave your user data and any other installations in place on your drive and not clobber them upon install. There shouldn't be a need to do a complete clean install unless you wipe the drive and then you'll be needing a backup anyway. If you feel the need to partition I would only do a small OS 9 partition in addition to the OS X partition. Every time I partition a drive for personal use in hopes of more efficient organization I eventually run out of space on one partition or another. Depends on your usage, of course... Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Fwd: DiskWarrior problem
On Dec 2, 2003, at 4:39 AM, Darin Ames wrote: on 12/2/03 1:13 AM, Michel Treisman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to Phil Burk and Darin for comments. I tried running DW from the CD but even that does not seem to work OK. It found stuff wrong with one partition, rebuilt the directory for the partition, replaced the directory. Then I tried to rebuild the same directory again, and the same stuff was wrong. Several times. Mike, Is your Mac capable of booting into Mac OS 9? Next question... Do you have a copy of Disk Warrior prior to Disk Warrior X. I think the version was 2.1.x. If you can boot into 9 and have the Disk Warrior CD, try running it from there. Otherwise, I'm stumped. Please let us know how this situations pans out. Good luck. Mike, Two things. One, got a recent backup? *grin* Two, contact Alsoft tech support with this issue if you have a drive that never seems to be repaired with DW. If you are using DW 3 does the SMART check return that the drive is functioning OK? I suspect that you may have a hardware problem if DW cannot fix recurring errors. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: DiskWarrior problem
On Nov 30, 2003, at 8:04 PM, Michel Treisman wrote: My hard disk is divided into four partitions. I am running on Mac OS X 10.3.1. when I run DW from my main partition it rebuilds the directories for the other partitions, but does not replace them because of Mac OS service failure. I have tried to put it right with DiskUtility, Repairing permissions, running DW on it from the CD. But still I get this message about service failure. Any ideas what this might be? If I'm not mistaken you shouldn't be able to successfully run DW under Panther. Boot from a Jaguar disk. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Pismo rubber feet
On Nov 19, 2003, at 8:41 AM, Krevnik wrote: On Nov 18, 2003, at 4:36 PM, Clyde Kahrl wrote: Brent writes: Does anyone else have a suggestion for a reasonably priced source of black powerbook feet? A:Glue gun. Problem is that not all of us have managed to KEEP the feet that have fallen out. I lost a couple on our local bus system, which means they are gone for good. He is looking for ways to replace feet lost in this manner, much as I am, so I would appreciate an answer for his question. I think Clyde WAS answering your question. Ever used a glue gun? You can certainly push a nice glop of glue out onto any surface the glue used maintains a high degree of viscosity yet harders to a nice rubbery feel. It's a great solution and one I plan on testing. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wallstreet sound card replacement
On Oct 27, 2003, at 11:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 20:25 -0800 on 10/27/03, you (Doug Hinschberger), wrote: Called the local Apple repair store, and they suspect the sound card. I found some fairly good instructions on the internet for taking the thing apart, but it appears I'll really need to get into the guts to get to the sound card. How tough is it really? What special tools (screwdrivers) might I need? Is it possible to re-solder cracked connections, or where is a good place to find an inexpensive sound card? My son's new WS has the same problem, apparently. I too am interested in any answers (in case someone might write off-list?0 It's not that tough, although you will need to completely disassemble the PowerBook. This entails removing the display (not too hard), separating the upper and lower cases, and a few other parts (hard drive, I think). I've done this procedure in less than 40 minutes and I was being VERY careful. YMMV. If you've worked on hardware before you shouldn't have any trouble. Do you have the take-apart instructions? Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 46256 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery and screen care
On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 06:09 PM, Donna Dolezal Zelzer wrote: I just bought a new iBook 3 weeks ago -- my first experience with both a laptop and OSX and I love both! As someone who has been using Apple laptops since 1995 I can easily state that I still share your enthusiasm. Congrats! Anyway, I was wondering about some general maintenance stuff: 1. What do you clean the screen with? The best stuff, by far, is put out by Klear Screen. (www.klearscreen.com) Their products do not use alcohol - which is terribly important - and are sold by Apple in the Apple stores. It's what we use here for our PowerBook users and I wholeheartedly recommend it. You need to be extremely careful about what you use to clear and dry your LCD display. Repeated use of alcohol-based products will, over time, prematurely age your screen and cause discoloration and cracking. Make sure to get a lint-free non-scratching polishing cloth. A chamois is great but I use the Laptop ScreensaverZ from Radtech (www.radtech.us). This nice piece of cloth serves a double duty: I can clean my screen safely with it and it covers my keyboard when my PowerBook is closed, preventing keymarks on the screen. The keyboard can actually come in contact with the screen when it's closed and the oil and dirt from my grubby fingers would necessitate my cleaning the screen more often. 2. I'm normally working someplace where I can use the power adapter. Is this OK, or does the battery need to be used occasionally and then recharged? If yes, how often and how low should the charge go before I recharge? Someone else may correct me, but AFAIK, there is no memory associated with the batteries Apple uses in the iBook and PowerBook. You can either leave the computer plugged in or not; I've run my battery down multiple times and have not yet noticed any dropoff in available charge. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I wouldn't worry too much about it. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wallstreet serial number...
