Re: [LIB] BIOS password, protecting against thieves ..
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:26:44 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] BIOS password, protecting against thieves .. On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:23:25 -0800, Jose Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a way to make this machines totally unhackable? Yes, always bring it with you! >What I'm trying >to do is to turn my machine into a totally useless one in case of being >stolen.. Change LILOs start message to BAD RAM and NO CPU DETECTED along with a 240 second time out would be useful. the timeout shoudl be circumvented by you pressing a certain sequence of keys. >Maybe a totally unhackable will be impossible, tips are welcome .. > >I realized that the boot priority always show cd-rom or lan.. So, in >case someone swap the HDD for a clean one, the machine will be bootable >with other devices even if the thief doesn't have the BIOS password...? Correct. >I really don't care about my data because it's cloned but I really care >to make it useless to obligate the thief to return it for a reward. Why would you reward a theif? Get your insurrance company to pay for a new one. -Mikkel
Re: [LIB] In Search of: Memory for 50CT
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 03:41:33 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] In Search of: Memory for 50CT On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 19:01:14 -0700, "Lou S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:00:52 -0400 >From: "Lou S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [LIB] In Search of: Memory for 50CT > >From: greg ehrendreich > >Hey everybody. I've checked ebay and google but I thought I'd try the >"private collector" route too: I'm looking for a used floppy and used memory >upgrade for my 50ct. The floppy I could get from ebay, but the only memory I >can find is new for ~$80. That's outrageous for 16mb of memory, so I thought >I would see if anyone has any *used* for sale for less? Currently there is an auction that started low and another one with a buyitnow at $50, that is at least $30 saved. http://tinyurl.com/72s6a Mikkel, no relation to either sellers.
Re: [LIB] Glad I've found this list!
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 02:09:30 +0200 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Glad I've found this list! On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:10:31 -0700, "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:10:16 + >From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] Glad I've found this list! > >>From: JaymeJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>Thanks! If you, or anyone, have been inside your >>Libby, I'd appreciate any pointers you can give me on >>this process. On another related note. I was visiting a tech at the official Toshiba service facitity in Denmark some years back when he was working on my 50CT, which I still have. They have a special tool for opening up the plastic parts. It is an all-plastic white creditcard with the word TOSHIBA in red lettering on at least one side. It is the official Toshiba tool for not making too many scratches on the plastic of the machines while opening up the display. So if you have an old plastic card or you get issued a new credit card for some place, keep the old one and just use sandpaper on it on make it unreadable to see what the card actually is and usable in any normal context, then write TOSHIBA on it and you good to go on your next homeservicing on your libby. Mikkel
Re: [LIB] Glad I've found this list!
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 02:03:55 +0200 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Glad I've found this list! On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:03:01 -0700, "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Wow... I don't remember reading about that problem (though I've asked for >extra memory for Christmas). I don't know what works the best, asking for memory on the list or asking Santa. Did you get any memory for christmas? Mikkel
Re: [LIB] Test
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:12:56 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Test On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 08:07:59 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello, Neil - yes, it came back to me, too. Guess we're all speechless for >the moment. Must have been the SuperBowl halftime show . I can't believe someone OK'd that, and that the camera people were told what to do without anyone thinking about the audience. So many people concentrating on their little part that noone thinks about the big picture. That has got to leave people speechless. -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] W2K on L100CT
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 05:09:34 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] W2K on L100CT On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 07:24:53 -0800, "GEORGES PITROPAKIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Microsoft > >Until now I have no problem... Knock on wood -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Server time/date stamps
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:41:45 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Server time/date stamps On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:06:27 -0800, "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >But the what's with the 3-4 >day< delay? The stacked mails are put on hold as the machine that stacked then is offline, unable to send mail, or has crashed. -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Red stripe on L100 screen
