Re: Intel IMacs
On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:17 PM -0500 01/11/2006, Michael Cangelosi wrote: Interesting; with this switch to the beginning of abandoning Classic (not only booting to OS9 but rather the entire software that runs under classic) 10.4.X will probably be the last OSX that will include any support for classic at all. My instinct is to hope you're wrong. But since Jobs has been known to rip out working software/support for things... You're probably right. I also wouldn't be shocked if Leopard (10.5) dropped support for a number of older Macs, perhaps even all the G3's. - Dan. Well then. . . looks like the day is almost here. Guess I'm heading down to have my Pismo fitted for a tombstone. I knew this was going to happen, just wish Jobs would slow down. I saw the new Intel Macs and yawned. Frankly, I don't care. It's just another give Jobs more money scheme. He didn't make enough with the iPods, not enough with the Mini. . . not even enough with the Nano. So, now it's time to up the anti and get Intel in to help. This is a brilliant money move, since now people like me; people who are satisfied with their older machine that runs the newest of the new today, with be forced to upgrade. I don't think I'm going to this time. I spent over $3,000.00 for my Pismo the day it came out. I spent over $5,000.00 for the PowerMac 9500 (may it rest in peace) the day it came out. I believe I've reached the end of computing altogether. Once my Pismo is officially unofficial and is forced into retirement, so will I. It's been fun! Zoltan -- 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 11, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:05 AM -0500 01/11/2006, bobgir2004 wrote: If those published stats hold up to real world comparisons, that's one helluva impressive laptop. Before we wet our collective pants on this one, best first check out: http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisemac/archives/2006/01/ the_mac_perform.html Apple used multiprocessor benchmarks to skew the performance advantage that its Intel-based machines enjoy compared to single-core PowerPC G4 and G5. oops. The devil is in the details. The cinebench benchmark, which shows a 3x improvement, is an application-level benchmark that's pretty useful for predicting how well it performs real-life in CPU intensive tasks. both within and across architectures. People who whinge about *only* 3x faster should be shot... -- Bruce Johnson Go ahead and shoot me then Bruce 'cause 3x is NOT enough for me to throw everything away and buy a whole new computer. Z -- 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: Any experience with USB to SCSI adaptors in OSX?
On Jan 10, 2006, at 7:01 AM, Luis Sequeira wrote: On Jan 10, 2006, at 11:47 AM, G-Books wrote: Andrew, I use the XpressSCSI adapter from Microtech. The adapter makes the SCSI devices plugged into it, (daisy chained up to 7) look like USB devices in OSX. I run Panther and there has never been a problem. The devices I use on it: SyQuest removable drive (remember those?), SCSI CD-burner (even works in iTunes), Jaz drive and an Epson SCSI printer. I recently replaced the printer 'cause it finally died but it had nothing to do with the adapter. The reason the Belkin adapter needs drivers in the first place is due to the fact that it doesn't do what the Microtech adapter does, which is simply fool OSX making it think it's all USB devices. In fact, under System Profiler, SCSI still says no devices found, and yet under USB all the devices come up, with the adapter showing up as a USB hub. THE MOST IMPORTANT thing to remember when using these adapters is to have an ACTIVE terminator on the last chained device, NOT a passive terminator. That simple mistake can cause the devices to simply not work, or worse, damage everything. Hope this info helps in your SCSI quest. Zoltan I have one of those but I could never find a driver for it in Mac OS X... where can one get such a thing? The Microtech site just says this is product is discontinued and points to one that says is not mac compatible... Luis Sequeira Hmmm, Interesting. Have you plugged it in to see if it will work? If you've got an active terminator on the end chain device, and all the devices are turned on, then the adapter should just work. No need for new drivers. The USB drivers the adapter uses are already installed in OS X. Z -- 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: Any experience with USB to SCSI adaptors in OSX?
On Jan 8, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Andrew in Ann Arbor wrote: Hello All I'm shifting from a Lombard to a Pismo and want to be able to connect to SCSI devices, specifically older powerbooks (520, 1400, Wallstreet) using the SCSI dock connector. To do this I've recently got a Belkin F5U015-TPW USB to SCSI adaptor but have had no luck finding drivers for Panther. According to Belkin's web site this device is OS 8 and OS9 only. http://www.belkin.com/support/download.asp?download=F5U015- TPWlang=1mode= Does anyone know where I might look for OSX drivers? Or can anyone recommend a different adaptor that works in OSX? Thanks Andrew in Ann Arbor technology is the answer, what was the question? Andrew, I use the XpressSCSI adapter from Microtech. The adapter makes the SCSI devices plugged into it, (daisy chained up to 7) look like USB devices in OSX. I run Panther and there has never been a problem. The devices I use on it: SyQuest removable drive (remember those?), SCSI CD-burner (even works in iTunes), Jaz drive and an Epson SCSI printer. I recently replaced the printer 'cause it finally died but it had nothing to do with the adapter. The reason the Belkin adapter needs drivers in the first place is due to the fact that it doesn't do what the Microtech adapter does, which is simply fool OSX making it think it's all USB devices. In fact, under System Profiler, SCSI still says no devices found, and yet under USB all the devices come up, with the adapter showing up as a USB hub. THE MOST IMPORTANT thing to remember when using these adapters is to have an ACTIVE terminator on the last chained device, NOT a passive terminator. That simple mistake can cause the devices to simply not work, or worse, damage everything. Hope this info helps in your SCSI quest. Zoltan -- 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: video format for ipod video
On Dec 30, 2005, at 2:51 PM, Kathryn Odell wrote: I just got an ipod video--lucky me! And I am wanting to take an imovie I made and put it on the ipod. Does anyone know what format I need to use. Can I do it from within imovie or Final Cut Pro? If not, how might I do this? Kate Kate, iMovie has a save for iPod option under the export advanced options window. That'll make it iPod ready. Zoltan -- 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 Updates/Airport connection
On Dec 18, 2005, at 12:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a Security Update on my Pismo, OS X 10.3.9, and I am having trouble accessing the internet. I now have to select (instead of it being automatically recognized) my home Airport network everytime I open up the lid of my PB. When I try to use a browser, I get the message that it can't find the server of the homepage. Do I have to go into preferences, or somewhere to reset something? Thanks, Les Les, This is becoming a large scale problem with everyone Mac user I know. When I run into the problem, for me the quick fix is to disconnect all power to the ABS. With the power disconnected, shutdown your Mac. Then after 20 minutes; (the time required for the ABS to hard reset), plug the ABS back in. Then turn on the Mac. You may have to specify A Specific Network in the Network settings the first time around, but it should start working again. I know, it's a pain. Hope this helps. . . Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: USB2 for Pismo - use a PCI Card?
Hello List, Is there a PCI Card out there for a USB2 port that works with a Pismo? Are there any other options for adding USB2 to a Pismo? Thanks, Barry Barry, I just use a standard PCMCIA card adapter which I acquired on eBay for under $20.00. It works great with my iPod 30 gig video. (I'm assuming that's what you want it for). I'm running 10.3.9 on my Pismo and 1 gig RAM. Zoltan The Computer Doctor -- 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 ---
Why do I have to reset Airport for every security update?!
Hello All, I've noticed that after the past year or so, EVERY freakin' security update from Apple makes me have to literally unplug my ABS just to get my network working again. Anyone else have to go through this? Pismo 500/1gig, 10.3.9 Zoltan -- 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: Transfer files via IrDA. . .
On Nov 21, 2005, at 3:41 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 21/11/05 18:11, Zoltan Batiz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I've been researching the files via OS X Help and online via Apple's website and I can't figure out how to transfer files to and from my cell phone wirelessly via IrDA using my IrDA enabled Pismo. I've got a cell phone that is Cingular and has IrDA. This cell phone only has this option for wireless file transfer but not Bluetooth. Anyone know how to do this? This is becoming a complicated and daunting task just to send a file from or to my cell phone. The cell phone is a Siemens SL56. I also have the S56 which has bluetooth and that was simple. I'm wondering if I can transfer files from phone to phone via IrDA but that's something I'll figure out on my own, as it has nothing to do with the Pismo. Anyone have any input or thoughts on this I'd appreciate it. Thanks! Zoltan I don't think that IrDA has ever been supported under OS X... -Laurent. -- Actually, it's supported. . . check System Preferences and click on Network and under Network Port Config you'll see the IrDA Modem Port option if you are using a PowerBook that has an IrDA port. Z -- 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 ---
Transfer files via IrDA. . .
Hello all, I've been researching the files via OS X Help and online via Apple's website and I can't figure out how to transfer files to and from my cell phone wirelessly via IrDA using my IrDA enabled Pismo. I've got a cell phone that is Cingular and has IrDA. This cell phone only has this option for wireless file transfer but not Bluetooth. Anyone know how to do this? This is becoming a complicated and daunting task just to send a file from or to my cell phone. The cell phone is a Siemens SL56. I also have the S56 which has bluetooth and that was simple. I'm wondering if I can transfer files from phone to phone via IrDA but that's something I'll figure out on my own, as it has nothing to do with the Pismo. Anyone have any input or thoughts on this I'd appreciate it. Thanks! Zoltan -- 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: processor upgrades for Pismo?