On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 01:58 PM, Ken wrote: My Reply follows quote. On 25/09/2003 11:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've just bought an old Wallstreet (the one with the missing keys). It's old and cheap, not cheap enough to make it obvious that its background is dodgy, but there is a sign that point to the possibility of it being a little than kosher, the lack of serial number. The sticker has been removed, though that in itself means absolutley nothing. Anyway, it's not the legality of the machine that is in question as such, its surprise I had when I checked the serial number in Apple System Information... ... blank! How come ?! Can one actually change this ? --- Beats me, though my Wallstreet doesn't show the ser# is Apple System Profiler (OS9.2) Don't know where this is stored (PRAM, HD?) but a reset of PRAM or reformatting of the HD would probably wipe out a serial number. I know mine is ligitimate as I bought it from my daughter. She did have a hard crash and a friend reformatted the HD for her and installed a fresh system. The serial number sticker on the bottom of the machine is also missing, probably from the way she used it. She often had it sitting on her lap, wearing shorts, in the summer. The heat of operation of the machine combined with perspiration and the glue on the sticker just wasn't up to the abuse. Maybe she wore it an an inadvertant tatoo for awhile! I own a Wallstreet and the serial number WORE OFF of the sticker on the bottom. Apple replaced it when i sent it in for repairs a couple of years back. I covered the bar code and number with some scotch tape which prevented the ink from rubbing off. As to the serial numbers, those were stored in a specific part of the boot sector for many machines (pre Quicksilvers, I do believe). From a post on another technical mailing list (mac-mgrs): First it looks like the serial number is stored in either the firmware on later NewWorld ROM machines, or in the boot sector on older machines. This is supported by different support articles at Apple. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106529 (indicates the S# is in the firmware) http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=21103 (indicates the S# is on the hard drive) There is a tool to fix the missing serial number issue but it's only given out to authorized service centers. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Error Msg of Inpending Doom?
On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 2:58 PM, Dan| Colwell wrote: I have a recurring error message. In the last 2 months it has shown up 5 times, the shortest span being 11 days apart. Here it is: There is a problem with the disk Macintosh HD. Some information may have been lost. Check any recently used files for data loss, and use a disk repair program on the disk. Sounded pretty serious to me..I have OS 9.2.1 on a 400 MHz Pismo with 320 RAM. I cannot use my USB mouse but the trackball works. Time still runs. Opened note pad, but froze on Simple Text. Control/Open-Apple/Power button gets it to restart, but gets to smiling Mac and then continuously loops through the restart process until I press the reset button on the back. That gets it so I can start up fine, just needing to reset Time Date. I have run Norton Disk Doctor, DiskWarrior and Disk First Aid and all checks out fine. Until it happens again. I am anal about backing up (that little USB jump drive is sooo cool), and I have just convinced my wife that I need a bigger HD anyway. (oops, sorry, I should have mentioned I have 10GB, I believe it's the original. I bought this for myself last Christmas...) I'm leaning towards the 40GB Travelstar and hope that it will solve the problem and be a lot quieter BUT would like to know more about this error and what to do to avoid it in the future. I am using Digest Mode, so will check back to see what info anyone has. Been on this list for about 6 months and now can't live without it... Feel the same about my Pismo. Now if I can just get up the courage for OSX! My first comment will be: upgrade to OS X. Seriously. OS 9 has some serious issues when dealing with file system problems. I have several BW machines that exhibit this same behavior - even after replacing the hard drives and moving from SCSI to IDE drives. It only happens under OS 9, not under OS X. I would continue making backups if I were you - it may be that your drive is in danger of imminent failure. But I suspect that you have the same problem I do and that it is related to the disk controller on the motherboard. OS X is much more forgiving of hard drive directory issues than OS 9 is. Phil Burk Systems Adminstrator Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Blvd. Indianapolis, IN 46256 ph 317.572.3049 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: PC Card no longer works
On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 03:30 AM, Roger Shufflebottom wrote: At 20:30 -0400 23/7/03, Ryan Lee wrote: I restarted, shutdown, logged out, rebuilt permissions, ran cron scripts, etc. Finally, I zapped the PRAM, which I had never done since loading 10.2 last year. That solved the problem. Is that done the same way as in OS9? Yes. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: eBay
On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 11:51 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: I don't know about Apple, but I've rarely seen employee discounts amounting to more than 10%. I can see items like this making their way onto ebay cheaply-ish. Not exactly illegal, not gray-marketed in the traditional sense of the term. Yeah, but these folks aren't going to sell you a new powerbook for 30-40% off... Machines close to EOL or near scheduled price drops often pop up on Apple Promo sheets available to employees. I have a very good friend (college buddy) who has been an Apple Employee for 15 years. He regularly sends out the promo sheet (approx. quarterly) which can have quite good deals on it. In February I purchased a new 15 PowerBook from the local Apple Store (yes, I was so hot to trot for the computer that I completely forgot about my buddy) for $2999. Four days later a promo sheet came out with the 15 on it for 2499. For the mathematically impaired among us that's almost 17% off the original price. Apple Employees can purchase equipment for friends and family (ANY EQUIPMENT) for 15% off. This is stuff that doesn't have to be on the promo sheet. I do believe that's called a tier-two purchase. Apple Employees are entitled to purchase one computer system (it may be two now - I'm not sure) at a higher discount rate than 15%. I don't know what it is but it is significant. So, yes, recent Apple equipment may show up for resale on auction sites at a good price because of employee purchases. I don't think it happens often but it can happen. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: 12 Speed
My apologies. Premature send. On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 12:07 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: As one of the list nanny on this specific mailing list, I would ask everybody to leave this thread and move on. There isn't anything specifically helpful for G3-G4 based PowerBooks in this thread, so let's go back to helpful topics. Thank you. -Laurent. Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 317-572-3049 Phil Burk ___ Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. Indianapolis, IN 317-572-3049 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