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:54:44 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Red stripe on L100 screen On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 06:50:25 -0800, Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >(sorry, I just finished watching Back to the Future II for the n'th time >where n is a worryingly large number) www, darn, now I have to take the box out and watch all 3 and the studpi 20 minute featurette on the forth tape. ;) -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Red stripe on L100 screen
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:53:40 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Red stripe on L100 screen On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 06:22:24 -0800, "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:21:11 + >From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] Red stripe on L100 screen > >What >is< going on with this list's server? I posted this reply to Mikkel a >week or so back. Is it just coming back to me late? Or is everyone getting >it today, Jan 13, 04? I only saw it today, the receiving date is at the top in my post here. -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] OT: Soldering problem
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:40:14 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] OT: Soldering problem On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:58:22 -0800, "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I did sort of try that, but I guess I'll have to dig up the old 30w iron. I >have the 15w one here I was doing micro-soldering with, but I think I need a >bigger blob. Mine is a 40W Weller handgun type I don't fry the wire with alcohol or waitfor the lacquer to melt off. With 40W I'd be asking for trouble. >It did hit me that I might be able to burn the enamel off with a flame, but >the only constant flame I have is a candle, and I had a couple problems. >The enamel caught on fire and raced up the wire. (Hmmm.. maybe changing the >angle of attact!??) But I think the candle left too much soot that the >little bit of flux in the solder couldn't deal with, if >any< flux can. Sandpaper worked for me, is worked better than razor and hobbyknives as it doesn't cut the copper lead at all, only bruises the surface to make good contact. -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] OT: Soldering problem
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:36:38 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] OT: Soldering problem On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 18:48:22 -0800, "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:46:41 + >From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: OT: Soldering problem > >Am trying to cut out a bad section of wire by the driver on one side of a >pair of headphones, and resolder it. But the wire is a bunch of very fine, >hard enamel covered strands. Just how does one go about stripping off the >enamel on these fine wires Scraping is arduous, and not very effective, >easy or quick. There must be a quick easy procedure where this is done >frequently, yes? Expose the leads from the rubber/plastic place them flat and use fine sandpaper, or scrape gently with a razorblade, hobbyknife or similar. What you want to do is expose the amount of leader you need and then take its lacquer seal off just at the point where you will be soldering it to the speaker. Zinchchloride (my memory?) can be used with the soldering inron to prep the exposed unlacquered ends. Then apply some solder on one side of the lead ends, and the iron on the other, when the solder flows, move the iron and solder away. And whendone on all leads place them on the soldering point on the speaker - this is probably best done if you hold the ends together and turn them like wrapping sweets :) - then solder them into place. This should hold until you yank them hard enough. Pioneer headset? -breiler, (Obvously I yanked my headphone cables often) ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Red stripe on L100 screen
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 02:06:42 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Red stripe on L100 screen On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 19:10:21 -0800, "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 03:08:20 + >From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] Red stripe on L100 screen > >>From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>I paid a repairman to do the following for white lines on my libby: >>push the connector for the display firmly into its socket. > >From what you're saying about pressing near the edge of the display, you're >saying that the repairman re-seated the ribbon connector that plugs directly >into the right of the screen under the right of the display mask. Yes? Exactement :) >>I suggest you pry the edge >>open (Toshibas official tool for this is a piece of plastic like a >>creditcard, with >>only one thing printed on it: 'Toshiba' in red lettering). > >I'm not clear on what you're prying here. The lid mask for the screen from >the lid it sits in? Or the screen ribbon connector? I guess you're saying >the creditcard tool is for prying the mask off the lid base. Yes? I do believe my CT50 has about 2 screww hidden under small rubber plates, and the tech simply use a tweezer to get it up, while the Toshba standard way to do so is to use a needle and 'persuade' it to come up from the hole where the screw is. But as the screws only are to hold the lid togther and does release the plastic around the display, to make it just go off one must prye it open with a tool that doesn't leave as many marks as a metal tools does. A plastic card of the credit card size will do the job. I think the tech I met was not in possession of a small needle, or he wouldn't have messed up the rubber for the screwholes. >Looking at the diagram for the lid & LCD in the manual, I can't figure out >why pressing on the mask like that would help. I'd think you'd as easily >cause the plug to disconnect as you would make the connection