On Nov 12, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Andrew in Ann Arbor wrote: Hello All As you may have heard I'm drifting towards replacing my Lombard with a Pismo. There's a cheap ($150) Pismo on the swap list without a processor. For that price you don't get processor, ram, hd, and optical drive but RAM isn't as peculiar as for the Lombard, I want a new hard drive anyway and I've got plenty of expansion bay drives with my Lombard. I wasn't thinking of a project but for that price maybe I should be looking at a processor upgrade. Any thoughts? I don't do much CPU intensive stuff so I'm not sure I want something that runs hotter (I hate the fan noise) and shortens the battery life. I might be better off with a stock 500 MHz CPU. Andrew in Ann Arbor technology is the answer, what was the question? Andrew, Probably the best thing for you to do is look on eBay for a stock G3 500 processor for the Pismo. I've seen several going on there for under $150.00. If you figure that into the overall cost of the $150 for the actual Pismo, then it's not too bad overall. BUT, before you consider buying a Pismo, consider this: The most important thing that either raises or lowers the value of a Pismo is ONE thing: RAM. I've seen Pismo's with a gig of RAM and just the 400 G3 going on eBay for over $500.00 on eBay. . . WITH bidders! But then, I've seen the exact same Pismo with only 128 meg RAM only selling for $190.00. I'd shop more if I were you. . . hope this helps, Zoltan The Computer Doctor -- 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: RAM swap from Lombard to Pismo
On Oct 30, 2005, at 10:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm contemplating trading up from a Lombard to a Pismo and would like to know if I could swap the RAM from my Lombard into a Pismo. Lombard to Pismo is OK as long as the SODIMM RAM is PC100 or better. Pismo to Lombard is often not OK as the same problems with the RAM controller in the Wallstreets are present in the Lombard. Wallstreet and Lombard are VERY selective about which 256 MB sticks they will accept, and most will only be read as half capacity (i.e., 128 MB). Especially true of the later, faster low profile 256 MB SODIMMs. Pismo will accept just about any generic SODIMM, even 512 MB sticks, up to a max of 1 GB. Yea have a gig of RAM in my Pismo for over two years now. . . one is PC 100/512 and the other is PC 133/512. . .no problems at all. Z -- 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
On Oct 28, 2005, at 6:22 AM, Michael Cangelosi wrote: You can boot via usb? What key combo do you do to achieve that??? mjc Hmmm. . .no key combo here. I think the success I had was plugging in my flash drive into a powered USB hub, which was plugged in and powered up BEFORE I turned on the Pismo. Also, be advised that booting from USB is a Mac OS X feature. With OS 9, you simply cannot do this. I booted my Pismo under OS 9 through USB but remember that OS X is also installed on my Pismo drive. When I did this, I simply switched the startup disk in System Preferences under Panther. Once there, I selected my flash drive as the startup disk. Upon a cold boot all you have to do is make sure everything is plugged in, then hold down option which will give you the blue screen that lets you select the startup disk. Any hard disk, removable drive, flash or otherwise that has a system folder installed on it will work. For those that want to see the differences with USB drivers becoming active sooner as compared to OS 9 do this simple experiment: Plug in a USB Zip drive; in my case I have an Iomega that's USB powered. Boot up OS X Panther or Tiger. Listen to the Zip drive, and you'll notice it comes alive way before the login screen appears. Now, boot up OS 9, and you'll notice the Zip drive doesn't have any life at all until the OS is almost finished booting altogether. Have fun! Zoltan The Computer Doctor -- 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
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 This is simply not true. I have a 256 MB flash drive, and I installed OS 9 on it, which booted my Pismo via USB without a hitch. Whoever told you that is probably in the interest of wanting you to upgrade to a new computer altogether. Zoltan -- 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: spilled water
On Oct 12, 2005, at 3:07 PM, John Slavin wrote: Hello all: My niece called me today. Her daughter, a freshman in college spilled a soda on her keyboard. The tech support people said, of course, that it was not covered by applecare and will cost several hundred dollars to replace the motherboard, which they say was fried. I told her to check her homeowners insurance, but I don't think she has any other option. Am I missing anything? John Slavin The trick to fixing this problem is keeping power of any kind away from the computer for at least a week while the wet areas dry. If you feel comfortable or know someone who can open it up to help dry it out, do so. The computer isn't destroyed. The damage could only be the keyboard. I've spilled Sprite on my Pismo several times over the years, and yet here I am, typing this email on it right now. You need to make sure the soda is removed from any internal components. I've used water to do this, with the idea that all power must be kept away from the parts for at least a week. Remember that with soda in general, the syrup elements in it can be more dangerous to the internal components than any other liquid. Once everything is dried out, put it all back together and hope for the best. For what it's worth, I used this method recently to recover my friend's cell phone, which had a glass of milk spilled on it. Hope this helps, Zoltan The Computer Doctor -- 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 express
On Oct 2, 2005, at 8:15 PM, Clark Martin wrote: At 9:24 PM -0400 10/2/05, Dennis Goglin wrote: Ok...I've downloaded macstumbler. Thank you. From what I see I'm the only one on channel one. The other activity is pretty much on channels 6 and 9. Curious though...the signal strength is only in the medium range. Even when I move over and sit right on top of the airport express it barely reaches the lowest extreme of what is considered a strong signal. Strong being 70 and above. I'll keep an eye on this for a while and try to see what happens when my network disappears all together. I'm starting to suspect there's something wrong with my airport express. It's been like this since I got it, but with no way to be sure of it's performance (that I know of) I've always assumed it was something else. I'll also try moving it to another power outlet. My condo has been wireless via Airport for over two years now. I've had a similar problem that you are experiencing. What isn't discussed as much as it should be, books, of all things, can diminish your signal. My ABS (snow) was hooked up in the livingroom originally, and my PowerBook spent most of it's time in my at-home office. The problem I had was that the signal went through a wall that has a ceiling to floor bookshelf filled to the gills with books. While this isn't a frequency issue, for some reason, it will decrease the signal strength. I was only reading an average of three bars via my Airport card. I ended up moving my ABS into my bedroom so the signal goes through a wall with very few obstacles. Since then, according to MacStumbler, my signal strength is an average of 70 to 101. Also, you want to make sure that there isn't any metal objects near your base station. Metal is another less talked about interference problem. As far as 2.4 gig home phones go, my phone base is on the opposite side of the condo from the base station. . . a simple fix, with the kitchen not even being in line with the wireless signal. The best channels, in my experience, are 8 and 11. Good luck! Zoltan the Tech Man -- 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 ---
USB 2.0 on an iBook G3 600?
Hello all, My roommate and I are going to be getting 4 Gig iPod Nano's soon. I have a Pismo, so I'll be getting a PC card adapter that will give my Pismo USB 2.0. As the new Nano doesn't have Firewire, using 1.1 with the 4 gig model would be so slow it might be unpractical. But that's a simple solution for the Pismo. What can my roommate do with his iBook? It's got two USB 1.1 ports and one firewire port. There's no PC card slot as is the standard with iBooks. Is there an adapter that can give the iBook (son of Pismo) a USB 2.0 port? I've been looking, but have found nothing. Any ideas would be helpful. And for those in the know. . . just how slow would it be to transfer 4 gig worth of music using USB 1.1? A day? A week? Thanks for any input. . . Zoltan -- 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 and our Macs
{snip}
By default NOTHING is open, it has an effective firewall (moreso in
10.4, where you can pretty much make your mac invisible on the net.
(in Sharing Firewall Advanced check Block UDP traffic and Stealth
Mode. This may cause some problems in corporate environments so ask
your friendly (or rude and arrogant as the case may be) IT person
about this).
Bruce,
Isn't is pointless to turn on Firewall protection if using an Airport
network? I mean, my ABS (snow) has a built-in hardware firewall. Or
is it better to also have OS X's firewall turned on as well? (Panther
here).
Zoltan
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Re: Yeah! Success! was Re: Help! iCal died!
On Sep 7, 2005, at 7:16 AM, Thomas Ethen wrote: I don't see having a need for floppy disks as being anti Mac, just being practical using the least expensive way of transporting classroom projects from school to home for my students. I have always used Mac's and would never think of going to a PC, but still find the floppy to be far more practical than CD's or DVD's for classroom use. Since only 60% of my students have internet access at home, although 80% have computers, the internet is not a viable alternative either. Tom Tom, There's also cheap key chain flash drives to consider. If 80% of your students have computers, and assuming these computers aren't older than SCSI, they most likely all have USB. You can now get 128 MEG flash drives on eBay for under 20 bucks a pop. Something to think about. . . Zoltan -- 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: Yeah! Success! was Re: Help! iCal died!
On Sep 7, 2005, at 7:19 AM, Michael Cangelosi wrote: Yeah I will never give up my lombard as it's SCSI interface let's me take it to the lab and connect with lab equipment that has no USB (and never will) it's really hard to beat SCSI in a enterprise setup. Let's face it, if any of us have been involved in computers in general for over 7 years, then we have encountered SCSI. I never really had a problem with SCSI, other than the equipment was always expensive. I've invested over $3,000.00 in SCSI equipment over the years. I now use a Pismo as my main computer, which doesn't have SCSI. I still use my SCSI scanner, printer, Jaz drive, Syquest drive and my SCSI external HDD. How do I do it? Simple. . . with SCSI to USB adapter. :) Zoltan -- 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: Yeah! Success! was Re: Help! iCal died!
On Sep 7, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Tom Ethen wrote: Lets see---$20 x 145 students = $2,900 compared to 200 floppies for $20. You bet, I will jump right on that one. Tom Actually, under $20 was to be vague and wasn't the point. The actual price these days on eBay is cheaper than floppies. I just checked and saw a lot of 40 128 Meg flash drives going for $3.00. So, check things out before you make a snide comment. Also, I was unaware that America's education system has gotten so out of hand that one teacher has to deal with 145 students. I remember a time when the maximum was only about 32. Z -- 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: Yeah! Success! was Re: Help! iCal died!
On Sep 7, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Tom Ethen wrote: Would it be heaven if I only had one class, but alas, I have six per day and 145 total is on the light end. I can only imagine the quality of 40 128 meg flash drives for $3.00 and some of my students don't have USB on their computers. Tom On 9/7/05 1:58 PM, Zoltan Batiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom, The quality is the same as all of them. Flash drives don't really have a profitable market anymore on the 'net. They are far too common. They will be cheaper than floppies by far within the next six months or so. Heck, I've got a 256 Meg flash drive built into my watch. That's too bad about all those students. I wonder if you get enough sleep. Zoltan -- 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: Yeah! Success! was Re: Help! iCal died!
On Sep 6, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Anne Judge wrote: Thanks, guys, for the help. (BTW, I had deleted my old calendar files from the calendar folder already, via a search for ics, backing them up to a zip archive before deleting.) I never DID figure out where the information garbage that kept filling the calendar kept coming back from - but I tried resetting my local Mac from .Mac (.Mac pref pane, advanced, only calendar) and after complaining 3x that there was some inconsistency on .Mac, the fourth try seems to have worked. I wasn't sure at first - all the extra blank calendars still appeared, but at the bottom of the list were my calendars, and when I clicked on one of the blank calendars (to try to delete it), iCal DIDN'T CRASH! Yippee!! I have NO IDEA what ever went wrong, or why it decided to fix itself, but can only hope it doesn't happen again. I think I will back up very soon now. (Besides, an elderly lady whose iMac I maintain - an 350 iMac that chugs along admirably - had her HD die a noisy death today when I stopped by to see about the clunking noises she reported! Of course I could think of nothing it could be *except* the HD, and planned to back it up first thing, then run diagnostics. But upon sensing my arrival, apparently, the HD committed final suicide. I feel guilty not getting down there when she first reported the clunking 2 weeks ago, and there was the chance of saving the data, but I just didn't have the time. No backups!! Thank goodness she didn't really have any important files; she's the kind of user who really just reads then deletes email.) Anne Anne, I too have many friends and clients that I help with their Macs and PC's and all of my friends and clients have been taught and encouraged by me to use backup methods like Zip and Jaz drives etc. Even for those who simply read and delete it helps with sanity both on my part and theirs. Zoltan -- 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 ---
MicroTech SCSI to USB adapter SyQuest Drive. . .
Hello All, Has anyone tried the MicroTech SCSI to USB adapter? I recently picked one up on eBay and pulled out my old SyQuest drive along with three carts, blew off the dust, plugged everything in and believe it or not, it worked! I didn't need the CD-ROM that came with the adapter which made since due to OS X Panther having all USB related installed. BUT. . .there is a problem. For some reason, when I pop in a SyQuest cart, I get THREE (3) icons represented on the desktop for the one cart! Anyone know why this is happening? I checked Apple System Profiler, and it sates only one under the SyQuest drive. But, looking in Disk Utility, it reads three. Go figure. I've just been trashing the ghosts and using one and it seems to be fine, but if anyone in here uses or knows anyone who has made the attempt to use the SCSI to USB adapter with a Syquest removable cart drive, let me know. Thanks! Zoltan -- 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: Auto Connect to my Airport. . .
On Aug 28, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Daniel Colwell wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Zoltan Batiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 19, 2005, at 10:25 PM, Daniel Colwell wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 Zoltan Batiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, For some reason, after I changed ISP's, my Pismo refuses to auto-connect to my Airport Network. I had to change my Airport network settings from automatic to a specific network under the by default join dialog. Normally, this wouldn't be a big deal, but since it's not set to automatic, on those rare occasions when I'm actually out and about with my Pismo, I have to remember to set it back to automatic just to join a hot spot. Anyone know why this is? Should I delete my network altogether and just create a new one? Here's the specs: Pismo 500/1gigRAM/Airport card w/ Airport Base Station (snow). All software is up to date, with exception of Tiger. I'm currently using Panther 10.3.9. Thanks for any input on this matter, Zoltan Zoltan, This has just happened to me in the last week. Now when I come home and open up my Pismo I have to click on the airport icon in the menu and select my network. Used to do that automatically. Also it no longer asks if I want to connect to any open network it finds elsewhere. I have a Pismo 400/768/40G/Airport card with a Belkin wireless router. Using 10.3.9. Don't know if it is related or not but it takes a lot longer lately to load any Safari pages. I checked my DSL speed on one of those free sites and it has not changed. Just got a new (to me) iMac G3 400Mhz/640/10G/Airport and it seems to be much more snappier. Any programs that would cause this? Airport card gone bad? Trying to think of the changes I have made... Anybody else out there notice this? Thanks, Dan- Dan, Now see this is getting interesting. I hope we didn't stumble on some kind of bug in Panther. I'm wondering if this is just a Panther thing, or if it is something that would go away with Tiger. Keep me posted if you discover a fix. I'll do the same. Zoltan The Computer Doctor Zoltan, In the last couple of days this has come back on for me. The only change I am sure of is that I quit Macaroni (I had recently downloaded this and am running on its trial mode). Shortly after this I started connecting automatically again. I then started Macaroni up again but this time no change, auto-connect is still working. So I don't know if this had any bearing on the problem or that the timing was just coincidental. Any luck on your end? I'm glad to have auto-connect back but still curious as to what the problem was. Let me know how you are doing. Dan- Dan, WELL NOW. . . this is strange. It's working for me as well! What did I do? Absolutely nothing other than change it back to automatic after reading your last post to see if mine would work! I wonder if this was a timed thing in Airport. . . at this point I guess anything's possible. I'll keep you and the list posted in case it stops working again. THANKS! :) Zoltan -- 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: Auto Connect to my Airport. . .
