Re: Lind BU500 for PPC?

[Paul Nelson]

At 5:56 PM -0400 9/1/01, Eric Schwarz wrote:
>That gave me an idea - I ran Wish I Were and set it as a stock 540c.  BU500
>worked without a hitch.  Then, afterwards, I disabled Wish I Were and all is
>well again.  ;-)




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Flash upgrade - GV Power Port Platinum PC Card

[Christopher Gleeson]

I have been trying to flash upgrade the firmware in my Global Village 
Power Port Platinum PCMCIA Card.  I have downloaded an installed both 
the 3.0.2 and the 3.0.6 upgrades from the GV site, but when I click 
on the upgrade modem file, and select the slot the modem is inserted 
into, I get a message that there has been an error in opening the 
serial port, and to restart the computer.  Restarting only results in 
the same error message.  Am I missing something obvious here?

Oh, yeah, PB5300c, OS 8.1.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

TIA

Chris Gleeson
Wawa, Ontario

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Re: Lind BU500 for PPC?

[PeterH5322]

In a message dated 9/1/01 3:59:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

<<
That gave me an idea - I ran Wish I Were and set it as a stock 540c.  BU500
worked without a hitch.  Then, afterwards, I disabled Wish I Were and all is
well again.  ;-)
>>

This technique can be used to install 8.5.1, say, on a Q950 which has been 
equipped with a PowerPC Upgrade Card, or on a PB540c which has been similarly 
equipped.

Apparently, some applications are checking the "mach" number at the very 
beginning, but these applications are not actually dependent upon the 
presence or absence of specific features.

It had not occurred to me to set the "mach" number to the machine's previous 
incarnation.

Good catch!


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Hints from Rod Re: List Mom's Pet Peeve

[Rodney A. Hoiseth]

Dan, the List Mom, wrote:
>--
>Subject: List Mom's Pet Peeve
>Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 11:33:20 -0400
>From: Dan Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>My pet peeve is people who quote too much when replying to the list. In
>particular, people who quote the entire original message right down to
>the footer.
How's this? (Just kidding...)
Thanks, Dan. It's one of my pet peeves, too. (Living in Japan, I have 
lots of other ones, too ;-)

I've been lurking on this list for a few months now. Hope nobody will 
find my sudden "me too" to Dan's post obtrusive...

>Consider this your occasional reminder from the List Mom to be aware of
>how your email program works and be careful to quote selectively when
>replying to the list.

Here's a hint for quoting parts of messages when using Eudora. I just 
learned it recently (somebody told me), so it's possible other Eudora 
users don't know it either.
Select the part of the message you want to quote.
Hold down the Shift key while replying (Command + R or "Reply" button).
Only the selection will be included in your reply.
This use of the Shift key is pretty intuitive for Mac users, but like 
I said, somebody had to teach me this trick so it may be new to some. 
Do the other e-mail programs work similarly?

Also, I always use the Option key when replying because I like to 
include the "At Star Date 3743 Mr. Sulu wrote:" line; but then you 
have to always check to be sure your Cc: line doesn't include extra 
addresses (such as a second "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" 
address identical to the one in the "To:" line) because, as you know, 
the Option key is the tool to "Reply to all".

The "Paste as Quotation" feature in Eudora is useful too. (I 
discovered this one all by myself !) It also adds the "Star Date" 
line automatically. Check it out.

HTH,
Rodney
(in Hayama, Japan)


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Re: hello...

[Chris Boring]

Thanks a lot!

I'm interested in learning about all things Mac at this point, as I'm a
fairly recent refugee from the dark side.

/me shifts back into lurk mode for a bit.

BOMB the echelon!

-Chris [doktorboring]

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is black.
And you never see them sitting together at breakfast."
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- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PowerBooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 1:16 AM
Subject: Re: hello...


>
> In a message dated 8/31/01 16:02:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >Just a little personal introduction, since I'm the new guy on the block.
> >
> >
> >
> >My names Chris, I'm 25, live in NYC and I have a Powerbook 3400c 240mhz
> >
> >running OS 8.6.
> >
> >
> >
> >I use it for audio and graphics, so I need all the help I can get
squeezing
> >
> >every last drop of performance out of it.
>
> Welcome, Chris!
>
> There are some knowledgeable folks on this list. Since I lean towards the
PB
> 5300, others on this list will be your guide.
>
> But since no one had welcomed you yet, I thought that I could at least do
> that. I guess the others have plans for the weekend and/ or are traveling
to
> their destinations.
>
> Brent
>
> --I have no desire to become a tech, I just want to be an informed user.
>
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Re: Lind BU500 for PPC?