better. The >LCD connector seems to plug into the right edge of the screen. Not on the 50ct I have, it is a flat plug with two lines of connectors and if it tipping ever so slightly then some of the pins are not making contact. The reason to get it open is to look at the connector and check that no pins are broken or bend so that it won't connect easily, otherwise one may locate the connector and press on the outside, but too hard as one cannot see a pin maybe bent or broken and accidentially damage something fragile. > By pressing >down on the mask to the left of the accupoint mouse, you'd not be pressing >the connector into the plug, but onto the connection at 90 degrees from the >direction the connector slides in to the socket. But if it works... !! I cannot tell exactly where the connector is on non 50/70 models but the princip ought to be the same, I imagine Toshiba use the same type of connector, where it is will be revealed either by people here who have had it open or the one with the problem who opens it. I'd rather know where I apply pressure and check for damages before I apply any force to the edge of the lid. >I'm not grokking this at all. Guess I'll have to open the lid and take a >look. You must mean to put something between the connector and the screen > >mask<. I'd think placing anything between the connector and the screen >would tend to push the connector out of its socket. Obviously I'm not >getting something here. looking at the display on the side Your index finger back of lid bottom connector top connector front of lid Your thumb finger. It is when the distance between the finger get shorter you are forcing the two connector together, they do not connect sideways on my model but from the display it is placed on top of the one going down to the belly of the libby. Perhaps you should open it, as I only have a 50ct which is nearly the same as the 70ct. Maybe Toshiba changed connector type. And if they did and it works it way apart when the screen gets hot and cold, then you may have to prye the lid apart to get at it. Cleary the connector for the display was the Achilles heel of the 50/70 design, but I guess that is not the same as saying it was fixed in later models. -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Anti-Reflective Film
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 16:36:26 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Anti-Reflective Film On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:00:21 -0800, Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>(Toshibas official tool for this is a piece of plastic like a creditcard, with >>only one thing printed on it: 'Toshiba' in red lettering). > >Funny, Compaq have a similar thing, looks like a wedge of Compaq-beige >plastic with a thin flat bit at one end ... except it has two things >embossed on it ... "Compaq" and a Compaq part number ... hehe Well it mi9ght have had a Toshiba part number on the back, but not as I recall it. It just looked like a ... Toshiba credit card only without the magstrip. -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Anti-Reflective Film
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 12:13:35 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Anti-Reflective Film On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 00:58:21 -0800, "Cerulean Skies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If nobody has any left: >I have never used mine, and my Lib100's screen is starting to go (more and >more white lines across the screen) so I won't be using it on a problematic >screen either. You can have it for however much David sold it originally, >plus shipping. I paid a repairman to do the following for white lines on my libby: push the connector for the display firmly into its socket. I suggest you pry the edge open (Toshibas official tool for this is a piece of plastic like a creditcard, with only one thing printed on it: 'Toshiba' in red lettering). Whenever the display acts up again I just put my finger on the edge near the display (not on the display) and press the contact until the display is clear again. It might work if you do not use excessive force like me. Sometimes the connector yield due to heat and cold build up from being used and not used, it crawls out of the socket. Other times it is due to a light bump when I put it in my bag, even though I usually have a lot of padding around it. I guess another way to solve it is to put something between the connector and the edge of the display but I didn't have anything suitable at the time. A small strip rubber might to it. not enough to make a bulge but enough to keep the contact from moving. Then again you may have another problem than a loose connector. -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Libretto #260
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 22:19:49 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto #260 On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:52:21 -0800, Gevicser Péter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:50:36 +0100 >From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Gevicser_P=E9ter?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto #260 > >- Original Message - [entire digest] Please learn how to post to the list without quoting an entire digest. -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] LIB 50 power Jack
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:15:51 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] LIB 50 power Jack On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 16:15:24 -0800, "BCotton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pictures are here: http://www.billcotton.com/bicycle_electric.htm Nice, I like DIY. From looking at the led cellpack pictures perhaps you should hire a maid to vacuum the carpet before your next photosession ;) -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] HELP!