On Aug 19, 2005, at 10:25 PM, Daniel Colwell wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 Zoltan Batiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, For some reason, after I changed ISP's, my Pismo refuses to auto-connect to my Airport Network. I had to change my Airport network settings from automatic to a specific network under the by default join dialog. Normally, this wouldn't be a big deal, but since it's not set to automatic, on those rare occasions when I'm actually out and about with my Pismo, I have to remember to set it back to automatic just to join a hot spot. Anyone know why this is? Should I delete my network altogether and just create a new one? Here's the specs: Pismo 500/1gigRAM/Airport card w/ Airport Base Station (snow). All software is up to date, with exception of Tiger. I'm currently using Panther 10.3.9. Thanks for any input on this matter, Zoltan Zoltan, This has just happened to me in the last week. Now when I come home and open up my Pismo I have to click on the airport icon in the menu and select my network. Used to do that automatically. Also it no longer asks if I want to connect to any open network it finds elsewhere. I have a Pismo 400/768/40G/Airport card with a Belkin wireless router. Using 10.3.9. Don't know if it is related or not but it takes a lot longer lately to load any Safari pages. I checked my DSL speed on one of those free sites and it has not changed. Just got a new (to me) iMac G3 400Mhz/640/10G/Airport and it seems to be much more snappier. Any programs that would cause this? Airport card gone bad? Trying to think of the changes I have made... Anybody else out there notice this? Thanks, Dan- Dan, Now see this is getting interesting. I hope we didn't stumble on some kind of bug in Panther. I'm wondering if this is just a Panther thing, or if it is something that would go away with Tiger. Keep me posted if you discover a fix. I'll do the same. Zoltan The Computer Doctor -- 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: Another free web site finder
My favorite website for finding that free wi-fi hotspot is: http://www.wififreespot.com It's been able to find some free hot spots other sites didn't list. . . Zoltan -- 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 ---
Auto Connect to my Airport. . .
Hello all, For some reason, after I changed ISP's, my Pismo refuses to auto-connect to my Airport Network. I had to change my Airport network settings from automatic to a specific network under the by default join dialog. Normally, this wouldn't be a big deal, but since it's not set to automatic, on those rare occasions when I'm actually out and about with my Pismo, I have to remember to set it back to automatic just to join a hot spot. Anyone know why this is? Should I delete my network altogether and just create a new one? Here's the specs: Pismo 500/1gigRAM/Airport card w/ Airport Base Station (snow). All software is up to date, with exception of Tiger. I'm currently using Panther 10.3.9. Thanks for any input on this matter, Zoltan -- 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: Getting Ripped off by Mac Mall
On Aug 12, 2005, at 3:31 PM, Jim Dynes wrote: Several months ago I bought an Ipod (20) gig. I was promised several free items through mail in rebate. One of these things was a carrying case. When I received everything I didn't get a carrying case. I just got a rubber sleeve. The promotion said carrying case the invoice I got said rummer sleeve. I called complained they said that was all I was going to get and they weren't going to make good on their promotion. Several months went by I never received my rebate that I was promised. I called again they said that since I complained they wern't going to honor my rebate. I dealt with Rithy Vu. I strongly advise you to take your business elsewhere. A company that practices false advertising isn't worth the trouble not to mention getting ripped off. -- Jim Dynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Albuquerque, New Mexico Jim, You are not the only one. MacMall is not a company anyone should deal with. Just take a look at http://www.fuckmacmall.com and see what one of thousands of customers had done after getting ripped off by the biggest crooks in the business! Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: fn key to switch displays?
On Jul 20, 2005, at 10:00 PM, Mike wrote: I don't have a good working LCD and I screwed up and switched the display to the LCD and now the external monitor cuts out after loading the OS. Anyway to reset this? Is there an fn key I can't see on the kb? Can I press a magical set of keys? Thanks in advance! Mike K Mike, Are you using a Pismo? If so, you can simply plug in a USB mouse and USB keyboard, and with the external monitor connected, boot the Pismo using the USB devices with it closed. Hope this helps, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: fn key to switch displays?
On Jul 21, 2005, at 7:44 AM, Mike wrote: Mike, Are you using a Pismo? If so, you can simply plug in a USB mouse and USB keyboard, and with the external monitor connected, boot the Pismo using the USB devices with it closed. Hope this helps, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER No, it's a Wallstreet 1. Thanks Mike K Well Mike, you can always get a new LCD top half on eBay for pennies on the dollar. I recently saw one for Wallstreet up for auction that sold for $86.00. Just another idea. Also, have you checked the inverter? The inverter is a slim board that fits below your LCD and usually sell on eBay for around $12.00 to $35.00. Some people have said that the inverter was all that was wrong with the LCD. Z -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: real estate situation
On Jul 6, 2005, at 3:55 AM, Tim Collier wrote: Here's my 2 cents. Virtual PC runs very well but slowly on every Mac I've ever put it on including my G5 iMac. At least on the G5, it runs half way fast but on this 1.2 gig iBook, it's tedious at best. When VPC (I have the latest version--7) is running, for all intents and purposes you are using a PCbut I really think that you're going to be sort of crippled trying to use it. As much as I am a total MacAddict and even hate to say the following, I think it must be said for you to be competitive. Get a cheap PC laptop for use at work (there, I typed it and didn't explode). You can still exchange information with it and your Mac. Good Luck in your new career. Tim On Jul 5, 2005, at 6:00 PM, Claire Hart wrote: Claire, I'm afraid I have to agree with Tim when it comes to VPC. In most cases, VPC is too slow. My cousin's wife went up against the same thing. . .she recently graduated from the Bar Association, but wanted to practice law on her Mac. She bugged the crap outta' me since I'm the known mac expert in the family to see if she could do this. After battling the lapse of speed issues and constant badgering from software developers that hardley know Mac even exists, she finally took my advice to get a cheap laptop (eBay for $350.00) and the necessary AV software (a MUST on any PC these days), she can rule in court effectively. Being a Mac User as heart, she still uses her Mac for everything else though, and recently informed me that several software developers are finally working on specific attorney standard programs that are OS X based. I think it's safe to assume that this will happen to the real estate market as well very soon. . .even before the Intel based Macs are introduced. Slowly but surly many developers are FINALLY getting the clue that the Mac is overall a virus free environment. Another friend of mine is waiting for the same thing, he's a CPA. . .a field were viruses could put you behind bars if not stopped. Hope my two cents count. . .and remember, you're not the only one in this situation! :) Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: Utilitunes
Utilitunes is ok. I've found more useful apps. as widgets in both Konfabulator (10.3) or Dashboard (10.4). What I don't like about Utilitunes is the fact that the source for searches can't be changed at all. So, ur stuck with a rather limited source. I listen to music like Uman, Thievery Corporation and more. All of which are mostly compilations, which usually don't come up on the search results. Hope my two bits help. Zoltan On Jun 24, 2005, at 6:38 PM, Claire Hart wrote: I have quite a few songs in my iTunes collection. Most are from my CD collection that I've been slowing adding to iTunes, as well as new purchases. I have not actively tried to get artwork for my albums added to iTunes, though. I'm wondering if it is possible to somehow have iTunes search the internet for the artwork to the albums that I already have in iTunes. Does anyone know how to do this? I found something at http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ipod_itunes/utilitunes.html but I've never heard of Utilitunes before. Does anyone on this list have or use Utilitunes? For those who have it, what functionality, practically speaking, does it add to iTunes? Thanks, Claire -- 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 ---
Is Apple really moving to x86 architechture?!
Hello All, I just had to add one more thought on this subject, and wanted to see if anyone agrees. After reading all the input from this invaluable list group, and listening to the radio (Leo Laporte has said some VERY interesting things when it comes to Apple moving to Intel on AM 640), and reading all the relevant articles in mags I have come to a very logical and realistic conclusion: The proverbial gap between PC's and Mac's will not change. In fact, I honestly think that NOTHING will change at all. Call me an optimist, but the only thing that's going to happen besides faster Macs overall, is that one day a PC user will be going over to his/her old friends house who happens to be a Mac user and that Mac user will tell his/her PC user, hey did you know that my Mac has an Intel designed processor? The astonished PC user will just be that. . .astonished. Then they'll go about their business. I expect nothing more, nothing less. Macs will still be just above PC's, PC's will still dominate the business world, and Mac's will still dominate the design world. Anyone agree? Or is everyone leaning on Laporte's side saying that this move is a stake in Apple's heart Zoltan -- 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: Is Apple really moving to x86 architechture?!
OK FINE. You have all made excellent arguments. I just hope that Intel's technology doesn't screw anything up. I also hope the future Mac's are stuck with that stupid sticker, INTEL INSIDE. Yikes! (I know this won't happen, at least not while Jobs is alive, but it's funny anyway) Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 ---
I think my Pismo needs some fine tuning. . .
Hello all, My Pismo has been acting a little sketchy lately. That's the best way to describe it. Basically, all of the animations in OS X that are normally smooth and sleek, are now jumpy and quick. Not sure what's up here. Maybe I'm being too picky? Maybe the hard drive is snagging? I'm not too sure yet. Example: In Safari, when you select Print, the window kinda rolls down. . .now it just pops down instantly. . .no roll anymore. Any ideas? I'm running 10.3.9 with a gig of RAM and a G3/500. Thanks for any input, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: Is Apple really moving to x86 architechture?!
OOPS!! I DID MEAN NOT! Wow, now does that sound educated?! Of all the ironic typos to happen, it seems I forgot to type one little word that ended changing the point. . .not. Well Scott, at least you got it. :) Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER Zoltan, I hope you meant that you hope future Macs are NOT stuck with that (I will change the adjective to) irritating intel inside sticker. I certainly prefer not to have any ads on my computers. I especially prefer to have my Macs not resembling race cars. Best regards, Scott OK FINE. You have all made excellent arguments. I just hope that Intel's technology doesn't screw anything up. I also hope the future Mac's are stuck with that stupid sticker, INTEL INSIDE. Yikes! (I know this won't happen, at least not while Jobs is alive, but it's funny anyway) Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: Is Apple really moving to x86 architechture?!
Ok, I've watched the keynote address, read all the articles. I still think Jobs is full of it. I can't believe that he's decided to switch to Intel. This has me really nervous. Intel processors, despite the crappy OS that Microsnot tries to make for it, are very unstable in the virus sense. I am concerned that when Intel based Macs start rolling out in '06 they are gonna be sitting ducks just waiting for the Intel-versed hacker to start shooting. I AM NOT GOING TO LISTEN TO ANY OF YOU WHO ARE EXCITED BY THIS. THIS IS THE MOST DISTURBING THING I'VE HEARD SINCE THE FALL OF AMIGA. I feel like I'm being let down in the computer industry once again. This move will eventually make all PowerPC Macs obsolete, just like the 68000 Mac's. . .so much for worrying about the G3's life; heck now the G5 is going to be phased out. I am so tired of everyone trying to get somewhere in such a rush. WHO CARES IF POWERPC IS SLOWER THAN CRAPTEL!! I don't! And millions of other Mac users don't! Most PeeCee users are too stupid for the Mac community ANYWAY. I need to stop now. . .I'm so pissed I can barely type. This is what happens when I go up to Arrowhead for a few months on vacation. . .and come back to this. I have one phrase for Jobs: Greedy Bastard. Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: Is Apple really moving to x86 architechture?!