[Eric Schwarz]

>At 4:23 PM -0400 8/31/01, Eric Schwarz wrote:
>> Now my battery is flaky, and I
>>can't run BU500, since I have a PPC card in my 540c.  Does anyone know of
a
>>hack or newer version that will run on my 540c?
>
>How about doing a quick swap of the 040 for the PPC for long enough to run
it?
>Paul

That gave me an idea - I ran Wish I Were and set it as a stock 540c.  BU500
worked without a hitch.  Then, afterwards, I disabled Wish I Were and all is
well again.  ;-)

Eric

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Re: desktop in order (Desktop Printing)

[Bruce Johnson]

On Fri, 01 Jan 1904 00:53:47 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Josef and Guilaine
Moffett) wrote:

>Of course, now I have a different problem. The batteries keep the thing
>going - even letting me restart, but they don't let me start without a power
>cable. Not the end of the world, but still. I suspect that it may have
>something to do with my pram. I am ordering a new pram now, and will install
>it and keep you all informed as to my success.


That's a simple power manager reset, which is typically needed after the
IBR-Emmpathy polka needed to ressurect batteries.

It is in TIL 14449, available at Apple's web site (which covers all powerbooks
and ibooks). For the 540 the procedure is:

 1. Remove the AC adapter and the battery.
 2. Let the PowerBook sit without power connected for 3-5 minutes.
 3. Simultaneously press and hold Command-Option-Control-Power On for 5-10
seconds.
 4. Reinstall the battery and, if necessary, reconnect the AC adapter.





Bruce Johnson
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group


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List Mom's Pet Peeve

[Dan Knight]

My pet peeve is people who quote too much when replying to the list. In 
particular, people who quote the entire original message right down to 
the footer.

As many of you know, I send out a reminder whenever I see that. It reads:

---
This is a semi-automatic message from Dan, the listmom.

Thanks for posting to the list.

Please be careful not to quote *too much* of the original message (your 
recent posting is quoted below) when replying to the list -- especially 
the header and/or footer. (You're not being singled out; we send this to 
everyone who does that.)

Thanks!
---

Since August 24, I've sent out 105 such messages to 85 different 
subscribers. The encouraging thing is that most seem to catch on quickly, 
eliminating the need for multiple notes. Those who get more than 4-5 of 
these notes may have posting privileges suspended -- I'm that serious 
about it.

Anyhow, here's an analysis by domain. Each subscriber is only counted 
once, and only domains with 2 or more reminders since August 24 are 
counted:

 yahoo.com   
 mac.com III
 bellsouth.net   III
 earthlink.net   III
 sympatico.caIII
 home.comII
 mindpring.com   II
 rcn.com II

For those of you who look down on AOL users, only one AOL user showed up 
on this list. Maybe that means AOL makes it hard to quote back or quote 
back too much -- I don't know.

It's interesting that far and away the highest number of offenses came 
from free email services. I suspect that Yahoo makes it too easy to quote 
the entire original -- am I right?

For the record, here are the most popular domains on the LEM-Swap list, 
our list with the most subscribers (710 active subscriptions as of this 
morning):

 yahoo.com   66
 mac.com 64
 aol.com 57
 earthlink.net   43
 home.com29
 hotmail.com 22

All the rest are under 10 subscribers on the LEM-Swap list. I'm assuming 
membership on that list is fairly representative of the other lists.

Consider this your occasional reminder from the List Mom to be aware of 
how your email program works and be careful to quote selectively when 
replying to the list.

Thanks!

Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc.
  publisher, Low End Mac
  publisher, Digital-Views.com  
  publisher, Digigraphica

I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by 
reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be  for creating the 
illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and 
demoralization. - Petronius


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Re: Re[2]: Regina Aaron is out of the Office Today

[Bruce Johnson]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:53:41 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Hebel) wrote:

>TS> So every time somebody sends an email to the list, we get her
>autoresponder?
>TS> Am I the only one that finds this unacceptable???
>
>No your aren't.  Other lists I'm on would have unsubscribed her for
>this but contacting her first IMHO is a good step.  She may just
>unsubscribe herself or turn it off.

Actually, it could well not even be her fault.

There is a specific e-mail header automated notices like vacation notices like
this are supposed to have, so that this very situation can avoided with
various filtering tools in listserv software.

Sometimes they're weird and require tweaking on the part of the list manager
to catch. 

Sometimes they're implemented poorly by the senders ISP, system admin, or the
mail program. Then you have to unsub the person, or otherwise filter out those
emails.

Long story short...it ain't necessarily her fault...

Also notice that exactly _one_ of these messages got through...

Bruce Johnson
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group


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