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:11:46 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] HELP! On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 07:11:25 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:02:15 EST >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [LIB] HELP! > >Thanks Matt, >Well it stalls in safe mode as well so I am stuck in DOS. Dang. >I am still holding out hope for saving the contents of my drive, at least >till I can back up what I need. >I ran scandisk and all is well there so here it sit. Scandisk will only (barely actually) account for the basic state of the files on the disk, it won't make any decisions on how those files will work. It is like the basic neighbourhood watch, they look at your house to see if it still there, but they are not liable if you find the house emptied when you arrive back. >I loaded the backups of the registry and that did not work much to my >surprise. >I may have to get pro help as it is the only PC I have. Serious counselling is expensive, save yourself the money for a shrink and have your computer fixed instead, that will remove the stress symptom ;) Your neighbour may not be a pro, but a 2.5'' harddrive USB box kit will cost you little and be of so much help. So go get one, then put the libbys disk into it and knock on the door to a neighbour, friend, collegue, someone who owes you a favour - it's time to cash in the favours. Or to make new friends that'll work, but probably set you up for a favour to someone later on. -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] HELP!
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:03:22 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] HELP! On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 05:55:24 -0800, "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:47:32 + >From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] HELP! > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Its great but there are no drivers on the boot disk for a pcmcia CD drive! >>Any idea how I get the bootup disk to see the drivers from my EXP PCMCIA >>Portable CD-Rom drive? > >David Chien is one of the resident experts on what I think is called Card >and Socket Services for DOS PCMCIA driver setups, but I don't know if he's >up on EXP drives. > >The most practical solution for setting up Windows on the Libby hard drives >is to get a cheap 3.5" to 2.5" IDE adapter. Pull the HDD out of the Libby, >and plug it in as the master drive in a desktop PC running windows. Here the disk should be filled with all needed drivers and W98 installation files, and showed back into the libby. I'm going to alter the advice a bit by insertion: >Boot from a Win98 boot FDD, select no >'CD-ROM support' with out >the Windows installation >CD in the drive, do not >CD\ to the CD-ROM drive, but to the installation dir you put on the harddrive >and run 'setup' from there. >I assume you tried running scandisk from the DOS prompt, right? And regscan, there is no reason to believe that an older copy of the registry is without fault just becuase a safe copy was made, it is only older due to a change. -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] HELP!
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:59:21 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] HELP! On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:41:24 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:33:15 EST >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [LIB] HELP! > >ThanksBreiler and Matt >Thanks for you mail! > >Well, I made a bootup disk by >cd windows\command >smartdrv.exe >bootdisk a: > >Its great but there are no drivers on the boot disk for a pcmcia CD drive! >Any idea how I get the bootup disk to see the drivers from my EXP PCMCIA >Portable CD-Rom drive? >Sorry I am a new at this. PCMCIA support in dos is extremely tricky as any installation of PCMCIA software usually goes for the harddrive, and many places must be edited for the software to load properly from floppy. But I have done this once. If only I could find that floppy I could give the files to you and let you interegrate the dos driver for the correct cd drive - they are all different, it is just the PCMCIA layer and MSCDEX that will be the same. >My Windows 98SE stalls right after the startup sound. >I have tried to restore the registry as well as build a 1rst time registry >and it still freezes after the starup sound. Have you tried Booting to safe mode, yank the audiodriver, reboot. ? It is the oldest trick in the book, but sometime the error is on to it ;( -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] HELP!