Thanks for all the input folks. I wanted to apologize for my rather intense input on this subject. Did I mention subject? For some reason, someone used this thread for another subject regarding schools and their policies. PLEASE don't forget to change the subject line as well. Anyway, what I meant about the viruses is that I do in fact know that this move to Intel is good for Apple. But, I'm afraid it might be too good. I'm one of those unusual Mac users that LIKES being a part of a small community. I LIKE the fact that Apple has a small market share. I enjoy watching PeeCee users getting jealous over Apple's technology, only to get it eventually when PC manufacturers try to copy it. Everyone keeps saying this is good for Apple, etc. Yea, sure it's good. . .and the bigger the market share, the more we are gonna attract hackers. I know the power of Mac OS X (trying not to sound like Darth Vader); it's almost impossible to create an effective system debilitating virus TO DATE. But, the bigger the crowd, the more people are going to notice. I hope everyone can see my point. I need to formerly apologize to those who use PC's and are members of this list. I work with all types of computers in my business. I customize wireless networks, create systems for people; both PC and Mac. I just had a very bad experience with someone who drove me crazy with his PC. Let's just say he's the one who's stupid. . .and that some people should not have a computer AT ALL. I strive to be patient, but for some reason I vented in here. . .my sacred ground with folks who not only know as much as I do about Linux, Be OS, Amiga OS, Mac OS, Windows and Unix, but even more than ME. :) Also, the useful info regarding the Alpha chip is actually exciting. Is this true? Are the former employees from DEC really working for Intel?! I'm throughly aware of the Alpha chip and it had a lot of potential. I could only imagine what those folks, with Intel's budget, could create for Apple. Everyone's going to want a Mac! (biting nails) I just hope I'm wrong and the market share won't go any higher than 30% in the next 10 years. Oh for those who own Apple stock and are cringing at what I just typed. . .I have stock as well. :) Keepin' it small. . .(like a secret club, folks!) Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 ---
Is Apple really moving to x86 architechture?!
Hello all, I have heard this now from more than one source. I was under the impression that the rumor that Apple was going to eventually leave the PowerPC architecture altogether was just a rumor. Please tell me this isn't true. While this may not bother some Mac users, HALF of the reason I even use a Mac is due to the superior PowerPC architecture. Thanks for any input, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: Undeliverable mail: puzzing redirects
I ran into this exact problem. What I found out was that I had incompatable fonts installed in my system. I had to boot Font Book and remove all third party fonts. These fonts not only bounced my emails, but also made Safari do some crazy things. If you haven't installed/downloaded any fonts at all, then it's something else. Hope this helps, Zoltan On Jun 6, 2005, at 11:22 PM, William Webster wrote: Listen, I wrote these goddam emails on my own iBook. What the hell is this all about? skinny butt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: June 6, 2005 11:07:41 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undeliverable mail: puzzing redirects Failed to deliver to 'imac-list@mail.maclaunch.com' LIST module(list imac-list) reports: Your message cannot be posted. It is composed using the 'windows-1252' character set, and this list accepts ISO-8859-1 only Failed to deliver to 'G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com' LIST module(list G-Books) reports: Your message cannot be posted. It is composed using the 'windows-1252' character set, and this list accepts ISO-8859-1 only Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.maclaunch.com Original-Recipient: rfc822;imac-list@mail.maclaunch.com Final-Recipient: LIST;submit Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Original-Recipient: rfc822;G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com Final-Recipient: LIST;submit Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Received: from mail.rio.com ([66.178.167.33] verified) by mail.maclaunch.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 332970836; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 02:07:38 -0400 Received: from 66-178-165-172.dialup.bendor24hg9.rio.com ([66.178.165.172]) by mail.rio.com with esmtp id 1DfXGU-000BKH-DY; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 23:08:42 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v728) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: G-Books G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com, iMac List imac-list@mail.maclaunch.com From: William Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: puzzing redirects Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:55:10 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.728) -- 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 ---
Trying to convert a home movie into MPEG-1. . .
Hello, My DVD player, like most other new ones, will play VCD disks. These are simple CD-R's that have MPEG-1 format videos on them. I'm getting frustrated here, because iMovie3 will only export to MPEG-4 format. This may be off topic, but this list provides me with peeps who are in the know and might be able to provide a better solution to this problem. I need to export several home movies into MPEG-1 video. No, I don't want or need a DVD burner. . .as that's an entirely different cup of tea. Maybe third party software? Thanks for any input. . . Zoltan -- 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: LCD vs. CRT
Claire, I agree with Dan. CRT monitors still have many uses. Take me for example. My main computer is a PowerBook Pismo. I have the Apple 17 CRT Studio display hooked up to it for web design purposes. With both LCD and CRT technology at my fingertips, I'm able to compare colors for some websites. There is a huge difference, especially how pictures can look. With both, I'm able to get the best quality between the two. If you have gamers in the house, they are better off with modern CRT monitors for now. Dan's previous post on this thread best explains why. Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Doesn't anyone wait anymore?!
On May 8, 2005, at 7:50 AM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote: At 7:49 AM -0700 5/7/05, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello All, I wanted to thank everyone who joined in on this thread. I was speaking from the heart and it might not have needed to be so important, but I'm just tired of upgrades folks. Yea Tiger sounds cool this and cool that, but it just seems that once I FINALLY get comfortable with my damn computer, Apple is racing the clock to make it obsolete. These big OS upgrades make me nervous. It's only a matter of time before the ATI video card in my Pismo will no longer be supported. Tiger supports it. . .for now. In my opinion, Apple needs to SLOW DOWN. They should have just stuck with Panther for a while, and focused their developing efforts to bring back the Newton, and concentrate on a G5 PowerBook / iBook. When it comes to software, I say what most people say about hardware that works. . .if it ain't broke, why fix it?! Anyway, no need to respond to this, I just wanted to thank everyone for their input. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who prefers to wait it out when major OS upgrades roll out yet again. I just hope someone at Apple reads this and agrees. Maybe Tiger will be the new OS for the next 2 or even 3 years. Apple could stretch it out. . . after all, they have to go from 10.4.0 all the way up to 10.4.9! Thanks again! Sounds like you would be much happier using Windows. Afterall, Windows XP came out in what, 2003? and its successor, codenamed Longhorn isn't scheduled to ship until 2006, possibly 2007. Of course, everyone knows what the reason is for the delay: M$ has to decide what to steal from Tiger! -- Sincerely, Dennis B. Swaney Dennis you are sadly mistaken. Windoze has had SEVERAL updates since the original release of XP. Several service packs; as Microsnot calls them, and so many security updates it's not even funny. I only know this due to my profession, which requires me to know a bit of everything on most platforms. The software update process for Windoze on top of everything else is flawed, based on IE, which is a security nightmare. . .not polished like Apple's Software Update being a completely separate app. In the future, please carefully read posts and don't jump to conclusions. I am not, nor have I ever been, a PeeCee user. I have had Amigas and Macs since their advent in 1985. Sorry if I sound pissed, but the WORST insult in my circle is calling someone or even suggesting that someone is or could be a PeeCee user. Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Doesn't anyone wait anymore?!
Hello All, I wanted to thank everyone who joined in on this thread. I was speaking from the heart and it might not have needed to be so important, but I'm just tired of upgrades folks. Yea Tiger sounds cool this and cool that, but it just seems that once I FINALLY get comfortable with my damn computer, Apple is racing the clock to make it obsolete. These big OS upgrades make me nervous. It's only a matter of time before the ATI video card in my Pismo will no longer be supported. Tiger supports it. . .for now. In my opinion, Apple needs to SLOW DOWN. They should have just stuck with Panther for a while, and focused their developing efforts to bring back the Newton, and concentrate on a G5 PowerBook / iBook. When it comes to software, I say what most people say about hardware that works. . .if it ain't broke, why fix it?! Anyway, no need to respond to this, I just wanted to thank everyone for their input. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who prefers to wait it out when major OS upgrades roll out yet again. I just hope someone at Apple reads this and agrees. Maybe Tiger will be the new OS for the next 2 or even 3 years. Apple could stretch it out. . . after all, they have to go from 10.4.0 all the way up to 10.4.9! Thanks again! Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Doesn't anyone wait anymore?!
Hello all, I've been hearing a lot lately about Tiger this and Tiger that. . .doesn't anyone wait anymore? I mean, there's bound to be bugs in huge upgrades. . .history has taught me that. When I went from 9 to Puma (10.1) I ended up going back to 9 until Jaguar (10.2.) came out; and I didn't go to Jaguar until about 7 months after it was released. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that people these days just can't wait to run down to the Apple Store to pop in the latest and greatest only to find themselves slowed down by piles of BUGS. No thanks. . .I'm happy right now with 10.3.9. :) Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: How do you create a guest account?
Pacer, Thanks for the advice below, but it didn't work. I've given up calling it Guest and decided to name it Visitor, making the password guest. This worked fine. As far as limiting use, the only thing I'm concerned about others seeing is my home folder, which is inaccessible when logged into a different account. So for now, I've accomplished what I wanted to do; just with a different name. Thank you for taking the time to help, Zoltan P.S. I tried creating it without a password, and Mac OS X allowed this; but not without several warnings. To do this, simply leave the password fields empty. Expect the usual security warnings, but it should work. When it comes time to log in, simply click on the Visitor or Guest name at the login window and it'll automatically log in without a prompt for a password. On Apr 26, 2005, at 8:06 PM, Pacer wrote: Zoltan, I had the same issue you describe here and tried the solutions or queries suggested in this thread but to no avail. I then tried to create a Guest account. I made the name Guest (case-sensitive). I made the simple name Guest (case-sensitive). I then made the password guest (case-sensitive). This worked for me, it might work for you. Keep in mind that you need to supply a password or the system will supply one for you. I used the password as the password hint to simplify the guest sign-on. Also, you will still need to modify and restrict the permissions. I only set it up to use a few games (Chess, Marble Blast) plus FireFox, AppleWorks and TextEdit. Hope this helps. Let me know if it does. I only have one system right now to test on. Cheers, Pacer P.S. I quoted the whole letter because I address the whole letter. Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello all, The other day I was trying to set up a guest account for other users who would like to use the net for temporary purposes. When I clicked on new (the + symbol), and named it Guest a dialog box appeared saying there was already a guest account. ?? Am I missing something? Any info would be appreciated. I tried the Mac Help app. but as usual it did nothing for me. I'm running Panther version 10.3.9. Thanks in advance, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 ---
How do you create a guest account?
Hello all, The other day I was trying to set up a guest account for other users who would like to use the net for temporary purposes. When I clicked on new (the + symbol), and named it Guest a dialog box appeared saying there was already a guest account. ?? Am I missing something? Any info would be appreciated. I tried the Mac Help app. but as usual it did nothing for me. I'm running Panther version 10.3.9. Thanks in advance, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: Tiger Release
On Apr 13, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Aaron Willems wrote: If you look at the Upgrade chart from Apple, I don't see the Pismo. You might be out of luck. http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/requirements.html -- Aaron Willems If you actually look, you'll see the Pismo is right under the Powerbook list. It's referred to as the PowerBook G3 (FireWire). Even though the Pismo is supported, I've learned one thing about major upgrades. Let all the butterflies attracted to the light do it first so they can work out all the bugs. Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: free web hosts
On Apr 4, 2005, at 11:41 AM, CR wrote: I'm interested in suggestions for free web hosts. Right now I simply want to park images for posting on bulletin boards and E-bay. I signed up for Picgoo but changed my password and can never get back in. Plus, I'm immediately inundated with junk mail. IYO a problem indigenous to all free sites, or are some more responsible? Thank you. Cliff I just use my server space provided for free from my ISP. I have a complete website I created for my family with 100's of photos, as well as photos for eBay. The great thing about doing this is that you don't have to worry about ads. I use a simple but powerful FTP client, called Fetch. Check with your ISP and find out what they offer with your account. For example, DSL Extreme offers 25 megabytes of server space for each email account, giving 10 email accounts. Earthlink offers 8 email accounts with up to 10 megabytes of server space for each account. Charter has 10 email accounts with up to 10 megs per account, etc. Hope this helps, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 I monitor my network?