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 19:09:29 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] HELP! On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 20:51:24 -0800, "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Boy... I don't even recall getting a recovery FDD when I bought my 50CT back >in '97. I think there is, but it requires that you have a cd drive to make use of it. Can't remember if this is the one or I am remembering for the 110.. It could be me.. >But any old Windows boot floppy made from some other system will get you to >the DOS prompt. If one uses a proper bootdiskette one can with great success comment out the scsi sections of the config.sys nd autoexec.bat files ;) >You can re-install Windows from there if the installation >files are still on you hard drive. CD\ to the installation directory, and >run 'setup'. > >You might 1st want to check to see if your old Win98 setup is recoverable. >What happened to loose access to it? Sometimes all you need to do is run a >Windows boot FDD, and then run scandisk. Or fdisk /MNR, then sys C: and if that fails try installing over the previous instalaltion, if anything was missing it will be repaired, if on the other hand there is a virus, the best thing to do is to discard the current setup, format the disk (/Q to make it fast). Whenever I find myself starting over I do this. I boot up and load "XMSMMGR 2048" from the cd insatllation directory, then I wipe the disk using either "deltree /Y C:\" if I remembered to put that on the boot floppy I use. Or I use "format C: /Q" to make a quick format of the drive. Then I issue these commands md c:\w98uk2 c: cd w98uk2 copy X:\system\*.* md vga md audio md zoom md 3com (here I copy the contents of the driver floppies for these devices onto the harddrives subdirs. using copy A:. vga, or the contents of the driver directory for Windows 98 on the cd for the device. Zoom is my wireless lan card, 3COM my network card) I start the installation of windows. And go through it. And choose standard stuff. Upon 2nd boot I install the drivers, and after booting up again I install TotalCommander (used to bne WinCommander), and set up to have TweakUI for Windows 98 - powertoys, autologon to the network, set display preferences to have no animated windows, and no autoplayback of cds in the cd drive. Those are the basics. I leave all the instalaltion files on the disk in the \win98uk2 directory, and preserve the structure. After that I can go about installing software and insert any data I have backed up prior to starting over. When All is done I usually make a ghostimage of the C: drive. Usually my C: drive is set to 1500MB but on some systems where I will be using more software I set it to 2GB. The last thing I install is antivirus software, which is then updated and s scan is made, I never bother system emergency floppies, as everything I need including data files less than 24 hrs old are on my network. Which of course is also antivirus protected - on a machine that never reboots, and when it is is thoroughly scanned. >A trick I've learned in the past when making multiplle attempts to get >Windows set up on the same system is to run 'setup /is'. Once scandisk has >checked the HDD, there's no need (at least in my experience) to have to have >scandisk run each subsequent attempt to setup Windows if you have problems >the 1st time. The /is switch skips running scandisk. Indeed it is slightly speedier. >I also like keeping the Win98 installation files on a 2nd partition. That >way I can run 'format c:', to start from a clean file syste, I find that if I need to format C: then I won't be using any files on the computer in question but load from CD or equivalent from my server. There usually is a reason why software fails. -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Bounces from "postmaster@mountainservice.com"?
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:12:32 +0200 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Bounces from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:08:34 -0700, Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:01:16 -0700 >From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Bounces from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? > >Is anyone getting flooded with a pile of "Delivery Status Notification >(Failure) messages from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" referring to list >messages that were sent to the Libretto list around the beginning of this year? >I'm getting recent bounce messages from mountainservice.com (the bounces are >dated Friday 10th of October) to messages I sent months ago (and which made it >to the list)! I cannot remember if I get any from that adress, but there is a virus going round which seems to propagate by using any adress and subject line made from either your outbox or someone else's. Just set up a spamfilter, like SpamWasher it is free for personal use, and then you can make some definitions to catch most of them. There is also plenty of messages claiming to be updates, but which are really virusses, and these survive and propagate only because a few people do not stop to think twice before they open their mailbox, or in some cases are ignorant about the issue to start with. If you are not expecting an email from someone, read the subject line again, if possible look at the receiver, are you the only receiver? If not for you or specifically for you, or you do not know the persons sending to you, do not open it. Also if there is an attachment, do not activate it. I have 2 filters for 9 conditions each that will filter out emails with attachments supposedly from Microsoft, they have a range of names and subjectlines which necessitates several filters. common subject are Email User, Netclient, MS Network, and so on. My filters take car for 95% of those emails. I only have to worry about the usual spam. I get 10-50 mails for mailinglists every day, and they are automatically moved into respective folder using filters within my email program (Agent). What is left is 1-2 private emails and 1-10 spammessages. The virus emails ytypically are betwen 140kb and 180kb so each time I snipe one of them using SpamWasher, on the mailserver before donloading my email, I stand to shrtoen the time I am online on dial-up which I am half the week. I do not want to download 3-5 mb worth of spam twice a day too. That would take 1 minute 15 seconds per megabyte. I handle my emails offline to save on dial up cost. But if you do not pay per minute you have less of a burden. Microsoft do not send you anything unless you asked for it. With their swiss cheese operating system I doubt they would spend money trying to spread updates all over the net. And would you really trust MS to actually _fix_ the hole they made in your security? -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] 50CT and bigger hdd Q ?
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 19:53:55 +0200 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] 50CT and bigger hdd Q ? On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 00:34:25 -0700, T i m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As for hard drives, as long as you get a 2.5" wide, 8.5mm high IDE notebook >> drive, you should be fine. > >[T] Hmm .. unless things have changed I'm waiting for the 'take the shims out >and jam a 9.5mm drive in there at your risk ,, it will go wrong .." replies? You will not be dissapointed ;) >[T] But I was hoping someone who was braver than me would like to upgrade to a >9.5 and sell me their 8.5? (2.1G would be more than enough for me ..) I make do with 9.5 3GB disk (taken from a japanese Fujitsu Biblo laptop). Reasonably quiet and doesn't run too hot. >Ron said: > >With the shims removed out of the Libretto you can install a 9.5 mm hard drive >into your 50CT. > >[T] So, are these 'shims' there to simply space the bay out to take the thinner >drive as fitted by the factory or are they an integral part of the machine? What >did they do in the 70CT? (how is it different drivewise?) And to let some air pass around the drive to help cooling it down. What you want to is take them out, install a cheaper and readily availble 9.5 mm harddisk and install some software like RAIN or CPUIDLE to keep the machine from getting too warm for comfort, also set the harddisk timeout for autoshutoff to a sensible value. Take the shims out, it is easily, though they are rather sticky. I have working machine which sadly isn't ofene in use anymore -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Re: Netgear wireless card problems on 50CT
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:56:21 +0200 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: Netgear wireless card problems on 50CT On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:53:14 -0700, "." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It's really annoying. I had all kinds of wireless plans for the Libretto, it >being so small and lovely... I had similar problem using an old IBM wireless card (about 115.000bps) on my 50ct, it would work then freeze. I believe I gopt it to work permanently by messing around with the IRQ, base adresse and DMA of the card and internals. Try shutting off the soundcard and the printer, possibly the comport too. See if that works, if not see if the webgear driver diskette has a util to set the card to something not occupied, Use system properties / the linux list of recognized units to ascertain which resources have not been allocated already, and see if you are allowed to use a combination of the free resources with the webgear card. It is a long time since I dealt with this issue, I do not have my 50ct on for about a year or two, and I connected the IBM card 3-4 years ago. So I am stretching my memory a lot here. I used mine to browse the web from my bathroom. it talked to another ibm card in a SCM ISA port on a regular pc, which was running Windows 95 and WinProxy at the time. Not a pretty solution but it worked. Since 2001 I use a Linux firewall on a seperate PC so I am not using the wireless cards at all anymore. The cards won't work with Windows 98, so the Libretto became somewhat obsolete when I had to upgrade. -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] !File recovery crisis!