Hello all; especially Steve and Bruce, Thanks for all the info. I'm really surprised something SIMPLE hasn't been created yet to monitor the PC/Mac traffic on a private wired/wireless network. When I mentioned MacStumbler, I was referring to how it detects networks. I'd like a program laid out the same way as MacStumbler. . . except instead of detecting networks, is detects other computers logged onto your network. This can be done by simply popping up a DNS address or port ID that the computer is currently using, then if it's someone you know, you should be able to re-name that ID to whatever he/she calls their computer on a network. For example, my Pismo is called, Zoltans-Computer on a network. Wouldn't that be a nice and simple app.? I'm not interested in WHAT they are doing on my network, I just want to know WHO is on my network and when. The programs Steve and Bruce mentioned are very powerful in their own right, but are not what I'm looking for. These programs made me think about my previous Amiga days. . .which I don't need to think about anymore; programming in Assembler back in the late 80's, early 90's was what I primarily did on my Amiga, creating games for the Atari Lynx. YIKES! It was a nightmare to say the least. Programming and hacking are the two things that caused my nervous breakdown several years ago. I simply don't have the patience anymore; which is why I switched to Mac back in 1991. I fell in love with the idea that the easier an OS is to use, the more powerful it is. I still have many programming friends from the day and they haven't had a brain fart like me, and they are pretty interested in my idea for this basic yet powerful little tool to be able to simply see who's on and when. Now, this is for Bruce. . .using the GO/NETWORK command in finder is useful, but it will only show who's online when they are using a Mac and have file sharing turned on. If file sharing is turned off, then nothing shows up at all. I've noticed that a friend of mine showed up the other week using a Dell laptop, but he had Windows XP's version of file sharing turned on. . .something like network sharing or to that effect. Not sure if that was even supposed to happen, but it did. For what it's worth, I thank all for responding to my thread. . .who knows, some day I may have my own little app. that will do this. Of course, it will be freeware! :) Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER i.e., Master at set up, install, understanding interference and custom configs. . .but NOT hacking, programming. . .anymore. -- 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 I monitor my network?
On Mar 21, 2005, at 6:42 PM, Steve Fuller wrote: You might want to look at something like snort or Ethereal for monitoring your network for starters. Both will need to be compiled for OS X, and will require X windows to be installed to use their front ends. They are not easy to pick up on by any stretch of the imagination. Another idea would be to install something like nmap (another command line program) on your powerbook. You can use some of it's commands to locate all hosts on your network. For example: nmap -sP 192.168.0.1/24 will ping all 254 addresses on the 192.168.1 network (a common network configured internally for people that are using NAT internet gateways and the like). It will return a list of all of the active IP addresses that it finds. All three of the previously mentioned apps are open source. You will more than likely need to have the developer tools installed to make them work. A background in networking will help with deciphering the output of Ethereral and snort. It's important to note, that even though you may not have any applications open on your Mac that you will probably see some network activity on your network (even when you are not logged in). This could be background processes running on the machines on your network, or other miscellaneous network traffic. Activity lights that light up just when they see activity on a certain interface are not necessarily an indication of any heinous activity occurring on your network. (Although it never hurts to check). Very interesting, thank you. I had no idea that nobody has designed a simple program that can do this. I guess not enough people see the advantage of being able to boot an app. that will allow them to see other computers on their network just as easily as some programs detect other wi-fi networks. . .like MacStumbler. I'm going to be spending the next few weeks on the phone with some of my more geeky friends and see if we can design a program for this purpose. Who knows, maybe I'll be a millionaire by next year! (One can dream. . .) Z THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 I monitor my network?
On Mar 21, 2005, at 8:29 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 18, 2005, at 5:39 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: On Mar 18, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello, I need to know if there is either a freeware or shareware app. that will allow me to view the network status of my entire network. In otherwords, I want to be able to see network activity on my screen that is from other computers on my network, not just the activity from my computer. By what do you mean 'see network activity'? Just see what traffic levels are? examine the traffic in detail? This is a HUGE subject, and freeware abounds on the Unix side. Thanks for the response, Bruce. For a huge subject, you are so far the ONLY one to respond and yet with another question. I'm the kind of guy that believes what a person is actually doing online on my network is their business. . .what I want to see is simply the traffic levels; that is, to be able to look at this and determine that yes, there is another computer connected to my network. While my wireless network is ABS based and encrypted, I sometimes feel that there's a neighborhood kid out there kickin' back on his laptop snickerin' 'cause he figured out my password or hacked somehow into my network. If I am sure I'm the only one on it, then I can take further steps. With what I have now, the only indication that someone else is using the network is the activity lights on both my modem and my ABS. I need a program that can not only detect activity, but confirm that yes, the activity I'm seeing is in fact another computer on my network. Hope this answers your question, Z THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: How to dismantle a white Ibook
Hello, I need to know if there is either a freeware or shareware app. that will allow me to view the network status of my entire network. In otherwords, I want to be able to see network activity on my screen that is from other computers on my network, not just the activity from my computer. Is there such an app.? Do I need to make one? Any suggestions will be welcome. Thanks, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 ---
Can I monitor my network?
On Mar 18, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello, I need to know if there is either a freeware or shareware app. that will allow me to view the network status of my entire network. In otherwords, I want to be able to see network activity on my screen that is from other computers on my network, not just the activity from my computer. Is there such an app.? Do I need to make one? Any suggestions will be welcome. Thanks, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: Different resolutions for different accounts?
On Mar 13, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 13/03/05 14:20, Dennis B. Swaney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to have a different screen resolution for a different account? Our user group has a projector that requires a lower resolution than the native one of my 15 Powerbook. I's like to not have to change the resolution back-and-forth manually. I thought that this could be handled by using the Location Manager, but that seems to be just for networking. I think that the resolution is across all accounts. But you can have the display system-wide menu in the menu bar and you can then switch from any application. -Laurent. -- The resolution is not across all accounts. When you are logged into your account, set your resolution using the Monitor Menu in the menu bar, as I agree with Laurent that it is a good idea to have the monitor menu available there. Log out of your account, and log into a different account. Set the resolution for that account accordingly. Whenever you log into an account, Mac OS X will remember which resolution the account was set at. My grandmother, for example, has a 17 flat panel iMac. She has trouble seeing the screen. Her account is set at 800x600. My account on her computer is set at 1280x1024, and my brothers account on her computer is set at 1152x870, while my grandpa, who can barely see anything, has his account set to 640x480. I did notice, though, that the login window will stay at the resolution for the account most used. Hope this helps. Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 OS X utility question
On Mar 14, 2005, at 3:48 PM, Hubert Phillips II wrote: OS 9 has the nifty utility Apple System Profiler. Does Mac OS X have something similar? I just found a need for it, but can't find the app... Thanks :) Hubert Go to the Apple Menu on the top left of your screen, then select About This Mac, then click on More Info Z THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: powerboook and bluetooth to a cellular..
On Mar 14, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Jason wrote: phone.. had it working with my powerbook and a motorola v551, but now for some reason, it get to authentication, and hangs up, I called cingular five times, each time they tried something else on their side, and nothing seems to work, could I need to do something to the mac? Now, remember, with the settings in place, I had it work in the past.. I tried turning the bluetooth on the powerbook off and on, and still no dice, and I have power cycled the phone dozens of times, still just does not want to connect anymore... any thoughts? I ran into this exact problem. What I did to solve it was connecting without using Quicklink Mobile. Panther can work with a phone as a modem if the settings are correctly inputed. To do this, bring up the Network dialog box under System Preferences. Under Location select either Wireless Internet Express or just Wireless Internet and under Show select Wireless Device. The Service Provider, Account Name, etc. should already be inputed, if QuickLink Mobile was already installed. If not, call Cingular and they should know what info to put in. For example, my account name is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The number to dial is: 18472549270 The line Cingular gave me to the cause of this problem is due to the fact that they are upgrading all of their cell sites to Edge, the broadband standard which will eventually replace GPRS connections. Hope this helps, Z THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 ---
Ok. . .USB thought. . .
OK, I know this thread isn't completely on topic of G-Books, but hey, I did start thinking of it while using my Pismo system so here we go: I was thinking the other day of the limits USB has, in the department of just how many devices can be connected to one USB port. According to the facts, the limit is 127 devices. Who, may I ask, actually came up with that number?! Did someone in their garage actually connect 128 devices only to discover that the 128th device didn't work, therefore coming up with the 127 number? Let's say that you used the Belkin 7 port hub to do this. In theory, you'd need 18 hubs, giving you 126 ports; still short by one port. That also means you'd need 18 plugs, assuming ALL 126 devices are bus powered. Are these numbers really just a marketing gimmick? Anyway, this is really just me thinking out loud and nobody has to respond, but I'm still wondering about the reality and practicality of these numbers. Food for Thought. . . Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: Ok. . .USB thought. . .
On Mar 12, 2005, at 4:03 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 12/03/05 18:19, Zoltan Batiz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I know this thread isn't completely on topic of G-Books, but hey, I did start thinking of it while using my Pismo system so here we go: I was thinking the other day of the limits USB has, in the department of just how many devices can be connected to one USB port. According to the facts, the limit is 127 devices. Who, may I ask, actually came up with that number?! Did someone in their garage actually connect 128 devices only to discover that the 128th device didn't work, therefore coming up with the 127 number? Let's say that you used the Belkin 7 port hub to do this. In theory, you'd need 18 hubs, giving you 126 ports; still short by one port. That also means you'd need 18 plugs, assuming ALL 126 devices are bus powered. Are these numbers really just a marketing gimmick? Anyway, this is really just me thinking out loud and nobody has to respond, but I'm still wondering about the reality and practicality of these numbers. Food for Thought. . . It's not an arbitrary number. It has to do with computer programming maths. For the same reason that memory comes in multiple of 64. 128, 256, 512, etc., and not 25, 50, 75. The root is the binary system that is the basic unit by which a computer can compute... -Laurent. -- Oh ok, so what you are saying is that nobody actually tried connecting 127 devices to their system. Someone just came up with the number due to a mathematical formula? -- 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: Isync, Bluetooth, and Motorola....
On Mar 2, 2005, at 9:30 PM, Jason wrote: anyone know how to get this to work without shelling out cash for programs that are buggy or a USB cable, thus making BT a joke?? Pleae be more specific as to your problems. Tell us what it's not doing rather than what it's supposed to do. Are you having difficulty pairing the device? Does the pair drop? Things like that. . . I do know that some Motorola phones as well as some bluetooth headsets have had a history of bad chips for the bluetooth technology instilled in them, which can cause some irratic behavior. Nonetheless, OS X 10.3.8 should have worked out most, if not all, of these bugs. Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 ---
Problems with USB hub and Pismo
Hello all, I've been having strange power problems with my 4 port USB hub. It's a Newpoint hub; generic brand I bought at Costco several years ago. It's never given me problems, until now. I am starting this thread to see if the other opinions here in this list agree with me that it is the hub and not (gulp), my Pismo itself. Here's the symptoms: The system boots up fine, and usually there's no sign of any trouble. But then I look over at the hub, which is plugged into my Pismo. This is a powered hub, so it's got an AC adapter which is plugged in. Sometimes, the hub lights are dim. . .indicating not enough power to the ports. Sure enough, I tested this by popping a Zip disk into my USB powered Zip drive, and nothing. . .doesn't work unless it has enough power. So I've jiggled the plug in the back of the hub, and everything powers up as expected, along with the dim indicator lights gleaming back up to their full brightness, indicating proper power levels. Is my hub going bad and/or AC adapter for the hub going bad? Or is this a USB problem in 10.2.8? I ask about the OS X possibility due to the fact that I've never had this issue as common in 10.3.7. I think I'm just going to buy another hub and see if I can rule this out. This is what I have plugged into the hub: First port: Epson Stylus C84 Printer (self-powered) Second port: Canon Canoscan Scanner (USB-powered) Third port: Iomega Zip Drive (USB-powered) Fourth port: Casio Exilim Digital Camera (USB-powered) Anyone have any ideas to restore the power problems or resetting USB issues let me know. . . Thanks, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: Bluetooth problems
On Feb 17, 2005, at 8:20 AM, Roy wrote: Sorry Zoltan. I don't have info for you. You prompted me to journal my problem with bluetooth however. I keep losing connection, especially with my mouse. It is very annoying to have to re-sync so often. Anybody have the same problems/ideas? PB Al 1.5ghz, 17 OS 10.3.8 1.5 gb Ram Apple Bluetooth keybourd and mouse Regards, Roy Quinn Roy, Believe it or not, in my experience with Bluetooth or any other wireless connectivity is interference. The key with Bluetooth that I have discovered is the pairing process. You have to make sure there is NO interference during this process. Make sure the microwave isn't being used, turn off your Airport/wireless router, turn off your cell phone AND disconnect power to any cordless phone base during the pairing process. Now, the home phone and Airport/wireless router do not apply IF and only IF you have a 5.8 gigahertz cordless phone and Airport Extreme (802.11g), as both of these devices use a different frequency and won't bother the pairing process. The reason I said believe it or not is because even with all of these devices running, the bluetooth will still pair. But, the pairing is weak at best. A lot of people think that once a bluetooth device is paired, that's it. . .but unfortunatly, that's not the case. Another problem you are up against is your aluminum casing. I would call Apple about this only to see if they might have specific instructions as to how to properly pair bluetooth devices. I wouldn't be surprised if they said the two have to be no farther apart that a foot, etc. The best way to understand what I'm describing is to picture each wireless connection as a layer. If you pair a bluetooth device first, then that's your fist layer. Your second layer should be the wireless network, then the cordless phone, then the cell phone, etc. Luckily, with technologies like frequency hopping, this is a better approach. My two bedroom condo is riddled with interference, all of which work on the 2.4 gig range. I've got an Airport Base Station (snow), two 2.4 gig home phones, a microwave (operates also on 2.4 gig range), a cell phone and of course, bluetooth. My PDA, cell phone and keyboard are all bluetooth and have been paired to my Pismo via it's USB bluetooth adapter only once. . .almost a year ago. I've never had to pair any of them again. My good luck with bluetooth could be due to the fact that it's via the Belkin USB bluetooth adapter, since it sticks out of the USB hub, minimizing the interference. But I believe it has a lot to do with my layer theory and paying careful attention to possible interference. An excellent resource for all of this and more are at these websites of which I'm a member and/or have contributed and received helpful info: http://www.macwireless.com/index.html http://www.wi-fiplanet.com https://www.bluetooth.org http://www.bluetooth.com I hope this info helps. . . Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Pismo G3 900MHz or G4 500MHz
On Feb 16, 2005, at 12:17 PM, CR wrote: Jeff Drummond wrote: I don't think I could justify spending much money upgrading a 4.5 year old [Pismo] computer. Buying an already-upgraded one might make a bit more sense but it really depends on your situation. Personally, I think it comes down to two things: The need for VRAM and how much you have invested in Expansion Bay devices. Both of these factors are usually the make/break upgrade decision when it comes to moving up from Pismo. The VRAM is the only thing in a Pismo that can't be upgraded. And once you upgrade, the Expansion Bay Devices have to stay with Pismo. Plus, yea you can put a G4 into a Pismo, but only up to 550Mhz for $289.00. Now for me, I bought my Pismo new. . .for $3,200 and right now there is no need for more than 8Meg VRAM. This came with lots of extras, but still. . .when my friends bitch at how expensive Macs are I just tell 'em how much I paid for my PowerBook and compare that expense with the new ones. If anything, the newer Macs have gone down by over 50% in the past few years. Another example (sigh) is my old PowerMac 9500. I paid over $4,500.00 for the damn thing and now not only can you get a G5 tower for that, but also a 20 flat panel Apple monitor. . .with change to spare! Ok. . .now I'm depressed. :( Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 ---
Bluetooth Mice/Trackball Options. . .
Hello all, I've been shopping around online for a Bluetooth mouse/trackball option, as my capable USB Logitech three button mouse is driving me crazy with the cord always gettin' in the way. I've been looking around, and so far the two contenders are: Bluetake Optical BT500 three button mouse ($46.95) and The Ball -- the only Bluetooth trackball available by DVForge. ($89.99) Anyone use either of these products? What are the opinions of these two? Apple's Bluetooth mouse is not part of my search, due to the need for a three button mouse/trackball. Also, for those who use either these or other Bluetooth mice I need know which is best for battery life, etc. I already have Bluetooth USB adapter for my Pismo and use several Bluetooth devices, except; which seems ironic, a mouse. Thanks for any info. . . Zoltan -- 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: New iBooks/PB's compared to Pismo's, etc.
On Feb 13, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Larry le Mac wrote: From: Zoltan Batiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some say the space is for speakers, etc. Please; look at other PB's, like the Pismo. Uh, yeah, but LISTEN to the AlBooks ... --- A lot of my clients comment on how sexy my Pismo is. It's almost too tempting to comment... --- Apple should offer different layouts for each PB and iBook. There must be some simple course in design/production/costs that you could take which would highlight the flaw... --- Who cares about cost. Uh, about 90% of customers... Me included. --- My Pismo is my desktop computer AND my portable computer for those rare times I have to go out in the field. until Apple comes out with a better PowerBook Well, you're the one losing out. I love my 12 and 15 AlBooks, and I've had every model of PowerBook incl. the portable, apart from a 2400... Larry Larry, On the comment of cost. . .I wasn't talking about the end product cost, I was talking about manufacturing cost that Apple would have to shell out, hence the remark to how much $$ they have made on iPod/iTunes Music Store just in the last year. Z -- 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: New iBooks/PB's compared to Pismo's, etc.
On Feb 13, 2005, at 8:20 PM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote: At 4:10 PM -0800 2/13/05, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Who cares about cost. . . Apple, if they want to stay in the portable computer business. The PowerBooks are already very more expensive than a PC notebook (and worth every penny, IMO) and Apple can't depend on us to buy a new one every six months to keep them in business. -- Sincerely, Dennis B. Swaney The expense is not going to be that high, since Apple can mass produce. As I said before, I'd pay extra just to have a BTO for the features I need. What would be nice is dual expansion bays and ports on the back. Not asking for too much, is it? With today's technology, third party companies would have a field day with expansion bays being available on new PowerBooks. For the most part, in my opinion, a BTO means build to order. What is actually happening though, is not BTO. It's like buying a car with or without a stereo. Nothing is changed, just simply added or subtracted. If I want a BTO, then I want a BTO. . .know what I mean? Z -- 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 HDD in Freezer: Science Project
So, Besides all these odd recommendations involving freezers and stoves, I guess nobody ever tried actually opening up a HDD and replace the bearings? Is this one of those things that's simply not done? Are drives made in a way that prevents this? And on that note, wouldn't it be cool if HDD manufacturers could make their drives with a little hole on the top or bottom where the user could plop a dap of oil once a year to keep the bearings in top shape? Just a thought. . . Z -- 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: New iBooks/PB's compared to Pismo's, etc.
On Feb 12, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Andrew F. wrote: I see good and bad to having the ports on the side. Having just sold my Pismo (and still having a Lombard in the family, not to mention a ThinkPad) I do like the rear-mounted ports when sitting at a desk with stuff plugged in. However, when actually plugging something in, like my iPod, camera or other peripheral that is not always there, the side-mounted port is easier to locate and use without disrupting the PowerBook. Duplicate ports would be great, but would make for too large a machine and would also be unsightly. I think I am leaning towards Apple's current side-mounted ports because I usually just use the laptop as-is, and I love the drop-down hinge for flying, making a lower overall profile (bad for neck and shoulders) that is less prone to passenger-in-front-reclining syndrome. Andrew On 2/12/05 8:12 PM, Zoltan Batiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Just wanted to share this little tid-bit. . . I was about the purchase the new 15 PowerBook with the SuperDrive. Everything was a go. . . except for one little hardware feature I noticed at the last minute. All of the connectivity ports for the new PB's are on the side, like most iBooks. Why doesn't Apple make a PowerBook like the Pismo, Lombard, etc. and put the ports in the back? The way I've got my Pismo set up at home, every port, with the exception for the audio in, video out and modem, are connected. Granted, my internet is wireless, but still; if I had the new model, I'd have a bunch of unsightly wires sticking out the side. I'm greedy when it comes to screen real-estate, so I always have two monitors. The 17 didn't appeal to me due to the poorly designed keyboard. I couldn't believe that Apple never considered making the worlds first laptop that had a full sized keyboard. . . complete with a 10 key. There's room on the 17 for this. . .instead the 17 just has odd looking spaces on both sides of the keyboard, not to mention ports on the side. Ugh. . . I'm optimistic though, and not in a rush; at the moment, I have no need for any more VRAM, which to me is the main reason to sell off the Pismo. Plus, with the G4/550 from FastMac installed, my Pismo is zooming. I think I'll wait to see if the new PowerBook G5 models have the features that still sets apart the Pismo and the like from the others. (fingers crossed.) Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER Well, for the most part, I agree with you Andrew as far as access goes. But, then I have two USB powered hubs and two Firewire hubs as well. I hardly ever have to give my Pismo a reach around unless I'm taking it with me out in the field. Z -- 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 had in freezer?
On Feb 9, 2005, at 8:31 PM, Bob wrote: The National Enquirer reports at 8:27 PM -0500 2/9/05, Dylan Moore wrote: Try putting the dying hard drive into a zip-lock bag, sealing it and storing it in your freezer over night. Tomorrow remove it let it warm up. You should get an hour or more out of it so you can transfer the files to your new already installed drive. John really? thats the most bizarre fix i've ever come across, if you're being serious. what's the basic explanation for that one? *intrrigued* I mean i understand the #1 reason for HD failure is heat, but intuitively i would think it would wreak havoc with the parts to put it in the freezer. But if this is really a fix, i could see the ziplock bag being necessary- no one wants freezer burned data! ( = -dylan While we're on the truth is stranger than fiction theme. Putting a H.D. in a kitchen oven for a few minutes can also solve some problems; at least temporarily. In days gone by, in some drives, the lubrication on the platters and/or on the spindle would harden and instead of lubricating the drive's components, it caused them to stick together and kept things from spinning. That was known as stiction. Baking the drive at a low heat caused the lubrication to soften and reflow, allowing the drive to spin up again. I don't believe that newer drives have the same stiction problem. Never know what you'll learn on a Mac list, huh? :-) Ok folks. . .I've got a 75 gig IBM hard drive that sounds like a plane taking off during initial boot, and a saw mill during normal operation. Which is recommended? Freezer? Or Oven? Does anything think that one or both of these ideas might fix the drive before the bearings go bad? (I can't believe I'm asking this, but hey, Bob's right. . .you never know what you'll learn on a Mac List!! Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 ---
Safari lagging fixed!
Well, I managed to get the lagging issue in Safari fixed. But it's not what I did, it's what Apple did. I just downloaded and installed the newest update; 10.3.8. In .8 all program lagging is gone! My whole system seems to be running a bit faster. Not sure what they did, but it works. Thanks for all the input though, for what it's worth. Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: TO:Gmail and Mail
On Feb 8, 2005, at 5:25 AM, Marcin Wichary wrote: Whoa, you must have some high powered email accounts if Gmail is like all of your others. Gmail uses encrypted POP and SMTP. You certainly don't set them up like you set up a non-SSL email account. You don't use the same ports etc. Maybe I misinterpreted what you meant. It's just one or two checkboxes of a difference. And due to spam, secure mailboxes are becoming more and more popular... In any case... - log in to Gmail - click on Settings - click on Forwarding and POP - click on Enable POP for all mail - click on Configuration instructions below - click on Apple Mail Your instructions are there. I recently activated a Gmail account and I set it up to work with Mail. My only question about this is that I would think the people at Google would not have allowed this to happen. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that besides the 1GB of storage for the email, by setting it up via POP with a mail client, it seems that I can not take advantage of all of the features that sets Gmail apart from the others, i.e., the Google based search feature, etc. Just wanted to put that out there. Z THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 ---
Safari still lags on https . . .