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 02:44:56 +0200 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] !File recovery crisis! On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 18:11:27 -0700, "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 01:07:50 + >From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: !File recovery crisis! > >I wonder if anyone on the list might be able to help me. Seems our numbers >are getting low though... I'm praying someone out there may have some >suggestions. > >I've just had problem with Partition Magic destroying the file system on a >desktop HDD with Win98 installed in one big FAT32 10GB partition. I’m >guessing the file system must have been badly corrupted. But there’s one >important file I'd like to retrieve from the root C:\ folder if possible. > >I've been playing with the WinHex editor David mentioned a while back, and >have had some luck retrieving part of the file running an automated file >recovery option. But I’m only getting about 1/3 of the entire file. I’m >wondering if there’s a way to locate the remainder of the file’s data, and >reconstruct the whole thing manually. > >If anyone reading the list might knows how to go about this sort of thing, >or what kind of software may be able to do the job, I'd really appreciate >hearing from you. Lost & Found is free now, you can get it several places on the net along with the serial for it. I think the company that made it was PowerQuest and they focused on other programs and decided this program was still useful to some people, one of whom is you ;) -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
RE: upgrades to a 70CT
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 23:07:41 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: upgrades to a 70CT On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 00:02:28 -0800, Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 22:52:30 -0500 >From: "Maya Rushing Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: upgrades to a 70CT >Still waffling on whether to switch to W98...it uses up S much space on >the drive. Don't do it unless W98 offers you something you need. It will need more memory and slightly faster cpu to yield performance similar to W95 for such a crammed system. The max is 32MB which is all but bare minimum for such a system - you risk more diskaccess and shorter battery life with W98. Plus the waiting for slightæly complex tasks to complete. >I'll probably do it, but I need to get the CD device anyhow, >since I need to install Norton and Anti-Virus protection. I guess I could >transfer it from my PC...all of this would be moot if I had W98, since then Norton *should* work from other medias than the install CD. It has been a while since I trusted my data to anything else than GHOST & CD-R discs but Norton will do if you can't move data off a device easy and regularly. (!) >I could connect through infrared with my other Toshiba. I hope...? Possible but slow. -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: IN-office message
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 23:00:53 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: IN-office message >Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:00:47 -0500 >From: "Pres Waterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: IN-office message > >Hi! This excessively cheerful manually generated message is to let you know >that I am still in the office, checking the mail every minute except if I am >in the bathroom, should anyone need me. This reminds me of Listers toaster in the Red Dwarf. I think it is the first book. -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: adorable Libretto Information CD-ROM - status update
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:07:09 +0100 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: adorable Libretto Information CD-ROM - status update On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 00:04:31 -0700, Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 03:07:53 -0700 >From: Brad Waddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: adorable Libretto Information CD-ROM - status update > >I no money is to be made from this thing, why not just let me post it on >the internet. then those of us with speedy internet (or others willing to >wait all night) can download it and burn a CD for free? I'd be happy to >keep it online on my web server site for 1 month or so, just let me know. >thanks. brad If the firewall at work doesn't prove a problem, I will offer Medias, Burning and Mail within the Nordic countries for free to the first 10 people. After the 10 first CD's, I will have to charge 30 danish kroner per CD (for media, burn & mail). I will have to do this in idle hours so small delay of 1-2 weeks is evident. BTW I have made my self an oldstyle WinAMP skin featuring the libretto, should I have it included on the CD? The images used were made using the Tecra 750 clip-on camera by myself, so there are no (C) violations.. -breiler On behalf of himself and noone else, especially past or present employer. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: Mildly amusing pictures?
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:34:18 +0200 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Mildly amusing pictures? >Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 00:32:28 -0500 >From: "Edmund Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Mildly amusing pictures? >I'd just like to pass along the link to some pictures we took today that some of you >might find amusing... > >http://www3.sympatico.ca/edmundw/DCP03575.JPG >http://www3.sympatico.ca/edmundw/DCP03576.JPG >Cute, no? Cute, if a tad big, I see your webmaster decorated the server is that the other laptop I spot on the carpet. BTW, the ideal keysize for kids has got to be the librettos. Some times I wish I was back working 3rd party support for Toshiba Scandinavia. But mostly not. The laptops of Toshiba til late '98 has a fraction of the problems the Fujitsu-Siemens laptops have from late '99 and on. Let's face it; the beta is the hands of the public. -breiler And you may not quote me for anything even slightly work related. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: A Few Wireless Networking Questions
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 21:33:04 +0200 From: Mikkel Breiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: A Few Wireless Networking Questions On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 00:01:03 -0700, Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 18:35:43 +0100 >From: "Simon Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: A Few Wireless Networking Questions >I use 98SE as my gateway machine for my LAN (it is actually a Lib50) and I >haven't rebooted for 3 weeks (and even then it wasn't due to a problem). When the time comes, oh when the time comes, my libby will be be doing the gateway dance on my shelf with the old original disc in it and I will be using probably a newer Libby. Or a newer Fujitsu Siemens - I haven't decided on that, basically it will be an economical decision and not so much a lifestyle purchase. >Works really well and the Lib sits there with the HDD off all of the time >(except when I print). >Magic! Librettos are a kind of magic -breiler ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