Hello all, I recently posted a thread on this topic and didn't really get a response. Safari STILL hangs on all secure servers. It has gotten so bad, that I use IE for all secure transactions. Sometimes it can take as long as 5 MINUTES just to load a secure page. Is there a problem with Java? Bad version of Safari? Sites like Gmail won't even load, my bank website takes so long that sometimes the server times out. I've tried everything, re-installing Java, Safari and re-formatting my HDD. I even installed 10.3 on my external LaCie HDD and after a while, the lagging started again! I thought it might have been Airport, so I connected my Pismo to the ethernet and STILL no difference. Could this be one of the first signs of a G3 not being up to par for OS X? My grandma has the 17 flat panel iMac with an 800Mhz G4, 256 RAM and her software is up to date like my Pismo and while there is a slight hang, it's never longer than 10 seconds. At a lose here folks. I love Safari and want to keep it as my default browser, but if Apple doesn't fix this problem I'm going to have to switch to either Opera or Netscape. Thanks for any input. My only other possibility is Earthlink, but talking to their customer service is like calling SBC. My system: Pismo G3/500, 1gig RAM. All software up to date. Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: RE.: Anyone still using the Powerbook G3 Kanga Original
On Feb 3, 2005, at 10:13 AM, macnifico wrote: Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:20:49 -0800 Subject: Anyone still using the Powerbook G3 Kanga Original From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi all, Anyone still use one of these?: http://www.lowendmac.com/pb2/g3.shtml I'd love to get my hands on a good unit but they are very hard to find in Singapore. Any users care to share their experiences with the Kanga? I've used this wonderful machines, however, I sold my last one on eBay a few weeks ago. They are fast. I prefer OS 8.6 on them. However, I used 9.1 because a couple of programs required it. They are fast and rugged. I wish I still have mine. However, I need DVD playing on my laptop, and every new program requires OS X.2 or .3 , so I had to sell it, and with the funds I bought a Pismo. Another thing, They have the BEST sound of ANY Mac laptop that I have ever heard. Sound like a ghood quality portable stereo. Hope this helps. Macnifico For what it's worth, Pismo 400 and 500's are going for pennies on the dollar on eBay these days. Think it's due to the newest Powerbooks just released. I would recommend just getting the Pismo over the Kanga. While the Kanga is a great machine, the Pismo still has most of what made the Kanga great, but Firewire and USB as well. . .not to mention full OS X support. I just saw a Pismo 400 on eBay the other day with 512 meg RAM sell for only $390.00!! Depressing for me. . .I bought my Pismo/500 new. . . for an amount I'm not ready to disclose. :( Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 ---
I missed OS 9 until. . .
Hey folks, Just a reminder as to why OS X is so much better than OS 9. The other day, I had to do some file transfers and installs that required I boot under OS 9.2.2 on my Pismo. After boot, I noticed how fast the overall performance was, and how quickly some apps run, i.e., internet radio in iTunes etc. I also had a flash back if you will, with the neat sound effects in OS 9. That was it though. I quickly missed the pre-emptive multitasking that has made OS X the OS that it is today. For those who don't know, OS 9 has co-optive multitasking. This means that under OS 9, if an app. doesn't want to comply to whatever the multitasking needs that the user demands, then it doesn't have to. With OS X, the app. is forced to comply. . .no questions asked. The simple tasks I take for granted under OS X now made me realize that Apple is on the right track, and I waited far too long to upgrade to X. Just wanted to give my two cents on this subject. . .no need to start a huge thread over it. Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: External HD
On Feb 2, 2005, at 3:34 PM, tamara buffalo wrote: I have a LaCie external dvd burner that works really great and my next ext HD will also be a LaCie. I have an 80 gig western ext HD that is doing fine as my current Backup but the overall failure rate of these drives is higher than most according to online info and that makes me nervous. TmB I'll vouch for LaCie here. I have an external firewire LaCie 75 gig which houses an IBM DeskStar. LaCie only uses top notch HDD's, including Toshiba, Hitachi (IBM) and Seagate. Z THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: Use External FW drive as backup boot drive for Powerbook?
On Jan 30, 2005, at 9:08 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote: I have a Powerbook (my only Mac) and I have a 60gb external FW drive. I would like to use that external drive as a backup boot drive in case my main drive dies on me some day (i.e. so I could hook up the external drive and boot off of that and copy files off the Powerbook onto the external FW drive before shipping it off to Applecare). Can I do this? How would I tell the Powerbook to boot off of the external drive? If so, What's the best way to install OS X onto the FW drive? [note: all I am looking for is a very minimal installation so I can just boot it and hook up the Powerbook] TjL Simply plug in the drive, format it, and pop in your OS X install CD, select the drive for install, and install OS X. It's a no brainer. Once OS X is installed, you can select the startup disk in System Preferences. If, for example, something is corrupted on your internal drive in your Pismo and you need to boot from the Firewire drive, then after you press power on your Pismo (make sure the external drive is plugged in and powered up), hold down the shift key until you see a blue screen where you will be able to select a drive to boot from. I too use a 75 gig external Firewire drive for backup. Works great. . .hope this helps, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: Use External FW drive as backup boot drive for Powerbook?
On Jan 31, 2005, at 4:57 AM, Tim Hodgson wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 9:38 am -0800, Zoltan Batiz wrote: after you press power on your Pismo (make sure the external drive is plugged in and powered up), hold down the shift key until you see a blue screen where you will be able to select a drive to boot from. Shouldn't that be 'option key'? TimH Correct, option key. Sorry, shift key is for other diagnostic purposes. Thanks. Z -- 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: ibook help- no idea why its not working!
On Jan 30, 2005, at 1:14 PM, John wrote: Dylan Moore wrote: Hey all, got more details from my friend clint on his ibook- I really need all the feedback i can get from you guys so we can get his ibook back together!! to dylan I don't know what is happening. I tried the first thing you said and that didn't work but it sort of did. the computer started up and there were all kinds of weird colors and patterns. sort of medieval rug type of colors. then I tried the last one. my book is the large size 2 usb model 14.1 from late 2002, so to reset the p-ram power man you have to press shit, control, options, and power together. wait 5 seconds. then start up. that didn't work at all. the funny thing is. sometimes the grey 10.3 screen comes on when I try to start and sometimes it doesnt. it usually comes on if it is my first try at booting up in a while. like after an hour or 2. then the subsequent times don't work at all. I'm going to try the middle one next. this sucks. What the hell could be causing this?? I don't think i've ever read any posts that explain THIS before. Is he eligible for some sort of ibook logic board recall? Sounds like the logic board failure problem to me. JR Try this first before you send it into Apple and have to wait 2 months before you get it back: If you have access to another Mac with Firewire use Firewire Target Disk Mode. Simply grab a firewire cable, connect it to the working Mac while it's running, then the other end to the bad iBook. At this point, press the power on the iBook, and then press and hold the letter T until the LCD lights up, showing the Firewire symbol. If you can get this far, and an icon pops up on the working Mac, be warned. . .Apple may do a similar test and call your friend once they have his iBook saying the logic board is fine and it's gonna cost hundreds to fix. (friend had a similar experience.) If you CAN get that far, then run Disk Utility on the working Mac and try to repair disk/permissions on the bad iBook. I can't tell you how many times this simple procedure has fixed many problems with my friends iBooks and PB's. I recently fixed my roommates iBook using this procedure; (see thread, Black Screen of Death) Hope this helps. If not, then at least you can rule out any other possibility other than the logic board. If that's the case, then check Apple's website 'cause if I'm not mistaken, Apple has once again extended the Logic Board Replacement Program. The cool thing about this program is that you don't have to be the original owner nor does it even have to be under warranty. If, after they test the iBook and determine that it is in fact the logic board, they will replace it for free. . .no questions asked. (I now know three people including myself that has gone through the program, so speaking from experience here. Apple takes their time, but they do fix 'em.) Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 ---
A question regarding OpenGL. . .
Hello all, Is OpenGL user configurable? Or is this one of those background things? And is there a certain (gulp) video ram requirement just to make it work? Or is it always working? I was enjoying the Visualizer in iTunes today and noticed that under the options button, I had clicked Use OpenGL. . . which spawned this thread. Have a great day everyone! Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 ---
MCE is at it again! 100 gig internal HDD for Pismo!
And it's not too expensive either. . .only $279.00. Thinking of getting one. . . here's the link; you may need to copy and paste it into Safari: http://store.mcetech.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc? Screen=PRODStore_Code=MTOSProduct_Code=MS100GCategory_Code=STORLTHDIN T Make sure you put the entire link into your browser. . .ending with STORLTHDINT Thought this info would excite fellow Pismo users. . . Z -- 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: MCE is at it again! 100 gig internal HDD for Pismo!
On Jan 29, 2005, at 9:45 AM, Andrew Kershaw wrote: Hmm. 100 GB hard drives are available from many online stores for $80 - $100 less than that. Peace, Drew -- Oh ok. I didn't know we had internal drives that had broken the 80 gig barrier. Cool. . . Z -- 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 ---
The USB hub issue. . .
Folks, OK. . .we all know that one USB port can host over 100 devices. . .but I have only been able to find 4 port hubs. Why is this? Is there something about USB I don't understand? I need an 8 port powered hub. . .not the usual 8 port USB/Firewire Combo that only provides 4 USB ports and three Firewire ports, but an actual box that houses 8 USB ports. . .anyone know where I can get one? Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 ---
Black Screen of Death?!
Hello, Well, it looks like my roommates iBook has officially died. Unless anyone here knows what happened to it. Now it won't boot all way. It will get to just before the login window comes up, then the screen goes to black, with white text saying, Darwin BSD: loginwindow failed to execute. Does the Mac now have a Black Screen of Death reminiscent of the old PC days of the Blue Screen of Death? For those who want to help, this is from the original thread titled, Strange sounds of the iBook. . . iBook info: 600 MHZ G3, dual USB 14 (Son of Pismo) Thanks for any info, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: Black Screen of Death?!
On Jan 29, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 29/01/05 19:44, Zoltan Batiz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Well, it looks like my roommates iBook has officially died. Unless anyone here knows what happened to it. Now it won't boot all way. It will get to just before the login window comes up, then the screen goes to black, with white text saying, Darwin BSD: loginwindow failed to execute. Does the Mac now have a Black Screen of Death reminiscent of the old PC days of the Blue Screen of Death? For those who want to help, this is from the original thread titled, Strange sounds of the iBook. . . iBook info: 600 MHZ G3, dual USB 14 (Son of Pismo) Thanks for any info, Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER Corrupted installation, I guess. Have you tried to boot from the OS X install CD? -Laurent. Not yet. . .sometimes the CD-ROM won't work at all. Not sure what is going on, but there are times when the CD-ROM drive doesn't do anything, not even when it booted fine. There's a slight pause when OS X boots, when it looks for all connected drives, internal or otherwise. When this normal pause occurred on the iBook, the drive did nothing. After it booted, when you press eject on the keyboard, nothing. I'll try to boot it up with the CD-ROM, as sometimes the drive works. If it doesn't, I guess there's the Target Disk Mode option with my Pismo. Thanks for your input Laurent. Z -- 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: Erasing hard drive
On Jan 29, 2005, at 8:47 PM, Amber wrote: On 1/29/05 8:25 PM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering - would you guys suggest that I zero all data and start from scratch or would a normal erase likely resolve the software problems... You don't need to do a zero all data. Just a standard erase in Disk Utility would do fine... -Laurent. Great - Thanks Laurent !! Amber The only real need to zero all data is if you fear someone would try to recover anything from your drive in the unlikely event someone stole your computer AND if you actually had data that would be considered necessary to find/recover. Yes, if you don't zero it out, it is possible to recover data from the drive after a re-format. But, this data would not be found by standard software running over it. In other words, Laurent is correct in saying that zero out data is something you really don't have to do. For me, working for the government, it's a requirement to use the zero out option for obvious reasons. Just wanted to add my two cents! Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: Erasing hard drive
On Jan 29, 2005, at 8:16 PM, Amber wrote: After a week of finding various firewire drives to back my hard drive up to, I am finally ready to erase my hard drive and hope that all the problems I have been having with the PB will disappear. Just wondering - would you guys suggest that I zero all data and start from scratch or would a normal erase likely resolve the software problems that may be responsible for plaguing my PB and causing the superdrive to stop working properly ? Thanks, Amber Amber, Food for thought: I too was having problems with one of my PB's and decided to try something: I installed OS X Panther on my external Firewire drive; the drive that was meant to simply back up all of my data so I could re-format my main internal drive. What I found was quite disturbing. . .the exact same problems occurred running from the external drive only after about 30 minutes in operation! While this may not be true for you, I'm still at a loss as what is causing my issues, which is odd delays in some of my apps. Just food for thought. . . Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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 ---
Strange sounds of the iBook. . .
Hello folks, Got a new mystery here. . .or not I hope. My roommate has the dual USB 14 iBook; a.k.a., Son Of Pismo. It's a pretty cool looking laptop in general design, but he's been having trouble with it. First, I suggested he replace his AC adapter as soon as possible since the cord is frayed. The main problem he's having though is a thumping from the hard drive area before boot up. When you press the power button, you hear this sound for approx. 30 seconds to a minute, then all of a sudden it boots like there was never a problem. I'm suspecting it's the drive going bad, any other ideas? Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: hard drive options
On Jan 26, 2005, at 8:36 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 26/01/05 20:46, Scott at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day all, I am glad this list is discussing hard drives, because I have just started looking into getting a new one for my Pismo PB. I am wondering if I ought to replace the internal drive or just keep it as is and get an external drive. The current drive is the stock IBM 18GB that came with the Pismo four years ago, and I don't know any other specs about it (rpm speed or RAM buffer size). I am comparing the drive speed rpms (4200 v. 5400 v. 7200) and the RAM buffer size, which are as small as 1MB or as big as 16MB. I think for an external drive, faster is better, yet how does the size of the RAM buffer figure into the equation? For an external drive is a larger RAM buffer actually better or overkill and wasteful? Is there a realistic buffer size where effective usefulness tops out and any more is just waste? For an internal drive slower uses less power, yet with a large buffer there is less drive access. So, is there a peak performance combination? Does a faster drive access less? And therefor is more effective? How much more effective is a 2MB buffer v. 1MB, and a 4MB buffer v. 2MB, etc, on up to 16MB v. 8MB? Is all that RAM actually used and effective? I am looking for the fastest *and* most efficient combination. I appreciate any facts, opinions, tho'ts, or experiences you'd like to share. Thank you all and have a great day! Scott Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. --- Plutarch I'll just say this: having to carry around an external drive is annoying after a little while, specially if you move around a bit. Plus the added cost of getting an enclosure. Plus the ridiculous cost if you buy a drive already in an enclosure. I'd say go for an internal drive. You might thank yourself you did it... -Laurent. -- For what it's worth, hard drives are so cheap these days, (average is under $1.00 a gig), that you could do what I do. I have a 120 gig external firewire drive that stays at home. . .it's only there for backup. I've got an IBM 80 gig travelstar in my Pismo as my primary. This way, (gulp), if your PB ever got stolen, you'll at least have the peace of mind that all of your work is safe and sound at home on your backup drive. (yea, it's happened to me before) Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: hard drive options
Well I have to say that this has been a very strange day. Here we are, talking about hard drive options, and all of a sudden, one of my external drives just started buzzin' like a chainsaw. Correct me if I'm wrong, but once that happens, isn't it toast? Or is there a diagnostic procedure I'm not aware of? Z THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: hard drive options
On Jan 27, 2005, at 7:36 AM, Andrew wrote: Cost me about $240 for the same service, though with a Hitachi TravelStar drive (80 for the labor, 150 for the drive). --- tamara buffalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too am looking to upgrade my PB 867 my 40 gig HD is almost full (music and fotos) so i went to Microcenter, (which i like better than the apple store, i buy all my apple gear there) Got a price of 200 buck to put in a 80 gig harddrive(samsung). 150 for the HD and 50 for service. seems high to me. is it? thanks in advance. TmB Remember, if you can change a light bulb, you can swap your HDD in your Pismo and most other laptops. The Pismo, in particular, is very easy; with the hardest part only lifting the keyboard up. The instructions are even at Apple's support site via a Quicktime movie. It took me under 20 minutes to swap the drive. Anyone charging more than $20.00 to swap an internal drive, in my opinion, is a con. Z THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: installing os9 over firewire.
Have you tried Carbon Copy Cloner? It's at http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html Using this program, I have successfully cloned an entire drive, including but not limited to OS 9.2.2 and OS X 10.3.7 to an iBook using Firewire Target Disk Mode. The result was a perfectly working iBook that can even boot under OS 9. Try this as your last option at least before you throw in the towel. Hope this helps. . . Z THE BLUETOOTH (and WiFi) MASTER -- 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: installing os9 over firewire.
On Jan 23, 2005, at 3:41 PM, Alex Santos 100MB Neostrada Mail wrote: But there is no ibook drive to clone. That's the problem, only my eMac is clone-able but then it doesn't have notebook resources such as battery stuff on it. Could you tell how your proposal might work under my circumstances? I say try it anyway. . .Mac OS X usually changes during boot-up. And if it does boot on the iBook, but doesn't have the resources, then simply download the newest update and see if that works. Your iBook doesn't work now anyway, so what do you have to lose? Z -- 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: Tiger Launch
Hello, Well, Tiger Launch is great, but how do I configure it to start automatically? I tried putting it into startupitems folder within the Library folder and even in the startupitems in the System folder, but no dice. Is there something else I need to do? Z THE BLUETOOTH (and wifi) MASTER -- 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 ---
Options with an external HDD. . .
Hello, Just wanted to know what my options are with OS X on my Pismo using an external HDD. I've got a 30 gig internal, and a 70 gig firewire external. I need to know. . .can I (besides backing up) move my iTunes music to this external drive and expect it to work? Can I move all of my personal files to this drive and encrypt just that file (my home folder) and run OS X using the home folder from the external drive? For now, I'm using it primarily for backup and storing all of my iMovie/Photoshop projects. Just wondering. . . Z THE BLUETOOTH MASTER -- 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 ---
iBook issues. . .
Hello folks, Here's something to ponder. . .my roomates iBook 14.1 is having issues. I've already wiped his hard drive clean and re-installed OS X, but it's happening again. From time to time, his hard drive makes strange noises. . .like a faint grinding sound. Then, the computer freezes. After resetting it, it stalls for a long time, then the screen goes to black and we are prompted with the console! I've only seen this once a long time ago with a PowerMac G4, but that problem was caused by the G4 overheating (it was an upgrade card that didn't have sufficient cooling.) Any ideas would be helpful. . . Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH MASTER -- 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: iBook issues. . .
On Jan 20, 2005, at 2:41 PM, Brian Rule wrote: All i can tell you is that I've been told that if the iBook's HD makes anymore noise than a light whirr it's dying or dead. Needs to be serviced. Is it a G4 iBook? What I'm wondering is, is it new enough to be covered under warranty, or does it have current applecare? If so, take it in. Brian On Jan 20, 2005, at 4:34 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello folks, Here's something to ponder. . .my roomates iBook 14.1 is having issues. I've already wiped his hard drive clean and re-installed OS X, but it's happening again. From time to time, his hard drive makes strange noises. . .like a faint grinding sound. Then, the computer freezes. After resetting it, it stalls for a long time, then the screen goes to black and we are prompted with the console! I've only seen this once a long time ago with a PowerMac G4, but that problem was caused by the G4 overheating (it was an upgrade card that didn't have sufficient cooling.) Any ideas would be helpful. . . Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH MASTER This is the Son of Pismo, the iBook is exactly like the Pismo, with the usual differences between a PowerBook and an iBook. It's got one Firewire port, and two USB's. Sounds like he might have to replace his hard drive. Well, they are pretty cheap now on eBay and other areas. Average seems to be about a dollar a gig. -- 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: Options with an external HDD. . .
On Jan 20, 2005, at 2:50 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 20, 2005, at 2:33 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello, Just wanted to know what my options are with OS X on my Pismo using an external HDD. I've got a 30 gig internal, and a 70 gig firewire external. I need to know. . .can I (besides backing up) move my iTunes music to this external drive and expect it to work? yes, there's an option in the iTunes prefs regarding location of the iTunes music library. Can I move all of my personal files to this drive and encrypt just that file (my home folder) and run OS X using the home folder from the external drive? Probably, but this is a BAD idea. If the drive is disconnected when you boot, you're SOL. The procedure for moving your home folder to another partition or volume is shown here: http://www.bombich.com/mactips/homedir.html (note, this is more or less the process by which Apple was reputedly ready to set up portable home directories using iPods in 10.3. It's not seen the light of day yet. I suspect the less than graceful way the system will handle things if the expected folder isn't there is the reason why) Secondly, if by encrypted you mean FileVault, go ahead, do that. You're probably someone who likes recreating everything you've done, over and over and over again. Filevault is a seriously bad 'All your eggs in one basket' concept. Moreover, when you put that on a removable drive, all your eggs are in that basket balanced on your head and you're riding a 10' tall unicycle. Juggling chainsaws. Running chainsaws. Running chainsaws that are on fire. If you want to encrypt files, Start disk utility or Disk copy depending on whether you're using 10.3 or 10.2) and create a writeable, encrypted disk image. Store the stuff you want to keep secret there. Open it and close it as needed. Thanks Bruce, The main reason I'm talking about this is due to my FULL hard drive. I've got a 30 gig internal, and only 9 gig available. Guess it would be better to upgrade to an 80 internal, huh? Z -- 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 ---
Please help! Problems with an Hp d135 All-in-One
Hello Folks, Hp is pissin' me off. Personally, I can't stand 'em, but my grandma insisted she buy an Hp. . .(past experience was good. . .ya' know, when the company actually made good products. . .hehe.) Anyway, she's got a Pismo 500/1gig RAM/30gig, 10.3.7 and an Hp d135 All-In-One. There is no communication between the computer and the printer. There was before, but not now. Now, let me be more specific. I can scan, I can copy and the fax feature works fine. So to say no communication isn't the case. There's no printing communication. Hp ehelp just wants me to go out and buy print heads and finance more ink carts. . .trying to say the printer won't communicate with a Mac if there's no ink. (scam?) Anyway, anyone out there with this printer PLEASE HELP. My grandma won't leave me alone! She spent $400.00 on that printer (currently worth $40.00 on eBay) and I've always been her tech guy, so I don't want to let her down. Thanks to any ideas. I also heard that for some reason, Fast User Switching causes problems with the Hp software. . .true? Thanks in advance, Zoltan (who prefers Epson) THE BLUETOOTH MASTER -- 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 ---
Safari still hangs on secure servers. . .
Hello All, I recently posted a thread regarding Safari's problem to go to https sites. It hangs for as long as a minute, then once the secure server has locked, the site takes so long to load that by the time I finally get into a secure server, the website times out. I have decided to not use Safari anymore for secure sites until this bug is fixed, as with Netscape, Explorer and even FireFox all work perfectly with https sites. I even re-installed Java to see if that was a problem, but to no avail. Anyone else having similar problems? Z THE BLUETOOTH MASTER -- 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 ---
